Short Stories (single Author)

In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is ...

"The Book Case" is a story that features Nelson DeMille's most famous (successful) character, Detective John Corey, who has appeared in six ...

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Bec...

Mary Higgins Clark is a master storyteller, who keeps hr readers spellbound. Now, in her first two published stories, written in the fifties,...

From Jeffery Deaver--the New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Lincoln Rhyme novel THE KILL ROOM (on sale June 4, 2013)--comes a...

From the undisputed Queen of Vampire Literature, Anne Rice, The Master of Rampling Gate is a chilling tale of vampiric seduction.Se...

Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him.From #1 New York Times
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Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered A...

From Jeffery Deaver--the New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Lincoln Rhyme novel THE KILL ROOM (on sale June 4, 2013)--come th...

Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empire–the Arabian city we know as Mecca...

Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bo...

"On the busy, bustling, colonized future Moon, McAuley reminds us that although everyone makes mistakes, some mistakes have far greater conse...

Encore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in.…Praise:“As extravagantly...

Parker's quips and light verse have become embedded in the American literary landscape. In these selected stories is the chance to draw on he...

Mary Lou Dixon works at the Christ Holiness Baptist Church. She's overseeing the repair of the cross above the altar in time for Christmas wh...

A classic tale of brotherly love and rivalry from short-story master Tobias Wolff Pete has always been successful. Happily married with two ...

Lawrence Block's seventeen Matthew Scudder novels have won fans throughout the world-along with a bevy of awards, including the Edgar, the Sh...

Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired—two power-packed short stories by three of the ...

Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories...A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other ...

After many happy years of marriage and raising a family, Brian and Kathleen suddenly find themselves a bit lost in life. Midwesterners who&rs...

In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events c...

When Golds daughter is viciously attacked by a neighbors dog and barely escapes with her life, Golds world is torn open. Haunted by the incid...

A lesson on the power of vanity, The Necklace tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loisel and her husband. Mathilde always imagined herself as ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary storiesIn The A...

Pam is a fifty-two-year-old teacher who has let herself go for the first time in her life. It's two years since her husband-ex-husband-John d...

In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Raymond Ca...

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppres...

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have....

Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new listeners-- a smorgasbord of fantast...

With his marriage on the rocks, a father takes his son skiing for the weekend. After insisting on staying just a bit longerdespite a growing ...

Mr. Givens obituary is nothing remarkable, hardly something to remember at all. He led a quiet life, served in the Army, was married to the s...

One of Tobias Wolffs classic tales, "The Liar" is the story of a deceitful teenage boy and his religious, resolute mother. James is a liar. ...

One of F. Scott Fitzgeralds earliest short stories, The Ice Palace is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young Southern woman who is bored with her...

Kate Chopin is a widely considered the forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race and gender, he...

O. Henry was a prolific American short-story writera master of surprise endingswho wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. ...

Burke, a San Francisco lawyer, is defending a woman who has been disabled by a botched surgery. His client has a personal connection to Burke...

Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes, Londons true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of imag...

Celeste and Marla are the type of friends who know each others' thoughts without having to hear them spoken. So as the two friends sit and en...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times ...

Widely considered one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most notable works of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool" was originally written in Yiddish. It...

This short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that c...