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Airshipsby Barry HannahISBN 0394729137 (0-394-72913-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Airships'Book summary:Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration of the new American South a land of high school band contests, where good old boys from Vicksurg are reunited in Vietnam and petty nostalgia and the constant pain of disappointed love prevail. Airships is a striking demonstration of Barry Hannah's mature and original talent.[via]-
Among the Missingby Dan ChaonISBN 0345441613 (0-345-44161-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among the Missing'Book summary:Dan Chaon opens his new collection of stories with an epigraph from Raymond Carver: "Whatever this was all about, it was not a vain attempt--journey." This is pretty opaque stuff from Carver, a writer not much given to mystification. But it strikes just the right note for Chaon's assembly of characters, a group vaguely unsettled by life, trying to make the best of it. First and foremost, this is a book beset by moms. You get the feeling that the characters in Among the Missing never really had a chance to figure out the world, with these cryptic, uncommunicative women to care for them. In the title story, for example, a car is discovered at the bottom of a local lake, with an entire family drowned inside. The college-age narrator, however, is preoccupied by the more mundane puzzle of his parents' relationship. "Somehow," he recounts, "they'd stayed married for twenty years, and then, abruptly, somehow they'd decided to give up. It didn't quite make sense, and I looked at them, for a minute aware of the other mystery in my life. 'Do you want some soup?' my mother asked, as if I were a customer."
That's about as much as you'll ever get out of one of Chaon's mothers: soup. When not fielding their aging parents' passivity, these characters seem to spend a lot of time grappling with ghosts. The "missing" of the title story are, literally, gone. In "Safety Man," a widow comes to rely on one of those inflatable dolls meant to intimidate intruders. In "Prosthesis," a young wife and mother falls for a stranger with a missing arm; meanwhile, she watches her son grow up and away from her, "disappearing into his own thoughts and feelings." In the end, Chaon is the rare writer who deserves comparison to Carver: both write an affectless prose that takes on a surprisingly emotional life of its own. --Claire Dederer [via]
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexby Anne FrankISBN 0385187157 (0-385-18715-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Beaker's Dozenby Nancy KressISBN 031286843X (0-312-86843-X)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Blue Champagneby John VarleyISBN 0441068685 (0-441-06868-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Books of Bloodby Clive BarkerISBN 0425165582 (0-425-16558-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Castle of Daysby Gene WolfeISBN 0312890427 (0-312-89042-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Collected Storiesby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0345335872 (0-345-33587-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories'Book summary:Tennessee Williams was famous for insisting he write every morning. Even during his darkest days, while mourning a lover, or abusing some substance -- and he abused most of them at one time or another -- he'd write. The stories in this volume, arranged chronologically, are from every period of his long life, and recreate the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly -- from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and New Orleans to his days of celebrity in Hollywood and New York. Some are studies for his plays, and like them, their language can suddenly surprise you with a poetic image that shines like a jewel. This edition includes a useful publishing history for each of the fifty stories.
"One overpowering impression emerges from all these stories put together: Tennessee Williams knew more about the hidden life of far-flung America than any of us really suspected." -- Seymour Krim, Washington Post Book World
"By turns disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart."
