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1	How We Are Hungry more books like this by Dave Eggers add to wishlist Eggers presents his first collection of short stories. The characters are roaming, searching, and often struggling, and revelations do not always arrive on schedule. Precisely crafted and boldly experimental, "How We Are Hungry" simultaneously embraces and expands the boundaries of the short story. see all copies from $3.07! new only from $4.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Kingsbury Collection: Three Novels in One more books like this by Karen Kingsbury add to wishlist "Where Yesterday Lives, When Joy Came to Stay," and "On Every Side" are collected in this edition--three page-turning novels in one volume. see all copies from $5.22! new only from $10.00! \| SVS
3	Koontz: Three Complete Novels more books like this by Dean R Koontz add to wishlist Three novels by the master of horror: "The House of Thunder", "Shadowfires", and "Midnight." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist When we first met him in "Rabbit, Run" (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display ... see all copies from $13.37! new only from $19.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	We're in Trouble more books like this by Christopher Coake add to wishlist Each of the seven stories in this extraordinary debut collection dramatizes a deep love staring at the face of death- an encounter that elicits either the best or the worst in these vividly drawn characters. In "We're in Trouble," a woman is asked to end her dying husband's suffering. In "Abandon," a troubled young man must risk jail to do right ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Koontz: Three Complete Novels: Cold Fire; Hideaway; The Key to Midnight more books like this by Dean R Koontz add to wishlist A collection of three previously published Koontz novels. This will be the first time The Key To Midnight will be available in hardcover. see all copies from $4.77! new only from $9.71! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Circling the Drain: Stories more books like this by Amanda Davis add to wishlist This highly acclaimed literary debut presents the stories of 15 young women, each navigating unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain and discovering that in the throes of conflict, things are rarely what they seem. "Faith, or Tips for the Successful Young Lady" follows a young girl's return to high school after spending time in a psychiatric ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Safety of Objects more books like this by A M Homes add to wishlist A collection of short stories of middle-class suburban American life. They contain a range of characters, men and women, young and middle-aged, gay and straight. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Diecinueve Minutos more books like this by Jodi Picoult add to wishlist Jodi Picoult, autora de "Por la vida de mi hermana," nos presenta su libro mas fascinante, con una alarmante y conmovedora historia acerca de las repercusiones devastadoras de una tragedia en un pueblo pequeno de los Estado Unidos. Sterling es un pueblo comun en New Hampshire donde nunca ocurre nada -- hasta el dia que su complacencia es hecha ... see all copies from $6.61! new only from $6.74! \| SVS
10	The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist This expansive compendium showcases the chilled, and chilling, sensibility of the creator of the Ripley novels. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories more books like this by James M Cain, Robert Polito add to wishlist This collection features three classics from the master of the noir novel--each of which was made into a classic Hollywood film--along with five otherwise unavailable short stories. Ribbon marker. see all copies from $14.16! new only from $15.36! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Of Mice and Men more books like this by James L Roberts, PH.D. add to wishlist -- Offers a traditional CliffNotes "TM" treatment of a literary novel, with updated and new content. -- Includes Life and Background of the Author, Introduction to the Novel, A Brief Synopsis, List of Characters, Critical Commentaries, Glossaries, Character Analyses, and Critical Essays. -- Enhanced by collaboration with Webster's New World "TM" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
13 view cover	The Gemini Man more books like this by Professor Richard Steinberg add to wishlist Brian Newman is a renegade Army enlistee whose brash nonconformity makes him the perfect choice for a covert operation geared to overthrow the Soviet Union. Left on his own in rural Russia, Newman is captured and tortured at the hands of the Russians for six years. Now the Americans have him back, but not for long. A psychiatrist sent to evaluate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny more books like this by Mark Spilka add to wishlist 'After this ground-breaking book, Hemingway criticism must consider the full range of sexual, and gender, allegiances in the author's life and work. It is rare that any single study has such an impact' - "Novel". 'A remarkable study of American social and family culture...This book will undoubtedly open additional avenues of exploration for ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Wisdom of Oz: Reflections of a Jungian Sandplay Therapist more books like this by Gita Dorothy Morena, Ph.D. add to wishlist Gita Morena explores the hero archetype through her personal connection to Dorothy and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by her great-grandfather, L. Frank Baum. Morena's background in psychoanalysis and meditation serve as a passage-way into the psychological healing and spiritual transformation that are central to the story's themes of ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Paris Review Book of People with Problems more books like this by The Paris Review, Paris Review (Editor) add to wishlist "The Paris Review" asks: who hasn't survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a breakup, or presided over a murder? The next addictively clever "Paris Review" anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Contributors include Annie Proulx, Andre Dubus, Norman Rush, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas more books like this by Francine Prose add to wishlist Both of these novellas by Francine Prose are about Americans in Europe. Innocents abroad? Not exactly. In GUIDED TOURS OF HELL, Landau, a New York City playwright (and not a very successful one), travels to Prague for a Kafka conference and develops a combination of hatred and envy for a poet in the group, Jiri Krakauer, who is not only a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The lime twig more books like this by John Hawkes add to wishlist A fantastic tale of a man's decline into madness and despair. William Hencher lives in London with his senile mother during the Second World War. During the Blitz, Margaret and Michael Banks, a refugee couple, move in with the Henchers, and William quickly becomes obsessively protective of them. He is eventually drawn into a mad scheme to steal a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories more books like this by Valerie Martin add to wishlist This gripping collection of six stories explores the inner lives of artists as they struggle to make art while falling in and out of love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories more books like this by Michael Chabon add to wishlist The second collection of short stories from the highly acclaimed author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys. Werewolves In Their Youth confirms Chabon's reputation as 'the young star of American letters, "star" not in the currents sense of cheap celebrity, but in the old sense of brightly shining hope. He is a writer not only of rare ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Things That Fall from the Sky: Stories more books like this by Kevin Brockmeier add to wishlist By an O. Henry Prizewinner, these 10 stories are infused with the spirit of fairy tales, in which often bewitched characters struggle to retain their dreams in the face of real life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Shadow of a Dream, and an Imperative Duty more books like this by William Dean Howells add to wishlist These two nouvelles mark Howells' plunge into psychological realism. Their themes-a triangle of tragic agonies with psychological insights intriguingly proto-Freudian, and a drama of miscegenation-are anything but the smiling, lightweight topics to which Howells has been supposed to have been confined. The maturity both of their art and of their ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $24.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	Mermaids on the Golf Course more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	The dream quest of H.P. Lovecraft more books like this by Darrell Schweitzer add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Wake: Stories more books like this by Beth Goldner add to wishlist In her first collection of short stories, Beth Goldner looks at loss--of love, of health, of life through the lives of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS

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