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All magic has consequencesLong ago, the seawitch Dread Mary fell in love with a hard-hearted prince and gave him the Magic Three of Solatia: three silver buttons that could fulfill any wishbut at a price. Centuries later, the buttons belong to Sianna of the Song, a button makers daughter and heir to all of Dread Marys magic secrets. But the cruel King Blaggard of Solatia seeks to wed the lovely Sianna and steal her power. Sianna will need her wits, her magic, and the silver buttons to save herself and Solatia from the evil Blaggard . . . but what will it cost her? This ebook features a personal history by Jane Yolen including rare images from the authors personal collection, as well as a note from the author about the making of the book.

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Before the legendary Arthur became king, he took lessons from a dragon . . .Artos is a lonely child, teased or ignored by the other boys in the castle of Sir Ector. One day, he follows Sir Ectors runaway hound into a mysterious, dark cave, where he encounters a dragon who offers him the gift of wisdom. Both frightened and intrigued, Artos becomes the dragons student and gains what hes always longed for: the friendship and respect of other boys. Under the guidance of the dragon, Artoss life begins to take shape in a way he could never have imagined. But has Artos really learned everything the dragon has to teach? And what does the dragon mean when he refers to him as Artos Pendragon, or Arthur son of dragon?This ebook features a personal history by Jane Yolen including rare images from the authors personal collection, as well as a note from the author about the making of the book.

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In these twenty-eight magnificent tales, which include two Nebula Award winners, Jane Yolen puts a provocative spin on familiar storybook worlds and beloved fairy tale charactersOne of the most acclaimed and honored authors in science fiction and fantasy, Jane Yolen has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America for her brilliant reimagining of classic fairy tales. In her first collection of short stories written for an adult audience (after Tales of Wonder and Dragonfield), Yolen explores themes of freedom and justice, truth and consequence, and brings new life to our most cherished fables and myths. Here are storybook realms rendered more contemporary, and cautionary tales made grimmer than Grimm: Snow White is transported to Appalachia to match wits with a snake-handling evil stepmother and Beautys meeting with the Beast takes a twisty, O. Henryesque turn; in Yolens Nebula Awardwinning Lost Girls, a feminist revolt rocks Peter Pans Neverland and in the collections glorious title storyalso a Nebula winnerthe poet Emily Dickinson receives some unexpected and otherworldly inspiration. Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enthralling, Sister Emilys Lightship is proof positive that Yolen is truly a folklorist of our times.  This ebook features a personal history by Jane Yolen including rare images from the authors personal collection, as well as a note from the author about the making of the book.

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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A powerful novel of the infamous Western outlaw and his killer: The best blend of fiction and history Ive read in a long while (John Irving).   By age thirty-four, Jesse James was already one of the most notorious and admired men in America. Bank robber, train bandit, gang leader, killer, and beloved son of Missouri Jamess many epithets live on in newspapers and novels alike. As his celebrity was reaching its apex, James met Robert Ford, the brother of a James gang memberan awkward, antihero-worshipping twenty-year-old with stars in his eyes. The young mans fascination with the legend borders on jealous obsession: While Ford wants to ride alongside James as his most-trusted confidant, sharing his spotlight is not enough. As a bond forms between the two men, Ford realizes that the only way hell ever be as powerful as his idol is to become him; he must kill James and take his mantle. In the striking novel that inspired the film of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, bestselling author Ron Hansen retells a classic Wild West story that has long captured the nations imagination, and breathes new life into the final days and ignoble death of an iconic American man.

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Switchers, Midnight's Choice, and Wild Blood

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A special three-in-one edition of Kate Thompsons Switchers fantasy trilogy, including Switchers, Midnights Choice, and Wild Blood In Switchers, thirteen-year-old Tess has a secret powerand it just might save the world from disaster.She is a Switcher, able to change into any animal at will. No one knows her secret, or so she thinks. But one day, a strange, scruffy boy named Kevin follows her home from her Dublin bus stop. Hes a Switcher, too, and he convinces Tess that their powers are needed to stop the snowstorms that are rapidly advancing from the Arctic. Tess and Kevin will have to stretch their abilities to the very limit to try to save the world from frozen destruction. In Midnights Choice, Tess believes she has experienced everything her powers have to offeruntil she meets Martin, another Switcher, who seems to have a mysterious power over the Dublin rats. Martins gift is dangerous and terrifying, but also exciting, and Tess cant resist the temptation to explore his dark and thrilling world. Will she find the strength to resist, or will she be pulled permanently into darkness? In Wild Blood, its time for Tess to choose her final form.Within days, she will turn fifteen and lose her power, remaining locked into a single shape. But what shape should she choose? As she tries to decide, Tess travels to her uncle Maurices farm in County Clare. Shes distracted from her weighty decision by the feeling that theres something strange about the woods near the farm. What does it have to do with Tesss choice? Her journey will take her to places she never could have imagined, as she approaches once and for all her final Switch.

