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  • A Literary Courtship Under The Auspices Of Pike's Peak A Literary Courtship Under The Auspices Of Pike's Peak
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    A Literary Courtship Under The Auspices Of Pike's Peak

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Tennessee's Partner Tennessee's Partner
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    Tennessee's Partner

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Crucial Instances; Sanctuary Crucial Instances; Sanctuary
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    Crucial Instances; Sanctuary

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Imagining Iraq Imagining Iraq
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    Imagining Iraq

    Before, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts were produced, circulated and received as taking a position for or against the invasion, or as contributing political insights. This topical new book provides an in-depth...
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  • Come October... Come October...
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    Come October...

    For many people the mention of autumn conjures an image of Indian summer and multicolored trees. For others, autumn is more than an idyllic scene, it represents an experience composed of ominous rustlings in the night, preternatural moonlight, predatory...
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  • Celebrating Katherine Mansfield Celebrating Katherine Mansfield
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    Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

    A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended...
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  • Great Short Works of Willa Cather Great Short Works of Willa Cather
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    Great Short Works of Willa Cather

    A luminous collection--with an introduction, notes, chronology, and bibliography--of ten of Willa Cather's short works written from 1900 to 1920.Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during...
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  • The Insomniac Book Club The Insomniac Book Club
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    The Insomniac Book Club

    Charity has lived her life as an insomniac, and life has been the harder for it. But Charity is older now, and lives a quiet, peaceful life with her golden retriever. Through this story, Charity reminisces about her struggles with insomnia, how she found...
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  • Black Days and Bloody Nights
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    Black Days and Bloody Nights

    Black Days & Bloody Nights, a collection of Greg Chapman's acclaimed and original fiction: Is the world coming to an end, or is it all in Marion's head? Would you let in a monster to save your child? A writer's son is his most horrifying creation. A...
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    Three Curses and Other Dark Tales
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    Three Curses and Other Dark Tales

    Come closer, let me tell you a tale or three. Sit nearer the firelight and if you notice the folk in the shadows, best not garner their attention.Beware the gifts, treasures and promises you make along this journey. There are temptations and curses too,...
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    Turning of the Seasons

    Seasons have always been connected with the passing of time and the changes of life, inspiring myths, folklore, poems, and songs. In this short collection award-winning J.S. Breukelaar and Seb Doubinsky have decided to pay tribute to the old tradition of...
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    Cut to Care
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    Cut to Care

    An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved ones... The kind old woman who saved a teenager's life but now finds herself haunted by the weight of a cheated suicide... And the daughter of a...
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  • Late Hybrids
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    Late Hybrids

    Late Hybrids in these twenty short stories are the second and third generations of Greek Australians who, having a strong sense of their Greek identity and traditions, are not always at ease in the modern Australian world. The stories explore not just...
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    Danged Black Thing
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    Danged Black Thing

    Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author's own hybridity with...
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    The Butcherbird Stories
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    The Butcherbird Stories

    'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' - The Australian Eleven stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from a Bangla jungle to the...
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    Happy Stories, Mostly
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    Happy Stories, Mostly

    *Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize**Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022*Happy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often...
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    The House of Youssef
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    The House of Youssef

    Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adas Award for New WritingLonglisted for the Stella Prize 2020Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: FictionThe House of Youssef is a...
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    Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction
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    Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction

    Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which...
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    Letter to Pessoa
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    Letter to Pessoa

    "Line by line, Cahill's writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is evident, her ambition impressive." - Hilary MantelLetter to Pessoa is the first collection of short stories by award-winning Goan-Australian poet Michelle...
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    Landscape with Landscape
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    Landscape with Landscape

    Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. 'I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest,...
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    An Ordinary Ecstasy
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    An Ordinary Ecstasy

    A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies.The seven stories that make up An Ordinary Ecstasy explore the lives of people whose days are awash with enigma, wonder, and epiphany: a musician who...
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    An Elegant Young Man
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    An Elegant Young Man

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDALFora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and...
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    The Mother Must Die
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    The Mother Must Die

    The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be medicated... I just want to be in Cyprus, why would I want to be in Australia.....
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    Everyone on Mars
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    Everyone on Mars

    This collection of short fiction is an imagining of the impact - personal, interpersonal, psychological and existential - of our forthcoming colonisation of Mars. It interweaves threads of the isolation, loss and alienation of living on inhospitable...
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    The Man Who Took to His Bed
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    The Man Who Took to His Bed

    A man wakes up one morning to find an unknown womanin bed beside him. A failed writer devises an ingenious method of plagiarizingthe work of others. Whole properties in a suburban neighbourhood beginvanishing overnight. An ancient grand piano is...
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    Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve

    Ever been arrested for drinking more than three sips of beer while standing up? Is there justice for sausages? How boring is heaven? Would you still rescue a drowning man if you knew the amount of trouble you could get into by saving his life? Intrigued?...
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  • Over the Sliprails
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    Over the Sliprails

    After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertson in 1900 the works On the Tracks and Over the Sliprails. Over the...
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    Leaving Elvis
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    Leaving Elvis

    We're travelling light, without excess, into our future. Gran had been rough as she uncurled my hands from their position, gripped around the open car doorframe, and shoved me into the passenger seat.A man returns from World...
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    Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales
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    Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales

    This collection of stories from the Brothers Grimm includes old favorites and hidden treasures to be discovered.They are the stories of characters we’ve known since childhood: Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella. But the works originally collected...
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    No Call Too Small
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    No Call Too Small

    “Martens’ work would be impressive in any era, but it is particularly timely today. It is wonderful to come upon an author who faces into the horrific absurdities of modern life without flinching, a stylist who delivers his most powerful satiric points...
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    Bugsy & Other Stories
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    Bugsy & Other Stories

    From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery. Frumkin’s latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that...
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    Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
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    Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts

    The first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth, but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad audience.“Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts is why I want to read. There are few books at all...
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    The Hive and the Honey
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    The Hive and the Honey

    A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. In the Edo Period, a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen. In upstate New...
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    Dear Chrysanthemums
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    Dear Chrysanthemums

    Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile—set...
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    Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
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    Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

    FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing...
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