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Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Rhode Island

A collection of unusual facts and anecdotes about the famous and infamous in American history with a chronological index by month and year.

Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past

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Condition: Good (minor scuffs)

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

5 Great Modern Irish Plays Book

Joan Marie Galat

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Tells how an aurora, a polar light, is created in the sky.

Dot to Dot in the Sky (Set of 4) 

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#hardcover #Sci-fi #Gadget #Machines #Predictions #Technology #Anthology #Stories #Humor ￼

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Nova 2

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In "Victoria," a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In "Hottentots," Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in "Walt and Emily," Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.

The Steampunk Trilogy

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#hardcover #pennydreadfuls #horrorfiction #suspense #thriller #stories 

Colorado

Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror is an anthology of twenty tales of horror and the supernatural published in the nineteenth century. In addition to works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins!, and other well-known writers, it features several sensationalized retellings of famous folk legends and accounts of notorious highwaymen. The book includes two full-length novels: the original 1818 text of Frankenstein, which was considered more shocking before Mary Shelley toned down its gruesomeness for the better-known 1831 edition, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a genuine penny dreadful that has served as the foundation for all accounts Sweeney Todd written since. The book will appeal to readers who are currently enjoying the literary horror mash-ups featured on the hit Sky Atlantic series 'Penny Dreadful'.

Penny Dreadfuls

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Andrea Lee

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Stories

American brio confronts European sophistication in these critically acclaimed stories of seduction and self-discovery by New Yorker writer Andrea Lee. In vivid prose shot through with mordant irony, Lee offers the reader a rare combination: sensual evocation of the moment and profound insight into the underlying struggles of gender, race, and class that shape relationships worldwide.

Interesting Women

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Utah

Ten Tomorrows

Virginia Hamilton

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales

Sixteen stories that focus on the magical lore of African American women, as well as three autobiographical stories.

Her Stories

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Fun collection of humor. Spine is a bit loose but book otherwise fine to read. No bookcover. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Maryland

An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor

Meg Tilly

Maine

Oscar-nominated actress Meg Tilly brings the depth and sensitivity that have marked her acting career to this chronicle of a young girl's coming-of-age. "An altogether stunning debut, a heartbreaking book that is somehow also funny and wonderful to read".--Chicago Tribune.

Singing Songs

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 #paperback #baseball #sports #lore #stories #pitching #pennantrace

The Story of Carl Mays, Ray Chapman, and the Pennant Race of 1920

Since major league baseball began in 1871, there have been roughly thirty million pitches thrown to batters. Only one of them killed a man. This is the story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Was it, as most baseball observers thought at the time, a tragic but unavoidable accident? Mike Sowell's brilliant book investigates the incident and probes deep into the backgrounds of the players involved and the events that led to one of baseball's darkest moments. "The best baseball book no one has read."--ESPN Magazine "Splendidly researched and vivid as today. The portraits of baseball as it was, the tragedy itself, and the glowering character of Carl Mays are remarkable."--Roger Kahn

The Pitch That Killed

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#paperback #memoir #shortstory #keepsakes #stories 

Amber Lanier Nagle has always been interested in keepsakes-a glass bluebird, a pocket knife, a dime-store locket, a faded fishing lure, a dented cake pan, a model train car, and so many others. "Why do you keep this?" she asks. "Where did it come from?" And then she listens as the stores and memories pour out. Project Keepsake is Nagle's crusade to collect and publish the stories that transform simple, everyday objects into priceless keepsakes. Told in first-person by both seasoned and aspiring writers, each story in the anthology is unique, yet each reveals common threads that connect us all and celebrate the glorious human experience. "I hope the book inspires you to write your own keepsake story." -Amber Lanier Nagle

Project Keepsake

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Intense Jean and Prince says chilling says Lisa Gardner

Whats your greatest fear?

