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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

17 Tales Across Realms and Space

In this collection of stories by acclaimed young adult authors the Latin American diaspora travels to places of fantasy and out into space.

Reclaim the Stars

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#hardcover #fiction #Christmas #Christian #historical #poems #shortstories Library book from small church library

Tennessee

This anthology points readers to the real meaning of Christmas. The book contains a varied selection of extracts, stories and poetry, suitable for the family to read together at Christmas and for classroom use. It is designed to show both the fun and the real meaning of Christmas.

Star of Wonder

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Describing her own enjoyment of such things as books, bicycles, neighbors of all kinds, and even weeds, the author shows that an appreciation for life's blessings can be easily developed

Small Blessings

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#hardcover  #contemporary #Christian #shortstories Library book from small church library

Throughout her life, and always with the solace and illumination of God's Word, Catherine sought to meet head-on difficult questions on obedience, self-surrender, the Holy Spirit, illness, doubt, darkness, releasing God's answers in prayer, accepting God's 'wait' and facing death. Her deep probing and the answers she discovered are incorporated into her writing. This book is a unique collection of writings that even includes personal glimpses from her journals. This is inspirational writing at its best.

The Best of Catherine Marshall

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Lori Wick

Kentucky

A collection of Christian romances includes "Be Careful with My Heart," in which pianist Casey Sheridan agrees to help out a friend by taking her place in a musical trio, and "The Christmas Gift," in which an abused young girl finds tentative happiness in her foster home.

Beyond the Picket Fence and Other Short Stories

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.

Rookie on Love

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

The best American short stories 1972

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

North Carolina

Fiction

A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da’Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson’s historic plantation home in a desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation. In “Control Negro,” hailed by Roxane Gay as “one hell of story,” a university professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from birth in order to “painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.” Johnson’s characters all seek out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through “Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.” United by these characters’ relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a formidable book that bears witness to this country’s legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction.

My Monticello

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Jhumpa Lahiri

This book has deckle edges.  There is an inscription on the flyleaf. Price reflects.

Minnesota

Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a secret love affair, as well as "Hema and Kaushik," "Only Goodness," and "A Choice of Accommodations," among others. 300,000 first printing.

Unaccustomed Earth

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Karen E. Bender

Stories

A collection by the author of Like Normal People explores the profound ways in which money and the estimation of value affect an octogenarian swindler, the creator of a reality show and a pair of artists in post-September 11 Manhattan.

Refund

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Florida

Freaky Facts and Strange Stories 

Julie C. Dao

Chloe Gong

Joan He

Kosoko Jackson

Adiba Jaigirdar

Darcie Little Badger

Yamile Saied Méndez

Axie Oh

Laura Pohl

Cindy Pon

Karuna Riazi

Gail D. Villanueva

Julian Winters

Kat Zhang

Oregon

Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned

Rethink the way you approach writing in this revolutionary and informative new anthology from fourteen diverse authors that demystifies craft and authorship based on their experiences as writers of color—perfect for fans of Fresh Ink and Our Stories, Our Voices. So, you’re thinking of writing a book. Or, maybe you’ve written one, and are wondering what to do with it. What does it take to publish a novel, or even a short story? If you’re a writer of color, these questions might multiply; after all, there’s a lot of writing advice out there, and it can be hard to know how much of it really applies to your own experiences. If any of this sounds like you, you’re in the right place: this collection of essays, written exclusively by authors of color, is here to encourage and empower writers of all ages and backgrounds to find their voice as they put pen to page. Perhaps you’re just getting started. Here you’ll find a whole toolkit of advice from bestselling and award-winning authors for focusing on an idea, landing on a point of view, and learning which rules were meant to be broken. Or perhaps you have questions about everything beyond the first draft: what is it really like being a published author? These writers demystify the process, sharing personal stories as they forged their own path to publication, and specifically from their perspectives as author of color. Every writer has a different journey. Maybe yours has already started. Or maybe it begins right here. Contributors include: Julie C. Dao, Chloe Gong, Joan He, Kosoko Jackson, Adiba Jaigirdar, Darcie Little Badger, Yamile Saied Mendez, Axie Oh, Laura Pohl, Cindy Pon, Karuna Riazi, Gail D. Villanueva, Julian Winters, and Kat Zhang.

Writing in Color

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Margaret Atwood

Wisconsin

And Other Stories

Margaret Atwood isacknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. InMoral Disorder,she has created a series of interconnected stories that trace the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it—those of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and even of animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in sharp, clearly observed moments. The ’30s, the ’40s, the ’50s, the ’60s, the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s, and the present —all are here. The settings vary: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests.

“The Bad News” is set in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. The narrative then switches time as the central character moves through childhood and adolescence in “The Art of Cooking and Serving,” “The Headless Horseman,” and “My Last Duchess.” We follow her into young adulthood in “The Other Place” and then through a complex relationship, traced in four of the stories: “Monopoly,” “Moral Disorder,” “White Horse,” and “The Entities.” The last two stories, "The Labrador Fiasco" and "The Boys at the Lab," deal with the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle.

