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The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech

Product Description: This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, including the section Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel” about the recent death of his wife; the poem "Laugh," a portrait of the late poet Hayden Carruth; and the poignant parable of a horse in a bar...read more

By Stephen Dobyns

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9781942683162 | Boa Editions, September 13, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemeral truth of mortality, including the section Sixteen Sonnets for Isabel” about the recent death of his wife; the poem "Laugh," a portrait of the late poet Hayden Carruth; and the poignant parable of a horse in a bar.

Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?

Product Description: Stephen Dobynsâwhom Stephen King has described as "the best of the best"âis back withÂ a comic suspense novel about a small-time con operation, a pair of combative detectives, and the pride, revenge, and deception that guide us all...read more

By Stephen Dobyns

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Hardcover:

9781628997903 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, December 1, 2015), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In the seaport city of New London, Connecticut, newcomer Connor Raposo has just witnessed a gruesome motorcycle accident on Bank Street.

9780399171451 | Blue Rider Pr, September 1, 2015, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780399576348 | Blue Rider Pr, September 6, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Stephen Dobynsâwhom Stephen King has described as "the best of the best"âis back withÂ a comic suspense novel about a small-time con operation, a pair of combative detectives, and the pride, revenge, and deception that guide us all.

9780435271657, titled "Dangerous Journey" | Delta Systems Co Inc, June 1, 1976, cover price $3.95 | also contains Dangerous Journey | About this edition: This is a Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781681415031 | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, September 1, 2015), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In the seaport city of New London, Connecticut, and newcomer Connor Raposo has just witnessed a gruesome motorcycle accident on Bank Street.

9781681414997 | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, September 1, 2015), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: In the seaport city of New London, Connecticut, and newcomer Connor Raposo has just witnessed a gruesome motorcycle accident on Bank Street.

The Church of Dead Girls

Product Description: One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily...read more

By Stephen Dobyns

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9781568954783 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, September 1, 1997), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Suspicion built on fear, old rumors, and old angers grows out of control as three girls from the same small town mysteriously vanish

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9780143107828 | Reprint edition (Blue Rider Pr, August 4, 2015), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York.

9780312977368 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A sleepy hamlet in upstate New York awakens to a nightmare when three young girls disappear in succession, inspiring a wave of suspicion among former friends as old rumors, old angers, and old desires rear their ugly heads.

The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini

Inside an opulent home, as a Latin American Civil War rages outside, Senora Puccini listens as Dr. Daniel Pacheco weaves the story of his obsession with her for his rapt guests, until she provides her own violent cathartic end to the story

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780670819805 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Inside an opulent home, as a Latin American Civil War rages outside, Senora Puccini listens as Dr.

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9780143107811 | Reissue edition (Blue Rider Pr, August 4, 2015), cover price $17.00

Boy in the Water

Product Description: Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishopâs Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from welcome; eloquent as he is on the subject of honor, rumor has it heâs taken this job to escape his past...read more

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780805060201 | Metropolitan Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: As winter approaches, the seemingly tranquil world of New Hampshire's Bishop's Hill Academy erupts into petty corruption, conflicting loyalties, resentment, murky secrets, and murder, in a psychological thriller that journeys into the dark complexities of human nature

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9780142181829 | Reissue edition (Blue Rider Pr, August 4, 2015), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishopâs Hill Academy.

9780312975227 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | also contains Entzndliche Augenerkrankungen | About this edition: As winter approaches, the seemingly tranquil world of Bishop's Hill Academy erupts into petty corruption, conflicting loyalties, resentment, murky secrets, and murder.

The Burn Palace

Product Description: "One of the best of the best...You can't ask for more than this book gives. I loved it." â Stephen KingâAn exquisitely unexpected, delightfully believable exploration of what normal looks like when it goes through the (evil) looking glass...read more

By Stephen Dobyns

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9781410459633 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 24, 2013), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town.

9780399160875 | Blue Rider Pr, February 7, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town.

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9780142180440 | Plume, January 28, 2014, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: "One of the best of the best.

Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience to bear on issues such as subject matter, the mechanics of poetry, and the revision process, Dobyns explores the complex relationship between writers and their work. From Philip Larkin to Pablo Neruda to William Butler Yeats, every chapter reveals useful lessons in these renowned poets' work. Both enlightening and encouraging, Next Word, Better Word demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the creative process.

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780230621824 | St Martins Pr, March 15, 2011, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices.

Paperback:

9780230621800 | 1 edition (Griffin, April 26, 2011), cover price $21.99

Winter's Journey

By Stephen Dobyns

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9781556593055 | Copper Canyon Pr, July 1, 2010, cover price $15.00

Mystery, So Long

Combining elements of free verse and traditional poetic forms, the commonplace and the mythic, the critically acclaimed poet and novelist explores the unique joys, challenges, and complications of life. By the author of Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides and The Porcupine's Kisses. Original.

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780143034629 | Penguin USA, March 18, 2005, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Combining elements of free verse and traditional poetic forms, the commonplace and the mythic, the critically acclaimed poet and novelist explores the unique joys, challenges, and complications of life.

Getting There from Here: Selected Shorts, a Celebration of the Short Story

By Richard Dooling, Rita Dove, Lisa Fugard, Robert Sean Leonard (narrator), Audra McDonald (narrator), Mark Nelson (narrator) and David Schickler

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9780971921818 | Abridged edition (Symphony Space, April 1, 2004), cover price $28.00

Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry

Provides a glimpse into the world of the poet, exploring the mysteries of creating poetry and the ways poetry communicates between the writer and the reader, and discussing such topics as metaphor, memory, pacing, and voice and tone. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780312129323 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 1996, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Provides a glimpse into the world of the poet, exploring the mysteries of creating poetry and the ways poetry communicates between the writer and the reader, and discussing such topics as metaphor, memory, pacing, and voice and tone

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9781403961471 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2, 2003), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Provides a glimpse into the world of the poet, exploring the mysteries of creating poetry and the ways poetry communicates between the writer and the reader, and discussing such topics as metaphor, memory, pacing, and voice and tone.

9780312172299 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | also contains Biosurfaces: A Materials Science and Engineering Perspective

Big Back Yard: Poems

Product Description: Teigâs poems display his ability to -create surprising metaphors and images. These are integrated seamlessly into startlingly original poems, which, though often difficult, arenât inaccessible. "With Teig I could never calculate the poemâs direction," Stephen Dobyns writes in his Foreword...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Dobyns (foreword by) and Michael Teig

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9781929918379 | Boa Editions, April 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Teigâs poems display his ability to -create surprising metaphors and images.

The Porcupine's Kisses

Product Description: Stephen Dobyns is one of America's most respected poets; his manner is tart and often sardonic, his language tough, funny, yet at heart profoundly humane. In his eleventh book of poetry he pushes the boundaries of conventional collections, presenting an intriguing two-part volume...read more

By Stephen Dobyns and Howie Michels (illustrator)

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9780142002445 | Penguin USA, October 1, 2002, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Stephen Dobyns is one of America's most respected poets; his manner is tart and often sardonic, his language tough, funny, yet at heart profoundly humane.

Eating Naked: Stories

A collection of sixteen stories chronicles the menace and unease that lurk in small town America, turning attention to the dark, inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity, and even good sense of the most ordinary people. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780312278298 | Picador USA, July 1, 2001, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories chronicles the menace and unease that lurk in small town America, turning attention to the dark, inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity, and even good sense of the most ordinary people.

Saratoga Strongbox: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery

Product Description: Another winner from the fast-paced racetrack mystery series that gives the reader a run for his money. The latest, and most entertaining installment yet, in this popular series features the return of Charlie Bradshaw's scheming alter ego Victor Plotz, "without whom the world would be a much stuffier place" (The New York Times Book Review)...read more

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780670876921 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: His tenth mystery takes private eye Charlie Bradshaw and his sidekick, Vic Poltz, to Montreal to find a suitcase worth two thousand bucks, an expedition that leads them to a karate kid, a stripper, and a shady operator

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9781568958484 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, June 1, 2000), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Another winner from the fast-paced racetrack mystery series that gives the reader a run for his money.

