N. K. Jemisin

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Stories

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories. "Marvelous and wide-ranging."--Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" --NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."--Entertainment Weekly Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul. For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance TrilogyThe Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction)The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella) Dreamblood DuologyThe Killing MoonThe Shadowed Sun The Dreamblood Duology (omnibus) The Broken EarthThe Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk GateThe Stone Sky

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

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Jess Walter

Steph Cha

Vermont

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha. 

New York Times bestselling author and "superb storyteller" (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022

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Leigh Bardugo

☀️Shadow and Bone series Graphic novel, small tear in corner, otherwise no imperfections, beautiful illustrations :)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Discover the start of a grand and sinister destiny in Demon in the Wood, the must-have graphic novel prequel to the bestselling book series and international Netflix sensation Shadow and Bone from spectacular new talent Dani Pendergast and #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.

Before he led Ravka's Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power.

Eryk and his mother, Lena, have spent their lives on the run. But they will never find a safe haven. They are not only Grisha--they are the deadliest and rarest of their kind. Feared by those who wish to destroy them and hunted by those who would exploit their gifts, they must hide their true abilities wherever they go. But sometimes deadly secrets have a way of revealing themselves . . .

Praise for Demon in the Wood

"An absolutely vital addition to the Shadow and Bone world...centering on the Darkling when he was just a boy, this tragic and beautiful story adds layers to the villain we know and the scared child he once was." -- Nerdist

"An illuminating new chapter in the Darkling's origin story." - Entertainment Weekly

Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel

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Alvin Schwartz

#paperback #horror #fiction #childrens #shortstories #legends #art #misscassiereads 

California

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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Editors of Canterbury Classics

In great condition and looks very nice on the shelf. Would make a great new addition to your book collection!

Nevada

Curl up with this collection of classic scary stories from the masters of the genre. With dozens of stories of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural, Classic Horror Tales is sure to keep readers on the edges of their seats. This collection of works by classic writers spans more than a century—from 19th-century trailblazers such as John William Polidori, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Washington Irving to 20th-century masters like Saki, Edith Wharton, and Franz Kafka. The fear of the unknown is a driving force in literature, and the horror genre surpasses all others in bringing this idea to the forefront of the reader's consciousness. A wide range of cultures and classes of society are represented in this volume, reminding us that dark forces lurk all around us—for even in broad daylight, a shadow exists somewhere.

Classic Horror Tales

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David Foster Wallace

373 pages. Selection of stories. Book shows signs of use, ear marked, creased, soft wrinkles.

Texas

Stories 1989 edition

This collection could possibly represent the first flowering of post-postmoderism: visions of the world that re-imagine reality as more realistic than we can imagine. A compelling presence of a holograph and the up-to-the-second feeling of the most advanced art. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Girl with Curious Hair

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

Weird Tales

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#immigrantstories
#paperback #fiction #womenauthors #anthology #shortstories #howtopronounceknife 

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and winner of the 2020 Giller Prize, this revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." A failed boxer painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. A mother teaching her daughter the art of worm harvesting. In her stunning debut story collection, O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to belong. In spare, intimate prose charged with emotional power and a sly wit, she paints an indelible portrait of watchful children, wounded men, and restless women caught between cultures, languages, and values. As one of Thammavongsa's characters says, "All we wanted was to live." And in these stories, they do--brightly, ferociously, unforgettably. Unsentimental yet tender, taut and visceral, How to Pronounce Knife announces Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most striking voices of her generation. "As the daughter of refugees, I'm able to finally see myself in stories." --Angela So, Electric Literature

How to Pronounce Knife

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Massachusetts

Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird

Spine is broken, it’s a bad habit of mine. Read about half before DNF’d. Just not my style of book.#paperback #shortstories #paperback #adult 

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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J. D. Scott

Beautiful and magical book filled with short stories. Dreamlike prose, magical scrolls, a drowned twin returning from the sea, a drama on life and death of an ancient chinchilla… in perfect condition! Needs a new home if you like fantastical short stories from a new talent.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The award-winning debut collection of short fiction by New York resident JD Scott.

Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day

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Arkansas

Fiction. Asian American Studies. MEMORY SICKNESS by Phong Nguyen is the winner of the 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Award. It is a loosely related series of short stories, set in Rhode Island, that illuminates our tentative and painful paths in this world. William Giraldi has this to say about it: "Dead-on in its depiction of modern malaise, MEMORY SICKNESS will burn in your own memory forever, assuring you of the sickness we are. Phong Nguyen has crafted stories with zero at the bone, stories of how the child is father of the man, of what we do to one another in this world, and what we do to ourselves. His Providence, Rhode Island, seems borne into being by the bastard offspring of Denis Johnson and Mary Gaitskill: a place of danger, horror, and the dim hope necessary for our survival. This book will scar you."

Memory Sickness, and Other Stories

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John Joseph Adams

Stories of the Apocalypse

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence . . . the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon . . . these are our guides through the Wastelands. From the Book of Revelation to ''The Road Warrior'', from ''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' to ''The Road'', storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life in the aftermath of total societal collapse. Gathering together the best postapocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction - including George R. R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King - Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders. Wastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core.

Wastelands

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New York

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything—when captured by Smith’s brilliant gaze—feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do.

Grand Union (Signed Edition)

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

Read once. Spine is unbroken! Brand new. All books come with a complimentary book mark.

Pennsylvania

A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics (This Edition, 1895)

Traffics and Discoveries (1st Edition, 1949)

#fiction #general #hardcover #shortstories Beautiful book published by the Franklin Library. Pages traced gold. 

Maryland

Selected Stories

#Classics #ShortStories #LeatherBound #Collectors

Montana

Leather Bound Collectors Edition. Gold sprayed edges, decorative end papers

#paperback #nonfiction #teens #shortstories

Inspirational stories on life, love, and learning for teens, including contributions by teens. More inspiration and encouragement from the best-selling name in teen nonfiction Chicken Soup knows what teenagers want, and teenagers flock to these books to hear the news, views, and attitudes of their fellow teens. From stories of friendship and romance to hilarious hijinks at school to the tough stuff of modern life (divorce, death, getting dumped by the love of your life), Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV covers the full gambit of the teen experience with the now often imitated but never emulated formula of teens talking directly to teens about what matter most to them.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Iv

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Lovely vintage limited edition leather bound book from the Franklin Library. 1976. Bound in green leather with gold gilt details. Ribbed spine. Gold gilt page edges. Green silk moire endpapers. Pages clean and bright with no marks, tears or bends. Small knick to leather on spine. Please see photographs. This is a lovely book for a collector! 

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N. K. Jemisin

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Jess Walter; Steph Cha

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022

Leigh Bardugo

Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel

Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Editors of Canterbury Classics

Classic Horror Tales

David Foster Wallace

Girl with Curious Hair

Jonathan Mayberry

Weird Tales

Souvankham Thammavongsa

How to Pronounce Knife

Agustina Bazterrica

Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird

Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties

J. D. Scott

Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day

Phong Nguyen

Memory Sickness, and Other Stories

John Joseph Adams

Wastelands

Zadie Smith

Grand Union (Signed Edition)

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Stories

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Her Body and Other Parties

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Her Body and Other Parties

Felix E. Schelling

A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics (This Edition, 1895)

Rudyard Kipling

Traffics and Discoveries (1st Edition, 1949)

Guy de Maupassant

Selected Stories

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Leather Bound Collectors Edition. Gold sprayed edges, decorative end papers

Jack Canfield

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Iv

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Winesburg, Ohio

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The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales