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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Stories from the Nerd Herd

Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside) and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr. With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you're a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!

Geektastic

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Mandy Israelsen

Valerie Perry Odenthal

Fred Perkins

Don Miles

Alice M. Batzel

Mike Nelson

Tyler Brian Nelson

C. W. Allen

Dan Black

Tim Crawford

Amy O. Foster

I am an author in this book! I’d love to share my story with you. Signed copy!!

Utah

Fun-Duggery in the Great Southwest

An anthology of humor and memories from the southwest told by the humorists who love to tell their tales. These storytellers bring just the right amount of imagination to their recollections to amuse and entice. They impart freely local wisdom and lore in a folksy way that is sure to entertain and inspire the storyteller in you.

Red Rocks in My Socks

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Raymond Carver

Florida

Selected Stories

Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes"

Where I'm Calling From

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Taylor Koekkoek

Bought new, read once. Like new condition, no markings or annotations on inside or outside. 

Montana

Stories

A raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, and doomed romance from a writer whose work has appeared in prestigious literary journals including The Paris Review. An amusement park employee overdoses after eating the gel of a fentanyl patch. Two homeless men discover the body of a drowned woman. A sister encounters a dangerous stranger while driving her brother to rehab. Ex-lovers seek to rekindle their relationship with the aid of an earthquake. In the nine masterful stories that comprise Thrillville, USA, debut author Taylor Koekkoek depicts Americans living on the margins of society, seeking escape from isolation and underemployment in drugs, booze, and self-destructive relationships. While the action is set largely in the rural Pacific Northwest, the characters’ malaise and disaffectedness is endemic of the country as a whole. The title takes its name from the aforementioned amusement park, but Thrillville is as much a state of mind as an actual place—a sardonic commentary on contemporary America consumed by opioid addiction, social media obsession, wealth inequality and political polarization. Yet as haunting as these stories are, they are not hopeless. Gorgeously written, they share a transcendental quality—an acknowledgment of and appreciation for the beauty in all things, even the most profane and grotesque.

Thrillville, USA

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

And Other Stories

In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.

The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales's exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In "The Artist's Voice" we meet one of the world's foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in "Pilot, Copilot, Writer." Sound can kill in "The Sounds of Early Morning." And, in the title story, a man is at war with the wife he accidentally shrank. For these characters, the phenomenal isn't necessarily special--but it's often dangerous.

In slightly fantastical settings, Gonzales illustrates very real guilt over small and large marital missteps, the intense desire for the reinvention of self, and the powerful urges we feel to defend and provide for the people we love. With wit and insight, these stories subvert our expectations and challenge us to look at our surroundings with fresh eyes. Brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and told with the narrative instinct of a born storyteller, The Miniature Wife is an unforgettable debut.

The Miniature Wife

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

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

Paris for One and Other Stories

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Stories and Other Stories

One More Thing

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#seabeast #shortstories #collection
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"The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Romping through the fantastic with big-hearted ease, these stories cut to the core of what it means to navigate family, faith, and longing"--Provided by publisher.

The Sea Beast Takes a Lover

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Small indentations in hardcover as pictured, otherwise excellent condition 

A Country Doctor, Short Stories

Haruki Murakami

had to buy for school but never even read it LOL

California

Fifteen tales encompass the story of a man obsessed with the disappearance of an elephant from a local zoo and that of a young mother whose sleeplessness provides her with a foretaste of death

The Elephant Vanishes

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Chuck Palahniuk

South Dakota

A Novel

Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.

Haunted

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Hans-Åke Lilja

Louisiana

Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library

From the founder of the #1 Stephen King news website Lilja’s Library comes a terrifying and deliciously creepy anthology of horror stories, including a rare story from Stephen King himself, classics by Clive Barker and Edgar Allan Poe, and a novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). Celebrating twenty years of the expansive Stephen King fan site Lilja’s Library, this creepy collection of stories is perfect for horror fans of all backgrounds. With a terrifying story that has never been previously included in any of Stephen King’s collections, Shining in the Dark is an unforgettable anthology, featuring short stories by some of the genre’s best-known and most talented authors. Stories include: “The Blue Air Compressor” by Stephen King “The Net” by Jack Ketchum and P. D. Cacek “The Novel of the Holocaust” by Stewart O’Nan “Aeliana” by Bev Vincent “Pidgin and Theresa” by Clive Barker “An End To All Things “ by Brian Keene “Cemetery Dance” by Richard Chizmar “Drawn to the Flame” by Kevin Quigley “The Companion” by Ramsey Campbell “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe “A Mother’s Love” by Brian James Freeman “The Keeper’s Companion” by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Shining in the Dark

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

In a spine-tingling new collection, the "unique"(NPR) and "wickedly funny" (New York Times) Helen Phillips offers an idiosyncratic series of "what-ifs" about our fragile human condition.

