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The Writer's Book of Doubt

by Aidan Doyle ...

Impostor syndrome. Thinking that your writing sucks. Feeling targeted by the rejection cannon. Despairing that no one is ever going to read your stories. Lost in Submissionland. Overwhelmed by radioactive brain weasels.The Writer's Book of Doubt contains practical advice and inspiration for dealing with the problems of the writing life.Illustrated by Kathleen Jennings.With essays from:Aliette de ... Read more

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Impostor syndrome. Thinking that your writing sucks. Feeling targeted by the rejection cannon. Despairing that no one is ever going to read your stories. Lost in Submissionland. Overwhelmed by radioactive brain weasels.The Writer's Book of Doubt contains practical advice and inspiration for dealing with the problems of the writing life.Illustrated by Kathleen Jennings.With essays from:Aliette de
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Diabolical Plots: Year Three

by David Steffen, A. Merc Rustad, Rachael K. Jones, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Daniel Ausema, Charles Payseur, Gwendolyn Clare, Thomas K. Carpenter, Aimee Ogden, Jon Lasser, Chris Kuriata, Theo Kogod, G.H. Finn, José Pablo Iriarte, Andrea G. Stewart, Wendy Nikel, Jo Miles, Aidan Doyle, Tamlyn Dreaver, Paul Starkey, Xinyi Wang, Seth Chambers, Willem Myra, Elizabeth Barron, Marcy Arlin ...

Series Book 2 - Diabolical Plots Anthology Series
This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead, fantastical roommates apartment hunting in Brooklyn, oversea octopus explorers, sisterly love and rivalry in space, living breathing sweaters. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, ... Read more

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This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead, fantastical roommates apartment hunting in Brooklyn, oversea octopus explorers, sisterly love and rivalry in space, living breathing sweaters. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful,
... Read more
North American Gaels

Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora

Edited by Natasha Sumner, Aidan Doyle ...

Series Book 41 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in recent decades.North American Gaels, representing the first tandem exploration of these ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in recent decades.North American Gaels, representing the first tandem exploration of these
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

The Booker Prize-winning, bestselling novel

by Roddy Doyle ...

Narrated by Aidan Gillen ...

Unabridged

7 hours 7 min

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and hates him because that's the rule. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee ... Read more

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Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and hates him because that's the rule. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee
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Ollam

Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

by Anders Ahlqvist, Fergus Kelly, Patricia Kelly, Kim R. McCone, Damian McManus, Rory McTurk, Joseph Falaky Nagy, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, M. Katharine Simms, Liam Breatnach, Pádraig A. Breatnach, Morgan T. Davies, Aidan Doyle, Charlene M. Eska, Hugh Fogarty, William Gillies, Barbara Hillers, Sìm Innes, Aled Llion Jones, Catherine McKenna ...

Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early ... Read more

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Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early
... Read more

Diabolical Plots: The First Years

by David Steffen ...

Series Book 1 - Diabolical Plots Anthology Series
This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the first two years of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy, with a preference for the weird. Evangelist Roombas, cybernetic giraffes, psychosomatic hair syndrome, sentient ships who must maintain their human ecosystems inside them for their own health. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from ... Read more

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This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the first two years of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy, with a preference for the weird. Evangelist Roombas, cybernetic giraffes, psychosomatic hair syndrome, sentient ships who must maintain their human ecosystems inside them for their own health. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from
... Read more
Diabolical Plots: Year Four

by David Steffen, Michael Anthony Ashley, Anaea Lay, Aimee Ogden, John Wiswell, Jesse Sprague, Christie Yant, Benjamin C. Kinney, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Matthew Claxton, Aaron Fox-Lerner, Amanda Helms, Derrick Boden, James Van Pelt, Ryan Dull, R.K. Duncan, Benjamin A. Friedman, M.K. Hutchins, Rhys Hughes, Cislyn Smith, Benjamin Blattberg, Sahara Frost ...

Series Book 3 - Diabolical Plots Anthology Series
This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary tank at a science fiction convention, a questionable academic paper published at a university of ... Read more

$1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary tank at a science fiction convention, a questionable academic paper published at a university of
... Read more
Diabolical Plots Year Five

by David Steffen, Matt Dovey, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Chris Kuriata, Beth Cato, Anaea Lay, Mari Ness, Joanne Rixon, Eleanor R. Wood, Tonya Liburd, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Samantha Mills, P.G. Galalis, Rajiv Moté, Stewart Moore, R.D. Landau, Marie L. Vibbert, Nin Harris, Nickolas Furr, T.J. Berg, Nicole Crucial, Forrest Brazeal, Steven Fischer, K.S. Dearsley, Holly Heisey ...

Series series Diabolical Plots Anthology Series
This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic ... Read more

$1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic
... Read more
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The Commitments

by Roddy Doyle ...

Narrated by Laurence Kinlan ...

Unabridged

3 hours 38 min

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from Paris Hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name? ... Read more

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Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from Paris Hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name?
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The Long List Anthology Volume 8

More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

by David Steffen, Elizabeth Bear, Meg Elison, John Wiswell, Aliette de Bodard, C.L. Polk, Mary Robinette Kowal, Premee Mohamed, Cat Rambo, Aimee Ogden, Kel Coleman, Suzan Palumbo, P. Djèlí Clark, Sam J. Miller, Marie Vibbert, Gautam Bhatia, A.T. Greenblatt, P H Lee, E. Lily Yu, Han Song, Xueting C. Ni, Lauren Ring, Arula Ratnakar ...

Series Book 8 - The Long List Anthology
This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 ... Read more

$8.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21
... Read more
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The Dead Republic

by Roddy Doyle ...

Narrated by Gerard Doyle ...

Series series Last Roundup
Unabridged

12 hours 16 min

Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle shines with this epic conclusion to the saga of his indomitable Irish rebel Henry Smart. Chronicling nearly 25 years of history, The Dead Republic finds Smart working closely with, then violently severing ties to, legendary Hollywood director John Ford and eventually returning to Ireland in the 1950s. Desiring a quiet retired life in a small village north of Dublin, ... Read more

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Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle shines with this epic conclusion to the saga of his indomitable Irish rebel Henry Smart. Chronicling nearly 25 years of history, The Dead Republic finds Smart working closely with, then violently severing ties to, legendary Hollywood director John Ford and eventually returning to Ireland in the 1950s. Desiring a quiet retired life in a small village north of Dublin,
... Read more

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Fireflood

And Other Stories

by Vonda N. McIntyre ...

A collection of eleven stories from the New York Times–bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand."This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre's sparkling lyricism, captivating vision, and advocacy of the different.The titular story is one of alienation and discrimination, as a woman transformed into an "ugly" lifeform ... Read more

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A collection of eleven stories from the New York Times–bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand."This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre's sparkling lyricism, captivating vision, and advocacy of the different.The titular story is one of alienation and discrimination, as a woman transformed into an "ugly" lifeform
... Read more

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