Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

The Extraordinary Ways Ordinary People Express the Heart's Finest Emotion

What They Did for Love is a literary collection of the extraordinary ways people express the heart's finest emotion.

A powerful collection of stories that is at once heart-warming and heart-wrenching as writers offer stories of love in its many forms set against the challenges of modern life.

Over the years Reader's Digest has published stories of couples, families, friends, and even strangers that touch the heartstrings and show ordinary people reaching out and reaching deep within in the name of love. In "To Mend Her Husband's Heart," you'll meet a woman so desperate to keep her husband of thirty-eight years alive, she researches medical literature and finds an experimental gene therapy that just may save his life.

In an excerpt from "Rewrites," Neil Simon tells the heart-wrenching story of his first wife's battle with cancer and how, when he felt helpless to save her, he bought her the dream house by a lake they had imagined they would enjoy together in their twilight years. You'll read inspiring marriage proposals from everyday people, stories of love lost and found, and famous love letters that speak to the incredible and lasting power of true love. You'll meet Joe Hagan in "Red Dad, Blue Son," who puts his love for his father above his closely held political beliefs; and a mom, Lynn Schnurnberger, ("The Power of Tatoos") who goes to great lengths, including getting a tattoo, to stay connected with her teenage daughter.

In "A Bagful of Dimes," best-selling author Anne Lamott explains why she makes her son go to church with her. The power of love and forgiveness in friendship is portrayed in the story of Jacquelyn Mitchard and her lifelong friend who repair a falling out in "Friends Interrupted." The loving bond between human and animal is depicted in the story of Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman ("Semper Fi") who risks his life to save a dog from a warzone. Finally, in "Dear Superman," you'll read letters sent to Christopher Reeve and his family from complete strangers; and in "This Boy's Life," you'll meet a teenage boy, whose generous decision to become an organ donor transforms the lives of scores of strangers. Delve into What They Did for Love and you'll be moved, touched and inspired to follow your heart wherever it leads--around the world or maybe just around the corner.

What They Did for Love

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Robin Upward

Short stories from writers such as Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll as well as the 19 gorgeous, full-color, full-page photographs, make this the perfect must-have book for cat lovers.

￼Hardcover book in like new condition, with the exception of the jacket cover, which has a ripple across the top and bottom of the front, as well as a small tear in the upper right hand front corner. ￼

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Cat Tales

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Frank D. McSherry

Charles G. Waugh

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

"51 spine-chilling tales from every state in the Union plus Washington, D.C."--Jacket subtitle.

Treasury of American Horror Stories

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Laura J. Hird

Gordon Legge

James Meek

Alan Warner

Irvine Welsh

Paul Reekie

Ohio

An Anthology of New Scottish Writing

Six Scottish authors - Irvine Welsh, Gordon Legge, Alan Warner, James Meek, Laura J. Hird and Paul Reekie - contribute novellas to this raw-edged collection.

Children of Albion Rovers

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Lorna Bell

Dwight Flegel

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Uplifting End of Life Stories

Happy Endings

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Wisconsin

Offers a collection of 13 football mysteries from top writers in addition to a novella about a college football star who delves into a forty-year old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a star player.

The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Advice and Inspiration on Fulfilling Dreams

A collection of true stories offers encouragement to self-starters, whether they are just striking out on their own or already on the way to fulfilling their dreams, sharing personal accounts of those who risk it all to follow their passion through creativity, bravery, and ingenuity.

Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul

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Compassion Can't Wait; Someplace Like Home; What the Heart Wants

Each and every one of us has the ability to effect change--to make our world a better place. The dedicated women selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award have changed lives, one good deed at a time. To celebrate their accomplishments, some of our bestselling authors have honored the winners by writing stories inspired by these real-life heroines.

We hope More Than Words inspires you to get in touch with the real-life heroine living inside of you.

In Carly Phillips's Compassion Can't Wait, two high school sweet hearts are reunited years later, as if by fate, and discover that if you believe in yourself and each other, anything is possible.

Donna Hill's Someplace Like Home tells the story of how one woman's dream becomes reality, as three special people learn that it's never too late to form a loving family.

In Jill Shalvis's What the Heart Wants, an honorable man must learn to forgive himself to regain the trust of the ded icated teacher who is the love of his life.



More Than Words

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Elaine Koster

Virginia

Celebrating Fifty Years of Signet Authors

Stories by leading writers. Joy Fielding's Mother's Day, contrasts a woman's happy relationship with her mother and the unhappy one with her daughter, while in Lisa Alther's Stormy Weather a woman secretly listens to two former lovers discussing her.

