Peter Straub

Former library book. Markings and stickers indicate it is a former library book. Creases in spine from reading wear. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kansas

The New Horror - An Anthology

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre. Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with the sometimes-predictable hallmarks of their peers. Showcasing this cutting-edge talent,Poe’s Childrennow brings the best of the genre’s stories to a wider audience. Featuring tales from such writers as Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll,Poe’s Childrenis Peter Straub’s tribute to the imaginative power of storytelling. Each previously published story has been selected by Straub to represent what he thinks is the most interesting development in our literature during the last two decades. Selections range from the early Stephen King psychological thriller “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet,” in which an editor confronts an author’s belief that his typewriter is inhabited by supernatural creatures, to “The Man on the Ceiling,” Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem’s award-winning surreal tale of night terrors, woven with daylight fears that haunt a family. Other selections include National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon’s “The Bees”; Peter Straub’s “Little Red’s Tango,” the legend of a music aficionado whose past is as mysterious as the ghostly visitors to his Manhattan apartment; Elizabeth Hand’s visionary and shocking “Cleopatra Brimstone”; Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant, mind-stretching “Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story”; and “Body,” Brian Evenson’s disturbing twist on correctional facilities. Crossing boundaries and packed with imaginative chills,Poe’s Childrenbears all the telltale signs of fearless, addictive fiction.

Poe's Children

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Tom Hanks

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, USA Today National Bestseller A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories that Tom Hanks captures in his first work of fiction: a collection of shorts that explore--with great affection, humor, and insight--the human condition in all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty, and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In these stories, Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level. By turns whimsical, witty, and moving, Uncommon Type establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction.

Uncommon Type

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Sarah Masters Buckey

Pennsylvania

Samantha organizes a talent show to support the library, but wonders what her special talent is, in a tale that includes historical notes on vaudeville as well as instructions for juggling scarves.

Samantha's Special Talent

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Judith Hendra

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Mississippi

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The Illustrated Treasury of Humor for Children

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Signed copy of a cute indie novelette. Please note very small size, 45 pages in length.

Tennessee

A charming southern novelette

Serendipitous

School of Laughs

I Funny

South Carolina

Volume Ø A Spelling for Disappearing 

Damage on cover from removal of mailing label

Colorado

Analog March/April 2021

Analog April 2016

Illinois

Billy Budd and Other Stories

Simon Kernick

Virginia

A gripping Quick Read from the master of the race against time thriller.


Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time?

You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl.

She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can't speak English.

She is clearly running away from someone.

Do you stop to help her? Even if it means putting your friends' lives - and your own - in terrible danger?

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

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Neil Gaiman

Maryland

Short Fictions and Illusions

In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion ... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality -- obscured by smoke and darkness, yet brilliantly tangible -- in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.

Smoke and Mirrors

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Garth

This collection of thirteen captivating tales by Irish authors illustrates both traditional and modern approaches to the Celtic art of storytelling. Spanning two centuries, it features stories by Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton from the beginning of Irish prose fiction in English; retellings of traditional tales by Lady Gregory and Standish O'Grady from the great age of the Irish Literary Revival; and contributions from many of the 20th century's most significant writers, including William Butler Yeats, James Stephens, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly, and Liam O'Flaherty.

Great Irish Short Stories

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George Saunders

Wisconsin

A Story

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal. Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak “Yuman” by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after “danjer” arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack. Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom The New York Times called “the writer for our time.”

Fox 8

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California

Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa

Leaf Storm

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Karin Slaughter

Lee Child

Washington

A Jack Reacher and Will Trent Short Story

Cleaning the Gold

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Todd Strasser

Realizing that his friend Andy is trapped in the body of wrestler Bruce "Brianiac" Bloom, Jake switches bodies with Nick "No Nerve" Nelson in order to help his friend face Neutron Newman, the Human Bomb.

Help! I'm Trapped in a Professional Wrestler's Body

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New York

David Rabe

Massachusetts

A Novella and Four Stories

Four stories (three of which appeared in the New Yorker) and a novella bring wit, compassion, and dizzying absurdity to facing life and death across generations. In "Things We Worried About When I Was Ten," carefree boys running in apparent midwestern freedom are revealed to be as uncared for by their overburdened parents as they are carefree. "The Longer Grief" is a slow-motion explosion, as one moment in time propels shards of reckoning through a brother and sister, their shared history, and those they hold dear. In "Uncle Jim Called" a man cooking stir fry answers his ringing phone to find the dead calling. "Suffocation Theory" slyly depicts our off-kilter and increasingly apocalyptic world. In the novella, I Have to Tell You, Emma, nearing eighty, along with other elderly tenants in her midwestern apartment complex, seeks fairness from a conniving landlord. When an emergency stay in the hospital brings her face to face with looming injustice, she finds herself suddenly burdened with two mysteries to solve. She may never get to the end of them, but she is determined to do all she can, and maybe more than anyone expected. These stories show the author in top form as an incisive chronicler of the torments, pathos, and sometimes joys of being human. They are full of bite, wit, and ingenuity, and like all his classic work, they are powerful and timely. "Suffocation Theory" appeared in the October 12, 2020 issue of the New Yorker. The New Yorker published two other stories, "Uncle Jim Called" and "Things We Worried About When I Was Ten," the latter a winner of the 2021 O. Henry Prize and is included in the most recent O. Henry collection, published in September 2021 and edited by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The story "The Longer Grief" was awarded a first prize in the Narrative Story Contest (August 2019).

Listening for Ghosts

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Robert Louis Stevenson

A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Signed copy, dedication to April. 

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The stories in this collection have been referred to as hilarious, fascinating, and "totally boss." Infused with the author's standard blend of bile, humor, and smartassery, the stories in The War on Xmas explore themes of family, ennui, sex, faith, masculinity, duty, independence, art, and socioeconomic status within trailer parks. This slim volume is packed with sadness, jokes, satire, songs, and subtle absurdity. Plus a sexually and culturally frustrated superhero uses his laser eyes to set a Confederate flag on fire. Several of the stories have been published in fine literary journals like Word Riot, Red Fez, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, while three of them have never been published before. The reader is advised that this book has almost nothing to do with either Christmas or Xmas.

LAST CHANCE, Removing June 1st! - The War on Xmas

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The Illustrated Treasury of Humor for Children

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I Funny

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Analog April 2016

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Billy Budd and Other Stories

Simon Kernick

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Smoke and Mirrors

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Garth

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Great Irish Short Stories

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Leaf Storm

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Cleaning the Gold

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Todd Strasser

Help! I'm Trapped in a Professional Wrestler's Body

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Uncommon Type

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Listening for Ghosts

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Alan Good

LAST CHANCE, Removing June 1st! - The War on Xmas