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  • Thieves I've Known

    Stories

    by Tom Kealey ...
    In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up.Their names are Merrill, Omar, Shelby, Laika, Winston, and Toomey, but most people don’t see them. They are boxers in training and the children of fishermen. They are altar boys in a poverty-stricken parish. They are assistant ... Read more

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  • Growing Up

    Stories about Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    Series Book 117 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinitepossibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to soar on ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Changes

    Stories about Transformation from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    Series Book 118 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Perfect Souvenir

    Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    Series Book 115 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Down on the Sidewalk

    Stories about Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    Series series
    Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. ... Read more

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  • Too Late

    by Clem Martini ...
    Series series Single Voice
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  • Famous Fathers and Other Stories

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  • Comfort & Joy

    A Fable

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Women presents a modern-day fairy tale—the story of a woman who gets a miraculous chance at happiness.Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life; recently divorced and alone, she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling ... Read more

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  • April Fool

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