Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices

Fresh and electrifying--stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.

Relations punctures the human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared humanity despite differences in language, identity, class, gender, and beyond. This vital anthology is Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's striking vision of a meeting place of perspectives, centered in the African and diaspora experience.

In a post-Black Panther world, it is an urgent and welcome embrace of the diversity of Blackness. A refreshing collection of genre-spanning literature, it offers a vibrant meditation on being--inviting connection across real and imagined borders, and celebration of the most profound relations.

Relations ARC

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

The Extraordinary Ways Ordinary People Express the Heart's Finest Emotion

What They Did for Love is a literary collection of the extraordinary ways people express the heart's finest emotion.

A powerful collection of stories that is at once heart-warming and heart-wrenching as writers offer stories of love in its many forms set against the challenges of modern life.

Over the years Reader's Digest has published stories of couples, families, friends, and even strangers that touch the heartstrings and show ordinary people reaching out and reaching deep within in the name of love. In "To Mend Her Husband's Heart," you'll meet a woman so desperate to keep her husband of thirty-eight years alive, she researches medical literature and finds an experimental gene therapy that just may save his life.

In an excerpt from "Rewrites," Neil Simon tells the heart-wrenching story of his first wife's battle with cancer and how, when he felt helpless to save her, he bought her the dream house by a lake they had imagined they would enjoy together in their twilight years. You'll read inspiring marriage proposals from everyday people, stories of love lost and found, and famous love letters that speak to the incredible and lasting power of true love. You'll meet Joe Hagan in "Red Dad, Blue Son," who puts his love for his father above his closely held political beliefs; and a mom, Lynn Schnurnberger, ("The Power of Tatoos") who goes to great lengths, including getting a tattoo, to stay connected with her teenage daughter.

In "A Bagful of Dimes," best-selling author Anne Lamott explains why she makes her son go to church with her. The power of love and forgiveness in friendship is portrayed in the story of Jacquelyn Mitchard and her lifelong friend who repair a falling out in "Friends Interrupted." The loving bond between human and animal is depicted in the story of Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman ("Semper Fi") who risks his life to save a dog from a warzone. Finally, in "Dear Superman," you'll read letters sent to Christopher Reeve and his family from complete strangers; and in "This Boy's Life," you'll meet a teenage boy, whose generous decision to become an organ donor transforms the lives of scores of strangers. Delve into What They Did for Love and you'll be moved, touched and inspired to follow your heart wherever it leads--around the world or maybe just around the corner.

What They Did for Love

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John J. Eddleston

Maryland

Famous London Cases

TRUE CRIME. Women have sometimes been seen as less criminally inclined than men. But, as John Eddleston shows, London's history is crowded with cases of women who broke the law. In vivid detail he reconstructs a series of dramatic, often harrowing cases in which women were involved and puts their acts in the context of their times. Taking episodes from the eighteenth century to near the present day, he looks at criminal women of all types, from all walks of life. The work of the London police, the courts and the prisons is an essential element in his study, and each chapter reveals much about how attitudes to crime and punishment have changed over the centuries. Fascinating portraits of these criminal women as individuals emerge from their stories - their cases come to life - as does the London in which they lived.

Criminal Women

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#hardcover #anthology #lucycorin #suspense #relationships #drama #humor 

Texas

Lucy Corin's dazzling new collection is powered by one hundred apocalypses: a series of short stories, many only a few lines, that illuminate moments of vexation and crisis, revelations and revolutions. An apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but what it exposes is the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate.

Three longer stories are equally visionary: in "Eyes of Dogs," a soldier returns from war and encounters a witch who may in fact be his mother; "Madmen" describes an America where children who reach adolescence choose the madman who will accompany them into adulthood; in "Godzilla versus the Smog Monster," a teenager is flustered by his older, wilder neighbor while California burns on the other side of the continent.

At once mournful and explosively energetic, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses makes manifest the troubled conscience of an uneasy time.


One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

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Reader's Digest Select Editions - Volume 6, 2002 - Includes: An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky; 2nd Chance by James Patterson; City of Bones by Michael Connelly; Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah

 Reader's Digest Select Editions (Volume 6, 2002)

Short stories from the Twilight Zone: The Mighty Casey, Escape Clause, Where is Everybody?, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, Walking Distance, The Whole Truth, The Lonely, Dust, The Midnight Sun, Mr. Dingle the Strong, The Odyssey of Flight 33, The Big Tall Wish, The Rip Van Winkle Caper, and The Shelter.

