The
Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
Joan Aiken
October
14, 2008
9781931520577 · Trade cloth · 5.5 x 8.5 · 350 pp
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This
is the first complete collection of Joan Aiken's beloved Armitage stories
— and it includes four new, unpublished stories. After Mrs. Armitage
makes a wish, the Armitage family has interesting and unusual experiences
every Monday (and the occasional Tuesday). The Board of Incantation
tries to take over their house to use as a school for young wizards;
the Furies come to stay; and a cutout from a cereal box leads into a
beautiful and tragic palace garden. Charming and magical, the uncommon
lives of the Armitage family will thrill and delight readers young and
old. Includes Joan Aiken's Prelude from Armitage, Armitage, Fly
Away Home, as well as introductions from Joan Aiken's daughter,
Lizza Aiken, and best-selling author Garth Nix.
The Serial Garden is also
the first title in our new imprint for readers of all ages: Big Mouth
House.
"Joan Aiken's invention seemed
inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest
a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue
to delight for many years to come."
—Philip Pullman
Free
Download: a DRM-free PDF of a chapbook
of a new, unpublished Armitage family story, "Don't Go Fishing
on Witch's Day," along with the introduction by Lizza Aiken.
Couch:
A Novel
Benjamin Parzybok
November
10, 2008
9781931520546 · Trade paper · 5.5 x 8.5 · 320 pp
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An
exuberant and hilarious debut in which an episode of furniture moving
gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories,
and unexpected revelations. Thom is a computer geek whose hacking of
a certain Washington-based software giant has won him a little fame
but few job prospects. Erik is a smalltime con man, a fast-talker who
is never quite quick enough on his feet. Their roommate, Tree, is a
confused clairvoyant whose dreams and prophecies may not be completely
off base. After a freak accident fl oods their apartment, the three
are evicted-but they have to take their couch with them. The real problem?
The couch-huge and orange-won't let them put it down. Soon the three
roommates are on a cross-country trek along back roads, byways, and
rail lines, heading far out of Portland and deep into one very weird
corner of the American dream.
Cloud
& Ashes
Greer Gilman
May
2009
9781931520553 · Trade cloth · 5.5 x 8.5 · 400 pp
· $26
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In the eighteen years since her
IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award–winning debut novel Moonwise,
Greer Gilman's writing has only grown more complex and entrancing. Cloud
& Ashes is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words,
a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation,
and delight. Cloud & Ashes comprises three tales: "Jack Daw's
Pack" (Nebula Award finalist), "A Crowd of Bone" (winner
of the World Fantasy Award), and the new third part, a whole novel,
"Unleaving." Inventive, playful, and erudite, Gilman is an
archeolexicologist rewriting language itself in these long-awaited tales.
"Gilman's 'A Crowd of Bone'
. . . is dense, jammed with archaic words and neologisms . . . but the
story—complex, tangled in narrative as well as syntax, and very
dark—rewards the most careful of readings."—The Washington
Post Book World
Greer Gilman is the author of the
novel Moonwise, which won the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for
the James Tiptree, Jr. and Mythopoeic awards She lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where she works as a forensic librarian in the Harvard
University library.
Order your copy of Greer Gilman's
Cloud & Ashes now and your name will be printed on the inside of
the dust-jacket, as a special thanks to dedicated readers. This special
offer runs through December 31st, 2008 and only applies to orders made
through the Small Beer Press website or using this form.
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