Jojo Moyes

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket,first edition, first printing.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

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

First edition /1st* Paris for One and Other Stories

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#paperback #smallpress #horror #shortstories #omnibus

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Kentucky

Volume One

Harmlessly Insane: The Complete Collection features twenty top-rated tales of terror from The Light Brothers, authors Evans Light and Adam Light.Clocking in at nearly 600 pages, this collection features the stories Crawlspace, Taken, and The Mole People Beneath the City, plus the complete novellas Serving Spirits, Arboreatum, and much, much more.

Harmlessly Insane: the Complete Collection

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#paperback #horror #indiehorror #shortstories #rare #signed and inscribed by the author

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The author of Stirring the Sheets and Of Foster Homes & Flies explores both the dark and humorous in 12 never-before-published stories that ask questions like: What's that poking up from the lake? Are we on drugs? Where's the body? What does human taste like? Why isn't Grandpa moving? Where are the maggots coming from? And more...
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Spicy Constellation and Other Recipes

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Author Edward Lorn is best known for his horror stories. These are not those.WORD is a collection of literary fiction that celebrates Story in all its forms. You will find tales of odd lovers, social outcasts, and leaving your childhood behind.These six stories, four of which are published here for the first time ever, take a considered look at the different facets of society and how Normal is a word always in search of meaning.Table of Contents:BurritoSkinnyCome (previously published)Margins (previously published)Lounge Glamis

Word

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Crank up your respirator, strap on your goggles, and hide your antennae from the humans because it's dangerous being a hybrid in 1912. Starting with the launch of a pollen-powered ship called the RMS Titanic, The Maiden Voyage & Other Departures explores six tales of an alternate history world poisoned by warring industries and populated by spectacular beings. Take jellyglass elevators to secret labs and bondage parlors where assassins and aviators, debutantes and corpse-snatching spiders wait to reap the honey of a dying planet.From the dark and wild mind behind The Green Kangaroos and Home Birth, Jessica McHugh's debut collection invites you to embark on a journey into a spectacular world where the future lies in the minds of freaks and the forgotten.

The Maiden Voyage and Other Departures

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Gwen E. Kirby

#paperback #fiction #shortstories #feminist #lgbtq #gwenekirby #npr #penguin 

Michigan

Stories

Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today. Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer. From "The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886" to the "Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories," Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look.

Shit Cassandra Saw

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Dave Eggers

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Issue 12 is made up of three parts. The first and largest section consists entirely of new writers -- new to us, probably new to you, and not even well-known by their own families.Part two is a new story from Roddy Doyle, featuring Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments.Part three is a collection of twenty-minute stories, by which we mean stories written in twenty minutes, from all sorts of people that you know and do not know.

Quarterly Concern

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

The Best of Jeffrey Ford

Jeffrey Archer

Texas

Jeffrey Archer's Previously Published Stories, Compiled for the First Time in One Definitive Volume

From one of today's bestselling novelists and classic storytellers comes this single volume containing his three acclaimed collections of short fiction, featuring a total of 36 stories.

The Collected Short Stories

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Alice Wong

An impressive little cube-shape book about cats! Cat stories, poems, activities, recipes, advice, tips, & humor.
Over 350 pages of kitty folklore & photos!
Over 175 full color illustrations.
Amazing as a gift for your favorite cat lover or treat yourself.
Near perfect condition. Near perfect dust cover. No rips, tears, stains. Was used as display.
Hardback edition.
Ribbon marker.
First edition -  2005.
6.75” x 6.75” x 1.75”
Cat lovers featured include:
Rudyard Kipling
Emile Zola
Lewis Carroll
Ernest Hemingway
James Herriot
Ogden Nash
Adlai Stevenson
Emily Dickinson
W B Yeats
and more!

Georgia

LBB CATS

Celebrate the wonder of cats in The Little Big Book of Cats, Welcome’s newest addition to the award-winning Little Big Book series. Cats are our best friends, our cleanest roommates, and our constant companions. Who else in our lives could be so loving and then turn so insolent, be so attentive and then so indifferent, and still win our hearts? Through their own shifting personas and emotions, cats continue to teach us more about ourselves than we could ever imagine. Without them we’d be lost. Without us, well, they’d probably be just fine.

