Corie Adjmi

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

Stories

Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don't; some stay married, some get divorced; others never marry at all. Through each character's intimate journey, specific truths are revealed about what it means to be a woman--in relationship with another person, in a particular culture and era--and how these conditions ultimately affect her relationship with herself. The stories as a whole depict patriarchy, showing what still might be, but certainly what was, for some women in this country before the #MeToo movement. Both a cautionary tale and a captivating window into women's lives, Life and Other Shortcomings is required reading for anyone interested in an honest, incisive, and compelling portrayal of the female experience.

Life and Other Shortcomings

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Ottessa Moshfegh

excellent condition! short story collection!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris 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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Velox Books

Marcus Damanda

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A Collection by Marcus Damanda

Like New Paperback Book
Comes from a pet free and smoke free home.

Thanks for looking!

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

A Collection of Short Horror Stories

"Damanda knows how to tell a fantastic story."-Elias Witherow, author of The Black Farm Prepare to be transported to a world of horror and suspense with NoSleep Podcast favorite Marcus Damanda. Meet a serial killer forever trapped in a Super Max prison. A fifteen-year-old girl in 1912, forced to choose between a man she does not love and a boy who might just kill for her. A man who discovers, after forty years, that he has a twin brother... living in his stomach. A cancer-stricken old man who can listen to the dead call up from Hell through his stethoscope. From the supernatural to the depravity of real life, each tale in this collection has its own unique flavor, full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end. Leave on just one light and settle in for a nightmarish meal of horror you won't soon forget.

Standard Deviations

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Eric LaRocca

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig.

Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying resolution...

Originally published under the title The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales, this is a much-praised collection of deeply unsettling, painfully dark tales.

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

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#paperback #pulitzerprizewinner #pulitzerprize #awardwinning #fiction #jhumpalahiri #shortstories #america 

Florida

With a new Introduction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.

Interpreter of Maladies

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Gwen E. Kirby

Like new! Such a fun cover to add to your collection!!

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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Emma Donoghue

A trainer coaxes his beloved elephant onto a ship carrying him to a life of fame. A mother searches for her baby girl, sent away on a train headed west. A teenage soldier wrestles with his conscience far from home. The fascinating characters who roam the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters, gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross countless borders. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. The celebrated author of Room transports us from Puritan Massachusetts to Revolutionary-era New Jersey, from antebellum Louisiana to a highway in Toronto, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present and offering us a moving meditation on restless times.

Astray

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#paperback #shortstories #fiction #nationalbestseller 

Originally published: London: Orion Books, 2015.

A Few of the Girls

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A collection of stories, most of them true, by the co-founder and manager of a healthcare provider specializing in the treatment for those with severe and persistent mental illness. The stories have a central theme of God drawing near and dwelling among us. Book includes dust jacket and is signed by the author. It would make a great gift or a welcome addition to your collection. #authorsigned #hardcopy #inspirational #shortstories #gift 

Christ at the Coffee Shop-signed

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

This First Edition, First Printing hardcover from the famous horror author is a rare find for any constant reader or horror fan.
Skeleton Crew is a short story collection contain some of Stephen King's most famous stories including The Mist, The Monkey, and The Raft.

This book is in Excellent Condition. There is only slight wear on the dust jacket including a small tear at the top of dust jacket. Included in photos.

This is a rare find for any Stephen King fan!

Please message if you have any questions or to make an offer!

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

First Edition 

Skeleton Crew

Haruki Murakami

Philip Gabriel

A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

First Person Singular - 1st Edition, 1st Print

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Elliott Hester

A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet

Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel.

You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's ninety-two degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott Hester delivers stories that could only come from someone who "rides tin" for a living---a flight attendant.

You'll hear about:
* the passenger from hell
* a smuggled python
* prostitutes working the lavatories
* a riot in coachclass
* a $500,000 heist
* the anatomy of a carry-on bag
* a malodorous couple
* the Mile-High Club
* and much more!

Fasten your seatbelts. After Plane Insanity, you'll never think of air travel the same way again.

Plane Insanity

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George Saunders

Tenth of December

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#paperback #romance #shortstories #fiction 

Illinois

Bonus Scenes Collection

Together with Love

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Peter Straub

#peterstraub #houseswithoutdoors #shortstories #horror

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A selection of short fiction--including outstanding early stories, new pieces, and two never-before-published novellas--features "Mrs. God," "The Buffalo Hunter," and other works

Houses Without Doors

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Valerie Vogrin

Got this anthology at a writers conference before realizing I was impulse buying and had no intention of reading it… give it a good home! It’s never been opened, just sat on a shelf untouched. 

"Valerie Vogrin's first full-length story collection is populated with characters who are lost, characters who are wounded, characters rendered with precision and the unflinching eye of an expert storyteller at the top of her craft. . . . Like us, they are deeply human and, in that way, utterly recognizable. . . . Vogrin's prose is clear and confident and often grimly humorous, but in the end she is an artist of the unstated, deftly seeding clues that blossom into stories rich in detail and imagination."--Dorene O'Brien, award-winning author of What It Might Feel Like to Hope

Things We'll Need for the Coming Difficulties

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Short Stories by Alexandre Dumas

Louis L'Amour

Very good dust jacket, very good clean tight copy .2006 ed. 1st printing.

New York

The Adventure Stories 

Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.

The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 4

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1973 collectible edition of editor Philip Stratford’s collection of Graham Greene’s essays, short stories and excerpts. A great place to start your journey of reading Graham Greenery who “explored a territory somewhere between despair and faith, treachery and love.”  International Collector’s Library collectible edition with navy blue leather like binding with gold gilt “Tree of Life” design. Gilt in very good condition. Some bumping to corners and edges along with top and bottom of spine consistent with shelf wear for the age of the edition. Binding tight. Minor toning to pages. Otherwise pages are clean. Good vintage condition. A lovely copy for a collector or someone wanting to delve into the classics. Be sure to see our other listings in this collection. 

Georgia

International Collector’s Library

The Portable Graham Greene

Dave Eggers

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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Name written on inner cover, otherwise perfect addition. Rare, hard to find book. 1984 first edition 

Maryland

All Aboard the Goodnight Train *rare, 1984 first edition

Sylvia Plath

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. . . . If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; The poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine." -- Sylvia Plath, "Cambridge Notes" (From Notebooks, February 1956) Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

Harper Perennial Classics Limited Edition 

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Published 1965, Heritage Press Collector's Edition, illustrated with Sandglass notes laid-in. No slipcase.

New Jersey

The Stories of O. Henry

Small amount of dirt present on dust jacket. Minor shelf wear on top edge. No damage to hardcover or pages.

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