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<description><![CDATA[Hey, here's a chance to keep all the Small Beer titles all in one easy IndieBound place. Neat. Here's a special request: don't send these books to me! This is more for fun and record-keeping than for anything else. Or, you can send the books to yourself!]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[The Poison Eaters]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520638</link>
<description><![CDATA[In her debut collection, New York Times best-selling author Holly Black returns to the world of Tithe in two darkly exquisite new tales. Then Black takes readers on a tour of a faerie market and introduces a girl poisonous to the touch and another who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match. These stories have been published in anthologies such as 21 Proms, The Faery Reel, and The Restless Dead, and have been reprinted in many "Best of" anthologies. The Poison Eaters is Holly Black's much-anticipated first collection of stories, and her ability to stare into the void--and to find humanity and humor there--will speak to young adult and adult readers alike. Holly Black is the author of Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults) and two related novels, Valiant (Norton Award winner, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, CCBC Choices) and Ironside, as well as a new novel, The White Cat. She and Tony DiTerlizzi created the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles. She is working on a graphic novel series, The Good Neighbors, with artist Ted Naifeh. She and her husband, Theo, live in Massachusetts.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Poison Eaters]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Holly Black]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Big Mouth House]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520638]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In her debut collection, New York Times best-selling author Holly Black returns to the world of Tithe in two darkly exquisite new tales. Then Black takes readers on a tour of a faerie market and introduces a girl poisonous to the touch and another who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match. These stories have been published in anthologies such as 21 Proms, The Faery Reel, and The Restless Dead, and have been reprinted in many "Best of" anthologies. The Poison Eaters is Holly Black's much-anticipated first collection of stories, and her ability to stare into the void--and to find humanity and humor there--will speak to young adult and adult readers alike. Holly Black is the author of Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults) and two related novels, Valiant (Norton Award winner, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, CCBC Choices) and Ironside, as well as a new novel, The White Cat. She and Tony DiTerlizzi created the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles. She is working on a graphic novel series, The Good Neighbors, with artist Ted Naifeh. She and her husband, Theo, live in Massachusetts.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Hound]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520591</link>
<description><![CDATA[Death was, after all, the way Henry Sullivan made his living. Henry is a book hound, content to evade life by escaping into the books he sells to other dealers. But the murder of an ex-lover pulls him out of his familiar circles and leads him both to examine his past and to investigate the murky depths of literary Boston. Hound, the first novel featuring Henry Sullivan, is the debut work of a longtime Boston bookseller; it lays bare both the city and the literary world in a classic slow-burning style. "Vincent McCaffrey's bookseller, Henry Sullivan, is as endearing, frustrating, and compelling a character I've come across in some time. Hound is more than Henry's show, however. It's a slow burn murder mystery, a sharp character study, a detailed exploration of Boston, and a mediation on the secrets of history--both personal and universal. But I'm wasting our precious time trying to pigeonhole his wonderful first novel. Hound is, quite simply, a great book."--Paul Tremblay, author of The Little Sleep. Vincent McCaffrey has owned and operated the Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop for more than thirty years, first in Boston, and now online from Abingdon, Massachusetts. He has been paid by others to do lawn work, shovel snow, paint houses, and to be an office-boy, warehouse grunt, dishwasher, waiter, and hotel night clerk. He has since chosen at various times to be a writer, editor, publisher, and bookseller. He can still remember the first time he sold books for money in 1963--and what most of those books were. Hound is his first novel.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Hound]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Vincent McCaffrey]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520591]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Death was, after all, the way Henry Sullivan made his living. Henry is a book hound, content to evade life by escaping into the books he sells to other dealers. But the murder of an ex-lover pulls him out of his familiar circles and leads him both to examine his past and to investigate the murky depths of literary Boston. Hound, the first novel featuring Henry Sullivan, is the debut work of a longtime Boston bookseller; it lays bare both the city and the literary world in a classic slow-burning style. "Vincent McCaffrey's bookseller, Henry Sullivan, is as endearing, frustrating, and compelling a character I've come across in some time. Hound is more than Henry's show, however. It's a slow burn murder mystery, a sharp character study, a detailed exploration of Boston, and a mediation on the secrets of history--both personal and universal. But I'm wasting our precious time trying to pigeonhole his wonderful first novel. Hound is, quite simply, a great book."--Paul Tremblay, author of The Little Sleep. Vincent McCaffrey has owned and operated the Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop for more than thirty years, first in Boston, and now online from Abingdon, Massachusetts. He has been paid by others to do lawn work, shovel snow, paint houses, and to be an office-boy, warehouse grunt, dishwasher, waiter, and hotel night clerk. He has since chosen at various times to be a writer, editor, publisher, and bookseller. He can still remember the first time he sold books for money in 1963--and what most of those books were. Hound is his first novel.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Interfictions 2]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520614</link>
<description><![CDATA[Delving deeper into the genre-spanning territory explored in "Interfictions," the Interstitial Arts Foundation's first groundbreaking anthology, "Interfictions 2" showcases twenty-one original and innovative writers. It includes contributions from authors from six countries, including the United States, Poland, Norway, Australia, France, and Great Britain.Newcomers such as Alaya Dawn Johnson, Theodora Goss, and Alan DeNiro rub shoulders with established visionaries such as Jeffrey Ford ("The Drowned Life"), Brian Francis Slattery ("Liberation"), Nin Andrews ("The Book of Orgasms"), and M. Rickert ("Map of Dreams").Colleen Mondor, of the well-known blog Chasing Ray, interviews the editors for the afterword.Henry Jenkins, ex-director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program and now a member of USC's Annenberg School for Communication and School of Cinematic Arts, provides a fantastic introduction sure to set readers' imaginations alight."Interfictions 2" is here and ready to be read, discussed, taught, blogged, taken apart, and re-interpreted.Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in New York City. She earned a PhD in Renaissance Studies at Brown University and taught at Boston University and Northeastern University. She is the author of the novels "Through a Brazen Mirror," "The Porcelain Dove," "Changeling," and "The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen." A co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, she lives in New York City.Christopher Barzak is the author of the novels "One for Sorrow" and "The Love We Share Without Knowing." His stories have appeared in Nerve.com, "Pindeldyboz," "Strange Horizons," "Descant," and the first volume of "Interfictions." He teaches writing at Youngstown State University.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Interfictions 2]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Delia Sherman; Christopher Barzak]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520614]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Delving deeper into the genre-spanning territory explored in "Interfictions," the Interstitial Arts Foundation's first groundbreaking anthology, "Interfictions 2" showcases twenty-one original and innovative writers. It includes contributions from authors from six countries, including the United States, Poland, Norway, Australia, France, and Great Britain.Newcomers such as Alaya Dawn Johnson, Theodora Goss, and Alan DeNiro rub shoulders with established visionaries such as Jeffrey Ford ("The Drowned Life"), Brian Francis Slattery ("Liberation"), Nin Andrews ("The Book of Orgasms"), and M. Rickert ("Map of Dreams").Colleen Mondor, of the well-known blog Chasing Ray, interviews the editors for the afterword.Henry Jenkins, ex-director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program and now a member of USC's Annenberg School for Communication and School of Cinematic Arts, provides a fantastic introduction sure to set readers' imaginations alight."Interfictions 2" is here and ready to be read, discussed, taught, blogged, taken apart, and re-interpreted.Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in New York City. She earned a PhD in Renaissance Studies at Brown University and taught at Boston University and Northeastern University. She is the author of the novels "Through a Brazen Mirror," "The Porcelain Dove," "Changeling," and "The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen." A co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, she lives in New York City.Christopher Barzak is the author of the novels "One for Sorrow" and "The Love We Share Without Knowing." His stories have appeared in Nerve.com, "Pindeldyboz," "Strange Horizons," "Descant," and the first volume of "Interfictions." He teaches writing at Youngstown State University.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-11-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Line]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520607</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two short novels--"The Value of X" and "D*U*C*K*"--are included in this collection that adds to Brite's cheerfully chaotic series starring two chefs in New Orleans.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Second Line]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Poppy Z. Brite]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520607]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Two short novels--"The Value of X" and "D*U*C*K*"--are included in this collection that adds to Brite's cheerfully chaotic series starring two chefs in New Orleans.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Working Writer's Daily Planner 2010]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520584</link>
