Short Stories & Anthologies

Author: Simpkins, DaphnePrice: $8.99Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2018-03-04T00:00:01ZPages:197Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1732015805ISBN:13:9781732015807The secret lives of church ladies continue to be explored in “The Mission of Mildred Budge: The Short Adventures of Mildred Budge.” Like the first volume of short stories, “Miss Budge in Love,” “The Mission of Mildred Budge” offers a fresh and often funny behind-the-scenes look at…

Author: Twain, MarkPrice: $16.99Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2018-10-03T00:00:01ZPages:622Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1420959638ISBN:13:9781420959635This comprehensive collection of Twain’s short stories showcases his immense talent, humor, and wit. Considered to be the greatest American humorist of all time, Mark Twain was born in 1835 and was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, where many of his most well-known stories take place. Twain led…

Author: Kate, LaurenPrice: $1.98Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2012-01-24T00:00:01ZPages:256Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0385742614ISBN:13:9780385742610A collection of four love stories featuring Shelby, Miles, and other characters from the Fallen series.

Author: Lehane, DennisPrice: $7.33Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2009-11-01T00:00:01ZPages:270Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1933354917ISBN:13:9781933354910There was only ever one candidate for the job of assembling Boston Noir: Dennis Lehane!

Author: Lee, TanithPrice: $14.99Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2020-01-10T00:00:01ZPages:224Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1479447471ISBN:13:9781479447473What if Snow White were the real villain and the “wicked queen” just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening Sleeping Beauty would be the mistake of a lifetime — of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific…

Author: Johnston, JoanPrice: $6.74Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2000-02-08T00:00:01ZPages:400Binding:Mass Market PaperbackISBN:10:0440223806ISBN:13:9780440223801Joan Johnston transports us to rugged present-day Texas—a place of wide-open prairies and unbridled ambitions—where two ranching families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, are locked in a bitter century-old feud. Here, Johnston brings to life a breathtaking love story—between the Blackthornes’ oldest son and the…

Author: Abercrombie, JoePrice: $17.24Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2016-04-26T00:00:01ZPages:304Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:031639081XISBN:13:Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie. Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue’s gallery of side-shows, back-stories, and sharp endings from…

Author: Nagamatsu, SequoiaPrice: $16.48Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2016-05-01T00:00:01ZPages:180Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1625579446ISBN:13:9781625579447Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. “A combination of the mystical, magical, and marvelous, Sequoia Nagamatsu weaves a collection of bold, hysterical, and moving tales into an unforgettable debut. From shape- shifters, to star-makers, to babies made of snow, the characters in WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL…

Author: Wendig, ChuckPrice: $18.99Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2017-10-18T00:00:01ZPages:240Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1440348383ISBN:13:9781440348389Hook Your Audience with Unforgettable Storytelling! What do Luke Skywalker, John McClane, and a lonely dog on Ho’okipa Beach have in common? Simply put, we care about them. Great storytelling is making readers care about your characters, the choices they make, and what happens to them. It’s…

Author: Rubenfeld, AndrewPrice: $20.53Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2020-03-10T00:00:01ZPages:270Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1598536559ISBN:13:9781598536553Featuring some of America’s greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs,…

Author: Gonzalez, Martín AlbertoPrice: $12.95Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2017-12-02T00:00:01ZPages:146Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0692980458ISBN:13:9780692980453Despite its wonderful everyday weather and beautiful surf-ridden beaches, Oxnard, California, has a reputation of being dangerous and demoralizing due to its gang presence. In this book, Mart�n Alberto Gonzalez takes this reputation head on through a series of social justice-oriented stories loosely based on his…

Author: Kafka, FranzPrice: $14.91Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:1997-04-01T00:00:01ZPages:208Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0486295613ISBN:13:9780486295619Five great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” “In the Penal Colony,” “A Country Doctor” and “A Report to an Academy.”

Author: Nathanael WestPrice: $42.25Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:1997-08-01T00:00:01ZPages:840Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1883011280ISBN:13:9781883011284A collection of six works by Nathanael West.

Author: Zelazny, RogerPrice: $29.00Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2009-12-04T00:00:01ZPages:576Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1886778809ISBN:13:9781886778801“This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny’s know short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities.”–V. 1, p. 5.

