Hazel Rumney

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Stories of Revenge, Sacrifice and Endurance on the American Frontier

"For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Thorndike Press/Gale, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in western fiction. Travel back in time with these fourteen new stories that explore the individual courage and strength the tumultuous American frontier required. These stories are written by award-winning authors and the most exciting new voices in historical fiction. Fortitude and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features engaging stories that will delight readers. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving 19th century American frontier. These epic narratives of courage and survival are organized by timeframe to offer readers a panoramic view of pioneers who faced life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. In this anthology, you'll enjoy stories by bestselling and award-winning authors such as Preston Lewis, K. Lyn Wurth, W. Michael Farmer, John D. Nesbitt, Larry D. Sweazy, Michael R. Ritt, Sharon Frame Gay, L. J. Martin, Greg Hunt, Diana Holguin-Balogh, Lisa Majewski, Del Howison, Butch Denny, John Neely Davis, and Richard Prosch. Fortitude and Other Frontier Stories is a great addition to your Western fiction library"--

Fortitude

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John D. Nesbitt

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

"These eight stories range in length from flash fiction to novella. In "Incident at Blue Nose Creek," an investigator pursues a suspect for the serial murders of three saloon girls. In "Visitors in Cantera," the narrator receives a visit from questionable relatives. In "In the Breaks," a girl goes deer hunting with her grandfather and has to fend off unwelcome advances from a young man. In "Man of Trees," a homesteader helps solve the murder of an old hobo. In "Night Horse," a man is killed when his plan to avenge his brother's death is thwarted, and the narrator has to fight for his life. In "Darkness in Burnett," the main character leaves Burnett, but his conscience compels him to return and help find the killer. In "Buckskin Ruby," a flashy stranger goes to work for a grading crew and exposes a murderer. In "Next to the Last Chance," a ranch hand wants to get out of the criminal way of life, as does the gang leader's woman, but the odds are against them"--

Bright Skies and Dark Horses

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Rod Miller

"Within these pages will be found Western Writers of America Spur Award and Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award winning stories by writer Rod Miller. The cast of characters includes cowboys, gamblers, gunfighters, swindlers, outlaws, lawmen, pioneers, miners, mules, horses, cattle, at least one sheep, and the occasional fair maiden. There is adventure, violence, hardship, struggle, and triumph. Mystery, conflict, suspense, and humor. Selected from among stories written over two decades are Miller's first short story, "Good Horses," published in 2000, and his most recent award winner (at this writing), "Black Joe." In between are stories published in various anthologies and periodicals, along with stories appearing here for the first time"--

Black Joe and Other Selected Stories

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#paperback #romance #shortstories #erotic

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Four Tales of Erotic Romance

A quartet of erotic romance stories brings together such tales as "Drive Her Wild" by Julie Elizabeth Leto, Carrie Alexander's "Naughty Girl," Pamela Britton's "Wanted: One Hot Blooded Man," and "Mercy Me" by Susan Donovan, in which a brokenhearted screenwriter suffering from writer's block discovers an all new inspiration when she seeks refuge in the Berkshires. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Honk If You Love Real Men

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Jenny Davidson

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Florida

Dr. Jekyll invents a drug that changes him into Mr. Hyde, a foul-tempered, uncouth degenerate. His evil nature, however, becomes the stronger part of him and, to his horror, he no longer needs the formula to transform his appearance.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes and Noble Classics Series)

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#shortstories #magic #fantasy #andrenorton #petersbeagle #ursulaleguin #charlesdelint #mercedeslackey

New York

Every great writer has to start somewhere. Here in one volume are the magical debuts of today's greatest fantasy legends-with new introductions and insight from the esteemed editors.

Magical Beginnings

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They’re fascinating and they’re fatal. They’re trained assassins -the targeted subjects of this killer collection of brand-new tales. With a new Nightfall story by Mickey Zucker Reichert, a dangerous turn with Tanya Huff’s Vree and Bannon, and a killer surprise from Michelle West’s Kallandras -truly, this is a collection to die for.

Assassin Fantastic

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#shortstories #music #magic #johnbrunner #terriwindling #genewolfe

Enter a magical world where song and dance hold court, and discover the real power that music wields! These 15 brilliant tales by highly-acclaimed authors of fantasy and science fiction bring to life the mythical force of music -- from the moonlit fairy symphonies to the evil spell of a witch's bell, these evocative and harmonic tales make up a magnificent medley you'll never forget!

Horns of Elfland

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Andrea Barrett

Minnesota

Stories

A collection of stories that consider the struggles of love and science includes the title work, in which a young Canadian doctor, treating Irish immigrants who have been driven out by the Great Famine, experiences one of history's most tragic epidemics

Ship Fever

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Louisiana

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A collection of raucous stories that offer a “vibrant and true mosaic” (The New York Times) of New Orleans, from the critically acclaimed author of We Cast a Shadow SHORTLISTED FOR THE ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD • “Every sentence is both something that makes you want to laugh in a gut-wrenching way and threatens to break your heart in a way that you did not anticipate.”—Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, in The Wall Street Journal Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In “Beg Borrow Steal,” a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after coming home from prison; in “Ghetto University,” a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in “Before I Let Go,” a woman who’s been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in “Fast Hands, Fast Feet,” an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in “Mercury Forges,” a flash fiction piece among several in the collection, a group of men hurriedly make their way to an elderly gentleman’s home, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. These stories are intimate invitations to hear, witness, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal, and undeniably New Orleanian, written by a lifelong resident of New Orleans and one of our finest new writers.

