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Grouped as follows SF/Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Non-fiction.
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The Goblin Emperor (Goblin Emperor, Bk 1) by Katherine Addison
Born of a marriage made only as part of a treaty, the youngest son of the emperor has lived his entire life in exile, far from his father and the imperial court. He knows little of the rituals of the empire. He knows less about the deadly intrigue that surrounds the government and the court. But... more
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Galactic Empires, Vol 1 by Brian Aldiss (Editor)
Brian Aldiss has selected stories and assembled them into a mammoth saga which explores many dimensions of the Galactic Empire: its origins, laws, ores, educational systems, not to mention its incredible variety of inhabitants, and their experience with the natural quirks of the universe in... more
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The Star Fox by Poul Anderson
Paul Anderson graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in physics -- and has been a writer ever since. In 1959 he was guest-of-honor at the annual World Science Fiction Convention in Detroit, and his "No Truce With Kings", was the winner of a Hugo Award in 1964.
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Anthonology by Piers Anthony
A retrospective anthology of tales is highlighted by autobiographical accounts of the experiences that have shaped his fantasy and science fiction work.
This contains: Possible to Rue; The Toaster; Quinquepedalian; Encounter; Phog; The Ghost Galaxies; Within the Cloud; The Life of the... more
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Mercenary (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Bk 2) by Piers Anthony
He was driven by violent injustice from his home moon of Callisto -- and set forth to claim the epic destiny that would blaze across worlds and time. He saw his family destroyed, his sister carried off into sexual slavery, his beautiful lover killed -- and he swore revenge against the murderous... more
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Refugee (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Bk 1) by Piers Anthony
Though he was later accused of every crime and sexual perversion in the galaxy, Hope Hubris began as an innocent. Because he defended his older sister against the violent lusts of a wealthy scion, Hope and his peasant family were forced to flee Callisto, one of the moons of Jupiter. Pursued by... more
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Politician (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Bk 3) by Piers Anthony
He awoke in a tiny lightless cell, groping for memory...memory that had been erased. Hope Hubris, Jupiter governor, progressive populist, warrior hero, and presidential candidate...a "mem-washed" tool of the enemy. And if his captors' plan worked, Hope would destroy his own... more
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Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930's by Isaac Asimov (Edi...
26 science fiction stories, complete in one volume, originally published before 1939 (when the Golden Age of SF began), with autobiographical remarks by Asimov before each story. Includes a previously unpublished story by Asimov, Big Game.
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The Hugo Winners: Volumes I & II by Isaac Asimov (Editor)
The Hugo Winners is a collection of science fiction short stories and novelettes that won the Hugo Award in the World Science Fiction Convention between 1955 and 1961. Isaac Asimov edited it, writing the introduction and a short essay about each author featured in the book.
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Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov & Ralph McQuarrie (Illustrator)
The Positronic Robot Stories. From Isaac Asimov, the writer whose name is synonymous with robots and the science of robotics, here are five decades of robot visions -- 18 of the landmark Asimov Positronic Robot Stories and many of Asimov's insightful essays, including three rare tales... more
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Tomorrow's Children by Isaac Asimov (Editor) & Emanuel Schongut (Illustrator)
Eighteen haunting and evocative tales which present a fascinating glimpse of what children might become like in some yet to be realized time when the fantastic has become the commonplace, when witchcraft is a science and creatures from alien planets live next door.
Contents:
No Life of... more
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Destinies: Premier Issue by James Baen (Editor)
Anthology. Premier issue. Nov Dec 1978
The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact.
Contents:
-- Stand Pat, Ruby Stone / Roger Zelazny ? ss;
-- Old Woman By the Road / Gregory Benford ? ss;
-- New Beginnings / Jerry E. Pournelle ? ar;
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Far Futures by Gregory Benford (Editor)
Gregory Benford, one the great SF writers of our day, has assumed the mantle of editor to produce an ambitous hard SF anthology: Far Futures. Many of the fields's greatest works concern vast perspectives, expanding our visions of ourselves by foreseeing the immense panorama of time. This... more
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Nebula Awards 24: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1988 (Nebu...
Stories selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America, which include:
Themes and variations / Ian Watson
Free associating about "falling free" / Lois McMaster Bujold
Ray Bradbury / Greg Bear
The collector speaks / Ray Bradbury: ambassador to the future
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The Multiple Man by Ben Bova
The dynamic new President of the United States, James J. Halliday, seems determined to single-handedly turn an embittered nation around from economic, political, and social ruin. No one could be prouder than his devoted press secretary Meric Albano. But is the President accomplishing this... more
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol 2 B by Ben Bova (Editor)
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.
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The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury
In this book you will meet...A Hollywood monster-maker whose Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly becomes alarmingly lifelike. A boy who raises giant mushrooms in his cellar -- until the mushrooms begin to raise him. A corpse who supports his wife and family. A circus fat lady whose midget husband has... more
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A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury
Twenty-two stories of wonder, fantasy, and delight.
Contents:
In a season of calm weather
The dragon
A medicine for melancholy
The end of the beginning
The wonderful ice cream suit
Fever dream
Marriage mender
The town where no one got off
A scent of sarsaparilla
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Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy Magazine, Vol 1 by Marion Zimmer Bradley
DISCOVER THE ENCHANTMENT
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine is the renowned quarterly devoted to showcasing the best short fantasy by top names in the field as well as talented newcomers. Now from its pages comes a stellar collection, eighteen tales of wonder including:
Mercedes... more
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Sword of Chaos (Darkover) by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Editor)
DAW No. 477
Darkover, the planet of the Bloody Sun, is one of the great triumphs of the imagination. Its peoples, its sciences, human and non-human, have been brought to life and its legendary has the ring of authentic folklore comparable only to the depth and complexity of the works of... more
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Polymath Polymath (Zarathustra Refugee Planets, Bk 2) by John Brunner
When a ship filled with refugees from a cosmic catastrophe crash-landed on an unmapped world, their outlook was precarious. Their ship was lost, salvage had been minor, and everything came to depend on one bright young man accidentally among them.
He was a trainee planet-builder -- a... more
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The Dragonslayer's Apprentice (Point Fantasy) by David Calder
It's not easy being the Dragonslayer's apprentice. The townspeople complain too much. The Dragonslayer is always keeping an eye on you. And the dragons have a bad attitude when it comes to being slain. It's enough to make you want to hang up your sword and become a... more
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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics) by Karel Capek
R.U.R.—written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, ŠCapek's Robots are an android product—they remember... more
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Dragons of Darkness by Orson Scott Card (Editor)
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Orson Scott Card continues his fabulous Dragons collection with Dragons of Darkness, a spectacular accumulation of 15 original tales by such shining talents as Ben Bova, Glen Cook, John H. Vinge, Robert Frazier and more. Contents include -
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Dragons of Light by Orson Scott Card (Editor)
The dragons are coming! Here are thirteen original tales about that most popular of fabulous beasts--the dragon! Edited by Orson Scott Card, this book features works by authors such as Roger Zelazny, Michael Bishop, Craig Shaw Gardner, Steve Rasnic Tem and more.
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Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card
A dark and powerful fantasy from the bestselling author of Ender’s Shadow.
Enter the city of Hart’s Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee,... more
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Woman Of Destiny by Orson Scott Card
For pride, for passion, for her family. From the inferno of industrial England to the shining promise of a new America, Dinah Kirkham rose to free herself and her children from poverty's grim reign, and reach for the freedom that is every woman's dream...
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The Worthing Saga (Worthing, Bks 1-3) by Orson Scott Card
Gathering every story about Jason Worthing, this volume includes "The Worthing Chronicle," as well as all of the other stories set on Capitol and later on Jason's colonized planet.
It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long,... more
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Along the Rim of Time by Lillian Stewart Carl
Eleven protagonists find themselves skirting the often uncertain boundary between this world and others, by choice, by chance, or by coercion. Warriors fight battles they didn't sign on to fight. Androids grapple with humanity, their own and that of the people around them. Teachers, artists,... more
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Sabazel by Lillian Stewart Carl
In a world rooted in Mediterranean history and mythology, a warrior-king forms a more-than-political alliance with an Amazon queen. "A marvelous sense of romantic adventure…unusually literate and intelligent…strong characterizations complimented by an evocative magical poetry in the... more
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Universe 16 by Terry Carr (Editor)
Anthology of Science Fiction stories.
Contents:
* Hotel Mind Slaves / Ronald Anthony Cross
* At the Flood / Rick Shelley
* The Idea Trap / George Zebrowski
* What Genius / Gary Konas
* Was That House Here Yesterday? / Robert Thurston
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The Cybernetic Walrus (The Wonderland Gambit, Book 1) by Jack L. Chalker
EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS WRONG...That was the strange message left on Cory Maddox's e-mail--just at the moment when years of work on a revolutionary subspace computer system was about to pay off. Nothing would be the same for Cory again. Suddenly his life was thrown into chaos when the... more
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A Jungle of Stars by Jack L. Chalker
Paul Carlton Savage died on July 20, 1969, in Vietnam -- but that was only the start of his troubles! Approached by a mysterious entity called The Hunter, Savage was offered immortality in exchange for his services in The Hunter's continuing war against The Bromgrev. Suddenly, Savage found... more
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The March Hare Network (The Wonderland Gambit, Book 2) by Jack L. Chalker
GO ASK ALICETime after time, life after life, Cory Maddox was being incarnated into worlds he found both familiar and strangely different. And it was only in his latest incarnation that, for the first time, Cory brought along knowledge, skills, and memories of his previous existence--memories of... more
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Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail (Four Lords of the Diamond, Bk 4) by Jack L. Chalker
The Confederacy's grand scheme seemed to be working. They had substituted the mind of their best operator for the minds of four criminals - every one a top assassin - and sent one to each of the four Warden worlds to eliminate the resident Lord there. The agents on Lilith, Cerberus, and... more
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The Return of Nathan Brazil (Well of Souls, Bk 4) by Jack L. Chalker
The Dreel was a hive-mind, composed of trillions upon trillions of virus-sized units, which infected intelligent beings like a disease and took over the mind of an occupied being, utterly. It had occupied planets throughout the galaxy, making their entire population its mind-slaves, and was on... more
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Twilight at the Well of Souls (Well of Souls, Bk 5) by Jack L. Chalker
The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle.
Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to reach the Well of Souls in time to save the universe and before any of the hostile... more
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Cuckoo's Egg (Alliance-Union Universe) by C. J. Cherryh
They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fighters, the defenders. Thorn knew that his... more
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Cyteen (Cyteen, Bks 1 - 3) by C. J. Cherryh
A brilliant young scientist rises to power on Cyteen, haunted by the knowledge that her predecessor and genetic duplicate died at the hands of one of her trusted advisors. Murder, politics, and genetic manipulation provide the framework for the latest Union-Alliance novel by the author of... more
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Fever Season (Merovingen Nights, Bk 2) by C. J. Cherryh (Editor)
Short stories by authors including C.J. Cherryh, Lynn Abbey, and Mercedes Lackey depict the adventures of the cunning inhabitants of Merovingen.
Stories include:
Fever season / C.J. Cherryh
Hearts and minds / Chris Morris
Fever season (reprised) / C.J. Cherryh
A... more
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Smuggler's Gold (Merovingen Nights, No 4) by C. J. Cherryh (Editor)
Contents:
* More Than Meets the Eye / by Mercedes Lackey
* Paper Chase / by Roberta Rogow
* A Fish Story / by Nancy Asire
* A Harmless Excursion / by Robert Lynn Asprin
* Mystery / by Chris and Janet Morris
* Smuggler's Gold / by C.J. Cherryh
* A Day in the Life / by Lynn... more
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Reach for Tomorrow by Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke's 2nd collection of 12 short stories with a preface written by the author. Originally published in 1956.
