999
Alas, Babylon
Angela's Ashes
City Infernal
Coldheart Canyon
The Giver
Grimm's Last Fairytale
Hotel of the Saints
I'm Not Really Here
In the Clearing
Jurassic World
Lyrical Ballads
A Man Named Yuma
A New Treasury of Poetry
Nightfall
Phantom of the Opera
The Piano Teacher
Smoke and Mirrors
Spirit
The Trial
Visitors
The Void
The Waste Land
-------and Other Poems
The Water and the Blood
Weaveworld
When the Finch Rises
Wither
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Edited by Al Sarrantonio
1999 (First Edition)
To prepare this groundbreaking anthology, writer and editor Al Sarrantonio challenged a distinguished roster of authors to demonstrate with all-new stories the shape of horror/suspense literature as we enter the twenty-first century. As you will read, the twenty-nine contributors responded by displaying the infinite variety which is the very hallmark of this field.
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Not only is this the largest anthology of original horror/suspense fiction of all time - not one story in 999 has ever been published before - but it is also the finest. Here is a major publishing event with an attitude.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Pat Frank
1999
The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the nation with its vivid portrayal of a small town's survival after nuclear holocaust devastates the country.
[From back cover.] (Originally released in 1959.)
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Frank McCourt
1996
...The luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages.
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...Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the cruelty of relatives and neighbors - yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exhuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
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Edward Lee
2002
Bram Stoker Award Nominee
Hell is a city. Forget the old-fashioned sulphurous pit you may have read about. Over the millenia, Hell has evolved into a bustling metropolis with looming skyscrapers, crowded streets, systemized evil, and atrocity as the status quo.
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Cassie thought she knew all about Hell. But when her twin sister, Lissa, committed suicide, Cassie found that she was able to travel to the real thing - the city itself. Now, even though she's still alive, Cassie is heading straight to Hell to find Lissa. And the sights she sees as she walks among the damned will never be in any tourist guidebook.
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Clive Barker
2001 (First Edition)
Hollywood has made a star of Todd Pickett.
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As Todd settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon - a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on any map - Tammy Lauper, the president of his fan club, comes to the City of Angels... Her journey will not be an easy one. The closer she gets to Todd, the more of Coldheart Canyon's secrets she uncovers: the ghosts of the A-list stars who came to the Canyon for wild parties; Katya Lupi, the cold-hearted, now-forgotten star for whom the Canyon was named, who is alive and exquisite after a hundred years; and, finally, the door in the bowels of Katya's dream palace that reputedly opens up to another world, the Devil's Country.
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Mingling an insider's view of modern Hollywood with a wild streak of visionary fantasy, Coldheart Canyon is a book without parallel: an irresistible and unmerciful picture of Hollywood and its demons, told with all the style and raw narrative power that have made Clive Barker's books and films a phenomenon worldwide.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Lois Lowry
1993
Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There ar eno choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community.
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When Jonas turns twelve he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.
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A Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Book
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An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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An ALA Notable Book for Children
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Booklist Editor's Choice
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A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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Haydn Middleton
2001 (First U.S. Edition)
In September 1863 Jacob Grimm travels through rural western Germany with his devoted neice, Auguste - who longs to learn, at last, the truth about her family - and Kummel, their new and enigmatic manservant. As relations between the three reach the boiling point, Jacob's traumas and heartbreaks here in his original homeland are revealed in vivid flashbacks.
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...Most notable is the feverish fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, which holds a shattered mirror to a life, a country, a history. The Sleeping Beauty recounted here is neither the Disney version nor even the Grimms' version, but an enchanting take that goes beyond the marriage of the prince and princess to reveal the surprising truth behind the evil spell.