Author: Maass, DonaldPrice: $11.82Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2009-05-06T00:00:01ZPages:272Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:158297506XISBN:13:Discover the Difference Between a So-So Manuscript and a Novel Readers Can’t Forget We’ve all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest…

Author: Chabria, Priya SarukkaiPrice: $14.83Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2021-04-13T00:00:01ZPages:340Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1734054522ISBN:13:9781734054521Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What might city ecosystems look like in the future if we strive for multispecies justice in our urban settings? In these more-than-human stories, twenty-four authors investigate humanity’s relationship with the rest of…

Author: Hall Jr., Robert A.Price: $11.23Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:1990-01-01T00:00:01ZPages:368Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0486261808ISBN:13:9780486261805Eleven great stories in original Italian with vivid, accurate English translations on facing pages, teaching and practice aids, Italian-English vocabulary, more. Chronologically arranged stories by Boccaccio, Machiavelli, d’Annunzio, Pirandello and Moravia, plus significant works by lesser-knowns.

Author: Peters, ElizabethPrice: $11.99Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2018-10-09T00:00:01ZPages:130Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1504055519ISBN:13:9781504055512A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead in front of her, with her own hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. And…

Author: Stevenson-Yang, AnnePrice: $12.99Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2024-04-16T00:00:01ZPages:192Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1739424301ISBN:13:9781739424305CHINA’ S SEAMY UNDERSIDE Kitty and her teenage friends, squatting in an empty apartment, are looking for gas to cook instant noodles. Bai Song and his wife, who live in the unit across the hallway, have a well-equipped kitchen with all the mod cons. Plus they’re old…

Author: Puchner, MartinPrice: $14.91Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2012-03-06T00:00:01ZPages:1024Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0393913333ISBN:13:9780393913330The Third Edition now includes several thematic teaching clusters that bring together a number of short texts around an important cultural theme, such as Creation and the Cosmos, Travel and Conquest, Literature about Literature, God, Church, and Self. These clusters give instructors and students short counterpoints to…

Author: Zelazny, RogerPrice: NoneBuy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2009-12-04T00:00:01ZPages:576Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1886778817ISBN:13:9781886778818“This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny’s know short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities.”–V. 1, p. 5.

Author: Stern, JeromePrice: $12.92Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:1996-08-17T00:00:01ZPages:144Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0393314324ISBN:13:9780393314328The World’s Best Short-Short Fictions in a Big, Little Book that you could probably carry in your Pocket. Ten years ago, Jerome Stern, director of the writing program at Florida State, initiated the World’s Best Short Short Story Contest. Stories were to be about 250 words long;…

Author: Lawrence ThorntonPrice: $21.00Buy NowCategory:Historical Fiction Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:1991-11-01T00:00:01ZPages:214Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0553345796ISBN:13:9780553345797“Remarkable . . . deeply inventive . . . Thorton has imagined Argentina truly; his inspired fable troubles and feeds our own intriguing imagining.”—Los Angeles Times Imagining Argentina is set in the dark days of the late 1970’s, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a…

Author: Wolfe, GenePrice: $19.34Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:1995-03-15T00:00:01ZPages:448Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0312890427ISBN:13:9780312890421Castle of the otter: A miscellany of essays and tales about Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun,

Author: Puchner, MartinPrice: $22.54Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2012-03-01T00:00:01ZPages:1376Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0393913341ISBN:13:9780393913347Read by millions of students since its first publication, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most-trusted anthology of world literature available. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a panel of regional specialists, the editors of the Third Edition–a…

Author: Liu, CixinPrice: $23.78Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2021-10-26T00:00:01ZPages:464Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1250796830ISBN:13:9781250796837From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale–the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet…

Author: Jayna LockePrice: $14.02Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2024-04-04T00:00:01ZPages:220Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1959681508ISBN:13:9781959681502With springtime in the air, a toddler chases a ball onto a melting ice-covered lake far beyond his parents’ reach. As the chill of Autumn comes to Minnesota, Max opens the door to find a grizzled drifter on the doorstep. Then Max realizes he knows the man….

Author: Benson, RaymondPrice: $14.99Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:2008-10TPages:864Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1605980072ISBN:13:9781605980072“Raymond Benson captures the spirit and pluck of Fleming’s 007 in his high-flying spy thrillers.” —Chicago Tribune HIGH TIME TO KILL This high octane adventure takes 007 from one of England’s most exclusive golf clubs to the cosmopolitan city of Brussels, and finally to an expedition up…

Author: StarhawkPrice: $20.00Buy NowCategory:Short Stories & AnthologiesPublication Date:1997-04-30T00:00:01ZPages:280Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0807010375ISBN:13:9780807010372Featuring narrative, chants, songs, and rituals, Dreaming the Dark has helped many thousands of women use magic, spirituality, and community to bring about political and social change. This anniversary edition of the best-selling classic includes a new preface reflecting on the fifteen years since the book’s original publication.