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Rescue party
A walk in the dark
The forgotten enemy
Technical error
The parasite
The fires within
The awakening
Trouble with the natives
The... more
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A Bait of Dreams by Jo Clayton
They called the gems Ranga Eyes. They were beautiful crystals, cool and smooth. They opened doorways to magical realms, leading to escape, happiness, peace. But they exacted a terrible price for they were an incredible narcotic. After only a single use, they dragged you in, sucked your soul... more
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The Burning Ground (Shadowsong Trilogy, Bk 2) by Jo Clayton
Shadith once existed as a spirit entrapped in the Diadem, an enigmatic alien artifact. Now free, Shadith finds herself with the ability to transfer her consciousness into another -- becoming the perfect spy. Hired to recover a valuable technological device, she stumbles across one of the... more
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Changer's Moon (Duel of Sorcery, Bk 3) by Jo Clayton
The two contenders tossed the dice for the final contest. The Noris drew the Runner, the Sword, the Sorcerer, the Eye. He was pleased. The armies could march. The valley and all that was in it would be his.
The Indweller drew the Kingfisher, the Poet-warrior, the Priestess, the Magic Child.... more
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Crystal Heat (Shadowsong Trilogy, Bk 3) by Jo Clayton
As an empath, Shadith is the perfect employee of Excavations Limited, a high-tech private detective agency. But when assigned to locate and return a creature who has been abducted by a smuggler, Shadith cannot in good conscience fulfill her mission. Not when it means returning the creature to a... more
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Diadem from the Stars (Diadem, Bk 1) by Jo Clayton
The thief crashed among the nomads of Jaydugar, a semi-barbarian world... and the diadem found its way into the hands -- and onto the skull -- of the girl Aleytys.
She herself was a strange one -- daughter of a sky wanderer, outcast among the people who had raised her out of fear and awe. And... more
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Fire in the Sky (Shadowsong Trilogy, Bk 1) by Jo Clayton
This is the first in The Shadowsong Trilogy, the story of Shadith, formerly a spirit residing in the Diadem, a magical relic from an alien empire. She is embodied with the gift of empathy and a magic based on music, which enables her to act as an arbiter for interplanetary diplomatic corps. Now... more
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Irsud (Diadem, Bk 3) by Jo Clayton
Sold into slavery, Aleytys fate was to be worse than that of the usual slave girl's bondage. For her new owners were insectoid and she was to serve as proxy-mother to the old Queen's successor. In short, like an Earth wasp's prey, she would be both bearer and food for that which was... more
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Lamarchos (Diadem, Bk 2) by Jo Clayton
The diadem that crowned the head of Aleyts was in contact with her central nervous system -- and invisible to outsiders. But even that star-born fugitive herself did not know what the diadem's powers were or what it could do to or for her.
What she did know was that it made her into a... more
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Maeve (Diadem, Bk 4) by Jo Clayton
Aleytys, wanderer of the skies, seeker of the home planet of her mother's super-race, wearer-slave of the mind-enhancing diadem, is down on Maeve, forest planet of tree-dwellers and semi-humans. Her aim to continue her quest, to shake her pursuers.
It's an action-packed adventure... more
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The Magic Wars (Wild Magic, Bk 3) by Jo Clayton
Although Faan has at last achieved mastery of her magical talent, she has still not gained her heart's desire - to be reunited with the mother from whom she was stolen as a young child. But before she can hope to fulfill this quest, Faan and her companions in sorcery are caught up in a war... more
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Moongather (Duel of Sorcery, Bk 1) by Jo Clayton
Serroi had been an outcast. She was a misborn of the windrunners, of small stature with pale olive skin and certain strangely heightened sensitivities. But now she was a meie -- a woman warrior trained by an exclusive order. She had been with her shieldmate at the Plaz when she overheard the... more
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Moonscatter (Duel of Sorcery, Bk 2) by Jo Clayton
With skin as pale and eyes as black as death, a blood-red ruby depending from one nostril, he was Ser Noris, the most villainous wizard of all time. He had done it all -- slain all adepts worth his scorn, attained immortality, become the dire tyrant of the Sorcerer's Isles and a shadow of... more
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Quester's Endgame (Diadem Saga, Bk 9) by Jo Clayton
Across the years and through endless star systems, Aleytys had searched for her mother Shareem and her long-denied heritage - the chance to claim her rightful place as a member of the nearly immortal super-race, the Vrya. Now, at last, Aleytys was about to rendezvous with Shareem for a journey... more
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Shadow of the Warmaster (Diadem, Bk 10) by Jo Clayton
Imperator's Rule kept a world enchained, a world so secret that only the piratical slavers of Bolodo Neyuregg Ltd. knew its exact location. But now Bolodo Ltd. had made a crucial mistake. They had stolen the daughter of Adelaar aici Arash, head of the top-rated interstellar Adelaris Security... more
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Shadowkill (Shadith's Quest, Bk 3) by Jo Clayton
Mindwiping or death would be the fate for Shadith if she could not find a way to escape the Institute ship and her captors. So she creates a controlled, temporary mindwipe, hiding her identity so thoroughly that even she herself no longer knew who she is.
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Shadowplay (Shadith's Quest, Bk 1) by Jo Clayton
Spacenapped when she stumbled on a kidnapping in progress, Shadith - captive for centuries in the alien artifact known as the Diadem, now once again living in a human form - finds herself the prisoner of Ginbiryol Seyirshi, a being who has instigated devastating wars on world after world purely... more
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Shadowspeer (Shadith's Quest, Bk 2) by Jo Clayton
The price of a world's death was extremely high, but Ginbiryol Seyirshi would give any buyer his money's worth. Creator of Limited Editions, "productions" in which entire populations become unwilling actors in planet-devastating wars, Seyirshi had once held Shadith... more
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Skeen's Leap (Skeen, Bk 1) by Jo Clayton
Skeen is a person you'd like to meet, (keeping a hand on your wallet of course), human, humane in the best sense of the word, willing to deal with anyone as a person, regardless of the shape they were. An outer worlds Lara Croft, emeshed in multiple quests as consequence of trying to get... more
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Skeen's Return by Jo Clayton
In the second book of the trilogy that began with Skeen's Leap, starship pilot Skeen and her band of travelers desperately search for the Stranger's Gate, the only way she can reenter her own universe. Danger, treachery and intrigue meet them at every turn as they must outwit a monster woman,... more
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Skeen's Search (Skeen, Bk 3) by Jo Clayton
Part 3 of The Skeen Trilogy ...
She has won free of Mistommerk and back to her own universe, but there is a price that must be paid. Skeen must undertake a search for and Ykx who still dwelled beyond the Gateway to Mistommerk, to find these last survivors of a once-mighty race, and to lead... more
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The Snares of Ibex (Diadem, Bk 8) by Jo Clayton
Aleytys had searched for her mother across the worlds of the inhabited galaxy. Her mother was of a super-race; her homeworld's location a secret. But Aleytys had become an expert star hunter, alert to clues and wary of danger -- and she knew that on Ibex her ancestral trail must reach its... more
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Star Hunters (Diadem, Bk 5) by Jo Clayton
The powers of the Diadem convey Aleytys to a distant world on which she must confront both hordes of half-humans who are devastating the planet and the mental force of a madman of her own ancestral race. It is an encounter on several levels - human, inhuman, and superhuman - and she must triumph... more
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Wild Magic (Wild Magic, Bk 1) by Jo Clayton
DAUGHTER OF MAGIC
Return to the universe of the Drinker of Souls trilogy in a magical novel that explores a whole new domain in an enchanted world where rival gods vie for mastery by manipulating both the forces of nature and their own devoted mortal worshippers.
Kidnapped by the mightiest... more
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Wildfire (Wild Magic, Bk 2) by Jo Clayton
Return to the universe of Wild Magic, where rival gods, mischievous elementals, powerful sorcerers, clairvoyant sibyls and magical beings of all description play intricate games of power and wizardry.
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12 Great Classics of Science Fiction by Groff Conklin (Editor)
Groff Conklin here presents 12 masterful tales of science fiction that have -- incredibly -- been lost or overlooked since their original publication. Perceptive, witty, exciting and skillfully written, every story is a fascinating voyage of the creative imagination.
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Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister... more
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The Grey King (Dark is Rising, Bk 4) by Susan Cooper & Michael Heslop (Illustrato...
There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within a certain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog with silver eyes -- a dog that can see the wind. Will Stanton knew nothing of this when he came to Wales to recover from a severe illness. But when he met Bran, the strange boy... more
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Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, Bk 5) by Susan Cooper
The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them... more
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The Umbrella Man: And Other Stories by Roald Dahl
What could be wrong with a sweet-tempered landlady who offers the cheapest, cleanest, coziest quarters? Ask any of her tenants--if you can dig one up. Before Roald Dahl became a master of stories for children, he was a master of the adult short story. His several popular anthologies were noted... more
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The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction by Ellen Datlow (Editor)
Includes:
Multiples - Robert Silverberg
Man-Mountain Gentian - Howard Waldrop
Returning Home - Ian Watson
Triceratops - Tensei Kono
New Rose Hotel - William Gibson
Adagio - Barry B. Longyear
Track of a Legend - Cynthia Felice
Prime Time - Norman Spinrad
Edges - Gregg... more
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Omni Best Science Fiction One by Ellen Datlow (Editor)
OMNI was a magazine about the future. From 1978 to 1995, OMNI magazine combined everything sci-fi geeks could ask for. News and reports from the front lines of the science and technology worlds, in-depth articles and fiction short stories from some of the most important science fiction to... more
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OMNI Visions Two by Ellen Datlow (Editor)
OMNI was a magazine about the future. From 1978 to 1995, OMNI magazine combined everything sci-fi geeks could ask for: News and reports from the front lines of the science and technology worlds, in-depth articles and fiction short stories from some of the most important science fiction to... more
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The Prisoner of Zhamanak (Krishna, Bk 5) by L. Sprague de Camp
Percy Mjipa, diplomat-adventurer, and Alicia Dyckman, interplanetary runaway, both aliens on the alien world of Krishna, are swept up in wildly treacherous -- and wildly funny-imperial intrigue.
At stake: the fate of an entire planet... and their own Terran lives!
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Rivers of Time by L. Sprague de Camp
HAVE GUN, WILL TIME TRAVEL
Time travel came along just in time to save Reginald Rivers' livelihood: guiding safaris hunting big game. There is no longer any big game surviving outside of preserves, but in the world millions years past, from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene, bigger game... more
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The Gryphon King by Tom Deitz
An ancient sword and a long-hidden manuscript draw a group of college students into a confrontation that transforms Athens, Georgia into a battleground where two mythical worlds struggle for supremacy. The author of Windmaster's Bane and Fireshaper's Doom achieves a fortuitous blend of fantasy... more
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Windmaster's Bane (David Sullivan, Bk 1) by Tom Deitz
In Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, tales are told of strange lights, of mysterious roads, of wondrous folk from enchanted realms. All these are hidden from mortal men, and those who have the gift to look on them are both blessed and doomed.. Young David Sullivan never dreamed that the myths of... more
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues -- technology, globalization, gender,... more
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Blade Runner (Blade Runner, Bk 1) by Philip K. Dick
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want... more
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick
A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living... more
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Alien Art / Arcturus Landing by Gordon R. Dickson
ALIEN ART
On the planet Arcadia, a young man and woman and a swamp otter join together to haul the otter's eleven hundred pound statue overland to meet the deadline of a prospective buyer from another planet.
ARCTURUS LANDING aka Alien From Arcturus
A story of Johnny Parent, who, with an... more
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Soldier, Ask Not (Childe Cycle, Bk 3) by Gordon R. Dickson
On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed, evolved into something that was slightly more than human...and slightly less. Men of War on the Dorsai worlds, men of Faith on the Friendly Worlds of Harmony and Association, men of Science, the Exotics of Kultis and Mara, and the Splinter... more
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Survival! by Gordon R. Dickson
What price SURVIVAL!
