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Flights

Biddy Siebert, a thirteen-year-old, finds solace from his quarrelsome parents and problems at school in his dreams of flying a plane

By Jim Shepard

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9780394532653 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Biddy Siebert, a thirteen-year-old, finds solace from his quarrelsome parents and problems at school in his dreams of flying a plane

Paper Doll

Product Description: Written by the author of "Flights", this novel, set during the World War II, takes us into the minds and hearts of the young men of the US aircrew and portrays their hopes and fears, skill and bravery, nostalgia and homesickness.

By Jim Shepard

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9780708920497 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, September 1, 1989), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Written by the author of "Flights", this novel, set during the World War II, takes us into the minds and hearts of the young men of the US aircrew and portrays their hopes and fears, skill and bravery, nostalgia and homesickness.

9780394555195 | Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A group of young fighters in the U.

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9780440200765 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, April 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A group of young fighters in the U.

Lights Out in the Reptile House: A Novel

Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought

By Jim Shepard

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9780393027846 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought

Lights Out in the Reptile House

Product Description: Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought.

By Jim Shepard

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9780380714131 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, December 1, 1991), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Coming of age in a country reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Karel Roeder grapples with the conflicting forces in his life--the drumbeat of the fascist authority, and his girlfriend Leda, who tempts him into a world of forbidben thought.

Kiss of the Wolf

Product Description: Joanie Mucherino, abandoned by her husband and trying to cope with her comically tactless Italian family, kills an acquaintance with her car and then discovers, to her horror, that she and her son will keep the act a secret. Harvest American Writing series

By Jim Shepard

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9780517155844 | Random House Value Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Joanie Mucherino, abandoned by her husband and trying to cope with her comically tactless Italian family, kills an acquaintance with her car and then discovers, to her horror, that she and her son will keep the act a secret.

9780151472796 | Harcourt, February 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: While driving her son home from his confirmation party, third-generation Italian Catholic Joanie accidentally hits and kills a man, and her indecisiveness about what to do forces her and her son to keep a deadly secret

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9780156001403 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: While driving her son home from his confirmation party, third-generation Italian Catholic Joanie accidentally hits and kills a man, and her indecisiveness about what to do forces her and her son to keep a deadly secret

You'Ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe

Product Description: Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ron Hansen (editor) and Jim Shepard (editor)

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9780060982027, titled "You'Ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe" | Perennial, October 1, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Gathers stories by James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Angela Carter, John Cheever, Franz Kafka, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Leo Tolstoy, Eudora Welty, and Vladimir Nabokov

9789990051766, titled "You've Got To Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them In Awe" | Harpercollins, October 1, 1994, cover price $0.02

Prebinding:

9780785769668, titled "You'Ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.05 | About this edition: Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most.

Batting Against Castro: Stories

A first collection of short stories by the author of Kiss of the Wolf includes fourteen tales ranging in setting from a winter-league baseball camp in pre-revolutionary Cuba to a postapocalyptic frontier in the American South to the set of Murnau's classic film, Nosferatu. 15,000 first printing.

By Jim Shepard

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9780679446682 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features a young boy's confused attempt at staging a protest, a scientist's obsession with volcanoes, and baseball in pre-revolutionary Cuba

Nosferatu: A Novel

From the airfields of World War I to Berlin's postwar cafes, a fictional portrait of F. W. Murnau, the German director behind the landmark film, Nosferatu, portrays him as a solitary genius haunted by the loss of a lover. 15,000 first printing.

By Jim Shepard

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9780679446675 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A fictional portrait of F.

Writers at the Movies: Twenty-Six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-Six Memorable Movies

Twenty-six modern fiction writers and poets share their thoughts on the world of film in short essays on the single movie that inspired, horrified, or fascinated them, including J. M. Coetzee on John Huston's The Misfits, Salman Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz, and Susan Sontag on Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Original.

By Jim Shepard (editor)

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9780060954918 | Perennial, October 1, 2000, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Twenty-six modern fiction writers and poets share their thoughts on the world of film in short essays on the single movie that inspired, horrified, or fascinated them, including J.

Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories

A new collection of short fiction by the critically lauded author of Nosferatur encompasses both previously unpublished stories, as well as selections from The New Yorker, Playboy, and other magazines and fourteen works from Batting Against Castro and other anthologies. Original. 20,000 first printing.

By Jim Shepard

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9781400033492 | Vintage Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A new collection of short fiction encompasses both previously unpublished stories, as well as selections from The New Yorker, Playboy, and other magazines and fourteen works from Battling Against Castro and other anthologies.

Project X: A Novel

Hanratty and his only friend, Flake, struggle to deal with the nightmare of junior high school--bullying, girls who taunt them, jocks who beat them up, a creepy old man who stalks them, and a disaffected sixth grader who adores them--until their demoralization is transformed into a growing yearning for a deadly revenge. 15,000 first printing.

By Jim Shepard

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9781400040711 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 2004), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Hanratty and his only friend, Flake, struggle to deal with the nightmare of junior high school--bullying, girls who taunt them, jocks who beat them up, a creepy old man who stalks them, and a disaffected sixth grader who adores them.

Project X

By Jim Shepard

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9781400033485 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 12, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Hanratty and his only friend, Flake, struggle to deal with the nightmare of junior high school--bullying, girls who taunt them, jocks who beat them up, a creepy old man who stalks them, and a disaffected sixth grader who adores them.

Prebinding:

9781417675999 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2005, cover price $24.45 | About this edition: Hanratty and his only friend, Flake, struggle to deal with the nightmare of junior high school--bullying, girls who taunt them, jocks who beat them up, a creepy old man who stalks them, and a disaffected sixth grader who adores them.

Nosferatu

By Ron Hansen (introduced by) and Jim Shepard

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9780803293465 | Bison Books, August 24, 2005, cover price $19.95

Proyecto X / Project X

Product Description: book

By Jim Shepard

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9788496454033 | Italian edition edition (Tropismos, September 7, 2005), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: book

Heroes in Disguise

By Jim Shepard

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9781932416626 | McSweeneys Books, August 28, 2007, cover price $18.00

Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories

In his first all new collection of short fiction in more than ten years, the author of Project X presents eleven stories that range across time and geography to offer portraits of the first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, a compassionate executioner in Revolutionary Paris whose job forces a crisis in conscience, and a middle-aged Aeschylus still seeking parental approval. 15,000 first printing.

By Jim Shepard

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9780307265210 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 25, 2007), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Presents eleven stories that range across time and geography to offer portraits of the first woman in space, an executioner in Revolutionary Paris whose job forces a crisis in conscience, and a middle-aged Aeschylus still seeking parental approval.

Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs

An anthology of poetry, written from the canine point of view, encompasses the contributions of William Wegman, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, John Irving, Cynthia Heimel, Thom Gunn, and other notable writers

By Amy Hempel (editor) and Jim Shepard (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780517701409 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, June 1, 1995), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: An anthology of poetry, written from the canine point of view, encompasses the contributions of William Wegman, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, John Irving, Cynthia Heimel, Thom Gunn, and other notable writers

Paperback:

9780609803790 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, March 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An entertaining anthology of poetry, written from the canine point of view, encompasses the contributions of William Wegman, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, John Irving, Cynthia Heimel, Thom Gunn, and other notable writers.

Miscellaneous:

9780307422590 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $12.95

Like You'd Understand, Anyway

By Jim Shepard

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9780307277602 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 12, 2008), cover price $14.95

Tin House Magazine

By Dorothy Allison (editor), Aimee Bender (contributor), Amy Hempel (contributor), Jim Shepard (contributor) and Tin House Books (corporate author)

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Paperback:

9780982054215 | 10 org edition (Tin House Books, August 1, 2009), cover price $12.95

Gojira, King of the Monsters

By Jim Shepard

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9780984414215 | Small Pr Distribution, October 31, 2010, cover price $12.00

Master of Miniatures

Product Description: Fiction. "As in Nosferatu, with its smartly imagined life of the German film director F. W. Murnau, here Shepard considers the Japanese special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and his cinematic inventions for the science-fiction movie we know as Godzilla...read more

By Jim Shepard

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9780984414239 | Small Pr Distribution, January 31, 2011, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

You Think That's Bad: Stories