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The World's Most Celebrated Sleuths Unmasked by Their Authors

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The origins of literatures finest crime fighters, told by their creators themselves Their names ring out like gunshots in the dark of a back alley, crime fighters of a lost era whose heroic deeds will never be forgotten. They are men like Lew Archer, Pierre Chambrun, Flash Casey, and the Shadow. They are women like Mrs. North and the immortal Nancy Drew. These are detectives, and they are some of the only true heroes the twentieth century ever knew. In this classic volume, Otto Penzler presents essays written by the authors who created these famous characters. We learn how Ed McBain killedand resurrectedthe hero of the 87th Precinct, how international agent Quiller wrote his will, and how Dick Tracy first announced that crime does not pay. Some of these heroes may be more famous than others, but there is not one whom you wouldnt like on your side in a courtroom, a shootout, or an old-fashioned barroom brawl.

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From the New York Timesbestselling author: Each chapter . . . offers a window on a different intersection of psychiatry and spirituality (New Age).   In Saints and Madmen, bestselling author Russell Shorto explains how modern science is beginning to reconcile centuries of religious experiences with current psychiatric theories. Psychotic patients sometimes believe theyre developing mystical powers, speaking to animals or conversing with God during their episodes. As one patient said, psychosis can be lifes greatest joy, and also its worst hell. Traditional psychiatry has approached the existence of these occurrences as a treatable medical problem, a case of unbalanced chemicals in the brain. But could it be more? In Saints and Madmen, Shorto writes about the scientists who reject the Freudian view of religious experience as narrow-minded, and shows us how their findings could change how we understand our own minds and spirits.

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A fun, funny, and informative guide to the weird world of American politics How does the president get his job? How do people know who will win an election before everybodys voted? Do the candidates hate each other? Dan Gutman takes on his strangest subject ever: the American political system. Reaching through history from the days of the founding fathers to todays voting system, Gutman tackles complex subjects in a clear, easy-to-understand way. Even grown-ups will find something in here that theyve never learned before. Politics are a crazy game, and with Dan Gutman teaching you the rules, youre going to have a blast learning how to play.

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Bust-out man: one skilled at switching crooked dice in and out of a game. Bust-out king: someone who is simply better at it than anyone else.While growing up, Joe Farroni almost never saw his Uncle Rocco, and when Joe asked his parents about the man, theyd kept their lips zipped. Only when Joe is an adulta writer struggling with a mortgage and two kidsdoes he discover his uncles identity as the sneakiest, slipperiest, most successful conman to ever grace the streets of New York City. Now Rocco has passed away, and left it to Joe, his only heir, to write the story of his master schemes. The Bust-Out King is a rollicking caper about a wise guy of the gritty 1970s, a determined individual with a financial scheme well ahead of his time.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Avery Corman, including rare images from the authors personal collection.

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A Madison Avenue adman returns to the Bronx of his youth in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Kramer vs. Kramer: Charming (The New York Times).  Growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s, Steven Robbins was raised on egg creams, baseball stats, and the camaraderie that kept his melting-pot Bronx neighborhood humming during World War II. Robbins aspired to escape his humble roots, and eventually worked his way to Madison Avenue, where he became a hotshot ad man with an enviable wife. But as he pushes fifty and his marriage falls apart, Robbins begins yearning for a deeper happiness. Returning to his old neighborhood in the Bronx, Robbins seeks the simplicity of the life he once fled in the one place where he may ultimately find contentment. The Old Neighborhood is a warm-hearted novel that shows it is possible to go home again, or to take home with you wherever you go. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Avery Corman, including rare images from the authors personal collection.

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Paul Brock may have written a great book, but it isnt until impresario Mel Steiner gets ahold of him that he discovers what it really takes to be the Great American NovelistBy the time Paul Brock finishes his first novel, he has already lived half his life: He has a wife, kids, and a career writing movie scripts. So to fulfill his dreams of becoming a Novelist with a capital N, he has to go big, and that means turning to his star-maker friend, Mel Steiner. Soon Brock has a team of trainers, a stage show, a signature look, and even a movie deal. Self-respect, however, remains elusive. The Big Hype is a rapier-sharp takedown of the book industry, and a brilliantly funny premonition of how authorship and celebrity culture have become dangerously intertwined. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Avery Corman, including rare images from the authors personal collection.

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A Legend RebornRobbie Canler flees to the Congo to escape a dark secret, and finds work with an illegal logging operation. Suddenly, his camp is attacked by a savage force. When Jane Porter, the daughter of the camps boss, goes missing, the loggers assume bloodthirsty rebel soldiers have kidnapped her. Spurred into action, Robbie sets out alone to find hercompletely unaware that he is being watched.  Caught in the midst of the many dangers that lie in the depths of the jungle, Robbie wonders if the rumors of a supernatural white ape are true. And if so, can this mysterious untamed savage be trusted to help, or will it destroy them all?

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 A Legend Reborn The worlds most infamous hunter, Nikolas Rokoff, is sent into the jungle to steal a rare prize from Tarzans camp. But Tarzan and his friends Jane and Robbie will stop at nothing to track him downcrossing the wild rainforest and hostile African savannah on a daring rescue mission. At the same time, Jane tries to learn more about Tarzans past, and must decide whether reuniting him with his lost family is the right thing to do. And Robbie is torn by a plan that would keep the secrets of his own past safe, but might get rid of Tarzan for good. Lured to the city, Tarzan is forced to confront his greatest enemy. But time is running outand no one can be trusted.

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In this comedy by a Pulitzer Prizewinning author, a biographer out to vindicate a neglected female artist learns that the truth is never tidy.    Polly Alter is through with men. Recovering from her divorce, she has taken a year off from her museum job to write a biography of Lorin Jones, a sensitive painter who died young and nearly forgotten. Polly is determined to bring the artist the public acclaim she deserves, making up for the neglect and exploitation Lorin suffered from the men in her life.   The only problem with the story of Lorins victimhood is that it may not be true. And as Polly wades deeper into her research, growing more attached to her subject, and more lost in the world of two decades past, she begins to realize that no life story is as simple as a biographer might wish.   The National Book Awardshortlisted author of Foreign Affairs writes a daring and relentless comedy that novelist Edmund White calls one of the most entertaining novels I've read in a long time (The New York Times).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the authors collection.    

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A Pulitzer Prizewinning authors sparkling, smart tale of an aging writer and his younger wife looking for new lifeor a way to end itin Key West (The New York Times).   Every schoolboy in America knows the work of author Wilkie Walker, who won fame and fortune with his accessible nature books. But as he turns seventy, his renown is nearly gone. Now he sits up at night torturing himself with fears that his career was a waste, his talent is gone, and his body destroyed by cancer. His wife, Jenny, twenty-five years younger, can tell only that he is out of sorts. She has no idea her husband is on the verge of giving up on life.   When Jenny suggests spending the winter in Key West, Wilkie goes along with it. After all, if you need to plan a fatal accident, Florida is a perfectly good place to do so. And when they touch down in the sunshine state, the Walkers find its not too late to live lifeor end ithowever they damn well please.   The National Book Awardshortlisted author of Foreign Affairs Affairs, The War Between the Tates, and The Last Resort writes a sparkling, smart . . . highly volatile novel (The New York Times).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the authors collection.  

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In this excellent novel of rare understanding from a Pulitzer Prizewinning author, culture shock consumes a young Harvard couple in Los Angeles (The New York Times).   When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of academia. After losing his fellowship, he is out of work and one thesis short of a PhD. Rather than doom his career by taking what he considers to be an unsuitable job, he finds a temporary position at the Nutting Research and Development Corporation in Los Angeles, a city whose superficial charms signal an adventure. He is ready to make the best of his year out west among the beatniks and Hollywood hippies. The only thing holding him back is his wife.   Katherine is a New Englander through and through, and as soon as she steps into the LA smog, she knows this transition will be a struggle. What Paul sees as fun, she considers vulgar. Bogged down by her allergies and crumbling marriage, she seeks out a shrink, who surprises and transforms her. While Los Angeles may be a cultural wasteland, this East Coast girl will find that West Coast pleasures can be quite a lot of fun.   The National Book Awardshortlisted author of Foreign Affairs writes coolly and wickedly of freedom and self-discovery in this witty novel (The New Yorker).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the authors collection.  

