Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 10 September 2011
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Again, Dangerous Visions
The classic companion to the most essential science fiction anthology ever published. 46 original stories edited with introductions by Harlan Ellison. Featuring: John Heidenry • Ross Rocklynne • Ursula K. Le Guin • Andrew J. Offutt • Gene Wolfe • Ray Nelson • Ray Bradbury • Chad Oliver • Edward Bryant • Kate Wilhelm • James B. Hemesath • Joanna Russ • Kurt Vonnegut • T. L. Sherred • K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg) • H. H. Hollis •
Around the Block Again: More Rotary-Cut Block from Judy Hopkins
Finally--the sequel to the bestselling Around the Block with Judy Hopkins! If you fancy classic blocks and quick-cutting techniques you'll love this handy quilting reference, packed with a whopping 200 quilt-block patterns! Browse through this incredible variety of beautiful, traditional rotary-cut patterns, and then get ready to play with your fabric.
After Widdershins, I thought I wouldn't write at length about Jilly again. I'd promised one more short story about her for Bill at Subterranean Press, but that would be it. Having left her in a good place at the end of Widdershins, I didn't want to complicate her life yet again, so I planned to set the story earlier in her life, during her first year as a student at Butler University. Except the story grew.
The Book of Dads - Essays on the Joys, Perils and Humiliations of Fatherhood
At turns humorous, irreverent, poignant and tender, The Book of Dads brings together twenty well-known and beloved writers on the subject of fatherhood, offering fathers—or anyone who has been or loved a parent—unrivaled insights into the complexity of fatherhood as it's experienced now. It is a literary reader for the contemporary dad, hip and on point, but with an eye toward becoming a classic for readers return to again and again. Contributors include Ben Fountain, Charles Baxter, Jim Shepard, Clyde Edgerton, Neal Pollack, Rick Bragg, Anthony Doerr,...
In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living.