<div>An inventive historical novel that delves into the mysteries of gender identity, from the National Book Award&ndash;nominated author of The Balloonist. With a foreword by Michael Chabon As a child in Southern California at the dawn of the twentieth century, Herma exhibits an incredible talent for vocal mimicry. Her gift will eventually take her from the choir of her country church to the Paris Opera, thanks in no small part to the machinations of her daredevil agent. But there is a secret at the heart of their intimate relationship, in this opulent rags-to-riches tale full of excitement, sexual intrigue, and decadence, with cameos by Puccini and Proust, among others. &ldquo;Set in the first decades of the twentieth century, Harris&rsquo; teeming novel explores the porous boundaries of gender identity. This inventive work will appeal to readers who are interested in the dual-gender theme. Opera lovers will also be intrigued.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Once I open any of MacDonald Harris&rsquo;s novels I find it almost impossible not to turn and read on, so delightful is the sensation of a sharp intelligence at work.&rdquo; &mdash;Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass</div>

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<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;astonishing&rdquo; debut novel, about a son&rsquo;s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman&rsquo;s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn&rsquo;t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father&rsquo;s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called &ldquo;astonishing&rdquo; by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era&rsquo;s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.</div>

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

<div>A story collection from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay, &ldquo;one of his generation&rsquo;s most eloquent new voices&rdquo; (The New York Times). With his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon announced his presence as a literary wunderkind of style and substance. A Model World and Other Stories only burnished his reputation as a distinctive prose stylist. In eleven elegant tales&mdash;some of them linked&mdash;by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Telegraph Avenue and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay, Chabon&rsquo;s singular characters hold tight to private dreams even as their closest relationships crumble. Five stories follow an anxious adolescent from the beach vacation where he learns of his parents&rsquo; divorce to the confused days of a woefully misguided crush. Others find ex-lovers tormenting each other at an oceanside caf&eacute;, a washed-up professional baseball player attending a teammate&rsquo;s funeral, and a Pittsburgh disc jockey still pining for a woman who married him to get her American citizenship. &ldquo;Chabon moves across powerful emotional ground with certainty and delicacy,&rdquo; raves the Chicago Tribune. &ldquo;There are heartbreaking moments in these stories, but they are rendered so precisely, through incidents that capture the subtlest of feelings, that the reader can only smile at Chabon&rsquo;s skill.&rdquo; This ebook features a biography of the author.</div>

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A Model World

<div>The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together. &ldquo;I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.&rdquo; Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown who maintains a fierce appreciation of the seductive arts of so-called &ldquo;genre&rdquo; fiction. In this lively collection of sixteen critical and personal essays, the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay champions the cause of westerns, horror, and all the stories, comics, and pulp fiction that get pushed aside when literary discussion turns serious. Whether he&rsquo;s taking up Superman or Sherlock Holmes, Poe or Proust, Chabon makes it his emphatic mission to explore the reasons we tell one another tales. Throughout, Chabon reveals his own blooming as a writer, from The Mysteries of Pittsburgh to The Yiddish Policeman&rsquo;s Union. He is living proof of his theory that the stories that give us great pleasure are in many ways our truest, best art&mdash;the building blocks of our shared imagination&mdash;and in Maps and Legends, he &ldquo;makes an inviting case for bridging the gap between popular and literary writing&rdquo; (O, The Oprah Magazine). This ebook features a biography of the author.</div>

Maps and Legends

<div>The &ldquo;wise, wildly funny story&rdquo; of a self-destructive writer&rsquo;s lost weekend by a Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (Chicago Tribune). A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn&rsquo;t grown up. He&rsquo;s now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions. Mordant but humane, Wonder Boys features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction. This ebook features a biography of the author.</div>

Wonder Boys

<div>By the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Moonglow: &ldquo;When you read these stories, it may strike you how seldom you come across really beautiful writing&rdquo; (USA Today). Cherished by readers and critics alike for such extraordinary novels as The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon is at the height of his considerable powers in this striking and bittersweet collection of short stories. An anxious young misfit does nothing to protect his best friend from the scorn of their teachers and classmates. A kleptomaniac real estate agent leads an unhappy couple on a disastrous house tour. A heartbroken grifter finds his ex-girlfriend&rsquo;s grandmother to be an easy mark&mdash;and an unexpected source of redemption. Throughout these stories, Chabon&rsquo;s characters, suffused with yearning but crippled by broken love, often find themselves at a crossroads&mdash;and faced with sudden insight. Michael Chabon is &ldquo;Updike without the condescension,&rdquo; wrote James Hynes in the Washington Post Book World, &ldquo;Cheever without the self-pity, a young American Nabokov who writes with a rueful joie de vivre.&rdquo; In this darkly funny, achingly delicate collection, he renders the compromises of adulthood and the vivid fantasies of childhood with clarity and warmth. This ebook features a biography of the author.</div>

Werewolves in Their Youth

<div>Three extraordinary works by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay and Moonglow. A trio of acclaimed masterworks of contemporary fiction by multiple award-winning author Michael Chabon, hailed by the Washington Post Book World as &ldquo;a young American Nabokov.&rdquo; The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Michael Chabon&rsquo;s &ldquo;astonishing&rdquo; debut (The New York Times) follows Art Bechstein, a man still too young to know what he wants. He only knows what he doesn&rsquo;t want: the life of his money-laundering father. During the summer after graduation he&rsquo;s finding his own way with brilliant and seductive new friends&mdash;erudite Arthur Lecomte, the confounding and mercurial Phlox, and a poetry-reciting biker who pulls Art inevitably back into his father&rsquo;s mobbed-up world. Wonder Boys: Grady Tripp&rsquo;s first novel made him a literary star. Seven years later, he&rsquo;s a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but alienated student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp finally confronts the wreckage of his past in a &ldquo;wise, wildly funny&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune) reckoning with the self-destructive decisions of his life. Werewolves in Their Youth: An indelible cast of characters finds themselves at crossroads in this astonishing collection of short fiction. A young misfit fails to protect his best friend from the scorn of their classmates; a kleptomaniac real estate agent leads an unhappy couple on a disastrous house tour; and a heartbroken grifter finds his ex-girlfriend&rsquo;s grandmother is both an easy mark and a source of redemption. &ldquo;When you read these stories, it may strike you how seldom you come across really beautiful writing&rdquo; (USA Today).</div>

Collected Fiction

<div>Award-winning writers contribute to a “moving . . . entertaining . . . enlightening” collection of essays, each inspired by a historic ACLU case (New York Times). On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Including essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Hector Tobar, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders and many more, Fight of the Century reminds us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today. “Vigorous, informative, and well-organized, this outstanding collection befits the ACLU’s substantial impact on American law and society.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A stunning collection of original and topical essays.” —Booklist, starred review “Lively, contextually grounded stories that read like the greatest hits of freedom. . . . riveting and refreshingly diverse.” —Kirkus Reviews</div>

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Books By Michael Chabon (7 Books)

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

A Model World

Maps and Legends

Wonder Boys

Werewolves in Their Youth

Collected Fiction

Fight of the Century

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Books By Michael Chabon (7 Books)

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

A Model World

Maps and Legends

Wonder Boys

Werewolves in Their Youth

Collected Fiction

Fight of the Century

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