Kate Walbert

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

New and Selected Stories

A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION

From Kate Walbert, the highly acclaimed, National Book Award nominee, comes a dazzling, career-spanning collection of new and selected stories.

In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into the hearts and minds of women. Her characters are searchers, uneasy in one way or another. They yearn for connection. They question the definitions assigned to them as wives, mothers, and daughters; they seek their own way within isolated, and often isolating, circumstances, reveling in small, everyday epiphanies and moments of clarity.

In the riveting opening story "M&M World," a woman is plunged into panic when she briefly loses one of her daughters at the vast and over-stimulating Times Square store. In "Slow the Heart," a single mother tries to ease tension at the dinner table with Roses and Thorns, the game she knows the Obamas played in the White House. In "Radical Feminists," a woman skating with her two children encounters the man who derailed her career years earlier. And in the poignant, "A Mother Is Someone Who Tells Jokes," a mother reflects on the nursery school project that preceded her son's autism diagnosis. This is a deeply moving, resonant collection from a writer "rightly celebrated for her ability to capture the variety and vulnerability of women's lives with a combination of lyricism and brawn" (NPR).

She Was Like That

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Karen Russell

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maine

"From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imagination"--

Orange World and Other Stories

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Disney Books

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

5-Minute Disney*Pixar Stories

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Kelly Link

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Stories

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “The Brothers Grimm meet Black Mirror meets Alice in Wonderland. . . . In seven remixed fairy tales, Link delivers wit and dreamlike intrigue.”—Time Finalist for the Kirkus Prize • “Thought-provoking and wonderfully told . . . so seamlessly entwines the real with the surreal that the stories threaten to slip into reality, resonating long after reading.”—BuzzFeed A new collection from one of today’s finest short story writers, MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble—featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan Finding seeds of inspiration in the stories of the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers—characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In “The White Cat’s Divorce,” an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which child will become his heir. In “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,” a professor with a delicate health condition becomes stranded for days in an airport hotel after a conference, desperate to get home to her wife and young daughter, and in acute danger of being late for an appointment that cannot be missed. In “Skinder’s Veil,” a young man agrees to take over a remote house-sitting gig for a friend. But what should be a chance to focus on his long-avoided dissertation instead becomes a wildly unexpected journey, as the house seems to be a portal for otherworldly travelers—or perhaps a door into his own mysterious psyche. Twisting and turning in astonishing ways, expertly blending realism and the speculative, witty, empathetic, and never predictable—these stories remind us once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.

White Cat, Black Dog

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Mary La Chapelle

Price sticker and a little pen spot in the inside cover as well as leftover sticker residue on the book jacket. Excellent condition hardcover. Was a good read. 

New Hampshire

House of Heroes, an extraordinary first collection of short stories by award-winning author Mary La Chapelle, is set in the Great Lakes region, where fish frys and church bazaars color an emotional landscape of superstition and challenged faith. Her bittersweet, resonant, and often humorous tales celebrate a vanishing small-town way of life and the silent strength of people facing great odds. La Chapelle populates her keenly crafted tales with heroes great and small. They are outsiders and inmates, disenchanted and quietly triumphant. Anna, a giant, and her cousein Jane, a mime, confront hostility and grapple with social conformity in a small town. Homer, an aging and crippled widower, is reawakened when he falls in love with a college girl. A young girl teetering on the edge of sanity crashes a wedding and is befriended by Peg, a psychologist, who learns more from the girl about the fragile nature of sanity than she ever learned from patients. Then there is the story of Lakeund, a dairy farmer and cheese maker, who gets a taste of longing and can't bear it, and who tries to slip back to simplicity, to that unconscious time before we are aware of the world as outside ourselves. In the title piece a night counselor's experiment with three schizophrenic boys, who are valiantly trying to make their way in a world they cannot master and that does not want them, forces her to reexamine her ideas about heroes. It is the characters' humanity and thier inevitable choice of bravery in the midst of personal conflict that mark these stories. These tales leave the reader, like the characters themselves, feeling a little rocked and sore, lost and then found.

House of Heroes and Other Stories

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Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is an award-winning literary voice praised for her fearless and vivid prose, and her debut collection Ayiti exemplifies the raw talent that made her "one of the voices of our age" (National Post, Canada).

The powerful debut collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience from New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, now widely available for the first time in Grove Press paperback.

Clever and haunting by turns, Ayiti explores the Haitian diaspora experience. A married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. 

Wise, fanciful, and daring, Ayiti is the book that put Roxane Gay on the map and now, with two previously uncollected stories, confirms her singular vision.

Ayiti

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Maryland

Thomas Mann

And Seven Other Stories

Mann's bestselling work of fiction now appears in a trade paperback format with a striking new jacket. Sales of the classic have totaled over 800,000 copies and average 42,000 copies a year.

