Elizabeth Hand
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"Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place...
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A Gothic fantasy set on a college campus from the author of Wylding Hall: "The unstoppable narrative just might make Waking the Moon a cult classic. Literally" (Spin).
Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn't suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic façade, the...
Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn't suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic façade, the...
3) Wylding Hall
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This Shirley Jackson Award–winning novel is “a true surreal phantasmagoria . . . [a] gothic supernatural” horror story set in the decadent world of British rock (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro).
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will...
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will...
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"As her passionately devoted fans know, Elizabeth Hand is a uniquely gifted storyteller. Her iconoclastic series of crime novels which features offbeat photographer Cass Neary, began with the underground classic Generation Loss, and that was followed by the brilliant Available Dark. Katherine Dunne, author of Geek Love, describes Cass as "one of literature's great noir antiheroes," and comparisons to Stieg Larsson's Liz Salander abound. As the story...
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Elizabeth Hand brings us a searing and iconoclastic crime novel, in which photographer Cass Neary, introduced in the underground classic Generation Loss, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of crime in Scandinavia's coldest corners.
As this riveting tour-de-force opens, the police already want to talk to Cass about a mysterious death she was involved with previously, but before they can bring her in, Cass accepts a job offer from overseas and...
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Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When...
7) Mortal love
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Swirling between eras and continents, Mortal Love is an intense novel of unforgettable characters caught in a whirlwind of art, love, and intrigue. Mercurial Larkin Meade may hold the key to lost artistic masterpieces, and to secrets too devastating to imagine. Is there an undying moment? An immortal muse? Is there... an angel of death? Cover illustration by Lindsay Carr.
8) Hokuloa Road
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A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this haunting mystery about the eerie secrets of one Hawaiian island, and the lengths some will go to keep them.
9) Black light
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One of Elizabeth Hand's most critically acclaimed novels, Black Light reveals a vision of ancient cults, gods, and fetishesand a world where everyone loves an apocalyptic party Lit Moylan lives what she thinks is an ordinary life. Sure, her town has a few eccentric theater types, but that's all. That is until her Warholian godfather, Axel Kern, moves into the big house on the hill. He throws infamously depraved parties, full of drinks, drugs, and...
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The father of an autistic child dreams of a Christmas miracle in this moving short novel nominated for the World Fantasy Award-proceeds to be donated to Autism Speaks When Brendan touches his four-year-old son, Peter screams and pulls away. He suffers from a form of autism known as Pervasive Developmental Disorder and has no idea how much his father wants to make him smile. Their relationship is tortured, but Christmas is coming, and a miracle might...
11) Glimmering
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“If Stephen King set out to rewrite The Waste Land as a novel, the result might resemble Glimmering.” —The Washington Post
Climate change, rampant viruses, blackouts, fundamentalists—the end of the end has arrived. Glimmering, the 1994 dystopian novel by Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author Elizabeth Hand, is now timelier than ever.
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Climate change, rampant viruses, blackouts, fundamentalists—the end of the end has arrived. Glimmering, the 1994 dystopian novel by Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author Elizabeth Hand, is now timelier than ever.
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No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand's new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true. Elizabeth Hand's novels include Shirley Jackson Award–winner Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and Available...
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Don't miss the exciting conclusion of the Boba Fett series! After surviving the battle with General Grievous, Boba Fett is emerging as one of the galaxy's most skilled bounty hunters. But Boba has his eye on one bounty: Mace Windu, the Jedi who killed his father. When Boba finds himself on Coruscant, he plunges into the planet's underworld and finds Mace Windu for the greatest confrontation of his life-and his only chance at revenge.
14) Winterlong
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Elizabeth Hand's dynamite debut novel, a sensual dystopian journey through a world unburdened by moral taboos Set in the surreal, post-apocalyptic City of Trees, Winterlong centers on Wendy Wanders, a girl who can tap into the dreams and emotions of the people around her, and her long-lost twin brother, Raphael, a seductive, sacred courtesan to the City's decadent elite. During their voyage, they encounter man-made and godlike monstrositiesboth hideous...
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Wendy Wanders and Margalis return in the thrilling conclusion of the Winterlong trilogyand their lives hang on one question: What is Icarus?" Araboth is destroyed, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Margalis Tast'annin sees himself as the last hope for the Ascendants as they fight against the dangerous energumens. Outside the destroyed City of Trees, Wendy Wanders finds herself joining the rebel forces as they wait for the mythical and mysterious...
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Elizabeth Hand's thrilling Winterlong Trilogy, in one stunning volume Set in the surreal, post-apocalyptic City of Trees, Winterlong centers on Wendy Wanders, a girl who can tap into the dreams and emotions of the people around her, and her long-lost twin brother, Raphael, a seductive, sacred courtesan to the City's decadent elite. During their voyage, they encounter man-made and godlike monstrosities-both hideous and gorgeous-in their effort to...
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In this fourth exciting adventure in the Boba Fett series, Boba Fett travels to the planet Tatooine to find Jabba the Hutt-the greatest crime lord of all-so he can become a bounty hunter. But Jabba the Hutt is not easily found. So when Boba Fett finally tracks him down, Jabba has just one assignment for him: capture a deadly bounty...or else.
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Join Boba Fett in this fifth adventure in the series. When you work for Jabba the Hutt, you do what he says-no matter what. So when Jabba sends Boba into the thick of the Clone Wars, there is no backing down. Boba crosses paths with General Grievous-fierce, strong, and working to overthrow the Republic-and sparks fly. The time has now come for Boba Fett to prove himself as Jabba's newest bounty hunter.
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Don't miss the third adventure in the Boba Fett series! When Boba Fett's father, Jango Fett, died in the first Clone War battle, he left a fortune behind on the planet Aargau. Only bounty hunter Aurra Sing knows its location-but only Boba Fett can get to it-so they need each other to find and retrieve the fortune. But can they trust each other? As the search for his father's fortune becomes dangerously complicated, Boba Fett must outsmart his enemies,...
20) Aestival Tide
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Elizabeth Hand's Winterlong trilogy continues: Welcome to Araboth In Aestival Tide,Elizabeth Hand returns to the extraordinary Winterlong universe. In Araboththe majestic, domed, multi-tiered city of the Ascendantsobsession with beauty and power vents in haunting, horrific ways. The resurrected Margalis Tast'annin has become the Aviator Imperator of the Ascendants, enslaved by his former lover and exiled to the debauched city of Araboth. And the city...
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