The Best of the Best

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27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother





With A New Epilogue by editor Barbara Graham

In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode the clichés and tell the real stories about what it's like to be a grandmother in today's world. Among the contributors:

 * Judith Viorst exposes the high-stakes competition for Most Adored Nana.
 * Anne Roiphe learns to keep her mouth shut and her opinions to herself.
 * Elizabeth Berg marvels at witnessing her child give birth to her child.
 * Judith Guest confesses her failed attempt to be the perfect grandmother.
 * Jill Nelson grapples with unforeseen mother-daughter tensions.
 * Ellen Gilchrist reveals how grandparenthood has eased her fear of death.
 * Beverly Donofrio makes amends for her shortcomings as a teenage mother.
 * Bharati Mukherjee transcends her Hindu upbringing to embrace her adopted Chinese granddaughters.
 * Mary Pipher deconstructs the role of grandmother in our changing world.

Eye of My Heart

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Alice Munro

In these three linked stories, “Chance,” “Soon,” and “Silence”—which, together, inspired Pedro Almodóvar’s film Julieta—her virtuosic talents are once again on display. The stories follow a schoolteacher named Juliet as she is swept up by fate: meeting an older man on a train and starting an affair; later, visiting her parents as a young mother; and later still, searching for contact with her estranged daughter. As with all of Munro’s characters, Juliet radiates warmth, dignity, and hope, even as she is unflinching in the face of betrayal and loss. In Munro’s hands, her journey is as surprising, extraordinary, and precious as life itself.

Three Stories That Inspired the Movie

The Three Stories that Inspired the Movie
With a foreword by Pedro Almodóvar

Alice Munro is cherished for her exquisite, affecting meditations on the human heart. In these three linked stories, "Chance," "Soon," and "Silence"--which, together, inspired Pedro Almodóvar's film Julieta--her virtuosic talents are once again on display. The stories follow a schoolteacher named Juliet as she is swept up by fate: meeting an older man on a train and starting an affair; later, visiting her parents as a young mother; and later still, searching for contact with her estranged daughter. As with all of Munro's characters, Juliet radiates warmth, dignity, and hope, even as she is unflinching in the face of betrayal and loss. In Munro's hands, her journey is as surprising, extraordinary, and precious as life itself.

Julieta (Movie Tie-In Edition)

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Collection of 20 original fantasy short stories loosely connected to the sagas of Avalon and Camelot, written by Melanie, Rawn, Jennifer Robertson, Katharine, Kerr, Judith Tarr, Diana I. Paxson, and others.

Retellings of several Arthurian tales follow such plots as Merlin's defeat of Vortigern and Guinevere's sacrifice to a grail-seeking knight

Return to Avalon

Bark Editors

Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship

Dogs have been our muses, our mentors, and our playful and noble co-pilots. They’ve had a profound influence on us as healers and spiritual guides, and also as co-workers, helping to guide, hunt, herd, search, and rescue. Our bond with dogs is deep and unbreakable, and there’s no better source a reader can turn to for a richer understanding of that complex and wonderful relationship than The Bark. The Bark began as a newsletter in Berkeley, California, that advocated for an off-leash area where dogs could cavort and play. Within a few years it had become a full-fledged, award-winning glossy magazine that published work by some of the best writers in America today. And as it grew, the magazine embraced a much larger canvas: to cover the emerging phenomenon of “dog culture” that has been developing over the past decade, as dogs have moved out of the backyard and into our homes, communities, and, indeed, the very center of our lives. As editor Claudia Kawczynska writes, “The implications of integrating another species into society’s daily fabric go well beyond how we nurture our dogs. It calls for a revamping of the standard etiquette—respecting the concerns and interests of society at large. This new relationship, along with an appreciation for our rich and unbounded future, comprises what we call dog culture. This is what The Bark set out to chronicle.” Dog Is My Co-Pilot is an anthology of essays, short stories, and expert commentaries that explores every aspect of our life with dogs. Fifty percent of the material here has never been published before. The book is divided into four sections: Beginnings explores that first meeting, “the initial murmurings when a dog-human relationship is formed.” Pack investigates the theme of “togetherness” and pays tribute to the dynamic of multiple personalities in the canine-human relationship. Lessons examines what dogs teach us, from love to enlightenment. The final section, Passages, reflects on the themes of true friendship, transformation, and loss. Included are pieces by Lynda Barry, Rick Bass, Maeve Brennan, Margaret Cho, Carolyn Chute, Alice Elliott Dark, Lama Surya Das, Pam Houston, Erica Jong, Tom Junod, Caroline Knapp, Donald McCaig, Nasdijj, Ann Patchett, Michael Paterniti, Charles Siebert, Alexandra Styron, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and Alice Walker. In selections that are humorous, poignant, truthful, sometimes surprising, and frequently uplifting, Dog Is My Co-Pilot embraces the full experience of the world’s oldest friendship. For people who love great writing and, yes, great dogs, it’s a book to be both shared and treasured.

