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The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North

Edited by SJÓN, Ted Hodgkinson ...

Discover 18 short stories from across Stockholm, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, and more in this epic Nordic short story anthology curated by one of Iceland’s most internationally renowned writers.This exquisite anthology collects the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and ... Read more

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Discover 18 short stories from across Stockholm, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, and more in this epic Nordic short story anthology curated by one of Iceland’s most internationally renowned writers.This exquisite anthology collects the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and
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Gain

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground braids together two very different stories in a novel on "the Promethean messianism of corporate America" (Greil Marcus, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle).In one story, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground braids together two very different stories in a novel on "the Promethean messianism of corporate America" (Greil Marcus, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle).In one story, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In
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Waste Land

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**An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography“Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.”—John ... Read more

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Strange Fruit

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The eighty-year anniversary edition of the once-banned, #1 New York Times–bestselling novel of interracial romance and discrimination in Georgia.Alice Walker said it best: "The South can hardly be said to recognize itself without this book." Igniting controversy upon its publication in 1944, Strange Fruit was banned in Boston and Detroit and the US Postal Service refused to send it through the ... Read more

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The eighty-year anniversary edition of the once-banned, #1 New York Times–bestselling novel of interracial romance and discrimination in Georgia.Alice Walker said it best: "The South can hardly be said to recognize itself without this book." Igniting controversy upon its publication in 1944, Strange Fruit was banned in Boston and Detroit and the US Postal Service refused to send it through the
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Good Morning America Book Club PickA New York Times Most Anticipated Books of FallFrom the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.When ... ... Read more

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and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch

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The Gold Bug Variations

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The Secret World

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Science and Fiction in the House of Magic

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The Final Solution

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In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89 ... Read more

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The Kind Folk

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Fairies are real . . . and they're coming for you. "Campbell provides the reader with insights and chills only a master of dark fantasy could achieve." —Clive BarkerLuke Arnold is a successful stage comedian who, with his partner Sophie Drew, is about to have their first child. Their life seems ideal and Luke feels that true happiness is finally within his grasp.This wasn't always the case. ... Read more

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