You who have never faced death in an alien wilderness, or struggled desperately with a failing life-support system, or in some other way stood firm against bewildering odds, can never know the true cost of survival. You can only estimate it from the lives of others, by... more
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Timestorm by Gordon R. Dickson
It is tomorrow. The lines of time change ravage the earth. Where they pass, water and earth are transformed into past and future, wreaking havoc, destruction, and annihilation with never-before-experienced natural disasters. Mankind is all but extinguished, only a handful of survivors... more
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A Man Rides Through (Mordant's Need, Bk 2) by Stephen R. Donaldson
In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the dazzling first volume of Mordant's Need, New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson introduced us to the richly imagined world of Mordant, where mirrors are magical portals into places of beauty and terror. Now, with A Man Rides Through, Donaldson... more
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Mirror of Her Dreams (Mordant's Need, Bk 1) by Stephen R. Donaldson
With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant's Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the... more
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Future War by Gardner Dozois (Editor) & Jack Dann (Editor)
From ultra high-tech weaponry to off-planet combat, this collection examines the conflicts of the future from some of the greatest minds in science fiction.
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* Second Variety / Philip K. Dick;
* Salvador / Lucius Shepard;
* Floating Dogs / Ian McDonald;
* The Private War of... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
This series sets a high standard for science fiction short story writing The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Stories include:
Rachel in love / Pat Murphy
Dream baby / Bruce McAllister
Flowers of Edo / Bruce Sterling
Forever yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm
At the cross-time jaunter's ball / Alexander Jablokov
Dinosaurs / Walter Jon Williams
The temporary king / Paul J.... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Editor...
Gardner Dozois, winner of nine Hugo Awards for best editor, pulls together the finest works of contemporary science fiction. This annual anthology, considered to be the definitive collection of the genre, blends together a wide variety of authors and styles. Space opera, Asimov, international... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Twenty-five stories from 1998: some 2 stories and 48 pages shorter than last year's entry, the finished book will include an approximately 50-page editor's summation (not seen). Among the amazing odysseys to be enjoyed here: physicist Geoffrey A. Landis descends into a black hole; Ian McDonald... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Edit...
The marvels of tomorrows past and tomorrows yet to come abound in this delightful volume. With two dozen imaginative and moving tales, this collection included the work of the finest writers in the field. A helpful list of honorable mentions and Gardner Dozois's insightful summation of... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (Edito...
Gardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This 1998 year's collection presents sterling work from veterans and newcomers alike, including Stephen Baxter, Alan Brennert, Carolyn Ives Gilman,... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book ...
In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful... more
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (aka The Mammoth Book o...
The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents. Supplementing the stories... more
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The Fleet (Fleet, Bk 1) by David Drake (Editor) & Bill Fawcett (Editor)
Pledged to protect us all The soldiers of the Alliance come from different worlds, different cultures. But they share a common mission: to reclaim occupied space from the savage Khalian invaders. The ruthless aliens, armed with lasers and plasma cannons, have overrun our colonies with... more
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The Cursed by Dave Duncan
War had killed Gwin's husband, and a plague of star sickness carried off her babies. Desolate, she nursed her stricken neighbors. But the few who would survive the sickness were doomed anyway.
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Enchanters' End Game (Belgariad, Bk 5) by David Eddings
Belgariad, Book #5. Conclusion.
The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And yet the the Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the east, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion had to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of that dread duel... more
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Castle of Wizardry (Belgariad, Bk 4) by David Eddings
END OF THE QUEST
In the fourth book in the "Balgariad" series, Garion, Princess Ce'Nedra, and the rest of the band of travellers must fight their way across a desert infested with enemy soldiers in order to get back to Riva.
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Hidden City (The Tamuli Book, No 3) by David Eddings
WAR TO THE DEATHThe Pandion Knight Sparhawk had bested the massed forces of the God Cyrgon upon the field of battle. But victory turned to ashes when the foul God's minions kidnapped Sparhawk's wife, the beautiful Queen Ehlana. Sparhawk must surrender Bhelliom, the awesome jewel of power--or... more
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Magician's Gambit (Belgariad, Bk 3) by David Eddings
THE PRINCESS AND THE SORCERERS
Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, was confused.
Everyone knew that the tales of the Orb that protected the West from the evil God Torak were just silly legends. But here she was, forced to join a serious and dangerous quest to recover that stolen... more
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Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad, Bk 1) by David Eddings
WHILE THE DARK GOD SLEPT
Long ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.
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Queen of Sorcery (Belgariad, Bk 2) by David Eddings
THE TRIAL OF PROPHECY
Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over all the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a priest of Torak, and that... more
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Enigma Front (Enigma Front, Vol 1) by Renee Bennett (Editor)
Now, Everything Changes. A wave of possibilities rolls across the land and nothing remains the same IN ITS WAKE ... Dinosaurs. Dragons. Clowns. From nineteenth-century China to the moons of Saturn, from the Renaissance to the aftermath of apocalypse, these eighteen stories share one... more
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Enigma Front: Burnt (Enigma Front, Vol 2) by Celeste A. Peters (Editor)
Now, Everything Burns. CAUTION: Don't burn your fingers turning the pages of this action-packed volume, Enigma Front: Burnt (Enigma Front, Vol 2)! From elemental wizardry gone wickedly wrong to devilish deeds and futures up in flames, these twenty one stories set the pages ablaze... more
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Enigma Front: The Monster Within (Enigma Front, Vol 3) by Renee Bennett (Editor)
Now, the Monster Rises. The team who brought you the Aurora nominated Enigma Front: Burnt now presents you with twenty-two new stories of demon dentists and devilish wingmen, of psychic parasites and mad mathematicians. Hunters stalk the streets of Whitechapel and lurk in the hotels of... more
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Dayworld (Dayworld, Bk 1) by Philip Jose Farmer
Just one day. That's all you get. The world's crowded, and the government appreciates your cooperation. You're allowed one day each week to live your life. The rest of the week, you're "stoned" - frozen solid.
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Dayworld Rebel (Dayworld Series, Bk 2) by Philip Jose Farmer
The second book of the all-new Dayworld Series.
WARNING: The Daybreaker has escaped. His name is Jeff Caird. His crime: being awake seven says a week, living seven different lives in a world where each citizen is only allowed one day a week. A world where there JUST ISN'T ENOUGH ROOM. Not for... more
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Cat-A-Lyst by Alan Dean Foster
A game of cat...and cat? Movie star Jason Carter is on vacation in Peru. All he wants is a break, but what he finds is a lost civilization of extra-dimensional Incas bent on conquest of the entire world!
Nor is Carter alone. His allies include a bloodthirsty Amazon, an archaeologist, a bank... more
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Into the Out of by Alan Dean Foster
Small, dark beings of awesome power are invading our world and only one man sees the danger. It's up to him and two others to defeat the Shetani before it destroys the very fabric of reality. From the bestselling author of the Spellsinger series.
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Flashman (Flashman Papers, Bk 1) by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman, Soldier, Duelist, Lover, Imposter, Coward, Cad and Hero, triumphs in this first installment of The Flashman Papers. His adventures as the reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan and his entry into the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan's Hussars culminate in his foulest hour -- his... more
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Alien Pregnant by Elvis by Esther Friesner (Editor) & Martin Harry Greenberg (Edi...
A fiction anthology featuring 36 amazing tabloid tales from a rock band with Satan as its manager to 2,437 UFOs in New Hampshire. Written by some of the zaniest minds in science fiction and fantasy--such as Dennis McKiernan and Kristine Kathryn Rusch--these better-than-true originals are sure to... more
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Elf Defense by Esther Friesner
The second book in the New York series.
When the elven king Kelerison arrives in Godwin's Corners, Connecticut to reclaim the mortal woman who fled from him, he finds himself face to face with a formidable and unexpected opponent: divorce lawyer Sandra Horowitz.
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Harlot's Ruse by Esther M. Friesner
Neither God nor Demon, Wizard nor Witch will keep Megan from her heart's desire! Her name is Megan, her beauty is undeniable, and she wields a special kind of magic even she can't understand. A magic that will lead her far from the hovel of her birth to...realms where sorcerers meddle... more
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Majyk By Accident (Majyk, Bk 1) by Esther Friesner
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAJYK?
Kendar Gangle's the worst student magician on the world of Orbix. He's a flop at mastering Majyk -- the stuff that puts spunk in spells -- until he chases an Earth cat called Scandal into a Majyk cloud. Now Kendar has the biggest supply of Majyk on Orbix--and... more
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Majyk by Hook or Crook (Majyk, Bk 2) by Esther Friesner
The sequel to Majyk by Accident follows magician Kendar Gangle and his earth cat, Scandal, as they try to stop a rain of live poultry over Orbix, confront a mad menagerie of revolting animals, and restore the rightful ruler of Wingdingo.
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Majyk by Design by Esther Friesner
Looks can kill, or so thinks apprentice wizard Kendar Gangle. Curio, the number-one bookcover model, is suspected of foul play when his major rival in the hunk department disappears. Kendar is trying to get to the bottom of things, but that's nearly impossible with his snide feline sidekick and... more
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Nobody's Princess (Princesses of Myth, Bk 1) by Esther Friesner
She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches for more out of life. Not one to count on the gods—or her looks—to take care of her, Helen sets out to get what she wants with steely determination and a sassy... more
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Nobody's Prize by Esther M. Friesner
Destined to become a beauty, raised to be a queen, young Helen of Sparta refuses to be left behind when her older brothers enlist in the quest for the Golden Fleece--why should boys get to have all the fun? Accompanied by her friend, the ex-slave Milo, and disguised as a boy herself, Helen... more
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Sphynxes Wild (New York, Bk 3) by Esther M. Friesner
The sphynx is back, and armed with a new set of riddles, she sets out--in human form--to the newest, poshest casino in Atlantic City . . . where sides are drawn and spells are cast as a new kind of pandemonium erupts around the roulette wheels!
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Temping Fate by Esther Friesner
Until she stumbled upon the Divine Relief Temp Agency, Ilana Newhouse was having a hard time finding a summer job. Apparently, a T-shirt that reads "Orc: The Other Green Meat" isn't appropriate for an interview. But when she reports for her first day as a temp, Ilana discovers why Divine Relief... more
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Dragon Rider (Dragon Rider, Bk 1) by Cornelia Funke & Anthea Bell (Translator)
A Boy. A Dragon. A Quest.
Firedrake, Ben, and their furry friend, Sorrel, are in search of the mythical place where dragons can live in peace forever. Together they embark on a journey that takes them to magical lands where they meet marvelous creatures -- and one ruthless villain.... more
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All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
William Gibson, who predicted the Internet with Neuromancer, takes us into the millennium with a brilliant new novel about the moments in history when futures are born."Gibson remains, like Raymond Chandler, an intoxicating stylist."--The New York Times Book ReviewAll Tomorrow's Parties is the... more
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The Fantasy Hall of Fame (aka: The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-time Greats) by Robert...
Anthology of 22 fantasy short stories. Contains fantasy works selected by members of the World Fantasy Convention.