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In his compelling historical novel, Haydn Middleton re-creates the life story of literature's most famous brothers. It is a history that could almost be a fairy tale itself, with its fabulous changes of fortune, tests of duty and honor, arrogant princes, lost loves, and twisted family relationships - all unfolding in a world of dark forests and even darker politics.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Ursula Hegi
2001
...With her passion for storytelling and her elegant prose, Usula Hegi balances us on that magical border where laughter and sorrow become one. She knows the language of pleasure, the language of grace, the language of grief.
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A writer of great insight and imagination, Hegi manifests her bold range of vision as she enters the perspectives of lovers and loners, eccentrics and artists, children and parents.
...For Hegi's characters, foreign territory can be a continent away or in the same neighborhood - even the same bed. They come startlingly alive in these poignant tales because her lyricism gives them a moving intensity. Time and again she delights the reader with a perfect image, the elegance of the langauge, and her art as a storyteller.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Tim Allen
1996 (First Edition)
In his number one New York Times bestseller, Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, Tim Allen regaled us with tales from the male-female front. Now, in I'm Not Really Here, he takes a look at men in midlife - and their relationship to wives, children, friends, the universe, God, and why it's so tough to get a good night's sleep.
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...Tim ponders how we wind up sounding like our parents when we raise our own children, men's fascination with pricey gadgets, and how romantic "chemistry" really works... He explores the allure of hot cars, the temptation of fast-food chain prizes, and his obsession with his place in the cosmos.
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...This book is a culmination of a five-year journey of self-discovery. It will surprise and challenge, make you wonder and think, and induce laughter on every page.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Robert Frost
1966
A re-printed edition of one of Frost's earlier books of poetry. Frost is well-known for his poetry and this book contains a good selection of his early work. Example:
(Untitled)
In winter in the woods alone
Against the trees I go.
I mark a maple for my own
And lay the maple low.
At four o'clock I shoulder axe
And in the afterglow
I link a line of shadowy tracks
Across the tinted snow.
I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.
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Michael Crichton
1997 (First Edition)
Now at last in one volume, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World - the two incomparably suspenseful, supremely scary, utterly unputdownable, world-wide bestselling return-of-the-dinosaurs novels, which together constitute Jurassic World.
[From dust jacket.]
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge (Edited by R. L. Brett and A. R. Jones)
1991
This is the second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Romantic momvement - now with revised introduction, textual variants and fully up-dated, copious notes.
[From back cover.]
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T. V. Olsen
1971
Son of an Apache chief and a captive white woman, he was an outcast of two worlds. A sometime army scout, a loner. Tough as an Apache and wise in their ways, he took fighting and wandering as his way of life - for he had no place to go.
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Except to his destiny. To a face-to-face meeting somewhere, sometime, with the half-brother who had betrayed and persecuted him.
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Yuma knew that meeting had to be. And only one of them would ride away from it.
[From back cover.]
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Various (Compiled by Neil Philip)
1990
Delight in language and delight in life sing through the pages of this upbeat collection of indispensible poetry selected with younger family members in mind.
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A New Treasury of Poetry is a benchmark collection of verse that opens the door of poetic magic for a new generation. All selected for their inherent freshness and lively rhythm, the 288 poems are by writers such as Emily Dickinson, e. e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ted Hughes, Walt Whitman, and William Blake. There is timeless and vibrant verse from Shakespeare, traditional anonymous verse, and poetry by the likes of Walter de la Mare and Christina Rossetti...
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
1991
The planet Kalgash is on the brink of chaos - but only a handful of people realize it. Kalgash knows only the perpetual light of day; for more than two millenia, some combination of its six suns has lit up the sky. But twilight is now gathering. Soon the suns will set all at once - and the terrifying splendor of Nightfall will call forth a madness that signals the end of civilization.
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Isaac Asimov's short story "Nightfall" first appeared in 1941. It has since become recognized as a classic, its author a legend. But the short story isn't the whole story. Now Dr. Asimov has teamed with multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Robert Silverberg to explore and expand one of the most awe-inspiring concepts in the history of science fiction.
