The Bodysurfers
by Robert Drewe | 
The Turning
by Tim Winton | 
Five Stories
by Willa Cather | 
Final Vinyl Days
by Jill McCorkle | 
A Multitude of Sins
by Richard Ford | 
Ellis Island and Other Stories
by Mark Helprin | 
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Emperor of the Air
by Ethan Canin | 
If the River Was Whiskey
by T. Coraghessan Boyle |
Dream Stuff
by David Malouf | 
Cruising Paradise
by Sam Shepard | 
A Quiver Full of Arrows
by Jeffrey Archer |
Waltzing the Cat
by Pam Houston | 
Don't Tell Anyone
by Frederick Busch | 
Passion and Affect
by Laurie Colwin | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau |
In this collection of stories, the characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children and men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves.