"The lives of working class Mexican America, where everyday stories offer a portal to myth and fable. This collection of eleven stories is the newest installment of an ongoing, multi-volume literary documentary project, penned by one of the contemporary legends of Chicanx literature. Dagoberto Gilb's cast of characters includes a young family whose exposure to a mysterious cloud of gas alters their lives forever; a high school dropout whose choice...

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments "uses her powerful gifts of language and observation to delineate both the misunderstandings between men and women and the everyday sadnesses and comforts of love” (The New York Times).
In each of these stories Atwood deftly illuminates the shape of a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of...

Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation...

Publisher Annotation: A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.

"From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. Kiss Me, Kate. Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of Shakespeare's most beloved works. Now, some of today's best writers for teens take on the Bard in these 15 whip-smart and original retellings! --from Amazon.

A collection of three dozen short works includes five previously unpublished pieces and offers insight into the author's use of plot twists and contrasting psychological landscapes.

An irresistible anthology of classic tales of New York in the tradition of "Christmas Stories, Love Stories," and "Stories of the Sea." Includes contributions by Damon Runyon, Edith Wharton, Jack Kerouac, and Shirley Jackson.

"A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives Anjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal power of the furnaces; a fisherman sets sail into overfished...

The publication of The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy is a literary event that marks the first time all of James Purdy's short stories-fifty-six in number, including seven drawn from his unpublished archives-have been collected in a single volume. As prolific as he was unclassifiable, James Purdy was considered one of the greatest-and most underappreciated-writers in America in the latter half of the twentieth century. Championed by writers...