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Karen Lord’s debut novel Redemption in Indigo is now out in the UK from Jo Fletcher/Quercus. More good news to follow!
Geoff Ryman’s Paradise Tales is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. The award ceremony is in New York City in June. Are you going?
Death of a Unicorn
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Peter Dickinson trade paper · $16 · 9781618730404 | ebook · $9.95 · 9781618730411 For bestselling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover’s mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family’s stately home are cast in new light by secrets unwillingly revisited in Dickinson’s wonderful novel of [...]
The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space, Inner Lands
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Ursula K. Le Guin Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands · 9781618730350 · trade cloth · $24 · 320pp | 9781618730374 · ebook · $14.95 “She is the reigning queen of…but immediately we come to a difficulty, for what is the fitting name of her kingdom? Or, in view of her abiding concern with the ambiguities of gender, her [...]
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Geoff Ryman Trade paper/ebook · 9781931520737/9781931520386 · 320 pp · Postponed “A mythic meditation on the enduring power of fantasy and art and on the loss of innocence, both the innocence of childhood lost to the cruel realities of the grown-up world and the innocence of a nation lost to the cruelties of history. . . . [...]
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The Fires Beneath the Sea
Lydia MilletIncludes a sneak preview of the second book in the Dissenters series, The Shimmers in the Night.
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Fountain of Age
Nancy Kress“Kress’s depiction of science is much like her characters’ experiences with love: by turns glorious and terrible, and always a little disturbing, even in triumph.”
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 27
A. D. Jameson · Jessy Randall · K. M. Ferebee · Karen Heuler · M. K. Hobson · Carol Emshwiller · David Rowinski · Joan Aiken · Sarah Harris Wallman · Gwenda Bond · David Blair · Sarah Heller · Nicole Kimberling
Chuntering On and On
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New Catalog, New Titles: Le Guin, Dickinson, Gorodischer, More Tue 15 May 2012
We’ll be mailing copies of this soonish but you can read it right now due to the magic of . . . yes, your early childhood educators who taught you to read. A big hand, ladies and gentlemen, for all those educators. Yay! And now you can exercise your lovely reading ability on our new [...]
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The Book Group Mon 14 May 2012
At some point we realized one of our fave painfully funny TV shows, The Book Group is available on Hulu. Painful painful painful Funny funny funny.
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Yay Street Books! Tue 8 May 2012
Pasted wholesale from the National Book Foundation website’s winners of the Innovations in Reading Prize: yay Laura! Street Books Portland, OR > www.streetbooks.org Street Books is a bicycle-powered mobile library serving people who live outside in Portland, Oregon. Founded in June 2011, the street library offers a means to check out books for patrons who [...]
Latest Eruption of Fiction Into the Universe
The Fires Beneath the Sea
April 2012 · 280 pp · trade paperback · 9781931520478
— Includes a sneak preview of the second book in the Dissenters series, The Shimmers in the Night (July 2012, 9781931520782)
July 2011 · 256 pp · hardcover · 9781931520713 | ebook · 9781931520416
Now in paperback.
A Junior Library Guild Pick
Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011
Selected for the ABC Best Books for Children Catalog
Cara’s mother has disappeared. Her father isn’t talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family’s Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was—and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined.
With help from Cara’s best friend Hayley, the three embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape’s hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They’re soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying “pouring man” close on their heels.
Packed with memorable characters and thrilling imagery, Lydia Millet weaves a page-turning adventure even as she brings the seaside world of Cape Cod to magical life. The first in a series of books about the Sykes children, The Fires Beneath the Sea is a rip-cracking middle-grade novel that will make perfect beach reading—for readers of any age!
* “Millet’s prose is lyrically evocative (“the rhythmic scoop and splash of their paddles”). A lush and intelligent opener for a topical eco-fantasy series.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
—School Library Journal
“A thoughtful and thought-provoking beginning to a new fantasy series. The Cape Cod woods, wildlife, and beaches are depicted with loving detail, and the dark forces arrayed against the young protagonists are at once tantalizingly mystifying and alarmingly timely.”
