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"In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly...

2) Old babes in the wood: stories

Author

Atwood, Margaret

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Language

English

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"Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine--Atwood speaks to our times with her characteristic wit and intellect. Of special significance are the seven works revolving around the long-term married couple Tig and Nell....

3) Glass beads

Author

Dumont, Dawn

Series

Indigenous collection

Language

English

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Books by Congolese Authors

"These stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people spanning over two decades against the cultural, political, and historical backdrop of the 1990s and early 2000s"-- Publisher.

4) Shut up, you're pretty

Author

Mutonji, Téa

Language

English

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—Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji is the first book to be published by VS. Books, Arsenal's series dedicated to new and emerging writers of color (under the age of 30). The series is curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya, author of 4 previous Arsenal titles (including The Boy & the Bindi and even this page is white) as well as the comic Death Threat, also publishing this season.
—Téa...

5) Dubliners

Author

Joyce, James

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Language

English

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Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It's a snapshot of Dublin society in the early 20th century, capturing the lives of ordinary people in various stages of their existence. The stories are interconnected thematically, offering a vivid portrayal of the city and its inhabitants. The collection consists of 15 stories, each exploring different facets of human experience, often with a focus on the mundane...

6) Tenth of December: stories

Author

Saunders, George

Language

English

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A...

7) Bad endings: stories

Author

Baker, Carleigh

Language

English

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Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. She never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward. Despite the title, the resolution in these stories isn't always tragic, but it's often uncomfortable, unexpected, or just plain strange. While steadfastly local in her choice of setting, Baker's deep appreciation for nature takes a lot of these stories out of Vancouver and into the wild. Nature is a place of escape and...

8) American housewife: stories

Author

Ellis, Helen

Language

English

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A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, featuring murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster, this is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood.

9) So late in the day: stories of women and men

Author

Keegan, Claire

Language

English

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"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Bl̲l...

10) Five Tuesdays in winter: stories

Author

King, Lily

Language

English

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"Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs"--Dust jacket flap.

11) The stone collection

Author

Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri

Series

Indigenous collection

Language

English

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Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

★ [Akiwenzie-Damm's] luminescent prose in this book dances "like jingle dress dancers," and is somehow still compressed to shining perfection - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

In the Anishnaabe language and worldview, stones are alive, infused with life force or spirit. Although many of the stories are about loss, under that surface they are alive, celebrating the beauty and preciousness of life.—Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

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12) The Shunned House

Author

Series

Work of H. P. Lovecraft

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook

Description

The shunned house of the title has long been an object of fascination for the narrator, a fascination he shares with his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple. The narrator summarises the strange lore the good doctor has collected about the house, lore filled with unexplained sicknesses and deaths, and follows this with his personal account of what happened when he and his uncle ventured inside the old house. (Goodreads)

13) Ghostroots: stories

Author

Aguda, 'Pemi

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

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"In his beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, 'Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before"--Jacket flap.

14) Half-wild and other stories of encounter

Author

Paskevics, Emily

Language

English

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"In Half-Wild and Other Stories of Encounter, a startling debut short story collection by a new Ontario writer, intergenerational relationships unfold in a context of environmental change and degradation. Emily Paskevics takes her characters--mothers, daughters, fathers, sisters--into the wilderness to lose themselves in their primal nature . . . or to find what they’ve always been missing as they struggle in a borderland between irrevocable...

15) When she was queen

Author

Vassanji, M. G

Publisher

Doubleday Canada

Language

English

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Adult Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

“My father lost my mother one evening in a final round of gambling at the poker table,” writes the narrator of “When She Was Queen,” the title story of a new collection by bestselling novelist and two-time winner of the Giller Prize, M.G. Vassanji. That fateful evening in Kenya becomes “the obsessive and dark centre” of the young man’s existence and leads him, years later in Toronto, to unearth an even darker...

16) Coronado: stories

Author

Lehane, Dennis

Language

English

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Now available with a contemporary look, a must-have collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.

"Locations are vivid and crisp, characters are memorable and, most importantly, the story lines dig into you and leave their mark." —Boston Herald

When it comes to contemporary crime fiction there's no territory quite as dangerous

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17) The ancient minstrel: novellas

Author

Harrison, Jim

Language

English

Formats

Adult Book, eAudiobook

Description

A collection of novellas includes the title story, in which an aging writer struggles with his ex and a litter of piglets; "Eggs," in which a woman tries to have a baby after reflecting on her London youth; and a story featuring Detective Sunderson.

18) Montreal stories

Author

Gallant, Mavis

Language

English

Formats

Adult Book, eAudiobook

Description

Indigenous collection
Astoria

Included on AudioFile's Best of 2007 List

Stories from a confirmed master of stories, Mavis Gallant.

This collection of short stories was selected by Russell Banks and printed in Canada by McClelland and Stewart Ltd. in 2004 under the title Montreal Stories, and simultaneously in the United States by The New York Review of Books under the title Varieties of Exile. Thirteen of the fifteen stories first appeared

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19) Glorious frazzled beings

Author

Lalonde, Angélique

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Language

English

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Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we choose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home. A startling and beguiling story collection, 'Glorious Frazzled Beings' is a love song to the homes we make, keep, and break. Angelique Lalonde's mother is Metis, and her father is Quebecois. She dwells...

20) The doll-master and other tales of terror

Author

Oates, Joyce Carol

Language

English

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