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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Paperback/Neil Gaiman
Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and…Catre Magazin -
Counternarratives, Paperback/John Keene
Ranging from the 17th century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to…Catre Magazin -
The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories, Paperback/Henry James
Here are three superb stories by one of America's finest writers of fiction, Henry James. "The Beast in the Jungle" is regarded by many as James's greatest achievement in short…Catre Magazin -
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs Deluxe Edition: Stories, Paperback/Tobias Wolff
A collection of twelve short stories that showcases Tobias Wolff's extraordinary talent, available in a deluxe paperback edition--part of Ecco's The Art of the Story Series. In The Garden of…Catre Magazin -
Collected Stories, Paperback/Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a…Catre Magazin -
The Unfinished World: And Other Stories, Paperback/Amber Sparks
A highly anticipated collection of wildly imaginative short stories from “one of contemporary fiction’s true mad scientists” (Necessary Fiction). In the weird and wonderful tradition of Kelly Link and Karen…Catre Magazin -
Honored Guest, Paperback/Joy Williams
With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways comic, tragic, and unnerving we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich…Catre Magazin -
Cuentos Completos 2 (1969-1982), Paperback/Julio Cortazar
En este volumen, los lectores y lectoras encontraran todas las colecciones de cuentos de Cortazar publicadas entre 1969 y 1982 y, como novedad, aquellos relatos aparecidos postumamente en Papeles inesperados…Catre Magazin -
The Love Object: Selected Stories, Paperback/Edna O’Brien
Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (Harold Bloom) As John Banville writes in his introduction to THE LOVE…Catre Magazin -
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Edition, Hardcover/Ernest Hemingway
The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway's work, edited by the author's grandson Sean and introduced by his son Patrick, this collection includes the best…Catre Magazin -
The Philip K. Dick Reader, Paperback/Philip K. Dick
Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck , and Next "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's…Catre Magazin -
The Innocence of Father Brown, Paperback/G. K. Chesterton
In 1911, G. K. Chesterton published this first collection of twelve short stories featuring Father Brown, a priest-turned-detective who combines philosophical and spiritual reasoning with scientific observation to solve crimes.…Catre Magazin -
Family Happiness: Stories, Paperback/Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is probably best known to the Western world for his epic WAR AND PEACE and splendid ANNA KARENINA, but during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote…Catre Magazin -
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories, Paperback/Michael Chabon
The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories, Werewolves in Their Youth . Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children…Catre Magazin -
41 Stories, Paperback/O. Henry
The Master of Irony Readers the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century. Widely known as a master of irony, O.…Catre Magazin -
The Virginity of Famous Men: Stories, Hardcover/Christine Sneed
The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the choices--both personal and professional--they have…Catre Magazin -
Caldera: Notes from the Pit – Venting a Sarcastic Soul, Paperback/Edward Fuller
A glimpse into the magma coursing beneath the seemingly dormant surface of a black oddball's daily facade. Poems, short-stories, and a novella that skewer convention, current events, and all pretense.Catre Magazin -
The Souls of Quaking Pond, Paperback/Lloyd George Stull
An early morning earthquake rumbles across the Midwest, rupturing a rural Indiana pond. Human bones, jewelry, military gear, and other artifacts are revealed in the muck covered devastation, each connected…Catre Magazin -
Jaws of Life: Stories, Paperback/Laura Leigh Morris
In the hills of north central West Virginia, there lives a cast of characters who face all manner of problems. From the people who are incarcerated in West Virginia's prisons,…Catre Magazin -
China Girl: And Other Stories, Paperback/Ho Lin
A modern woman adrift in modern China. Would-be lovers connected and separated by random chance. A drunken dissident and his less-then-happy minder. A researcher of war atrocities who must come…Catre Magazin -
A Bug Collection, Paperback/Melody Mansfield
A Bug Collection is not for the squeamish.These stories about love, death, and the webby, tenuous intersections between the two take a humorous and heartbreaking look at the complexities of…Catre Magazin -
Guardian Angels and Other Monsters, Paperback/Daniel H. Wilson
From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human…Catre Magazin -
Virgin and Other Stories, Paperback/April Ayers Lawson
One of Refinery29's Best Books of 2016 One of BOMB 's Favorite Books of 2016 One of New York Magazine 's ``45 New Books to Read This Fall`` One of…Catre Magazin -
Darker with the Lights on, Paperback/David Hayden
"Here are stories to read again and again. Here is language to live in. David Hayden is a serious force."-- Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts Driven hypnotically forward…Catre Magazin -
The Teapots Are Out and Other Eccentric Tales from Ireland, Paperback/John B. Keane
A fitting tribute to John B. Keane, for decades Ireland's favorite storyteller, this winning short story collection typifies the late author's folkloric imagination and storytelling arts. These are congenial tales,…Catre Magazin -
