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Series series Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series
"Gautier writes with exhilarating insight and confidence about the lives of teenagers . . . at risk from themselves, their families and their friends."—Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling authorIn Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all ... Read more

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"Gautier writes with exhilarating insight and confidence about the lives of teenagers . . . at risk from themselves, their families and their friends."—Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling authorIn Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all
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Now We Will Be Happy

by Amina Gautier ...

Series series The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one.The ... Read more

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Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one.The
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The Best That You Can Do

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by Amina Gautier ...

**WINNER of the International Latino Book Award • Midwest MLA Book Award • Florida Book Awards Silver Medal Winner • IPPY Book Award Silver MedalWinner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections**Primarily told from the perspective of ... Read more

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**WINNER of the International Latino Book Award • Midwest MLA Book Award • Florida Book Awards Silver Medal Winner • IPPY Book Award Silver MedalWinner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections**Primarily told from the perspective of
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Changes

Stories about Transformation from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Catherine Brady, Philip F. Deaver, Greg Downs, Amina Gautier, Jacquelin Gorman, Lisa Graley, Tom Kealey, Peter LaSalle, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, T. M. McNally, Gina Ochsner, Lori Ostlund, Melissa Pritchard, Hugh Sheehy, David Walton ...

Series Book 118 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can. ... Read more

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These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can.
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Down on the Sidewalk

Stories about Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Daniel Curley, Amina Gautier, Carole L. Glickfeld, Dana Johnson, Tom Kealey, C. M. Mayo, Melinda Moustakis, Antonya Nelson, Lori Ostlund, Andrew Porter, Anne Raeff, Paul Rawlins, Barbara Sutton, Kellie Wells, Nancy Zafris ...

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Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. ... Read more

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Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby.
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Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connectionsPrimarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the confusion of being one person ... Read more

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Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connectionsPrimarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the confusion of being one person
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Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new ... Read more

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Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new
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The Journey Prize Stories 27

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Series Book 27 - Journey Prize
“Expect pleasure. Expect delight. Expect surprise. Expect these twelve writers to emerge as some of this country’s most interesting voices.”Anthony De Sa, Tanis Rideout, and Carrie Snyder (from their Introduction)The celebrated annual collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart ... Read more

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“Expect pleasure. Expect delight. Expect surprise. Expect these twelve writers to emerge as some of this country’s most interesting voices.”Anthony De Sa, Tanis Rideout, and Carrie Snyder (from their Introduction)The celebrated annual collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart
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The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction

by Dale Peck ...

In The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction, editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s.Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose ... Read more

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In The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction, editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s.Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose
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Less Than Zero

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Series series Vintage Contemporaries
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York TimesThey live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York TimesThey live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a
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by Lily King ...

#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on TodayEmma Roberts Belletrist Book Club PickA New York Times Book Review’s Group Text Selection"I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life." —Curtis SittenfeldAn extraordinary new novel o... ... Read more

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April Fool

An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

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Series Book 2 - An Arthur Beauchamp Novel
A new edition of the Arthur Ellis Award winning crime novelArthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s top jewel thieves, has been accused of raping and murdering a psychologist. Beauchamp has scarcely ... Read more

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A new edition of the Arthur Ellis Award winning crime novelArthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s top jewel thieves, has been accused of raping and murdering a psychologist. Beauchamp has scarcely
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