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A magical collection of stories, both new and old, spanning across all of Anne Bishop’s most beloved fantasy worlds. Here, together for the first time, the shorter works of New York Times bestselling fantasy author Anne Bishop are compiled in one dazzling volume.

New York Times bestseller. In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape... and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms. Whoever controls our memories controls the future.

From a writer whom the New York Times dubbed Canada’s “Generation X laureate” comes a quartet of haunting, unforgettable tales of young people stuck in the inescapable prison of family. A New York Times Notable Book and winner of Britain’s prestigious Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, Traplines is the book that introduced the world to Canadian author Eden Robinson. In three stories and a novella, Robinson explodes the idea of family as a nurturing safe haven through a progression of domestic horrors experienced by her young, often helpless protagonists.

National bestseller. An intimate and personal debut collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers. The stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moon explore the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water.

A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce, and fantasy—a masterpiece of modern fiction perfect for fans of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Whale is the English-language debut of a beloved and bestselling South Korean author, a born storyteller with a cinematic, darkly humorous, and thoroughly original perspective. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named “Girl of Spring.” A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a hidden fortune.

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick. A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize. Winner of the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize. Shortlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.

One of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024, and Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction of 2024. "Chung builds out her stories with imagination, absurdity and a dry sense of humor, all applied with X-Acto knife precision." — Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times Book Review. From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears — and deepest desires.

From the award-winning author of Witchmark comes a Tor.com Original short story, C. L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid. All magical requests come with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother's bees to confide in will pay whatever's necessary to keep the girl she loves safe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The twenty-two authors featured within Carpe Noctem descended into midnight waters to explore the deepest horrors and wildest wonders which darkness cloaks. This anthology is not for the faint of heart.

On Beauty is a provocative collection of moments, confessions, overheard conversations, and memories, both fleeting and crystalized, revolving around the small chasms and large craters of everyday life. Situated at the crossroads of prose and poetry, these 33 vignettes explore the rhythm, textures, and micro-moments of lives in motion, asking how decisions might connect and in turn affect the future. rob mclennan's brief stories play with form and language, capturing the act of record-keeping while in the process of living those records, offering a dappled, polaroid-like effect.