Carmen Maria Machado

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Stories

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

Her Body and Other Parties

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A bit of wear and tear on the spine. Some stickers on books from merchant.

The Narrative of Arther Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Brian Keene

Used and shelfworn but reading is not affected.

No one believes Timmy when he tells them he and his friends discovered a ghoul eating the dead in a local cemetery; but when the ghoul starts attacking the living as well as the dead, Timmy realizes it's up to him and his friends to stop it.

Ghoul

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Hajime Isayama

Hiroshi Seko

Attack on Titan is one of the most successful anime series of recent times; its manga companions are similarly adored. Now comes an action-packed stand-alone tale! Beloved cast members Mikasa and Annie are given a side story of their own set within the original Attack on Titan world. By expanding on both the comics and the animated TV series, Lost Girls gives a more complete look at the women of Attack on Titan.

Attack on Titan: Lost Girls

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A bit of damage on the corner from rabbits. Does not affect reading.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Sand Warrior

5 Worlds

Ryu Murakami

A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller soon to be a major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska

*One of Literary Hub's "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"*



Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it.

One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to In the Miso Soup from a cult favorite writer, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller--terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping

Piercing

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C. C. Thomas

A History of Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium

"[T]his book seeks to shed light on one of the most deadly and contagious disease of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Louisvile, as well as other areas in Kentucky, such as the world-famous Mammoth Cave in western Kentucky, once stood as the sole respite for all those afflicted with tuberculosis, or TB."--Back cover.

Cassie Fischer

@literary_nanday

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Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties

Edgar Allan Poe

The Narrative of Arther Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Brian Keene

Ghoul

Hajime Isayama; Hiroshi Seko

Attack on Titan: Lost Girls

Mark Siegel

5 Worlds

Ryu Murakami

Piercing

C. C. Thomas

With Their Dying Breaths

E.R Vernor and Angel Rae

The History and Hauntings ofWaverly Hills Sanatorium

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