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Paperback/Helen Oyeyemi
Winner of the PEN Open Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Pick A PBS NewsHour Best Book of 2016 A Slate Best Book…Catre Magazin -
Other People’s Love Affairs: Stories, Paperback/D. Wystan Owen
"Owen writes exquisite stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating--loudly, devastatingly--again and again."--Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the classic tradition of fiction by…Catre Magazin -
The Most Dangerous Game, Paperback/Richard Connell
The most dangerous game is a tense story pitting man against man and the hunted against the hunter. Sanger Rainsford falls from a yacht on route to Rio de Janeiro…Catre Magazin -
Hemingway on Hunting, Paperback/Ernest Hemingway
The companion volume to the bestselling Hemingway on Fishing . Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for the hunting life is reflected in his masterful works of fiction, from his famous account…Catre Magazin -
Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories, Paperback/Gerald Durrell
"All of these stories are true," states Gerald Durrell in the preface to this newest collection of his fiction, but he quickly amends, "To be strictly accurate, some are true,…Catre Magazin -
Barefoot Dogs: Stories, Paperback/Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist…Catre Magazin -
The Talker: Stories, Paperback/Mary Sojourner
"If you ever wondered what life is like for the down and out, the remarkable Sojourner lays it out in precise and unsparing prose in her latest collection of short…Catre Magazin -
Don’t Look Now: Stories, Paperback/Daphne Du Maurier
An NYRB Original Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca , My Cousin Rachel , and Jamaica…Catre Magazin -
Stranger Things Happen: Stories, Paperback/Kelly Link
-An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ---Salon.com (Best of the Year) -A delightful collection.--- Cleveland Plain Dealer -My favorite fantasy writer.---Alan Cheuse, All Things…Catre Magazin -
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Hardcover/Ernest Hemingway
THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as ""The…Catre Magazin -
Krik’ Krak!, Paperback/Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat's only short story collection. Gorgeous 20th anniversary edition--complete with a new story Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel ( Breath, Eyes, Memory ) alerted critics to…Catre Magazin -
Protest, Paperback/Ra Page
Available here in paperback, this acclaimed anthology applies fiction to key instances of protest in British history, from the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003.…Catre Magazin -
Paris Tales, Paperback/Helen Constantine
If you've never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative…Catre Magazin -
The Girl of the Lake: Stories, Paperback/Bill Roorbach
Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar…Catre Magazin -
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Paperback/Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called -an American virtuoso of the short story form- ( Salon ) and -one of the…Catre Magazin -
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith, Paperback/Patricia Highsmith
These stories highlight the remarkable range of Highsmith's powers her unique ability to quickly, almost imperceptibly, draw out the mystery and strangeness of her subject, which appears achingly ordinary to…Catre Magazin -
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, Paperback/Isaac Babel
Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete…Catre Magazin -
Microscripts, Paperback/Robert Walser
Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light…Catre Magazin -
The Age of Grief, Paperback/Jane Smiley
The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected…Catre Magazin -
How to Breathe Underwater, Paperback/Julie Orringer
A New York Times notable book and winner of The Northern California Book Award for Best Short Fiction, these nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this debut.In ``When…Catre Magazin -
Voices in the Night, Paperback/Steven Millhauser
From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories provocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and…Catre Magazin -
Catastrophe: And Other Stories, Paperback/Dino Buzzati
In Catastrophe , the renowned Italian short story writer Dino Buzzati brings vividly to life the slow and quietly terrifying collapse of our known, everyday world. In stories touched by…Catre Magazin -
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas, Paperback/Patrick Modiano
A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author…Catre Magazin -
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, Paperback/Neil Gaiman
Includes the Story "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" - Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Nicole Kidman A24 Film Directed by John Cameron Mitchell also Stars Elle Fanning…Catre Magazin -
Mesopotamia, Paperback/Serhii Ezihadan
A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation's post-independence years This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan's…Catre Magazin -
Break It Down, Paperback/Lydia Davis
The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost…Catre Magazin -
Last Evenings on Earth, Paperback/Roberto Bolano
In the short story "Silva the Eye," Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even…Catre Magazin -
The Complete Stories, Paperback/Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "A Hunger Artist" to shorter pieces and fragments…Catre Magazin -
Dreamsongs, Volume I, Paperback/George R. R. Martin
