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Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South TexasAward-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother's knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these narratives...
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PenanceWinner of the 1996 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. A Saint Paul PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife. Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the St. Paul Police Department homicide...
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The Cows"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar...
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The Honey MonthTwenty-eight days there are in the month of February, a cold month, a month in which the summer seems an endless dream one had once, long ago. We should not be tricked by the frost, for it was during the dreaming month of February...
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Keep the Home Fires Burning: The Complete NovelJoin Frances Barden, Sarah Collingborne, Pat Simms, Miriam Brindsley, and the women of the Great Paxford Women's Institute as calamity hits their beloved village and they prove once again that when women work together they can surmount almost any challenge. Frances struggles as her...
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All My Friends Are Going to Be StrangersHailed as one of "the best novels ever set in America's fourth largest city" (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a powerful demonstration of Larry McMurtry's "comic genius, his ability to render a sense...
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Twist Me: The Complete TrilogyAll 3 books in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, available for the first time in one convenient, discounted bundle. "Will you ever let me go?" "No, Nora," he replies, and I can feel his smile in the darkness. "Never." On the eve of...
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Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution, and EvolutionBefore email, before the world wide web, before hackers, Before sexting, before always-on GPS, before titanium implants, before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri, before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon, there was cyberpunk.And science...
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The Freeze-Frame RevolutionPromotion at major trade and genre conventions, including BEA, ALA, Readercon, the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the World Science Fiction convention. Features, interviews, and reviews targeting literary and genre venues, including the Washington Post, NPR, the Los Angeles Times,...
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The Crypt Thief: A Hugo Marston NovelIt's summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in P re Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into...
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Demian: The Story of a Youth2011 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play...
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The Crooked HingeBanished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the catastrophe, his...
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I Prefer GirlsI Prefer Girls makes its triumphant return One of the true classics of the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction is back, complete with its captivating Robert Maguire cover and a window in on Greenwich Village, circa 1963. Long out of print, I Prefer...
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One Good Mama BoneA novel of courageous parental love and the instructive, healing bonds that form between humans and animalsSet in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone," after she is left to care for a...
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Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective. It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester...
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Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #183): Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the PolicemanJonathan Lethem, editor The most outr science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon, exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s, edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes...
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The Paying GuestsThe "volcanically sexy" (USA Today) bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London. It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South...
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Everything FlowsA New York Review Books Original Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a...
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Gone BambooA hilarious crime thriller by Anthony Bourdain, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard is looking for the good life when he retires with his wife, Frances, to the Caribbean. He...
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Night at the MoviesFrom Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, ?A Night at the Movies?invents what might have happened in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as...
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