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Seventeen-year-old Joel cant be gay if hes straight After four years of living with relatives in Switzerland, seventeen-year-old Joel Scherzenlieb finds himself in the United States for the summer, working at a Boy Scout camp. There, he meets nineteen-year-old Corey Cobbett, a fellow counselor who's the only person Joel wants to be friends with. Soon, Joels sarcastic, distant CIA father shows up and whisks him away to live with his mother, grandmother, and older sister on a farm in Virginiahes not going back to Switzerland after all. As his father pleads poverty and his dreams of going to college vanish, Joel faces his longest year yet. But everything changes when Corey returns to his life, bringing with him the discovery and excitement of reciprocal love.

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A disadvantaged kid struggles to rise above his circumstances in a New York Timesbestselling authors poignant, honest, and thoroughly memorable novel (Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina).  Its 1957, and fifteen-year-old Roy Poole has again been awakened by the nightly argument between his mother, his sister, and his hard-drinking father. Roy sneaks away after the old man passes out, and hitches a ride to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, to use its brutal obstacle course, which he can run better than most midshipmen. Whenever hes navigating the ropes, gullies, and jumps, Roy finds that hes able to leave his troubles behind. Roys dream is to join the Academy as a midshipman, but after years of bad grades and mishaps, Annapolis is a long shot. When a chance encounter with a retired admiral sets him on the path to a better life, Roy will face his greatest obstacle yet.

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Set on a farm on Irelands West Coast, this gripping novel by Kate Thompson revolves around a missing teenagerand the shattering effect of her disappearance upon her family and friendsNineteen-year-old Martina Keane has vanished, seemingly into thin air. She rode off one morning, and her horse, Specks, came home without her. Martinas father, Gerard, soon falls under suspicion, and her mother, Brigid, finds she must reevaluate her narrow, materialist existence. With their world turned upside down and their parents emotionally absent, Martinas teenaged brother, Joseph, and their younger sister, Aine, are left to deal with the disaster in their own, very different ways. Set on the borderlines of the modern and the traditional, the material and the mythical, Thin Air is the story of a family coming apart at the seams . . . and coming together again.   

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Jack is about to discover how to make goldbut the secret art will come at a priceThe year is 1720, and Jack, a London blacksmiths apprentice, is fleeing the punishment of his master. Now a runaway, Jacks wanderings take him to the Thames River, where he plucks a curious little pot out of the water. Hoping that his find will prove valuable, Jack discovers that it belongs to a practitioner of the forbidden art of alchemy. The alchemist agrees to take Jack on as an apprentice and teach him his secret craft, which will lead not to shelter or security, but to something far more wonderful and perilous. Jacks quest will take him to unexpected places where hell learn that theres more to alchemy than he bargained for. But will learning the secrets of making gold come at too great a cost?    

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A former prosecutor is determined to save a man accused of murder in this completely engrossing legal thriller from the New York Timesbestselling author (Detroit Free Press).  During a sleepover with her two friends, Emma goes missing. The owners of a local news network, her parents have money and power. As the police scour the city, Emmas father offers a $250,000 reward for his daughters safe return. Eight days after the abduction, two hikers find her. Emma has been dead for days. After a years fruitless search, the police make an arrest, picking up the networks star anchorman. As Emmas father brays for blood, Luke Garrison is the only person who dares to stand in his way. Once a merciless District Attorney, Luke became a defender after mistakenly sending a man to the gas chamber. Now he will let no onenot even a bereaved fatherrush justice. But is he doing the right thing, or is he fighting to set a killer free?

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Tess has a secret powerand it just might save the world from disasterThirteen-year-old Tess is a Switcher, able to change into any animal at will. No one knows her secret, or so she thinks. But one day a strange, scruffy boy follows her home from her Dublin bus stop. The boys name is Kevin, and hes a Switcher too. Kevin convinces Tess that their powers are needed for something important: stopping the snowstorms that are rapidly advancing from the Arctic. Tess and Kevin will have to stretch their abilities to the very limit in order to save the world from frozen destruction.

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The author of the Switchers Trilogy creates a convincing fantasy world in this magical novel of a girl who sets out on a daring journey (Publishers Weekly). Everyone in Rilkas village knows about the beguilers: the golden-eyed, wailing creatures that come out after dark and lure people to their doom. Rilka astonishes her fellow villagers when she reveals that her Great Intentionher first act as an adultis to capture a beguiler. During her dangerous quest to the cloud mountain, the rumored lair of the beguilers, Rilka discovers truths about the beguilersand herselfthat will change her life and her village forever.

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Should you believe what you see with your own eyes, even if it cant be explained?Laurie is worried. Her father refuses to discuss the vision they have seen lurking by his science lab: glowing, dangerous-looking horsemen bearing bows and swords. Laurie is sure that the horsemen are portents of doom. Are they somehow connected to her fathers mysterious genetic research? The recent bombings in Birmingham, England? The unrest in Shasakstan, a country ruled by a dictatorship and armed with nuclear weapons? And if these horsemen do pose a threat, is it too late for Laurie to stop them?     