<description><![CDATA[This daily planner helps writers organize their schedule and upcoming deadlines, and learn about grant opportunities, contests, and workshop programs. Application deadlines are built into the calendar, along with helpful online resources.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Working Writer's Daily Planner 2010]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Small Beer Press]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520584]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This daily planner helps writers organize their schedule and upcoming deadlines, and learn about grant opportunities, contests, and workshop programs. Application deadlines are built into the calendar, along with helpful online resources.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Spiral]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Couch]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520546</link>
<description><![CDATA["Couch hits on an improbable, even fantastic premise, and then rigorously hews to the logic that it generates, keeping it afloat (at times literally) to the end."--Los Angeles Times "Delightfully lighthearted writing. . . . Occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, the enthusiastic prose carries readers through sporadic dark moments . . . Parzybok's quirky humor recalls the flaws and successes of early Douglas Adams."--Publishers Weekly "The book succeeds as a conceptual art piece, a literary travelogue, and a fantastical quest."--Willamette Week "Hundreds of writers have slavishly imitated--or outright ripped off--Tolkien in ways that connoisseurs of other genres would consider shameless. What Parzybok has done here in adapting the same old song to a world more familiar to the reader is to revive the genre and make it relevant again"--The Stranger A January 2009 Indie Next List Pick"This funny novel of furniture moving gone awry is a magical realism quest for modern times. Parzybok's touching story explores the aimlessness of our culture, a society of jobs instead of callings, replete with opportunities and choices but without the philosophies and vocations we need to make meaningful decisions."--Josh Cook, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA "A lot of people are looking for magic in the world today, but only Benjamin Parzybok thought to check the sofa, which is, I think, the place it's most likely to be found. Couch is a slacker epic: a gentle, funny book that ambles merrily from Coupland to Tolkien, and gives couch-surfing (among other things) a whole new meaning."--Paul La Farge "One of the strangest road novels you'll ever read. It's a funny and fun book, and it's also a very smart book. Fans of Tom Robbins or Christopher Moore should enjoy this."--Handee Books"It is an upholstered Odyssey unlike any other you are likely to read. It is funny, confusing in places, wild and anarchic. It is part Quixote, part Murakami, part Tom Robbins, part DFS showroom. It has cult hit written all over it."--Scott, Me and My Big Mouth Benjamin Parzybok on tour: http: //booktour.com/author/benjamin_parzybok In this exuberant and hilarious debut reminiscent of The Life of Pi and Then We Came to the End, an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories, and unexpected revelations. Thom is a computer geek whose hacking of a certain Washington-based software giant has won him a little fame but few job prospects. Erik is a smalltime con man, a fast-talker who is never quite quick enough on his feet. Their roommate, Tree, is a confused clairvoyant whose dreams and prophecies may not be completely off base. After a freak accident fl oods their apartment, the three are evicted--but they have to take their couch with them. The real problem? The couch--huge and orange--won't let them put it down. Soon the three roommates are on a cross-country trek along back roads, byways, and rail lines, heading far out of Portland and deep into one very weird corner of the American dream. Benjamin Parzybok is the creator of Gumball Poetry, a journal published through gumball machines, and the Black Magic Insurance Agency, a city-wide mystery/treasure hunt. He has worked as a congressional page, a ghostwriter for the governor of Washington, a web developer, a Taiwanese factory technical writer, an asbestos removal janitor, and a potato sorter. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with the writer Laura Moulton and their two children.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Couch]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Benjamin Parzybok]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520546]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Couch hits on an improbable, even fantastic premise, and then rigorously hews to the logic that it generates, keeping it afloat (at times literally) to the end."--Los Angeles Times "Delightfully lighthearted writing. . . . Occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, the enthusiastic prose carries readers through sporadic dark moments . . . Parzybok's quirky humor recalls the flaws and successes of early Douglas Adams."--Publishers Weekly "The book succeeds as a conceptual art piece, a literary travelogue, and a fantastical quest."--Willamette Week "Hundreds of writers have slavishly imitated--or outright ripped off--Tolkien in ways that connoisseurs of other genres would consider shameless. What Parzybok has done here in adapting the same old song to a world more familiar to the reader is to revive the genre and make it relevant again"--The Stranger A January 2009 Indie Next List Pick"This funny novel of furniture moving gone awry is a magical realism quest for modern times. Parzybok's touching story explores the aimlessness of our culture, a society of jobs instead of callings, replete with opportunities and choices but without the philosophies and vocations we need to make meaningful decisions."--Josh Cook, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA "A lot of people are looking for magic in the world today, but only Benjamin Parzybok thought to check the sofa, which is, I think, the place it's most likely to be found. Couch is a slacker epic: a gentle, funny book that ambles merrily from Coupland to Tolkien, and gives couch-surfing (among other things) a whole new meaning."--Paul La Farge "One of the strangest road novels you'll ever read. It's a funny and fun book, and it's also a very smart book. Fans of Tom Robbins or Christopher Moore should enjoy this."--Handee Books"It is an upholstered Odyssey unlike any other you are likely to read. It is funny, confusing in places, wild and anarchic. It is part Quixote, part Murakami, part Tom Robbins, part DFS showroom. It has cult hit written all over it."--Scott, Me and My Big Mouth Benjamin Parzybok on tour: http: //booktour.com/author/benjamin_parzybok In this exuberant and hilarious debut reminiscent of The Life of Pi and Then We Came to the End, an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories, and unexpected revelations. Thom is a computer geek whose hacking of a certain Washington-based software giant has won him a little fame but few job prospects. Erik is a smalltime con man, a fast-talker who is never quite quick enough on his feet. Their roommate, Tree, is a confused clairvoyant whose dreams and prophecies may not be completely off base. After a freak accident fl oods their apartment, the three are evicted--but they have to take their couch with them. The real problem? The couch--huge and orange--won't let them put it down. Soon the three roommates are on a cross-country trek along back roads, byways, and rail lines, heading far out of Portland and deep into one very weird corner of the American dream. Benjamin Parzybok is the creator of Gumball Poetry, a journal published through gumball machines, and the Black Magic Insurance Agency, a city-wide mystery/treasure hunt. He has worked as a congressional page, a ghostwriter for the governor of Washington, a web developer, a Taiwanese factory technical writer, an asbestos removal janitor, and a potato sorter. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with the writer Laura Moulton and their two children.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-11-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Serial Garden]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520577</link>
