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Across The Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Storiesby Garth NixISBN 0060747153 (0-06-074715-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen And Other Stories'Book summary:Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the Wall, back to the Old Kingdom.
Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams, and he has come to realize that his destiny lies there, along with all those he cares for. But here in Ancelstierre, far south of the Wall, the Charter is dormant, and among the obstacles Nick faces is one that is not entirely human, and which has a strange power that seems to come from Nicholas himself.
With "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case," Garth Nix continues to explore the magical world of The Abhorsen Trilogy. In additional short stories that range from classic fantasy -- two widely different takes on the Merlin myth -- to a gritty urban version of Hansel and Gretel, to an unusual take on the role of nature in matters of love, and to a heartbreaking story of children and war, Garth Nix displays the range and versatility that have made him one of today's leading writers of fantasy for readers of all ages.
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Am I Blue?by Marion Dane Bauer, Beck UnderwoodISBN 0064405877 (0-06-440587-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Am I Blue?'Book summary:Original stories by C. S. Adler, Marion Dane Bauer, Francesca Lia Block, Bruce Coville, Nancy Garden, James Cross Giblin, Ellen Howard, M. E. Kerr, Jonathan London, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Lesléa Newman, Cristina Salat, William Sleator, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jane Yolen
Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young adults, and each honestly portrays its subject and theme--growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends.
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The Anarchists' Conventionby John SaylesISBN 0060974761 (0-06-097476-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Angel on the Roofby Russell BanksISBN 0060931256 (0-06-093125-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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Arthur Rimbaudby Pual Schmidt, Paul SchmidtISBN 0060955503 (0-06-095550-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur Rimbaud'Book summary:Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen. This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the Flood," and "A Season in Hell," considered by many to be his. Complete Works is divided into eight "seasons"--Childhood, The Open Road, War, The Tormented Heart, The Visionary, The Damned Soul, A Few Belated Cowardices, and The Man with the Wind at His Heels--that reflect the facets of Rimbaud's life. Insightful commentary by translator and editor Paul Schmidt reveals the courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud's poetry and sheds light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters.
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Automatic Tellerby Carmel BirdISBN 0091833965 (0-09-183396-5)
Hardcover, Vintage
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The Awakening And Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0075542692 (0-07-554269-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Axiomaticby Greg EganISBN 0061052655 (0-06-105265-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Black Juiceby Margo LanaganISBN 0060743921 (0-06-074392-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Juice'Book summary:As part of a public execution, a young boy forlornly helps to sing his sister down. . . . A servant learns about grace and loyalty from a mistress who would rather dance with Gypsies than sit on her throne. . . . A terrifying encounter with a demonic angel gives a young man the strength he needs to break free of his oppressor. . . . On a bleak and dreary afternoon a gleeful shooting spree leads to tragedy for a desperate clown unable to escape his fate.In each of Margo Lanagan's ten extraordinary stories, human frailty is put to the test by the implacable forces of dark and light, man and beast. black juice offers glimpses into familiar, shadowy worlds that push the boundaries of the spirit and leave the mind haunted with the knowledge that black juice runs through us all.
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Classic Short Fictionby Charles H. BohnerISBN 0131352458 (0-13-135245-8)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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Collected Short Storiesby Kingsley AmisISBN 0091434300 (0-09-143430-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Come to Meby Amy BloomISBN 0060995149 (0-06-099514-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Compass Roseby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060914475 (0-06-091447-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Complete Short Stories of D. H. Lawrenceby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140042555 (0-14-004255-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Contemporary Classicsby Don AndersonISBN 0091830753 (0-09-183075-3)
Hardcover, Vintage
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Coronadoby Dennis LehaneISBN 0061145963 (0-06-114596-3)
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The Daydreamerby Ian McEwan, Anthony BrowneISBN 0064405761 (0-06-440576-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Death in Veniceby Thomas MannISBN 0075536692 (0-07-553669-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Details of a Sunset and Other Storiesby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0070457093 (0-07-045709-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Devil's Modeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091741947 (0-09-174194-7)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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End of the Gameby Julio CortazarISBN 0060906375 (0-06-090637-5)
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Exterminator!by William S. BurroughsISBN 0140050035 (0-14-005003-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Eye of the Heronby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 006105609X (0-06-105609-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eye of the Heron'Book summary:The savage, lawless prison world is called Victoria. The arriving exiles, sworn to nonviolence, are called the People of the Peace. Brutalized and dominated by the City criminals, the People would have broken vows and shed blood if not for one bold young woman. Her name is Luz, and she leaves her City father to lead the People on a perilous quest to discover a world of hope within this world of chaos...a place they will call Heron. [via]