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The first collection of nonfiction from the author Tony Kushner calls one of the best novelists writing in the world today Over a thirty-year period, novelist Christopher Bram witnessed, and lived through, the powerful experiences of coming out, the AIDS epidemic, gay marriage, and the social changes that have occurred in lower Manhattan. From the title piece, which maps the state of gay fiction, to A Body in Books, about the gay books that changed the authors life, the essays in Mapping the Territory form a coherent autobiographical account of Brams life. This work wouldnt be complete without Homage to Mr. Jimmy, his account of how his novel Father of Frankenstein grew from his imagination and writing into the Oscar-winning movie Gods and Monsters. Mapping the Territory is a thoroughly engaging and compelling look into a great American writer.

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Bored and broke, Marlow quits retirement to search for a mole within MI6Its springtime in Scotland, and an aging spy is tending to his bees. Smoke rises from his bellows as he looks in on the colony for the first time since winter. When his wife goes to check on him, the bellows are still smoking but her husband has disappeared. He may be dead, he may be kidnappedor he may have gone over to the other side. To locate the missing beekeeper, the secret service turns to Peter Marlow, a veteran agent who is finding retirement no substitute for life in the field. He soon discovers a byzantine Russian conspiracy, of which the vanished spy is either the architect or the victim, operating deep within British intelligence. In the shadows of this secretive government agency, there are more pressing dangers than the sting of a frightened honeybee.  The Oxford Gambit is the third book in the Peter Marlow Mystery series, which also includes The Sixth Directorate and The Valley of the Fox.

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Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

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A collection of critical essays from award-winning author Dorothy Allison about identity, gender politics, and queer theory, now with a new prefaceLambda Award and American Library Associations Stonewall Book Awardwinning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through twenty-three impassioned essays that explore her identityfrom her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New Yorkand her sexuality. In Gun Crazy, Allison delves into what guns meant to the men and women around her when she was growing up. She gives insight into the importance of speaking professionally about sexuality in Talking to Straight People, and articulates the danger women feel about revealing their personal desires, even within feminist communities, in Public Silence, Private Terror. Allison is fearless in her discussion of many social and political taboos. Compelling and raw, Skin is an honest and intimate workperfect for Dorothy Allison fans and new readers alike.

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On their second honeymoon, a womans husband is arrested for murderGriselda Satterlee is beginning to regret her second marriage to Con. Their  honeymoon was supposed to be joyous, romantic, and full of glamorall of the things their first marriage wasntbut instead they are spending it on Long Beach, a Navy town whose fleets have all shipped out to sea. The tedium of Long Beach cannot compare to the insult Con gives Griselda one night, when he picks up a stunning blonde at a bar, leaving his wife in the dust. When he returns to their hotel, Con explains to Griselda that the woman was planning to shoot herself, so he took her out of the bar to confiscate her gun. Griselda is just beginning to believe him when the blonde turns up dead, and Con is arrested for her murder. Griselda will have to work quickly to salvage their honeymoon, or Con will be forced to trade their bridal suite for death row.

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A delightful . . . nonstop action thriller from the author of In a Lonely Placereaders new to this forgotten classic are in for a treat (Publishers Weekly).  At the age of twenty-four, Griselda Satterlee has already lived two lifetimes. A star of the silver screen, she gives up Hollywood after a year, and moves to New York to become a designer. While her ex-husband, Con, is out of town, she is staying in his apartment. Walking back one night, she meets two cheerful young men who want to go home with herand wont take no for an answer. David and Danny are twins, and they are the most beautiful men Griselda has ever seen. They are also the most dangerous. They want something from her: a lustrous blue marble, which they insist is in Cons apartment. Though they leave without hurting her, Griselda knows that next time, they wont be so amiable. To save herself, she must discover the secret of the marblea secret with death at its core.

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Alone in New York City, a young actress becomes entangled in an international caperLizanne Steffasson used to dream of life on the Broadway stagethat is, until she came crashing down to Earth. Having decided to aim lower, she dreams simply of being able to pay her rentwhich is why she responds to a strange ad in the newspaper: Wanted: A beautiful girl. One not afraid to look on dangers bright face. Lizanne is neither beautiful nor fearless, and shes about to come face-to-face with a most fearful danger indeed. When the Swedish billionaire known as the Cross-Eyed Bear died, he left his three sons inheritance in a trust, to be collected when the youngest turned twenty-one. But just before his birthday, the youngest son disappeared into the wilds of New York. Now, the estate lawyer wants Lizannes help finding him. Lizanne knows more of the story than her new employer realizesand she cannot trust anyone if she is to come through the mission alive.

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An escapee from a Spanish prison hunts for his best friends killer in New York For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languishes in a Fascist prison, his days spent in darkness and his nights tortured by fear of his limping jailer, whose name he never learns. He escapes Spain with the help of Louie Lepetino, a childhood friend who came with him to fight on behalf of the Republican cause. Back in the United States, Kit heads out West to recover from his ordeal, while Louie returns to a life of cafes and cocktail parties in New York. But Kits convalescence is cut short when he learns Louie has taken a fatal tumble out of a window, and he journeys to New York to discover who gave his savior the final push. Only a woman could have led Louie to his death, Kit thinks, and New York is full of femmes fatales. But man or woman, Louies murderer should watch out for Kit: He wants vengeance, and hes willing to kill for it.