What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through people's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if your city was filled with doppelgängers--of you?

Forced to navigate these bizarre scenarios, Helen Phillips's characters search for solutions to the problem of how to survive in an irrational, infinitely strange world. By turns surreal, witty, and perplexing, the stories here explore the everyday indignities and surprising pleasures of living in a time and place that can feel futuristic, fantastical, and familiar all at once.Some Possible Solutionscements Phillips's standing as a true original and a treasure.

Some Possible Solutions

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Some wear to DJ including missing pieces, but has been covered with a plastic DJ to retain shape. Interior in great condition, but note some staining and pencil marks (pictured)

Three Novelettes Translated from Chinese

Widow, Nun, & Courtesan

Jenny Zhang

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeed A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart “[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today “One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York “Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today “[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.”—Booklist (starred review) “Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut.”—Slate

Sour Heart

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Kentucky

Stories & Facts

The Armchair Reader series entertains and enlightens with little-known anecdotes, untold stories, and fascinating facts that make even the mundane fun. The Armchair Reader's innovative approach and witty style will capture the interest of all readers. Inside you'll find tantalizing tales of true hauntings, strange stories of otherworldly phenomena, and bizarre bits of human behavior. Learn how the testimony of a ghost got a man convicted of murder. Read about the fire that's been burning under a Pennsylvania town for more than 40 years. Uncover the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Find out where America's most frightening monsters hang out. And much, much more. Pick up a copy today and start reveling in the lore, legends, and colorful characters that make up this weird and wacky world in which we live.

Weird, Scary & Unusual

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Elena Favilli

Francesca Cavallo

Rebel Girls

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, showcases 100 brand-new bedtime stories of incredible women throughout history and around the world.


In this book, readers will embark on an empowering journey through 100 new bedtime stories, featuring the adventures of extraordinary women through the ages, from Nefertiti to Beyoncé. The unique narrative style of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls transforms each biography into a fairytale, filling readers with wonder and a burning curiosity to know more about each hero.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 boasts a brand-new graphic design, a glossary, and full-page, full-color portraits of each subject, created by the best female artists of our time.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2

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Sandra Cisneros

Arizona

For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness

The House on Mango Street

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Sarah Hall

District of Columbia

Sudden Traveller

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Maxim Jakubowski

22 Crime Stories from Diverse Cultures Around the Workd

Around the world in 22 murders...

MURDER

BLACKMAIL

REVENGE



From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York - twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories.



Featuring Oyinkan Braithwaite, Abir Mukherjee, S.A. Cosby, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, J.P. Pomare, Sheena Kamal, Vaseem Khan, Sulari Gentill, Nelson George, Rachel Howzell Hall, John Vercher, Sanjida Kay, Amer Anwar, Henry Chang, Nadine Matheson, Mike Phillips, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Felicia Yap, Thomas King, Imran Mahmood, David Heska Wanbli Weiden and Walter Mosley.



'An absolute delight! The Perfect Crime is the most original, and captivating, short fiction anthology to come along in ages... this book is a one-sitting read.' JEFFERY DEAVER, author of The Bone Collector and The Midnight Lock



'A collection of crime writers from diverse cultural backgrounds, united by the quality of their compelling stories. A hugely welcome and long-overdue anthology' MARK BILLINGHAM, no. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

The Perfect Crime

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Oklahoma

Barnes and Noble Exclusive edition

Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird

David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

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James Joyce

**BACK COVER IS A BIT RIPPED ON THE BOTTOM**

Fifteen short stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of the Irish city of Dublin at the turn of the century

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Holly Black (Editor); Cecil Castellucci (Editor)

Geektastic

Mandy Israelsen; Valerie Perry Odenthal; Fred Perkins; Don Miles; Alice M. Batzel; Mike Nelson; Tyler Brian Nelson; C. W. Allen; Dan Black; Tim Crawford; Amy O. Foster

Red Rocks in My Socks

Raymond Carver

Where I'm Calling From

Taylor Koekkoek

Thrillville, USA

Manuel Gonzales

The Miniature Wife

Jojo Moyes

Paris for One and Other Stories

B.J. Novak

One More Thing

Michael Andreasen

The Sea Beast Takes a Lover

Franz Kafka

A Country Doctor, Short Stories

Haruki Murakami

The Elephant Vanishes

Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted

Hans-Åke Lilja

Shining in the Dark

Helen Phillips

Some Possible Solutions

Lin Yutabg

Widow, Nun, & Courtesan

Jenny Zhang

Sour Heart

Jeff Bahr

Weird, Scary & Unusual

Elena Favilli; Francesca Cavallo; Rebel Girls

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street

Sarah Hall

Sudden Traveller

Efited by Vaseem Kham and Maxim Jakubowski

The Perfect Crime

Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted

Agustina Bazterrica

Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird

David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

James Joyce

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