<description><![CDATA["In a singularly important publishing even, the first complete collection of Aiken's 24 beloved Armitage cycle of stories appears here for the first time. The family who dwells in and out of magical worlds transcends fantasy and enters the world of classic, entrancing literature. Belongs on every child's bookshelf. For all ages."--Smithsonian Magazine Notable Books for Children 2008 "For sheer charm it's hard to beat these wonderful, dead-pan comic tales about one family's adventures--nearly always on a Monday--with ghosts, witches, time travel, the Furies and every sort of magic."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "Buy it to read to your kids, and you'll find yourself sneaking tastes on the sly; a little Aiken is a fine thing to have in your system at any age."--Salon.com "Joan Aiken's invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come."--Philip Pullman "The best kind of writer, strange and spooky and surprising, never sentimental or whimsical."--Kelly Link "Gathered under one cover from several Aiken collections, the magical, eccentric and very British Armitage family reappears in a collection of 24 stories, four never before published. The Armitages' wacky magic (usually a Monday occurrence) and that of their fantastical town, a place filled with witches and magical beings, rises from the pages when matters go slightly awry, in the manner of Edward Eager and E. Nesbit." --Kirkus Reviews "The Armitage family stories are stories of a seemingly ordinary British family to whom magical things seemed to happen regularly. Collected here for the first time are all of Joan Aiken's twenty-four Armitage family stories, four of which have never been published before. These are short stories for children which, with their mix of magic, myth, and humor, appeal broadly to adults as well." --About.com, Holiday Gift Books 2008 "Readers of all ages have the opportunity to enjoy some of the best writing by one of the most superb and timeless fantasy writers."--Green Man Review "The Armitage's world grows richer as it is extended. This is a collection of stories which allow--in fact demand--the reader joins in with their own imagination and remakes the story inside their own head. Aiken's pragmatism shows through in her stories. Instead of remaining in or reflecting upon the past like some of her contemporaries, they show an author making the best of the world and coming out ahead with humor and imagination." --January Magazine "Each of the tales brims with old-fashioned adventure and charm. An excellent way to show Harry Potter fans that magic can come in small doses too."--Author Magazine This is the first complete collection of Joan Aiken's beloved Armitage stories--and it includes four new, unpublished stories. After Mrs. Armitage makes a wish, the Armitage family has "interesting and unusual" experiences every Monday (and the occasional Tuesday). The Board of Incantation tries to take over their house to use as a school for young wizards; the Furies come to stay; and a cutout from a cereal box leads into a beautiful and tragic palace garden. Charming and magical, the uncommon lives of the Armitage family will thrill and delight readers young and old. Includes Joan Aiken's "Prelude" from Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home, as well as introductions from Joan Aiken's daughter, Lizza Aiken, and best-selling author Garth Nix. Illustrated by Andi Watson. Praise for Joan Aiken: "A writer of wild humor and unrestrained imagination."--Oxford Companion to Children's Literature "This year can boast one genuine small masterpiece. . . . The Wolves of Willoughby Chase . . . almost a copybook lesson in those virtues that a classic children's book must possess."--Time Magazine Best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (1924-2004) wrote over a hundred books and won the Guardian and Edgar Allan Poe awards. After her first husband's death, she supported her family by copyediting at Argosy magazine and an advertising agency before turning to fiction. She went on to write for Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, Argosy, Women's Own, and many others.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Serial Garden]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Joan Aiken; Garth Nix; Lizza Aiken]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Big Mouth House]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520577]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["In a singularly important publishing even, the first complete collection of Aiken's 24 beloved Armitage cycle of stories appears here for the first time. The family who dwells in and out of magical worlds transcends fantasy and enters the world of classic, entrancing literature. Belongs on every child's bookshelf. For all ages."--Smithsonian Magazine Notable Books for Children 2008 "For sheer charm it's hard to beat these wonderful, dead-pan comic tales about one family's adventures--nearly always on a Monday--with ghosts, witches, time travel, the Furies and every sort of magic."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "Buy it to read to your kids, and you'll find yourself sneaking tastes on the sly; a little Aiken is a fine thing to have in your system at any age."--Salon.com "Joan Aiken's invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come."--Philip Pullman "The best kind of writer, strange and spooky and surprising, never sentimental or whimsical."--Kelly Link "Gathered under one cover from several Aiken collections, the magical, eccentric and very British Armitage family reappears in a collection of 24 stories, four never before published. The Armitages' wacky magic (usually a Monday occurrence) and that of their fantastical town, a place filled with witches and magical beings, rises from the pages when matters go slightly awry, in the manner of Edward Eager and E. Nesbit." --Kirkus Reviews "The Armitage family stories are stories of a seemingly ordinary British family to whom magical things seemed to happen regularly. Collected here for the first time are all of Joan Aiken's twenty-four Armitage family stories, four of which have never been published before. These are short stories for children which, with their mix of magic, myth, and humor, appeal broadly to adults as well." --About.com, Holiday Gift Books 2008 "Readers of all ages have the opportunity to enjoy some of the best writing by one of the most superb and timeless fantasy writers."--Green Man Review "The Armitage's world grows richer as it is extended. This is a collection of stories which allow--in fact demand--the reader joins in with their own imagination and remakes the story inside their own head. Aiken's pragmatism shows through in her stories. Instead of remaining in or reflecting upon the past like some of her contemporaries, they show an author making the best of the world and coming out ahead with humor and imagination." --January Magazine "Each of the tales brims with old-fashioned adventure and charm. An excellent way to show Harry Potter fans that magic can come in small doses too."--Author Magazine This is the first complete collection of Joan Aiken's beloved Armitage stories--and it includes four new, unpublished stories. After Mrs. Armitage makes a wish, the Armitage family has "interesting and unusual" experiences every Monday (and the occasional Tuesday). The Board of Incantation tries to take over their house to use as a school for young wizards; the Furies come to stay; and a cutout from a cereal box leads into a beautiful and tragic palace garden. Charming and magical, the uncommon lives of the Armitage family will thrill and delight readers young and old. Includes Joan Aiken's "Prelude" from Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home, as well as introductions from Joan Aiken's daughter, Lizza Aiken, and best-selling author Garth Nix. Illustrated by Andi Watson. Praise for Joan Aiken: "A writer of wild humor and unrestrained imagination."--Oxford Companion to Children's Literature "This year can boast one genuine small masterpiece. . . . The Wolves of Willoughby Chase . . . almost a copybook lesson in those virtues that a classic children's book must possess."--Time Magazine Best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (1924-2004) wrote over a hundred books and won the Guardian and Edgar Allan Poe awards. After her first husband's death, she supported her family by copyediting at Argosy magazine and an advertising agency before turning to fiction. She went on to write for Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, Argosy, Women's Own, and many others.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The King's Last Song]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520560</link>
<description><![CDATA[" Ryman] has not so much created as revealed a world in which the promise of redemption takes seed even in horror."--The Boston Globe "Sweeping and beautiful. . . . The complex story tears the veil from a hidden world."--The Sunday Times "Inordinately readable . . . extraordinary in its detail, color and brutality."--The Independent "Ryman has crafted a solid historical novel with an authentic feel for both ancient and modern Cambodia."--Washington DC City Paper "Another masterpiece by one of the greatest fiction writers of our time."--Kim Stanley Robinson "Ryman's knack for depicting characters; his ability to tell multiple, interrelated stories; and his knowledge of Cambodian history create a rich narrative that looks at Cambodia's "killing fields" both recent and ancient and Buddhist belief with its desire for transcendence. Recommended for all literary fiction collections."--Library Journal Archeologist Luc Andrade discovers an ancient Cambodian manuscript inscribed on gold leaves but is kidnapped--and the manuscript stolen--by a faction still loyal to the ideals of the brutal Pol Pot regime. Andrade's friends, an ex-Khmer Rouge agent and a young motoboy, embark on a trek across Cambodia to rescue him. Meanwhile, Andrade, bargaining for his life, translates the lost manuscript for his captors. The result is a glimpse into the tremendous and heart-wrenching story of King Jayavarman VII: his childhood, rise to power, marriage, interest in Buddhism, and the initiation of Cambodia's golden age. As Andrade and Jayavarman's stories interweave, the question becomes whether the tale of ancient wisdom can bring hope to a nation still suffering from the violent legacy of the last century. Geoff Ryman is the author of the novels Air (winner of Arthur C Clarke and James Tiptree awards) and The Unconquered Country (a World Fantasy Award winner). Canadian by birth, he has lived in Cambodia and Brazil and now teaches creative writing at the University of Manchester in England.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The King's Last Song]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Geoff Ryman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520560]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[" Ryman] has not so much created as revealed a world in which the promise of redemption takes seed even in horror."--The Boston Globe "Sweeping and beautiful. . . . The complex story tears the veil from a hidden world."--The Sunday Times "Inordinately readable . . . extraordinary in its detail, color and brutality."