Detective Stories
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
Now, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Classics format, an anthology of beloved, classic detective stories—riveting and irresistibly addictive tales of crimes and those who unravel them.
Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its way back through the golden age of the...
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Christmas at The New Yorker
Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Edited by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing,
Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing by literary legends and laugh-out-loud cartoonists.
Here are seasonal...
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Bloodlines
A Horse Racing Anthology
Edited by Jason Starr and Maggie Estep
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $14.95
From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (
Diary of an Emotional Idiot;
Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (
Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together...
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It's All Love
Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends
Written by Marita Golden
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $16.95
In It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts...
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It's All Love
Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends
Written by Marita Golden
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $16.95
In
It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts...
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The Children of Cthulhu
Edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
Descend to the depths of primal horror with this chilling collection of original stories drawn from H. P. Lovecraft’s shocking, terrifying, and eerily prescient
Cthulhu Mythos. In twenty-one dark visions, a host of outstanding contemporary writers tap into our innermost fears, with tales set in a misbegotten new world that could...
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Best African American Fiction
2009
Edited by E. Lynn Harris and Gerald Early
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $16.00
Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featuring the year’s most outstanding fiction by some of today’s finest African American writers.
From stories that depict black life in times gone by to those that address contemporary issues, this inaugural volume gathers the very best recent African American fiction. Created...
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Best African American Fiction
2009
Edited by E. Lynn Harris and Gerald Early
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $23.00
Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featuring the year’s most outstanding fiction by some of today’s finest African American writers.
From stories that depict black life in times gone by to those that address contemporary issues, this inaugural volume gathers the very best recent African American fiction. Created...
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Love Stories
Written by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $15.00
A new anthology of literary love stories—the third collection in the appealing Pocket Classics format—perfect for Valentine’s Day.
Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy...
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Yours 2 Keep
Written by Kay Hooper and Marilyn Pappano
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $6.99
The millennium bug plays matchmaker!
When the millennium bug gives a crash course in romance, anything can happen--in these spellbinding stories by five beloved romance writers.
"Arts Magica" by Kay HooperWhen apprentice wizard Felicity Grant conducts a reckless experiment on New Year's Eve, she's hurled from present-day Seattle to 1899 London--and into the...
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Canine Christmas
Edited by Jeffrey Marks
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $19.00
Waggish tales of dogs, Christmas, and murder--
by sixteen of today's best-loved crime novelists!
Deborah Adams - Melissa Cleary - Mark Graham - Patricia Guiver - Jane Haddam - Parnell Hall - Jeremiah Healy - Dean James - Virginia Lanier - David Leitz - Jeffrey Marks - Taylor McCafferty - Leslie O'Kane -...
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Spain in Mind
Edited by Alice Leccese Powers
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
This spellbinding literary travel guide gathers poetry, nonfiction, and fiction about Spain by forty English and American writers.
Here are letters and memoirs from Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, and Henry James; a poem about Picasso by E. E. Cummings; and a comic tale by Anthony Trollope in which two Englishmen mistake a...
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The Book Lover
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning author of
The Accidental and
Hotel World comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best — and without which she would not have become a writer.
The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life...
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Tuscany in Mind
Edited by Alice Leccese Powers
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
In her fourth literary travel companion, Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs by English-speaking visitors to northern Italy.
The poet Shelley called Tuscany “a paradise of exiles”; it has long been a magnet...
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Ghost Stories
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.00
A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.
The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher,” while visions of the dead come...
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The Spy's Bedside Book
Written by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.00
For everyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to be a spy, legendary author Graham Greene (
The Third Man, The Quiet American) and his brother Hugh have compiled this irresistible selection of fiction, memoir, and tricks of the trade straight from the all-time masters of espionage. Here is a perfectly...
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Paris: Wish You Were Here
Edited by Christopher Measom and Timothy Shaner
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $24.95
Paris: Wish You Were Here! is the ultimate postcard from the most romantic and glamorous city in the world. Filled with writings, facts, and trivia about this most sought-after destination for lovers, writers, artists, fashionistas, and travelers, Paris captures the best of the City of Lights.
Exquisitely illustrated with vintage and...
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