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In this novel, you will witness Nightfall - and much more. You will learn what happens at Daybreak.
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Gaston Leroux
1987
Filled with the color and theatrical spectacle of the Paris Opera House at the turn of the century, and the ageless fascination of love transformed into murderous obsession, this classic work of mystery and suspense remains a riveting journey into the dark regions of the human heart. The tale begins as an investigation into the strange stories of an "opera ghost," legendary for making performers at this great Paris art emporium apprehensive... But it isn't until the triumphant performance of the sensual Christine Daae - and her startling disappearance - that a sense of dread begins to pervade the dim backstage areas and subterranean passages of the glorious opera house... A story that has captured the imagination of audiences in adaptations throughout the century, Phantom continues to thrill audiences to this day as an unparalleled work of sheer entertainment.
[Excerpt from back cover.]
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Lynn York
2004 (First Printing)
Miss Wilma has enough on her plate already, thank you very much. The resident organist and piano teacher in the North Carolina hamlet of Swan's Knob, she's not only preparing the music for Lily Mae Strong's wedding extravaganza and organizing the town's annual piano recital, she's also fending off the pesterings of perennial bachelor Roy Swan, who's got himself all worked up over plans for a July Fourth celebration.
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But when her prodigal daughter Sarah returns with her young granddaughter in tow, what can Miss Wilma do but enjoy the blessing of their unexpected visit? This is, until Sarah's absentee husband Harper shows up on her front porch a few short hours after a murder shakes the small community - and just two steps ahead of Jonah Branch, the longhaired stranger from Sante Fe who's become the number one suspect in the case. Suddenly, Miss Wilma's blessing begins to look more like a house full of trouble...
[From back cover.]
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Neil Gaiman
1998 (First Edition)
The distinctive storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman - combining mythic power and profound insight - has been acclaimed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With this new collection of short fiction - several never before published and many never before collected - he will dazzle your sense, haunt your imagination and move you to the depths of your soul...a gift of wonder and delight from one of the truly unique literary artists of our day. In Neil Gaiman's capable hands, magic is no mere illusion, but a powerful means to reveal the nature of our humanity obscured in the smoke of our fears and anxieties...and reflected in the funhouse mirrors of our dreams.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Graham Masterton
2001
Peggy Buchanan was such an adorable little girl, all blond curls and sweetness. Then came the tragic day when her family found Peggy floating in the icy water of their swimming pool, dead, her white dress billowing around her. Her sisters, Laura and Elizabeth, couldn't imagine life without Peggy. They knew from that day forward their lives would be changed forever. But they couldn't know the nightmare that waited for them.
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Peggy may be dead - but she hasn't left them. As the sisters grow up, a string of inexplicable deaths threatens to shatter their lives. No matter how warm the weather, each corpse shows signs of severe frostbite...and each victim's dying moments are tortured by a merciless little girl in a white dress, whose icy kiss is colder than death.
[From back cover.]
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Franz Kafka
1969
One of the great novels of the twentieth century, The Trial is the terrifying - and terrifyingly relevant - story of Joseph K., a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information.
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This edition contains more than 10,000 words from Kafka's manuscript which were omitted from the first American edition but included in the definitive German edition prepared by Max Brod, Kafka's closest friend and literary executor.
[From back cover.]
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Anita Brookner
1997 (First Edition)
...Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers. When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray. As the wedding approaches, old family secrets surface and conflicts erupt between the generations, trapping an unwilling Thea in the middle. Confronted by the company of Steve Best, a carefree young wanderer, Thea's fragile facade of peaceful acceptance is pierced, forcing her to face in a new way both her past and her future.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Teri A. Jacobs
2002
There is a dark underworld, a realm of unspeakable pain and unimaginable tortures, a realm of perverse gods and blood-drenched demons. It is Xibalba. Leslie dreams of it at night, its hideous images burning into her mind, threatening her sanity. But these are no mere nightmares, for in these dreams lurks the Dark Man, eager to steal her soul and drag it with him...to Xibalba.