--The Independent "Ryman has crafted a solid historical novel with an authentic feel for both ancient and modern Cambodia."--Washington DC City Paper "Another masterpiece by one of the greatest fiction writers of our time."--Kim Stanley Robinson "Ryman's knack for depicting characters; his ability to tell multiple, interrelated stories; and his knowledge of Cambodian history create a rich narrative that looks at Cambodia's "killing fields" both recent and ancient and Buddhist belief with its desire for transcendence. Recommended for all literary fiction collections."--Library Journal Archeologist Luc Andrade discovers an ancient Cambodian manuscript inscribed on gold leaves but is kidnapped--and the manuscript stolen--by a faction still loyal to the ideals of the brutal Pol Pot regime. Andrade's friends, an ex-Khmer Rouge agent and a young motoboy, embark on a trek across Cambodia to rescue him. Meanwhile, Andrade, bargaining for his life, translates the lost manuscript for his captors. The result is a glimpse into the tremendous and heart-wrenching story of King Jayavarman VII: his childhood, rise to power, marriage, interest in Buddhism, and the initiation of Cambodia's golden age. As Andrade and Jayavarman's stories interweave, the question becomes whether the tale of ancient wisdom can bring hope to a nation still suffering from the violent legacy of the last century. Geoff Ryman is the author of the novels Air (winner of Arthur C Clarke and James Tiptree awards) and The Unconquered Country (a World Fantasy Award winner). Canadian by birth, he has lived in Cambodia and Brazil and now teaches creative writing at the University of Manchester in England.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520515</link>
<description><![CDATA["Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. "A superb satirist with a keen eye for detailing the human spirit."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Stories that liberate the mind."--The New York Times Book Review A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor. Includes John Kessel's modern classic sequence about life on the moon. Winner of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree awards, John Kessel is the author of The New York Times Notable Book Meeting in Infinity. He co-edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange and Rewired. Kessel and his family live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By John Kessel]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520515]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. "A superb satirist with a keen eye for detailing the human spirit."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Stories that liberate the mind."--The New York Times Book Review A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor. Includes John Kessel's modern classic sequence about life on the moon. Winner of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree awards, John Kessel is the author of The New York Times Notable Book Meeting in Infinity. He co-edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange and Rewired. Kessel and his family live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Baum Plan for Financial Independence]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520508</link>
<description><![CDATA["Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. "These stories offer a sustained exploration of the ways gender dynamics can both empower and enslave us. Kessel's wit sparkles throughout, peaking with the most uproariously weird phone-sex conversation you'll ever read ('The Red Phone')." Grade: A- --Entertainment Weekly "One of the best collections of the year."--Locus "These well-crafted stories, full of elegantly drawn characters, deliver a powerful emotional punch."--Publishers Weekly A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor. Includes John Kessel's modern classic sequence about life on the moon. Winner of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree awards, John Kessel is the author of The New York Times Notable Book Meeting in Infinity. He co-edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange and Rewired. Kessel and his family live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Baum Plan for Financial Independence]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By John Kessel]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520508]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. "These stories offer a sustained exploration of the ways gender dynamics can both empower and enslave us. Kessel's wit sparkles throughout, peaking with the most uproariously weird phone-sex conversation you'll ever read ('The Red Phone')." Grade: A- --Entertainment Weekly "One of the best collections of the year."--Locus "These well-crafted stories, full of elegantly drawn characters, deliver a powerful emotional punch."--Publishers Weekly A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor. Includes John Kessel's modern classic sequence about life on the moon. Winner of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree awards, John Kessel is the author of The New York Times Notable Book Meeting in Infinity. He co-edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange and Rewired. Kessel and his family live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ant King]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520522</link>
<description><![CDATA["Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout--a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world--this collection is a surrealistic wonderland." --Publishers Weekly "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."--Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting. Benjamin Rosenbaum's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and McSweeney's, been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum's work has been reprinted in Harper's and The Year's Best Science Fiction. He lives in Switzerland with his family.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Ant King]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Benjamin Rosenbaum]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520522]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout--a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world--this collection is a surrealistic wonderland." --Publishers Weekly "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."--Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting. Benjamin Rosenbaum's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and McSweeney's, been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum's work has been reprinted in Harper's and The Year's Best Science Fiction. He lives in Switzerland with his family.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ant King]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520539</link>
<description><![CDATA["Rosenbaum's The Ant King and Other Stories contains invisible cities and playful deconstructions of the form. In "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes, ' by Benjamin Rosenbaum"--yes, his name is part of the title--the author imagines a world whose technologies and philosophies differ wildly from ours. The result is a commentary on the state of the art that is itself the state of the art."--Los Angeles Times Favorite Books of 2008 * "Give him some prizes, like, perhaps, "best first collection" for this book."--Booklist (Starred review) "Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout--a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world--this collection is a surrealistic wonderland."--Publishers Weekly "Rosenbaum proves he's capable of sustained fantasy with "Biographical Notes," a steampunkish alternate history of aerial piracy, and "A Siege of Cranes," a fantasy about a battle between a human insurgent and the White Witch that carries decidedly modern undercurrents.... Perhaps none of the tales is odder than "Orphans," in which girl-meets-elephant, girl-loses-elephant."--Kirkus Reviews "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."--Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Lively, bizarre, and funny as well as dark, sinister, and sensual."--Boston Phoenix A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting. Benjamin Rosenbaum's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and McSweeney's, been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum's work has been reprinted in Harper's and The Year's Best Science Fiction. He lives in Switzerland with his family.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Ant King]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Benjamin Rosenbaum]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520539]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Rosenbaum's The Ant King and Other Stories contains invisible cities and playful deconstructions of the form. In "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes, ' by Benjamin Rosenbaum"--yes, his name is part of the title--the author imagines a world whose technologies and philosophies differ wildly from ours. The result is a commentary on the state of the art that is itself the state of the art."--Los Angeles Times Favorite Books of 2008 * "Give him some prizes, like, perhaps, "best first collection" for this book."--Booklist (Starred review) "Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout--a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world--this collection is a surrealistic wonderland."--Publishers Weekly "Rosenbaum proves he's capable of sustained fantasy with "Biographical Notes," a steampunkish alternate history of aerial piracy, and "A Siege of Cranes," a fantasy about a battle between a human insurgent and the White Witch that carries decidedly modern undercurrents.... Perhaps none of the tales is odder than "Orphans," in which girl-meets-elephant, girl-loses-elephant."--Kirkus Reviews "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."--Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Lively, bizarre, and funny as well as dark, sinister, and sensual."--Boston Phoenix A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting. Benjamin Rosenbaum's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and McSweeney's, been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum's work has been reprinted in Harper's and The Year's Best Science Fiction. He lives in Switzerland with his family.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Water Logic]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520232</link>