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A husbands affair pushes a suburban wife to her breaking point in this near perfect comedy of manners by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Real People (The New York Times).    Erica Tate wouldnt mind getting up in the morning if her children were less intolerable. Until puberty struck, Jeffrey and Matilda were absolute darlings, but in the last year, they have become sullen, insufferable little monsters. A forty-year-old housewife out of work and out of mind, she finds little happiness in the small college town of Corinth.     Ericas husband, Brian, a political science professor, is so deeply immersed in university lifeor more accurately in the legs of his mistress, a half-literate flower child named Wendythat he either doesnt notice his wifes misery or simply doesnt care. Worst of all, their pleasant little neighborhood is transforming into a subdivision. As new ranch houses spring up around their once idyllic home, Ericas marriage inches closer to disaster.   When the Tate household tips into full-scale emotional combat, Erica must do her best to ensure that she comes out on top. In this darkly comic tale of a family at civil war, the National Book Awardshortlisted author of Foreign Affairs dives into the deterioration of a marriage.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the authors collection.

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Thrilling stories starring Americas smartestand most unscrupulouslawyer During the gold rush, Richard Warren and Samuel Walcott set out from New York to strike it rich. When fortune does not find them, Samuel saves himself from the gutter by marrying a saloonkeepers daughter. Jealous of his friends beautiful wife, Richard kills Samuel and flees the desert with the woman and a trove of stolen gold dust. He assumes his dead friends identity and makes a name for himself in New Yorkuntil the woman he killed for turns out to be a blackmailer. Desperate, Richard turns to the mysterious lawyer Randolph Mason. A crooked genius, Mason doesnt mind having a killer for a client, and will do whatever he can to help Richard escape justice. In this brilliantly original story collection, Mason follows the letter of the law while gleefully betraying its spirit. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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In the sequel to Blackcollar from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn, Allen Caine is back on the front lines of an alien war. Denver, Earth. The twenty-fifth century. After a devastating alien invasion, the Terran Democratic Empire is occupied by the Ryqril race. The once-heroic resistance warriors known as the blackcollars now serve as strong-arm security for Denvers criminal elements. When Allen Caine completes his year-long blackcollar training on the planet Plinry, he and his elite team head to Earth to strike out against the Ryqril puppet government. But theres no way of knowing whether the remaining blackcollars in Denver will be with him, or against him. . . .

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When a young researcher ventures through a mysterious planetary system, dangerous secrets come to light in this novel from a Hugo Awardwinning author.  Grad student Danae Panyas dream assignment has been approved. Shell study Triplet, the strange planetary system scarred by nuclear war and connected through portals. The most experienced Courier of Triplet, Ravagin, will lead her to its hidden worldsThreshold, Shamsheer, and Karyxand introduce her to their secrets, including their advanced technology, their dark magic, and the captivating demon culture of the innermost planet. But though they begin their journey with only scholarly research in mind, Danae and Ravagin quickly find themselves embroiled in the menacing dynamics roiling throughout Triplet. Will Ravagin be able to get them both out alive?

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A brisk and entertaining novel of a barren, mysterious planet that may save humanityor destroy itby the author of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Publishers Weekly).  Chasing a new frontier, humankind sends a manned starship into the universe and away from the overpopulated Earth in hopes of finding a new planet to colonize. But every Earthlike world they discover is already inhabited. As it turns out, the universe is a very crowded place. An alien council offers to lease the one remaining uninhabited world: Astra, a bleak and barren but serviceable planet. The new settlement, though, quickly experiences serious problems, from dying crops to the mysterious disappearance of anything and everything that is made of metal. And then Astra reveals a secret neither the aliens nor the human governments could ever have imagined.

