Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. "If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a...
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Author: Jacobs, W. W.Summary:
Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark-by authors from H.G. Wells to Willa Cather. Before movies, television, and teams of high-...
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"Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly "Some...
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Author: MANSFIELD, KatherineSummary:
Three stories from this famous author. A cynical, human story of a woman's short-lived bliss. The author's insight into characters shows that there is more to life than froth and bubble. A special...
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Author: Langridge, ElizabethSummary:
Told in two volumes, Arise the Dead--part memoir, part historical fiction--spans the period between 1914 and 1945. The two books concentrate on the lives of real people--the author's parents, the...
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Author: Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Presents the first part of the author's Mysteries of Winterthurn.
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Author: Dekker, RachelleSummary:
They say the Awakening is coming.That she's the key.But can she find her identity in the lightBefore she perishes in the dark'Twenty years have passed since Carrington and Remko Brant's baby,...
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Author: National, 826Summary:
"A gift...'ne wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required." -USA Today Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United...
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Author: Pearce, MichaelSummary:
It's World War I. Britain's shadow government, headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of Egypt's hereditary ruler the Khedive, has ruled Egypt since 1881. The head of...
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Author: Moonwalker, LukeSummary:
The Acts of the Compassionates: “The pleasures of this novel come from the absurd situations, the baroque language and the passing shots at everything from gay marriage to wardrobe malfunctions....
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Author: Barwin, GarySummary:
Poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne...
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Author: Fry, AlanSummary:
It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations...
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Author: Virgo, SeánSummary:
The essays in this inaugural volume were commissioned from a number of outstanding writers (many of them national prize winners). Some are professional naturalists, others are poets, filmmakers,...
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Author: Winchester, SimonSummary:
Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a...
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Author: AviSummary:
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family...