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Slender Stories for Long Summer Days (all under 200 pages)
- Baricco, Alessandro
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(1997)Set in 19th century Japan, this is a story of adventure and powerful love.
- Bennett, Alan
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(2001?)A couple's quiet existence dissolves when their London flat is robbed.
- Capote, Truman
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(1993)The story of the mysterious Holly Golightly and three of Capote's most popular works.
- Cisneros, Sandra
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(1991)Told in a series of vignettes, this is a story of a young girl growing up in Latino Chicago.
- Dai, Sijie
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(2001)Two young Chinese are transformed when they discover a stash of Western classics in translation during the height of the Maoist Cultural Revolution.
- Delilo, Don
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(2001)A recent widow and a stranger make a journey to explore loss, loneliness and creativity.
- Dibdin, Michael
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(2000)This author imagines the edges of insanity and the extremes of passion and grief a man experiences after the death of his wife.
- Endo, Sushako
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(2000)Five short stories are presented by the major Japanese writer Endo.
- Figes, Eva
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(1983)This lyrical piece chronicles a day in the life of Claude Monet, summer, 1900.
- Gailly, Christian
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(2005)This prize-winning French novelist, compared to Nabokov, has created a character much like Humbert in Lolita.
- Giono, Jean
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(1985)Giono reveals how the simple acts of one unassuming person can change the world for the better.
- Grayson, Emily
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(2001)Casey's anniversary party is interrupted by the arrival of her estranged fiance throwing her well-ordered life into chaos.
- Grimes, Martha
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(2000)These two beautifully written novellas are brought to you by a master of psychological fiction.
- Highsmith, Patricia
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(2002)This legendary, cultish short story collection upsets conventional notions of the female character.
- Holst, Spencer
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(2000)Here is a collection of short pieces to read on the run.
- Leiber, Fritz
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(1982)SFJourney to the Place, a haven outside space and time and against the effects of the memory destroying Change Wars.
- LeRoy, J. T.
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(2000)Visit a truck stop wonderland in a story about a painfully vulnerable young man.
- Lliteras, D. S.
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(2001)This novel is about the Vietnam War and post-traumatic stress syndrome.
- McCann, Colum
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(2000)A young girl from Northern Ireland must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratitude to the British soldiers who have saved the family's horse.
- Murdoch, Iris
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(2000)Previously unpublished, this is the story of a young Irish woman who believes there is more to life than marriage.
- Pancake, Ann
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(2001)This collection of stories is set in contemporary West Virginia mountain country.
- Rhys, Jean
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(1967, c1966)Prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre about the first Mrs. Rochester.
- Rice, Ben
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(2000)The imaginary friends of a young Australian opal miner's daughter disappear when her father is accused of poaching.
- Ruble, Web
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(2005)Short stories from the Aberdeen, Washington area.
- Salzman, Mark
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(2000)A Carmelite nun experiences visions of dazzling power but at a great physical price.
- Sampsell, Kevin
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(2005)American short fiction from a local Portland author.
- Searcy, David
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(2001)Mounting horror in a suburban back yard leads to desperate measures.
- Smith, Nick
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(2000)A cat-centered noir thriller in the city called Bast.
- Spark, Muriel
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(2001)Spark spins a speculative yarn around the true crime case of one of England's most notorious upper-crust scoundrels.
- Steinbeck, John
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(1945)Stories of Monterey, California residents set once again in Tortilla Flat.
- Suhay, Lisa
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(2000)These modern fables for grownups are meant to allow a time-out from our usual complex lives.
- Ulitskaia, Liudmila
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(2001)Russian immigrants in Manhattan attend the deathbed of an artist friend.
- Vilmorin, Louise de
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(1998)A timeless story about a pair of heart-shaped earrings and the deception and lies surrounding them.