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Before We Forget Kindness
Before the Coffee Gets Cold #5 In the fifth installment of the beloved Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, the enigmatic café where time travel is possible—so long as you return before your coffee cools—opens its doors to four more hopeful visitors: A father...- $ 400.00
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Before Your Memory Fades
Before the Coffee Gets Cold #3 Perched on the slopes of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Café Donna Donna is known for its stunning view of the harbor below—but its true allure lies in something far more mysterious. Much like Tokyo’s famed Funiculi Funicula,...- $ 400.00
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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Step back into the enchanting realm of Elfhame with this beautifully illustrated companion to the New York Times–bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. Long before he became the Cruel Prince—or the feared High King—Cardan was a faerie boy with a sharp tongue and an...- $ 350.00
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Widely regarded as a landmark in American literature, Slouching Towards Bethlehem marks Joan Didion’s debut in nonfiction—a collection that helped redefine modern reportage and personal essay when it appeared in 1968. Lauded as some of the finest prose produced in the United States, these...- $ 320.00
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Night Shift
Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories, a perfect showcase of just how far King's dark imagination can go. Here we see mutated rats gone bad ("Graveyard Shift"); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ("Night Surf," the basis for The Stand);...- $ 350.00
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Wednesday's Child
A new collection―about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life―by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. Yiyun Li traces the quiet fractures in ordinary lives—those moments when grief or longing makes the world tilt just a little. A...- $ 350.00
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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
A chilling collection of interconnected stories in which ordinary lives slip quietly into the uncanny. Across a small unnamed city, strangers cross paths in ways that grow darker with every page. A young writer moves into a new apartment and learns her landlady may have...- $ 350.00
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Half an Inch of Water
In Half an Inch of Water, Percival Everett returns with a haunting collection of stories set across the modern American West. Each piece follows people living at the edge of vast landscapes—fathers, daughters, sheriffs, ranchers—whose ordinary days suddenly tilt into the strange. A deaf...- $ 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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White Nights and Other Stories
Lonely and adrift, a young man—an inveterate dreamer—wanders the streets of St Petersburg during one of its endless summer nights. As he meanders through the hushed city, he encounters a young woman in distress, fending off the advances of an unwelcome stranger. He intervenes,...- $ 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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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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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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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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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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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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Difficult Loves
In Difficult Loves, Italy’s master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love—including self-love—are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young...- $ 450.00
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Interpreter Of Maladies
A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with...- $ 400.00
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The Complete Stories
Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of...- $ 550.00
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Invisible Cities
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor...- $ 450.00
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The Sons
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.”I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The...- $ 350.00
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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Deluxe Edition
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on...- $ 650.00
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Monday or Tuesday
Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces.From...- $ 450.00
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After-Supper Ghost Stories
Jerome blends humor and horror in a delightfully strange collection of tales told on Christmas Eve. As a family and their guests gather around the fire after dinner, they begin sharing ghost stories—some eerie, some absurd, all increasingly bizarre. What begins as a lighthearted...- $ 450.00
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective's most-loved exploits....- $ 400.00
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi conjures a spellbinding collection of interconnected short stories where keys unlock far more than just doors—they open portals to hidden desires, secret histories and magical realms that blur the line between the real and the fantastical. From libraries guarded by ghosts to...- $ 450.00
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The October Country
The October Country is Ray Bradbury’s own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. This classic collection features: The Emissary: The faithful dog was the sick boy’s only connection with the world outside—and beyond...The Small...- $ 350.00
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Beautiful Days
Time twists. Reality slips. And nothing—especially the people closest to us—stays quite the same. In this haunting, dreamlike collection, a couple trapped in a house deep in the woods begins aging at a terrifying pace while their toddler remains untouched. A weary office worker...- $ 580.00
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Going to Meet the Man
In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the...- $ 380.00
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or...- $ 400.00
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A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories 1968-1994
Spanning nearly three decades of work, A Wilderness Station gathers twenty-eight masterful stories by Alice Munro, one of the most revered voices in modern fiction. From rural farmsteads to city streets across Canada, Munro captures ordinary lives at the turning point—moments when love falters,...- $ 400.00
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The Dunwich Horror
A classic tale of terror and grotesquerie by the original master of horror. H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw...- $ 250.00
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The Isle of Youth
Laura van den Berg’s gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth , explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who...- $ 450.00
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Witness
What does it mean to really see the world around you―to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see? A poignant and evocative collection of short stories that delves into the complexities of human relationships, identity and...- $ 500.00
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She and Her Cat
Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end...- $ 500.00
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Other Minds and Other Stories
From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues , a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. Cerebral and eerie, captivating and profound, these twelve stories expertly guide us through the paranoia and obsession of everyday horrors, not least the horrors of...- $ 450.00
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his...- $ 400.00
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Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the...- $ 400.00
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Seven Empty Houses
The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a...- $ 350.00
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People from Bloomington
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha. In these seven stories of People from...- $ 400.00
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Gods of Want
In “Auntland,” a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for citizenship tests, and hatching plans to name their daughters “Dog.” In “The Chorus of Dead Cousins,”...- $ 400.00
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories.Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for...- $ 420.00
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Best Short Stories of Jack London
Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand "while frightfully primitive" was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The tales in this volume have been...- $ 350.00
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Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories
Michel Faber’s short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. ‘Some Rain Must Fall’ juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of...- $ 400.00
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I'm a Fool to Want You
These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice. In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a...- $ 380.00
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