Carmen Maria Machado

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Stories

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

2437ce92-1a95-48ed-be9c-14e7cf04b811-1

Read once. Spine is unbroken! Brand new. All books come with a complimentary book mark.

Texas

#Classics #ShortStories #LeatherBound #Collectors

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Montana

Leather Bound Collectors Edition. Gold sprayed edges, decorative end papers

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Traffics and Discoveries (1st Edition, 1949)

#fiction #general #hardcover #shortstories Beautiful book published by the Franklin Library. Pages traced gold. 

Maryland

Selected Stories

Signed copy of Grand Union by Zadie Smith. Great condition, some wear on the corners and a mark underneath the paper cover.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal! A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything—when captured by Smith’s brilliant gaze—feels fresh and relevant. Perfectly paced and utterly original, Grand Union highlights the wonders Zadie Smith can do.

Grand Union

dd0069c9-7102-4cfe-8cae-f87ed26a25e7-1

#paperback #nonfiction #teens #shortstories

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Inspirational stories on life, love, and learning for teens, including contributions by teens. More inspiration and encouragement from the best-selling name in teen nonfiction Chicken Soup knows what teenagers want, and teenagers flock to these books to hear the news, views, and attitudes of their fellow teens. From stories of friendship and romance to hilarious hijinks at school to the tough stuff of modern life (divorce, death, getting dumped by the love of your life), Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV covers the full gambit of the teen experience with the now often imitated but never emulated formula of teens talking directly to teens about what matter most to them.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Iv

41b738dd-9b24-4cb7-b899-44798ba2cd45-1

Lovely vintage limited edition leather bound book from the Franklin Library. 1976. Bound in green leather with gold gilt details. Ribbed spine. Gold gilt page edges. Green silk moire endpapers. Pages clean and bright with no marks, tears or bends. Small knick to leather on spine. Please see photographs. This is a lovely book for a collector! 

Georgia

The Franklin Library 

Winesburg, Ohio

Brian Coldrick

Joe Hill

Florida

A twisted figure crawling out of a tunnel. A giggling crowed of masked watchers. A reassembling corpse. What could be hiding behind you, just waiting for you to turn around?

Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories

2d99c902-f2da-4079-8b1c-ee8a9cf2b6ac-1

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

California

The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

c5ad9770-3412-4bfb-bbea-2afa8b79db7d-0

George Saunders

Colorado

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic."--Oprah Daily
 
Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, NPR, Time, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews

The "best short-story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

"Love Letter" is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. "Ghoul" is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In "Mother's Day," two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In "Elliott Spencer," our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed, his memory "scraped"--a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And "My House"--in a mere seven pages--comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay.

Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.

Liberation Day (Signed First Edition)

0a08b1e9-1659-4f60-9a4f-42d30fd6f497-1

Published between 1922-1928
Kipling’d First major work as a writer 

Michigan

Plain Tales From The Hills (Antique) 

Kentucky

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Executive producer and host Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal memories, ruminations, and insights. It’s a captivating must-read. The Way I Heard It presents thirty-five mysteries “for the curious mind with a short attention span.” Every one is a trueish tale about someone you know, filled with facts that you don’t. Movie stars, presidents, bloody do-gooders, and villains—they’re all here, waiting to shake your hand, hoping you’ll remember them. Delivered with Mike’s signature blend of charm, wit, and ingenuity, their stories are part of a larger mosaic—a memoir full of surprising revelations, sharp observations, and intimate, behind-the-scenes moments drawn from Mike’s own remarkable life and career.

The Way I Heard It

595e28db-d4ff-4b83-a21e-bf8a5d373685-1

Clean text and dust jacket intact. Previous owner’s name in a pencil and price in pencil. Dust jacket has some tears. See photos. 1933

Massachusetts

The First Wife and other stories

Book is signed, limited edition #26 of 250

1891480049

The Ushers (Signed)

33e83864-04b2-4ba9-997d-70e64ad50eb5-0

Peter V. Brett

Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons--bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.

The Great Bazaar and Other Stories

1ce42b4d-db61-4b2e-9b31-a96febc5b6dc-1

John Skipp

Still Dead

b520ea55-f540-45bd-b356-0e9d6ca063e0-1

#hardcover #scifi #classicscifi #shortstories #philipkdick This book is a first British Edition 

The Father-Thing

9bda0c69-bf01-422a-89f9-fb60d5211c33-1

This collection by Brian James Freeman features six dark stories that are a little different than his other works. Some focus on unusual characters and some are simply told in unusual ways. These six thought-provoking stories show why David Morrell has called Freeman's writing "elegant and haunting" and why Michael Koryta has said Freeman writes "a taut, memorable tale."

Dreamlike States

f925ca66-dbb8-4e31-ba8b-d8d279983635-1

Darkly Haunting (Limited Edition)

Thomas Parkes

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Short Stories

An entertaining collection features short stories from the past two hundred years, and includes the world of Washington Irving, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and more.

1994 edition * American Short Story

7d6e3b42-bca4-495c-a9f8-0c1c4bb0924e-1

The Dragon

Sarah Mlynowski Chris Manby/lauren Henderson

Virginia

Girls' Night In by Sarah Mlynowski Chris Manby/lauren Henderson released on Aug 25, 2004 is available now for purchase.

Girls Night In

0f409f3a-ba77-491c-8ea4-4552809591e6-1

#hardcover #tomhanks #fiction #shortstories #bookofthemonth #botm 

Some Stories

The actor Tom Hanks's first work of fiction.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties

Various

Leather Bound Collectors Edition. Gold sprayed edges, decorative end papers

Rudyard Kipling

Traffics and Discoveries (1st Edition, 1949)

Guy de Maupassant

Selected Stories

Zadie Smith

Grand Union

Jack Canfield

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Iv

Sherwood Anderson; Miki

Winesburg, Ohio

Brian Coldrick; Joe Hill

Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

George Saunders

Liberation Day (Signed First Edition)

Rudyard Kipling J.H. Sears & Company, Inc Publishers

Plain Tales From The Hills (Antique)

Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It

Buck, Pearl S.

The First Wife and other stories

Edward Lee

The Ushers (Signed)

Peter V. Brett

The Great Bazaar and Other Stories

John Skipp

Still Dead

Philip K. Dick

The Father-Thing

Brian James Freeman; Ed Gorman (Introduction by); Glenn Chadbourne (Artist); Vincent Chong (Artist)

Dreamlike States

Robert Morgan (Editor), James Doig, Colin Insole, Rhys Hughes, Peter Holman, & D.P. Watt

Darkly Haunting (Limited Edition)

Thomas Parkes

1994 edition * American Short Story

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Dragon

Sarah Mlynowski Chris Manby/lauren Henderson

Girls Night In

Tom Hanks

Uncommon Type