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Surrender yourself to Teri A. Jacobs as she presents a mind-bending vision, never before seen and never to be forgotten, of sheer horror and fantastic imagination. Prepare yourself to enter a living nightmare.
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Prepare yourself to enter...The Void.
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T. S. Eliot
1962
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century. In addition to the title poem, this selection includes "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "Ash Wednesday," and other poems from Mr. Eliot's early and middle work.
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"In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931,) "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948 Mr. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."
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Nancy E. Turner
2001 (First Edition)
...This extraordinary writer shifts her gaze to a very different world - East Texas in the years of the Second World War - and to the life of a young woman named Philadelphia Summers, known against her will as Frosty.
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From the novel's harrowing opening scene, Frosty's eyes survey the landscape around her - white rural America - with the awestruck clarity of an innocent burned by sin... When the war finally comes, it offers her a chance for escape - to California, and the caring arms of Gordon Benally, a Native-American soldier. But when she returns to Texas she must face the rejection of a town still gripped by suspicion - and confront the memory of the crime that has marked her soul since adolescence.
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Propelled by the quiet power of one woman's voice, The Water and the Blood is a moving and unforgettable portrait of an America of haunted women and dangerous fools - an America is at once long since perished and with us still.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Clive Barker
1987
...Weaveworld begins with a rug - a wondrous, magnificent rug - into which a world has been woven. It is the world of Seerkind, a people more ancient than man, who possess raptures - the power to make magic.
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Vying for possession of the rug is a spectrum of unforgettable characters: Suzanna, granddaughter of the last caretaker, who feels the pull of the Weaveworld long before she knows the extent of her own powers; Calhoun Mooney, a pigeon-raising clerk who finds the world he's always dreamed of in a fleeting glimpse of the rug; Immacolata, an exiled Seerkind witch intent on destroying her race; and her sidekick, Shadwell, the Salesman, who will sell the Weaveworld to the highest bidder.
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In the course of the novel the rug is unwoven, and we travel deep into the glorious raptures of the Weaveworld before we witness the final, cataclysmic struggle for its possession.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Jack Riggs
2003 (First Edition, Advance Reading Copy)
When the Finch Rises is the debut novel of an author whose work will be read as classic literature for a long time to come. It is the story of Raybert and Palmer, two boys in a working-class neighborhood in a North Carolina mill town, youths whose brilliant dreams and imaginations are framed in stark contrast against the harsh realities that surround them. It is a story full of truths and revelations, transcending its fictional bounds to become something so real and so finely wrought that it will simply astonish. Jack Riggs has created an emotional testament to the myriad shades of the human condition.
[From back cover.]
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J. G. Passarella
1999 (First Edition)
Windale, Massachusetts, is a proud old town that embraces its colonial heritage - including the legend of a dark witches' coven dating back three hundred years. Now a cause for tongue-in-cheek Halloween revelry, no one in Windale actually believes in witches. But three people, unknown to one another, are experiencing vivid nightmares of palpable horror. The dreams are their only connection to a terrifying truth: a dreadful presence is working its way into their waking lives - and is coming for them.
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Wendy Ward, a student at Windale's Danfield College, is known around campus as the college president's daughter - and an offbeat dabbler in the occult...
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Karen Glazer, a Danfield College professor, is eagerly anticipating the birth of her daughter. But she can't suppress her growing dread that the baby is not safe...
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Abby MacNeil, a lonely eight-year-old, stumbles upon three ancient gravemarkers in the woods, earthly evidence that Windale's witches, a trio of blood sisters executed by hanging, were once very real...
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On a crisp autumn night, Wendy...unwittingly opens the floodgates to terrifying forces that have, until then, lived only in their dreams. The coven that arises is horrifying beyond imagination: a breed of demonic creature with the power to shatter an unsuspecting town.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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