Karen Russell

From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best.

Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution; a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance

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"For the first time in paperback, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to...

The whole field of science from physics, chemistry, biology, information, technology, Earth sciences and astronomy to new fields such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, telecommunications and the preservation of planet Earth including: clear explanations of over 2,500 scientific terms ; over 1,500 illustrations and diagrams ; over 140 experiments, activities and observations to carry out ; a quick reference dictionary defining over 1,500 scientific...