Browsing: Short Stories

When a jaded sheriff is drawn to an exasperating woman in trouble, anything can happen Laurel Thomas is tired of…

Daphne and Jack meet on a Greyhound bus heading north from California. The year is 1976 and Daphne is a…

Selected Tales and Sketches is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following…

A New York Times bestseller that’s “hard to resist… Funny and occasionally heartbreaking” (Entertainment Weekly): This uplifting collection of stories follows women who stop doing what’s expected of them — and start going after what they’ve always wanted. “Offer this up to the book club” (People).

From Gillian Flynn to George R. R. Martin, an all-star roster of authors brings scoundrels and rogues to life in this New York Times bestselling anthology! “Not a single bad story… The table of contents alone will make fans from all genre aisles salivate” (Library Journal).

As Jean-Luc comes of age during the Great Depression and World War II, his life is continually shaped by the eccentric women of his neighborhood. “Nostalgic… richly textured” (Publishers Weekly).

An NPR Best Book of 2015 from a National Book Award–winning author: This “extraordinary… incandescent” collection (Chicago Tribune) explores the depths of the human experience and the small but profound moments that change us forever. “You know you’re reading a little masterpiece” (The Washington Post).

First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief  novel so disturbed critics and the public that it  was banished for decades afterward. Now…

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of East of Eden comes “an utterly unprecedented sort of book” (Kirkus Reviews) about a group of friends seeking community in Monterey, California. A “delightful novel” (The New York Times).

“Sure to entrance readers” (Library Journal): In this dazzling novel, the fall of the Romanovs is reimagined from the perspective of kitchen boy Leonka. “Ingenious” (USA Today), with over 3,600 five-star Goodreads ratings.