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Kindle Singles

Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length

Each Kindle Single presents a compelling idea--well researched, well argued, and well illustrated--expressed at its natural length. From an elaborate bank heist in Lifted, to Congolese rebel camps in The Invisible Enemy, to Jodi Picoult’s moving portrayal of family in Leaving Home, they offer nuanced journeys of both fact and fiction. This first set of Singles was selected by our team of editors, and includes works by Rich Cohen, Pete Hamill, Darin Strauss, and Ian Ayres. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we have.

 

Leaving Home: Short Pieces by Jodi Picoult The deep pains and powerful pleasures of parenting: those are the extremes explored here by the extraordinary novelist Jodi Picoult. In three short pieces that display her wide emotional range, Picoult weaves together stories of love and loss with heartbreaking simplicity.
$2.99

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Darkstar by Christopher R. Howard
In this pre-apocalyptic love story, Sailor, a homeless Irish teenager who’s haunted by a diabolical voice, seeks to reunite with a soul mate he hasn’t seen since boyhood, as a cosmic event threatens to extinguish life on Earth. Howard’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, and his first novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, comes out this May.
$2.99

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Okay my opinion is that these are just short stories but it seems like a lot of money for something that short.  I know that if it is a good story then it would be worth it but I dont think this is going to go over very well.  I would just recommend that you look at the FILE SIZE to see if you are buying a 'Single' or not.  I think the 'Single' means that it is one short story instead of getting three or more in one book.

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