What This River Keeps

Gregory Schwipps

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• In the rolling hills of southern Indiana, an elderly couple copes with the fear that their river bottom farm--the only home they've ever known--will b... Lees meer

If You Need Me Iall Be Over There (Break Away Book Club)

Dave Madden, Paul Lisicky, Tim Schaffert, Jonis Agee, Maud Casey, Alexander Chee

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• After the Plains queered him, Dave Madden decided to return the favor. This outstanding collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind... Lees meer

Earth as It Is

Jan Maher, Susan Koppelman, Steve Adams, Julie Weston, Ann Tracy

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• It's the 1930s in Texas when Charlie Bader comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride ... Lees meer

The Swan

Jim Cohee

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Ten-year-old Aaron Cooper has witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, and the trauma has left him unwilling to speak. Aaron copes with life... Lees meer

My Life as a Silent Movie

Jesse Lee Kercheval

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had n... Lees meer

New Stories from the Midwest

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive reg... Lees meer

Winesburg, Indiana

Zachary Tyler Vickers, William O'Rourke

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an un... Lees meer

An American Tune

Barbara Shoup

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a nam... Lees meer

Elegies for Uncanny Girls

Jennifer Colville, Melanie Rae Thon, Deb Olin Unferth

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Wide- ... Lees meer

Hallow This Ground

Colin Rafferty, Ander Monson, Cheryl St Germain, B J Hollars

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Beginning outside the boarded-up windows of Columbine High School and ending almost twelve years later on the fields of Shiloh National Military Park,... Lees meer

Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!

Zachary Tyler Vickers, George Saunders, Jessica Anthony, Jason Ockert, Ayana Mathis, Michelle Huneven

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Searing, troubling, and funny, these revolutionary, linked stories flit and dart among the shadows of small town life, and the touching and heartbreak... Lees meer

Sightings

B J Hollars

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwest... Lees meer

Leave the Dogs at Home

Claire S Arbogast

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Claire and Jim were friends, lovers, and sometimes enemies for 27 years. In order to get health insurance, they finally married, calling their anniver... Lees meer

And Yet It Moves

Erin Stalcup, Tipahnie Yanique, Robin Black, Tim Horvath, Kevin McIlvoy

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws o... Lees meer

The Last Studebaker

Robin Hemley

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• In 1963, when Lois Kulwicki's father loses his job at Studebaker along with hundreds of other workers, he acts as if he has just been promoted. He buy... Lees meer

Chasing the Big Leagues

Brett Baker

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bounc... Lees meer

Reply All

Robin Hemley

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Reply All , the third collection of award-winning and widely anthologized short stories by Robin Hemley, takes a humorous, edgy, and frank look at the... Lees meer

The Glimpse Traveler

Marianne Boruch

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and rea... Lees meer

Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer

William O'Rourke

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• William O'Rourke's singular view of American life over the past 40 years shines forth in these short essays on subjects personal, political, and liter... Lees meer

This Is Only a Test

B J Hollars, W Scott Olsen, Brian Oliu, Steven Church

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado... Lees meer

The Tribal Knot

Rebecca McClanahan

• Paperback | Engels | Break Away Books
• Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us--our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In T... Lees meer