Dog Is My Co-Pilot

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Dahlia Adler

Fifteen of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined

In That Way Madness Lies, fifteen acclaimed YA writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare’s celebrated classics! West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. Kiss Me, Kate. Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of Shakespeare’s most beloved works. Now, some of today’s best writers for teens take on the Bard in these 15 whip-smart and original retellings! Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining The Merchant of Venice), Kayla Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew), Lily Anderson (As You Like It), Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter’s Tale), Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet), A. R. Capetta and Cori McCarthy (Much Ado About Nothing), Brittany Cavallaro (Sonnet 147), Joy McCullough (King Lear), Anna-Marie McLemore (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Samantha Mabry (Macbeth), Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus), Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night), Lindsay Smith (Julius Caesar), Kiersten White (Romeo and Juliet), and Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (The Tempest).

That Way Madness Lies

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Joan Hess

Maine

15 New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

Readers will die laughing as they investigate these witty and hysterical homicides with some of mystery's best writers! Whether they're poison is Joan Hess, Carolyn G. Hart, Margaret Maron, Marlys Millhiser or Nancy Pickard, these terrific tales are sure to keep them in stitches as they attempt to solve these merry murders!

Funny Bones

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The Best American Sports Writing 2013

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Notable Chefs and Food Writers On Their Unforgettable Dining Experiences

Creating A Meal You’ll Love

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New York

Maggie and Other Short Stories

An Unsavory Anthology

﻿From the publishers that brought you Collective Darkness and Deluxe Darkness comes a new collection of fantasy stories-with a hint of darkness.




Collective Fantasy: An Unsavory Anthology delivers exciting tales straight from the seedy underbelly of the fantasy realm.




Our stories take you to dark alleys, underground jousting tournaments, dungeons, crumbling castles, rotting battlefields, and abandoned towns.

The cast of characters features thieves, cunning rogues, vile witches, black market profiteers, assassins, monsters, and conniving politicians.




Collective Fantasy leads you into fantastical worlds you'll be sorry to leave.

Collective Fantasy

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David Lehman

Matthew Zapruder

Illinois

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.

The Best American Poetry 2022

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We Matter 

California

13 Tales of Food and Love

From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors—including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco—comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens. A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family’s pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother’s life. Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life’s hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, “Have you had anything to eat?” Where magic and food and love are sometimes one and the same. Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.

Hungry Hearts

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The Perfect Holiday; Faith, Hope and Love; A Rancher in Her Stocking

So This Is Christmas by Sherryl Woods\Beverly Barton\Leanne Banks released on Oct 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.

So This Is Christmas

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What They Did for Love

Robin Upward

Cat Tales

Frank D. McSherry; Charles G. Waugh

Treasury of American Horror Stories

Laura J. Hird; Gordon Legge; James Meek; Mo; Alan Warner; Irvine Welsh; Paul Reekie

Children of Albion Rovers

Lorna Bell; Dwight Flegel

Happy Endings

David Baldacci; Lawrence Block; Dennis Lehane; Brad Meltzer; Anne Perry; Otto Penzler (Editor)

The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

Mark Victor Hansen

Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul

Carly Phillips; Donna Hill; Jill Shalvis

More Than Words

Elaine Koster

The Best of the Best

Barbara Graham

Eye of My Heart

Alice Munro

Julieta (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Edited by Jennifer Robertson

Return to Avalon

Bark Editors

Dog Is My Co-Pilot

Dahlia Adler

That Way Madness Lies

Joan Hess

Funny Bones

J.R. Moehringer

The Best American Sports Writing 2013

Mark Chimsky-Lustig

Creating A Meal You’ll Love

Stephen Crane

Maggie and Other Short Stories

Elizabeth Suggs; Jonathan Reddoch

Collective Fantasy

David Lehman; Matthew Zapruder

The Best American Poetry 2022

Anthology

We Matter

Elsie Chapman (Editor); Caroline Tung Richmond (Editor); Sandhya Menon; S. K. Ali; Rin Chupeco; Anna-Marie McLemore; Rebecca Roanhorse; Sara Farizan; Jay Coles; Adi Alsaid; Sangu Mandanna; Phoebe North; Karuna Riazi

Hungry Hearts

Sherryl Woods; Beverly Barton; Leanne Banks

So This Is Christmas

Piers Anthony

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