Tessa Gratton

Maggie Stiefvater

Brenna Yovanoff

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

"In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor. In a faraway land convulsed by war, a young soldier hears the desert's curious hum as he disarms bombs with the person he doesn't know how to love. In a place so shriveled by drought that any drowning is a curiosity, a young writer tries again and again to tread water beneath the surface of a vast and unusual sea. Three new stories complete with commentary on the creative process from three acclaimed young adult authors working at the height of their powers."--Amazon.com.

The Anatomy of Curiosity

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2016

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

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Gish Jen

Louisiana

Stories

In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change, but the all-too-human encounters that ensue as East meets West. Opal Chen reunites with her sisters in China after a hiatus of almost forty years; American Arnie Hsu clashes with his Chinese girlfriend, Lulu Koo, who wonders why Americans "like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes"; Tina and Johnson Koo take wholly surprising measures to reestablish contact when their "number one daughter," Bobby, stops answering her phone in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on "no politics, just make money," finds she must square her mother's philosophy with the repression in Hong Kong. With their profound compassion, equally profound humor, and unexpected connections, these masterly stories reflect history's shifting shadow over our boldest decisions and most intimate moments. Gradually accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds, Thank You, Mr. Nixon furnishes yet more proof of Jen's enduring place among the most eminent of American storytellers.

Thank You, Mr. Nixon

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Florida

The Collected Stories and Other Writings

Long before there was a Catch-22, before there was even a Catch-18 (the novel's original title), Joseph Heller had begun sharpening his skills as a writer, searching for the voice that would best express the peculiarly wry view that he held of the world. Starting in 1945, with the publication in Story magazine of the short story "I Don't Love You Anymore," Heller began to reach out to an audience of readers damaged and disillusioned by their experiences during World War II. That story dealt with the return home of an American soldier who was having more than a little trouble adjusting. The stories published following this debut continued to reflect people at odds with the world around them, usually featuring the "little guy," the "underdog," the "average Joe" who beats the odds by surviving in a generally hostile and unwelcoming world. Written in what is termed the "New York Style," his were stories of urban naturalism, realistic and straightforward, emulating the work of such writers as Irwin Shaw, William Saroyan, John O'Hara, and, perhaps most especially, Nelson Algren. For Heller, writing these stories was a part of the learning process, his education on how to get across his own point of view, leading up to the publication of his masterpiece, Catch-22. Of the stories in this collection, thirteen were written before 1961, when Catch-22 was published; of those, five have never before been published. After Catch-22, Heller forsook the short story form. Though five stories were published after 1961, one-"World Full of Great Cities"--Was actually written in 1949; three of the other four are spin-offs of Catch-22, and one is a preview of Closing Time. Rounding out this collection of the complete published short writings of Joseph Heller are a short play and several nonfiction pieces, mostly related to Catch-22.

Catch As Catch Can

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R. O. Kwon

Massachusetts

A New York Times Notable Book Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Cosmopolitan * Time * The Millions * The Advocate * Autostraddle * Refinery29 * Shape * Town & Country * Book Riot * Literary Hub * Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates, therapists’ offices, underground sex clubs, and even a sex theater in early-20th century Paris. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers.

Kink

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Mark Twain

Signet Classic, circa 1980. 256 pages. Some tanning of pages. See photos for the full list of stories. Includes bibliography. Foreward by Edmund Reiss. 

Arizona

Includes 4 memorable selections spanning the career of famed American humorist: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The 1,000,000 Bank Note," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Mysterious Stranger."

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

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Cassandra Newbould

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Washington

Sixteen Stories about Living Fabulously Fat

"Sixteen stories celebrating fat teens with bodies of many shapes and from many communities, cultures, races, genders, and orientations in contemporary settings as well as fictional worlds"--

Every Body Shines

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Maine

Uncollected Stars

Bill Loehfelm

Louisa Ermelino

Short stories of Staten Island Noir in brand new condition. 

Michigan

Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Staten Island, New York, by such authors as Todd Craig, Linda Nieves-Powell, S. J. Rozan, and Patricia Smith.

Staten Island Noir

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Joyce Carol Oates

S. A. Solomon

Lou Manfredo

Short stories of New Jersey Noir in brand new condition. 

