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• Normal Rules Don't Apply

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  Atkinson, Kate

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  Startling, funny and imaginative, eleven interconnected stories, in which nothing is what it seems, are sharp observations on human nature and pack an emotional--and satisfying--punch.

• Old Babes in the Wood

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  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  The internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents this stunning collection of short stories that showcase both her creativity and her humanity as she explores family relationships, marriage, loss and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coexistence

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  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  This set of interconnected stories explores the lives of Indigenous characters—all of whom are tortured in some way by romantic grief or confusion—in a range of settings across Canada. (Kirkus)

• Temple Folk

  Bilal, Aaliyah

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  Ten stories portray the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family and freedom in America, presenting moral failures with compassion, nuance and humor to remind us that it’s the errors that make us human.

• Quickly, While They Still Have Horses

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  Carson, Jan,

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  Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses offer a fresh, irreverent look at life in post-conflict Northern Ireland. From first loves to strained relationships, the thrills and terrors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weird Black Girls

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  Cotman, Elwin, 1984-

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  With a unique voice and a gift for metaphor, Cotman presents seven stories that blend magic realism and social commentary into a rollicking fever dream of real and imagined Black experiences. (Booklist)

• The Faraway World

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  Engel, Patricia

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  From the author of Infinite Country, this collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.

• The Body Farm

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  Geni, Abby

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  Wounds of all sizes and kinds—physical, emotional, psychological—are present in various stages—open, healing, permanently scarred—in these stunning stories. (Booklist)

• The Goodbye Process

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  Jones, Mary, 1976-

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  In her stunning debut short story collection, The Goodbye Process, Mary Jones uses her distinctive voice to examine the painful and sometimes surreal ways we say goodbye.

• Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

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  Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei

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  Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization.

• So Late in the Day

  Stories of Women and Men

  Keegan, Claire

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  A collection of stories that explore relationships through a series of fraught encounters. (Kirkus)

• The World Wasn't Ready for You

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  Key, Justin C.

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  Short stories using the tropes of horror and science fiction with intelligence, compassion, and wry abandon to analyze and analogize racial misunderstanding. (Kirkus)

• Roman Stories

  Lahiri, Jhumpa

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  Translated from Italian into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this masterful collection of nine short stories has Rome, suspended between past and future, multifaceted and metaphysical, as the protagonist, not the setting.

• My First Book

  Levy, Honor

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  This inventive, ambitious and frequently surreal collection of stories, emerging from the chaos of coming of age in Generation Z, illuminates what it is to be at once adorable, special, heavily medicated, consistently panicked and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Craft

  Stories I Wrote for the Devil

  Lima, Ananda,

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  A collection of short stories as told by a Brazilian-American writer who slept with the devil at a Halloween party in 1999 and who spends the rest of her life describing to him beautiful and impossible things.

• White Cat, Black Dog

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  Link, Kelly

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  Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, 17th-century French lore and Scottish ballads, this clever collection of reinvented fairy tales expertly blends realism and the speculative as characters hunt for love, connection, revenge or their own sense…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seasonal Work

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  Lippman, Laura, 1959-

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  Bestseller Lippman displays her uncanny understanding of human nature and all its foibles in this worthy collection of 12 stories involving deceit, violence, and psychological mayhem. (Publishers Weekly)

• A View From the Stars

  Liu, Cixin

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  This collection of Liu’s essays, interviews, and early short works spans three decades (1987-2015) and offers up a palatable blend of speculative science fiction and insightful articles on the genre’s past and future. (Kirkus)

• Bliss Montage

  Ma, Ling, 1983-

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  Ma...proves her biting sense of humor and gift for subtlety in a collection of eight short stories, all surreal and jarring in the most sensational way. (Booklist)

• Marple

  Twelve New Stories

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  Starring Agatha Christie's legendary detective Jane Marple, this brand-new collection of short stories is written by 12 best-selling and acclaimed authors--each of which reimagines Marple through their own unique perspective while staying…Read moreRead more of this annotation