Contents:
Introduction (The Fantasy Hall of Fame) • essay by Robert Silverberg
The Masque of the Red Death (1842) / Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the... more
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Fate Fantastic by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) & Daniel M. Hoyt (Editor)
16 Original stories about fate Do we all have destinies we can't avoid? Or is each of us able to determine our own future by our actions? Are there key moments in time that offer unique opportunities to change fate? These are just a few of the questions explored in sixteen original tales... more
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Guardsmen of Tomorrow by Larry Segriff (Editor) & Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
Taking place in the future, for the most part, these stories generally deal with Humans in conflict with alien races. What unique challenges will tomorrow's soldiers face in distant star systems? How will Earth deal with hostile aliens on home soil? How will humanity fight--and survive--its... more
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New Legends by Greg Bear (Editor) & Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
'Hard' science fiction--SF that takes known scientific principles as its starting point--is, for many readers, the durable core of the field. But it is also accused of being, as Greg Bear puts it, "a restrictive genre without a soul". Here, Nebula Award winner Bear puts... more
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The Diplomacy Guild (Isaac's Universe, Vol 1) by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
The Diplomacy Guild, the first book in the Isaac Asimov's Universe series, an anthology of stories edited by Martin H Greenberg. In the Milky Way galaxy of 1000 years hence, six vastly different starfaring races coexist under a precarious truce -- a volatile peace that is threatened by... more
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Far Frontiers by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) & Larry Segriff (Editor)
Andre Norton, Alan Dean Foster, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Sawyer, and other master storytellers explore the farthest reaches of sci-fi's most classic theme: the bold frontiers of humankind's future -- from life in a Dyson sphere to cities built on the ocean floor to colonies in... more
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Sisters in Fantasy 2 by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
23 magical tales. From ancient spells unleashed upon our modern world to the equally powerful thirsts for romance and revenge, here are all-original stories written especially for this volume by twenty-two of today's bestselling and award-winning women fantasists. The special bonds between... more
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Slipstreams by Martin H Greenberg (Editor) & John Helfers (Editor)
Imagination knows no boundaries Twenty of science fiction and fantasy's most talented authors take up a challenge: to wade into the waters of a new genre and create something utterly unique. The results of this literary adventure include stories about a mountain man's encounter with a very... more
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Slow River by Nicola Griffith
She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide.
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Snow in August by Pete Hamill
It's 1947 in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood when two unlikely characters meet. In a blizzard one Saturday, an Irish Catholic boy, Michael Devlin, meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, and a rare and beautiful friendship begins. Michael is entranced by the rabbi's stories of ancient magic and... more
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Emergence (Night's Dawn: Reality Dysfunction, Bk 1) by Peter F. Hamilton
The first part of a two-volume book that is itself the first book of a series.
In the far future, humanity has divided into two diametrically opposed groups. The Edenists are genetically engineered space-dwellers with telepathic affinity for their biotechnological homes and ships. The... more
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Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology by Edited by Harry Harrison
Introduction: The Father of Science Fiction • (1973) • essay by Isaac Asimov
Lodestar • (1973) • novelette by Poul Anderson
Thiotimoline to the Stars • (1973) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
Something Up There Likes Me • (1973) • shortstory by Alfred Bester
Lecture Demonstration • (1973) •... more
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Adventures in Time and Space by Raymond J. Healy (Editor) & J. Francis McComas (E...
Many anthologies contain classic stories but very few achieve classic status themselves. This is one of them. First published in 1946, during the Golden Age of SF when Cambpell's Law (named for Astounding magazine editor John W. Campbell) put equal stress on the words "Science" and... more
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners by Robert A. Heinlein
Dr. Richard Ames: ex-military man, sometime writer, and unfortunate victim of mistaken identity. When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions. An assassination attempt... more
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Tom Holt Tall Stories: Contains Expecting Someone Taller and Ye Gods! (Omnibus) by To...
Expecting Someone Taller—All he did was run over a badger… sad, but hardly catastrophic. But it wasn’t Malcolm fisher’s day, for the badger turned out to be none other than Ingolf, last of the Giants. With his dying breath, Ingolf reluctantly handed to Malcolm two Gifts... more
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year (2007 Edition) by Richard Horton (Editor)
A collection of the best science fiction of the year, by some of the genre's greatest authors. Includes:
Christopher Rowe - "Another Word for Map is Faith"
Carolyn Ives Gilman - "Okanoggan Falls"
Ian Watson - "Saving for a Sunny Day"
Robert Charles Wilson... more
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume VIII by Algis Budrys (Editor)
Unleash your imagination as you embark on voyages to other worlds from the best new science fiction and fantasy writers of the year. Each of these seventeen creative and well-written stories will keep your attention riveted as you join these believable characters in a myriad of adventures that... more
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents The Best of Writers of the Future by Algis Budrys (Editor) &a...
"L. Ron Hubbard established the 'Writers of the Future" Contest in late 1983, offering new and aspiring writers a chance to have their works seen and read. Since that beginning, the imaginative works from these exceptionally talented new writers in the fields of science fiction,... more
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 22 by Algis Budrys (Editor) &...
The best new first-rate science fiction and fantasy stories and illustrations of the year, never before published, by the new visionaries of imagination, those that defy reality, conquer new worlds and make the impossible possible; the latest winners of the 'Writers of the Future' and... more
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With Signs & Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction by Daniel...
Bringing together 24 contemporary writers from 19 different countries, this anthology captures the exuberant storytelling tradition of the Jewish people that which has been shaped by centuries of legends, folklore, and mysticism. These writers-from Central Asia, Iran, Morocco, Russia, Siberia,... more
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Votan and Other Novels (Fantasy Masterworks) by John James
Neil Gaiman introduces three classic novels of modern fantasyIn the second century AD, a Greek nobleman is traveling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife. When discovered, he takes an emergency business trip to save his life and packs among his... more
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Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler (Editor and Translator)
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends,... more
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Polar City Blues (Polar City, Bk 1) by Katharine Kerr
A good solid science fiction/fantasy/murder mystery with a plot that doesn't stop, interesting people and locations, and a subtlety of humour that slips by almost without being noticed. The planet of Hagar has a capital city of Sara. There is an over-controlling computer, a wimpy baseball... more
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A Science Fiction Argosy by Damon Knight (Editor)
From the introduction by Damon Knight:
"My idea in compiling this book was simply to put together the biggest and most comprehensive collection of good science fiction that I could possible find. It includes two complete novels, two novellas, and more than twenty shorter pieces by... more
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The Prince of Morning Bells by Nancy Kress
Only yesterday when marvels and mystery blessed the universe, lovely Princess Kirila rejected royal traditions to seek wisdom and truth at the Tents of Omnium at the Heart of the World.
With her protector and savior, the enchanted purple dog, Chessie, she reaches the kingdom of the Quirks -... more
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The Lodge of the Lynx (Adept, Bk 2) by Deborah Turner Harris & Katherine Kurtz
Sir Adam Sinclair--the Adept--has led many lives under many names, but his one purpose remains the same--to fight the powers of Darkness--in all their evil forms. In the guise of a long-extinct cult, the Dark powers stand ready to unleash a weapon--energized by an ancient Druid artifact--on all... more
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City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle) by Ursula K. LeGuin
He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and no memory to tell who -- or what -- he was.
His eyes were not the eyes of a human.
The forest people took him in and raised him almost as a child, teaching him to speak, training him... more
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Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand by Ursula K. Le Guin
Klatsland, south of Portland, Oregon, represents the best and worst aspects of an American life that has been almost destroyed by fast-food chains and freeways throughout the country. In 12 stories, the reader learns about different individuals and families who occupy these houses near the coast.
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That Hideous Strength (Space, Bk 3) by C. S. Lewis
A small English town becomes the centre of a gigantic conspiracy against the human race when a truly devilish organization wishes to re-create mankind in the image of slave robots.
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Changelings (The Twins of Petaybee, Book 1) by Anne Mccaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Sca...
With three acclaimed novels–Powers That Be, Power Lines, and Power Play–bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough launched a vibrant new science-fiction saga that told the story of a sentient planet, Petaybee, and the humans who fought to protect it from the... more
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Heir of Sea and Fire (Riddle-Master, Bk 2) by Patricia A. McKillip
By the vow of her father and her own desire, Raederle was pledged to Morgon, Riddle-Master of Hed. But a year had passed since Morgon disappeared on his search for the High One at Erlenstar Mountain, and rumors claimed he was dead.
Raederle set out to learn the truth for herself, though her... more
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RIDDLE-MASTER OF HED by Patricia A. Mckillip
Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum.But now ancient, evil forces were threatening... more
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The Blue Sword (Damar, Bk 1) by Robin McKinley
Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. Her life is quiet and ordinary -- until the night she is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk King, who takes her deep into the desert. She does not know the... more
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The Hero and the Crown (Damar, Bk 2) by Robin McKinley
Although she is the daughter of Damar's king, Aerin has never been accepted as full royalty. Both in and out of the royal court, people whisper the story of her mother, the witchwoman, who was said to have enspelled the king into marrying her to get an heir to rule Damar-then died of despair... more
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Tales Of Supernatural Terror by Guy de Maupassant & Arnold Kellett (Translator)
Sixteen tales of the dark powers that haunt the borders of madness by the acknowledged master of the realistic short story. From the withered hand, to the furniture which marched on crutches of wood over its desperate owner, these stories reveal not only the torment of the night's untruth... more
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The 5th Annual Edition The Year's Best S-F by Judith Merril (Editor)
Here are over 20 selections of the greatest in s.f....culled from the thousands published during the past year...representing the best in adventure, excitement, originality, and sheer reading pleasure...chosen by Judith Merril, an editor whose name is synonymous with taste and... more
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The Year's Best S-F 6th Annual Edition by Judith Merril (Editor)
"S-F fans can be sure that each year the best of the best S-F will be Judith Merril's anthology...her sixth makes ... a vintage one" -New York Herald Tribune
Here are over forty of the past year's best creations from master writers of outstanding fiction and fantasy, including short stories,... more
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Nebula Award Stories Four by Poul Anderson (Editor)
Award Stories: "Mother to the World" (Richard Wilson), "The Planners" (Kate Wilhelm), "Dragonrider" (Anne McCaffrey). Also added: "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" (Terry Carr), "Sword Game" (H. H.Hollis), "The Listeners" (James... more
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The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
In this novel, Niven presents a fully-fleshed culture of evolved humans who live without gravity in the gas cloud surrounding a neutron star. In this Smoke Ring, free-floating life forms flourish, and all of them, from fish to fowl, can fly...
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Witch World (Witch World: Estcarp Cycle, Bk 1) by Andre Norton
Ex-Colonel Simon Tregarth sat in a restaurant, enjoying what he sincerely believed was his last meal. With old enemies in hot pursuit, he expected to be assassinated at any moment. But someone had gotten wind of Tregarth's prowess as an operative, and offered him an escape...through a... more
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Tales of Time and Space by Ross R. Olney (Editor)
From some of the best sci-fi writers of the mid-twentieth century, an entertaining sci-fi anthology. The stories were originally published in science fiction magazines between 1946 and 1966. Good young adult fiction sci-fi from some of the best sci-fi writers of the mid-twentieth... more
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, Bk 1) by Christopher Paolini
It was supposed to be a routine research mission on an uncolonized planet. But when xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic beneath the surface of the world, the outcome transforms her forever and will alter the course of human history.
Her journey to discover the truth... more
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Jem by Frederik Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export... more
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Man Plus (Man Plus, Bk 1) by Frederik Pohl
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But... more
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Starburst by Frederik Pohl
The best and the brightest
The crew of the Constitution -- scientists cum astronauts -- had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet... more
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Dinosaur Fantastic by Mike Resnick (Editor) & Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg have called upon such gifted writers as Robert Sheckley, Pat Cadigan, Frank M. Robinson, Judith Tarr, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, Bill Fawcett, Katherine Kerr, David Gerrold, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch to create these twenty-five stories of the most... more
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I, Alien by Mike Resnick (Editor)
This collection of 27 brand-new stories by some of today's most inventive SF authors turns the tables and tells the aliens' side of encounters with human beings. Includes stories by Laura Resnick, Harry Turtledove, Janis Ian, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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Men Writing Science Fiction as Women by Mike Resnick (Editor) & Martin H. Greenbe...
First came Women Writing Science Fiction as Men, which was a homage to the early days of the science fiction genre, when it was a given that the writers and their readers were men and any woman writing science fiction had to hide her true identity. Now, in this all-new collection of nineteen... more
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Oracle (Oracle, Bk 2) by Mike Resnick
Penelope Bailey has been gone -- missing, hidden, dead? -- for ten years, when suddenly her greatest antagonist, the only man to survive her fury, is commissioned to find her.
Thus begins an adventure that will involve the master assassin known as the Whistler, and the drug-ravaged Jimmy... more
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Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
In his latest novel, Kim Stanley Robinson takes us to a harsh, alien landscape covered by a sheet of ice two miles deep. This is no distant planet -- it is the last pure wilderness on earth.