9780140280128 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1999), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: His tenth mystery takes private eye Charlie Bradshaw and his sidekick, Vic Poltz, to Montreal to find a suitcase worth two thousand dollars, an expedition that leads them to a karate kid, a stripper, and a shady operator

Eating Naked

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780805060225 | Metropolitan Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories chronicles the menace and unease that lurk in small town America, turning attention to the dark, inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity, and even good sense of the most ordinary people.

Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides: Poems

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By Stephen Dobyns

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9780140589160 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.95

Culpas Y Castigos

By Stephen Dobyns

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9789500421706 | Emece, February 1, 1999, cover price $28.95

The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel

A sleepy hamlet in upstate New York awakens to a nightmare when three young girls disappear in succession, inspiring a wave of suspicion among former friends as old rumors, old angers, and old desires rear their ugly heads. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

By Stephen Dobyns

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Hardcover:

9780805051032 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Suspicion built on fear, old rumors, and old angers grows out of control as three girls from the same small town mysteriously vanish

Paperback:

9780805051049 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1998), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Suspicion built on fear, old rumors, and old angers grows out of control as three girls from the same small town mysteriously vanish

Saratoga Fleshpot

Product Description: The ninth mystery set at the famed Saratoga Raceway presents a colorful tale of murder and horseflesh that's sure to satisfy mystery fans and racing enthusiasts alike. When P.I. Charlie Bradshaw's politically incorrect pal Victor Plotz becomes a murder suspect, he and Charlie find themselves caught up in the high drama of the horse auctions as they try to solve the case...read more

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780140255355 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1996), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The ninth mystery set at the famed Saratoga Raceway presents a colorful tale of murder and horseflesh that's sure to satisfy mystery fans and racing enthusiasts alike.

Common Carnage

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780140587487 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1996, cover price $15.95

Saratoga Trifecta: Saratoga Longshot/Saratoga Swimmer/Saratoga Headhunter

Product Description: This volume collects together three Charlie Bradshaw mysteries: "Saratoga Longshot", "Saratoga Swimmer" and "Saratoga Headhunter".

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780140251968 | Penguin USA, July 1, 1995, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: This volume collects together three Charlie Bradshaw mysteries: "Saratoga Longshot", "Saratoga Swimmer" and "Saratoga Headhunter".

Saratoga Backtalk

Days after a wealthy horse owner expresses fear that his wife is trying to kill him, the man dies in what appears to be an accident, and private investigator Charlie Bradshaw and his sidekick Victor search for the truth. Reprint. NYT.

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780393036596 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When a wealthy horse owner is kicked to death by a horse in Saratoga Springs, the pensive Charlie Bradshaw and his opportunistic foil, Victor Plotz, discover the enmity and suspicion that lie behind the man's death

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9780140247084 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Days after a wealthy horse owner expresses fear that his wife is trying to kill him, the man dies in what appears to be an accident, and private investigator Charlie Bradshaw and his sidekick Victor search for the truth.

9781568950891 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, January 1, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When a wealthy Saratoga Springs horse owner is kicked to death by a horse, Charlie Bradshaw suspects murder and has his associate, Victor Plotz, investigate

Saratoga Fleshpot: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery

When a rascally, high-priced mare named Fleshpot disappears from the Saratoga track under the nose of Victor Plotz, Charlie Bradshaw must help his roguish sidekick clear his name, leading to much mayhem and hilarity.

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780393038057 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: When a rascally, high-priced mare named Fleshpot disappears from the Saratoga track under the nose of Victor Plotz, Charlie Bradshaw must help his roguish sidekick clear his name

The Wrestler's Cruel Study: A Novel

Product Description: Fiction, Fictional Novel, Comedy, Comedic Novel, Dark Comedy

By Stephen Dobyns

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9780393035117 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: As Michael Marmaduke searches for his missing fiancee, he progresses from confused innocence to darker self-knowledge and grapples with the issues of kidnapping, the struggle between good and evil, and the meaning of heroism

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9780393312126 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Fiction, Fictional Novel, Comedy, Comedic Novel, Dark Comedy

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