-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times [via]More editions of Collected Stories:
Come Along With Meby Shirley JacksonISBN 0445085398 (0-445-08539-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Complete Storiesby Bernard MalamudISBN 0374525757 (0-374-52575-7)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Stories'Book summary:Due to his formidable skill as a novelist--and to the fact that one of his novels, The Natural, had the good or bad luck to be repackaged as a large-screen vehicle for Robert Redford--Bernard Malamud hasn't always been recognized as short-story master of the first rank. As this collection demonstrates once and for all, he is. The anthology pieces, such as "The Magic Barrel," "The Silver Dish," or "Rembrandt's Hat," would be more than enough to place the author in the pantheon. But the 54 stories gathered here represent an astonishing abundance of narrative smarts and brilliant, Yiddish-accented prose. Malamud's heroes meet all manner of misfortune--there's something distinctly Job-like about even his most contented characters (a typical one has "a sort of indigenous sadness [that] hung on or around him")--yet the author suffuses their woes with gentle comedy. And while Jews occupy center stage in almost every tale, they are universal rather than parochial figures: as the beleaguered tailor in "Angel Levine" triumphantly informs his wife, "Believe me, there are Jews everywhere." [via]
The Devil's Larderby Jim CraceISBN 0312420897 (0-312-42089-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Larder'Book summary:In The Devil's Larder, Jim Crace has put together an odd and artful little volume that encompasses more of the human experience than it really ought to, given its size and scope. Crace presents us with 64 short fictions about food, which add up to a picture of life that is at once diabolical and innocent, creepily sexualized and free of judgment. In one fable, a mother and her small daughter twist their tongues together, ferreting out the food in each other's mouths: they want to know if food tastes the same from another person's tongue. A game of strip fondue ends with guests covered in burns where the molten cheese has fallen onto their naked flesh. "A gasp of pain. The whiff of sizzling flesh and hair and cheese." Flesh and cheese, that's the stuff. Crace shows us the odd outer limits of desire, and revels in the sheer weirdness of the daily act of eating. --Claire Dederer [via]
The Devil's Modeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0394576705 (0-394-57670-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Devils and Demonsby Marvin Kaye, Saralee KayeISBN 0385185634 (0-385-18563-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0448170159 (0-448-17015-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394847199 (0-394-84719-9)
Softcover, Pendulum Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The classic, chilling tale of a legendary double life, with an introduction from best-selling author Garth Nix.[via]
Respectable citizen by day . . . killer by night? This is Robert Louis Stevenson's harrowing tale of good and evil -- caught in the same person.-
The Ebony Towerby John FowlesISBN 0316287458 (0-316-28745-8)
Softcover, Time Warner on Demand
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Ecstasy a Novelby Irvine WelshISBN 0393315819 (0-393-31581-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Ellis Island & Other Storiesby Mark HelprinISBN 0440322049 (0-440-32204-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellis Island & Other Stories'Book summary:Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.[via]More editions of Ellis Island & Other Stories:
Eyeby Frank HerbertISBN 0441223745 (0-441-22374-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Firesby Raymond CarverISBN 039472299X (0-394-72299-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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From the Dust Returnedby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789612 (0-380-78961-2)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Getting Evenby Woody AllenISBN 0394726405 (0-394-72640-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting Even'Book summary:After three decades of prodigious film work (and some unfortunate tabloid adventures as well), it's easy to forget that Woody Allen began his career as one heck of a great comedy writer. Getting Even, a collection of his late '60s magazine pieces, offers a look into Allen's bag of shtick, back when it was new. From the supposed memoirs of Hitler's barber: "Then, in January of 1945, a plot by several generals to shave Hitler's moustache in his sleep failed when von Stauffenberg, in the darkness of Hitler's bedroom, shaved off one of the Führer's eyebrows instead..."
Even though the idea of writing jokes about old Adolf--or addled rabbis, or Maatjes herring--isn't nearly as fresh as it used to be, Getting Even still delivers plenty of laughs. At his best, Woody can achieve a level of transcendent craziness that no other writer can match. If you're looking for a book to dip into at random, or a gift for someone who's seen Sleeper 13 times, Getting Even is a dead lock. [via]
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurryby Elizabeth McCrackenISBN 0380730790 (0-380-73079-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories/ Saul Bellowby Saul BellowISBN 0436039532 (0-436-03953-2)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Infinite Dreamsby Joe HaldemanISBN 0380476053 (0-380-47605-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinite Dreams'Book summary:A Science Fiction novel of both a speculative and fantasy nature, with a bit of social interaction and technology thrown in, by a well respected author in the genre [via]
The Inshore Squadronby Alexander KentISBN 0399123032 (0-399-12303-2)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelledby Harlan EllisonISBN 0441495478 (0-441-49547-8)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Mister Parker Pyne, Detectiveby Agatha ChristieISBN 0440158885 (0-440-15888-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Mr. Parker Pyne, Detectiveby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396088651 (0-396-08865-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Music Schoolby John UpdikeISBN 0394437276 (0-394-43727-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby M. H. AbramsISBN 0393950514 (0-393-95051-4)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:This anthology covers writers and works of English literature. Among the major works included are the complete texts of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"; Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; Beckett's tragicomic "Endgame"; and Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". The 7th edition features works by 60 women writers, 21 writers new to the "Norton Anthology", 20 represented with additional selections or reselected works. Fourteen new and expanded thematic clusters gather short texts that illuminate cultural, historical, and literary concerns within each period. Examining 20th-century literature in English, this edition reflects the global reach of literature in English with ten new authors - Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, V. S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon. "The Persistence of English", a new essay by Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, provides a lively exploration of the English language - its emergence and spread, and its apparent "triumph" as a world language. Visual materials are included from several periods - Hogarth's satiric "Marriage A-la-Mode", engravings by Blake, and illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Period introductions, author headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised, many completely rewritten, for the 7th Edition. New pedagogical features include timelines for each period and revised endpaper maps. The text is accompanied by 2 audio CDs. [via]
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Norton Anthology of English Literature: ISBN 0393093018 (0-393-09301-8)
Hardcover, Norton - The Norton Anthology of English Literature: ISBN 0393151115 (0-393-15111-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Norton Anthology of English Literature: ISBN 0393947769 (0-393-94776-9)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. AbramsISBN 0393925323 (0-393-92532-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologiesthorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possibleThe Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of English Literature:
Parker Pyne Investigatesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0312981651 (0-312-98165-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery and Fantasyby Dana StabenowISBN 0441011977 (0-441-01197-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery and Fantasy'Book summary:This one-of-a-kind collection features stories from some of the biggest names in mystery and fantasy-blending the genres into a unique hybrid where PIs may wear wizard's robes and criminals may really be monsters.