A stark and inhospitable place, its landscape poses a challenge to survival; yet its strange,... more
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The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson by Kim Stanley Robinson & Jonathan Strahan (Edit...
Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries -- these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and... more
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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us... more
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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 9 by Arthur W. Saha (Editor)
* "Introduction" (Arthur W. Saha)
* "Another Orphan" (John Kessel)
* "Square and Above Board" (R. A. Lafferty)
* "The Horror on the #33" (Michael Shea)
* "Djinn, No Chaser" (Harlan Ellison)
* "Sentences" (Richard... more
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Afterlives: An Anthology of Stories about Life after Death by Pamela Sargent (Editor...
Stories deal with death classes, time reversal, extraterrestrial visitors, multiple-personalities, the memories of an artist, a mysterious dream, reanimation, immortality, and artificial resurrection.
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Nebula Awards 30: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year...
Nebula Awards 30 (1996) continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best-of-the-year anthologies.
Contents:
Introduction / Pamela Sargent
The... more
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The Science Fictional Dinosaur by Robert Silverberg (Editor) & Martin H. Greenber...
This anthology contains: The Wings of a Bat by Paul Ash; The Ever Branching Tree by Harry Harrison; When Time Was New by Robert F. Young; Poor Little Warrior by Brian Aldiss; Day of the Hunters; and A Statue for Father by Isaac Asimov; Hermes to the Ages by Frederick D. Gottfried; Wildcat by... more
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The Kindly Ones by Melissa Scott
Orestes was a cruel world, cold and inhospitable. Its first colonists were castaways from a crash landing, clinging to survival through the institution of strict socio-political controls. Over the generations life grew somewhat easier, but the code of honor remained. MIsdeeds, and... more
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Irish Folk and Fairy Tales, Vol 2 by Michael Scott (Editor)
The second entrancing collection of Irish fold and fairy tales explores the bright realms of Irish myth and fantasy from the misty dawn of Gaelic history, through the triumph of St. Patrick and up to present-day Ireland where tales of banshees, Tir Na nOg, leprechauns, and Oisin still live on.
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How to Save the World by Charles Sheffield (Editor)
Anthology of science fiction stories edited by Charles Sheffield.
Outrageous times call for outrageous measures. From the terraforming of Titan to viruses that alter wrongdoers' DNA, from legalized electronic dueling to contraceptives that select for sex, here is a fistful of provocative,... more
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Archangel (Samaria, Bk 1) by Sharon Shinn
Next in line to become archangel in the angel-led dominion of Samaria, Gabriel must lead the next chorale praising the god Jovah, which means he needs a wife -- fast -- to sing beside him. Guided by the local oracle and the light emanating from the Kiss of the Gods (a homing device in his... more
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Children of the Atom by Wilmar H. Shiras
Imagine a group of incredibly gifted children -- all roughly the same age, all hiding amazing abilities from a world they know will never accept them, and all the result of genetic mutation. One man commits himself to the task of gathering these extraordinary children into an experimental new... more
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 by Robert Silverberg (Editor) & Karen Haber (Ed...
Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies and journals. It includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter and many more. It is the first in a prestigious new series from ibooks.
Robert Silverberg, a... more
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Deep Space by Edited by Robert Silverberg
Beyond the rim of the solar system, past the orbit of Pluto, into the uncharted vastness of deep space - here lie stars beyond counting, whole galaxies, a world that is still a mystery to us. Yet, as Robert Silverberg points out, an inexhaustible treasure trove of unbounded possibility awaits... more
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol I by Robert Silverberg (Editor)
The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time.
Here are twenty-six of the best science fiction stories ever written, chosen by those who know better than anyone what the criteria should be -- The Science Fiction Writers of America.
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Neanderthals (Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction) by Robert Silverber...
Introduction: Neanderthal Man by Isaac Asimov
Genesis by H. Beam Piper
The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov
The Long Remembering by Poul Anderson
The Apotheosis of Ki by Miriam Allen deFord
Man o' Dreams by Will McMorrow
The Treasure of Odirex... more
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All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak
An invisible dome encircles the town of Millville, U.S.A. As dissension threatens from within--and nuclear destruction from without--Brad Carter slips through a time-phase boundary into a wondrous parallel world where he meets the aliens, who appear to be simple purple flowers, but are really a... more
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City by Clifford D Simak
"A tale of an Earth overrun by ants, a series of parallel worlds ruled by dogs, and a Jupiter where the human race finds it's Golden Age - If human it could still be called. This strange and fascinating story of the future of man describes a tomorrow that is completely enthralling."
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Still Forms on Foxfield by Joan Slonczewski
Fleeing the final war that would destroy Earth's civilization, a small group of Friends -- Quakers -- found refuge on the uncharted planet they named Foxfield. Somehow they managed to survive, with the aid of the bizarrely gifted native life-form, the Commensals -- and, even more... more
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The Planet Buyer by Cordwainer Smith
First edition paperback. Cover by Peter Bramley.
A shorter version of this book appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction for April, 1964, under the title: "The Boy Who Bought Old Earth".
One fabulous night of frenzied manipulation had made the obscure rancher from the far planet the single richest... more
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Quest of the Three Worlds by Cordwainer Smith
From world to world with Casher O'Neill. On the Gem Planet: seeking aid to free his home world from a tyrant, he was drafted for the bizarre rescue of an exotic alien being none of his hosts had dreamed of... a horse. On the Storm Planet: The help he needed was offered at a price - murder.... more
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The Crafters (The Crafters, Bk 1) by Christopher Stasheff (Editor) & Bill Fawcett...
They are a great family of witches and warlocks, alchemists and spellcasters. From generation to generation--from the Old World to the Salem trials and beyond--they hand down their secrets, their potions, even their family familiar: a will-o'-the-wisp called Willow. They are masters of sorcery,... more
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The Oathbound Wizard by Christopher Stasheff
Matt Mandrell, unsuspecting graduate student, never imagined his research would lead him to a strange scrap of parchment that would change his life forever...
Crossing the void of time and space, Matt is whisked away to an enchanted world where speaking in rhymes works the most dazzling... more
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte d'Arthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. "These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them. And, in our day, we are perhaps... more
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named... more
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Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, Bk 1) by Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can... more
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison -- a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian... more
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The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy, Bk 1) by Jonathan Stroud
Nathaniel is a young magician with only one thing on his mind: revenge.
As an apprentice to the great magician Underwood, Nathaniel is gradually being schooled in the traditional art of magic. All is well until he has a life-changing encounter with Simon Lovelace, a rising, star magician.... more
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The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus Trilogy, Bk 2) by Jonathan Stroud
The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni,... more
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ALIENS 4 by Theodore Sturgeon
Four Sturgeon classics in this little collection. Two are short novels ("Killdozer" and "The [Widgett], the [Wadgett] and Boff"). "Cactus Dance" was originally published in a magazine of western stories, but has all the strangeness one comes to expect of a tale found in a SF or horror... more
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The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards"One of the masters of modern science fiction."—The Washington Post Book World Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and... more
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More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
All alone: an idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby, and twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. Yet once they are mysteriously drawn together this collection of misfits becomes something very, very different from the rest of humanity. This intensely written and... more
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Fearful Symmetries: The Return of Nohar Rajasthan (Moreau, Bk 4) by S. Andrew Swann
Nohar Rajasthan, is a retired private eye, descended from genetically manipulated tiger stock to become a moreau -- a second-class humanoid citizen in a human world. He just wants to spend his remaining time in the peace and quiet of his wilderness homestead. Then a human lawyer asks him to take... more
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Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick
Among the vanguard of today's boldest writers, Michael Swanwick presents his world of plug-in personalities, colonized asteroids, and a daring fugitive named Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark, a high-tech criminal seeking refuge on Earth's orbiting settlements--where all human evils blossom in the... more
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The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
The only human child living in a work colony on the Martian satellite Phobos, little Margaret Bain has invented six imaginary companions to keep boredom and loneliness at bay. Each an extension of her personality, they are lost to her when she is forced to return to Earth. But they are not... more
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Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore (Marianne, Bk 1) by Sheri S. Tepper
Legacy Of Magic
Marianne was born to luxury in the tiny nation of Alphenlicht, nestled in the mountains between Turkey and Iraq. The her parents died, leaving control of their fortune to the older brother she fears. Struggling to make her way as a student in America, Alphenlicht... more
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The Song of Mavin Manyshaped by Sheri S. Tepper
It is never easy growing up as a shape-shifter, learning to control the wild Talent for changing into any shape at all -- a winged dragon, a pillar of stone, another human being, a creature from nightmare. But for Mavin Manyshaped -- one of only two she-shifters in her tribe, and recklessly... more
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Mary Poppins Comes Back (Mary Poppins, Bk 2) by P. L. Travers & Mary Shepard (Ill...
Pulled down from the clouds at the end of a kite string, Mary Poppins is back. In Mary’s care, the Banks children meet the King of the Castle and the Dirty Rascal, visit the upside-down world of Mr. Turvy and his bride, Miss Topsy, and spend a breathless afternoon above the park, dangling... more
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TesseractsQ by Elisabeth Vonarburg (Editor) & Jane Brierley (Editor)
Over six years in the making, this massive volume brings together the best speculative fiction from Quebec's premiere authors over the last twenty years. Superbly translated from French into English to reach new readers, Tesseracts Q includes writing by authors such as: Yves Meynard, Jean... more
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The Best of A. E. van Vogt by A. E. van Vogt
Ah, Careless, Rapturous van Vogt! • Essay by Barry N. Malzberg
Introduction (The Best of A. E. van Vogt (US)) • essay by A. E. van Vogt
Don't Hold Your Breath • (1973) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
All We Have on This Planet • (1974) • short... more
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The Players of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt
This is a sequel to Van Vogt's "The World of Null-A."
from the cover:
What strange being was the Follower? That was the question the plagued Gilbert Gosseyn all during his efforts to track down the being that threatened to destroy whole solar systems. Wherever Gosseyn went, the shadow of the... more
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The World of Null-A (Null-A, Bk 1) by A. E. Van Vogt
It is the year 2650 and Earth has become a world of non-Aristotelianism, or Null-A. This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of twenty-five thousand electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives. Gosseyn isn't even sure... more
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Millennium by John Varley
In the skies over Oakland , California, a DC-10 and 747 are about to collide.
In the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find.
And in Washington DC, an air disaster investigator... more
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Paris in the Twentieth Century: The Lost Novel by Jules Verne & Richard Howard (T...
THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY
In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the... more
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Psion (Cat, Bk 1) by Joan D. Vinge
Cat is the ultimate future punk. He uses his psionic talent to evade the labor gangs and security police. But now he is swept into the midst of an interstellar power struggle. Both sides want to use his mind as a weapon. Cat owes no loyalty to anyone -- but there is no middle zone in this fight.
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The Snow Queen (Snow Queen, Bk 1) by Joan D. Vinge
The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers.
But soon the galactic Stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless,... more
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Slapstick: or, Lonesome no More! by Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt... more
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Crosstime Traffic by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Travelers from Earth's alternate realities take breaks for dinner at Harry's hamburger joint and relate their experiences to Mitsopoulas, a police officer accustomed to hearing about flying whales and feline vacuum cleaners.
Contents:Introduction; Paranoid fantasy #1; Why I... more
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Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World's Greatest City by...
From Susan Shwartz's unusual look at the lives of ``temporary'' workers (``Getting Real'') to Don Sakers's poignant glimpse of a New York at civilization's sunset (``Candelabra and Diamonds''), this collection of 24 original stories by contemporary writers of imaginative fiction pays homage to... more
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Kender, Gully Dwarves and Gnomes (Dragonlance: Tales, Bk 2) by Margaret Weis (Editor)...
"Wanna Bet?"
The three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.