Massachusetts

From the Twilight Zone

Sandhya Menon

S. K. Ali

Rin Chupeco

Anna-Marie McLemore

Rebecca Roanhorse

Sara Farizan

Jay Coles

Adi Alsaid

Sangu Mandanna

Phoebe North

Karuna Riazi

Pennsylvania

13 Tales of Food and Love

From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors—including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco—comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens. A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family’s pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother’s life. Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life’s hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, “Have you had anything to eat?” Where magic and food and love are sometimes one and the same. Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.

Hungry Hearts

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Laura Silverman

13 Stories Between Sunset and Sunrise

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they're the only people in the world. As the hours tick by deeper into the night, the familiar drops away and the unfamiliar beckons. Adults are asleep, and a hush falls over the hum of daily life. Anything is possible.



It's a time for romance and adventure. For prom night and ghost hunts. It's a time for breaking up, for falling in love - for finding yourself.



Stay up all night with these thirteen short stories from bestselling and award-winning YA authors like Karen McManus, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nina LaCour, and Brandy Colbert, as they take readers deep into these rarely seen, magical hours.



Full contributor list: Brandy Colbert, Kathleen Glasgow, Maurene Goo, Tiffany D. Jackson, Amanda Joy, Nina LaCour, Karen M. McManus, Anna Meriano, Marieke Nijkamp, Laura Silverman, Kayla Whaley, Julian Winters, Francesca Zappia

Up All Night

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Virginia

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A follow-up collection to well-received The Perils of Sherlock Holmes! Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman has curated a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from some of the finest authors in Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes. This is the first time that these stories appear together in one anthology, including "Sons of Moriarty," a Sherlock Holmes novella, appearing here for the first time. Estleman's last Holmes collection, The Perils of Sherlock Holmes, was authorized by the Estate of Arthur Conan Doyle and was met with rave reviews. It was dubbed "an excellent collection of short stories and essays" by the New York Review of Books, "an entertaining and diverting read" by Bookpleasures.com, and was said to transport readers "to another place and time during the series of short stories that pay homage to the legend that is Sherlock Holmes" on the Pop Culture Guy Blog.

Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes

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Robin Upward

Short stories from writers such as Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll as well as the 19 gorgeous, full-color, full-page photographs, make this the perfect must-have book for cat lovers.

￼Hardcover book in like new condition, with the exception of the jacket cover, which has a ripple across the top and bottom of the front, as well as a small tear in the upper right hand front corner. ￼

Cat Tales

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#hardcover #demolitionwriters #anthology #shortstories #exlibrary 

Indiana

Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputation and renown cast aside, each of these 12 daredevils has contributed an extreme, no-holds-barred unsigned story.

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Fairy Tales Retold

Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as "fairy tales" were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of readers at all ages.

Over the years, authors have often borrowed bits and pieces from these stories, grafting them into their own writing, creating literature with both new meaning and age-old significance. In the last few decades or so, they've also intentionally retold and reinvented the tales in a variety of ways--delightful or dark, wistful or wicked, sweet or satirical--that forge new trails through the forests of fantastic fiction.

This new anthology compiles some of the best modern fairy-tale retellings and reinventions from award-winning and bestselling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and exciting new talents, into an enchanting collection. Explore magical new realms by traveling with us, Beyond the Woods . . .

Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.


Beyond the Woods (MP3 Audio Book)

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Stephen Jones

Florida

Tales of the Walking Dead

The Monster Book of Zombies

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#hardcover #fiction #anthology #feminism #historicalfiction #shortstories #ya #youngadult 

Ohio

15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers, and Other Badass Girls

From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines. Crisscross America — on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains — from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today’s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. And they all have a story to tell. With stories by: J. Anderson Coats Andrea Cremer Y. S. Lee Katherine Longshore Marie Lu Kekla Magoon Marissa Meyer Saundra Mitchell Beth Revis Caroline Richmond Lindsay Smith Jessica Spotswood Robin Talley Leslye Walton Elizabeth Wein

A Tyranny of Petticoats

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Frank D. McSherry

Charles G. Waugh

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

"51 spine-chilling tales from every state in the Union plus Washington, D.C."--Jacket subtitle.

Treasury of American Horror Stories

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Georgia

Fifteen of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined

In That Way Madness Lies, fifteen acclaimed YA writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare’s celebrated classics! West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. Kiss Me, Kate. Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of Shakespeare’s most beloved works. Now, some of today’s best writers for teens take on the Bard in these 15 whip-smart and original retellings! Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining The Merchant of Venice), Kayla Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew), Lily Anderson (As You Like It), Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter’s Tale), Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet), A. R. Capetta and Cori McCarthy (Much Ado About Nothing), Brittany Cavallaro (Sonnet 147), Joy McCullough (King Lear), Anna-Marie McLemore (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Samantha Mabry (Macbeth), Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus), Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night), Lindsay Smith (Julius Caesar), Kiersten White (Romeo and Juliet), and Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (The Tempest).

