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	Fine Just the Way It Is, Wyoming Stories 3  •  Annie Proulx LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 221 PAGES A collection of visceral, often heartbreaking stories about life in the arid West by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, aurhor of Close Range, Bad Dirt and The Shipping News. (USW569, $25.00)
	Cheating at Canasta  •  William Trevor LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES Inevitable comparisions to Joyce's Dubliners abound for Trevor, whose stories capture Ireland and its people in fleeting, exquisite portraits. (IRE242, $14.00)
	Paris Stories  •  Mavis Gallant  •  Michael Ondaatje LITERATURE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 350 PAGES A welcome collection of Gallant's magnificent work, much of it originally published in the New Yorker. Canadian by birth, Gallant has lived in Europe since just after World War II, and her characters are exiles on the peripheries of European society, at home precisely nowhere. This selection (chosen by Michael Ondaatje) includes stories set in postwar Germany and Franco's Spain, as well as many set on the French riviera and in the Left Bank neighborhoods that Gallant knows so well. Gallant surely ranks among the greatest short story writers of the 20th century, so if you've never read her, you're in for a tremendous treat. (FRN373, $14.95)
	Unaccustomed Earth  •  Jhumpa Lahiri LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 353 PAGES Lahiri's luminous collection of 8 stories takes us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand and are full of emotional wisdom. The last three form an intricate love story -- two people who met as children are separated and then reunited by destiny. (WLD139, $25.00)
	Servants of the Map  •  Andrea Barrett LITERATURE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES Barrett introduces a cast of truth-seekers and explorers in these luminous tales of discovery. The subtly integrated stories -- a worthy, wonderful follow-up to Barrett's magnificent The Voyage of the Narwhal -- range over the map (and centuries) from the Himalayas to Pennsylvania and New York. (WLD30, $13.95)
	Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black  •  Nadine Gordimer LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES Nobel Prize-winner Gordimer daringly explores racial identity, sexuality and loss in this remarkable collection with skill and heart. Highlights include a parrot who repeats lovers' quarrels and an anti-apartheid activist confrontating his family's dark past. (SAF221, $14.00)
	The Train to Lo Wu  •  Jess Row LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 190 PAGES The Hong Kong of Jess Row's remarkable debut story collection is "a city that can be like a mirage, hovering above the ground: skyscrapers built on mountainsides, islands swallowed in fog for days." His characters, appealing and psychologically complex, shed light on the city's nuances of race, sex, religion and culture. (HKG36, $12.00)
	The Snows of Kilimanjaro  •  Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 156 PAGES A collection of 10 excellent Hemingway stories set in Africa, including The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (which begin and end the collection, respectively). The latter is a chilling masterpiece concerning an American couple on a big-game safari. Originally published in 1936, the book draws from stories written over the previous nine years, when Hemingway's prose was at it's best; a classic not to be missed. (EAF26, $13.00)

	The Hill Bachelors  •  William Trevor   • ANTHOLOGY  •  No one writes better short fiction than William Trevor. This collection of 12 stories captures the life and people of rural Ireland. (IRE42, $15.00)
	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories  •  Flannery O'Connor   • LITERATURE  •  This celebrated collection of short stories contains the well-known title story along with eight others, all of which characterize the underside of life in the rural South in O'Connor's trademark wry prose. (USS393, $13.95)
	A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories  •  Andrew Broomfield  •  Victor Pelevin   • LITERATURE  •  Pelevin's Kafkaesque stories are beautifully rendered in Broomfield's translation. The dark title story concerns a stranded Russian traveler who is beset by a pack of chatty werewolves. (RUS384, $12.95)
	After the Quake, Stories  •  Jay Rubin  •  Haruki Murakami   • LITERATURE  •  Six haunting tales, set around the catastrophic earthquake that rocked Japan in 1995. (JPN336, $12.95)
	Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories  •  Giovanni Verga   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of short stories set in rural Sicily. (ITL202, $14.00)
	Close Range: Wyoming Stories  •  E. Annie Proulx   • LITERATURE  •  Proulx's brilliantly-drawn characters personify the loneliness, harsh beauty and wild nature of Wyoming in this luminous collection, which includes the story "Brokeback Mountain." (USW349, $15.00)
	Dubliners  •  James Joyce   • LITERATURE  •  James Joyce's unsurpassed collection of short stories depicting ordinary life in Dublin among the lower middle class -- a milestone in the history of prose fiction. (IRE15, $9.95)
	In the Loyal Mountains  •  Rick Bass   • LITERATURE  •  Bass captures the landscape and people of the South and the West in spare, stunning prose in this diverse collection of stories. (USW529, $12.00)
	Runaway, Stories  •  Alice Munro   • LITERATURE  •  In this collection, Alice Munro, a master of the short story, offers up eight impeccably observed and crafted tales of women. Several of the affecting stories originally appeared in the New Yorker. (CND216, $15.95)
	Russian Short Stories  •  Robert Chandler   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats. (RUS288, $17.00)
	Ten Little Indians  •  Sherman Alexie   • LITERATURE  •  A splendid collection of nine stories, both hilarious and poignant, each a richly described window onto contemporary life, mostly on Indian reservations in the Pacific Northwest. (USA75, $24.00)
	The Size of the World  •  Joan Silber   • LITERATURE  •  Set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand and Florida in the 1920s, Mexico, WWII Sicily and present-day Indiana, Joan Silber's loosely linked stories illuminate the difficulty of finding one's place in the world in just 300 heartfelt pages. Drawing on her travels in Asia (her characters often circle back to Thailand), Silber brings a depth of experience in the region to her richly imagined tales. (WLD143, $23.95)

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