<description><![CDATA[By water logic, a cow doctor becomes a politician. A soldier becomes a flower farmer. A lost book contains a lost future. The patterns of history are made and unmade. Amid assassinations, rebellions, and the pyres of too many dead, a new government forms in the land of Shaftal-a government of soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, all weary of war and longing for peace. But some cannot forget their losses, and some cannot imagine a place for themselves in an enemy land. Before memory, before recorded history, something happened that now must be remembered. Zanja na'Tarwein, the crosser of boundaries, born in fire and wedded to earth, has fallen under the ice. Now, by water logic, the logic of patterns repeated, of laughter and music, the lost must be found-or the found may forever be lost.  Laurie J. Marks teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of five previous novels, and her first two Elemental Logic novels (Fire Logic and Earth Logic) won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and received multiple starred reviews. She is a recipient of the Fairy Godmother Award (James D. Tiptree, Jr. Award) and a founding member of Broad Universe.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Water Logic]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Laurie J. Marks]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520232]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[By water logic, a cow doctor becomes a politician. A soldier becomes a flower farmer. A lost book contains a lost future. The patterns of history are made and unmade. Amid assassinations, rebellions, and the pyres of too many dead, a new government forms in the land of Shaftal-a government of soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, all weary of war and longing for peace. But some cannot forget their losses, and some cannot imagine a place for themselves in an enemy land. Before memory, before recorded history, something happened that now must be remembered. Zanja na'Tarwein, the crosser of boundaries, born in fire and wedded to earth, has fallen under the ice. Now, by water logic, the logic of patterns repeated, of laughter and music, the lost must be found-or the found may forever be lost.  Laurie J. Marks teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of five previous novels, and her first two Elemental Logic novels (Fire Logic and Earth Logic) won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and received multiple starred reviews. She is a recipient of the Fairy Godmother Award (James D. Tiptree, Jr. Award) and a founding member of Broad Universe.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Cloud & Ashes]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520553</link>
<description><![CDATA["A work that reads like language stripped bare, myth tracked to its origin."--Locus "Sublimely lyrical Jacobeanesque dialect . . . readers who enjoy symbolism and allusion will cherish Gilman's use of diverse folkloric elements to create an unforgettable realm and ideology."--Publishers Weekly "'Green quince and bletted medlar, quiddany and musk': Greer Gilman fills your mouth with wincing tastes, your ears with crowcalls, knockings and old, old rhythms, your eyes with beautiful and battered creatures, sly-eyed, luminous or cackling as they twine and involute their stories. Gilman writes like no one else. To read her is to travel back, well back, in time; to wander in thrall through mist on moor and fell; to sink up to the nostrils in a glorious bog of legend and language, riddled with bones and iron, sodden with witches' blood."--Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels"Greer Gilman is a master of myth and language with few equals in this world. Cloud and Ashes is a triumphant, heart-rending triptych, a mosaic of folklore, intellectual pyrotechnics, and marvelous, motley characters that takes the breath and makes the blood beat faster."--Catherynne M. Valente, author of In the Night Garden "No one else writes like Greer Gilman. She is one of our most innovative and important writers, in fantasy or out of it. If you want to see what language can do, the heart-stopping beauty it can achieve, read Cloud & Ashes."--Theodora Goss, author of In the Forest of Forgetting "Gilman's 'A Crowd of Bone' . . . is dense, jammed with archaic words and neologisms . . . but the story--complex, tangled in narrative as well as syntax, and very dark--rewards the most careful of readings."--The Washington Post Book World "I am wind and memory who spells this . . ." In the eighteen years since her Crawford Award-winning debut novel Moonwise, Greer Gilman's writing has only grown more complex and entrancing, more beguiling and inventive. Gilman's second novel, Cloud & Ashes, is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation, and delight. To step into her world is to witness the bright flashes, witty turns, and shadowy corners of the human imagination, limned with all the detail and humor of a master stylist. In Gilman's intricate prose, myth and fable live, breathe, and dance as they do nowhere else. Cloud & Ashes collects three Winter's Tales ("Jack Daw's Pack," "A Crowd of Bone," and the longest, "Unleaving") centering on folk traditions, harvest rites, the seasons, gods, and trickster figures. In "Unleaving," Margaret, granddaughter of a goddess, escapes from the underworld into the human realm, Cloud. She is pursued, and, in escaping, brings about an epochal change, separating the kingdom of myth from the human world. Cloud & Ashes is a work that reaches back to the richness of Shakespeare--Gilman understands that the depth of Shakespeare's work lies in his range--and the reader will rejoice in her counterplay of high myth and bawdry even while being drawn into the world of Cloud. Inventive, playful, and erudite, Gilman is an archeolexicologist rewriting language itself in these long-awaited tales. Greer Gilman is the author of the novel Moonwise, which won the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. and Mythopoeic awards, as well as of the World Fantasy Award-winning "A Crowd of Bone." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works as a librarian in the Harvard University library.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Cloud & Ashes]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Greer Gilman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520553]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["A work that reads like language stripped bare, myth tracked to its origin."--Locus "Sublimely lyrical Jacobeanesque dialect . . . readers who enjoy symbolism and allusion will cherish Gilman's use of diverse folkloric elements to create an unforgettable realm and ideology."--Publishers Weekly "'Green quince and bletted medlar, quiddany and musk': Greer Gilman fills your mouth with wincing tastes, your ears with crowcalls, knockings and old, old rhythms, your eyes with beautiful and battered creatures, sly-eyed, luminous or cackling as they twine and involute their stories. Gilman writes like no one else. To read her is to travel back, well back, in time; to wander in thrall through mist on moor and fell; to sink up to the nostrils in a glorious bog of legend and language, riddled with bones and iron, sodden with witches' blood."--Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels"Greer Gilman is a master of myth and language with few equals in this world. Cloud and Ashes is a triumphant, heart-rending triptych, a mosaic of folklore, intellectual pyrotechnics, and marvelous, motley characters that takes the breath and makes the blood beat faster."--Catherynne M. Valente, author of In the Night Garden "No one else writes like Greer Gilman. She is one of our most innovative and important writers, in fantasy or out of it. If you want to see what language can do, the heart-stopping beauty it can achieve, read Cloud & Ashes."--Theodora Goss, author of In the Forest of Forgetting "Gilman's 'A Crowd of Bone' . . . is dense, jammed with archaic words and neologisms . . . but the story--complex, tangled in narrative as well as syntax, and very dark--rewards the most careful of readings."--The Washington Post Book World "I am wind and memory who spells this . . ." In the eighteen years since her Crawford Award-winning debut novel Moonwise, Greer Gilman's writing has only grown more complex and entrancing, more beguiling and inventive. Gilman's second novel, Cloud & Ashes, is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation, and delight. To step into her world is to witness the bright flashes, witty turns, and shadowy corners of the human imagination, limned with all the detail and humor of a master stylist. In Gilman's intricate prose, myth and fable live, breathe, and dance as they do nowhere else. Cloud & Ashes collects three Winter's Tales ("Jack Daw's Pack," "A Crowd of Bone," and the longest, "Unleaving") centering on folk traditions, harvest rites, the seasons, gods, and trickster figures. In "Unleaving," Margaret, granddaughter of a goddess, escapes from the underworld into the human realm, Cloud. She is pursued, and, in escaping, brings about an epochal change, separating the kingdom of myth from the human world. Cloud & Ashes is a work that reaches back to the richness of Shakespeare--Gilman understands that the depth of Shakespeare's work lies in his range--and the reader will rejoice in her counterplay of high myth and bawdry even while being drawn into the world of Cloud. Inventive, playful, and erudite, Gilman is an archeolexicologist rewriting language itself in these long-awaited tales. Greer Gilman is the author of the novel Moonwise, which won the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. and Mythopoeic awards, as well as of the World Fantasy Award-winning "A Crowd of Bone." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works as a librarian in the Harvard University library.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Endless Things]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520225</link>