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Facing the Musicby Larry BrownISBN 0060972556 (0-06-097255-6)
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Fairy Talesby Peter CashoraliISBN 0062513095 (0-06-251309-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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Feverby Michele B. SlungISBN 0060926503 (0-06-092650-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Fiction 100by James H. PickeringISBN 0131053264 (0-13-105326-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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- Fiction 100: ISBN 0131731343 (0-13-173134-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Fiction 100: ISBN 0130143286 (0-13-014328-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Fiction 100: ISBN 0131825879 (0-13-182587-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Fiction 100: ISBN 0137550928 (0-13-755092-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Fiction 100: ISBN 0137803052 (0-13-780305-2)
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Fireworksby Angela CarterISBN 006090920X (0-06-090920-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The First Forty Nine Storiesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0099339218 (0-09-933921-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Forty Nine Stories'Book summary:From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.' A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including 'Up in Michigan', 'Fifty Grand', and 'The Light of the World', and the Snows of Kilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing' and Men Without Women collections. [via]
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Global Voices: Contemporary Literature from the Non-Western Worldby Arthur W. Biddle, Gloria Bien, Miriam Cooke, Vinay DharwadkerISBN 0132997932 (0-13-299793-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Goldby Isaac AsimovISBN 006105206X (0-06-105206-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gold'Book summary:14 new short stories, previously uncollected essays on science fiction and the craft of writing, and the Hugo Award-winning title novella about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality. [via]
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Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collectionby Isaac AsimovISBN 0061054097 (0-06-105409-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Great Short Works ofby LondonISBN 0060830417 (0-06-083041-7)
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevskyby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald HingleyISBN 0060726466 (0-06-072646-6)
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Great Short Works of Herman Melvilleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0060830948 (0-06-083094-8)
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Great Short Works of Willa Catherby Willa Cather, Robert K. MillerISBN 0060923768 (0-06-092376-8)
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Heart Songs and Other Storiesby Annie ProulxISBN 0060972793 (0-06-097279-3)
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140001115 (0-14-000111-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0072435178 (0-07-243517-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Immortalityby Milan Kundera, Peter KussiISBN 0060932384 (0-06-093238-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Immortality'Book summary:Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to thoroughly explore the great themes of existence. [via]
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The Innocence of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0140007652 (0-14-000765-2)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Storiesby Gene WolfeISBN 009926580X (0-09-926580-X)
Hardcover, Arrow Books
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Leaf Storm: And Other Storiesby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 006075155X (0-06-075155-X)
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Let It Come Downby Paul BowlesISBN 0061137391 (0-06-113739-1)
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Letters from the Earthby Mark TwainISBN 0060803312 (0-06-080331-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from the Earth'Book summary:If you're already familiar with Finn and Sawyer, perhaps this collection of fragments, short stories, and essays--assembled posthumously some few decades ago now, but still fresh--will enhance your sense of Twain's true range. A particular favorite: his essay "The Damned Human Race," wherein he proves, rather convincingly, that an anaconda snake is a higher form of life than an English Earl. [via]
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Lives of Girls and Womenby Alice MunroISBN 0070440433 (0-07-044043-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Love Objectby Edna O'BrienISBN 0140031049 (0-14-003104-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Object'Book summary:Love and its objects are the common elements in these eight stories: the nervous love of a country mother for her sophisticated, town-living daughter, the adoration of a mistress for her married lover and less orthodox affairs between women and their illusions. [via]
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Lucky Girlsby Nell FreudenbergerISBN 0061124273 (0-06-112427-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Girls'Book summary:Nell Freudenberger knows from lucky girls. She has had a lot of luck herself in her short writing career: Her debut story was featured in The New Yorker, with a glossy full-color author photo alongside; a quick book contract ensued, on the strength of that one published story; and now comes a debut collection full of stories that are actually good. The Lucky Girls collected here are far-flung Americans, young women trying to figure out where they belong in the world. In "The Tutor," teenage Julia and her businessman father are living in Bombay; her mother has returned to the United States. Julia crams for the SATs with her tutor Zubin, smokes cigarettes, and goes to nightclubs; her father hovers at home. Freudenberger gets just right the moments when Julia and her father find themselves alone together, trying to be a family: "It was just the two of them at the table then; even with the leaves taken out and stored against the wall in the coat closet, they had to half-stand in order to pass the soup." Too, she knows the upper-class world of which she writes. In "The Orphan," Mandy's parents and brother come to visit her in Thailand, where she is working with "AIDS babies." Mandy's brother Josh appears, and Freudenberger skewers his type, neatly, in a sentence: "Josh looks like someone coming out of trench warfare in the Balkans, rather than college in Maine." But Freudenberger isn't telling easy rich-kid stories. She's forever pushing her narration. In "The Tutor," we hear from Zubin, an overeducated Indian, as well as from Julia. "The Orphan," in turn, is told by Mandy's mom, a woman bewildered by yet proud of her daughter's choice to remain in Thailand. Freudenberger's stories are cosmopolitan, expansive, and richly detailed, a beguiling combination of qualities. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Magic Barrelby Bernard MalamudISBN 0140025588 (0-14-002558-8)
