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Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950) is an American author and editor of fantasy and horror fiction and poetry. She lives on Puget Sound with her partner, artist and editor Rhonda Boothe. Writing career Fiction Salmonson is the author of the Tomoe Gozen trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai Tomoe Gozen. Her other novels are The Swordswoman, Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman, an Asian fantasy, and a modern horror novel, Anthony Shriek. Her short story collections include A Silver Thread of Madness; Mystic Women; John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head; The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic; and The Dark Tales. Poetry collections include Horn of Tara and The Ghost Garden. Her papers (1973-1993) are archived in the collection of the University of Oregon. Nonfiction Salmonson has written a number of nonfiction books. Notable is The Encyclopedia of Amazons, an exhaustive alphabetical reference book of worldwide history and legends about women warriors. Other works of nonfiction include Wisewomen and Boggy-Boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (1992) (coedited with Jules Remedios Faye), and Miniature Vegetables (1994). In addition to the books noted, she contributed a number of essays, primarily concerning gender and feminism in science fiction, to fanzines in the 1970s. Editor Salmonson began her editorial career in 1973 editing the small-press magazine The Literary Magazine of Fantasy & Terror (under the name Amos Salmonson). She continued as editor (under her name Jessica Amanda Salmonson) when magazine was revived under the shortened name Fantasy and Terror in 1984, and continued until the final issue in 1996. At the same time, she served as editor of Fantasy Macabre from 1985 to 1996. The magazine was subtitled "Beauty plus strangeness equals terror." Salmonson was the editor of the anthologies Amazons! and Amazons II; Heroic Visions and Heroic Visions II; Tales by Moonlight and Tales by Moonlight II; and What Did Miss Darrington See: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Stories. She has also edited a series of single-author collections of ghost stories and weird tales, many of them of historical significance to genre literature, including volumes by Marjorie Bowen, Alice Brown, Thomas Burke, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Augustus Jessopp, Sarah Orne Jewett, Anna Nicholas, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vincent O'Sullivan, Georgia Wood Pangborn, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary Heaton Vorse, Jerome K. Jerome. Awards 1980: World Fantasy Award for best collection, Amazons! (1979) 1990: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy, What Did Miss Darrington See?: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction Selected bibliography Novels Tomoe Gozen trilogy Tomoe Gozen (Ace Books, 1981); revised as The Disfavored Hero (Pacific Warriors 1999; Open Road Media e-book, 2015) The Golden Naginata (Ace Books, 1982; Open Road Media e-book, 2015) Thousand Shrine Warrior (Ace Books, 1984; Open Road Media e-book, 2015) Other novels The Swordswoman (Ace Books 1982) Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman (Ace Books, 1985) Anthony Shriek, His Doleful Adventures; or, Lovers of Another Realm (Dell Abyss, 1992; hardcover from Centipede Press, 2017) Namer of Beasts, Maker of Souls: The Gnostic/Cabbalistic Biography of Merlin (Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011) Collections Tragedy of the Moisty Morning (Oregon: Angst World Library, 1978) Hag's Tapestry (Haunted Library, UK: 1986) A Silver Thread of Madness (Ace Books, 1989) John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head (W. Paul Ganley/Weirdbook Press, 1989) Harmless Ghosts (Haunted Library, UK: 1990) Mystic Women: Their Ancient Tales and Legends Recounted by a Woman Inmate of the Calcutta Insane Asylum (Seattle: Street of Crocodiles 1991) The Mysterious Doom and Other Ghostly Tales of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Sasquatch Books 1992) The Eleventh Jaguarundi and Other Mysterious Persons (LaGrande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011) Phantom Waters: Northwest Legends of Rivers, Lakes & Shores (Seattle: Sasquatch Books 1995) Mister Monkey and Other Sumerian Fables (Seattle: Tabula Rasa Press, 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011) Twenty-one Epic Novels (Seattle: Tabula Rasa, 2002) The Dark Tales (Wales: Sarob Press 1991) Strange Miniatures from a Northwest Studio (Bremerton: Duck's-foot Tree Productions, 2001) The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic (British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press 2003) The Complete Weird Epistles of Penelope Pettiweather, Ghost Hunter (Alchemy Press, UK, 2016) Poetry