Short Stories

Flights of Love: Stories

by Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters–men with importunate appetites and...

Dead Certain

by Mariah Stewart

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards.

Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now...

The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

by Kevin Brockmeier

Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again,...

The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

by Steve Almond

Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The...

Great Dream of Heaven: Stories

by Sam Shepard

In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him “the great playwright of his generation”...

God Lives in St. Petersburg: Short Stories

by Tom Bissell

Young Americans abroad in Central Asia find themselves pushed to their limits in these acclaimed, prize-winning stories by one of our most exciting and talented new authors. Combining bleak humor, ironic insight,...

Cradle Book

by Craig Morgan Morgan Teicher

Haunting and beautiful fables of lonely birds, groaning cows, nurturing wolves, and sad little boys.

What I Didn't See: Stories

by Karen Fowler

Stories that slip up behind you and break your heart before you know it.

Go Tell the Sun

by Wame Molefhe

Set in Botswana, the stories trace the lives of characters whose paths cross and re-cross each others', some times in and through love, at other times through tragedy.

The Bed Book of Short Stories

by Lauri Kubuitsile & Joanne Hichens

The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving...

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance: 13 Tales of Supernatural Love

by Trisha Telep

A wonderful collection of stories of supernatural love by Sharon Shinn, Annette Blair, Caridad Pineiro, Jennifer Estep, Gwyn Cready, Carolyn Crane, Jeannie Holmes, Anna Campbell, Julia London, Christie Ridgway,...

Chioniso and Other Stories

by Shimmer Chinodya

In this new collection, Chioniso and other stories, we are once again reminded how Shimmer Chinodya mines his experience for nuggets. Playing with his doppelganger, Godfrey, he looks back on life in Harare,...

Absent. The English Teacher

by John Eppel

Eppel has satirized the racial politics of southern Africa in many of his previous novels. In Absent: The English Teacher he turns his gaze inwards for a generous and richly rewarding parody of the land of his...

Howard Who?: Stories

by Howard Waldrop

First paperback edition of a landmark collection of maverick science fiction.

Carmen Dog

by Carol Emshwiller

Funny feminist classic; a genre-jumping debut novel.

Help Me, Jacques Cousteau

by Gil Adamson

With her multiple-award-winning, bestselling, and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander, Gil Adamson established herself as one of North America's preeminent fiction writers. But ten years before The Outlander...

Dancing with Life: Tales from the Township

by Christopher Mlalazi

Dancing with Life is a collection of short stories by Christopher Mlalazi which received an Honourable Mention in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, 2009.

The The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes

by June Thomson

Murder, deception and the long shadow of Moriarty. All in a day’s work for the great Sherlock Holmes.

The unpublished manuscripts of Dr John Watson, concealed for years in the depths of a Charing Cross bank...

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

Professor Dr von Igelfeld #3

by Alexander Mccall Smith & Iain Mcintosh

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3

The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria...

Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"

by John Updike

In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New...