Richard Thomas

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

It's a Miracle 2

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Stories

Twelve short stories feature an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience.

Throw Like a Girl

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Thomas McGuane

The stories of Gallatin Canyon are rich in the wit, compassion, and matchless language for which Thomas McGuane is celebrated.

 

Place exerts the power of destiny in these tales: a boy makes a surprising discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish clan in Massachusetts gather around their dying matriarch; a battered survivor of the glory days of Key West washes up on other shores. Several of the stories unfold in Big Sky country: a father tries to buy his adult son's way out of virginity; a convict turns cowhand on a ranch; a couple makes a fateful drive through a perilous gorge. McGuane's people are seekers, beguiled by the land's beauty and myth, compelled by the fantasy of what a locale can offer, forced to reconcile dream and truth.

Gallatin Canyon

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

His Many Adventures - Kneetime Animal Stories

ANTIQUE Sharp Eyes The Silver Fox 

Vintage book bundle. 1988 and 1973. Normal signs of wear and tear for their age, please check photos. #childrens #vintage #bundle #children #books #stories 

California

Hansel and Gretal

What Would I Do?

Disney Books

Princesses are often royally busy, but they always have time to help a lost puppy, invite a new friend to tea, or even cheer up a little dragon! Each of these twelve stories is the perfect length for reading aloud in about five minutes, making them perfect for jam-packed days. This treasury stars all the Disney princesses—including Tiana and Rapunzel—and features a padded cover, and beautiful full-page and spot illustrations. Now the princesses' adventures are the royal choice before bed, on the go, or any moment!

5-Minute Princess Stories

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COLLECTIBLE, LIMITED EDITION, THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1977. Bound in dark red FULL LEATHER with four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on covers and spine. All edges gilt with light fading along top edge of gilt textblock (see photo). Silk moire endpapers and sewn-in ribbon marker. A book in the Collected Stories of the World’s Greatest Writers series from The Franklin Library. APPEARS UNREAD. Two indentation lines on the back cover, each about 1” (see last photo). Beautiful book to read (the author led an interesting life - look her up) or display as a decorative piece. Ships in a box, protected with bubble wrap. (SW3) (1F)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Colette Stories - The Franklin Library *

#psychic #hardcover #bodymindspirit #nonfiction #johnedward #crossingover #scifi #stories 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Stories Behind the Stories

Crossing Over 

#hardcover #fiction #paperback #bestseller #stories

Wisconsin

The acclaimed author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and The Gospel of Anarchy makes his hardcover debut with a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity. In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of men and women unmoored from their pasts and uncertain of their futures. A man writes his girlfriend a Dear John letter, gets in his car, and just drives. A widowed insomniac is roused from malaise when an alligator appears in her backyard. A group of college friends try to stay close after graduation, but are drawn away from—and back toward—each other by the choices they make. A boy’s friendship with a pair of identical twins undergoes a strange and tragic evolution over the course of adolescence. A promising academic and her fiancée attempt to finish their dissertations, but struggle with writer’s block, a nasty secret, and their own expert knowledge of Freud. From an East Village rooftop to a cabin in Tennessee, from the Florida suburbs to Hong Kong, Taylor covers a vast emotional and geographic landscape while ushering us into an abiding intimacy with his characters, Flings is a commanding work of fiction that captures the contemporary search for identity, connection, and a place to call home.

Flings

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One marking on the first page and normal wear. Otherwise, great!

Kentucky

1971

Renaissance, Men and Ideas 

Funny short stories! Children's book Full of imagination and pictures of color! Sure to captivate your child's attention & help them to develop a love for reading!

Sounds Like A Story

Newly released Children's alphabet book. Sure to captivate your childs attention while they practice their English alphabet & letter sounds! Written & Illustrated by a Child Author who knows how to entertainment & keep the attention of your little one!

Alphabet Book

Sounds Like A Story: Alphabet Book

Fantastic Maigret Detective stories in excellent vintage shape. All wear noted in photos. First American edition.

Florida

Nine Stories

Maigret’s Christmas 

Jim Charlton

Jason Shulman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

For piano, with interlinear words; includes chord symbols. Includes Christmas poems, stories, and songs.

Family Book of Christmas Songs and Stories

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Georgia

Rosemary’s Baby

Adam Penn Gilders

First Edition Hardcover 
The cover has minor creasing. Some of pages have dog- ears. Otherwise clean and white pages. 

Adam Penn Gilders was a virtuoso of the deadpan prose miniature. He published his stories in Paris Review, The Walrus and J&L Illustrated, before passing away in 2007, at the age of 36, of a brain tumor. Another Ventriloquist collects Gilders' charming vignettes, which fall somewhere between Aesop's fable and bitch session: "My friend Geoffrey, to my constant dismay, seems compelled to enjoy life's little pleasures, such as coffee or perfectly cooked eggs, all at once, without delay or hesitation. With coffee, for example, which he particularly loves, he drains his cup with almost demented eagerness, often before his companions have taken a single sip. It was as though the best experiences, like hot liquids, were liable to evaporate if measured out in teaspoons. He had what I considered a 'Now or Never' attitude which made me want to proclaim 'Never '" With this posthumous collection, Gilders bequeaths a gem of concision and wit.

