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  Nothing to Lose

  Kim Suhr

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  Drawing on the rich complexity of the American Midwest, Kim Suhr peoples her debut book of fiction with characters that we know, carved out of the Wisconsin landscape and caught between expectation and desire. 
   An Iraq war veteran stalks the streets of Madison. Four drunk friends hunt deer outside of Antigo. A mother tries to save her son. A transplanted New Yorker plots revenge against her husband. A man sobers up and opens a paintball range for Jesus. A woman with nothing to lose waits for her first kiss. 
  Personal and powerful, Kim Suhr's Nothing to Lose shows us a region filled with real people: less than perfect, plagued with doubts, always reaching.

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  The Octave of Jealousy

  Stacy Aumonier

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  Stacy Aumonier's famous depiction of human nature in action. An eight-part series of snapshots, starting with a tramp who feels pangs of envy when he sees someone with a more settled and domesticated life. The focus of the story shifts to this individual, who we discover is jealous of someone else...who in turn is envious of another person and so on.James Hilton (author of Goodbye, Mr Chips and Lost Horizon) said of Aumonier: "I think his very best works ought to be included in any anthology of the best short stories ever written." Asked to choose "My Favourite Short Story" for the March 1939 edition of Good Housekeeping, James Hilton chose The Octave of Jealousy, which the magazine described as a bitterly brilliant tale.

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  Let the stars burn like...

  ~mora

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  "Let the Stars Burn Like Fireflies" is a captivating and thought-provoking short story that explores the themes of love, loss, and the human condition. Through its haunting and lyrical prose, the story transports readers to a world where memories, both good and bad, can be as vivid as fireflies lighting up the night sky. With its powerful emotional impact and thought-provoking themes, this story is a must-read for anyone who loves literature that stays with them long after they've finished reading. Follow David as he confronts unimaginable evils, fights for survival, and ultimately discovers his true destiny.

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  A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son

  Sergio Troncoso

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  How does a Mexican-American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? With echoes of Dreiser's American Tragedy and Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the twenty-first century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds which ultimately seem so empty.

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  The Truce of the Bear

  Sapper

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  A British sniper is waiting in a shell-hole in no-mans land for his enemy. It is a battle of wits...the game of no mistakes. It takes the instinct of a hunter after a bear to spot the imperceptible movement, the chink of light and shift in the mud that reveals the movement of his enemy.A tense tale in which we sit alongside the sniper, watching with him as he waits to shoot his enemy.

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  Fear and Other Stories

  Achmed Abdullah

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  Fear is everywhere. It's in the furthest reaches of the most desolate places in the world, it creeps up on you in both the night and in broad daylight, and it's even hiding out in your backyard—waiting for the perfect moment to pounce. This collection of short stories by Achmed Abdullah perfectly captures the feeling of fear and the mistakes of men who are caught up in the search for the things that appear in their wildest dreams. Experience the following short stories in this eerie collection: Fear, The Incubus, Pro Patria, Pell Street Blues, Mystery of the Talking Idols, The Charmed Life, and A Simple Act of Piety.

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