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One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories

By: Murphy, Sean

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing: April 2013

Seller ID: 45395

ISBN: 1571746978

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Drawn from the archives of major Zen centers in America and interviews with some of the most seminal figures of American Zen, including Philip Kapleau, Bernie Glassman, Gary Snyder, and Walter Nowick, One Bird, One Stone presents the notable encounters between teachers and students, the moments of insight and wisdom, the quotable quotes, and the humor of Zen as it has flowered in America over the last one hundred-plus years.

Murphy, a Zen student and an accomplished writer, conducted numerous personal interviews and distilled over one hundred pithy stories. He covers Zen master...
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SEARCHING FOR THE BLUE HERON

By: NORA ROBSON

Price: $6.95

Publisher: WOODLAND PUBLISHING: January 2003

Seller ID: 40157

ISBN: 0968637213

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

By: November, Sharyn

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Firebird: April 2006

Seller ID: 41578

ISBN: 0142405493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Daydreams Of Angels

By: O'Neill, Heather

Price: $11.50

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: April 2015

Seller ID: 52449

ISBN: 155468451X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel

By: Ozick, Cynthia

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Vintage: June 1998

Seller ID: 48875

ISBN: 0679777393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality."

Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laborin...
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Honeydew

By: Pearlman, Edith

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 2015

Seller ID: 63755

ISBN: 0316297232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post
TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Wall Street Journal, NPR, Kirkus, Fresh Air (Maureen Corrigan), San Francisco Chronicle
TOP TITLES FOR GIFT GIVING: Chicago Tribune

Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award -- and a nationwide bestseller.

Over the past several decades, Edi...
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Your Body Is Changing : Stories

By: Pendarvis, Jack

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Limited: January 2007

Seller ID: 2452

ISBN: 0385664095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A new collection of stories from the Pushcart Prize-winning author of The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure.

Glittering with mischief and perversity, Jack Pendarvis's latest collection of short fiction introduces readers to a world of losers poised on the brink of all sorts of disaster - a world only a wink and a nod away from our own.

In the title novella a fundamentalist teenager must single-handedly confront the horrors of a spiritual quest filled with secular humanists, an apocalyptic folk artist, and a couple of movie stars. The other stories deal poignantly with -...
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Room of One's Own Place and Time Volume 27:4

By: Robitaille, Patricia

Price: $14.95

Publisher: 2004

Seller ID: 35871

ISBN: 281BQL1001878

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Writing Home

By: Rooke, Constance ed.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: June 1997

Seller ID: 21376

ISBN: 0771069618

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A rich, diverse, and entertaining collection of pieces by 40 celebrated Canadians.
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The Best of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine

By: Rusch, Kristine Kathryn

Price: $14.95

Publisher: St Martins Pr: September 1991

Seller ID: 32231

ISBN: 0312065647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

EAST, WEST: Stories

By: Rushdie, Salman

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Pantheon: January 1995

Seller ID: 37063

ISBN: 067943965X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

East, West: Stories

By: Rushdie, Salman

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Vintage: December 1995

Seller ID: 38826

ISBN: 0679757899

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence.
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The Red Carpet: Stories

By: Sankaran, Lavanya

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback: April 2006

Seller ID: 42449

ISBN: 0385338201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran's fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. "A potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly laid-back ways," Bangalore, India's own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present. Here, American-trained professionals like Tara return to their old-fashioned families with heads full of Quentin Tarantino dialogue; a successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner suddenly reneges on their plan to return to America; ...
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Selected Stories of Duncan Campbell Scott (Canadian Short Story Library)

By: Scott, Duncan Campbell

Price: $8.95

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press: January 1987

Seller ID: 50009

ISBN: 0776601830

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Although he is perhaps better known as a poet, Duncan Campbell Scott's many short stories are worthy of attention for their quiet power and enduring readability. This volume brings together a selection of stories that range across many diverse settings: a typical village of nineteenth-century Quebec, a genteel household in the Ottawa of the 1870s, and the isolation of an Indian village on the north short of Lake Superior, among others.
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: September 2010

Seller ID: 33102

ISBN: 0316038393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.

In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family memb...
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A Cup of Comfort for Women: Stories That Celebrate the Strength and Grace of Womanhood (Cup of Comfort)

By: Sell, Colleen

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation: September 2002

Seller ID: 33775

ISBN: 158062748X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Each Cup of Comfort book features over 50 exceptional stories of ordinary people who have overcome great obstacles, persevered through thick and through thin, and found the power to control their own destinies. Readers will laugh and cry out loud as they share in the many moving experiences detailed within these pages.
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The Lion In The Room Next Door

By: Simonds, Merilyn

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Berkley Books: January 2000

Seller ID: 50005

ISBN: 0771080670

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This spellbinding collection of eleven stories chronicles the remarkable journey of one woman s life from childhood to adulthood, through exotic landscapes, and through the darker, more mysterious terrain of the human heart. The title story inhabits a child s private realm within the maze of corridors in a Brazilian hotel. Later, a toy gun from a cowgirl costume becomes the symbol of something all too real. In a cramped apartment in Sweden, a young wife finds herself caught in the tensions between her husband and his father. A wife slips the bonds of marriage on a beach in Mexico. In a desert ...
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The Deep and Other Stories

By: Swan, Mary

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: July 2004

Seller ID: 49850

ISBN: 0812966503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A writer who arrives with grace and authority, says Alice Munro about the superb short stories of Mary Swan, winner of the First Prize in the 2001 O. Henry Awards.
In The Deep and Other Stories, Mary Swan gives us brilliant stories that illuminate the remarkable moments in life, covering a wide range of human thoughts and emotions in a unique, imaginative, and profoundly moving way. The Deep, her O. Henry Prize-winning story and the centerpiece of this book, tells of twin sisters, their lives amid the horror and confusion of World War I, and the deep connection between them.
The myster...
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All That Man Is

By: Szalay, David

Price: $11.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: May 2016

Seller ID: 40904

ISBN: 0771078005

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize
A brilliantly observed, large-hearted work of fiction that introduces to a North American audience a major and mature literary talent. For readers of David Bezmozgis, Nathan Englander, Neil Smith, John Cheever, and Milan Kundera.

Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.   

Tracing an arc from the spring of y...
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The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2

By: Telep, Trisha

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Running Press: September 2009

Seller ID: 13236

ISBN: 0762437960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This exciting follow-up to the wildly successful Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance contains 30 short stories of hot blood, midnight pleasures, and inhuman passions. Containing the best names in the field, such as Eileen Wilks, Caitlin Kittredge, Jennifer Ashley, Dawn Cook, and Diane Whiteside, this compilation is sure to arouse attention.
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