Sara NicklesWhere there's an ocean, there are always adventure tales to be told. In the good old-fashioned tradition of story-telling, S.O.S. collects 19 intriguing tales--both fictional and true, classic and...

Andrew LangThis book is a selection by Andrew Lang of the most relevant tales found in the one thousand and one nights, some of which became classics of literature and...

Tom HanksA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez   This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who...

Anita DesaiAward-winning, internationally acclaimed author Anita Desai ruminates on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and its realities in three perfectly etched novellas....

David MedalieThe widow of a Nationalist Prime Minister comes face to face with old adversaries at a luncheon hosted by the new President. An elderly woman finds that her last...

Rose ZwiWith a delicate but ironic touch leavened with gentle humor, the awardwinning author of Another Year in Africa, Safe Houses, and Last Walk in Naryshkin Park presents characters ranging...

Alice Munro The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was...

Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniIn nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments–caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience.A...

Elizabeth Strout   Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of...

Penny VincenziA fabulous collection of short stories and essays by much loved and multi-million-copy bestselling author Penny Vincenzi.From her sweeping novels to her searing journalism, Penny Vincenzi has been writing...

Alice MunroA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star TribuneHere is a selection of Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two...