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  • Life Span

    by Molly Giles ...
    LIFE SPAN, a memoir in flash form, is the first book of nonfiction from award-winning fiction writer Molly Giles, and a rare pleasure for her admirers-old and new. Giles distills her experiences of crossing the Golden Gate Bridge since that first sunny day in 1945 when she rode from San Francisco to Sausalito in a moving van with her father who had just returned home from fighting in World War II. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Home for Unwed Husbands

    by Molly Giles ...
    **"A delight of a novel. Brilliant. All the characters developed in fascinating and unpredictable ways." — Leslie Daniels, author of Cleaning Nabokov's HouseMolly Giles is the WINNER of a Pushcart Prize, The Flannery O' Connor Prize and The Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize.At forty-four, Kay Sorensen has quit drinking, smoking, and overeating, and she has almost quit reading self-help books about ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wife with Knife

    by Molly Giles ...
    WINNER OF THE PUSHCART PRIZE"This collection is her best ever." AMY TANWife with Knife is a collection of quick and quirky short stories, that are an utter delight and winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2020"Molly Giles’ stories have always been among my favorites since I first read her work thirty-seven years ago. This collection is her best ever. What an irreverent, original voice! I ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Span

    Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge

    by Molly Giles ...
    LIFE SPAN, Impressions of A Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge , the first book of nonfiction from award-winning fiction writer Molly Giles, is a memoir in flash form that distills her experiences crossing the Golden Gate Bridge from 1945 to 2023. Every transit chronicles her journey to becoming a writer. The story of a woman with brains and desires who dared follow her ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Iron Shoes

    A Novel

    by Molly Giles ...
    From acclaimed short story writer Molly Giles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated collection Rough Translations, comes this splendid debut novel about one woman's spirited search for identity and meaning following her family's disintegration.Set amid the woodsy affluence of Northern California, Iron Shoes incisively chronicles the coming-of-middle-age story of Kay Sorensen, who has lived her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Three for the Road

    Stories

    by Molly Giles ...
    “The road,” Kerouac wrote, “is life,” and the women in these three stories hit the road looking for a fuller, richer life than the ones they have at home. Molly Giles, whose many awards for fiction include two Pushcart Prizes and an NEA grant, is a charming and sharp-witted guide to these women's adventures. One flies to Ireland to land a husband; one, who hoped to find shelter in paradise, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Readers & Writers

    by Walter R. Brooks, Italo Calvino, Adam Haslett, Audrey Niffenegger, Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, Ray Bradbury ...
    Narrated by Tony Roberts, John Shea, Blair Brown, Christina Pickles, Isaiah Sheffer, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Sean Leonard, Rochelle Oliver ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    3 hours 12 min

    A boon for book lovers, this compilation features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word. ... Read more

    $28.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Slow Release

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

    by Ed Allen, Robert Anderson, Mary Clyde, Molly Giles, Jacquelin Gorman, Toni Graham, Lisa Graley, Dianne Nelson Oberhansly, Gina Ochsner, Melissa Pritchard, Anne Panning, Anne Raeff, Barbara Sutton, Nancy Zafris, Monica McFawn ...
    Series series
    Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Pets!

    by Gail Godwin, Ana Menendez, Max Steele, Molly Giles, Robertson Davies, T.C. Boyle ...
    Narrated by Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating, Isaiah Sheffer, Kate Burton, Paul Hecht ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    2 hours 38 min

    The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals... cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon... and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of Frankenstein, kick that caffeine habit with a class of ... Read more

    $28.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Notes on an Execution

    A Novel

    by Danya Kukafka ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice)"A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit ... Read more

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  • Thorns of Truth

    The Sequel to Garden of Lies

    by Eileen Goudge ...
    Series Book 2 - Garden of Lies
    Decades after they were swapped at birth, two women change each other's lives in this saga from the New York Times– bestselling author of Garden of Lies.Sylvie Rosenthal is dying, and one great mistake still weighs on her soul. In 1943, as a new mother in a Bronx maternity ward, she feared for her life. What would happen when her husband saw their new daughter, whose dark hair and black eyes pro ... Read more

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