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  • Eve's Diaryby Mark Twain

    The Floating Press 1905; US$ 2.99

    Only humor writer extraordinaire Mark Twain could inject so much wit and hilarity into the story of Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man. This short story takes the form of excerpts from Eve's personal journal, providing a unique feminine account of the first human couple that deviates in a few important regards from the "official" version. more...

  • Riding the Bulletby Stephen King

    Simon & Schuster 2000; US$ 3.99

    Riding the Bullet is "a ghost story in the grand manner" from the bestselling author of Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and The Green Mile -- a short story about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side. more...

  • A Visit from the Goon Squadby Jennifer Egan

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 9.99

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Winner PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Best Book One of the Best Books of the Year:   Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village Voice Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every... more...

  • Perfect Shadowby Brent Weeks

    Orbit 2011; US$ 2.99

    Discover the origins of Durzo Blint in this original novella set in the world of Brent Weeks' New York Times bestselling Night Angel trilogy. "I got a bit of prophecy," the old assassin said. "Not enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. But now that you're here, I see they're all you. Durzo Blint." Durzo Blint? Gaelan had never even heard the name. *** Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity,... more...

  • Legendary Women Detectives: 6 Novelets of the World's Greatest Female Super-Sleuthsby Jean Marie Stine

    Renaissance E Books 2003; US$ 4.99

    This unique collection for connoisseurs of detective work female style brings back six of the greatest fictional women sleuths of the era of gaslights and horseless carriages. Fans of Kinsey Milhone and other contemporary women detectives, as well as of Agatha Christie and Honey West, will love this collection featuring the foremothers of today's fictional female crime-fighters. Out of print for years, Sherlock Holmes female rivals return in classic tales of the great fictional women detectives of the gaslight and horseless carriage era. more...

  • Everything's Eventualby Stephen King

    Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 7.99

    The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. "Riding the Bullet," published here on paper for the first time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In "Lunch at the Gotham Café," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maître d' gets out of sorts. "1408," the audio story... more...

  • Night's Edgeby Charlaine Harris; Maggie Shayne; Barbara Hambly

    Harlequin 2009; US$ 7.20

    DANCERS IN THE DARK by Charlaine Harris. Dancer Layla Rue Le May's childhood prepared her to handle just about anything, including her aloof partner, Sean McClendon, a three-hundred-year-old vampire. But when she acquires a stalker, Layla Rue is surprised to find that Sean is the only one she can trust. HER BEST ENEMY by Maggie Shayne. Kiley Brigham refuses to believe there's a ghost in her house, but when an unseen hand leaves a bloody message on her mirror, she's forced to turn to local psychic Jack McCain. As the two work to uncover a long-buried secret, Kiley finds that she's haunted not by spirits, but by thoughts of Jack.... SOMEONE ELSE'S SHADOW by Barbara Hambly. Maddie Laveau worries about her young roommate, Tessa,... more...

  • Trashby Dorothy Allison

    Penguin Group Inc. 2002; US$ 12.99

    Trash , Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina , the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story. First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the... more...

  • Sukkwan Islandby David Vann

    HarperCollins 2010; US$ 1.99

    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father's suicide. more...

  • The Half Lifeby Jennifer Weiner

    Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 0.99

    From #1 bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, a short story about what can happen when one restless woman's best laid travel plans go astray... more...