The Black Crusader and Other Poems of Horror (Springfield, MO: W. D. Firestone, 1979) On the Shores of Eternity (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree Productions 1981) Feigned Death and Other Sorceries (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1983) Innocent of Evil: Poems in Prose(Madison, WI: Dream House, 1984) The Ghost Garden (Liverpool: Dark Dreams Press, 1988) Sorceries and Sorrows: Early Poems (Polk City, IA: Chris Drumm Books, 1992) Songs of the Maenads (Seattle Duck's-Foot Tree and the Street of Crocodiles, 1992) Wisewomen and Boggy-Boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (1992) (with Jules Remedios Faye) The Horn of Tara (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011) Lake of the Devil (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1995) The Death Sonnets and Others (UK: Rainfall Books, 2015) Pets Given in Evidence of Old English Witchcraft and Other Bewitched Beings (Minneapolis: Sidecar Preservation Society, 2016) Daisy Zoo and Other Punk-Ass Nonsense (Bremerton: Duck's-foot Tree Productions, 2016) Non-fiction The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Present Era (NY: Paragon House, 1991, ISBN 1-55778-420-5; Anchor Doubleday, 1992; Open Road Media, 2015) Anthologies edited by Amazons! (NY: DAW Books, 1979) Amazons II (NY: DAW Books, 1982) Heroic Visions (NY: Ace Books, 1983) Tales by Moonlight (NY: Tor Books, 1983) The Haunted Wherry and Other Rare Ghost Stories (Madison: Strange Company, 1985) Heroic Visions II (NY: Ace Books, 1986) Tales by Moonlight II (NY: Tor Books, 1989) What Did Miss Darrington See? (NY: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1989) Wife or Spinster: Short Stories by 19th Century American Women (Maine: Yankee Books, 1991) with Charles Waugh Collections edited by Faded Garden: The Collected Ghost Stories of Hildegarde Hawthorne (1985) The Supernatural Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien Volume One: Macabre Tales (NY: Doubleday, 1988) The Supernatural Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien Volume Two: Dream Tales and Fantasies (NY: Doubleday, 1988) From Out of the Past: The Indiana Ghost Stories of Anna Nicholas (Ghost Story Society, UK: 1992) Master of Fallen Years: Complete Supernatural Stories of Vincent O'Sullivan (Ghost Story Press, UK: 1995) The Rose of Death and Other Mysterious Delusions by Julian Hawthorne (British Columbia.... Discover the Jessica Amanda Salmonson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jessica Amanda Salmonson books.
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Saltwater Cove
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His Own Heaven
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldAn Apple Books Classics edition. The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s riveting classic. Manabouttown Jay Gatsby seems to have it all, including loads of...
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Holy Bible
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe 2013 edition of the Holy Bible contains all of the study aids contained in the 1979 edition and includes revisions to the study aids, several new photos, updated maps, and adju...
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Meditations
Emperor of Rome Marcus AureliusMeditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.
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Just Me
Lexy TimmsWe all need somewhere where we feel safe… After leaving her abusive husband, Katherine Marshall is out on her own for the first time. She's hopped from city to city to avoid t...
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Dream Psychology
Sigmund FreudAn Apple Books Classic edition. Written by the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud’s 1899 book is the definitive text on learning to interpret dreams. Freud’s groundbr...
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Once Upon A One-Night Stand
Zoey LockeAt first sight, there was electrifying chemistry.  So why not go for it? After all, Lynx Grove, the city's most eligible bachelor, wants to claim her, at least for th...
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The Target
Lexy TimmsWhen you seek revenge be sure to dig two graves… Revenge was the only thing I had going for me. It kept me awake at night and drove me into desperate situations in dive bars across...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan DoyleAn Apple Books Classic You get not one, not two, but 25 gripping mysteries in Arthur Conan Doyle’s first of five collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Follow the brilliant ...
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You Are Kind
Michael GordonA little kindness goes a long way. How can you help encourage your kids to be kind from a young age? Teach kindness to preschoolers Acts of kindness can be fun, easy, and make a ...