Presents a collection of short mystery stories set in the state of New Jersey by such authors as Bradford Morrow, Sheila Kohler, Richard Burgin, and Alicia Ostriker.

New Jersey Noir

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Jerome Charyn

Lawrence Block

Shortvstories of Bronx Noir in excellent condition. 

Rozan, a lifelong New Yorker, gathers together these eclectic, mysterious stories about this most famous of boroughs. Contributing authors include Thomas Adcock, Terrence Cheng, Sandra Kitt, and others.

Bronx Noir

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Linda L. Richards

Timothy Taylor

Short noir stories set in vancouver. In new condition never read.

Following the success of Montreal Noir and Toronto Noir, the Noir Series travels to the west coast of Canada.

Vancouver Noir

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Dhonielle Clayton

Tiffany D. Jackson

Nic Stone

Angie Thomas

Ashley Woodfolk

Nicola Yoon

A Novel

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the dark.

A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks...

A first meeting. 

Long-time friends. 

Bitter exes. 

And maybe the beginning of something new.

When the lights go out, people reveal hidden truths. Love blossoms, friendship transforms, and new possibilities take flight.

Beloved authors--Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon--celebrate the beauty of six couples and the unforgettable magic that can be found on a sweltering starry night in the city.

Blackout

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#hardcover #shortstories #Southernwomen  #MaryHood  surface of front cover has small scuff, see photo s no damage to book

Alabama

A collection of short stories expresses the conflicts that ensue as homesteads and country stores give way to housing developments and shopping malls in today's South

And Venus Is Blue

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Kiera Cass

Book has general wear from reading and a couple of small knicks and scapes.There is a red mark on back cover, the book still in great shape.  Please refer to provided pictures and Thank you for helping us keep books out of landfills. 

Nebraska

Discover the untold stories of two fan favorite characters in these novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series The Prince and The Guard offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer’s love. The Selection Stories also features bonus content, including an extended ending to The Prince, a Q&A with Kiera Cass, family trees, playlists, and more! Before America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon’s life. In The Prince, follow Maxon from the week before the Selection begins through the first day of the competition. Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace. In The Guard, get an inside look at Aspen’s life as a palace guard—and the truth about his world that America will never know.

The Selection Stories: the Prince and the Guard

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California

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other strange tales 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Compilation of two novels (This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned) as well as 19 short stories 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

District of Columbia

Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories

Inseparably associated with a point in history he claimed to despise, F. Scott Fitzgerald is both the quintessential Jazz-Age writer and perhaps the era's harshest critic. Included in this book are: The Beautiful and Damned (novel), a cautionary tale of reckless ambition and squandered talent set amid the glitter of Jazz Age New York. This Side of Paradise (novel), his semi-autobiographical first novel, became an instant best-seller. It traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school through Princeton to the start of an uncertain career in New York City. 11 short stories from Tales of the Jazz Age and 8 short stories from Flappers and Philosophers. With stories like "The Ice Palace" and "The Jelly Bean," he portrayed the emotional depth of a society devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards catastrophe that was only a few years ahead.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works

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John Young

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Kentucky

In sixteen apparently simple stories, John Young's memorable characters ask (or refuse to ask) what shapes us. Education? Talent? Impulse? Family? Money? Need for approval? Most of the stories are set in small-town Indiana, with a handful coming from New England villages. All are sensitively written, careful, and real. The impulse to cheat (embellish) shows up early in the collection, as an antique dealer teaches himself to craft high-quality fakes. It reaches a fever pitch and crashes in the next tale, when an ambitious minister in an affluent community pays more attention to his neighbor's wife and pumpkins than to the living he's inherited. Young's protagonists range from observant nine-year-olds to hyper-competitive teens, from working class dreamers (and drinkers) to privileged executives defending the compromises they've made. A few face public humiliation; a few others die. In two of the strongest stories, young women face painful life-and-death decisions, and the conclusions are uncertain. In most, there's an ethical dilemma, skillfully and subtly plotted so that we readers come away energized, appreciating "the oxymorons of life."