<description><![CDATA[Praise for the Aegypt sequence: "A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique."-The New York Times Book Review "A master of language, plot, and characterization."-Harold Bloom "The further in you go, the bigger it gets."-James Hynes "The writing here is intricate and thoughtful, allusive and ironic. . . . Aegypt bears many resemblances, incidental and substantive, to Thomas Pynchon's wonderful 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49."-USA Today "An original moralist of the same giddy heights occupied by Thomas Mann and Robertson Davies."-San Francisco Chronicle This is the fourth novel-and much-anticipated conclusion-of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded Aegypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffitt, the Aegypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Crowley, a master prose stylist, explores transformations physical, magical, alchemical, and personal in this epic, distinctly American novel where the past, present, and future reflect each other.  John Crowley was born in the appropriately liminal town of Presque Isle, Maine. His most recent novel is Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land. He teaches creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He finds it more gratifying that almost all of his work is still in print.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Endless Things]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By John Crowley]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520225]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Praise for the Aegypt sequence: "A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique."-The New York Times Book Review "A master of language, plot, and characterization."-Harold Bloom "The further in you go, the bigger it gets."-James Hynes "The writing here is intricate and thoughtful, allusive and ironic. . . . Aegypt bears many resemblances, incidental and substantive, to Thomas Pynchon's wonderful 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49."-USA Today "An original moralist of the same giddy heights occupied by Thomas Mann and Robertson Davies."-San Francisco Chronicle This is the fourth novel-and much-anticipated conclusion-of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded Aegypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffitt, the Aegypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Crowley, a master prose stylist, explores transformations physical, magical, alchemical, and personal in this epic, distinctly American novel where the past, present, and future reflect each other.  John Crowley was born in the appropriately liminal town of Presque Isle, Maine. His most recent novel is Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land. He teaches creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He finds it more gratifying that almost all of his work is still in print.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Storyteller]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520164</link>
<description><![CDATA["Wilhelm really knows students and knows how to teach them to craft a professional story."-The Oregonian Part memoir, part writing manual, Storyteller is an affectionate account of how the Clarion Writers' Workshop began, what Kate Wilhelm learned, and how she passed a love of the written word on to generations of writers. Includes writing exercises and advice. A Hugo and Locus award winner.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Storyteller]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Kate Wilhelm]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520164]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Wilhelm really knows students and knows how to teach them to craft a professional story."-The Oregonian Part memoir, part writing manual, Storyteller is an affectionate account of how the Clarion Writers' Workshop began, what Kate Wilhelm learned, and how she passed a love of the written word on to generations of writers. Includes writing exercises and advice. A Hugo and Locus award winner.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Generation Loss]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520218</link>
<description><![CDATA["Startling, unclassifiable. . . Full of mysteries -- all originating in its characters' troubled psyches -- and full of terrors that can't be explained."--New York Times Praise for Elizabeth Hand's previous novels: "Inhabits a world between reason and insanity--it's a delightful waking dream."--People "One of the most sheerly impressive, not to mention overwhelmingly beautiful books I have read in a long time."--Peter Straub Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final shot at redemption. Elizabeth Hand grew up in New York State. In 1975 she moved to Washington, DC, to study playwriting at Catholic University. After seeing Patti Smith perform, Hand flunked out and became involved in the DC and New York City nascent punk scenes. From 1979 to 1986 she worked at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; she returned to university to study cultural anthropology, and received her BA in 1985. The author of seven previous novels and the recipient of a Maine Arts Commission and an NEA Fellowship, she is a regular contributor to The Washington Post Book World. Hand lives with her family on the Maine coast.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Generation Loss]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Elizabeth Hand]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520218]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Startling, unclassifiable. . . Full of mysteries -- all originating in its characters' troubled psyches -- and full of terrors that can't be explained."--New York Times Praise for Elizabeth Hand's previous novels: "Inhabits a world between reason and insanity--it's a delightful waking dream."--People "One of the most sheerly impressive, not to mention overwhelmingly beautiful books I have read in a long time."--Peter Straub Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final shot at redemption. Elizabeth Hand grew up in New York State. In 1975 she moved to Washington, DC, to study playwriting at Catholic University. After seeing Patti Smith perform, Hand flunked out and became involved in the DC and New York City nascent punk scenes. From 1979 to 1986 she worked at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; she returned to university to study cultural anthropology, and received her BA in 1985. The author of seven previous novels and the recipient of a Maine Arts Commission and an NEA Fellowship, she is a regular contributor to The Washington Post Book World. Hand lives with her family on the Maine coast.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Mothers & Other Monsters]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520195</link>
<description><![CDATA["Gorgeously crafted stories."-Nancy Pearl, Morning Edition "Hauntingly beautiful."-Booklist "My favorite thing about her is the wry, uncanny tenderness of her stories."-Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing A debut collection and finalist for the Story Prize. Maureen F. McHugh is an expert craftswoman who brings her clear-eyed vision (and empathy) to the relationships at the heart of our lives. Her stories are relevant, insightful, and beautifully written: She uses her deceptively simple prose to illuminate the unexpected chasms that open between generations. The reader's guide includes an essay, an interview, and talking points.  Maureen F. McHugh lives in Austin, Texas.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Mothers & Other Monsters]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Maureen F. McHugh]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520195]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Gorgeously crafted stories."-Nancy Pearl, Morning Edition "Hauntingly beautiful."-Booklist "My favorite thing about her is the wry, uncanny tenderness of her stories."-Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing A debut collection and finalist for the Story Prize. Maureen F. McHugh is an expert craftswoman who brings her clear-eyed vision (and empathy) to the relationships at the heart of our lives. Her stories are relevant, insightful, and beautifully written: She uses her deceptively simple prose to illuminate the unexpected chasms that open between generations. The reader's guide includes an essay, an interview, and talking points.  Maureen F. McHugh lives in Austin, Texas.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Magic for Beginners]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520157</link>
<description><![CDATA["Highly original."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Dazzling."--Entertainment Weekly (grade: A, Editor's Choice) "Darkly playful."--Michael Chabon Best of the Year: Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, PopMatters. Kelly Link's engaging and funny stories riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, and cannons. Includes Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners. A Best of the Year pick from TIME, Salon.com, and Book Sense. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson. Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question "Why do you want to go through the world?" ("Because you can't go through it.") Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Magic for Beginners]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Kelly Link; Shelley Jackson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520157]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Highly original."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Dazzling."--Entertainment Weekly (grade: A, Editor's Choice) "Darkly playful."--Michael Chabon Best of the Year: Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, PopMatters. Kelly Link's engaging and funny stories riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, and cannons. Includes Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners. A Best of the Year pick from TIME, Salon.com, and Book Sense. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson. Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question "Why do you want to go through the world?" ("Because you can't go through it.") Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Howard Who?]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520188</link>
