Lily King

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories-half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new-opening fresh realms of discovery for fans and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of uniquely endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl's loss of innocence in her summer job becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping slyly into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love"--

Three Tuesdays in Winter

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Junot Díaz

Some pages have annotations (see pics for example). Otherwise excellent condition. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made Díaz a literary sensation.

Drown

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Katherine Mansfield

Pennsylvania

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever. This collection includes such masterpieces as "Prelude," "At the Bay" "Bliss," "The Man Without a Temperament" and "The Garden Party" and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.

Stories

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nicolas Pasternak Slater

Maya Slater

California

Essential Stories

A stunning new edition featuring fresh translations of six of this classic Russian writer's most thrilling short stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition. This vivid collection of new translations by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky's dazzling versatility as a writer. His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness. The stories in this collection range from impossible fantasy to scorching satire. A civil servant finds a new passion for his work when he's swallowed alive by a crocodile. A struggling writer stumbles on a cemetery where the dead still talk to each other. An arrogant but well-intentioned gentleman provokes an uproar at an aide's wedding, and in the marital bed. A young boy finds unexpected salvation on a cold and desolate Christmas Eve.

A Bad Business

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

North Dakota

101 stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit

Chicken soup for the Christian soul

T. L. Huchu

Marker print on pages and very slight edgewear

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Sixth Sense meets Stranger Things in T. L. Huchu's The Library of the Dead, a sharp contemporary fantasy following a precocious and cynical teen as she explores the shadowy magical underside of modern Edinburgh. WHEN GHOSTS TALK SHE WILL LISTEN Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker – and they sure do love to talk. Now she speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to those they left behind. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead whisper that someone’s bewitching children – leaving them husks, empty of joy and strength. It’s on Ropa’s patch, so she feels honor-bound to investigate. But what she learns will rock her world. Ropa will dice with death as she calls on Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. And although underground Edinburgh hides a wealth of dark secrets, she also discovers an occult library, a magical mentor and some unexpected allies. Yet as shadows lengthen, will the hunter become the hunted?

The Library of the Dead

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Collection of stories by the author including "Of Human Bondage", cover and all pages arevin excellent condition except for minor yellowing at the edges of the pages.

Mr. Maugham Himself

Disney Books

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Woody and Buzz, Mike and Sulley, Joy and Sadness--the gang's all here, plus more!




This treasury stars favorite Pixar characters and features a padded cover and beautiful full-page and spot illustrations. With twelve adventure-filled stories that can be read aloud in about five minutes, this collection is the perfect choice before bedtime, story time, or anytime!

5-Minute Disney*Pixar Stories

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Jeffrey Archer

Very good clean tight copy, a mark on top end.Very good dust jacket, little wear. First edition, first printing.

Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour. hese wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.

1st ed./1st * Tell Tale

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This book is ftom 1977. Has lots of issues but still an awesome book. 

Oklahoma

Carols, Stories, Poems, Recollections 

Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book

Brandon Stanton

In this photographic census of New York City, which is inspired by the blog of the same name, the author showcases 400 color photos, including exclusive portraits and all-new stories that capture the outsized personalities of New York and pay tribute to the human side of a great city. 100,000 first printing.

Humans of New York

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B. J. Novak

Few marks on front and back covers, a few pages accidentally dog-eared as shown in photos

Iowa

Stories and Other Stories

A collection of short stories by a writer best known for his work on the television series "The Office," including the title story in which a boy's sweepstakes win proves more harm than good for his family.

One More Thing

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Anita Ganeri

Washington

Constellation Tales from Around the World

Share the wonder of the stars with this delightful storybook collection featuring constellation myths from around the world. For thousands of years people have looked up to the night sky and told stories about the stars. These epic tales tell of vengeful gods and goddesses, of monsters and heroes. Others try to make sense of the natural world, or unravel the mysterious forces of the universe. This stunning book brings together 23 of these legends from all over the world: from Ancient Greece to North America, Egypt, China, India, and the South Pacific. Written by award-winning author Anita Ganeri and with beautifully detailed artwork by illustrator Andy Wilx, this is a magical book to be treasured for generations to come.

Star Stories

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Excellent condition, seemingly never before read paperback with imperfection in national book award sticker. The gold sticker on the front was peeled back slightly which you can see in the first image. The book and its pages appear untouched otherwise.


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All forty-one stories published by the distinguished writer are brought together, displaying her insights into the American South and including her most famous work, "Death of a Traveling Salesman"

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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Marilyn Singer

Texas

Twelve Brushes with Religion

An anthology of stories for teenagers exploring the topics of religion, belief, and spirituality by award-winning authors, including M.E. Kerr, Kyoko Mori, and Virginia Euwer Wolff.

I Believe in Water

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Lesley Omara

The cream of the cat stories -Zora, Herriot, Twain, Wodehouse and more. Every story has a happy ending. Illus., B&W.

Great Cat Tales

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David Foster Wallace

New Hampshire

In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.

Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women.

Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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I used this book to help all three of my children learn to read. It is full of full-color pictures and stories that embrace kindness, respect and traditional values. I've had it for many years, so it's listed as fair condition. The paper cover shows some wear, and there is a stain on the copyright page and page 31. A pencil mark is on page 212. I shared pictures of these in my listing. Other than that, the pages are in excellent condition and ready to help your little ones embrace the love of reading! 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Super 10 in 1 Collection

Ready Readers

Peter Haining

It's a mixture - part brief anecdotes spanning the last hundred years, which gives you a wide overview of what ghosts get up to, and then a selection of ghost stories by reputable authors of varying lengths.

South Carolina

Ghost 👻 stories 

A giant survey of real-life hauntings in modern times, this book documents a full spectrum of credible hauntings during the last 100 years or so.

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

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Fox in Socks and Green Eggs and Ham

Stephen B. Jones

“Zombies… soulless corpses risen from the grave to do the bidding of their masters. They may have their factual basis in the voodoo ceremonies of Haiti, but is in short fiction and the movies that the walking dead have flourished. 
The Mammoth Book of Zombies brings together twenty-six stories which depict a wide range of methods for raising the dead—from traditional Caribbean rituals to futuristic science. Within this terrifying tome you’ll discover such classic tales of the macabre as Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” and J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Schalken the Painter,” plus memorable stories from the pulp magazines by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Bloch. Also collected here for the first time are stories by such established masters as Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, and Brian Lumley, plus two new novellas and original stories by a host of exciting names.”

The Mammoth Book of Zombies

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Spine has not been broken, very little impact wear.

Indians of North America

Ten LIttle Indians: stories

Celebrated prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's originals. Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, "Tales from Shakespeare" provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, and rhythm.

Binding's loose, pages are intact. Readable, no marks. Tape on cover.

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