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  The Pill

  Mike Jones

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  A short story. For some unknown reason lots of people are becoming addicted to drugs. Nobody seams to know why except one man. And the government... what are they doing about it?

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  Hunter's Moon - A Novel in Stories

  Philip Caputo

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  From Philip Caputo — the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin — comes a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past.Hunter’s Moon is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other’s lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past, or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, and a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father come together, break apart, and, if they’re fortunate, find a way forward.Hunter’s Moon offers an engaging, insightful look at everyday lives but also a fresh perspective on the way men navigate in today’s world.

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  Land Of Big Numbers - Stories

  Te-Ping Chen

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  A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric Literature  
  Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati  
   
   ""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review 
   
  “Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom?” —Jennifer Egan 
   
   “Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last . . . An exceptional collection.” —Charles Yu 
   
  A “stirring and brilliant” debut story collection, offering vivid portrayals of the men and women of modern China and its diaspora, “both love letter and sharp social criticism,” from a phenomenal new literary talent bringing great “insight from her years as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal” (Elle). 
   
   Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. 
   Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited. Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist. A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend. A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of China’s volatile stock exchange. And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave. 
   With acute social insight, Te-Ping Chen layers years of experience reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose in this taut, surprising debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.

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  Watchman - An Erotic Short Story

  Landon Dixon

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  Phillip likes nothing more than to watch. As a married man, the subject of his voyeuristic tendencies is - of course – his wife. So when a busy day at the architectural office is interrupted by a phone call from his better half, things take a decidedly twisted turn. Watchman is a rare chance to peep inside a kinky couple's perfect, perverted marriage.This short story from award-winning erotic author Landon Dixon contains graphic and highly sexualised language; it is therefore only suitable for a mature, open-minded audience.

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  Tales from the Folly - A Rivers...

  Ben Aaronovitch, Charlaine Harris

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  Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time.Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the listener a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must-listen for any Rivers of London fan.Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds, and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover what's haunting a lonely motorway service station, who still wanders the shelves of a popular London bookshop, and what exactly happened to the River Lugg . . .With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris.

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  Living on the Borderlines - Stories

  Melissa Michal

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  “Michal’s debut is thoughtful and generous, capturing the fraught experience of being Native American in the modern U.S.” —Publishers WeeklyBoth on and off the rez, characters contend with identity as contemporary Haudenosaunee peoples; the stories “cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting what it is to be human in a world that works to divide us” (Susan Power, author of Sacred Wilderness). In Living on the Borderlines, intergenerational memory and trauma slip into everyday life: a teenager struggles to understand her grandmother’s silences, a man contemplates what it means to preserve tradition in the wake of the “disappearing Indian” myth, and an older woman challenges her town’s prejudice while uniting an unlikely family. With these stories, debut writer Melissa Michal weaves together an understated and contemplative collection exploring what it means to be Indigenous.“A beautiful window into understanding Indigenous worldviews . . . This book is an unapologetic contemporary perspective of the truth of healing through Indigenous storytelling.” —Sarah Eagle Heart, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy“Enlightening and thought-provoking, Michal’s stories are a pleasure to read and absorb.” —Booklist“Melissa Michal writes . . . with a power that will make you want to read and reread these stories.” —Brooklyn Rail“A hauntingly beautiful collection of stories of contemporary women and girls who live in the spaces between the reservations and traditional Indigenous territories and rural and urban communities . . . a stunning achievement.” —Nikki Dragone, visiting assistant professor of Native American studies, Dickinson College

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