That Way Madness Lies

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Ellen Oh

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Arizona

From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.

Flying Lessons and Other Stories

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Book in excellent condition with the exception of a few ripples across the top of the front jacket cover and a tiny tear at top of back cover jacket.   #johnjuliusnorwich #quotes #musings #trivia #funfacts #tidbits #Christmas #anthology

More Christmas Crackers

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Laura J. Hird

Gordon Legge

James Meek

Alan Warner

Irvine Welsh

Paul Reekie

An Anthology of New Scottish Writing

Six Scottish authors - Irvine Welsh, Gordon Legge, Alan Warner, James Meek, Laura J. Hird and Paul Reekie - contribute novellas to this raw-edged collection.

Children of Albion Rovers

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Lorna Bell

Dwight Flegel

Uplifting End of Life Stories

Happy Endings

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#hardcover #suspense #fiction #anthology #blockbuster #anthology 

Wisconsin

Offers a collection of 13 football mysteries from top writers in addition to a novella about a college football star who delves into a forty-year old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a star player.

The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

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Glory Edim

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature. "A brilliant collection of essential American reading . . . smart, powerful, and complete."--Min Jin Lee, author of the National Book Award finalist Pachinko Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives--but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the pages of a book. In this timely anthology, Glory Edim brings together original essays by some of our best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all--regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability--have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature. Contributors include Jesmyn Ward (Sing, Unburied, Sing), Lynn Nottage (Sweat), Jacqueline Woodson (Another Brooklyn), Gabourey Sidibe (This Is Just My Face), Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing), Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), Rebecca Walker (Black, White and Jewish), and Barbara Smith (Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology) Whether it's learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in The Color Purple, or using mythology to craft an alternative black future, the subjects of each essay remind us why we turn to books in times of both struggle and relaxation. As she has done with her book club-turned-online community Well-Read Black Girl, in this anthology Glory Edim has created a space in which black women's writing and knowledge and life experiences are lifted up, to be shared with all readers who value the power of a story to help us understand the world and ourselves. Advance praise for Well-Read Black Girl "This book is a star chart, a map readers can use to navigate the world via the minds of brilliant black women writers. The essays extol us all to regard--and to celebrate--the written word anew."--Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House "An eloquently provocative anthology . . . Candid and thoughtful from start to finish, [Glory] Edim's collection amply celebrates the many paths black women have traveled on the road to self-definition. . . . In each essay, the contributor discusses her relationships to reading, books, and the world, yet each bears the unique experiential imprint of the woman who wrote it."--Kirkus Reviews

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What They Did for Love

John J. Eddleston

Criminal Women

Lucy Corin

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

Barbara Delinsky; James Patterson; Michael Connelly; Kristin Hannah

Reader's Digest Select Editions (Volume 6, 2002)

Rod Serling

From the Twilight Zone

Sandhya Menon; S. K. Ali; Rin Chupeco; Anna-Marie McLemore; Rebecca Roanhorse; Sara Farizan; Jay Coles; Adi Alsaid; Sangu Mandanna; Phoebe North; Karuna Riazi

Hungry Hearts

Laura Silverman

Up All Night

Laura Silverman

Up All Night

Loren D. Estleman (Editor)

Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes

Robin Upward

Cat Tales

Marc Parent (Editor); Elizabeth McCracken; Chris Offutt; Anna Quindlen; John Burnham Schwartz; Alice Sebold; Lauren Slater; Aimee Bender; Benjamin Cheever; Michael Connelly; Sebastian Junger

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

Paula Guran (editor); Angela Dawe (Read by); Tim Campbell (Read by)

Beyond the Woods (MP3 Audio Book)

Stephen Jones

The Monster Book of Zombies

Jessica Spotswood

A Tyranny of Petticoats

Frank D. McSherry; Charles G. Waugh

Treasury of American Horror Stories

Dahlia Adler

That Way Madness Lies

Ellen Oh

Flying Lessons and Other Stories

John Julius Norwich

More Christmas Crackers

Laura J. Hird; Gordon Legge; James Meek; Mo; Alan Warner; Irvine Welsh; Paul Reekie

Children of Albion Rovers

Lorna Bell; Dwight Flegel

Happy Endings

David Baldacci; Lawrence Block; Dennis Lehane; Brad Meltzer; Anne Perry; Otto Penzler (Editor)

The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

Glory Edim

Well-Read Black Girl

Dahlia Adler

That Way Madness Lies