Even before A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin had already established himself as a giant in the field of fantasy literature. The first of two stunning collections, Dreamsongs:…Catre Magazin -
Stories of Your Life and Others, Paperback/Ted Chiang
Includes Story of Your Life the basis for the major motion picture Arrival , starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales…Catre Magazin -
Garden Party, The & Other Stories, Hardcover/Maeve Binchy
A collection of short stories: The Garden Party, The Special Sale, The Sensible Celebration and Dolly's Mother. Read by Niamh Cusack, Dervla Kirwan, Doreen Hepburn and Stella McCusker, respectively.Catre Magazin -
Knockemstiff, Paperback/Donald Ray Pollock
"More engaging than any new fiction in years." Chuck Palahniuk An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad,…Catre Magazin -
Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection, Paperback/Anne Finger
Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, ``two female icons of disability.`` Or the story of ``Moby Dick, or, The Leg,`` told from Ahab's perspective. What if…Catre Magazin -
The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paperback/F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakeside parties and neighborhood hijinks. These are stories of ambition and young love, insecurity and awkwardness,…Catre Magazin -
A Few of the Girls: Stories, Paperback/Maeve Binchy
A selection of short stories includes pieces spanning the author's career and features characters whose relationships with each other endure in the face of changing times, lost hopes, and new…Catre Magazin -
Tenth of December: Stories, Paperback/George Saunders
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE…Catre Magazin -
Come Let Us Sing Anyway, Paperback/Leone Ross
From headless schoolgirls, to talking food and threesomes, pretty much anything can happen in these witty, weird and wonderful short stories by Leone Ross. Ranging from flash fiction to intense…Catre Magazin -
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Paperback/Haruki Murakami
From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami's mastery of the form. From…Catre Magazin -
Listener, Paperback/Tove Jansson
Debut collection of short stories from the Moomins author, translated into English for the first time. Original and deep, dealing with secrets, vignettes of a city storm and the slow…Catre Magazin -
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Paperback/Franz Kafka
It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: ``When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of…Catre Magazin -
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories, Paperback/Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future…Catre Magazin -
Worlds from the Word’s End, Paperback/Joanna Walsh
``Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers.`` --Deborah Levy This collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her…Catre Magazin -
Missing Kissinger, Paperback/Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret’s stories are quick, brief and precise — unhesitatingly moving. They are also hilarious and off-the-wall, yet dark, sometimes violent, and often intensely poignant: a powerful new collection from…Catre Magazin -
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, Paperback/H. P. Lovecraft
WIKIPEDIA says: 'H.P. Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting…Catre Magazin -
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, Paperback/J. G. Ballard
With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release…Catre Magazin -
Fragile Things, Paperback/Neil Gaiman
A stunning book of short stories by the acclaimed fantasy writer, Neil Gaiman. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of…Catre Magazin -
Pugilist at Rest, Paperback/Thom Jones
Offers a brutal and authentic vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. 'A small masterpiece, vividly imagined, wonderful in all ways' Joyce Carol Oates, New…Catre Magazin -
Women with Men, Paperback/Richard Ford
Richard Ford's backlist published to coincide with his debut hardback for Bloomsbury, }The Lay Of The Land{. 'Superb... Nobody now writing looks more like an American classic' }New York Times{Catre Magazin -
Narrativa Completa. Juan Jose Arreola / Complete Narrative, Paperback/Juan Jose Arreola
Un ano despues de que Juan Rulfo publico El llano en llamas, Juan Jose Arreola puso en circulacion Confabulario. Despues vendrian Bestiario, Cantos del mal dolor, Prosodia, Palindroma, La feria,…Catre Magazin -
The Man Who Would Be King, Paperback/Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work…Catre Magazin -
Antarctica, Paperback/Claire Keegan
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut collection, Antarctica, have been acclaimed by The Observer to be "among the…Catre Magazin -
But Beautiful, Paperback/Geoff Dyer
A collection of 8 vignettes on the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. Part of Canongate's series of Dyer reissues.Catre Magazin -
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2, Paperback/Annie Proulx
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be even more successful than her bestselling, critically acclaimed Close Range…Catre Magazin -
The Shell Collector: Stories, Paperback/Anthony Doerr
The "perilously beautiful" ( Boston Globe ) first story collection by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All The Light We Cannot See .…Catre Magazin -
The Bed Moved: Stories, Paperback/Rebecca Schiff
*A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST* A razor-sharp, devastatingly witty debut collection of stories on adolescence, sex, death, being Jewish-ish, and finding one's way as a young woman in…Catre Magazin