<description><![CDATA["If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R.R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Howard Waldrop's encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp serials, fairy tales, and extinct species is put to good use in these sophisticated re-combinations of our pop-culture dreams.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Howard Who?]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Howard Waldrop]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520188]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R.R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Howard Waldrop's encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp serials, fairy tales, and extinct species is put to good use in these sophisticated re-combinations of our pop-culture dreams.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Carmen Dog]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520089</link>
<description><![CDATA["Combines the cruel humor of Candide with the allegorical panache of Animal Farm."--Entertainment Weekly "Carol is the most unappreciated great writer we've got. Carmen Dog ought to be a classic in the colleges by now . . . It's so funny, and it's so keen."--Ursula K. Le Guin "A rollicking outre satire.... full of comic leaps and absurdist genius."--Bitch "A wise and funny book."--The New York Times "This trenchant feminist fantasy-satire mixes elements of Animal Farm, Rhinoceros and The Handmaid's Tale.... Imagination and absurdist humor mark  Carmen Dog] throughout, and Emshwiller is engaging even when most savage about male-female relationships."--Booklist "Her fantastic premise allows Emshwiller canny and frequently hilarious insights into the damaging sex-role stereotypes both men and women perpetuate."--Publishers Weekly The debut title in our Peapod Classics line, Carol Emshwiller's genre-jumping debut novel is a dangerous, sharp-eyed look at men, women, and the world we live in. Everything is changing: women are turning into animals, and animals are turning into women. Pooch, a golden setter, is turning into a beautiful woman--although she still has some of her canine traits: she just can't shuck that loyalty thing--and her former owner has turned into a snapping turtle. When the turtle tries to take a bite of her own baby, Pooch snatches the baby and runs. Meanwhile, there's a dangerous wolverine on the loose, men are desperately trying to figure out what's going on, and Pooch discovers what she really wants: to sing Carmen. Carmen Dog is the funny feminist classic that inspired writers Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler to create the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Carmen Dog]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Carol Emshwiller]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520089]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Combines the cruel humor of Candide with the allegorical panache of Animal Farm."--Entertainment Weekly "Carol is the most unappreciated great writer we've got. Carmen Dog ought to be a classic in the colleges by now . . . It's so funny, and it's so keen."--Ursula K. Le Guin "A rollicking outre satire.... full of comic leaps and absurdist genius."--Bitch "A wise and funny book."--The New York Times "This trenchant feminist fantasy-satire mixes elements of Animal Farm, Rhinoceros and The Handmaid's Tale.... Imagination and absurdist humor mark  Carmen Dog] throughout, and Emshwiller is engaging even when most savage about male-female relationships."--Booklist "Her fantastic premise allows Emshwiller canny and frequently hilarious insights into the damaging sex-role stereotypes both men and women perpetuate."--Publishers Weekly The debut title in our Peapod Classics line, Carol Emshwiller's genre-jumping debut novel is a dangerous, sharp-eyed look at men, women, and the world we live in. Everything is changing: women are turning into animals, and animals are turning into women. Pooch, a golden setter, is turning into a beautiful woman--although she still has some of her canine traits: she just can't shuck that loyalty thing--and her former owner has turned into a snapping turtle. When the turtle tries to take a bite of her own baby, Pooch snatches the baby and runs. Meanwhile, there's a dangerous wolverine on the loose, men are desperately trying to figure out what's going on, and Pooch discovers what she really wants: to sing Carmen. Carmen Dog is the funny feminist classic that inspired writers Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler to create the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-11-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Privilege of the Sword]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520201</link>
<description><![CDATA["Unholy fun, and wholly fun . . . an elegant riposte, dazzlingly executed."-Gregory Maguire "Spiced with humor and spot-on period detail."-Library Journal (starred review) Sent to live with her uncle, Katherine imagines a rich and luxurious life. Her dreams evaporate when she discovers her uncle wants her to be something never before seen: a swordswoman.  Ellen Kushner is the author of Swordspoint.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Privilege of the Sword]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Ellen Kushner]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520201]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Unholy fun, and wholly fun . . . an elegant riposte, dazzlingly executed."-Gregory Maguire "Spiced with humor and spot-on period detail."-Library Journal (starred review) Sent to live with her uncle, Katherine imagines a rich and luxurious life. Her dreams evaporate when she discovers her uncle wants her to be something never before seen: a swordswoman.  Ellen Kushner is the author of Swordspoint.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780553902839]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2006-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Mockingbird]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520096</link>
<description><![CDATA["Wonderfully vivid."-William Gibson "Stephen King meets Ibsen. Trust me."-Neal Stephenson Elena Beauchamp used magic the way other people used credit cards. Now that she's dead, her daughters have a debt to pay. Set in Houston, Texas, this is a dark, witty, moving novel of voodoo, pregnancy, and family ties. A New York Times Notable Book.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Mockingbird]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Sean Stewart]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520096]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Wonderfully vivid."-William Gibson "Stephen King meets Ibsen. Trust me."-Neal Stephenson Elena Beauchamp used magic the way other people used credit cards. Now that she's dead, her daughters have a debt to pay. Set in Houston, Texas, this is a dark, witty, moving novel of voodoo, pregnancy, and family ties. A New York Times Notable Book.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Travel Light]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520140</link>
<description><![CDATA["No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison."-The Observer "Read it now."-Ursula K. Le Guin "You will love this book."-Holly Black From the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Travel Light]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Naomi Mitchison]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Peapod Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520140]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison."-The Observer "Read it now."-Ursula K. Le Guin "You will love this book."-Holly Black From the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520171</link>
<description><![CDATA["I'm thrilled to see him in bookstores at last."-Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude "Filled with stunning images and incantatory rhythms."-Time Out Chicago A wide-ranging and assured, surprising, and funny debut collection. Alan DeNiro's gently surreal stories use a toolbox of genres (including science fiction and fantasy) to grapple with issues of identity, family, gender, and politics. (Think Aimee Bender or George Saunders.) Even in the oddest moments, these characters are real people grappling with real relationships and real heartbreaks. The title story was shortlisted for the O. Henry Award. A Book Sense Pick.  Alan DeNiro lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Alan Deniro]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520171]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["I'm thrilled to see him in bookstores at last."-Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude "Filled with stunning images and incantatory rhythms."-Time Out Chicago A wide-ranging and assured, surprising, and funny debut collection. Alan DeNiro's gently surreal stories use a toolbox of genres (including science fiction and fantasy) to grapple with issues of identity, family, gender, and politics. (Think Aimee Bender or George Saunders.) Even in the oddest moments, these characters are real people grappling with real relationships and real heartbreaks. The title story was shortlisted for the O. Henry Award. A Book Sense Pick.  Alan DeNiro lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Perfect Circle]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520119</link>
<description><![CDATA["All-around terrific."-Booklist (starred review) "Perfectly hilarious."-Texas Monthly William "Dead" Kennedy is in trouble. He's thirty-two, in love with his ex-wife, has lost his job, and he's been dreaming about ghost roads again. Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason.  Sean Stewart has written nine novels, including Cathy's Book. He lives in Davis, California.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Perfect Circle]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Sean Stewart]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520119]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["All-around terrific."-Booklist (starred review) "Perfectly hilarious."-Texas Monthly William "Dead" Kennedy is in trouble. He's thirty-two, in love with his ex-wife, has lost his job, and he's been dreaming about ghost roads again. Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason.  Sean Stewart has written nine novels, including Cathy's Book. He lives in Davis, California.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Trash Sex Magic]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520126</link>
