Frank Abagnale was possibly the world's most talented con artist. A high school dropout, Abagnale amassed millions of dollars by passing bad checks, playing the role of an airline pilot (including actually flying commercial airplanes)...

Stephen King had such fun recording the epic, unabridged audio version of his haunting novel Bag of Bones, he decided to publish the three-story collection Blood and Smoke exclusively on audio. They're horror stories, good and dark, l...

A brilliant collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.Hilary Mantel is one of the world's most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. Uniquely, her last tw...

While Blandings Castle sleeps in the summer sun, Galahad Threepwood, brother of the Earl of Emsworth, writes his Memoirs. But Galahad has led a thoroughly misspent life, and his acquaintances can easily recall their past follies in hi...

...a fascinating book, a you-won't-be-able-to-put-it-down read and probably the most exciting nonfiction book I have yet read this fall....Accompanied by illustrations from the newspapers of the day and black-and-white historical phot...

In a series of stories that are shocking, sexy, charming, and ultimately unforgettable, Miranda July explores the hearts and minds of characters who are desperate for human connection and yet don't know what to do when it actually hap...

The story of a father and son pair of wind-up toy mice. Seeking a life outside the toy store, father and son set out to explore the world. During their journey, the mice have many adventures--including run-ins with the evil Manny Rat ...

A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.Across seven t...

For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgivin...

'Perfect for traveling in the car, this CD offers quick wit from David Brenner, George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Al Franken, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert.'

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, 'These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost wo...

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that...

 Junot Díaz burst into the literary world with IDrown, a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" (INewsweek). His eagerly awaited first novel...

Nine superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers.A young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her children from a most surprising source. In the aftermath of an unusual, humiliating...

Maeve Binchy is one of the world's most popular storytellers, and these tales demonstrate all the warmth, wit, and compassion that have made her a bestselling author."Firefly Summer" is a moving, humorous story about a sleep...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sleeping in the Ground comes this brilliantly nuanced short story collection of twenty stories-most never before published in the US, and one of them an Edgar winner-which also features th...

These five stories feature modern Irishwomen emerging from a culture where they knew their place, into a more hazardous, but more rewarding light. In The Night People Came in for Something That Was No Trouble, Cara's envy of another c...

In these eleven strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper courts danger from his gentle charge; in Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, a hea...

One of Tolstoys most important shorter works, The Kreutzer Sonata presents a problematic view of the relationship between the sexes and promotes abstinence as the solution. Pozdnyshev jealously observes the intimacy that emerges betwe...

Here in one recording are both of L. Frank Baum's Santa Claus stories: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and A Kidnapped Santa Claus. In The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Baum gives us a glimpse into the magical history th...

Embarking on a mission of vengeance, Danielle Strange, disguised as notorious gunslinger "Danny Duggin," finds herself powerfully attracted to one of the men responsible for her father's death, a predicament that forces her ...

Fiendish suspense. Shocking twists. Twelve diabolical tales.New York Times bestselling author and highly acclaimed storyteller Jeffery Deaver-the undisputed "grand master of the plot twist" (Booklist)-returns with a dazzling...

The Man Booker Prize-winning author takes the pulse of modern Ireland with a masterful new collection of stories. Roddy Doyle has earned a devoted following for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his ability to fully capture the heart...

Ron Hansen has long been a master of the short form. His stories have been called "beautifully crafted" (The New York Times), "unforgettable" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "diverse and expansive" (The Wa...

The New York Times Book Review has noted, 'Alice Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives,' and now she casts her spell over a Long Island neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams. In a dazzling series of fami...

A young Indian boy in Canada carves a little canoe with a figure inside and sets him on the snow just north of Lake Superior. When the snow melts the canoe, named Paddle-to-the-Sea, is off on a long trip through each of the Great Lake...

Ever wondered what makes over 3 million listeners tune in week after week to Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion? Thought about a visit to Lake Wobegon but never got around to it? Now is the time to find out and take a special...

With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who - whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York - remind us of our o...

A new collection of stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, mysterious and surreal, and perfectly pitched for the confusion of the current political landscape

Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fi...