Who is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are... more
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Beyond the Gates by Catherine Wells
The desert world of Dray's Planet is inhabited by the Children of the Second Revelation, who fear that unbelieving outsiders may contaminate their religion. But when a strange creature is discovered, only an unbeliever named Cecil Robinson has the necessary expertise that will allow him to study... more
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A Modern Utopia (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
I have come to distinguish among the varied costumes and the innumerable types of personality Utopia presents, certain men and women of a distinctive costume and bearing, and I know now that these people constitute an order, the samurai, the "voluntary nobility," which is essential in the scheme... more
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The Book of Merlyn (Once and Future King, Bk 4) by T. H. White
This maginificent fantasy of the last days of King Arthur, his faithful magician and his animal teachers, completes the tragedy and romance of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING.
The tale begins with an aged and weary King Arthur sitting alone in his tent at Salisbury, awaiting his final, fatal battle... more
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After World's End / The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson
The Legion of Time
by Jack Williamson
They stormed the wall of the future on the trail of one woman who was too evil to live — and another who might never be born at all!
After World's End
by Jack Williamson
In this strange world danger was his every day companion — despair dogged his... more
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Fire Watch by Connie Willis
Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time. Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction. Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories,... more
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The Book of the New Sun: Shadow and Claw (Urth, Bks 1 & 2) by Gene Wolfe
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no... more
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World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 by edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
Contents: Introduction, essay by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr; Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay, by Robert Sheckley; Backtracked, by Burt Filer; Kyrie, by Poul Anderson (nominated, 1969 Nebula Award); Going Down Smooth, by Robert Silverberg; The Worm That Flies, by Brian W. Aldiss; Masks, by... more
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Annual World's Best Science Fiction, 1972 (World's Best SF) by Donald Wollheim (Edito...
Following the tradition of the many best-selling anthologies of fine science fiction he is noted for, Donald A. Wollheim selects for DAW books those fantastic tales which in his opinion warrant being considered the best and most memorable science fiction published in the past year.
The... more
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The 1978 Annual World's Best SF by Donald Wollheim
In this the 1978 Annual World's Best SF, the tradition is continued of being first in the field and first with the ten best authentic science fiction stories of the year.
In the Hall of the Martian Kings by John Varley
A Time to Live by Joe Haldeman
The House of Compassionate Sharers by... more
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Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series 8 (aka The 1979 Annual World's Best SF) by Donald ...
Continuing in the anthology series with Wollheim's World's Best Science Fiction: Series 8. Introduction by Donald A. Wollheim
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* Come to the Party / Frank Herbert & F. M. Busby;
* Creator / David Lake;
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The 1987 Annual World's Best Sf by Arthur W. Saha (Editor) & Donald A. Wollheim (...
Anthology includes: Permafrost by Roger Zelazny; Timerider by Doris Egan; Pretty Boy Crossover by Pat Cadigan; R & R by Lucius Shepard; Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming by Suzette Haden Elgin; Dream in a Bottle by Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl; Into Gold by Tanith Lee; The Lions are Asleep This... more
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The Time Collector by Gwendolyn Womack
Travel through time with the touch of a hand.
Roan West can perceive the past of any object he touches. A highly skilled psychometrist, he uses his talents to find and sell valuable antiques, but his quiet life in New Orleans is about to change. Stuart, a fellow psychometrist and Roan's... more
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Changeling by Roger Zelazny
Book Club Edition
It all began with an ending. The people had long suffered under Det Morson's power...lived in terror of his dragons and other minions. When, at last, the wizard Mor joined the fight against the evil, Det and his infamous Rondoval castle were destroyed. But the victory... more
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Madwand (Changeling, Bk 2) by Roger Zelazny
Pol Detson, son of Lord Det of Rondoval, has come home. He is now a powerful sorceror of unsurpassed natural ability -- in a world where the power of magic is the only kind that matters. But Pol is still an untrained talent, a 'MADWAND'. To take control of his powers, to rule in his... more
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The Innocent (Will Robie, Bk 1) by David Baldacci
America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target.
But Will Robie may have just made the first -and last- mistake... more
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The Body in the Volvo (Workplace, Bk 1) by K. K. Beck
When Professor Charles Carstairs was refused tenure at the university, he was delighted to accept the gift of an auto-repair shop from his Uncle Cosmo. The unpaid bills, complaining customers, and inept mechanics which were part of the package were only morderately annoying.
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Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men by K. K. Beck
A society columnist uncovers more than her dinner plate at a swank San Francisco dinner party.
The grand dame of the high-class Nob Hill set throws a do....
An innocent enough party on the surface, events take an ominous turn when society columnist Maude Teasdale Cavendish is mistaken for... more
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City of Light by Lauren Belfer
City of LightThe year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of Buffalo’s most prestigious school, Louisa... more
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 by George Pelecanos (Editor)
Edited by George Pelecanos, best-selling author and writer for the hit HBO series The Wire, this year's collection promises to deliver the same stellar caliber of mystery stories that readers have come to expect from this series. "A must-read for anyone who cares about crime... more
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Date With A Dead Doctor (Midge Cohen, Bk 1) by Toni Brill
Midge Cohen's mother has fixed her up...again. What would it hurt to meet this nice Jewish doctor, a urologist even, and give him a try, she insists. But all Dr. Leon Skripnik wants from Midge, an erstwhile Russian scholar, is a translation of a letter he's received from the Old Country. To get... more
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Hocus (Irene Kelly, Bk 5) by Jan Burke
For reporter Irene Kelly it's a terrifying investigation -- because it's so personal. Her husband, Detective Frank Harriman, has been kidnapped by terrorists who call themselves Hocus -- deadly manipulators who give Irene three days to meet their demands before killing their hostage. But... more
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Murder in the Dog Days (Maggie Ryan, Bk 6) by P. M. Carlson
To escape the broiling New York summer Maggie Ryan, her actor husband, Nick, and daughter, Sarah, head for historic Civil War country - Mosby, Virginia. But Mosby's simmering Southern heat hides as many sinister secrets as there are citizens.
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Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Hilary Tamar, Bk 1) by Sarah Caudwell
DEATH IN VENICE
For young barrister Julia Larwood, it was to be a vacation in pursuit of Eros, in flight from the tax man... An Art Lover's Holiday to Italy. Reduced to near penury by the Inland Revenue, Julia could hardly afford such a luxury, but she'd be in hock to the Revenue... more
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration by Byron Preiss (Editor)
Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century's most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American detective: cynical yet idealistic; romantic... more
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The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, Bk 2) by Agatha Christie
Miss Jane has gathered together an intimate group of friends and family for an evening of fun, games, and mystery. What results is a baker's dozen of fiendishly told tales of malicious misdeeds, delightful deductions, airtight alibis, and tantalizing clues. Also published as The Tuesday Club... more
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A Fete Worse than Death (Lady Margaret Priam, Bk 3) by Joyce Christmas
A social climber scales her last ladder in this Lady Margaret Priam Mystery, where just before one of her own soirees, Lady Ross is unceremoniously strangled. A guest of the party herself, Lady Margaret Priam quietly figures things out on her own. The list of top-drawer suspects grows as their... more
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Mourning Gloria (Lady Margaret Priam, Bk 8) by Joyce Christmas
LOOK WHO'S BACK IN TOWN ...
None other than notorious Gloria Gilpin Forsythe Anton -- with a fresh face-lift, a new husband, and plans for a major social comeback. But Gloria is riding for a fall -- a fatal one -- down the back stairs of an old East Side mansion that she's turned... more
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Perfect Day for Dying (Lady Margaret Priam, Bk 7) by Joyce Christmas
When Lady Margaret's good friend Paul Castrocani is offered the dubious position of party coordinator for the outrageously wealthy Lord Farfaine, he leaps at the chance to spend a winter season in the Caribbean. But the lush island plantation of Indigo Hill becomes a ghastly murder... more
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A Groom with a View (Jane Jeffry, Bk 11) by Jill Churchill
Jane Jeffry thinks that a remote, rundown monastery-turned-hunt club is an odd place to hold a wedding. But the doubting suburban single mom is being paid to plan the fabulous event, not to say "I do." With overnight guests already arriving, Jane and best friend Shelley must rush to... more
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White House Pet Detectives: Tales of Crime and Mystery at the White House from a Pet'...
The tradition of pets in the White House goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers. From the parrot and foxhounds of George Washington to Spot and Barney, the current canines of the Bushes, the First Family’s animal companions have always had a special place in America’s heart.... more
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Darned if You Do (Needlecraft, Bk 18) by Monica Ferris
After a tree falls on Tom Riordan’s house, landing him in the hospital, the police discover a mountain of junk piled high in his home. Locals in Excelsior, Minnesota -- including Betsy Devonshire and her Crewel World Monday Bunch -- offer to help with the cleanup while Tom... more
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Women of Mystery: An Anthology by Katherine V. Forrest (Editor)
This title contains 14 dazzling tales of mystery and murder from the best-known lesbian crime writers. Harrington Park Press proudly presents "Women of Mystery", an anthology of short lesbian suspense fiction from the best known lesbian mystery writers in the business. Edited by Katherine V.... more
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Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
Before armies clash, a silent war rages. The war of the night soldiers.
1934. Europe is a short-fused powder keg, and from the East comes just the man to light it: Khristo Stoianev, a new recruit of Russia's elite intelligence corps, the NKVD. Khristo is a night soldier... more
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Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) ...
Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises
Here are thirteen deadly tales, all set within the dramatic turmoil of medieval Europe. Murder mystery fans and history buffs alike will be riveted by the selections offered by master anthologist Martin H. Greenberg and Nebula Award-winner... more
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Dead and Buried (Iris House B & B, Bk 2) by Jean Hager
It's a full house at Tess Darcy's lovely Iris House, with all the guests in town for the Victoria Springs High School 20-year reunion.
Super-jock Ted and football queen Rachel were an item back in school, as were bubbly Francine and devilish Barry. But time has curdled... more
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Great French Detective Stories by T. J. Hale (Editor)
The intention of this anthology is partly historical, but partly too to introduce an English-speaking audience to some Continental writers of detective stories who have been unfairly neglected in this country since the Second World War. With few exceptions, there has been little good... more
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Squeeze Me (Skink, Bk 8) by Carl Hiaasen
A hilarious novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida's gold coast.
It's the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season: for every disease or cause, there's a reason for the local luminaries to eat (minimally), drink (maximally), and... more
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me by Alfred Hitchcock (Editor)
Scared of monsters? Terrified of ghosts? Turn pale when sounds go clank in the night? Turn green when something brushes against you in the dark? Well, so does Mr. Hitchcock. And he has here selected twenty-three stories, a novellette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white... more
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Mrs. Malory and A Death In the Family (Mrs. Malory, Bk 17) by Hazel Holt
Sheila Malory is less than thrilled when her loathsome cousin Bernard comes to Taviscombe looking for information to complete his family tree. After all, she's got better things to do than listen to Bernard's pompous genealogical lectures and watch him berate his mousy wife. But when... more
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Mrs. Malory and Death in Practice (Sheila Malory, Bk 14) by Hazel Holt
Dr. Doolittle he's not. In fact, the new veterinarian in town, Malcolm Hardy, has no kennel-side manner at all. His patients squirm and bark in his presence, and the humans in this quiet English town, including Mrs. Malory, can't find a redeeming bone in his body. So it's not a... more
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Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy (Sheila Malory, Bk 10) by Hazel Holt
When Shelia Malory ran into her old college chum, Beth, now a bestselling novelist, she expected a pleasant lunch, some reminiscing, and a little harmless gossip. What she didn't expect was her friend to wind up dead shortly after their meeting. Now Sheila must act as literary executer,... more
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House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes Novel 1) by Anthony Horowitz
THE GAME'S AFOOT ...It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with... more
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Blood and Honey (Faraday and Winter, Bk 6) by Graham Hurley
The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below the cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday. It's a journey which takes him right to the heart of the grim trade in human cargo from the crippled societies of the Balkans. From cheap labour to... more
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Cut to Black (Faraday and Winter, Bk 5) by Graham Hurley
Time's up for Bazza Mackenzie. His stranglehold on Portsmouth's cocaine market has earned him millions of dollars he's invested in legitimate businesses. The police have mounted an operation code-named Tumbril to take down the city's biggest criminal. But when the detective in... more
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The Nanny Murders (Zoe Hayes, Bk. 1) by Merry Jones
Writing in the estimable tradition of Mary Higgins Clark, new mystery star Merry Jones rockets to the top of everyone's must-read list with her first exhilirating novel. The Nanny Murders is a mesmerizing page-turner about missing nannies who have disappeared, one by one, from a close-knit... more
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Inspector Faro's Casebook: The Second Omnibus by Alanna Knight
Includes three books, A Quiet Death, To Kill A Queen, The Evil That Men Do, Books 5,6,7 in the Inspector Faro series.