By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal,Moral Disorderdisplays Atwood’s celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. As theNew York Timeshas said: "The reader has the sense that Atwood has complete access to her people's emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts and imaginations.”

Moral Disorder

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Charlaine Harris

Washington

A collection of every short story featuring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress heroine of the best-selling Southern Vampire novels, includes “Fairy Dust,” “One Word Answer,” and “Dracula Night.”

A Touch of Dead

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Michigan

Retells the classic stories of "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Fall of the House of Ussher," along with the poem "The Raven," in a graphic novel with study guide.

Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

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New York

The Dixon Cornbelt League

Penelope Lively

Ohio

The purple swamp hen -- Abroad -- The row -- Who do you think you were? -- Old as the hills -- A biography -- The weekend -- License to kill -- Mrs. Bennet -- Lorna and Tom -- Point of view -- DIY -- The bridge -- Theory of mind -- The third wife.

The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories

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Virginia

This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.

Fresh Complaint

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Jean Chen Ho

Iowa

“A knockout of a book.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Committed “Fiona and Jane is the book I did not know I was waiting to be written. . . . Read this remarkable work of fiction and feel the world open up around you.” —Angela Flournoy, author of National Book Award finalist The Turner House “Unsentimental, subtly subversive, and always surprising. . . . I love this book.” —Cathy Park Hong, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Minor Feelings A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to leave, her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition—qualities that Jane admired and feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend, Jane remains in California and grieves her estranged father's sudden death, in the process alienating an overzealous girlfriend. Strained by distance and unintended betrayals, the women float in and out of each other's lives, their friendship both a beacon of home and a reminder of all they've lost. In stories told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho's debut collection peels back the layers of female friendship—the intensity, resentment, and boundless love—to probe the beating hearts of young women coming to terms with themselves, and each other, in light of the insecurities and shame that holds them back. Spanning countries and selves, Fiona and Jane is an intimate portrait of a friendship, a deep dive into the universal perplexities of being young and alive, and a bracingly honest account of two Asian women who dare to stake a claim on joy in a changing, contemporary America.

Fiona and Jane

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A collection of eight short stories includes "Debarking," in which a recently divorced man struggles to hold himself together as the United States prepares to invade Iraq; and "Foes," in which a political argument at a Georgetown fundraiser goes awry.

Bark

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Stories of Animals and Nature 

Creatures of the Kingdom 

The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham

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Maine

FollowingThe Missing Person, her highly praised debut—“A seriously entertaining and probing novel,” wroteThe Washington Post Book World—Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her impressive range. In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to the Southwest (where a Soviet-era exchange student changes a family’s dynamic forever), the characters inBabylonare coming to terms with life’s epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents’ limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. A tenacious eight-year-old practices piano on paper keys; an expectant mother, settling into an idyllic farmhouse, discovers the tragic story of its previous, rightful inhabitants; and a fictional haunted hospital becomes an obsession for a ghostwriter grappling with her empty nest.         In stories at once clear-eyed and compassionate, brimming with the wit, humor, and warmth for which she has been widely acclaimed, Alix Ohlin gives us unforgettable characters enmeshed in situations both familiar and absurd—all vitally engaged in the transfigurations that delineate any coming of age. In short, a striking and assured collection from an exceptionally gifted writer.

Babylon and Other Stories

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From provincial Sophie being swept off of her feet in the glamour of belle epoque Paris to Beth's unexpected confrontation with an old lover in a marquee in Britain, this first collection of short stories from internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes contains ten tales of love, loss, liberation and laughter

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Zoraida Córdova

Reclaim the Stars

Bob Hartman; Tim Jonke (Illustrator)

Star of Wonder

Celestine Sibley

Small Blessings

Catherine Marshall; Leonard E. LeSourd (Editor)

The Best of Catherine Marshall

Lori Wick

Beyond the Picket Fence and Other Short Stories

Tavi Gevinson

Rookie on Love

Anthology

The best American short stories 1972

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

My Monticello

Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth

Karen E. Bender

Refund

Nick Belardes

Freaky Facts and Strange Stories

Julie C. Dao; Chloe Gong; Joan He; Kosoko Jackson; Adiba Jaigirdar; Darcie Little Badger; Yamile Saied Méndez; Axie Oh; Laura Pohl; Cindy Pon; Karuna Riazi; Gail D. Villanueva; Julian Winters; Kat Zhang

Writing in Color

Margaret Atwood

Moral Disorder

Charlaine Harris

A Touch of Dead

Edgar Poe

Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

W. P. Kinsella

The Dixon Cornbelt League

Penelope Lively

The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories

Jeffrey Eugenides

Fresh Complaint

Jean Chen Ho

Fiona and Jane

Lorrie Moore

Bark

James A. Michener

Creatures of the Kingdom

Somerset Maugham

The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham

Alix Ohlin

Babylon and Other Stories

Jojo Moyes

Paris for One and Other Stories