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• The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

  Stories

  Friedlander, Omer, 1994-

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  Also available as a downloadable audiobook on Libby. "The poignant, whimsically imaginative stories in Omer Friedlander's debut transport readers to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Have a Friend in 10A

  Shipstead, Maggie,

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  "In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll. Illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

  Stories

  Fu, Kim,

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  "In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beadworkers

  Piatote, Beth H., 1966-

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  Also available as a downloadable audiobook on Hoopla. "Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

  Stories

  Bhanoo, Sindya,

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  "Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart...…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prayer for the Living

  Stories

  Okri, Ben,

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  Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook on Hoopla. "Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jokes for the Gunmen

  Maʻrūf, Māzin,

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  "These are stories of what the world looks like from a child's pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled perspective. These are stories of life in a war zone, life peppered by surreal mistakes, tragic accidents and painful encounters. These are stories…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything Abridged

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  Dayle, Dennard,

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  Also available as an ebook on Hoopla. "Framed as a reference work of humorous “entries” that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nobody Gets Out Alive

  Stories

  Newman, Leigh,

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  "Set in Newman’s home state of Alaska, Nobody Gets Out Alive is a collection of dazzling, courageous stories about women struggling to survive not just grizzly bears and charging moose but the raw, exhausting legacy of their marriages and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seasons of Purgatory

  Mandanīʹpūr, Shahriyār,

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  Also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook on Hoopla. "In this collection, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales filled with opposites: the boredom and brutality of war; modern urban life and rural traditions; tender desire and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Are We Ever Our Own

  Stories

  Fuentes, Gabrielle Lucille,

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  Also available as an ebook on Hoopla. "Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family. Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Decameron Project

  29 New Stories From the Pandemic

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  Also available as a downloadable audiobook on Libby. "Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  Stories

  Vowel, Chelsea,

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  "Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moldy Strawberries

  Abreu, Caio Fernando,

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  "In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the ’80s. Suspended between fear and longing, Abreu’s characters grasp for connection. A man speckled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Learning to Talk

  Stories

  Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022

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  "In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood."