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Stranger Things Happen

by Kelly Link · first published 2001

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This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become partici

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  • engtech · Oct 9, 2012 · Mentions

    …looking at the preview to realize I'd already read Signal-to-Noise. Forgettable. I haven't read: Cory Doctorow: Pirate Cinema Lauren Beukes: Zoo City Mercedes Lackey: Invasion Kelly Link: Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link: Magic for Beginners Although I own the Kelly Link books. Never got around to them. My wife liked Magic for Beginners.

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  • kqr2 · Oct 9, 2012 · Mentions

    …http://www.amazon.com/Pump-Other-Stories-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Zoo-City-Lauren-Beukes/dp/0857662163/ http://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Secret-World-Chronicle-Chroni... http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Things-Happen-Kelly-Link/dp/1... http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Beginners-Kelly-Link/dp/01560318... Bonus Books (If you pay more than average) : http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Edition-Neil-Gaiman/dp/15... http://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi/dp/0765348276...

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  • roryokane · Oct 9, 2012 · Mentions

    …http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11351953-zoo-city (rating: 3.68) Invasion: Book One of the Secret World Chronicle by Mercedes Lackey – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10824696-invasion (rating: 3.73) Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66659.Stranger_Things_Hap... (rating: 4.00) Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners (rating:…

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  • Semaphor · Oct 9, 2012 · Mentions

    …http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2819368-pump-six-and-othe... (4.11) Zoo City http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7163862-zoo-city (3.68) Invasion: The Secret World Chronicle http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1986356.Invasion (3.73) Stranger Things Happen http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66659.Stranger_Things_Hap... (4.00) Magic for Beginners. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners (4.01) Pirate Cinema http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539171-pirate-cinema…

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  • ernesth · Oct 9, 2012 · Mentions

    …contrary to iPad and Kindle. For a no-DRM ebook offer, I would have thought that the standard format for ebooks would be more important than the name of the most DRM-filled devices. Third, Pirate Cinema, Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners are CC licensed (some NC-ND, some only NC), I would be happy to know the license of the books that are here sold (included the other ones) and in the case of Magic for Beginners…

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