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The Next Girl
Carla KovachIF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THE NEXT GIRL... You thought he’d come to save you. You were wrong. ‘ Absolutely the best thriller I’ve read this year! ’ Goodreads Rev...
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Inception of Gold
Lexy TimmsThings are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. Being the personal assistant to a narcissistic actress who just happens to own the key to my family's undoing isn't ex...
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Salvation
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The Four Loves
C. S. LewisThe Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human loveaffection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candi...
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Escape, A New Life
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Teach Me
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Peace on Earth
Maia RossCrime never takes a holiday. Why should Irma? Irma Abercrombie is an energetic retiree with a shadowy past, a mean right hook, and a profound love of Christmas. Surrounded by seaso...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank BaumAn Apple Books Classic edition. You’ve seen the iconic 1939 movie, but do you know about the talking field mice, the Winkies, and the Witch of the North that appear in the original...
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The Odyssey
HomerAn Apple Books Classic edition. Homer’s eighthcentury epic poem is a companion to The Iliad . It tells the story of Odysseus, who journeys by ship for 10 years after the Trojan War...
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Whiskey Girl
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Caught Up with the Captain
Kait NolanCan a retired naval commander and the love he left behind overcome a 34yearold secret to find their way to a second chance? Captain Mitchell Greyson is a man who believes in duty. ...
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School of Potential
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Little Women
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Masters of Restraint
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre DumasAn Apple Books Classic edition. Alexandre Dumas’ classic paints a portrait of Edmond Dantès, a dark and calculating man who is willing to wait years to exact his perfect plan for r...
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Get Lucky
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Eternal
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Good Guy
Kate MeaderHe's a Special Forces veteran making his pro hockey debut. She's a dogged sports reporter determined to get a scoop. She's also his best friend's widow . . . Fa...
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Teased by Fire
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Enemies With Benefits
Roxie NoirI don’t love him. I don’t even like him. I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to...
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The Seduction Series Boxset
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Awaken Me
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The Stoic Mind
Addy Osmani & GoLimitlesssDiscover the timeless wisdom of Stoicism in a modern context with "The Stoic Mind," an enlightening visual guide by Addy Osmani and GoLimitlesss. This rich exploration co...
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The Cupcake Cottage
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane AustenAn Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s beloved classic opens with this witty and very memorable line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessio...
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Assisting the Bosshole
Kristin MacQueenNo hot water? Check Missed the train? Check Broke my heel? Check Dropped my coffee? Check My first day of my new job can’t possibly go worse, right? Wrong. When I meet Parker Scott...
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Man In The Water
Jon HillAn attempted murder. A missing spouse. And an international conspiracy that could change the world. Jack Green has always been skeptical of socalled facts. Though he's forced ...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensAn Apple Books Classic edition. It’s Christmas Eve in Victorian England. While some families don’t know where their next meal will come from, Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his large hom...
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Silenced Girls
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Becoming Lady Dalton
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Hot Off the Press
Lexy Timms"This is what really happened… reported by a free press, for a free people…" Wes Shaw leads a secret double life. As the secret owner of a billion dollar newspap...
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Death at Hazel House
Betty Rowlands‘Riveting, can't put it down! I love this story… a wonderfully twisted tale of a crime that has more twists than I thought possible... fantastic.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars ...
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Never Enough
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Nothing to Hide
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Finding Cinderella
Colleen Hoover#1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after. A chance encounter in the dark leads ei...
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All Fired Up
Kathryn ShayCaptain Jarek Zenko, a war veteran and firefighter, meets Lacey Roth at a bar one night. They don’t share their real identities, even when they retreat to a hotel. When they meet t...
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Silver Santa
Lacey SilksTrapped together on Christmas, their unintended onenight stand becomes a lifechanging encounter amidst the snow. Laura Young's professional role as a security guard at the Sil...
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The Icing on the Cake
Linda SeedShe’s a baker without a kitchen. He’s got a double oven to spare. It’s a recipe for success, until his mother starts stirring up trouble … Cassie Jordan has a sweet dream to open a...
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Dark Psychology and Manipulation
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