Hush 

T. L. Huchu

Sixth Sense meets Stranger Things in T. L. Huchu's The Library of the Dead, a sharp contemporary fantasy following a precocious and cynical teen as she explores the shadowy magical underside of modern Edinburgh. WHEN GHOSTS TALK SHE WILL LISTEN Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker – and they sure do love to talk. Now she speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to those they left behind. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead whisper that someone’s bewitching children – leaving them husks, empty of joy and strength. It’s on Ropa’s patch, so she feels honor-bound to investigate. But what she learns will rock her world. Ropa will dice with death as she calls on Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. And although underground Edinburgh hides a wealth of dark secrets, she also discovers an occult library, a magical mentor and some unexpected allies. Yet as shadows lengthen, will the hunter become the hunted?

The Library of the Dead

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Louis Renshaw Fortier

Missouri

Before the Fields of Crosses pays tribute to a man who was credited with persuading the Germans to stop the bombing of Belgrade by the Bulgarian air force, thus saving many Serbian lives. The story is told by the U.S. military officer's son.

Before the Fields of Crosses

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Marieke Nijkamp

New York

13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today's teen readers a glimpse into the lives of disabled people in the past, present, and future.The contributing authors are awardwinners, bestsellers, and newcomers including Kody Keplinger, Kristine Wyllys, Francisco X. Stork, William Alexander, Corinne Duyvis, Marieke Nijkamp, Dhonielle Clayton, Heidi Heilig, Katherine Locke, Karuna Riazi, Kayla Whaley, Keah Brown, and Fox Benwell. Each author identifies as disabled along a physical, mental, or neurodiverse axis--and their characters reflect this diversity.

Unbroken

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Hans Andersen

Tiina Nunnally

Jackie Wullschlager

Presents a collection of thirty of the author's classic tales, including "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Snow Queen."

Fairy Tales

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The best-priced alternative to full-length anthologies, The Seagull Reader: Stories offers a compelling blend of classic and contemporary favorites in a flexible format that fits any course. The Third Edition features the same precise apparatus as earlier editions, but now also features new writing pedagogy carefully tailored to fiction.

The Seagull Reader

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Kentucky

Grotesquerie

#hardcover #salmanrushdie #fiction #stories #collection

Nine short stories reveal the vast distance and intimacy that exist between East and West, as well as the complex misunderstandings that both bind and separate them

East West

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Signed by author, some bending on cover. Some page bending.

Indiana

A Parable For The Twenty-First Century

The Body Politic

The Skariest Kitten in the world

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Cynthia Ozick

"From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family history-in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie (check out his Wikipedia entry!), the source of his interest in antiquity-he reconstructs the story of his encounter from his school days with a younger student named Ben-Zion Elefantin, who seems to belong to a lost ancient Jewish sect. From this seed emerges one of Ozick's most wondrous tales, one that displays her delight in Jamesian irony and the mythical flavor of a Kafka parable, woven into her own distinct voice"--

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Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past

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5 Great Modern Irish Plays Book

Joan Marie Galat

Dot to Dot in the Sky (Set of 4)

Ed by Harry Harrison

Nova 2

Paul Di Filippo

The Steampunk Trilogy

S. Dziemianowicz

Penny Dreadfuls

Andrea Lee

Interesting Women

Roger Elwood

Ten Tomorrows

Virginia Hamilton

Her Stories

Edited by Bennett Cerf

An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor

Meg Tilly

Singing Songs

Mike Sowell

The Pitch That Killed

Amber Lanier Nagle

Project Keepsake

Anne Frasier

Hush

T. L. Huchu

The Library of the Dead

Louis Renshaw Fortier

Before the Fields of Crosses

Marieke Nijkamp

Unbroken

Hans Andersen; Tiina Nunnally; Jackie Wullschlager

Fairy Tales

Joseph Kelly

The Seagull Reader

Richard Gavin

Grotesquerie

Salman Rushdie

East West

Andy Hollandbeck

The Body Politic

Kate Messner

The Skariest Kitten in the world

Cynthia Ozick

Antiquities