Ray Bradbury

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Over the course of a long and celebrated career, Ray Bradbury has traveled many roads: cruising down country highways that wound through the unseen heart of small-town America; exploring rutted backwoods paths that led to dark and dangerous places; racing at mach-speed along shimmering celestial turnpikes as limitless and exciting as the unbound imagination. The Dean of American storytellers, Bradbury cherishes the worlds he envisions through his windshield. And with incomparable skill and an infectious wonder undiminished by years, he shares what he sees--so that we might also appreciate the view. DRIVING BLIND is a stunning new collection of short fiction--the first since the publication of Bradbury's critically acclaimed Quicker Than the Eye. With a steady hand on the wheel, the master once again transports us to remarkable places-- and to warm and achingly familiar destinations of the heart, revealed as we've never seen them before in the brilliance of day or gloom of night. Here are unforgettable excursions to the fantastic, glorious grand tours through time and memory-- interspersed with strange, unexpected side trips to the disturbing and eerie--where surprises are waiting around every curve and just beyond each mile marker. These are new roads we have never ridden before--sprawling interstates and lush, twisting rural routes fraught with dangers and delights of all manner, shape and substance. With Ray Bradbury in the driver's seat, the journey promises to be a memorable one. Come along and enjoy the ride.

Driving Blind - first edition

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John Skipp

Missing the book jacket but otherwise in near perfect condition.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Michigan

Encounters with the Hungry Dead

Zombies

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Poppy Z. Brite

California

This collection of 12 short stories from Poppy Brite contains collaborations with Christa Faust and David Ferguson and an introduction from Peter Straub. The collection also includes America, which features Steve and Ghost, the central characters in Lost Souls.

Self-Made Man

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New York

Lot bundle set 4 four books

A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world.

LOT #1/Flight, Ten Little Indians, The Toughest Indian in the World and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Smoke-free pet-friendly home super fast shipping NO returns . I am an ELA teacher, ask me for suggestions!

English

LOT Teacher Guide and textbook Contemporary Short Stories

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Philippa Semper

Brian Bogart

Ramsey Campbell

Evey Brett

Kate Dollarhyde

Lucinda Gunnin

Joshua K. Haarstad

Anne Leonard

E. H. Mann

Alison McBain

Emily McCosh

Dan Micklethwaite

Wendy Nikel

Mary O'Donnell

Aimee Ogden

Cassandra Taylor

M. Elizabeth Ticknor

Nemma Wollenfang

Leah Cypess

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

George R.R. Martin drew on Tolkien, who was inspired by William Morris, Medieval epics, and Norse mythology. This new collection of epic fantasy tales explores the classic themes of good vs evil, the low-born hero, and the arrogant overlord, and laced them with a taste of sorcery that reaches back to the early sources, and stirs them in with the brand new storytellers of today. This new title in our successful Gothic Fantasy Short Stories collection contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Contemporary authors include Brian Bogart, Ramsey Campbell, Evey Brett, Leah Cypess, Kate Dollarhyde, Lucinda Gunnin, Joshua K. Haarstad, Anne Leonard, E.H. Mann, Alison McBain, Emily McCosh, Dan Micklethwaite, Wendy Nikel, Mary O'Donnell, Aimee Ogden, Cassandra Taylor, M. Elizabeth Ticknor and Nemma Wollenfang. These feature alongside classic stories by authors such as Andrew Lang, George MacDonald, William Morris, Edith Nesbit and Clark Ashton Smith.

Epic Fantasy Short Stories

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Haruki Murakami

Philip Gabriel

Ted Goossen

Includes 2 additional PBs: Sputnik Sweetheart and South of the Border, West of the Sun. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Stories

A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.

Men Without Women

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New on Amazon for $29.95

The book itself is in excellent condition, just 2 printing flaws (one is shown here in the last photo, which looks the same and is the same size as the second one). One flaw is at the beginning of the book and the other is near the end. It doesn't affect readability at all. This is a large print version, with 27 stories unlike the standard version with only 25 stories. #hardcover #largeprint #shortstories

New Jersey

New Tales of the Grotesque

In these tales of the forbidden - both terrifying and seductive - Joyce Carol Oates explores the waking nightmares of life with eyes wide open. These twenty-seven illuminations on the infinite mysteries of the human experience, both intellectual and visceral, confirm Oates as one of America's most versatile practitioners of gothic horror.

The Collector of Hearts

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Brand new - never fully cracked open to read!

In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

World of Wonders

A collection of three stories. The Stories take place in and around the fictional town of Milby in the English Midlands. Each of the Scenes concerns a different Anglican clergyman, but is not necessarily centred upon him. 