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Men From Boysby John HarveyISBN 0060762853 (0-06-076285-3)
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A Model World And Other Storiesby Michael ChabonISBN 0060790601 (0-06-079060-1)
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Mr. Wrongby Elizabeth Jane HowardISBN 0140046445 (0-14-004644-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Nightmare Hourby R. L. StineISBN 0064408426 (0-06-440842-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Pastures of Heavenby John SteinbeckISBN 0140049983 (0-14-004998-3)
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Poirot Investigatesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061002879 (0-06-100287-9)
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Rose and the Beastby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064407454 (0-06-440745-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose and the Beast'Book summary:Francesca Lia Block, whose Weetzie Bat novels have often been called pop fairy tales, here turns to the real thing for some very different imaginings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, and other tales. Block's stories are more resonance than retelling, fevered dreams behind which the outlines of the traditional tales move fitfully like figures glimpsed now and then through a summer fog. Veiled references to Block's own Los Angeles appear in the twisty house of the seven dwarfs built into a canyon like Laurel or Topanga, the redwood forest on a seaside cliff through which Beauty travels to her Beast, the tree-darkened canyon houses with French doors that open onto exuberant neglected gardens lush with irises and roses. In these evocations Bluebeard becomes an aging blue-haired producer, Sleeping Beauty pricks her arm with a heroin needle, Red Riding Hood's wolf is a lecherous stepfather, and the Snow Queen is a sex goddess who lives in a marble mansion with her boy toy, possibly in Beverly Hills. Sensuous images enrich these languid and darkly ironic visions: jasmine-scented night gardens, leopard couches with velvet pillows, luscious food flavored with mint, coconut milk, or pomegranate sauce, cool candlelit baths. As always, Block's poetic allegories of adolescence are strikingly original and a bit dangerous, a feast for connoisseurs of YA fiction and savvy older teens. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Selected Short Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0140019197 (0-14-001919-7)
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Short Fictionby Charles H. Bohner, Lyman GrantISBN 0131916750 (0-13-191675-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Short Fiction'Book summary:This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, folktale, and film. This edition presents a wide variety of selections by writers from diverse backgrounds that represent a true cross-section of the population and represent a broader, more current selection of contemporary fiction. Features a variety of relatively new writers and some older writers whose work is gaining new audiences: T. C. Boyle, Alice Carey, Oscar Cesares, Charles Chetnutt, E. M Forster, Nikolai Leskov, Mary McCarthy, Jonathan Nolan, Dorothy Parker, Banana Yoshimoto, and Anzia Yezierska. Includes new works to the context readings essays or excerpts from non-fiction section: by Walter Benjamin, Raymond Carver, E.M. Forester, and Joyce Carol Oates, all great critics and theorists of narrative. Stresses women writers, writers of color, and gay and lesbian writers:includes works by Isabel Allande, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Leslie Dick, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mary Gaitskill, Susan Glaspell, Gish Jen, Mary Shelley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Jeanette Winterson, Sherman Alexie, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest J. Gaines, Dagoberto Gilb, Hanif Kureishi, Tomás Rivera, Salman Rushdie and more. For literature and film enthusiasts. [via]
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Short Fictionby Dean Dougherty, Charles H. BohnerISBN 0134600495 (0-13-460049-5)
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Slow Handby Michele SlundISBN 0060922362 (0-06-092236-2)
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The Stories of Heinrich Bollby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0070064229 (0-07-006422-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Stories of Richard Bauschby Richard BauschISBN 0060956224 (0-06-095622-4)
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Tales of H. P. Lovecraftby Joyce Carol Oates, H. P. LovecraftISBN 0060957905 (0-06-095790-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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To Cut a Long Story Shortby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0061014990 (0-06-101499-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Cut a Long Story Short'Book summary:To Cut a Long Story Short reads like a series of modern fairy tales. In each story, Jeffrey Archer presents a moral problem, and a character finds himself tested in a dark hour. Evil manifests itself in the form of selfish relatives, corrupt cops, racist men. Good arrives in the form of unselfish minor characters who suddenly emerge as the real center of the story, or lost souls who come out the other side of corruption and renounce their old ways.
In "The Endgame" Cornelius Barrington decides to fake a bankruptcy. As one of the richest men in his small town, he hopes his sudden plunge into poverty will reveal the true character of his friends and relatives. He calls in debts, asks to borrow money from those he has lent to in the past, only to be turned away time and again.
After lunch Cornelius took a bus into town--a novel experience. It was some time before he located a bus stop, and then he discovered that the conductor didn't have change for a twenty pound note. His first call after he had been dropped off in the town centre was to the local estate agent, who didn't seem surprised to see him. Cornelius was delighted to find how quickly the rumour of his financial demise must be spreading.
