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For over a century, Dracula—the Prince of Nightmares, the Superman of Evil—has been quietly casting his darkly impish dreams in the sleeping souls of a High Sierra...
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by Gail Silver
When Anh is left out of a recess play session, his companion, Anger, a red-haired fellow wearing shoes remarkably like Anh’s, suggests a way of getting back...
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by Cheri Laser
In the summer of 1945, as World War II is ending, Abby Ryan is studying to become a nun. On the serene grounds of the convent in Kettle Falls, Washington, she is...
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In the title novella, a woman newly released from a mental institution believes that a wild child lives behind her trailer park. In "Sundress" two elderly lost...
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"Told entirely through dialogue, this quirky tale of period pirate wannabees makes a jeu d'esprit of the privateer life even as it baldly de-romanticizes it. Its...
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Your highest purpose in life is to give yourself away and generously share your abundance with the world. The life you’ve always wanted isn’t found in career choice...
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Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident...
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A cross between True Grit and Huckleberry Finn, Bohemian Girl creates "a western world as raucous and unpredictable as any imagined by Larry McMurtry, and teeming...
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It's no secret that millions of Americans have left the church. According to the ARIS survey, an estimated 35 million Americans consider themselves spiritual, but...
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In Frank Anthony Polito's A Christmas to Remember former Band Fag, Jack Paterno, knows exactly what he wants Santa Claus to bring him for Christmas 1991. But this...
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A critic once said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, “More happens in one of Boyle’s stories than in most post-Victorian novels.” This is precisely the case in Without a...
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Haunted by the burden of his family’s traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts...
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A striking collection of works from authors both established and emerging, this is the first original anthology of African-American writing in more than a decade....
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by Michelle Tea
Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person. Clint Catalyst (Cottonmouth Kisses) and Michelle Tea (The Chelsea Whistle) bring...
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An Unfortunate Woman is an extraordinary and curious book: It is fiction written as autobiography or simulated oral history; a “woman’s story”—intensely individual...
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It’s time to check in again with Barry Gifford’s gang of New Orleans weirdos. A few of our old favorites from Night People (1992) are back, including Marble Lesson...
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by Jane Smiley
They were six friends from the Midwest who moved to New York City with high hopes of making it big in the music industry. Although the dream had faded, they had all...
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by Jane Smiley
The best new American voices are heard here first. Writers like Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy,...
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