Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, and poet. Born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, he launched a prolific literary career, writing more than a hundred books. A devoted champion of books and reading, he believed passionately in literature's power to transform everyday life. He's known for Parnassus on Wheels (1917), its sequel The Haunted Bookshop (1919), and Kitty Foyle (1939) which became a major Hollywood film starring Ginger Rogers. A lifelong admirer of Sherlock Holmes, Morley co-founded the Baker Street Irregulars in 1934, the oldest and most prestigious Holmesian literary society in the world. He remained a celebrated figure in American letters until his death in Roslyn Heights, New York, in 1957. Lauren Groff is The New York Times -bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida . She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies' Choice Award, France's Grand Prix de l'Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist three times for the National Book Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorke r, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she and her husband own the independent bookstore The Lynx. Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, Get in Trouble, and White Cat, Black Dog . Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She was a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections . She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet . She is the owner of Book Moon, an independent bookshop in Easthampton, MA. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her family, dog, and chickens in Northampton, Massachusetts.

A Daughter of the Samurai

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A Daughter of the Samurai

Parnassus On Wheels