Stephen King

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Amazon $27.93 (Savings $10.99) 

A collection of twenty stories dealing with morality, the afterlife, guilt and more, with autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story.

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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Ray Bradbury

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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#hardcover #paperback #indigenous #americanindians #nativeamerican #shortstories #ex-lib movie Smoke Signals is based upon these books!!!

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!

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

English

LOT Teacher Guide and textbook Contemporary Short Stories

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Aleisha Maree

Linny Lawless

Isla Cross

J. A. Lafrance

Leah Negron

Nathan Kingsly

Rowan St. George

Ruby Carter

S. Courtney

Roux Cantrell

A gently read book in excellent condition. The spine has a bowing look but its because of the binding process and weight of the pages. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Merciless Few MC Anthology 2022

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Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Stories

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe.

Featuring:
 
* A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding.
 
* A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact.
 
* A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can't be genetically modified.
 
And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

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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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From the acclaimed author of Good in Bed, All Fall Downand the forthcoming Who Do You Love, a witty and heartbreaking look at love and loneliness

A young married woman happens upon her ex boyfriend's wedding registry and wonders what life would have been like if she'd ended up with him after all - only to wake up and find out her dream, for better and worst, has come true.

In Tour of Duty, a young man visits an ivy league college with his mother who does not know how to tell him that his father has left and is moving out during their weekend away.

And in Kidnapping Nana two sisters travel to a beach resort and kidnap an older woman so they have a place to stay while they're there - and find an unexpected bond with the older woman in the process.
#paperback #theguynottaken #jenniferweiner #fiction #shortstories #paperback 

A collection of short stories that explores the progress of love and relationships over a course of a lifetime, from a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home.

The Guy Not Taken

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Never read, new book! #hardcover #fiction #storycollection #shortstories #contemporary #literaryfiction #newrelease #newbook

"A debut collection of witty, elegant short stories that follow women from the brink of adulthood, to the labyrinthine gap between twenty and thirty, to middle age and the quiet instants in which certain possibilities disappear -- exploring themes of identity, yearning, aspiration, and family"--

Objects of Desire

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Ernest Hemingway

New Jersey

Offers fifteen vignettes concerning the conflicts, situations, problems, and personalities characteristic of society in Hemingway's day.

In Our Time

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California

Six Realms of Fantasy Magazines

Good condition; review of stories, anecdotes, cartoons by James Thurber that originally appeared in New Yorker Magazine.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Thurber Carnival

Michigan

There is a Graveyard That Dwells In Man

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Fantastic short stories by famed Danish author, Tove Ditlevsen 

The Trouble With Happiness 

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Velox Books

Marcus Damanda

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A Collection by Marcus Damanda

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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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Ottessa Moshfegh

excellent condition! short story collection!

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

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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#textbook #english #literature #nortonanthology #shortstories #anthology 

The Norton Introduction to Literature offers teachers the finest, most diverse selections and the most carefully edited apparatus for analyzing texts and writing thoughtfully.

The Norton Introduction to Literature

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Stephen J. Golds

L. G. Thomson

Manny Torres

Nevada McPherson

Nathan Pettigrew

Comes w/ 5 random Outcast Press stickers and a bookmark, signed by one of the authors, Paige Johnson. 20 short crime stories centered around the theme of diners, edited by Craig Clevenger, author of the Contortionist’s Handbook.

Georgia

A Diner Noir Anthology

Put Out the Lights and Cry

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Agatha Christie

Unexpected Love Stories from the Queen of Mystery

Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love--crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs. This pulse-pounding compendium of short stories--some featuring beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple--is essential reading that Christie fans old and new will love to death.

A Deadly Affair

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Gwen E. Kirby

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

Colorado

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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Gina Sheridan

Mississippi

A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Collects strange-but-true anecdotes, heartwarming stories, and humorous interactions with patrons from a public librarian.

I Work at a Public Library

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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 

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Ray Bradbury

Driving Blind - first edition

Sherman Alexie

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

David Foote; Margaret Forst; Mary Hynes-Berry; Julie Johnson; Basia Miller; Brenda Perkins; Susan Schaffrath (Editor)

LOT Teacher Guide and textbook Contemporary Short Stories

Aleisha Maree; Linny Lawless; Isla Cross; J. A. Lafrance; Leah Negron; Nathan Kingsly; Rowan St. George; Ruby Carter; S. Courtney; Roux Cantrell

Merciless Few MC Anthology 2022

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Charlaine Harris (Editor); Toni L. P. Kelner (Editor)

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Kathleen Collins

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Jennifer Weiner

The Guy Not Taken

Clare Sestanovich

Objects of Desire

Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

Various

Six Realms of Fantasy Magazines

James Thurber

The Thurber Carnival

David Tibet

There is a Graveyard That Dwells In Man

Tove Ditlevsen

The Trouble With Happiness

Velox Books; Marcus Damanda