Juniper Prize for Fiction – serie
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23 produkter
Agriculture Hall of Fame
Stories
Häftad, 2012
359 kr
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These powerful stories limn the complexities and dilemmas of life in Kansas, a state at "the center of the center of America," as a billboard in one story announces. Andrew Malan Milward explores the less visible aspects of the Kansas experience-where its agrarian past comes into conflict with the …
My Old Faithful
Stories
Av Yang Huang
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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Showing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period, merge to paint a nuanced portrait …
Surprising Place
Stories
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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A synchronized swimming coach pops pills during practice, a bagpiper cold-cocks a hawk, and an orphan puts her fist through a window, discovering in the engine noise of a jet passing overhead, the perfect witness to her inner pain. In this debut collection from prizewinning short story writer …
Termination Shocks
Häftad, 2019
374 kr
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In astronomy, the termination shock is the boundary that marks the outer limits of the sun's influence - the ripple outward of our solar wind and its collision with the interstellar medium. This debut collection of stories evokes those moments when lives are unpredictably shaken and reset by forces …
Choke Box
A Fem-Noir
Häftad, 2019
315 kr
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When Edward Tamlin disappears while writing his memoir, Jane Tamlin (his wife and the mother of his young children) begins to write a secret, corrective ""counter-memoir"" of her own. Calling the book Choke Box, she reveals intimate, often irreverent, details about her family and marriage, …
Wolf by the Ears
Av Wayne Karlin
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. -- Thomas JeffersonDuring the War of 1812, thousands of enslaved people from plantations across the Tidewater rallied to the British side, turning against an American republic that had barred them from the promises of …
Senseless Women
Häftad, 2020
374 kr
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Exploring the darker side of optimism, Sarah Harris Wallman's debut collection shows women attempting to build durable havens from reality, struggling to keep relationships intact, and reinventing themselves. A lonely music teacher at a Nashville Christian academy awaits the miracle of love; a Jane …
Silver Beach
Av Claire Cox
Häftad, 2021
342 kr
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It's been decades since Mara's family was last together, decades since the day her sister Allison drowned at Silver Beach.After the family tragedy, Mara's father took her to the opposite end of the country, where she made a tidy life for herself in western Massachusetts, with a good education, …
Deposition
Av Pete Duval
Häftad, 2021
315 kr
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An insurance lawyer driving across Iowa engages a wounded, hitchhiking priest in a metaphysical debate. A vacationing air traffic controller with a penchant for Saint Francis of Assisi is bitten by an ancient parrot. The Marxist owner of a Florida curiosity shop confronts a local church community's …
Safe Places
Stories
Av Kerry Dolan
Häftad, 2022
315 kr
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Exploring the vagaries of life, human connection, and desire, the twelve stories of Safe Places navigate the fault lines of existence. Shifting from New York and Chicago to the American West and the Australian outback, Kerry Dolan's characters move through an uncertain and unpredictable world, …
Unfollowers
Häftad, 2022
307 kr
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Barb Matheson doesn't fit in: not on the Standing Rock Reservation where her mother was born; not at the mission in rural Ethiopia where she grew up; and certainly not at the Pennsylvania church where her husband preaches. Expansive and lyrical, Unfollowers is a tale of religious angst, unrequited …
Book of Webs
Av Jesse Kohn
Häftad, 2023
283 kr
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Word spreads from one recovering self-inflicted eye surgery patient to the next of a mystical book capable of overturning the Burlingtonian empire.Captivating and devious, the book of webs is constructed out of misremembered fragments, conflicting histories, and secrets whispered in the darkness. …
Songs of Betty Baach
Av Glenn Taylor
Häftad, 2023
267 kr
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Some called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she’d …
Fine Dreams
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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Set in a fictional town, at a fictional school, Linda N. Masi’s debut novel, Fine Dreams, rewrites myth and history. Framed by a ghost’s first-person narrative, the book centers on four young friends, the stars of their school’s track team. While studying for exams, they are kidnapped and taken to …
Long Swim
Stories
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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A runaway circus lion haunts a small town where two lovers risk more than their respective marriages. A junket to Cuba and an ambassador’s dalliance with a niece hide dark secrets and political revolution. “I’ve always had a knife,” says the unstable stepson to his parents. Inventive, dark, and …
Gichigami
A Novel
Häftad, 2025
283 kr
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One December evening, when 13-year-old Marta crosses the frozen Lake Superior and reaches the home she shares with her father, she finds a woman standing at their door. As Marta approaches, she realizes the woman, who looks like a tropical bird caught in the snow, is her mother who’d abruptly left …
Joyriders
Stories
Av Greg Schutz
Häftad, 2025
283 kr
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In this debut collection, tangled bonds of love and family collide with a natural world both fragile and ferocious. Upended by grief, a widowed veterinarian seeks solace by fostering a litter of orphaned opossums. A young lawyer embarks on an affair, only to fall into a deeper, stranger …
Gods in Small Doses
Stories
Av Josh Bell
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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The magical and mundane twist together in this collection of surreal storiesIn this collection of stories set in an uncanny American suburbia and haunted by a lurking unease, the peculiar feeling of ephemeral youth finds its voice. The stories in The Gods in Small Doses depict childhood through a …
Impossibility of Crows
A Novel
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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A story of mothers, monsters, and the science of longingIn this daring and evocative tale, Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father. Just a stone's throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small town of Letort, Pennsylvania …
Glass Eel
A Novel
Av Casey Bell
Häftad, 2027
297 kr
Kommande
Exploring the power of female friendships in times of despair In the near-future United States, abortion is criminalized. Women are not only stripped of bodily autonomy but are also arrested and put through various punishments, including a Christian fundamentalist rehabilitation program and manual …
Indianness
Twelve Stories
Av Geeta Kohli
Häftad, 2027
297 kr
Kommande
A bold debut story collection about first- and second-generation South Asian Americans coming of age—and coming undone From Ivy League dormitories and Delhi wedding stages to Roman balconies and North Carolina motels, the twelve stories of The Indianness map the distance between the life a person …
Law of Miracles
And Other Stories
Häftad, 2011
332 kr
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These stories take place in the space where the rational and irrational intersect - the space governed by The Law of Miracles. Writing with a remarkable range of invention, Gregory Blake Smith has created a world in which his characters navigate between the everyday and the extraordinary: an aged …
Some Kinds of Love
Stories
Av Steve Yates
Inbunden, 2013
1133 kr
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Sometimes the opposite of love is not hate, but depravity. In these twelve stories set in the Missouri Ozarks, New Orleans, and Mississippi, Steve Yates reveals lovers clawing back from precipices of destructiveness, obsessiveness, cruelty, vanity, or greed. They seek escape and yet find new …
