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Long Distance
A poignant, quietly arresting collection about the fragile threads that bind us across time, space, and memory. From Aysegül Savas, acclaimed author of The Anthropologists, comes Long Distance—a debut story collection that explores intimacy and alienation in the age of global mobility and digital...- $ 500.00
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Table for Two
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the...- $ 550.00
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Japanese Ghost Stories
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and...- $ 350.00
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
A meddling aunt who frowns on hair removal. Two door-to-door saleswomen offering magical lanterns. A radiant lover who appears nightly to luxuriate in the bath. A silent visitor who cleans and babysits while a single mother works late. The women in Where the Wild...- $ 300.00
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Men Without Women
A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear...- $ 450.00
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of...- $ 350.00
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly
A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art school. An elderly man is healed by...- $ 450.00
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
"What are you looking for?" That’s the question posed by Tokyo’s most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi—a woman with a remarkable gift: she seems to know exactly what each visitor truly needs, and the perfect book to guide them there. A tired shop assistant dreaming...- $ 500.00
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time,...- $ 450.00
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Buried Deep and Other Stories
This stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories: • A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the worst thing in the Scholomance can be your...- $ 650.00
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Nocturnes
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful. With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro...- $ 360.00
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The Turn of the Screw and Others
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these...- $ 300.00
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Bad Thoughts
Bad Thoughts plunges you into the raw, wild, and haunting minds of women navigating the messy, often surreal realities of modern life in Los Angeles. From rebellious party girls and desperate reality TV hopefuls to estranged daughters and restless spirits, these unforgettable characters live...- $ 300.00
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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
These eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. In “Lizards,” a man mutes his wife’s anxieties by giving her a LaCroix-like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a...- $ 350.00
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks...- $ 250.00
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The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains...- $ 320.00
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Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have...- $ 400.00
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Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of 'Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of 'Coqueville on the Spree',...- $ 330.00
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The Best American Short Stories 2023
“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A...- $ 350.00
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde gathers all nine of Oscar Wilde’s whimsical, poignant fabulations from The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The House of Pomegranates. Laced with Wilde’s legendary drollery, these fanciful tales touch on the themes of love, devotion, creativity,...- $ 300.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
These seven powerful stories reflect Tolstoy’s profound meditation on mortality and the human condition, each examining the inevitability of death from unique perspectives. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy delivers a heartrending exploration of a man confronting his approaching death and grappling with...- $ 350.00
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Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't
From the sharp, inventive mind of comedian and writer Josie Long comes a vibrant collection of short stories that capture the quiet chaos and unlikely beauty of everyday life. In these offbeat and emotionally resonant tales, three teenage girls are convinced they're witches, a...- $ 600.00
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July’s debut short story collection is a masterclass in emotional vulnerability, quirky intimacy, and raw human longing. These stories are populated by lonely people who ache to connect—people who often live on the margins, yet whose emotional lives feel universally resonant. In these...- $ 350.00
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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Heart Lamp marks the powerful English-language debut of Banu Mushtaq—acclaimed lawyer, activist, and one of India’s most vital literary voices. Spanning over thirty years of storytelling, this collection gathers twelve short stories originally written in Kannada between 1990 and 2023, offering a rare and...- $ 450.00
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Voices of the Fallen Heroes
A newly translated collection of short stories by Yukio Mishima, drawn from the final decade of his life in the 1960s. This selection offers a rare and intimate look into the mind of one of Japan’s most provocative and enduring literary figures. In the title...- $ 350.00
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Covert Joy: Selected Stories
Covert Joy presents Lispector at her most luminous, offering readers a selection of her best-loved stories, including “The Smallest Woman in the World,” “Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” Known for her extraordinary ability to illuminate life’s smallest, most revelatory moments,...- $ 450.00
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The Woman Dies
A collection of darkly playful, genre-defying stories from Aoko Matsuda. Blending surrealism, sharp humor, and incisive social critique, Matsuda explores themes like sexism, media violence, and the gendered aesthetics of technology with a style that is both daring and disarmingly funny. In these inventive...- $ 350.00
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Fantastic Tales
Visionary and Everyday. Vampires, ghosts, and other uncanny beings haunt the pages of this rich anthology of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and introduced by Italo Calvino—one of the 20th century’s great literary visionaries. Published posthumously, Fantastic Tales gathers a captivating range of eerie, enchanting,...- $ 400.00