•1920 Hardcover 
•Good Condition- This book shows wear to the cover. The spine has some damage to the cloth on the cover. There are no markings inside or outside the book. See photos.
 #classics #fiction #shortstories #british #britishliterature 

Scenes of Clerical Life 

Estella González

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This collection of inter-related short stories examines the lives of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in East Los Angeles.

Chola Salvation

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#hardcover #shortstories #fiction #adultfiction #magical 

Washington

The Future Looks Good -- War Stories -- Wild -- Second Chances -- Windfalls -- Who Will Greet You at Home -- Buchi's Girls -- What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky -- Glory -- What Is a Volcano? -- Redemption

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

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Joyce Carol Oates

Very tiny crease on bottom of front cover

Pennsylvania

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien” The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. “Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates’s prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. In “Big Burnt,” set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior—until the hour when they do not.

Beautiful Days

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David Lawrence Morse

Colorado

Winner of the 2022 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, judged by Susan Minot. Set amid wholly unique and fabulist worlds, the stories of The Book of Disbelieving present a cast of characters tangled in challenges of faith, whether in god, in nature, in memory, or even in reality. These are stories of villages built atop fish, of holidays designed to encourage literal leaps of faith, of widows left to make sense of memories both real and imagined. Steeped in the existential crises of our era, The Book of Disbelieving is a modern book of fables and lore. Behold this book with wonder.

The Book of Disbelieving

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Ben Hecht

Bill Savage

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

"A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago" is a compilation of more than 60 columns written by Ben Hecht for the Chicago Daily News that his editor called "journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

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Hair-Raising Holiday Tales

Presents a collection of werewolf stories that take place during the Christmas holidays.

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

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Now available in Ecco’s Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker—a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paley—whose prescient work has recently resurfaced to wide acclaim Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, exploring deep, far-reaching issues—race, gender, family, and sexuality—that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. In “The Uncle,” a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives. In “Only Once,” a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate—and final—act of foolishness. Collins’s work seamlessly integrates the African-American experience in her characters’ lives, creating rich, devastatingly familiar, full-bodied men, women, and children who transcend the symbolic, penetrating both the reader’s head and heart. Both contemporary and timeless, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? is a major addition to the literary canon, and is sure to earn Kathleen Collins the widespread recognition she is long overdue.

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

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Santi V. Buscemi

Charlotte Smith

Nebraska

8th edition

75 Readings Plusis a version of the best-selling75 Readingsthat supplies additional guidance for student readers. Both books are rhetorically arranged and collect the most popular essays for first-year writing. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at only $28 net,75 Readings Plusis an excellent value for students.

75 Readings Plus

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Carl. Sandburg

Georgia

Prose and Poetry for Young People

An illustrated volume of all of Carl Sandburg's books for young readers: Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy, and Abe Lincoln Grows Up. Introduction by Paula Sandburg.

The Sandburg Treasury

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Short stories by America’s greatest authors. “A new variety of anthology, one that starts as a collection of wonderful literature, but, by means of Cheuse’s selection and commentary, becomes a social history of our nation.” From the book. 

Massachusetts

Great stories from America’s Past 1819 - 1918

Seeing Ourselves

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Gianni Washington

Alabama

In this debut story collection, Gianni Washington opens portals bridging the strange and the lonely to the gruesome and the intimate. Thirteen dark tales are told through the lenses of Black, female, and queer narrators, among others, which burrow deep into the heart of the gothic to challenge the conventional nightmare. Flowers from the Void unburies a haunted labyrinth of chilling alternate realities eerily similar to our own. A high school freshman is lured into a sinister pact with a classmate that will cost him more than he could ever imagine. A grieving African witch prepares for initiation into a 17th century Salem coven of white women. A girl with no shadow befriends one. Empathy and horrors collide to create a grimy discomfort that will never quite wash off. Otherworldly creatures, malevolent acts, and devastation consume these pages as Gianni Washington resurrects the skeletons in our closets and commands them to run amuck with a new zest for the macabre.

Flowers from the Void

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Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

James Joyce

A small corner curl on bottom page corner.  Pages are aged.

New Hampshire

Fifteen stories evoke the character and atmosphere of the Irish city at the turn of the century

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Self-Made Man

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LOT #1/Flight, Ten Little Indians, The Toughest Indian in the World and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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LOT Teacher Guide and textbook Contemporary Short Stories

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Men Without Women

Joyce Carol Oates

The Collector of Hearts

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World of Wonders

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Scenes of Clerical Life

Estella González

Chola Salvation

Lesley Nneka Arimah

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

Joyce Carol Oates

Beautiful Days

David Lawrence Morse

The Book of Disbelieving

Ben Hecht; Bill Savage

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

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Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Kathleen Collins

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

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75 Readings Plus

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The Sandburg Treasury

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Seeing Ourselves

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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

James Joyce

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