<description><![CDATA["This just absolutely rocks."-Audrey Niffenegger "Raunchy, funny, and disturbing."-Chicago Reader "Deeply charming."-The Washington Post A tender, joyful, raunchy, radiant novel. Imagine The Metamorphoses or A Midsummer Night's Dream transported to the woods of Illinois. When a development company cuts down a beloved tree, and tries to drive out Raedawn Summer's family, strange things start to happen.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Trash Sex Magic]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Jennifer Stevenson]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520126]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["This just absolutely rocks."-Audrey Niffenegger "Raunchy, funny, and disturbing."-Chicago Reader "Deeply charming."-The Washington Post A tender, joyful, raunchy, radiant novel. Imagine The Metamorphoses or A Midsummer Night's Dream transported to the woods of Illinois. When a development company cuts down a beloved tree, and tries to drive out Raedawn Summer's family, strange things start to happen.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Kalpa Imperial]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520058</link>
<description><![CDATA["An impressive introduction."-The Review of Contemporary Fiction "Should appeal to [Le Guin's] fans."-Library Journal (starred review) "Borges and CortAzar are alive and well."-Bridge Magazine Multiple storytellers tell of a fabled nameless empire that has risen and fallen innumerable times. Beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. On The New York Times Summer Reading List.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Kalpa Imperial]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Angelica Gorodischer; Anglica Gorodischer; Anga(c)Lica Gorodischer]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520058]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["An impressive introduction."-The Review of Contemporary Fiction "Should appeal to [Le Guin's] fans."-Library Journal (starred review) "Borges and CortAzar are alive and well."-Bridge Magazine Multiple storytellers tell of a fabled nameless empire that has risen and fallen innumerable times. Beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. On The New York Times Summer Reading List.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Trampoline]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520041</link>
<description><![CDATA["Fabulous tales."-The Washington Post "No unblinkered, gloveless reader can resist the stream of associations unleashed by Ford's story and the rest of Trampoline: influences as disparate as science fiction, magic realism, pulp, and Twilight Zone morality plays."-The Village Voice Twenty astounding stories by Karen Joy Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, Samantha Hunt, Shelley Jackson, Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, Greer Gilman, and more.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Trampoline]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Kelly Link]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520041]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Fabulous tales."-The Washington Post "No unblinkered, gloveless reader can resist the stream of associations unleashed by Ford's story and the rest of Trampoline: influences as disparate as science fiction, magic realism, pulp, and Twilight Zone morality plays."-The Village Voice Twenty astounding stories by Karen Joy Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, Samantha Hunt, Shelley Jackson, Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, Greer Gilman, and more.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Mount]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520034</link>
<description><![CDATA["A wicked book. Dystopian, weird, comedic."-Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter "Terrific."-Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil Both a coming-of-age story and a political fable, Carol Emshwiller's novel looks at what it means to be human. Charley, a boy raised to serve an alien master, must choose between comfort and freedom, vengeance and a new future.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Mount]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Carol Emshwiller]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520034]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["A wicked book. Dystopian, weird, comedic."-Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter "Terrific."-Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil Both a coming-of-age story and a political fable, Carol Emshwiller's novel looks at what it means to be human. Charley, a boy raised to serve an alien master, must choose between comfort and freedom, vengeance and a new future.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520027</link>
<description><![CDATA["These short stories have a mysterious glow."-JANE "A startling, strong fourth collection."-Kirkus Reviews "Carol Emshwiller's stories are wonder-filled, necessary, and beautifully crafted."-Samuel R. Delany What if the world ended on your birthday-and no one came? What if your grandmother was a superhero? Recommended to readers of Judy Budnitz, Geoff Ryman, Aimee Bender, and Grace Paley.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Carol Emshwiller]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520027]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["These short stories have a mysterious glow."-JANE "A startling, strong fourth collection."-Kirkus Reviews "Carol Emshwiller's stories are wonder-filled, necessary, and beautifully crafted."-Samuel R. Delany What if the world ended on your birthday-and no one came? What if your grandmother was a superhero? Recommended to readers of Judy Budnitz, Geoff Ryman, Aimee Bender, and Grace Paley.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Meet Me in the Moon Room]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520010</link>
<description><![CDATA["Eccentric short stories, which frequently give everyday life a loopy twist."-The Book Magazine "What other writer could make you start laughing halfway down the first page of a story about a man putting on a sweater? Thurber maybe, a long time ago."-Damon Knight, author of Humpty Dumpty, An Oval Thirty-three fantastic, surreal stories in the mode of Donald Barthelme or Mark Leyner.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Meet Me in the Moon Room]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Ray Vukcevich]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520010]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Eccentric short stories, which frequently give everyday life a loopy twist."-The Book Magazine "What other writer could make you start laughing halfway down the first page of a story about a man putting on a sweater? Thurber maybe, a long time ago."-Damon Knight, author of Humpty Dumpty, An Oval Thirty-three fantastic, surreal stories in the mode of Donald Barthelme or Mark Leyner.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-12-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Stranger Things Happen]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931520003</link>
<description><![CDATA["An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer."--Salon.com (Best of the Year) "A delightful collection."--Cleveland Plain Dealer "My favorite fantasy writer."--Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered "Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny, and startling."--Rain Taxi"Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life."--Booklist "The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional estrangement."--Publishers Weekly Kelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen, really scores.--Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine"A tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy."--Washington Post Book World"Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch."--Kirkus Reviews"A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen."--Karen Joy Fowler"Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines."--Neil Gaiman"Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book."--Jonathan Lethem The eleven stories in Kelly Link's debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, Locus, The Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle. Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories. Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question "Why do you want to go through the world?" ("Because you can't go through it.") Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Stranger Things Happen]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Kelly Link]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Small Beer Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931520003]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer."--Salon.com (Best of the Year) "A delightful collection."--Cleveland Plain Dealer "My favorite fantasy writer."--Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered "Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny, and startling."--Rain Taxi"Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life."--Booklist "The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional estrangement."--Publishers Weekly Kelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen, really scores.--Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine"A tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy."--Washington Post Book World"Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch."--Kirkus Reviews"A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen."--Karen Joy Fowler"Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines."--Neil Gaiman"Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book."--Jonathan Lethem The eleven stories in Kelly Link's debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, Locus, The Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle. Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories. Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question "Why do you want to go through the world?" ("Because you can't go through it.") Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-12-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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