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  • Working Women, Literary Ladies

    The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration

    by Sylvia J. Cook ...
    Working Women, Literary Ladies explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It is the first book to examine the fascinating exchange between the work and literary spheres for laboring women in the rapidly industrializing America of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Behind the Revolving Door, an Anthology of Choices, Volume I

    by Ann Stolinsky, Ruth Littner, Joachim Heijndermans, Jonathan Maberry, Charley Heenon, Don Reilly, Rik Hoskin, Beth Goder, Chris Bauer, Carol Gyzander, Marisca Pichette, Joanne McLaughlin, Susan Shwartz, L.H. Phillips, Carson Buckingham, Philip St. James, Christopher D. Ochs, Wen Wen Yang, Annie ZH Sun, Kay Hanifen, Marie-Hélène Lebeault, Irene Liang, Angelique Fawns, Lorina Stephens, Kemal Onor, Sylvia Heike, Scott MacPherson, Garick Cooke, Zelda Knapp, Jacinta Palmer, Desmond Astaire ...
    Within these pages are stories about choices made under ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. What happens when a chef decides to cook a vampire filet? Why does a mother desire and, at the same time, dread her child coming home? Which door conceals the tiger and which the lady? What does a witch do when she desperately wants a child? There are many more stories to delight readers within the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Tobacco Road to Route 66

    The Southern Poor White in Fiction

    by Sylvia Jenkins Cook ...
    In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant; the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian. Of the literary treatments discussed, Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath emerges as a skillful compromise of documentary accuracy and political daring by reviving the tradition of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Clothed in Meaning

    Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Sylvia Jenkins Cook ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to millions of ordinary people who could now afford to dress in style and assert their physical presence. Millions of laborers toiling in cotton fields and producing cotton cloth in industrial mills faced a brutal reality of exploitation, servitude, and ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    by Paula Guran ...
    Darkness surrounds us.We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition

    by Paula Guran ...
    No matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption. Often disturbing, occasionally delightful, let ... Read more

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  • Nightmares

    A New Decade of Modern Horror

    by Richard Kadrey, Caitl?n Kiernan ...
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    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Lite II: Overbite

    Edited by Kevin J. Anderson ...
    This darkly humorous follow-up to the national bestselling anthology from the Horror Writers Association is a heart-pounding collection of stories from acclaimed authors like Heather Graham, Allison Brennan, Kelley Armstrong, Kevin J. Anderson, and many more.Horror fiction is known for testing the limits—diving into visceral violence, graphic imagery, and the darkest sides of human nature. But ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition

    by Paula Guran ...
    The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and supernatural. Join us in this outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includes stories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmospheric noir, mysterious ... Read more

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  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition

    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, #7

    by Paula Guran ...
    Series Book 7 - The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror
    The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and as supernatural. Join us in this outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includes stories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmospheric noir, ... Read more

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  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 Edition

    by Paula Guran ...
    Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark—in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would not be surprised to find the dark in a cheap apartment on the wrong side of town, down mean streets, under a gallows-tree, along dank passageways, trapped underground, in the ... Read more

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  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2021 Edition

    The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, #13

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    Series Book 13 - The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy
    This thirteenth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-four stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Leah Cypess, John Kessel, Yoon Ha Lee, Naomi Kritzer, Sarah Langan, Ken Liu, Annalee Newitz, Sarah Pinsker, Sofia Samatar, Michael Swanwick, Tade Thompson, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Uncanny, Tor ... Read more

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