The Little Big Book of Cats is a delightful treasury of stories, poems, fun activities, recipes, advice, tips, fun, and humor to indulge all cat-lovers. With the turn of each page, readers learn how to better understand, train (well, sort of), and pamper their feline friends with fun activities and treats, while literary excerpts, writings, and poetry from the brightest of cat-loving minds share the joys, awe, and challenges of befriending a cat (or two, or three, or four…). This purr-fect book includes:

Literary Excerpts and Stories: Renowned writers who love or have been fascinated by the cat seem endless: Lewis Carroll, Colette, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Adams, Emile Zola, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others. Fiction or non-fiction, each selection is as enchanting as its subject.

Living with Cats: For those just starting out on their new journey with a furry friend, basic information is provided from cat breeds to general cat care (from bathing your cat to giving kitty a massage!).

Poetry: There are so many odes in honor of beloved feline friends. Cat-lovers know why. In these pages are the best from greats such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, and W. B. Yeats.

Training and Tricks: Is it possible? Clicker training cats has gained much popularity in the past years. Give it a try!

Fun and Games: Kibble Dribble, Macaroni Hockey, Stair Bounce . . . keep Kitty on her toes with fun and games sure to amuse all involved.

Kitty Treats: Sardine Sandies, Catnip Snaps, Cheesy Bites and more are guaranteed to elicit satisfied purrs.

Feline Funnies: The other side of our regal, mysterious, and elegant friend is pure silliness. Enjoy the loveable, funny side of cat with pages of jokes, humor, and feline shenanigans.

The Little Big Book of Cats

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Tsugumi Ohba

#graphicnovel #manga #deathnote #short-stories #kira #shonenjump

Tennessee

Is Kira's story truly over, or does his influence linger? Death Note's story continues in this collection of short stories penned by the series' creators.

 

Is Kira's story truly over, or does his influence linger?

In this complete collection of Death Note short stories penned by the series' creators, discover tales of lives irrevocably changed by the sinister influence of the Death Note, with surprising and thrilling answers to the question of what it truly takes to use the Death Note...or fight it.

Contains stories "C-Kira," "a-Kira," the Death Note pilot chapter, vignettes of L's life, and more.

Is Kira's story truly over, or does his influence linger?

In this complete collection of Death Note short stories penned by the series' creators, discover tales of lives irrevocably changed by the sinister influence of the Death Note, with surprising and thrilling answers to the question of what it truly takes to use the Death Note...or fight it.

Contains stories "C-Kira," "a-Kira," the Death Note pilot chapter, vignettes of L's life, and more.

Death Note Short Stories

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Jonathan Strahan

This is an excellent almost New 1st Edition book.

California

An Anthology

With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El Mohtar, Garth Nix, Darcie Little Badger, Sheree Renée Thomas, and two dozen other fantasy and science fiction geniuses bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction, witches, in never-before-seen works written exclusively for The Book of Witches, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan and illustrated by award-nominated artist Alyssa Winans. Witches! Whether you know them from Shakespeare or from Wicked, there is no staple more beloved in folklore, fairy tale, or fantasy than these magical beings. Witches are everywhere, and at the heart of stories that resonate with many people around the world. This dazzling, otherworldly collection gathers new stories of witches from all walks of life, ensuring a Halloween readers will never forget. Whether they be maiden, mother, crone, or other; funny, fierce, light and airy, or dark and disturbing; witches are a vital part of some of the greatest stories we have, and new ones start here! Bringing together twenty-nine stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today, including three tales from a BIPOC-only open submission period, The Book of Witches features Linda Addison, C.L. Clark, P Djeli Clark, Indrapramit Das, Amal El Mohtar, Andrea Hairston, Millie Ho, Saad Hossain, Kathleen Jennings, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cassandra Khaw, Fonda Lee, Darcie Little Badger, Ken Liu, Usman T. Malik, Maureen F. McHugh, Premee Mohammed, Garth Nix, Tobi Ogundiran, Tochi Onyebuchi, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Kelly Robson, Angela Slatter, Andrea Stewart, Emily Teng, Sheree Renée Thomas, Tade Thompson, and E. Lily Yu--and contains illustrations from three-time Hugo award-nominated artist Alyssa Winans throughout. This extraordinary anthology vividly breathes life into one of the most captivating and feared magical sorceresses and will become a treasured keepsake for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales everywhere.