Sit in on a modern-day witch's trial, visit the halls of a magical boarding school with murder on the curriculum, spend some time with Sookie Stackhouse, visit London's hidden world of the Nightside, and become spellbound with eight more tales of magical mystery.
Contributors include:
Michael Armstrong
Donna Andrews
Anne Bishop
Jay Caselberg
Mike Doogan
Laura Anne Gilman
Simon R. Green
Charlaine Harris
Anne Perry
Sharon Shinn
Dana Stabenow
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Reach for Tomorrowby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0345353765 (0-345-35376-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Relative Strangerby Charles BaxterISBN 0393322203 (0-393-32220-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Relative Stranger'Book summary:"In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."GQ
Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday life. The often-curious connections of relatives and strangers are illuminated in the thirteen exquisite stories of A Relative Stranger. "You can't just get a brother off the street," a character says, but indeed he does. [via] 
Roads Not Takenby Gardner Dozois, Stanley SchmidtISBN 0345421949 (0-345-42194-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Storiesby Jane YolenISBN 0312875231 (0-312-87523-1)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories'Book summary:As author, poet, and editor, Jane Yolen has published more than 150 books and has won two Nebula Awards, the Caldecott Medal, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Daedalus Award, the Kerlan Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has written one of the 20th century's greatest high-fantasy series, the Chronicles of Great Alta (Sister Light, Sister Dark, White Jenna, and The One-Armed Queen). Her first collection of short fiction for adults is Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories. It assembles 28 stories, three of which are original to this volume, many of which take the form of folk or fairy tales, and all of which are excellent. Sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, the stories are always beautifully written, sharp, and wise.
"Snow in Summer" portrays a modern, Appalachian Snow White with a fringe-Fundamentalist snake-handling stepmother. "Granny Rumple" reveals the grim origin of Rumplestiltskin. A prequel to the Chronicles of Great Alta, "Blood Sister" explores both love and the nature of narrative. In "The Gift of the Magicians, with Apologies to You Know Who," Beauty and the Beast meet with a horrifically suitable O. Henry twist. The Nebula Award winning "Lost Girls" revisits Peter Pan's Neverland with a feminist slant. "Dick W. and His Pussy; or, Tess and Her Adequate Dick" is an amusingly naughty retold fairy tale. In the Nebula Award winner "Sister Emily's Lightship," the poet Emily Dickinson finds a strange and otherworldly inspiration. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Stalking the Nightmareby Harlan EllisonISBN 0425086836 (0-425-08683-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalking the Nightmare'Book summary:Pure, 100-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high! Here youll find twenty of his very best stories and essays (including the four-part Scenes from the Real World), an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, he created for NBC; Tales from the Mountains of Madness; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life: sex, violence, and labor relations. With a knockout, an absoloutely killer, Foreword by Stephen King. [via]
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The Stories of Bernard Malamudby Bernard MalamudISBN 0374270376 (0-374-27037-6)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Strange Cases of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeby Katherine Linehan, Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0393974650 (0-393-97465-0)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Cases of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Strange Highwaysby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0446603392 (0-446-60339-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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This Year It Will Be Differentby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440223571 (0-440-22357-1)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Year It Will Be Different'Book summary:From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends, The Glass Lake, and Evening Class comes a stunning collection of fifteen Christmas stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. In "A Typical Irish Christmas," a grieving widower heads for a holiday in Ireland and finds an unexpected destination not just for himself, but for a father and daughter in crisis. . . . In "Pulling Together," a teacher not yet out of her twenties sees her affair with a married man at a turning point as Christmas Eve approaches. . . . And in the title story, "This Year It Will Be Different," a woman with a complacent husband and grown children enters a season that will forever alter her life, and theirs. . .
