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Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features many.

Willkommen bei den Cookes, einer scheinbar völlig normalen Familie: Vater, Mutter, die pausenlos plappernde Rosemary, ihr großer Bruder Lowell und ihre ungestüme Schwester Fern. In Kindertagen ist Fern Rosemarys engste Gefährtin, ihre zweite Hälfte. Doch als sie fünf Jahre alt ist, verschwindet Fern spurlos. Ein Ereignis, das alles verändert: Rosemary verstummt und die Familie zerfällt.

Karen Joy Fowler, author of the best-selling The Jane Austen Book Club, joins other Austen enthusiasts including novelists Siri Hustvedt and Jennifer Egan to celebrate the work of one of English literature's best-loved authors. In connection with Penguin Classics' 60th Anniversary release of Jane Austen: The Complete Novels: Classic Deluxe Edition, this lively discussion will span the vivid characters, biting satire, and delicious romance of Austen's six novels. Selections read by Hope Davis.

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.