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What would the genre of detective fiction be without the inimitable Sherlock Holmes? One can only speculate as to its state given the absence of its most famous character. “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” was the first anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories and collected together the stories that were first serialized in “The Strand Magazine” between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories included in this reprint of that volume are as follows: “A Scandal in Bohemia”, “The Red-Headed League”, “A Case of Identity”, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”, “The Five Orange Pips”, “The Man with the Twisted Lip”, “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”, “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor”, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, and “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

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Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies &ndash; by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in <i>The Doll's Alphabet</i> are by turns childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark, the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.

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From Publishers Weekly<br /><br />?These seven gentle tales set in Minnesota and North Dakota and all written during the 1970s treat fans of novelist Hassler (A Green Journey; Jemmy) to the earliest fruits of his talent. Some are folksy portraits of small-town characters, while others are drier and more plot driven. Both the title story and &quot;Resident Priest&quot; feature crusty, 74-year-old Father Fogarty, a pastor who&#39;s leaving his parish after 23 years. In &quot;Chief Larson,&quot; a seven-year-old Indian boy, known (rather improbably) only as &quot;chief&quot; on the reservation, rebels in a small but telling way against his white adoptive family. &quot;Good News in Culver Bend&quot; tracks two city reporters who travel to a small town and discover &quot;the heart of Christmas.&quot; &quot;Chase&quot; and &quot;Christopher, Moony, and the Birds&quot; show how frustrated residents of small towns seek solace. The former, so brief it&#39;s nearly a prose poem, hints at Hassler&#39;s own adolescent discovery of his talent for fiction; the latter follows a lonely 50-year-old college professor as he goes on a consolatory walk with a student&#39;s awkward wife and child, watching &quot;birds on family outings, hopping and halting on the grass.&quot; The cleverest story, &quot;Yesterday&#39;s Garbage,&quot; follows a &quot;garbologist&quot; who finds the truth about a murder in a trash bin, and is then led to commit one himself. The publisher plans to issue Hassler&#39;s later short fiction in three more volumes, starting in the year 2000. (Sept.)

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By the close of the last millennium Dorling Kindersley had become one of the most recognisable brands in publishing. Across the range of illustrated household reference titles, from children's books to travel guides, its distinctive look of colourful images cut out against a white background could be seen on bookshelves throughout the country – and indeed the publishing world.
Apart from three minor acquisitions, DK had grown organically over 25 years to be a publicly listed company with a turnover of £200 million, some 1500 employees, publishing arms across the English language markets, a 50-strong international sales force that dealt with more than 400 publishers, a direct selling business with 30,000 independent distributors, and had expanded its skills for delivering handsomely designed reference books into the new media of videos, CD-ROMs and online educational content. Then a series of catastrophic printing decisions brought the company to its knees, and ultimately into the arms of Pearson.
Christopher Davis is uniquely positioned to tell the story of DK's rise and fall. He joined the company at its foundation and in due course became Group Publisher. The narrative he provides is a dual one, encompassing the visionary genius of Peter Kindersley and the publishing revolution he fomented, and charting the remarkable, sometimes precarious, frequently hilarious, roller-coaster ride as the company grew from a handful of people in a studio in South London to a substantial global business.
In the rapidly changing publishing climate of today, this book is also a nostalgic reminder of a time when creativity could flourish unburdened by the shackles of corporate bureaucracy.

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Strong candidate to garner attention as a 'Debut Author' due to Lanier's capacity for crafting mature, morally complex narratives with palpable narrative pull. Her complex world-view is shocking given her young age.Capable of blending gut-wrenching, dirty realism with the savvy wit of a Jezebel.com columnist.Enthusiastic endorsements from Joe Meno and Alissa Nutting indicate that author is poised to make a splash with 18-35 year old readers, particularly women.Social media-savvy allows Lanier to maximize outreach to audiences in cities on her book tour.Lanier is also a talented photographer, having studied at Rochester Institute of Technology and Columbia College Chicago.Access to major Chicago media outlets will grant author national visibility rare for a first time author."How Tommy Sotto Breaks Your Heart" published in Annalemmacontributes to The Spoiler's Hand

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These flash fiction stories from one of today&#8217;s emerging literary stars grasp to determine whether life can «come with fewer qualifications and be less equivocal,&#8221; a world where friendships are negotiated, love is one-sided, imagined, absent, or discovered, and where &#147;going crazy is more subtle than you'd think.»

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Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as «disturbing» for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic body of fiction by a writer due for discovery by millennial readers unsatisfied by mainstream feminism. Cris Mazza is the author of over seventeen books. Rick Moody is the author of more than a dozen books and a Guggenheim Fellow. Gina Frangello is the author of four books and an editor at The Coachella Review.

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Success in publishing continues to rely extensively on consistent preparation and use of book metadata. As digital products grow and evolve, this is true now more than ever.
In January 2012, the Book Industry Study Group engaged Magellan Media Consulting to map the flow of book metadata across the publishing supply chain. Research consisted of thirty interviews supplemented by an industry survey of both the US and Canadian markets. The companies interviewed included larger, medium-sized, and smaller publishers, as well as retailers, wholesalers, industry service providers, manufacturers, and digital-only firms.
The resulting publication, Development, Use, and Modification of Book Product Metadata: Assessment and Recommendations, illustrates critical metadata handoffs, documents how metadata is altered or discarded, and identifies the points at which changes and revisions occur (and, in some cases, don't occur). More importantly, the report presents a series of process and «future-proofing» recommendations designed to help improve the quality and flow of book metadata.

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Комсомольская правда. Санкт-Петербург

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