Reading Short Stories: Where To Start

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  • Squall

    • ASIN: B00RPM9MJ6
    • Manufacturer: Red Tower Publications

    This book is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.Bush pilot and family man Tom Stokes is about to face the worst day of his life. On a clear winter morning, he sets out to do some repairs on a remote hunt camp, leaving his five-year-old son and very pregnant wife snug in their beds.On the return trip, a squall forces him into an emergency landing... [Read More]

  • Honeymoon Cottage (A Pajaro Bay Mystery Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0190LLDKA
    • Manufacturer: Pajaro Bay Publishing

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    • ASIN: 0062316117
    • ISBN: 9780062316110
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg,  now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bes... [Read More]

  • A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

    • ASIN: 1250066212
    • ISBN: 1250066212
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

    Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with h... [Read More]

  • Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present

    • ASIN: 0316599239
    • ISBN: 0316599239
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering ... [Read More]

  • The Great Gatsby

    • ASIN: 0743273567
    • ISBN: 9780743273565
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn... [Read More]

  • The Overstory: A Novel

    • ASIN: B073VX7HT4
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The Handfasters (Lowland Romance Book 1)

    • ASIN: B009QNR1NQ
    • Manufacturer: Creativia

    Scotland, 1811. Coming from the Highlands to Edinburgh in search of a husband, Alison Lamont finds herself in all sorts of trouble.Thrown out of a fashionable ball for a stolen kiss, Alison flees from a riot in the notorious Old Town and meets Willie Kemp, an eccentric boatbuilder. While she falls deeply in love with Mr. Kemp, her aunt wishes her t... [Read More]

  • Big Little Lies

    • ASIN: 0425274861
    • ISBN: 0425274861
    • Brand: Moriarty Liane
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEPFrom the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we ... [Read More]

  • A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

    • ASIN: 0547577311
    • ISBN: 0547577311
    • Brand: Clarion Books
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]

  • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1501173219
    • ISBN: 1501173219
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths ... [Read More]

  • The Things They Carried

    • UPC: 046442706414
    • ASIN: 0618706410
    • ISBN: 0544309766
    • Brand: Tim O Brien
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley... [Read More]

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    • UPC: 642688054472
    • ASIN: 081298840X
    • ISBN: 081298840X
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

    • UPC: 884200612511
    • ASIN: 1400203759
    • ISBN: 1400203759
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    Now a New York Times Bestseller!As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. He made friends in Uganda, and they liked him so much he became the Ugandan consul. He pursued his wife for three years before she ag... [Read More]

  • Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

    • ASIN: 0718078136
    • ISBN: 0718078136
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    New York Times Bestseller!What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry. The path toward the liberated existence we all long for is found i... [Read More]

  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven

    • ASIN: 1401308589
    • ISBN: 9781401308582
    • Brand: Samsung Electronics
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

    A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83r... [Read More]

  • Into the Wild

    • ASIN: 0385486804
    • ISBN: 0385486804
    • Brand: Random House
    • Size: Exclusive Paper Glossy
    • Manufacturer: Anchor Books

  • 100 Days to Brave: Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self

    • UPC: 025986089627
    • ASIN: 031008962X
    • ISBN: 031008962X
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Zondervan

    You were always meant to be brave.Whether you're making a major decision, dealing with a difficult transition, or facing a fear, 100 Days to Brave will give you courage and confidence to move forward.Annie F. Downs felt her challenges were too difficult, too scary, too much. Then she decided to stop allowing fear to hold her back. It wasn't easy or... [Read More]

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    • ASIN: 076790818X
    • ISBN: 076790818X
    • Brand: Bryson, Bill
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Austr... [Read More]

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    • UPC: 000143039431
    • ASIN: 0143039431
    • ISBN: 0143039431
    • Brand: Steinbeck, John/ Demott, Robert J. (INT)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

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