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    Short Stories

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    Gallery of the Dis­ap­peared Men
    Jonathan Paper­nick
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    Fic­tion
    Mala­mud: Nov­els and Sto­ries of the 1970s & 80s
    Bernard Mala­mud
    Cover of The House of Love and Prayer: and Other Stories
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    The House of Love and Prayer: and Oth­er Stories
    Tova Reich
    Cover of In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories
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    In Oth­er Life­times All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories
    Court­ney Sender
    Cover of A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories
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    A Small Sac­ri­fice for an Enor­mous Hap­pi­ness: Stories
    Jai Chakrabar­ti
    Cover of Ladies' Lunch: And Other Stories
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    Ladies’ Lunch: And Oth­er Stories
    Lore Segal
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    Frankly Fem­i­nist
    Yona Zeldis McDonough, Susan Weidman Schneider
    Cover of Peninnah's World: A Jewish Life in Stories
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    Penin­nah’s World: A Jew­ish Life in Stories 
    Caren Schnur Neile
    Cover of Maybe It Happened This Way: Bible Stories Reimagined
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    Maybe It Hap­pened This Way: Bible Sto­ries Reimagined
    Leah Rachel Berkowitz and Erica Wovsaniker; Katherine Messenger, illus.
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    All the Shin­ing People
    Kathy Friedman
    Cover of Things to Come and Go
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    Things to Come and Go
    Bette How­land
    Cover of The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories
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    The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories
    Omer Fried­lan­der
    Cover of Coming of Age: 13 B’nai Mitzvah Stories
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    Com­ing of Age: 13 B’nai Mitz­vah Stories
    Jonathan Rosen and Henry Herz (Editors)
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    Loss of Mem­o­ry Is Only Tem­po­rary: Stories
    Johan­na Kaplan
    Cover of I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To: Stories
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    I’d Like to Say Sor­ry, but There’s No One to Say Sor­ry To: Stories
    Mikołaj Grynberg; Sean Gasper Bye, trans. 
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    Sarahland
    Sam Cohen
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