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Two short novels starring lovable chefs Rickey and G-man, living and cooking in pre-Katrina New Orleans.

Can a twelfth-century Cambodian king's sense of compassion and justice translate to the present?

Torn from the life she knew, honed as a weapon, she's lost all her privileges except one.

Part memoir and part writing manual, an affectionate account of teaching writing at the Clarion workshop.

"This trenchant feminist fantasy-satire mixes elements of "Animal Farm, Rhinoceros," and "The Handmaid's Tale" . . . Imagination and absurdist humor mark ["Carmen Dog"] throughout, and Emshwiller is engaging even when most savage about male-female relationships."--"Booklist."

Previously published as North American Lake Monsters. Monsterland is a new anthology TV series from Hulu based on Nathan Ballingrud¿s striking, bleak, and luminous debut collection, starring Kaitlyn Dever, Kelly Marie Tran, Jonathan Tucker, and Taylor Schilling, and more.Ballingrud¿s Shirley Jackson Award winning collection of gothic and uncanny stories investigates the loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary American life. Ballingrud¿s stories are love stories. They¿re also monster stories. Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves. Sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, brothers, ex-wives¿or the faces we see in our mirrors.The people in these stories, ex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, kids seduced by extremism, are stranded by life, driven to desperate acts by love and a longing for connection. Sometimes they¿re ruined; sometimes redeemed. They are always recognizably, wonderfully, terrifyingly human, even at their most monstrous.

A young woman is transformed by a magical journey.

LA Times/Ray Bradbury Prize finalist Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Chos Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again. A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people. An earth spirit gets entangled in protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord, and Chang E spins off into outer space, the ultimate metaphor for the Chinese diaspora.

¿ Includes a number of unpublished stories ¿ New stories to be placed this year in run up to publication ¿ Debut collection from a respected and well-connected author ¿ Build our support from Raleigh, to NC, to SIBA, to national

Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales all gathered together in one fabulous bundle.

An unexpected story of a woman's life and love living in the old American west.

An immersive, rich collection from an author whose work reaches across time and continents to explore unexpected and untold stories.

Planted deeply in the dark, musical fantastic heart of American storytelling, Cotman's half dozen tales are ripe for the picking.

Fiction that will inspire you to blow open the doors and kick out those supposedly in charge.

Chabi doesnt realize her martial arts master may not be on the side of the gods. She does know hes changed her from being an almost invisible kid to one that anyone or at least anyone smart should pay attention to. But attention from the wrong people can mean more trouble than even she can handle. Chabi might be emotionally stunted. She might have no physical voice. She doesnt communicate well with words, but her body is poetry.

Andy Duncan has shamelessly told flat-out made-up stories for twenty years, and this book right here is the evidence!

A teenager working in a mountain encampment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution yearns for romance and excitement.

A book of stories of how uncertainly we move through space and time by ourselves and with others.

In the third and final installment in the thrilling Dissenters series, the Sykes family are hoping to enjoy a normal Cape Cod summer. But there are strong and surprising forces lined up against them and there will be unexpected revelations and the highest price will have to be paid.

Stories that sometimes begin in the hills of Kentucky and head out into complicated and sometimes hopeful futures.

Locus Recommended ReadingWhen Taggert's adopted daughter goes missing he suspects the hand of an old enemy. He gathers friends, family, and even those who don't quite trust that he has left his violent past behind. But their search leads them to an unexpected place, the past, and the consequences of their journey have a price that is higher than they can afford.Praise for The Liminal People:"e;A great piece of genre fiction. But picking which genre to place it in isn't easy. The first in a planned series, it's got the twists and taut pacing of a thriller, the world-warping expansiveness of a fantasy yarn, and even the love-as-redemption arc of a romance. Oh yeah, a lot of the characters in it have superhuman powers, too."e;The Rumpus"e;Ayize's imagination will mess with yours, and the world won't ever look quite the same again."e;Nalo Hopkinson"e;An action-packed thriller and a careful look at the moral dilemmas of those whose powers transcend humanity."e;Publishers WeeklyThe enigmatic quagmire that is Ayize Jama-Everett has been making his presence felt all across this world since 1974. In New York, California, Morocco, Ethiopia, and elsewhere, he has impressed, reviled, and astonished with his amazing feats of mental alacrity and mystical inebriation. Despite being degreed in both divinity and psychology, the forlorn artist stakes his reputation and honor on the calling of author. He is known to be cunning in the ways of the bottle, the pen, and the pistol.