<div>A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors. Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-pin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more. With stories by: Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood (poems), Valerie Martin, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Sheila Kohler, S.A. Solomon, S.J. Rozan, Lucy Taylor, Cassandra Khaw, Bernice L. McFadden, Jennifer Morales, Elizabeth McCracken, Livia Llewellyn, Lisa Lim, and Steph Cha. Praise for Cutting Edge “The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates gathers a strong list of names . . . . Emerging and established authors provide attention-grabbing short works: especially notable are Edwidge Danticat's story on the quotidian horror of domestic violence, Bernice L. McFadden’s comic take on the appropriation of racial friendship, and Lisa Lim’s illustrations of a grotesque marriage.” —Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine “But of course, in the end, it isn't the themes or the innovations on the format of the short story anthology that make the tales collected in Cutting Edge most “feel” as if you were reading Joyce Carol Oates herself. It is the writing. The tight plots and fresh, flowing prose that go about their business until—snap!—the story’s well-oiled mousetrap does its job.” —New York Journal of Books “The 15 stories and six poems in this slim yet weighty all-original noir anthology . . . are razor-sharp and relentless in their portrayal of life, offering snapshots of dysfunction, everyday toil, and brief joy. It is unusual, however, in its scope, zeroing in not only on what the female characters endure but what they dish out . . . . Each story sears but does not cauterize, leaving protagonists and readers raw . . . . Fans of contemporary crime fiction won’t want to miss this one.” —Publishers Weekly</div>

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<div>With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, and acutely observed, this essential collection illuminates the miracles that grace our lives; it will continue to enchant for years to come.</div>

Collected Stories

<div>Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation PrizeA novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays &#8220;Beauvoir's genius as a fiction writer&#8221;(Wall Street Journal) From the moment Sylvie and Andr&#233;e meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andr&#233;e becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril.Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy&#8212;and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andr&#233;e, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women.Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir&#8217;s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist&#8217;s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith&#8217;s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike.</div>

Inseparable

<div>Two female writers and best friends bring to light the literary friendships of four iconic female authors. Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world&rsquo;s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their discovery of a wealth of surprising collaborations: the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, playwright Anne Sharp; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, who shaped the work of Charlotte Bront&euml;; the transatlantic friendship of the seemingly aloof George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, most often portrayed as bitter foes, but who, in fact, enjoyed a complex friendship fired by an underlying erotic charge. Through letters and diaries that have never been published before, A Secret Sisterhood resurrects these forgotten stories of female friendships. They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always&mdash;until now&mdash;tantalizingly consigned to the shadows. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood &ldquo;A thought-provoking meditation on literary friendship as well as engagingly intimate glimpses of four of the world&rsquo;s finest writers.&rdquo;&mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &ldquo;A medley of vivid narratives.&rdquo; &mdash;The Atlantic &ldquo;Midorikawa and Sweeney have committed an exceptional act of literary espionage. English literature owes them a great debt.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times &ldquo;A vital and necessary contribution to women&#39;s history, literary history, and the literature of friendship.&rdquo;&mdash;Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One&#39;s Own </div>

A Secret Sisterhood

<div>Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine, the first, definitive anthology of climate fiction&#8212;a cutting-edge genre made popular by Margaret Atwood. Is it the end of the world as we know it? Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, is exploring the world we live in now&#8212;and in the very near future&#8212;as the effects of global warming become more evident. Join bestselling, award-winning writers like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Seanan McGuire, and many others at the brink of tomorrow. Loosed Upon the World is so believable, it&#8217;s frightening.</div>

Loosed upon the World

<div>The first volume of the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s monumental and unprecedented history: &ldquo;Consistently thought-provoking&rdquo; (The New York Review of Books). The internationally celebrated author of The Women&rsquo;s Room, Marilyn French spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers and prominent historians examining women&rsquo;s lives and activities in civilizations and societies spanning the ages. Beginning in prehistory, Origins moves on to examine women&rsquo;s lives in ancient Egypt, China, India, Peru, Mexico, Greece, and Rome. In her reconstruction of wars, laws, and other activities affecting both women and men, French also traces the worldviews underpinning them. She also depicts how women&rsquo;s relationship to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam changed for good and bad over the centuries. &ldquo;She backs up even her more controversial theories with an impressive accumulation of academically accepted historical, anthropological and sociological sources . . . Written in concise, understated language, this is a significant addition to literature on women&rsquo;s studies and history.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume I

<div>&ldquo;Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French&rsquo;s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly This volume of New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Marilyn French&rsquo;s monumental history analyzes and evaluates the lives of women in societies around the world between feudal times and the French Revolution. Drawing upon fifteen years of collaboration with a team of researchers and prominent historians, the volume opens with fascinating chapters comparing medieval Europe and Japan, disparate cultures which nevertheless shared traditions of male dominated aggression and competitiveness. French then shows how, in Europe, this tradition led to colonialism and imperialism, and the horrific subjugation of indigenous societies, just as women were subjugated in the conquerors&rsquo; home countries. As French makes clear in this impassioned women&rsquo;s history, only with the French Revolution did the political force women exerted powerfully change the course of history. &ldquo;French gives us grand theory at its best, wading through copious amounts of scholarly data on the histories of civilizations and offering up, in readable prose, an important synthesis.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume II

<div>The conclusion of the &ldquo;remarkable&rdquo; four-volume history by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Women&rsquo;s Room (Publishers Weekly). In the twentieth century, women became a force for change, in part through suffrage, and in part through mass organizing. This final volume of Marilyn French&rsquo;s wide-ranging survey offers a vibrant history of multiple political revolutions as well as the century&rsquo;s horrors&mdash;including genocides and the atom bomb. It ends with a thoughtful investigation into the various indigenous feminist movements throughout the world and asks what these peaceful revolutions might augur for the future. Eschewing easy answers, French suggests that the defining moral moments of the twenty-first century should, and will, build from a global human rights agenda.</div>

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume IV

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: &ldquo;A rare find: a page-turning, can&rsquo;t-put-it-down history text.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal Writing about what she calls the &ldquo;most cheering period in female history,&rdquo; Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth-century women living under imperialism, industrialization, and capitalism nonetheless organized for their own education, a more equitable wage, and the vote. Focusing on the United States, Great Britain, and countries in Africa, French argues that capitalism&rsquo;s success depended on the exploitation and enslavement of huge numbers, including women, but the act of working outside the home alongside other women, rather than in isolation, provided women with the possibility of organizing for emancipation. &ldquo;The third volume of her remarkable four-volume survey . . . fascinating insight and detail.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume III

<div>“Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days . . . a treasure for readers interested in Canadian literature because this is where it all began.” —Prairie Fire Review of Books “The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade earlier feels like ancient history and the present moment seems normal: what exists now is surely what has always existed.” In this short work, Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and “Canada’s most famous writer” (The New Yorker), compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many strange prehistoric life forms. The Burgess Shale is not entirely about writing itself, however: Atwood also provides some insight into the meager writing infrastructure of that time, taking a lighthearted look at the early days of the institutions we take for granted today—from writers’ organizations, prizes, and grant programs to book tours and festivals. “Allows the reader a brief glimpse into the mind of a great writer and her perspective and experience living through what would now seem to many the Stone Age of the Canadian writing scene . . . invaluable and very readable.” —Canadian Literature</div>

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