Death in Venice

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Top edge of book area are a little yellowed. (See pics) Doesn’t effect readability. No other damage. #hardcover #fiction #horror #classic #hplovecraft #anthology #storycollection #bestseller 

Florida

H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including: The Rats in the Walls, Pickman's Model, The Colour out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow out of Time, and The Haunter of the Dark.

H. P. Lovecraft Great Tales of Horror

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Melissa Hensley

Virginia

Jake Maia Arlow

Arushi Avachat

Arizona

11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation

Study Break, a collection of interconnected contemporary Young Adult short stories written by Gen Z authors, explores different parts of "the college experience," from questioning your major to questioning your identity. College...the best time, the worst time, and something in between. What do you do when orientation isn't going according to your (sister's) detailed plans? Where do you go when you're searching for community in faith? How do you figure out what it means that you're suddenly attracted to your RA? What happens when your partner for your last film project is also your crush and graduation is quickly approaching? Told over the course of one academic year, this collection of stories set on the same fictional campus features students from different cultures, genders, and interests learning more about who they are and who they want to be. From new careers to community to (almost) missed connections — and more — these interconnected tales explore the ways university life can be stressful and confusing and exciting and fulfilling. Gen Z contributors include Jake Maia Arlow, Arushi Avachat, Boon Carmen, Ananya Devarajan, Camryn Garrett, Christina Li, Racquel Marie, Oyin, Laila Sabreen, Michael Waters, and Joelle Wellington.

Study Break

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Oklahoma

110 Stories to Encourage Your Soul

Stories for the Heart-The Original Collection

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And Other Stories

Imagine a future in which the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Human boxers have been replaced by massive humanoid robots. And former champions of flesh-and-blood are obsolete . . . . Richard Matheson's classic short story is now the basis for Real Steel, a gritty, white-knuckle film starring Hugh Jackman. But "Steel," which was previously filmed as a powerful episode of the original Twilight Zone television series, is just one of over a dozen unforgettable tales in this outstanding collection, which includes two new stories that have never appeared in any previous Matheson collection. Also featured is a bizarre satirical fantasy, "The Splendid Source," that was turned into an episode of The Family Guy. Richard Matheson was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Steel demonstrates once again the full range of his legendary imagination.

Steel

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Montana

Best in Childrens Books

William Trevor

Collection of short stories by an Irish writer.

Pennsylvania

From the bestselling author of "The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer, After Rain," and "Felicia's Journey" comes a collection of short fiction. Trevor is a regular contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine.

A Bit on the Side

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Like New. Never been read. From a smoke free and pet free home. 

Barbara Kingsolver

Arkansas

With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from northern-California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, Kingsolver's distinctive voice -- at times comic, but often heartrending -- rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. Homeland and Other Stories creates a world of love and possibility that readers will want to take as their own.

Homeland and Other Stories

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Louisiana

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Ohio

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30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps

Texas

The traditions of christmas 

Keith Lee Morris

Keith Lee Morris, author of The Dart League King, returns with a new story collection as acute, funny, and heartbreaking as we've come to expect from him.

In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, Keith Lee Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood. For all their flaws―as husbands, as fathers, as friends―Morris’s characters are portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Call It What You Want balances realism with the surreal, humor with sadness, and explores all the hidden places in between.

Presents a collection of short stories chronicling the lives of flawed men who are caught in between adolescence and adulthood.

Call It What You Want

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Neil Gaiman

New Jersey

Short Fictions and Disturbances

From one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers of our time comes a major new collection of stories and verse "We each have our little triggers . . . things that wait for us in the dark corridors of our lives." So says Neil Gaiman in his introduction to Trigger Warning, a remarkable compendium of twenty-five stories and poems that explore the transformative power of imagination. In "Adventure Story"—a thematic companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Gaiman ponders death and the ways in which people take their stories with them when they die. "A Calendar of Tales" is comprised of short pieces about the months of the year—stories of pirates and March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother's Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale "The Case of Death and Honey." Also included is "Nothing O'Clock," a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the beloved series in 2013, as well as the never-before-published "Black Dog," a haunting new tale that revisits the world of American Gods as Shadow Moon stops in at a village pub on his way back to America. Gaiman, a sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, entrances with his literary alchemy and transports us deep into an undiscovered country where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday is incandescent. Replete with wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of literary delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul.

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She Was Like That

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Orange World and Other Stories

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House of Heroes and Other Stories

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Stories for the Heart-The Original Collection

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Steel

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A Bit on the Side

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft Great Tales of Horror

Barbara Kingsolver

Homeland and Other Stories

Kelly Link

White Cat, Black Dog

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft Great Tales of Horror

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft Great Tales of Horror

R.L. Stine

30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps

Avon

The traditions of christmas

Keith Lee Morris

Call It What You Want

Neil Gaiman

Trigger Warning