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Speedboat
A brilliant, genre-defying novel that captures the disorienting speed and fragmentation of modern life. First published in 1976 and hailed as a cult classic, the book follows Jen Fain, a sharp, perceptive journalist living in New York City, as she navigates the shifting landscapes...- $ 300.00
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A Game of Chess and Other Stories
When it’s discovered that world chess champion Mirko Czentovic is aboard a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger can’t resist challenging him to a game. Czentovic wins effortlessly—until a rematch is interrupted by a mysterious Austrian, Dr. B., who unexpectedly guides...- $ 250.00
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Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Tales of Horror
Gilded Pocket Edition (Arcturus Ornate Classics). This elegant hardcover collection presents twenty of Edgar Allan Poe’s most chilling and iconic stories, beautifully bound with a gold-embossed cover, gilded page edges, and deluxe endpapers. Assembled for both longtime fans and newcomers to Poe’s work, it offers...- $ 250.00
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July’s debut short story collection is a masterclass in emotional vulnerability, quirky intimacy, and raw human longing. These stories are populated by lonely people who ache to connect—people who often live on the margins, yet whose emotional lives feel universally resonant. In these...- $ 350.00
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
In the far future, humanity is nearly extinct. Scattered across the planet in small tribes, people live under the watchful care of mysterious "Mothers." Some children are born from laboratories using the cells of dolphins and rabbits; others draw sustenance from light and water...- $ 350.00
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Weird Woods
Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain A curated anthology of twelve short stories that delve into the supernatural and folkloric traditions of Britain's woodlands. The book features works by renowned authors such as Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James and Walter de la...- $ 400.00
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Rejection
Heartbreak, humiliation, and the hellscape of modern intimacy—this is rejection, in all its devastating, darkly funny glory. In this razor-sharp collection of interconnected stories, sex, shame, and self-delusion collide in painfully relatable ways. A well-meaning “feminist” realizes that thirty years of allyship haven’t made...- $ 500.00
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
In the shadows of English drawing rooms and the tangled depths of faerie woods, magic stirs—not the gentle kind of nursery tales, but the old, capricious kind that twists fate and answers to no one. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories is...- $ 360.00
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The Wood at Midwinter
From the award-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell comes a luminous, illustrated tale rooted in quiet magic and deep woods. Merowdis Scot, a curious and solitary nineteen-year-old, is most alive when wandering beneath trees. Gifted with the uncanny ability to...- $ 330.00
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Stag Dance
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing. In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging...- $ 550.00
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Show Don't Tell
In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long...- $ 550.00
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Skeleton Crew
An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And a desert island is...- $ 450.00
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Goodbye to Berlin
First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and...- $ 350.00
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The Girl Who Married a Lion
First published in 1989 as Children of Wax, The Girl Who Married a Lion includes all but one of the original stories and features six new folk tales, an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith and a letter from the one and only Mma Ramotswe....- $ 500.00
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Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't
From the sharp, inventive mind of comedian and writer Josie Long comes a vibrant collection of short stories that capture the quiet chaos and unlikely beauty of everyday life. In these offbeat and emotionally resonant tales, three teenage girls are convinced they're witches, a...- $ 600.00
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Every Short Story
Every Short Story (1951-2012) The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection....- $ 500.00
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Supernatural Short Stories
Supernatural Short Stories: Tales of Murder and Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft One of the main forces in early nineteenth-century literature, Sir Walter Scott was notonly among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers,including literary giants such as Stendhal and...- $ 450.00
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X and Other Stories
A compelling collection of short fiction from one of Russia’s boldest and most visionary writers. These stories, written in the early 20th century, blend science fiction, satire and psychological tension to explore themes of individuality, conformity and the terrifying machinery of power. In the...- $ 350.00
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A Twisted Tale Anthology
What if beloved Disney stories took a different turn? In this spellbinding Twisted Tale Anthology, sixteen reimagined short stories put a fresh spin on classic Disney films. Edited by New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Lim, the collection explores tantalizing what-if scenarios—Snow White learning...- $ 450.00
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Autumn
Written as a letter to his unborn daughter, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to introduce her to the world she will soon enter—not through grand declarations, but through the small, often overlooked details that make up a life. Each short essay, written daily, captures...- $ 450.00
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If It Bleeds
Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and...- $ 450.00
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Opium and Other Stories
A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I. Géza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer,...- $ 450.00
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