—Patricia McKillip
“Lydia Millet knows the sea like a selkie. The Fires Beneath the Sea smells of salt and tastes of mist, and that beauty speaks as strongly as its story of peril and hope for the future of our fragile world.”
—Kathe Koja, author of Talk
The Fires Beneath the Sea by Lydia Millet
About the Author
Lydia Millet is the author of six previous novels, including My Happy Life, which won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her short story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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An A–Z of the Fantastic City
Hal DuncanPublished in limited signed and numbered hardcover and perfectbound trade paperback editions.
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Three Messages and a Warning
Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris. N. Brown, editors“Langorous, edgy, sumptuously beautiful by turns.”
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The Liminal People
Ayize Jama-Everett“A damn good read. It’s a smart actioner that will entertain you while also enticing you to think about matters beyond the physical realm.”
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A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2012
Available in two spiralbound or PDF ebook editions. Standard Edition, 134 pages: — order the print edition ($13.95) — ebook: Weightless ($3.99) / Lulu ($3.99) Almanac Edition which includes all the prompts, exercises, reading lists, and articles from the two previous editions, 182 pages: — order the print edition ($15.95) — ebook Weightless ($4.99) / [...]
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The Freedom Maze
Delia Sherman“Adroit, sympathetic, both clever and smart, The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story’s end, that little bit older and wiser.”
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After the Apocalypse
Maureen F. McHugh“Incisive, contemporary, and always surprising.”
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A Slepyng Hound to Wake
Vincent McCaffrey“Henry is a character cut from Raymond Chandler: a modern knight on a mission to save those, and what, he loves.”
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Paradise Tales
Geoff Ryman* “Often contemplative and subtly ironic, the 16 stories in this outstanding collection work imaginative riffs on a variety of fantasy and SF themes”—Publishers Weekly (*Starred Review*)
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The Child Garden
Geoff RymanWinner of the John W. Cambell and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
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The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories
Joan Aiken* “Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising . . . a literary treasure.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Solitaire: a novel
Kelley EskridgeA New York Times Notable Book, Borders Original Voices selection, and Nebula, Endeavour, and Spectrum Award finalist.
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Under the Poppy
Kathe KojaFROM A WARTIME BROTHEL to the intricate high society of 1870s Brussels . . .
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang“Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales”
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A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011
Now 50% off! Bigger, better, fuller, smarter, and … timelier! Organize your writing schedule, track deadlines, and learn about grants, contests, and workshop programs.
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What I Didn’t See and Other Stories
Karen Joy FowlerA moving and elegant new collection from New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler. Locus and Shirley Jackson Award finalist.
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Meeks
Julia Holmes“One of the most original and readable novels that’s come my way in a long time.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Redemption in Indigo
Karen LordIn this funny, fresh Crawford and Collymore Award winning fable, a villager leaves her husband and finds she can manipulate chaos.
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Old Men in Love: John Tunnock’s Posthumous Papers
Alasdair GrayThe first US edition (updated with the author’s corrections from the UK edition) of a novel that British critics lauded as one of the best of Gray’s long career.
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A Life on Paper: Stories
Georges-Olivier ChâteaureynaudA major French fabulist translated into English for the first time. Best Translated Book Award Shortlist. Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award Finalist.
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The Poison Eaters & Other Stories
Holly BlackIn her debut collection, New York Times best-selling author Holly Black “assures her place as a modern fantasy master.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2010
Organize your writing schedule, track deadlines, and learn about grants, contests, and workshop programs
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Interfictions 2
Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak, EditorsNovember 2009:
21 original and innovative writers including Jeffrey Ford, Brian Francis Slattery, Nin Andrews, and M. Rickert, and more. Introduction by Henry Jenkins.
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Second Line
Poppy Z. BriteOctober 2009:
Two short novels of love and cooking in New Orleans, starring lovable chefs Ricky and G-man, written by the incomparable Poppy Z. Brite. “Fun foodie fiction, and readers will scarf it down.”—Publishers Weekly
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Hound
Vincent McCaffreyWhen a book dealer’s ex-lover is murdered, he is forced to examine his past and investigate the murky depths of literary Boston. Hound is the first of a series of novels featuring Henry Sullivan, and the debut novel of a long-time Boston bookseller, Vincent McCaffrey.