Another Ventriloquist (First Edition) 

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Kurt Vonnegut

Dave Eggers

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director" (those stories featuring Lincoln High's band director and nice guy George Hemholtz), and "Futuristic"—these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and include those Vonnegut published in magazines and collected in Welcome to the Monkey House, Bagombo Snuff Box, and other books; here for the first time five previously unpublished stories; as well as a handful of others that were published online and read by few. During his lifetime Vonnegut published fewer than half of the stories he wrote, his agent telling him in 1958 upon the rejection of a particularly strong story, "Save it for the collection of your works which will be published someday when you become famous. Which may take a little time." Selected and introduced by longtime Vonnegut friends and scholars Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz, Complete Stories puts Vonnegut's great wit, humor, humanity, and artistry on full display. An extraordinary literary feast for new readers, Vonnegut fans, and scholars alike.

Complete Stories

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Gina Chung

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Equal parts fantastical—a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy, a fox demon contemplates avenging her sister's death—and true to life—a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter falls unexpectedly pregnant, a woman reexamines her father's legacy after his death—the stories in this collection are hopeful and heartbreaking, full of danger and full of joy. Chung is a master at capturing emotion, and her characters—human and otherwise—will claw their way into your heart and make themselves at home.

Green Frog

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Carol Shields

Very good clean tight unread copy. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels. With her exquisite eye for detail and her eagerness to explore the most fundamental of relationships and the wildest of coincidences, she illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all of our lives. Playful, charming, acutely observed, and generous of spirit, this collection of stories will delight and enchant readers the world over.

Collected Stories * 1st ed./1st

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Russell Banks

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket First edition,first printing.

The Stories Of

"At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed." --New York Times

With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written.

As is characteristic of all of Bank's works, these stories resonate with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and the world, from working-class New England to Florida and the Caribbean and Africa. Broad in scope and rich in imagination, The Angel on the Roof affirms Russell Banks's place as one of the masters of American storytelling.

1st/1st * The Angel on the Roof

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Rishi Reddi

Book does have pencil written note on first page. Minor wear on edges. Condition is well represented in the photos

In this sparkling collection, award-winning writer Rishi Reddi weaves a multigenerational tapestry of interconnected lives, depicting members of an Indian American community struggling to balance the demands of tradition with the allure of Western life.

In "Lord Krishna," a teenager is offended when his evangelical history teacher likens the Hindu deity to Satan, but ultimately forgives the teacher against his father's wishes. In the title story, "Karma," an unemployed professor rescues birds in downtown Boston after his wealthy brother kicks him out of his home. In "Justice Shiva Ram Murthy," which appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2005, an irascible retired judge reconnects with a childhood friend while adjusting to a new life with his daughter and her American husband. In "Devadasi," a beautiful young woman raised in the United States travels back to India and challenges the sexual confines of her culture. And in "Bangles," a widow decides to return to her native village to flee her son's off-putting American ways.

Set mostly in the Boston area, with side trips to an isolated immigrant community in Wichita, Kansas, and the characters' hometown of Hyderabad, India, Karma and Other Stories introduces a luminous new voice.

Karma and Other Stories

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My dad is brilliant!

Chuck Carlson

Minnesota

A Collection of the Greatest Packers Stories Ever Told

The victory and legend of the Super Bowl XLV winning Green Bay Packers continues in Chuck Carlson's Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline. In this behind-the-scenes look at the NFL's second oldest franchise, Carlson captures the determination, aggression, and vision that have constantly spurred the Packers to greatness.

Through interviews and extensive research, Carlson brings to life stories from Packers legends such as Curly Lambeau, Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Brett Favre, and the stars of today's Packers like Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews, Jr. Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline opens a window into the greatest Packers moments both on and off the field. Why was Vince Lombardi against the idea of rededicating the Packers stadium and naming it Lambeau Field? How was Monday Night Football changed forever during a Packers game on October 17, 1983? How did Aaron Rodgers deal with the pressure of the Super Bowl? Updated to include coverage of Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011.

Readers will relive the greatest moments and quirkiest anecdotes from throughout Packers history. This collection is a must-have for any Green Bay fan.

Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Decorated cloth; small book with 306 pages including 12 pages of publisher advertisements, "Spring, 1882". A collection of eighteen stories. A good copy with brown boards chipped, faded and soiled, the back strip separated at the front cover, corners worn, hinges separated at half title page which is loose. All other pages intact. Bookstore bookplate inside back cover. The interior has some soiling but very good. The book’s spine has been rebound with original boards intact. See photos for condition.  
#hardcover #hardcover #MarkTwain #classics #literature #stories #firstedition 

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It's a Miracle 2

Jean Thompson

Throw Like a Girl

Thomas McGuane

Gallatin Canyon

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ANTIQUE Sharp Eyes The Silver Fox

Pauline Cartwright

What Would I Do?

Disney Books

5-Minute Princess Stories

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Colette Stories - The Franklin Library *

John Edward

Crossing Over

Justin Taylor