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  • Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction

    by Catherine Brady ...
    This book illuminates how technique serves 'story logic,' the particular way fiction makes meaning. Writers raid the cupboard of theory looking for what works, and generic rules don't account for the rich variety of strategies they employ. For writers who are past the beginner stage, Brady offers a closer look at craft fundamentals, including plot, characterization, patterns of imagery, and style. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres

    Deciphering the Ends of DNA

    by Catherine Brady ...
    The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful opportunism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn—one of Time magazine's 100 “Most Influential People in the World” in 2007—made headlines in 2004 when she was dismissed from the President's Council on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories

    by Catherine Brady ...
    Series series Western Literature and Fiction Series
    The stories in this collection explore those moments when the seemingly fixed coordinates of our lives abruptly give way—when mother love fractures, a faithful husband abandons his family, a conscientious middle-class life implodes, or loyalty demands an excruciating sacrifice. The characters share a fundamental predicament, the struggle to name and embrace some faith that can break their fall. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Changes

    Stories about Transformation from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    by Catherine Brady, Philip F. Deaver, Greg Downs, Amina Gautier, Jacquelin Gorman, Lisa Graley, Tom Kealey, Peter LaSalle, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, T. M. McNally, Gina Ochsner, Lori Ostlund, Melissa Pritchard, Hugh Sheehy, David Walton ...
    Series Book 118 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Curled in the Bed of Love

    Stories

    by Catherine Brady ...
    Series series
    To read Curled in the Bed of Love is to feel the incessant tug between devotion and desire that can unmake even the closest couple. These eleven stories are set in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in true Left Coast style, Catherine Brady's characters are as resolute in evading middle-class conformity as they are in clinging to their illusions about love. And while they never shy from paying their ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction

    by Dale Peck ...
    In The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction, editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s.Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose ... Read more

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  • I'm a Registered Nurse Not a Whore

    by Anne Perdue ...
    The darkly humorous stories in I'm A Registered Nurse Not A Whore take dead aim at how easily our desire to be good is perverted or undermined by a desperate need for love and recognition. Despite a world of fading optimism and advancing catastrophe plans are formulated deals drawn bargains struck and hope prevails. Beautifully flawed well-meaning yet easily sidelined the characters in these eight ... Read more

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  • April Fool

    An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

    by William Deverell ...
    Series Book 2 - An Arthur Beauchamp Novel
    A new edition of the Arthur Ellis Award winning crime novelArthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s top jewel thieves, has been accused of raping and murdering a psychologist. Beauchamp has scarcely ... Read more

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  • The Journey Prize Stories 24

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    by Various ...
    Series Book 24 - Journey Prize
    The Journey Prize Stories is Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology. With settings ranging from Mount St. Helens, Barcelona, Halifax, Victoria Island, and Alberta’s Red River Badlands, these stories represent the year’s best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging writers.Among the stories this year: After months of trying to sell the worthless collection of sports cards his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

    Stories and a Novella

    by George Saunders ...
    Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Life List

    A Novel

    by Lori Nelson Spielman ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this utterly charming debut novel, one woman sets out to complete her old list of childhood goals—and finds that her lifelong dreams lead her down a path she never expects.“A wonderful, touching story that reminds us to live life to its fullest.”—Cecelia Ahern, New York Times bestselling author of P.S., I Love YouNOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM1. Go to Paris... ... Read more

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