These stories, and a dozen more, powerfully evoke many lives--from step-families grappling with exes to children caught in grown-up tugs-of-war--during the one holiday when feelings cannot be easily hidden. The time of year may be magical, imbued with meaning. But the situations are timeless. And Maeve Binchy makes us care about them all. [via]More editions of This Year It Will Be Different:
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394701534 (0-394-70153-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Consists of three character studies of women; "The Good Anna"--a kind but domineering German servingwoman; "Melanctha"--an uneducated but sensitive black girl; "The Gentle Lena"--a pathetically feebleminded young German maid. [via]
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Too Far to Goby John UpdikeISBN 0449200167 (0-449-20016-7)
Softcover, Crest
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The Watchby Rick BassISBN 039331135X (0-393-31135-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Ways of White Folksby Langston HughesISBN 0394451163 (0-394-45116-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Wessex Tales: The Three Strangers; a Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four; the Melancholy Hussar; the Withered Armby Thomas HardyISBN 0312862768 (0-312-86276-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Winds of Change...and Other Storiesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385180993 (0-385-18099-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Winds of Change and Other Storiesby Marie Nowinson, Isaac AsimovISBN 0345311884 (0-345-31188-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Woman's Eyeby Sara ParetskyISBN 0440213355 (0-440-21335-5)
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The Year's Best Science Fiction : Eighteenth Annual Collection: More Than 250,000 Words of Fantastic Fictionby Gardner DozoisISBN 0312274785 (0-312-27478-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year's Best Science Fiction : Eighteenth Annual Collection: More Than 250,000 Words of Fantastic Fiction'Book summary:Gardner Dozois has become the most influential editor in science fiction, and his best-of-the-year anthologies show why. He has chosen 23 stories by masters such as Ursula K. LeGuin, Michael Swanwick, Brian Stableford, and Greg Egan, as well as newer writers Severna Park, Tananarive Due, and Eliot Fintushel.
Standouts include "Tendeleo's Story," Ian MacDonald's powerful tale of people whose lives are changed by an alien invader that is slowly eating Africa; "The Suspect Genome," a mystery by Peter F. Hamilton; the slow but moving "Going After Bobo" by Susan Palwick; and "The Great Goodbye" by Robert Charles Wilson. Hugo nominees include "Radiant Green Star" by Lucius Shepherd, "Oracle" by Greg Egan, and "On the Orion Line" by Stephen Baxter.
Dozois's summation of the year in science fiction alone is worth the cost of admission to these annual collections. Along with his usual takes on publishing, literature, film, and more, Dozois delivers a retrospective on the state of science fiction in the year 2000. Contrary to those who claim science fiction is either dead or (at least) losing its heart and soul since the deaths of authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert J. Heinlein, Dozois emphatically argues that the health of SF has never been stronger. Discussing increased numbers of novels being published (he includes numbers to prove his point), discoveries of young new writers, ongoing evolution of the literature, and innovative viewpoints to mine, Dozois bubbles over with enthusiasm for the genre in which he made his name, as well as the coming century and its mysterious developments waiting to surprise and delight us. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
More editions of The Year's Best Science Fiction : Eighteenth Annual Collection: More Than 250,000 Words of Fantastic Fiction:
- The Year's Best Science Fiction : Eighteenth Annual Collection: More Than 250,000 Words of Fantastic Fiction: ISBN 0312274653 (0-312-27465-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - The Year's Best Science Fiction : Eighteenth Annual Collection: More Than 250,000 Words of Fantastic Fiction: ISBN 0312274785 (0-312-27478-5)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
- The Year's Best Science Fiction : Eighteenth Annual Collection: More Than 250,000 Words of Fantastic Fiction: ISBN 0312274653 (0-312-27465-3)
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