A Quiet Death -- Detective Inspector Jeremy Faro had not the least idea that a suicide from the unfinished Tay Bridge would open up a sinister trail of seemingly unconnected... more
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An Orkney Murder (Rose McQuinn, Bk 3) by Alanna Knight
Leaving the grime of Victorian Edinburgh behind her, Rose McQuinn makes a long-anticipated journey to visit her sister Emily who still lives in their childhood home on Orkney. But on those far-flung isles Rose does not find the peace and relaxation she anticipates; instead, events take on an... more
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Where's Mommy Now? by Rochelle Majer Krich
Ensconced in a posh Los Angeles home, Kate Bauers has a picture-perfect life: independent wealth, two delightful children and a loving husband, Mark, a doctor. Her busy schedule becomes even more hectic when she opens a shop with her best friend, Laney, so Kate hires an au pair. Demure and... more
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Grave Choices (Peggy O'Neill, Bk 7) by M. D. Lake
Campus cop Peggy O'Neill arrives at the art building too late to prevent the murder of professor Russell Bell. She does, however, catch a glimpse of Daniel Sanchez fleeing the building. Police are sure Sanchez, a failed artist and Bell's lifelong foe, is the killer, but O'Neill's... more
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Bright Orange for the Shroud (Travis McGee, Bk 6) by John D. MacDonald
The fragile-looking blonde was like a black widow spider feeding on her mate till he was broke and drained dry, a walking zombie stumbling aboard the celebrated TRAVIS McGEE houseboat The Busted Flush. And there lolls Travis McGee, that freelance knight in slightly tarnished armor whose... more
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Women of Mystery by Cynthia Manson (Editor)
For yet another compilation of works by women authors, whose spirited female protagonists swell the ranks of mystery's mainstream these days, Manson (editor of Mystery for Christmas ) assembles 15 tales previously published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's... more
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Seneca Falls Inheritance (Glynis Tryon, Bk 1) by Miriam Grace Monfredo
In her historically authentic and cleverly entertaining first novel, Monfredo skillfully meshes life in Seneca Falls, N.Y., immediately before the First Women's Rights Convention in 1848 with a page-turning suspense story.
Charming spinster librarian Glynis Tryon, like her fellow... more
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Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, Bk 1) by Barbara Neely
It's hard enough making ends meet on the pittance Blanche White earns doing day work for the genteel Southern families of North Carolina. But when her fourth bad check lands her a jail sentence, Blanche goes on the lam.
Inadvertently, she finds work at the summer home of a wealthy family,... more
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Deadly Allies by Robert J. Randisi (Editor) & Marilyn Wallace (Editor)
The first ever collaborative anthology of the two most influential mystery writers groups-- An anthology of mysteries and short stories by the members of: Sisters in Crime and Private Eye Writers of America.
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Delhi Noir (Akashic Noir) by Sawhney & Hirsh (Editor)
Brand new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmad, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Meera Nair, Siddharth Chowdhury, Mohan Sikka, Palash K. Mehrotra, Hartosh Singh Bal, Hirsh Sawhney, Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, and Manjula Padmanabhan.
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The Confessor (Gabriel Allon, Bk 3) by Daniel Silva
In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the new pope vows to uncover the truth about the church's response to the Holocaust-while a powerful cardinal... more
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The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, Bk 13) by Daniel Silva
One girl -- Seven days -- No second chances --
Madeline Hart is a rising star in British government: beautiful, intelligent, driven to succeed by an impoverished childhood. But she also has a dark secret: she is the lover of Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster.... more
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Following Jane (Barrett Lake, Bk 1) by Shelley Singer
THE SCHOOL TEACHER AND THE HARD-BOILED P.I.
The guy at the door was stocky, grizzled, and tough. Berkeley teacher Barrett Lake thought he looked nothing like a private eye. But he was. Suddenly, at mid-career and mid-school year, Barrett finally knew what she really wanted to be when she... more
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Bliss (Lenny Bliss) by Bob Sloan
Manhattan homicide detective Lenny Bliss and his handsome partner Ward investigate the murder of a beautiful Russian dentist and mother who temporarily turned call-girl in order to raise start-up cash for her office back home. Meanwhile, the murderer runs afoul of the Russian mafia in Brighton... more
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And Be a Villain (Nero Wolfe, Bk 13) by Rex Stout
Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extrordinaire, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor's beverage, it was a broadcaster's nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his... more
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Grey Mask (Miss Silver, Bk 1) by Patricia Wentworth
Four years ago Charles Moray had been jilted at the altar by Margaret Langton. Four years later he returns to London to find his ex-fiancee mixed up in a vicious plot involving kidnap and worse. The victim is Margot Standing, who as the heiress of a shipping magnate stands to inherit a... more
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American Girls About Town by Adriana Trigiani & Lauren Weisberger & Jennifer ...
Born in the U.S.A....
American gals are taking liberties -- and pursuing happiness on their own terms -- in this star-studded story collection featuring the nation's red-hot women writers.
They've declared their independence!
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The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Ivo Andric
The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its... more
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Joheved (Rashi's Daughters, Bk 1) by Maggie Anton
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world -- writing the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.
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England, England by Julian Barnes
From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement."Picture... more
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Cures for Hunger by Deni Y. Bechard
“As the motor's vibrations cradled me, I tried to envision my life. I saw the red lines of highways on the map, stretched between cities like threads of torn cloth. I imagined a book that could hold it all together, plains and mountain ranges, dust-drab towns beyond interstates, and... more
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The Best American Short Stories 2013 by Elizabeth Strout (Editor) & Heidi Pitlor ...
The Best American Short Stories is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction, guest edited in 2012 by Pultizer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Elizabeth Strout with Heidi Pitlor. With an introduction by Elizabeth... more
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Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny -- the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents... Eve -- the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious... more
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The Relic Master: A Novel by Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley?s ?hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale? about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Dürer who conspire to fabricate Christ?s burial shroud reads ?like Indiana Jones gone medieval? (USA TODAY).
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Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns &...
Anyone who came under the spell of COLD SASSY TREE will welcome this final portrait of Will Tweedy; of the feisty young schoolteacher who captures his heart; of a town that has claimed a place in our imaginations; and of Olive Ann Burns, a writer who didn't get a chance to finish her tale.
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Ashes to Ashes by Lillian Stewart Carl
Rebecca comes to a replica of a Scottish castle in Ohio to catalog a collection of historical artifacts. But she's not wanted there, either by her Scottish co-worker or by the ghosts of the past.
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Summerland by Michael Chabon
A BookSense 76 pick, and best-seller from coast to coast-Summerland is part fantasy, part adventure, part baseball, but most of all it's the story of a young boy, Ethan Feld-a lousy, but lovable little-leaguer who finds himself playing in the most important baseball game ever. Not only the game,... more
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Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon
The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are caught in events that will crystallize and define their lives... more
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A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice...
In sixteenth-century Venice, a monk struggles to create the perfect map of the world -- without ever leaving his cell. Travelers bring him tales of faraway, fantastic people and places; the map takes on many dimensions and grows. Slowly, Fra Mauro's vision begins to embrace not... more
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries
Anthony Thrasher is a fifteen-year-old underachiever who simply cannot grasp the mundane realities of the eighth grade. While under the tutelage of his free-spirited teacher Miss Maggie Doubloon (she has the audacity to assign The Scarlett Letter to her class), Tony suddenly finds himself a... more
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Goodbye, Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton
ENGLAND 1944
A multidimensional picture of what it is to be at war... and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944. Capt. Jamie Farebrother is one of the American fighter-pilots stationed in 1944-45 Cambridgeshire. The action include air-battles lots of air-base rivalry/camaraderie,... more
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Another Time, Another Season by Anna Dillon
There are two things Katherine Lundy will never speak of: Ireland and her past...
But Ireland draws her son Patrick like a magnet. Fiercely nationalist, he leaves his family to follow his destiny and ignite the burning hatred he feels for England - and his mother...
Senga, his sister, is... more
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I'll Never Be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier
In a moment of crisis, Richard is saved by a passing stranger - Jake. The two men, both at turning points, become firm friends and on a whim set out for adventure, jumping aboard the first ship they see. Their journeys take them to Norway and across Europe, cementing a passionate friendship. But... more
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Malkeh and Her Children by Marjorie Edelson
Richly plotted, animated by beautifully realized characters, and steeped in magnificent old-world detail, Malkeh and Her Children is the captivating epic of the remarkable Mandelkern family as they weather the storm of the Russian Revolution. At the family's center stands the indomitable Malkeh,... more
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Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart
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Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
When Irene America discovers that her husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she... more
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with... more
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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan, Bk 2) by Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein (Tra...
The second book, following last year’s My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex... more
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The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan, Bk 4) by Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein ...
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship has remained the gravitational... more
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan, Bk 3) by Elena Ferrante & Ann Gol...
In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena... more
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The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe, Bk 3) by Richard Ford
With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the... more
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The Sportswriter (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Ford
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of... more
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Letters from Home by Karen Joy Fowler & Pat Cadigan & Pat Murphy
Eighteen 'tales of the unexpected" from three award-winning American authors (6 from each author): some frightening, some humorous, all startlingly original. Introduction by Sarah Lefanu.
In Pat Cadigan's 'The Pond", a mother is terrified that her five-year-old daughter... more
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A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn
From the bestselling author of Headlong and Spies, "an unconditional triumph" (The Washington Post Book World)For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, there have been rumors.So Brian Jessel, a young member of the... more
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Spies by Michael Frayn
From the bestselling author of Headlong, a mesmerizing novel about secrecy, imagination, and a child's game turned deadly earnest
The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime... more
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.
Sorely wounded and... more
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder & Paul...
One day, Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?"
Before she knows it, she is enrolled in a correspondence course covering Socrates to Sartre and beyond, with a mysterious philosopher. But Sophie... more
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Cousin Phyllis (Hesperus Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
A haunting, beautifully controlled novella, Cousin Phyllis is considered to be among Elizabeth Gaskell's finest short works. Lodging with a minister on the outskirts of London, Paul Manning is initially dismayed to discover that the uncle he must visit in the country is also a churchman. Yet far... more
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Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell & Patricia Ingham (Editor)
A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of vignette, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays... more
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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through... more
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Mazel by Rebecca Goldstein
Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations. Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who abandons the shtetl and wins renown as a Yiddish actress in Warsaw and New York. Her daughter Chloe becomes a... more
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The Chalk Artist by Allegra Goodman
A gifted artist, an idealistic teacher, and a teenage gamer intersect in this compelling novel.
Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his medium of choice: chalk.... more
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Shelter by Frances Greenslade
For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect. Seasons in their tiny rustic home were peppered with wilderness hikes, building shelters from pine boughs and telling stories by the fire with their doting father and beautiful,... more
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The Other by David Guterson
John William Barry has inherited the pedigree -- and wealth -- of two of Seattle's elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish. Nevertheless, when the two boys meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they're brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the... more
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Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who... more
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The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin Harmel
A tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II... When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, she imagines strolling arm in arm along... more
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At Risk by Alice Hoffman
They were an ordinary American family; Polly, a wife, mother, and struggling photographer; her husband, Ivan, an astronomer; their son, Charlie, an eight-year-old obsessed with dinosaurs...and Amanda, eleven, who dreams of becoming a great gymnast. Amanda is blessed with unusual strength and... more
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Local Girls by Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman's first collection of short fiction.
