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Lauded as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them, Curtis Sittenfeld showcases her talents in this first collection of short fiction. Throughout the ten stories in You Think it, I'll say it, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. In "The World Has Many Butterflies," married acquaintances play a strangely intimate...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
12) Potevka's gifts
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A collection of short stories based primarily upon Ramsdell's experiences as an author and speaker since his previous book, Potevka, was released.
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"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
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For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S.A. Corey's ... Expanse series is available in this collection, including a brand new novella. Includes Drive; The butcher of Anderson Station; The churn; Gods of risk; The vital abyss; Strange dogs; Auberon; and The sins of our fathers.
16) Naked City
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An anthology of gritty supernatural tales of magic and mischief by leading genre authors includes an original "Harry Dresden" by Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs' story about a vampire who must save the Fae who lifted his curse, and Holly Black's short pieceabout a rock star who discovers a young woman's unnatural appetites.
20) Keeper of dreams
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 39
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This new collection of Card's short fiction contains 22 stories, including two from the Alvin Maker Universe, with new introductions and commentary on his life and work, all written by Card himself.
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