The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You

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Joseph. Conrad

A. Michael Matin

In "Heart of Darkness, Captain Marlowe must wend his way up the African Congo to recover the missing Colonel Kurtz in one of the greatest steamship adventures ever told. As Marlowe's ship Nellie scrapes along the Congo, the voyage into the human soul, like the morass of steaming foliage along the banks, becomes increasingly dark and perilous. In addition to the Marlowe tales "Heart of Darkness and "Youth, this new volume includes Conrad's classic doppelganger tale "The Secret Sharer and the lesser known "Amy Foster." Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Includes an Original Map of the Congo.

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction

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#hardcover #maryhigginsclark #mystery #suspense #thriller #shortstories #couples #fiction 

Stories featuring her new husband-and-wife team of sleuths

Topping her bestselling success with Alvirah and Willy, in "The Lottery Winner, America's Queen of Suspense introduces a new sleuthing couple, Henry and Sunday, an ex-president and his young congresswoman bride.

Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly -- a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media.

Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths -- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society.

When Henry's former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress, Henry and Sunday suspect he is taking the fall for a crime of passion he did not commit. But why?

With cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House as he races against time to unravel the plot, there is never a dull moment for the ex-president and his bride -- or the reader.

With her

My Gal Sunday

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Pennsylvania

Flower Girls

Jojo Moyes

West Virginia

From provincial Sophie being swept off of her feet in the glamour of belle epoque Paris to Beth's unexpected confrontation with an old lover in a marquee in Britain, this first collection of short stories from internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes contains ten tales of love, loss, liberation and laughter

Paris for One and Other Stories

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Lorrie Moore

#hardcover #fiction #lorriemoore #shortstories 

A collection of eight short stories includes "Debarking," in which a recently divorced man struggles to hold himself together as the United States prepares to invade Iraq; and "Foes," in which a political argument at a Georgetown fundraiser goes awry.

Bark

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#paperback #shortstories #erotica #bizarre #collection #witty #lyrical 

Indiana

I Would Have Saved Them If I Could

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Night of the Luminarias

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

English

An Anthology of Short Fiction

A collection of stories with literary merit, Fiction 100 illustrates the development of short fiction from the early 19th Century to the present day, and features both traditional and contemporary works.

Fiction 100

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#paperback #thriller #fiction #shortstories #maryhiggensclark 

Ohio

The Queen of Suspense

A collection of short stories Mary Higgins Clark.

Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories

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John Updike

Michigan

Short Stories and a Sequel

The dozen short stories in John Updike's new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the lonely farm to which the hero moves as an adolescent, the exurban New England of adult camaraderie and sexual mischief, the New York City of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. Love, including an old woman's for her cats and a boy's for his embattled father, exerts its spell in all twelve; the title derives from a story in which an American banjo virtuoso demonstrates his licks to an enthralled Soviet audience in the heart of the Cold War, while being hounded by the epistolary aftermath of a one-night stand in Washington, D.C.

To these tales Mr. Updike has added a novella-length sequel to his quartet of novels about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Several old strands come at last together, and the dead man's survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium. The place is, as before, the area of Brewer, Pennsylvania; the time, the last months of 1999.

Licks of Love *First Edition*

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New Hampshire

"A collection of stories of ... hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection"--

Difficult Women

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Ottessa Moshfegh

Illinois

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel. And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.

Homesick for Another World

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Idaho

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes her first short-story collection, Scattered Showers

Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true.

In her first collection, she gives us nine beautifully crafted love stories. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. A prince romances a troll. A girl romances an imaginary boy. And Simon Snow himself returns for a holiday adventure.

It's a feast of irresistible characters, hilarious dialogue, and masterful storytelling--in short, everything you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell book.

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Hazel Rumney

Fortitude

John D. Nesbitt

Bright Skies and Dark Horses

Rod Miller

Black Joe and Other Selected Stories

Carrie Alexander; Pamela Britton; Susan Donovan; Lora Leigh

Honk If You Love Real Men

Robert Louis Stevenson; Jenny Davidson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes and Noble Classics Series)

Steven H. Silver (Editor); Martin Greenberg (Editor)

Magical Beginnings

Martin Greenberg (Editor); Alexander Potter (Editor)

Assassin Fantastic

Ellen Kushner (Editor); Donald G. Keller (Editor); Delia Sherman (Editor)

Horns of Elfland

Andrea Barrett

Ship Fever

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You

Joseph. Conrad; A. Michael Matin

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction

Joseph. Conrad; A. Michael Matin

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction

Mary Higgins Clark

My Gal Sunday

Janet Dailey

Flower Girls

Jojo Moyes

Paris for One and Other Stories

Lorrie Moore

Bark

Leonard Michaels

I Would Have Saved Them If I Could

Pat Carr

Night of the Luminarias

James H. Pickering

Fiction 100

Mary Higgins Clark

Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories

John Updike

Licks of Love *First Edition*

Roxane Gay

Difficult Women

Ottessa Moshfegh

Homesick for Another World

Rainbow Rowell

Scattered Showers

Licks of Love First Edition