"The Endgame" is a complex tale with a clear message. Not all the stories in To Cut a Long Story Short attempt such weightiness. "The Expert Witness" is a delightful parody of the legal system, a portrait of two pub mates--a lawyer and an expert witness--who often find themselves facing off in the courtroom, pretending not to know each other. Certain pieces (glimpses, vignettes) last a mere two pages, but whatever the length or weight of the story, throughout this collection Archer has a light touch, a quick wit, and a thorough understanding of the mechanics of suspense. --Emily White [via]More editions of To Cut a Long Story Short:
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Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 0140042407 (0-14-004240-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tortilla Flat'Book summary:Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. As Steinbeck chronicles their thoughts and emotions, temptations and lusts, he spins a tale as compelling, and ultimately as touched by sorrow, as the famous legends of the Round Table.[via]More editions of Tortilla Flat:
Trials of Rumpoleby John MortimerISBN 0140051627 (0-14-005162-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Twist in the Taleby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 006100717X (0-06-100717-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Twist in the Tale'Book summary:No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to places we've never seen and introduces us to people we'll never forget.
Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash; and the finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget.
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Vacuum Diagramsby Stephen BaxterISBN 0061059048 (0-06-105904-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vacuum Diagrams'Book summary:Ironically, you'll probably appreciate Vacuum Diagrams most after you've put it down. The prolific and acclaimed Stephen Baxter has always been praised for his imaginative and conscientious use of science, and Vacuum Diagrams is no exception. This collection of short stories will leave you ruminating for days over the sprawl of ideas, worlds, and life forms Baxter has woven together.
Filling in the gaps on Baxter's ambitious, almost audacious, 10-million-year timeline called the "Xeelee Sequence," Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of revised, previously published short stories that bridges together his popular novels set in this same "future history"--Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, and Ring. Baxter's universe is rotten with life, from strange tree-stump-like creatures with superfluid ice skeletons to dark matter "birds" to sentient beings composed of pure mathematics. And Baxter's reverence for life's beauty, for its voracious robustness, is hard to resist--especially when it comes to humanity and its tentative, eager rise. The cycling timeline follows humans as they come into their own as a star-faring race, from their first sporadic steps to their near dominance of the universe and beyond.
Vacuum Diagrams is a great introduction to Baxter for those unfamiliar with him and a good primer for the other "Xeelee Sequence" novels. If you already love Baxter or the other novels in the sequence, Vacuum Diagrams is certainly a safe bet. Besides, any book that sends you scurrying quizzically after your college physics text deserves a closer look. Check it out. --Paul Hughes [via]
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White Timeby Margo LanaganISBN 006074393X (0-06-074393-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Time'Book summary:Lose yourself in White Time
White Time is mind time, body time, soul time, heart time.
White Time is other worlds, other dimensions, other states of being.
White Time is out of time.
In this transcendent collection of short stories, Margo Lanagan, author of the award-winning story collection Black Juice, deftly navigates a new set of worlds in which the boundaries between reality and possibility are paper-thin . . . and sometimes disappear altogether.
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Year's Best Fantasy 5by David Hartwell, Kathryn CramerISBN 0060776056 (0-06-077605-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year's Best Fantasy 5'Book summary:Magic lives in remarkable realms -- and in the short fiction of today's top fantasists. In this fifth breathtaking volume of the year's best flights of the fantastic, award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present a dazzling new array of wonders -- stories that break through the time-honored conventions of the genre to carry the reader to astonishing places that only the most ingenious minds could conceive.
In the able hands of Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Tim Powers, and others, miracles become tangible and true, impossible creatures roam unfettered, and fairy tales are reshaped, sharpened, and freed from the restrictive bonds of childhood.
Lose yourself in these pages and in these worlds -- and discover the power, the beauty, the unparalleled enchantment of fantasy at its finest.
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Year's Best Science Fictionby David G. HartwellISBN 0061057460 (0-06-105746-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year's Best Science Fiction'Book summary:This is the third installment of David G. Hartwell's annual Year's Best collection, and he writes that it is "full of science fiction--every story in the book is clearly that and not something else."
Hartwell chose 22 stories this time around, a healthy increase from last year's collection. (This doesn't represent more pages, but rather in selecting stories of shorter length, Hartwell was able to fit more of them into the same space.) As usual, Hartwell does a masterful job of picking wonderful works from a variety of venues, and the names here include Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, and Gene Wolfe. This is the perfect collection for readers seeking stories that are quintessentially science fiction. Year's Best SF is rapidly becoming one of the most important annual anthologies in the science fiction field. --Craig Engler [via]
Year's Best SFby David G. HartwellISBN 0061056413 (0-06-105641-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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