The King's Last Song

Literature & Fiction

Ryman, Geoff

Literary

Small Beer Press

Storyteller. Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writer's Workshop

Reference

WILHELM, KATE.

Words, Language & Grammar

"Koja can pack a lot Dickensian humor into a sentence."The Plain Dealer Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and Rupert. Decca is in love with Rupert but he in turn is in love with her brother, Istvan. When Istvan comes back to town, louche puppet troupe in tow, the lines of their age-old desires intersect against a backdrop of approaching war. Hearts are broken when old betrayals and new alliancesnot just their owntake shape, as the townsmen seek refuge from the onslaught of history by watching the girls of the Poppy cavort onstage with Istvan’s naughty puppets. When the war gets too close, Istvan and Rupert abandon the Poppy and find a place in high society where they try to avoid becoming more than puppets themselves in the hands of those they have helped before and who now want to use them again. From its explosive beginning to the final climax, Under the Poppy is a vivid, sexy, behind-the-scenes historical novel as delicious and intoxicating as the best guilty pleasure.

Under the Poppy: A Novel

Koja, Kathe

Praise for Elizabeth Hand: "Fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful."—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl "A sinful pleasure."—Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true. Elizabeth Hand's novels include Shirley Jackson Award–winner Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and Available Dark.

Errantry: Strange Stories

Hand, Elizabeth

United States

Don't rush Trafalgar Medrano when he starts telling you about his latest intergalactic sales trip. He likes to stretch things out over precisely seven coffees. No one knows whether he actu-ally travels to the stars, but he tells the best tall tales in the city, so why doubt him? Trafalgar is Angélica Gorodischer's second novel to be translated into English. Her first, Kalpa Imperial, was selected for the New York Times summer reading list. Angélica Gorodischer lives in Rosario, Argentina. She has received many awards, most recently the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Trafalgar

Angélica Gorodischer

[ The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth Le Guin, Ursula K. ( Author ) ] Hardcover 2012

The Unreal and the Real: Where on Earth: Selected Stories: 1

Le Guin,Ursula K.

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands

Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley’s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to powerall the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor. Companion volume Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical, risky, political and experimental earthbound stories. Both volumes include new introductions by the author. Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short stories: She is the reigning queen ofbut immediately we come to a difficulty, for what is the fitting name of her kingdom? Or, in view of her abiding concern with the ambiguities of gender, her queendom, or perhapsconsidering how she likes to mix and matchher quinkdom? Or may she more properly be said to have not one such realm, but two?” Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books "She is a splendid short-story writer.... Fiction, like Borges's, that finds its life in the interstices between the borders of speculative fiction and realism."San Francisco Chronicle "Ursula Le Guin's prose breathes light and intelligence. She can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory."Jonathan Lethem "Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."The Boston Globe "Admirers of fine literature, fantastic or not, will cherish this rich offering."Publishers Weekly "She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex.”Newsweek "Le Guin's powerful work illustrates that fantasy need not be escapist, that gender studies need not be dry or strident, and that entertainment need not be mindless."The Onion Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven collections, essays, poetry, translations, and books for children. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Peter Dickinson is my own chosen demigod in the pantheon of crime fiction.” Laurie R. King For best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover's mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family's stately home are cast in new light by secrets unwillingly revisited. The first in a series of reprints of Peter Dickinson's mysteries, this classic British mystery will win fans currently engrossed in Downton Abbey. Praise for Peter Dickinson's mysteries: "A literary magician controlling an apparently inexhaustible supply of effects . . . Craftsmanship such as this makes for compulsive reading." Penelope Lively "He is the true original, a superb writer who revitalises the traditions of the mystery genre . . . incapable of writing a trite or inelegant sentence . . . a master." P. D. James "He sets new standards in the mystery field that will be hard to live up to." Ruth Rendell "He has an eye and a mind and a voice like no other." Donald E. Westlake "A fresh triumph . . . a simultaneous insight into kids and their minders, and emerging nations, and the concept of freedom - all done with consummate story-telling skill." Peter Lovesey "Read this book carefully. It's a jewel." The New York Times Review "Brilliantly imaginative first detective story . . .wonderfully convincing." The Observer "Mr Dickinson is the most original crime novelist to appear for a long, long time." The Guardian "Brilliantly original, as always." Times Literary Supplement "Wry, witty, irresistible." The Financial Times "Dickinson tops all his prizewinners with this stunning psychological thriller." Publishers Weekly Peter Dickinson has twice received the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger. He lives in England and is married to the novelist Robin McKinley.

Death of a Unicorn

DICKINSON, PETER

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's intense focus makes these stories incredibly intense and irresistible. These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The often working-class people in these stories are driven to extremes by love. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to find an escape. Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He worked as a bartender in New Orleans and New York City and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.

North American Lake Monsters: Stories

Ballingrud, Nathan

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The King's Last Song

Storyteller. Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writer's Workshop

Under the Poppy: A Novel

Errantry: Strange Stories

Trafalgar

Trafalgar

The Unreal and the Real: Where on Earth: Selected Stories: 1

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands

Death of a Unicorn

North American Lake Monsters: Stories