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Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful stories collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and o

Fans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable—filled with laughter, music, and adventure.

Beneath the Statue is an inventory of the tactics of the weak, the methods of the contained and the imprisoned, and the weapons of those who cannot fight.

Certain Women meets The Mars Room in this debut collection featuring three pairs of stories.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls comes an eagerly anticipated story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience." Daddy 's ten masterful, provocative stories co

"Bright, funny, satirical and relevant... A new talent to watch" —Margaret Atwood.

Inspired by the ongoing international success of the city-based Akashic Noir Series (Brooklyn Noir, Boston Noir, Paris Noir, etc.), Akashic created the Drug Chronicles Series in 2011.

Canada's answer to Chuck Palahniuk. A bear runs amok in a luxury hotel. A daily swim at the local pool becomes a question of life or death.

Imagine walking home from school one day and seeing a brain on the side of the road, a brain that, it turns out, is looking for a new home.

Escaping government-sanctioned flooding, obsessing over camera-equipped drones, violently mourning a lost brother, discovering a new passion in fencing, watching a wildfire consume a whole town: th

A woman becomes obsessed with a story about her family from 1890-when a naked, mute girl stumbled onto their property-and whether or not it really happened.

Angst, seduction, escape and extinction control these many tales-a whisper in the ear convinces a lady to take the plunge, another to take up surfing, and a young man to jump in front of a moving t

Acclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr's debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.

Even That Wildest Hope bursts with vibrant, otherworldly characters-wax girls and gods-among-men, artists on opposite sides of a war, aimless plutocrats and anarchist urchins-who are sometimes wond