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Icerigger, Mission to Moulokin, and The Deluge Drivers

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Three novels from a New York Timesbestselling author: an exhilarating adventure that follows a group of human castaways stranded on an icy alien planet. Icy, desolate, and sharply carved by hurricane-force winds, Tran-ky-ky is a terrible place to crash-land. But a botched kidnapping aboard the interstellar transport Antares sends Ethan Frome Fortune and a handful of his fellow travelers tumbling toward the stormy planet. Stranded and cut off from civilization, the castaways struggle to survive. In this page-turning trilogy, Fortune confronts vicious predators (even the plants want to make a meal of him) and forges an alliance with a native Tran. As he searches for a way off Tran-ky-ky, he helps the Tran gain admission to the Humanx Commonwealth and learns about their troubled history. Just as Fortune accepts that hell never escape the harsh planet and acclimates to its relentless winter, he learns that scientists have detected rising temperatures in the atmosphere. This sinister change leads Fortune to a thrilling and unexpected final adventure.

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The first and greatest adventure of Tarzan and the inspiration for a new feature film starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, and Samuel L. Jackson. Born to English aristocrats marooned in the dense West African wilderness, John Clayton, only heir to the Greystoke estate, is orphaned soon after his first birthday. Adopted by the she-ape Kala, he is given the name Tarzan, or White-Skin, and grows up among the apes, swinging from tree to tree and fighting the great beasts of the jungle. He has no memory of civilization, but discovers, in the books his parents left behind, the key to his strange appearance, and to his past.   When a party of white explorers arrives, Tarzan finds himself drawn to themin particular, to the American Jane Porter. For years he has been torn between two identities, human and ape, and after saving Janes life he follows her to Paris and then to America, experiencing the unfamiliar world of his birthright before the call of the jungle brings them both back to Africa.   Originally published in 1912 in the pulp magazine All-Story, Tarzan of the Apes introduced to the world one of literatures most iconic characters. The star of twenty-four books written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as countless film, television, and comic book adaptations, Tarzan forever remains the Lord of the Jungle.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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A dangerously seductive collection of tales thatlike the sirens themselvesare impossible to resistSensuality mingles with fantasy in this sultry anthology starring fairies, sphinxes, werewolves, and other beings by masterful storytellers including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ellen Kushner, and more. Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers features a vampire who falls in love with her human prey, an updated Red Riding Hood fantasy, an unsuspecting young man who innocently joins in seductive faerie revelry, and a cat goddess made human. Alluring and charismatic, this collection from master editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling will stimulate more than just your imagination. This ebook features illustrated biographies of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, including rare photos from the editors personal collections.

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Ellen Kushner, Wendy Froud, Tanith Lee, Michael Swanwick, Mark W. Tiedemann, Neil Gaiman, Pat Murphy, Elizabeth Wein, Jane Yolen, Brian M. Stableford, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Steiber, Edward Bryant, Garry Kilworth, Delia Sherman, Melissa Lee Shaw, Dave Smeds, Doris Egan, Storm Constantine, Kelley Eskridge, Bruce Glassco, Conrad Williams, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

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The Five Most Dangerous Places for Women

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Crime expert Linda Fairstein reveals the surprising locations where women are most vulnerable to attacks, and what they can do to stay safeLeaving work, riding in a taxi, even sitting in the comfort of ones own home, these places are linked by one harrowing feature: They are where women often feel most at ease, and they are among the most common locations where abductions of and attacks against women occur. In The Five Most Dangerous Places for Women, Linda Fairstein explains exactly where and why unexpected threats occur, and how to guard against them. Drawing from her years as a groundbreaking prosecutor of sexual crimes in New York City, Fairstein delves into the minds of violent criminals to show the best practices women can use to protect themselvesespecially in everyday situations where danger often lies just around the corner.