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10 best books like Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (Ursula K. Le Guin): The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection, The Castle in the Attic, Lilith's Brood, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, The Fortunate Fall, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018, The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas, The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality

The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0312018525
When I started the anthology, at first I felt robbed.

I hadn't read this one before, so most of the stories were new to me, but I have read other books in the series, as well as other things that the editors have done together.

I wasn't prepared to come back to it. Not only have both fantasy...
The Castle in the Attic
AuthorElizabeth Winthrop
ISBN0440409411
One of the classic fantastical adventures of all time!

William has just received the best present of his life—an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. It’s the mysterious castle his housekeeper has told...
Lilith's Brood
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
ISBN0446676101
Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with...
Thunderstruck & Other Stories
AuthorElizabeth McCracken
ISBN0385335776
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction...
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
AuthorUlli Lust
Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense,...
The Fortunate Fall
AuthorRaphael Carter
ISBN0312863276
I don't believe it.

I just realized that I haven't updated my top ten book list in my own mind for almost a decade. I certainly haven't modified my top three in over 25 years.

What I have just read has just supplanted number three. Perhaps even number two.

For the moment, I feel...
Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
AuthorJason Sizemore
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2003
AuthorMichael Connelly
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas
AuthorAaron Blabey
ISBN1743625782
Brian the piranha exasperates his fellow fish to no end in this amusing picture-book from Australian author/artist Aaron Blabey. While they are meat-eaters, Brian loves fruit, and continually offers it to his peers, who become more and more irate. Will our piscine hero ever convince them to give his...
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality
AuthorKimberly Ann Johnson
ISBN1611804000
A holistic, practical guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels.
Pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum offer women some of the most emotionally enriching and satisfying experiences of their life. But many women...
Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition
AuthorLily Nichols
Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. A lot of the advice you’ve been given about what to eat (or what not to eat) is well-meaning, but frankly, outdated or not evidenced-based. In Real Food for Pregnancy, you’ll get clear answers on what to eat and why, with research to back up every recommendation....
The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0217062113
The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work Nature, published a year earlier, in which he established a new way for America's fledgling society to regard...
Divinity School Address
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
No wonder he wasn't invited back for thirty years .
Waste Tide
AuthorChen Qiufan
ISBN0765389312
Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.

Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they’ve created for...
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