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10 best books like Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy (Ray Bradbury): Civil War Poetry and Prose, Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions, Shirewode, Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, The Spy's Bedside Book, Starburst, The Winds of Change and Other Stories, A Wizard's Dozen: Stories Of The Fantastic, Book of Iron, Pretty Monsters: Stories

Civil War Poetry and Prose
AuthorWalt Whitman
ISBN0486285073
Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand, working, in his forties, as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb selection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights...
Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0345284852
Ballantine Del Rey, paperback original, first printing 1981. Collection of science fiction stories, two of which are original. STORIES: Angel Fix (1974); Beaver Tears (1976); Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light! (1976); The Screwfly Solution (1977); Time-Sharing Angel (1977);...
Shirewode
AuthorJ. Tullos Hennig
ISBN1632164442
Book Two of The Wode

The King of the Shire Wode. That is what they will call you...

Home razed by Church edict, loved ones struck down by treachery, Rob is left for dead. Taken by the old druid master into the deeps, Rob survives to emerge as driven leader of a band of tight-knit outcasts,...
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone
AuthorWalter B. Gibson
ISBN0517413183
The Twilight Zone was a television series produced in the 1960s that presented unforgettable tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Rod Serling, an award-winning writer of television dramas, was the creator and host--and wrote more than 90 of the 156 episodes.

The series has since...
The Spy's Bedside Book
AuthorHugh Greene
ISBN0091920612
A classic compendium of espionage stories penned by some of the greatest writers and most famous spies. With a new introduction by Stella Rimington, former head of MI5.

The foxhunter, the angler, the cricketer — each has had his own bedside book. Why not the spy? First published in 1957, The...
Starburst
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN0451091329
Time, Space and the Future. Here is your passport into the fascinating world of science fiction...eleven dazzling, jet-propelled, rocket-paced tales of tomorrow by one of today's leading writers.

Contents:

Disappearing Act
Adam and No Eve
Star Light, Star Bright
The...
The Winds of Change and Other Stories
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0345311884
Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute

About Nothing • (1975)
A Perfect Fit • (1981)
Belief • (1953)
Death of a Foy • (1980)
Fair Exchange? • (1978)
For the Birds • (1980)
Found! • (1978)
Good Taste • (1976)
How It Happened • (1979)
Ideas...
A Wizard's Dozen: Stories Of The Fantastic
AuthorMichael Stearns
ISBN0590865420
Do you believe in magic? For this collection is overflowing with everything mystical, magical, fantastic and unbelievable. This book features stories by Patricia Wrede, Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville and many others. "A balanced and pleasing introduction to the genre".--School Library Journal.

"Do...
Book of Iron
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN1596064749
Subterranean Press is proud to announce Book of Iron, the standalone prequel to Elizabeth Bear’s acclaimed novella, "Bone and Jewel Creatures".

Bijou the Artificer is a Wizard of Messaline, the City of Jackals. She and her partner—and rival—Kaulas the Necromancer, along with the...
Pretty Monsters: Stories
AuthorKelly Link
Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, PRETTY MONSTERS is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers...
The Wind From the Sun
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0575600527
A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.
Contents

vii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
3...
Love and Wonder (Small Town Witch #1)
AuthorAlex Singer
Small Town Witch is a noir with a fantasy twist. Set in a 1920's New York where Prohibition outlaws the brewing of spells, the story follows Vincent Byrde, a hard-boiled PI who struggles with a magic curse. After a long career hunting magic bootleggers, Vincent has become obsessed with the frustrating...
The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN1439133417
Two of the Grand Master's finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth.

From...
Women and Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women
AuthorSusan Cahill
ISBN0451614453
Kate Chopin (1851-1904): The Story of an Hour
Edith Wharton (1862-1937): The Other Two
Willa Cather (1873-1947): A Wagner Matinée
Colette (1873-1947): The Secret Woman
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): The New Dress
Contents
Katherine...
Chronopolis
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0425041913
This is a collection of the works of J.G. Ballard, who is an author most people either love of hate. He is part of that (now rather old) "New Wave" of sci fi that tried to inject some literary quality into a genre that was dismissed as juvenile. Along with Samuel Delany, Ballard probably came closest to being...
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN1417936142
1903. Part One contains Volumes I-IV of X. French author of the naturalistic school, Maupassant is generally considered to be the greatest French short story writer of his day. The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction,...
RustBlaster
AuthorYana Toboso
ISBN0316342025
At Millennium Academy, elite vampires are trained to maintain balance in a world where humans and vampires, who possess far greater physical strength than their human neighbors, coexist. When Aldred, the most distinctly un-vampire-like vampire to be found in the entire institution, meets Kei,...
Approaching Oblivion
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0312940181
The New York Times called him "relentlessly honest" and then used him as the subject of its famous Sunday Acrostic. People Magizine said there was no one like him, then cursed him for preventing easy sleep. But in these stories Harlan Ellison outdoes himself, rampaging like a mad thing through love ("Cold...
Cassell Dictionary of Superstitions
AuthorDavid Pickering
ISBN0304345350
An A-Z guide to the origins and meaning of superstitions. Find a wealth of fascinating facts and a number of fun "spells" to try -- including a rhyme to say to the new moon for revealing the identity of your true love. For those who believe in "breaking a leg", or for anyone interested in folklore and popular...
Farmer Giles of Ham/The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0048231258
If you are looking for a short, humble, fantasy story then Farmer Giles of Ham is your man. This is about a Farmer who becomes a hero after "defeating" a giant. Soon after, word of Farmer Giles of Ham's courage spreads and his life will never be the same again. This story is not connected with Lord of the Rings...
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
AuthorDouglas Adams
ISBN0517883848
The legendary BBC series did indeed push back the barriers of radio comedy, and in so doing so spawned records, books, a stage production, a TV series, a computer adventure game, even a towel, and attracted a deluge of letters from curious audiences throughout the world.

To satisfy this curiosity,...
Luv, Amelia Luv, Nadia
AuthorMarissa Moss
ISBN1562478230
Amelia's notebooks entertain readers with great stories about the ups and downs of growing up, told from the perspective of an inquisitive, insightful 10-year-old girl. What's more, her witty words and whimsical doodles encourage girls to express their creativity by drawing and writing about their...
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