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  • Drastic

    Stories

    by Maud Casey ...
    Meet the college graduate working in a whole body–donation clinic; a young woman obsessed with Benedictine monks; a middle-aged woman who becomes a stand-in talk-show guest; unlikely friends who meet in a domestic violence shelter; a young girl and the father who stole her away to escape his wife's mental illness; a graduate student from a suburban family who believes her physical connection to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Incurable Women

    by Maud Casey ...
    In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Art of Mystery

    The Search for Questions

    by Maud Casey ...
    Series series Art of...
    A sensitive and nuanced exploration of a seldom-discussed subject by an acclaimed novelistThe fourteenth volume in the Art of series conjures an ethereal subject: the idea of mystery in fiction. Mystery is not often discussed—apart from the genre—because, as Maud Casey says, “It’s not easy to talk about something that is a whispered invitation, a siren song, a flickering light in the distance.” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    City of Incurable Women

    by Maud Casey ...
    Narrated by Hope Newhouse ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 58 min

    In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Man Who Walked Away

    A Novel

    by Maud Casey ...
    In a trance-like state, Albert walks-from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia-all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Shape of Things to Come

    A Novel

    by Maud Casey ...

    $5.99 USD

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    The Man Who Walked Away

    by Maud Casey ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    Publisher Marketing: In a trance-like state, Albert walks--from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia--all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Land of Careful Shadows

    by Suzanne Chazin ...
    Narrated by Armando Durán ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Jimmy Vega Mysteries

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    Land of Careful Shadows by award-winning author Suzanne Chazin is a powerful mystery full of passion and secrets that deals with a clash of cultures and familial relationships, and it's full of drama, mystery, and raw emotions.When the dead body of a Latino woman is found in a reservoir about fifty miles north of Manhattan, with a photo of a baby in her purse nearby, the police try to determine ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Magician's Lie, The

    A Novel

    by Greer Macallister ...
    Narrated by Julia Whelan, Nick Podehl ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which the country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder—and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence.The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

    by Kelli Estes ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 21 min

    The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets.Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt’s island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara’s life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from her home a century before. Through the stories Mei ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Bookseller

    A Novel

    by Cynthia Swanson ...
    Narrated by Kathe Mazur ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    “What if? These words tantalize and haunt us. . . .Cynthia Swanson takes us on a startling journey where a woman is thrust into the alternative world that might have been, had she made different choices.” — Randy Susan Meyers, author of Accidents of MarriageA provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook