<div>The classic novel that gave rise to a movie franchise. &ldquo;A warm, entertaining, and highly evocative story of youth, music, and growing up in the 1950s.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer Eddie and his Jersey-bred band, The Parkway Cruisers, were going places. With an album and a few minor hits to their credit the future seemed bright until Eddie died in a fiery car crash. Twenty years later a British rock band turns their old songs into monumental fresh hits. With this comes a surge of interest in the surviving Cruisers and in a rumored cache of tapes that Eddie made before he died. That&rsquo;s when the killing starts . . . &ldquo;An excellently crafted book. The dialogue is sharp, the book is packed with exquisite description and a surprise ending.&rdquo; &mdash;Sunday Journal and Star &ldquo;Eddie and the Cruisers seems at first glance to be only a smartly written novel about nostalgia for the music of the late 1950s. It quickly proves, however, to be a remarkably good suspense story, full of vivid characters and some hilarious dialogue.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Post-Dispatch &ldquo;Sparkling dialogue, wonderful characterizations and a plot which dazzles.&rdquo; &mdash;Enterprise Sun &ldquo;[A] good mix of everyday blues with old-time bebop.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Eddie and the Cruisers

<div>An &ldquo;addictive volume&rdquo; of amphetamine stories from William T. Vollmann, Sherman Alexie, and more (Publishers Weekly). Speed is the most American of drugs: twice the productivity at half the cost, and equal opportunity for all. It has reinvented itself many times, from miracle cure to biker-gang scourge and everything in between. It goes by many names: crystal meth, amphetamines, Dexedrine, Benzedrine, Adderall; crank, spizz, chickenscratch, oblivious marching powder, the go-fast. And it crosses all ethnicities, genders, and geographies&mdash;from immigrants and heartlanders punching double factory shifts to clandestine border warlords; prostitutes to housewives; Hollywood celebs to the poorest Indian on the rez&mdash;and they all have plenty of stories. Here is the first contemporary collection of new short fiction dealing with the drug from an array of today&rsquo;s most compelling authors. The elements of crime and tweaking, bleary-eyed zombies exist alongside heart-wrenching narratives of everyday people, the American Dream going up in flames, and even some accounts of pure joy. Featuring brand-new stories by: Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, James Franco, Megan Abbott, Jerry Stahl, Beth Lisick, Jess Walter, Scott Phillips, James Greer, Tao Lin, Joseph Mattson, Natalie Diaz, Kenji Jasper, and Rose Bunch. </div>

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The Speed Chronicles

<div>Sixteen new stories and fifteen classics by the National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of War Dances. Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades—from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning War Dances—have established him as a star in contemporary American literature. A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases his many talents in Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with sixteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers. Included here are some of his most esteemed tales, including “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” in which a homeless Indian man quests to win back a family heirloom; “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” a road-trip morality tale; “The Toughest Indian in the World,” about a night shared between a writer and a hitchhiker; and his most recent, “War Dances,” about a man grappling with sudden hearing loss in the wake of his father’s death. Alexie’s new stories are fresh and quintessential, about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, a twenty-four-hour Asian manicure salon, good and bad marriages, and all species of warriors in America today. An indispensable Alexie collection, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story. Praise for Blasphemy “Alexie once again reasserts himself as one the most compelling contemporary practitioners of the short story. In Blasphemy, the author demonstrates his talent on nearly every page. . . . [Alexie] illuminates the lives of his characters in unique, surprising, and, ultimately, hopeful ways.” —Boston Globe “Alexie writes with arresting perception in praise of marriage, in mockery of hypocrisy, and with concern for endangered truths and imperiled nature. He is mischievously and mordantly funny, scathingly forthright, deeply and universally compassionate, and wholly magnetizing. This is a must-have collection.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) “[A] sterling collection of short stories by Alexie, a master of the form. . . . The newer pieces are full of surprises. . . . These pieces show Alexie at his best: as an interpreter and observer, always funny if sometimes angry, and someone, as a cop says of one of his characters, who doesn’t “fit the profile of the neighborhood.”“—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)</div>

Blasphemy

<div>Sherman Alexie&rsquo;s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie&rsquo;s debut collection&mdash;an instant classic&mdash;paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where &ldquo;Survival = Anger x Imagination,&rdquo; where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth. We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexie&rsquo;s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all. The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals,the Chicago Tribune noted, &ldquo;The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven . . . is for the American Indian what Richard Wright&rsquo;s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.&rdquo; The collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

<div>From the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy&rsquo;s trip through history. Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old &ldquo;Zits&rdquo; has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he&rsquo;s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the alcoholic father whom he&rsquo;s never met, especially disconnected from other Indians. After he runs away from his latest foster home, he makes a new friend. Handsome, charismatic, and eloquent, Justice soon persuades Zits to unleash his pain and anger on the uncaring world. But picking up a gun leads Zits on an unexpected time-traveling journey through several violent moments in American history, experiencing life as an FBI agent during the civil rights movement, a mute Indian boy during the Battle of Little Bighorn, a nineteenth-century Indian tracker, and a modern-day airplane pilot. When Zits finally returns to his own body, &ldquo;he begins to understand what it means to be the hero, the villain and the victim. . . . Mr. Alexie succeeds yet again with his ability to pierce to the heart of matters, leaving this reader with tears in her eyes&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Sherman Alexie&rsquo;s acclaimed novels have turned a spotlight on the unique experiences of modern-day Native Americans, and here, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian takes a bold new turn, combining magical realism with his singular humor and insight. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Sherman Alexie including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

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Flight

<div>The bestselling, award-winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives&rdquo; (O, The Oprah Magazine). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from a story about a famous writer caring for a dying but still willful father, to the tale of a young Indian boy who learns to value his own life by appreciating the deaths of others. Perceptions change, too, as &ldquo;Another Proclamation&rdquo; casts a shadow over Abraham Lincoln&rsquo;s Emancipation Proclamation, and &ldquo;Invisible Dog on a Leash&rdquo; limns the heartbreak of shattered childhood illusions. And nostalgia for antiquated technology is tenderly rendered in &ldquo;Ode to Mix Tapes&rdquo; and &ldquo;Ode for Pay Phones.&rdquo; With his versatile voice, Alexie explores love, betrayal, fatherhood, alcoholism, and art in this spirited, soulful, and endlessly entertaining collection, transcending genre boundaries to create something truly unique. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

War Dances

<div>Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie&rsquo;s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock &rsquo;n&rsquo; roll, and redemption Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State&mdash;and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss&mdash;but also joy and laughter. It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire&rsquo;s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom. In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Reservation Blues

<div>&ldquo;Stunning&rdquo; short stories by the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-old Etta Joseph, former co-star and lover of John Wayne, and to the unnamed narrator of the title story, a young Indian journalist searching for togetherness one hitchhiker at a time. Countless other brilliant creations leap from Alexie&rsquo;s mind in these nine stories. Upwardly mobile Indians yearn for a more authentic life, married Indian couples push apart while still cleaving together, and ordinary, everyday Indians hunt for meaning in their lives. The Toughest Indian in the World combines anger, humor, and beauty into radiant fictions, fiercely imagined, from one of America&rsquo;s greatest writers. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The Toughest Indian in the World

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: A series of brutal racially charged murders sets a city on edge in this thriller by a National Book Award&ndash;winning author. A serial murderer dubbed &ldquo;the Indian Killer&rdquo; has Seattle living in fear. As he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers, the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension. Then a possible suspect emerges: John Smith. An Indian raised by whites, John is lost between cultures. He fights for a sense of belonging that may never be his&mdash;but has his alienation made him angry enough to kill? The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of You Don&rsquo;t Have to Say You Love Me and many other acclaimed works, Sherman Alexie traces John Smith&rsquo;s rage with scathing wit and masterly suspense, delivering both a scintillating thriller and a searing parable of race, identity, and violence. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Indian Killer

<div>Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A &ldquo;stellar collection&rdquo; of stories about navigating life off the reservation, filled with laughter and heartbreak (People). In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves through everything from politics to basketball. Richard, the narrator of &ldquo;Lawyer&rsquo;s League,&rdquo; grows up in Seattle, the son of &ldquo;an African American giant who played defensive end for the University of Washington Huskies&rdquo; and &ldquo;a petite Spokane Indian ballerina.&rdquo; A woman is caught in a restaurant when a suicide bomb goes off in &ldquo;Can I Get a Witness.&rdquo; And Estelle Walks Above (n&eacute;e Estelle Miller), studies her way off the Spokane Indian Reservation and goes on to both enjoy and resent the company of the white women of Seattle&mdash;who see her as a shamanic genius, and look to her for guidance on everything from sex and fashion to spirituality. These and the other &ldquo;warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories&rdquo; in Ten Little Indians run the gamut from earthy wit to sobering emotional truth, mapping the outer reaches of the human heart (The New York Times Book Review). From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling and National Book Award&ndash;winning author, these tales, &ldquo;rambunctious and exuberant, bristle with an edgy and mordant humor&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

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Books By Sherman Alexie (8 Books)

Blasphemy

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Flight

War Dances

Reservation Blues

The Toughest Indian in the World

Indian Killer

Ten Little Indians

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