The Book of Witches

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Dust jacket is torn in several pieces. Book is in very good condition.

Virginia

A Book of Modern Short Stories

A Bit Off The Map

Carmen Maria Machado

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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In a spine-tingling new collection, the "unique"(NPR) and "wickedly funny" (New York Times) Helen Phillips offers an idiosyncratic series of "what-ifs" about our fragile human condition.

What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through people's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if your city was filled with doppelgängers--of you?

Forced to navigate these bizarre scenarios, Helen Phillips's characters search for solutions to the problem of how to survive in an irrational, infinitely strange world. By turns surreal, witty, and perplexing, the stories here explore the everyday indignities and surprising pleasures of living in a time and place that can feel futuristic, fantastical, and familiar all at once.Some Possible Solutionscements Phillips's standing as a true original and a treasure.

Some Possible Solutions

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All 9 Itty Bitty Delights by author Alex Grayson. All signed and lot comes with some stickers and bookmarks. These are currently out of stock in the author’s site and I don’t know if they will be restocked. She sells them for $150 for all it $22 each ($198). 

New Mexico

Itty Bitty Delights (Signed)

Edmund White

Rare first edition in like new condition. 

The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Skinned Alive—Signed 

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Massachusetts

“I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I’m reading Ken Liu’s stories, I feel like I’m reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I’m in awe.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author “Captivating.” —BuzzFeed “Extraordinary.” —The Washington Post “Brilliant.” —The Chicago Tribune With the release of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu’s short fiction has resonated with a generation of readers. From stories about time-traveling assassins, to Black Mirror-esque tales of cryptocurrency and internet trolling, to heartbreaking narratives of parent-child relationships, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is a far-reaching work that explores topical themes from the present and a visionary look at humanity’s future. This collection includes a selection of Liu’s speculative fiction stories over the past five years—seventeen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition, it also features an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, the third book in Liu’s epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty.

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

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Margaret Atwood

SIGNED FIRST EDITION of Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together

"If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You've been missing out." --The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Makkai, best-selling author of The Great Believers

Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine--explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood's characteristic insight, wit and intellect. 

The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; "Impatient Griselda" explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and "My Evil Mother" touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love--and what comes after.

Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.

Old Babes in the Wood

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Book Set. Greatest Short Stories, Volumes 1-6. Publisher is Collier. Good condition. #hardcover #shortstories #fiction #vintage #vintagebooks #bookset 

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Arizona

Vintage Book Set: Greatest Short Stories, Volumes 1-6

Condition: Dust jacket and book edge show signs of wear but overall book looks great. Pages and binding are in excellent condition. #hardcover #horror #stephenking #shortstories #thriller #suspense #fiction 

With Stories by Stephen King, Harlin Ellison, Dan Simmons, David J. Schow, Nancy Collins

A collection of new horror stories includes contributions by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, David J. Schow, Nancy Collins, and others. Original.

Midnight Graffiti

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#paperback #shortstories #non-western #asian #european #southamerica #africa #global #modern #literature #poetry 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Where the Waters Are Born

Compiled to generate students' awareness of cultural diversity and open new boundaries in literature, this anthology presents a broad range of contemporary non-western writings - from Asia, Oceania, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The text provides a selection of poetry, fiction, plays and memoirs by 180 authors from 61 countries, translated from 23 different languages. Readings were selected based on the writers' significance in their own cultural and literary history, their overall contribution to literature, and their influence on other writers. This sampling - designed for courses in non-western or Third World literature - represents works from many established writers from around the globe.

Modern Literature of the Non-Western World

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All books are in great condition.  The set includes: The shape of destiny, Open Doors, Bits and Pieces, The View From Here, Windows of Wisdom.  

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Jojo Moyes

First edition /1st* Paris for One and Other Stories

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Harmlessly Insane: the Complete Collection

Chad Lutzke

Spicy Constellation and Other Recipes

Edward Lorn