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1) The Ukraine
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article "the" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
These four novellas--Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad--each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations, (except forFamily Happiness, translated by J.D. Huff), modernized and corrected against modern Russian editions to create this English language version. While the Afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata appears for the first time in English with the story....
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care. Nearly All the Men in LagosAre Mad is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that...
4) 法医秦明：白卷
Author
Publisher
Simplified Chinese Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
中文（繁體）
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★ 法医秦明2023全新作品，以父亲的身份书写孩子的悲剧
《白卷》是法医秦明系列的作品，也是一本以亲子关系为主题的悬疑小说。
秦明在现实中不仅是一位从业26年的法医，也是一位家有青春期孩子的父亲。
尽管已经检验过上千具尸体，但每次遇到孩子的死亡事件，他都会格外心疼。接触的案子越多，他越发现，悲剧的源头，往往早就隐藏在一扇扇紧闭的家门背后。信任、隐私、情欲、占有、牺牲......爱入歧途，深不可赎，很多人都是直到失去了孩子，才意识到错过了他们最后的求救。
...Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1955
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A new speculative fiction short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author Wole Talabi"--
""A jaw-dropping collection....Beautiful, vibrant, and electrifying, this has the makings of a modern classic." - Publishers Weekly (starred review), and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Spring 2024 Roundup pick "For fans of Margaret Atwood's dystopian works and P. Dj. Clark's speculative fiction, Convergence Problems provides an Afrocentric...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies"--
"A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Although Russian fiction master Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for epic, sprawling novels that detail psychological and philosophical problems in minute detail, his more concise work is also remarkable in its scope and depth. This collection of stories will please fans of classic Russian literature and Dostoyevsky buffs who are interested in sampling the author's forays into another format.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the master of the short short comes a collection of 16 new stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging. Canthe group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1983, The Homewood Trilogy signaled the arrival of a major voice in American literature. Forty years later, this edition of the Trilogy celebrates Wideman's ongoing contribution by offering these masterworks to a new generation of readers.
"From "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman's own hometown. Damballah,...
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
''Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective - Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science fiction, his novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash and Cocaine Nights show a world out of joint - a bewildering, alienating and yet enthralling place. From his rapturously weird takes on contemporary reality to his classic dystopias like The Drowned World and High Rise, Ballard's legacy shaped the future of literature. This...
11) Being ace: an anthology of queer, trans, femme, and disabled stories of asexual love and connection
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories. From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters, the stories of this anthology are anything but conventional. Whether adventuring through space, outsmarting a vengeful water spirit, or surviving haunted cemeteries, no two...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Interactive Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Russian
Description
Белой ночью мечтатель — одинокий и робкий человек случайно знакомится с девушкой Настенькой и влюбляется в неё, а она видит в нём родную душу, брата. Настенька рассказывает ему свою историю. Все свои ранние годы она прожила вместе со своей слепой
...Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories is a universal...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.
One week into the COVID-19
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Publisher
Titan Magazines, a division of Titan Publishing Group Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A compendium of tales from the High Republic era, told from aboard the incredible satellite station, the Starlight Beacon, collected for the first time from the pages of Star Wars Insider. All stories are written by The New York Times' best-selling authors Cavan Scott, Charles Soule, and Justina Ireland. Also includes in-depth interviews with the story architects behind the best-selling publishing and multimedia initiative"--
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times).
“Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms...
“Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The masterly novellas that established Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as one of the greatest living Russian writers . After her work was suppressed for many years, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya won wide recognition for capturing the experiences of everyday Russians with profound pathos and mordant wit. Among her most famous and controversial works, these three novellas-The Time Is Night, Chocolates with Liqueur, and Among Friends-are modern classics that breathe...
20) Your utopia
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears-and deepest desires. Bora Chung's inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed...
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