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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,
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Booker Prize Winner

by Roddy Doyle ...

Narrated by Aidan Gillen ...

Abridged

2 hours 50 min

Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing worldIt is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, ... Read more

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Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing worldIt is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football,
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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

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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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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

$44.99 USD

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

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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

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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
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

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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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Songdogs

A Novel

by Colum McCann ...

Narrated by Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American ... Read more

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Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American
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The Animators

A Novel

by Kayla Rae Whitaker ...

Narrated by Alex McKenna ...

Unabridged

15 hours 24 min

“A wildly original novel that pulses with heart and truth . . . That this powerful exploration of friendship, desire, ambition, and secrets manages to be ebullient, gripping, heartbreaking, and deeply deeply funny is a testament to Kayla Rae Whitaker’s formidable gifts. I was so sorry to reach the final page. Sharon and Mel will stay with me for a very long time.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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“A wildly original novel that pulses with heart and truth . . . That this powerful exploration of friendship, desire, ambition, and secrets manages to be ebullient, gripping, heartbreaking, and deeply deeply funny is a testament to Kayla Rae Whitaker’s formidable gifts. I was so sorry to reach the final page. Sharon and Mel will stay with me for a very long time.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author
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Billy Bathgate

A Novel

by E.L. Doctorow ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

11 hours 15 min

To listen to this audiobook is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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To listen to this audiobook is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York
... Read more

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