Alice Hoffman is at her haunting, thought-provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family, the Samuelsons, and the lessons in survival and transformation that life brings to every family.
Dear diary -- Rose... more
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Perfect: A Novel by Rachel Joyce
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain... more
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Ironweed (Albany Cycle, Bk 3) by William Kennedy
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.
Now, in 1938, Francis is back... more
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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the... more
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Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
A pregnant teenager abandoned by her boyfriend in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, finds a new home with the eccentric and caring people of the community.
Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she... more
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Day of Atonement by David Liss
Sebastiao Raposa is only thirteen when his parents are unjustly imprisoned, never to be seen again, and he is forced to flee Portugal lest he too fall victim to the Inquisition. But ten years in exile only serve to whet his appetite for vengeance. Returning at last to Lisbon, in the guise of... more
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Family Album by Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, Lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect façade to reveal the unsettling truths.
All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a... more
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Son (Giver, Bk 4) by Lois Lowry
Son is the long-awaited and compelling conclusion to The Giver Quartet, a true sequel to Lowry's Caldecott Medal-winning The Giver. Told in three separate storylines, Son ties the first three books of The Giver Quartet together -- The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger -- into one... more
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The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent. Henry is... more
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel by Peter Manseau
Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a... more
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Gregory Rabassa (Transl...
The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and... more
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The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relationships seem to be with people who barely know he exists. He passes the time idly filling out contest applications, counting ceiling tiles,... more
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Love Burns by Edna Mazya & Dalya Bilu (Translator)
Ilan, a middle-aged professor of astrophysics, discovers that his young wife is having an affair. Terrified of losing her, he decides to confront her lover instead. Their meeting ends in the latter's murder -- the unlikely murder weapon being Ilan's pipe -- and in desperation,... more
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him.
Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought... more
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of An American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous... more
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The Ladies Auxiliary: A Novel by Tova Mirvis
An Orthodox Jewish Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. In this remarkable and assured debut, Tova Mirvis tells the story of the close-knit, carefully structured world of the Orthodox community in Memphis, Tennessee, a world that unravels when Batsheva, newly widowed and a convert to Judaism,... more
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The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit & H. R. Millar (Illustrator)
When their mother bought a second-hand carpet for the nursery, and they found a mysterious egg wrapped inside it, the children little guessed what adventures were in store for them. For when later Robert accidentally dropped the egg in the grate, and found it too hot to retrieve it, a strange... more
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Faithless: Tales of Transgression by Joyce Carol Oates
In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their... more
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The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of "The Jungle Book" and the stories he told her of his... more
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The Agency by Ally O'Brien
In this disconnected debut from O'Brien (collaborative pseudonym for a media agent and a suspense novelist), driven London literary agent Tess Drake is an antihero so aggressive and egocentric that she repels friends (and perhaps readers). Steely Tess has the lonely top agent's spot at the... more
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
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Judas by Amos Oz
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
?[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book?s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last, as befits a writer who understands how vital a political role a novelist can play.? ?New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice
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Betrayals by Charles Palliser
The novel unfolds in a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, each written in a different style -- indeed, in a different genre. There is an obituary for a Scottish scientist and Nobel Prize winner, written by a colleague who clearly relishes his death. Early in the century, a train in the... more
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Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky
They came from different worlds and met in a time of crisis for each of them: Luisa, a former diva brought low by alcohol and delusion, Mara, a furious nineteen-year-old searching for her mother and her truths. Madeleine, a homeless woman who sees the blood of the Virgin Mary seeping through... more
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Daphne: A Novel by Justine Picardie
A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of Daphne du Maurier’s fascination with the Brontës: a tale of madness, theft, romance, and literary archaeology.Drawing on Justine Picardie’s own extensive research into Daphne du Maurier’s obsession with the Brontës and the... more
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Poolside (Durabooks) by Alice Adams & Amy Bloom & John Cheever & Ernest H...
Poolside is a waterproof collection of fourteen stories about the satisfactions (and tribulations) of swimming lessons, summer scenes at club pools, chance encounters at the rec center - and just plain floating. The perfect companion for a day of dipping and people watching, Poolside is as... more
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael Bk 1) by Daniel Quinn
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch.
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Driftless by David Rhodes
The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by... more
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East Fortune by James Runcie
The figure stepped out into the road. He stretched his arms out and his legs apart, making an X, palms facing the windscreen, the hands with a slight tremor that Jack only remembered later. His face had a questioning look that asked "Why are you doing this to me?"
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India... more
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Blindness by Jose Saramago & Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven... more
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Already an acclaimed and best-selling work of fiction in Europe (currently being translated into fourteen different languages worldwide), The Reader is both a literary surprise and a moral challenge: a riveting, provocative, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's erotic awakening in a... more
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition. When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs.... more
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The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
Here is a stunning collection of five stories and a novella, written in Jane Smiley's clear and elegant prose, and filled with the unmistakable sound of real people going about the business -- and pleasure -- of real life. In the title novella, "THE AGE OF GRIEF," a man meditates... more
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Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley
Contains the two novellas Ordinary Love and Good Will.
Ordinary Love
At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father -- and changed all their lives irrevocably.
Good Will
Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he... more
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The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
On a pilgramage to the Holy Places of Jordan, Barbara Vaughan (half Jewish, Catholic convert, engaged to a Dead Sea Scroll archaeologist) meets Freddy Hamilton (diplomat, celibate, poet) in Jerusalem. Ignoring his warning that she will be arrested because of her Jewish blood, Barbara embarks on... more
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As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg
"As A Driven Leaf" is a novel in which fictional and historical characters comfortably coexist. It is a gripping tale of the renegade Talmudic sage, Elisha ben Abuyah, caught in a personal struggle between his own faith and the compelling culture of Rome, circa 70 CE.
The genius of... more
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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight
Beginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Marietta's mother passes, she heads to Charleston in search of her uncle -- only to find a lover and return pregnant with twins... more
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The Empress of One by Faith Sullivan
It's a remarkable novelist who can transport readers to a place and a time that they don't want to leave. Faith Sullivan's The Cape Ann brought readers to the town of Harvester, Minnesota, at the end of the Depression, has developed a passionate, growing following. Readers who love... more
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Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan
Nell Stillman's road is not easy. When her boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-town America at the beginning of the twentieth century.
In... more
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Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a... more
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Waterland by Graham Swift
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek... more
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All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Lahore, Pakistan. Then.
Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.
Juniper, California. Now.
Salahudin and... more
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The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt
The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel.
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by... more
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The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
David's father goes off to war, leaving David and his mother to fight poverty and shame on their own in a small Southern town.
John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wrote The Neon... more
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The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank,... more
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The Language of Threads by Gail Tsukiyama
Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest friend, Lin. Now we finally learn what happened... more
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The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to... more
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20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker by Deborah Treisman (Editor)
In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40" -- the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the... more
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Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus... After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which... more
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Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
A spiritual tale of the quest for love, the recovery of identity and patrimony, Ben-Hur never fails to delight in its detail and realism. As David Mayer's introduction and notes make explicit, Ben-Hur is marked by traces of contemporary issues and American Victorian concerns and... more
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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith. Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated... more
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A Beggar in Jerusalem by Elie Wiesel
In a novel of soaring power and stunning sensitivity, the major events of a century collide in the body and soul of one man. Elie Wiese's gret best seller is the unforgettable story of a people's desperate struggle to defend itself and to forge on the anvil of history a new destiny. In the... more
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The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
Beginning with a search for the ten lost tribes and ending in an attic, where lies an important bible which has been missing for seventy-nine years, The Genizah at the House of Shepher is Tamar Yellin's critically acclaimed debut novel.
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Buddha by Karen Armstrong
With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she turns to a figure whose thought is still ... more
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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Ar...
Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other?
In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost... more
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time (Eminent Lives) by Karen Armstrong
Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story... more
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a... more
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The Scent of God: A Memoir by Beryl Singleton Bissell
When Beryl Bissell entered a cloistered convent in New Jersey, she believed that God had called her to this way of life. At first blissfully happy, within a year she became prey to obsessive compulsions. Her vocation at risk, she overcame these disorders, and persevered for another ten years ... more
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Br...
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks... more
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid : A Memoir by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly... more
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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here Nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest,... more
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson
A loving and hilarious -- if occasionally spiky -- valentine to Bill Bryson's adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and... more
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most... more
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Manhood for Amateurs: Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael ...
A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.
In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one... more
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The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan & Earl Jeffrey Richards (Tra...
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral... more
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then... more
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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy... more
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The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration.In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in... more
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Helix Books)...
The spectacular success of the book and audio versions of Six Easy Pieces caused a worldwide clamor for more. The result is these six additional lectures, which the legendary teacher and Nobel physicist Richard P. Feyman gave in the early 1960's to freshman Caltech students. Though slightly... more
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The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue by Michael Frayn & David Burke
One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London housewife that contained a few faded pages of barely legible German. These pages, apparently found concealed beneath some floorboards, seemed to... more
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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless by Susan J...
A funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date.
Gilman's memoir of growing up on Manhattan's upper Upper West Side in the '70s starts slowly but gathers momentum. Readers who find themselves drifting during... more
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Thinking In Pictures : and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the... more
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human... more
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Pentimento by Lillian Hellman
"In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award--winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The... more
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
Published for the first time as Ernest Hemingway intended, one of the great writer's most enduring works: his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal... more
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The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Di...
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's biographical story of the pioneers of the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.
The computer and the... more
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver
"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they... more
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; beautiful Diana married the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; and... more
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Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the ...
Suzanne Morrison was a coffee drinking, cigarette smoking, steak-eating twenty-five year-old student about to move to New York City when she decided it was time to get in touch with her spiritual side and travel to Bali for a 2 month yoga teacher training program. She envisioned herself in... more
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by D...
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard
Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who,... more
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The Moth: This Is a True Story by Catherine Burns (Editor)
For the first time in print, celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from their extensive archive (fifteen-plus years and 10,000-plus stories strong). Inspired by friends telling stories on a porch, The Moth was born in small-town... more
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The Great Caruso by Michael Scott
He was born in the squalid slums of Naples, in 1873. Although his voice as he grew up was of astonishing beauty, Enrico Caruso's technique was rudimentary and his style vehement and crude. But just as he was winning his first success, music itself was undergoing a historic shift -- away from... more
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Art and Artifice: And Other Essays of Illusion by Jim Steinmeyer
From the author of Hiding the Elephant and The Glorious Deception comes a collection of five essays that shows how the great stage illusions were integrally products of their time, based on the traditions and fashions of the people, and the offspring of the incredible, inventive personalities... more
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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas
This magnificent third collection of essays by Lewis Thomas will both reassure and surprise his many devoted readers. Among its luminous and witty pieces, enthusiasts will applaud "The Attic of the Brain." "Falsity and Failure," "On Smell," a three-page... more
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My Own Country : A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases who became, by necessity, the local AIDS expert. Out of his experience... more
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers (The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, among others): a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.
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My California: Journeys By Great Writers by Donna Wares (Editor)
Fly-fish the pristine waters of the Owens River. Step up to the microphone in a California honky-tonk. Surf the biggest waves California has ever seen. Mingle with ducks in an urban oasis. Roller skate through L.A.'s Union Station. See California through the eyes of 27 of the state's... more
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Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess, a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world -- the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the... more
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked ...
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the... more
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Prophet (Penelope Bailey series) by Mike Resnick
Since Penelope Bailey was a little girl, all humanity has been frightened by her awesome psychic talent, and worried that she can bend events—and men—to her will. Many have called her a monster, but she has chosen a different name for herself: Prophet. Twice, Penelope has managed to... more
