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  • Arranged Marriageby Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95

    Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" (Ms.) that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage , her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller... more...

  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Menby David Foster Wallace

    Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 9.99

    David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore... more...

  • Short Storiesby W Somerset Maugham

    Random House 2009; US$ 14.67

    Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as 'Rain', 'The Letter', 'The Vessel of Wrath' and 'The Alien Corn', Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling drama and an acute sense of time and place. more...

  • Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Storiesby Colin Dexter

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99

    "DELIGHTFUL." --The Wall Street Journal In short mysteries so brilliantly plotted they'll confound the cleverest of souls, Inspector Morse remains as patient as a cat at a mouse hole in the face of even the most resourceful evildoers. Muldoon, for instance, the one-legged bomber with one fatal weakness . . . the quartet of lovers whose bizarre entanglements... more...

  • Joe Hunter: Six of the Bestby Matt Hilton

    Hodder & Stoughton 2012; US$ 3.61

    Six action-packed Joe Hunter stories with a twist in the tale more...

  • The Weirdby Jeff VanderMeer; Ann VanderMeer

    Tom Doherty Associates 2012; US$ 29.99

    The Weird is a landmark leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wilder, stranger, darker shores, featuring an all-star cast of authors, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners: 110 stories spanning a century and including authors such as William Gibson, George R. R.  Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly... more...

  • A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of Stringby Joanne Harris

    Transworld 2012; US$ 20.01

    Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you'll find another story. Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris's exceptional talent as a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns.Sensuous, mischievous, uproarious and wry, these are tales that combine the... more...

  • An Apple for the Creatureby Charlaine Harris; Toni L. P. Kelner

    Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 12.99

    Includes a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story! What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, editors of Home Improvement: Undead Edition ? Your worst school nightmares?taking that math test you never studied for, finding yourself naked in... more...

  • Dear Lifeby Alice Munro

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 26.95

    A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro?s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is... more...

  • Selected Storiesby Alice Munro

    Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 13.34

    This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable. more...