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9780312873783

Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312873783

  • ISBN10:

    0312873786

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-08-19
  • Publisher: Tor Books
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Summary

SISTER EMILY'S LIGHTSHIP AND OTHER STORIES is Jane Yolen's first collection of short stories written for adults. It includes the award-winning title story, as well as three new, never-before published, works. AUTHORBIO: Jane Yolen is a World Fantasy Award winner, and author of the 1988 Caldecott Medal winner Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr. Her most recent novel for Tor was One Armed Queen (1998). She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and St. Andrews, Scotland.

Author Biography

Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother. Yolen's graceful rhythms and outrageous rhymes have been gathered in numerous collections. She has earned many awards over the years: the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society's Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy's Club Jr. Book Award, the Garden State Children's Book Award, the Daedalus Award, a number of Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, and many more. Her books and stories have been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Swedish, Nowegian, Danish, Afrikaans, !Xhosa, Portuguese, and Braille.

Table of Contents

The Traveler and the Tale
11(17)
Snow in Summer
17(6)
Speaking to the Wind
23(6)
The Thirteenth Fey
29(15)
Granny Rumple
44(12)
Blood Sister
56(18)
Journey into the Dark
74(5)
The Sleep of Trees
79(14)
The Uncorking of Uncle Finn
93(8)
Dusty Loves
101(9)
The Gift of the Magicians, with Apologies to You Know Who
110(6)
Sister Death
116(7)
The Singer and the Song
123(2)
Salvage
125(7)
Lost Girls
132(25)
Belle Bloody Merciless Dame
157(4)
Words of Power
161(18)
Great Gray
179(8)
Under the Hill
187(13)
Godmother Death
200(8)
Creationism: An Illustrated Lecture in Two Parts
208(4)
Allerleirauh
212(6)
Sun/Flight
218(8)
Dick W. and His Pussy; or, Tess and Her Adequate Dick
226(4)
Become a Warrior
230(12)
Memoirs of a Bottle Djinn
242(9)
A Ghost of an Affair
251(16)
Sister Emily's Lightship
267(18)
Afterword 285

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