Fire in the Field and Other Stories SIGNED

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Kate Hart

Emery Lord

Elizabeth May

Anna-Marie McLemore

Tehlor Kay Mejia

Lindsay Smith

Nova Ren Suma

Robin Talley

Shveta Thakrar

Tess Sharpe

Jessica Spotswood

Brandy Colbert

Zoraida Córdova

Andrea Cremer

Georgia

15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft

This extraordinary collection of fifteen stories celebrates witches using their power and claiming their destinies.



THERE'S NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN A WITCH WHO BELIEVES IN HERSELF.



Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure, to kill...and to live. 



A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients--and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls for an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. A water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power...and destroy their captors.



NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A TEEN WITCH!



Featuring stories by:

Tehlor Kay Mejia

Andrea Robertson

Tess Sharpe

Lindsay Smith

Brandy Colbert

Shveta Thakrar

Robin Talley

Nova Ren Suma

Zoraida Córdova

Brenna Yovanoff

Kate Hart

Jessica Spotswood

Anna-Marie McLemore

Emery Lord

Elizabeth May

Toil and Trouble

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#hardcover #shortstories #fiction #amholmes #humor #comedy

"With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties." --Time

A razor-sharp story collection from a writer who is always "furiously good" (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time).

With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection - exploring our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be.

In "A Prize for Every Player," a man is nominated to run for president by the customers of a big box store, while he and his family do their weekly shopping. At a conference on genocide(s) in the title story, old friends rediscover themselves and one another - finding spiritual and physical comfort in ancient traditions. And in "Hello Everybody" and "She Got Away," Homes revisits a Los Angeles family obsessed with the surfaces and frightened of what lives below.

In the nearly three decades since her seminal debut collection The Safety of Objects, Homes has been celebrated by readers and critics alike as one of our boldest and most original writers, acclaimed for her psychological accuracy and "satire so close to the truth it's terrifying" (Ali Smith). Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is a major new addition to her body of visionary, fearless, outrageously funny work.

Days of Awe

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David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

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Jonathan Winters

Stories and Observations for the Unusual

The noted comedian Jonathan Winters has written a series of short stories-some humorous and others serious.

Winters' Tales *Vintage

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Danielle Evans

Alaska

A Novella and Stories

The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief--all while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American history--about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight. In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral. In "Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain," a photojournalist is forced to confront her own losses while attending an old friend's unexpectedly dramatic wedding. And in the eye-opening title novella, a black scholar from Washington, DC, is drawn into a complex historical mystery that spans generations and puts her job, her love life, and her oldest friendship at risk.

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Tessa Gratton; Maggie Stiefvater; Brenna Yovanoff

The Anatomy of Curiosity

John Joseph Adams (Editor); Charles Yu (Editor)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

Gish Jen

Thank You, Mr. Nixon

Joseph Heller

Catch As Catch Can

R. O. Kwon

Kink

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Cassandra Newbould

Every Body Shines

Piers Anthony

Uncollected Stars

Bill Loehfelm; Louisa Ermelino

Staten Island Noir

Joyce Carol Oates; S. A. Solomon; Lou Manfredo

New Jersey Noir

Jerome Charyn; Lawrence Block

Bronx Noir

Linda L. Richards; Timothy Taylor

Vancouver Noir

Dhonielle Clayton; Tiffany D. Jackson; Nic Stone; Angie Thomas; Ashley Woodfolk; Nicola Yoon

Blackout

Dhonielle Clayton; Tiffany D. Jackson; Nic Stone; Angie Thomas; Ashley Woodfolk; Nicola Yoon

Blackout

Mary Hood

And Venus Is Blue

Kiera Cass

The Selection Stories: the Prince and the Guard

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other strange tales

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works

John Young

Fire in the Field and Other Stories SIGNED

Kate Hart; Emery Lord; Elizabeth May; Anna-Marie McLemore; Tehlor Kay Mejia; Lindsay Smith; Nova Ren Suma; Robin Talley; Shveta Thakrar; Brenna Yovanoff; Tess Sharpe; Jessica Spotswood; Brandy Colbert; Zoraida Córdova; Andrea Cremer

Toil and Trouble

A. M. Homes

Days of Awe

David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Jonathan Winters

Winters' Tales *Vintage

Danielle Evans

The Office of Historical Corrections