Great Expectations Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1992) and she risks her life

and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer

The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power

she shows readers how to use their creative hearts and minds to cultivate lives that nourish and sustain their art

Through the realistic

he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his handsAkutagawa (1892-1927) was one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose stories are marked by original imagery

Great Expectations Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1992) and she risks her lifeWhat this cautionary tale of a young man raised high above his station by a mysterious benefactor lacks in length, it more than makes up for in its remarkable characters and compelling story. The novel begins with young orphaned Philip Pirrip Pip running afoul of an escaped convict in a cemetery. This terrifying personage bullies Pip into stealing food and a file for him, threatening that if he tells a soul "your heart and your liver shall be tore