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1	Interpreter of Maladies more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri Most of the short stories in this debut volume are about marriage in one form or another. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999, this book also won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Unaccustomed Earth more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lahiri delivers eight dazzling stories that take readers from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $13.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Franny and Zooey more books like this by J D Salinger The book comprises a novella and a short story, both about members of Salinger's famous Glass family, the central figures in most of his later fiction. In "Franny," a bright college student (Franny Glass), like Holden Caulfield in THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, is unable to resolve the conflict between her deepest self and the superficiality of the world ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.01! \| first editions \| SVS
4	My Ántonia more books like this by Willa Cather This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather's masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia's father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Haunted more books like this by Chuck Palahniuk Cult favorite Chuck Palahniuk outgrosses even himself in this series of grotesque tales about a group of writers at a three-month writing retreat at an old theater. In a scheme to become rich and famous when they later write about their ordeal, they embark on an experience of extreme communal brutality--eventually even consuming parts of each ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway more books like this by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's short stories are considered his best work because of their controlled economy, the simplicity of their language, and Hemingway's constant struggle to get to the truth in a situation. see all copies from $3.35! new only from $11.03! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Complete Stories more books like this by Flannery O'Connor Thirty-one stories are in this volume, including 12 that never appeared in collections published during her lifetime. The stories are arranged chronologically, beginning with her first published story, "The Geranium" and ending with her last one, "Judgement Day." see all copies from $4.19! new only from $9.38! \| first editions
8	Welcome to the Monkey House more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Dubliners more books like this by James Joyce Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Close Range: Wyoming Stories more books like this by E Annie Proulx Eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human experience that is full of farce, tragedy, and grit. The volume is illustrated with watercolors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Different Seasons more books like this by Stephen King (Afterword by) A collection of four short stories, two of which became the basis for major motion pictures. The film "Stand By Me" was adapted from "The Body", while the Academy Award winning film "The Shawshank Redemption" was adapted from the story "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Breakfast at Tiffanys more books like this by Truman Capote Truman Capote's enduring and enchanting story of Holly Golightly. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Drown more books like this by Junot Díaz Eleven stories based on Dìaz's youth in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Return of the Native more books like this by Thomas Hardy In THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, the story turns on that staple of Victorian literature, a love triangle. Clym Yeobright, the "native" of the title, returns to the countryside where he was born--much as Hardy himself, after a stint in London, returned to his native Dorsetshire to write. Clym falls in love with his cousin, the beautiful but cold ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Four Past Midnight more books like this by Stephen King Master of horror Stephen King has collected four chilling novellas here. "Secret Window, Secret Garden," in which a writer confronts a deadly antagonist who claims the writer has stolen his work, was made into a 2004 film (simply called SECRET WINDOW) starring Johnny Depp, and "The Langoliers," about an airplane trapped in a fragment of time, was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Nightmares and Dreamscapes more books like this by Stephen King This collection features 20 short stories and a few assorted other goodies by King, all written or published between 1986 and 1993. It includes a World Fantasy Award nominee, "The End of the Whole Mess," along with numerous other award nominees like "It Grows on You," "The Ten O'clock People," and "The Night Flier." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room more books like this by Paul Auster Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Complete Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "The Penal Colony." see all copies from $3.66! new only from $8.28! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Hearts in Atlantis more books like this by Stephen King This is a collection of five novellas--"Low Men in Yellow Coats," "Hearts in Atlantis," "Blind Willie," "Why We're in Vietnam," and "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling"--by best-selling author King. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Case Histories more books like this by Kate Atkinson This new novel from award-winner Atkinson is a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories more books like this by Tim Burton Dark stories by the filmmaker Tim Burton, illustrated by himself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Night Shift more books like this by Stephen King A collection of short stories form the master of horror including "Graveyard Shift" and "The Lawnmower Man", both of which were the basis for feature films. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales more books like this by Stephen King These 14 chilling short stories comprise the first story collection by Stephen King in nine years. Though one story won an O. Henry Prize and four others were published in The New Yorker, don't be fooled--these are still the eerie, bizarre, and devilish writings of horror's most prodigious and best-selling writer. Also includes "Riding the Bullet, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Guy Not Taken: Stories more books like this by Jennifer Weiner From the bestselling author of "Good in Bed" comes a new collection of stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven more books like this by Sherman Alexie A short-story sequence set on a reservation of the Spokane Indian tribe in eastern Washington State. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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