Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye A. S. Byatt A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn a… OL115631W
Possession Possession A. S. Byatt Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, *Possession* is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the… OL115647W
Deadly Sins Deadly Sins A. S. Byatt,William Trevor,Mary Gordon,Gore Vidal,John Updike,Howard, Richard,Joyce Carol Oates,Thomas Pynchon This is a collection of short literary essays, one to each of the seven sins, plus an extra item in "despair", by as many prominent literary figures, of whom Byatt is one. Others include Gore Vidal a… OL14911100W
Ragnarok Ragnarok A. S. Byatt As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the God… OL16473866W
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection Gary A. Braunbeck,Jane Yolen,A. S. Byatt,Vivian Vande Velde,Pat Cadigan,Stephen King,Midori Snyder,Louise Glück,Charles de Lint,Michael Marshall Smith,Pat Mora,Susan Moody,Robert Reed,Tanith Lee,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Peter S. Beagle,Edward Bryant,Terry Windling,Peter Crowther,Douglas E. Winter,Steve Rasnic Tem,Patricia A. McKillip,S. P. Somtow,Lamsley, Terry,Ursula K. Le Guin,Ellen Datlow,Nancy Willard,Joyce Carol Oates,Christopher Kenworthy,Scott Bradfield,Eileen Kernaghan,Margaret Atwood,Neil Gaiman,Rick Moody,Lucy Taylor,Ellen Kushner,James Frankel,David J. Schow,Delia Sherman,Sharon N. Farber,Stuart Dybek,Sue Kepros Hartman,Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin,Mary O'Malley,Marcia Guthridge A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summ… OL17745046W
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 Anthony Doerr,Marisa Silver,A. S. Byatt,Nadine Gordimer,Miller, L. E.,Laura Furman,Ha Jin,Graham Joyce,Tim O'Brien,Junot Díaz,Karen Brown,Judy Troy,Paul Yoon,John Burnside,Andrew Sean Greer,Alistair Morgan,Roger Nash,Paul Theroux,Viet Dinh,Caitlin Horrocks,Kristen Sundberg Lundstrum,E V Slate,Mohan Sikka,Manuel Muñoz An ordinary soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce The nursery / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Purple bamboo park / E.V. Slate The bell ringer / John Burnside Uncle Musto takes a mistress / Mohan Sikka … OL17921689W
Ghostly Ghostly P. G. Wodehouse,Kelly Link,A. S. Byatt,Edith Wharton,Ray Bradbury,Rudyard Kipling,Alfred McLelland Burrage,Edgar Allan Poe,Audrey Niffenegger,Rebecca Curtis,Neil Gaiman,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Anna Giacalone Ramat,Oliver Onions [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allen Poe -- Secret life, with cats / Audrey Niffenegger -- Pomegranate seed / Edith Wharton -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -… OL19626052W
The Children's Book The Children's Book A. S. Byatt Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year… OL447886W