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10 best books like The Universe in Miniature in Miniature (Patrick Somerville): The Tsar of Love and Techno, Zombies Vs. Unicorns, Rosewater, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, Magic for Beginners, Beautiful Darkness, Teacher Man, Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir
| Author | Anthony Marra |
| ISBN | 0770436439 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.
This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable...
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 1416989536 |
It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for...
| Author | Tade Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316449059 |
Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the...
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307263983 |
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning...
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307957233 |
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club
A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013
From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and...
| Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
| ISBN | 1451643357 |
A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 0156031876 |
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut, Stranger Things Happen: effervescent blends of quirky humor and pathos that transform stock themes of genre fiction into the stuff of delicate lyrical fantasy. In "Stone Animals," a house's haunting...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1770461299 |
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
| Author | Frank McCourt |
| ISBN | 0743243781 |
McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.
Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his...
Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir
| Author | Joe Meno |
| ISBN | 0810151677 |
Winner of 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award
Children who anesthetize--and dress up--small wild animals in an ill-fated attempt to cheer their grieving mother; childhood friends who ritually return every year to the site of their near-kidnapping; an awkward teen...
| Author | William J. Bennett |
| ISBN | 0684835770 |
Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are...
| Author | Chris Adrian |
| ISBN | 0374289905 |
The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In “Why...
| Author | Frank McCourt |
| ISBN | 0743204018 |
Quite possibly the most perfect holiday gift -- a beautiful boxed collection of two prizewinning, perennial bestselling modern classics: "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis." With almost 8 million copies of Frank McCourt's books in print, fans just can't get enough of their favorite author. From the heartwrenching...
Angela and the Baby Jesus
| Author | Frank McCourt |
| ISBN | 1416574700 |
"When my mother, Angela, was six years old, she felt sorry for the Baby Jesus in the Christmas crib at St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lived...."* * * *Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" is a modern classic. Now he has written a captivating Christmas...
| Author | Aimee Bender |
| ISBN | 0385720971 |
"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review
Aimee Bender s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This...
| Author | Jen Beagin |
| ISBN | 1501183931 |
Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner and “one of the freshest voices I've read in years—funny, wise, whip-smart and compassionate” (Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins), about a cleaning lady on a quest for self-acceptance...
