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Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile’s monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814342572
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Seasonal Roads
Three generations of women in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula live at the center of this linked short story collection.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341452
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341469
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Know the Mother
Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341490
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341506
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Garden for the Blind
Captivating linked stories that follow a group of characters from an upscale suburb of Detroit over several decades.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341049
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341056
Fairy Tale Review
The Mauve Issue #11
The Mauve Issue, the eleventh issue of Fairy Tale Review, features fiction and poetry with fairy tale aesthetics.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341803
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The New Diaspora
The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction
An innovative anthology of pieces that have either won or been considered for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award on the occasion of the award’s fiftieth anniversary.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340554
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340561
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Quality Snacks
Stories about the pursuit of all kinds of gratification—from cheap and immoral to expensive and emotionally satisfying.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340158
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340165
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Strange Love
Complex, comical, and poignant linked stories about a mother and daughter’s attempts to find love.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340172
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340189
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Making Callaloo in Detroit
Stories of hope and quirky survival in the city of Detroit colored by Caribbean culture and memory.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814339695
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339701
Fairy Tale Review
The Emerald Issue #10
The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "emeralds" and "Oz."
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341797
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The Colored Car
For young readers, the powerful story of an African American girl's train journey south from Detroit in 1937.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814336069
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336083
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The Way North
Collected Upper Peninsula New Works
A stunning collection of previously unpublished works that provide snapshots of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814338650
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338667
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Living Together
New from National Book Award-winner Gloria Whelan, stories that explore the unexpected and sometimes amazing ways we live together.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814338964
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338971
Fairy Tale Review
The Yellow Issue #9
Guest editor Lily Hoang curated the ninth issue of Fairy Tale Review, a collection of short stories and poetry inspired by the color yellow.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341780
Fairy Tale Review
The Grey Issue #8
The eighth issue of Fairy Tale Review, The Grey Issue is a collection of creative work based on the theme of lost children.
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341773
The World of a Few Minutes Ago
Stories in the realistic tradition of lives overlooked, voices unheard, and characters trying to overcome and transcend confining circumstances.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814336120
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336137
A Trip to the Country
by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat
Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814335031
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336816
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Ghost Writers
Us Haunting Them, Contemporary Michigan Literature
Tales of the ghostly and supernatural by some of Michigan’s finest fiction writers.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334744
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335949
Love/Imperfect
New short stories from Christopher T. Leland that explore love in all of its forms and complexities.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334959
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335369
In Which Brief Stories Are Told
Brief encounters with the suffering and triumphs of characters living in northern Michigan by Phillip Sterling.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814335079
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335352