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  • 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B00QPI449E
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-... [Read More]

  • The 100 Best African American Poems

    • UPC: 760789225604
    • ASIN: 1402221118
    • ISBN: 9781402221118
    • Brand: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion

    Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round num... [Read More]

  • 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)

    • ASIN: 0912517182
    • ISBN: 0912517182
    • Brand: Bluewood Books
    • Manufacturer: Bluewood Books

    Teeming with interesting nuggets of fact and information, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History includes such legendary men and women as Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Mary Church Terrell, George Washington Carver and Bessie Smith. Also included are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and many, many more. Organized ch... [Read More]

  • Before We Were Yours: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01M14UN1J
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four... [Read More]

  • The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    • ASIN: 0316417556
    • ISBN: 0316417556
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-lo... [Read More]

  • 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759401581
    • ASIN: 0486401588
    • ISBN: 0486401588
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," and Ralph Wal... [Read More]

  • 1984

    • ASIN: B003JTHWKU
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • 100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759285532
    • ASIN: 0486285537
    • ISBN: 0486285537
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Lo... [Read More]

  • The Hideaway

    • ASIN: B01HAK33TC
    • Brand: Thomas Nelson
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is t... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547939418
    • ISBN: 0547939418
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of ... [Read More]

  • Betrayal (Infidelity Book 1)

    • ASIN: B016J2HJMY
    • Manufacturer: Romig Works LLC

    One week. No future. No past. No more.Alexandria Collins has one week to live carefree—no ghosts of her past or pressures of her future haunting her. Reinventing herself as "Charli," she is knocked off her feet by a sexy, mysterious man who brings her pleasure like she never imagined. With her heart at stake, she forgets that decisions made in t... [Read More]

  • The Handmaid's Tale

    • ASIN: B003JFJHTS
    • Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Love Real Food: More Than 100 Feel-Good Vegetarian Favorites to Delight the Senses and Nourish the Body

    • ASIN: 1623367417
    • ISBN: 1623367417
    • Brand: RODALE
    • Manufacturer: Rodale Books

    The path to a healthy body and happy belly is paved with real food—fresh, wholesome, sustainable food—and it doesn’t need to be so difficult. No one knows this more than Kathryne Taylor of America’s most popular vegetarian food blog, Cookie + Kate. With Love Real Food, she offers more than 100 approachable and outrageously delicious meatles... [Read More]

  • The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

    • ASIN: B076FNQWTF
    • Manufacturer: Greyson Media

    Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered—one girl lived.No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right—but did she see the killer?Best Mystery-Thriller eBook of the Year — Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018Winner Best T... [Read More]

  • The Pecan Man

    • ASIN: B006T8124K
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Unknown

    The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction by Florida native Cassie Dandridge Selleck. This novel, Selleck's first, has been optioned for film rights by BCDF Pictures, published in audio by Blackstone, and selected by the State of Arkansas as their common reader novel for the year 2016. It has been selected by book clubs across America, taught in ... [Read More]

  • Moonlight Cocktails

    • ASIN: B003A2B6OE
    • Manufacturer: Oldies.com

  • A Kid's Guide to African American History: More than 70 Activities (A Kid's Guide series)

    • ASIN: 1556526539
    • ISBN: 1556526539
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press

    What do all these people have in common: the first man to die in the American Revolution, a onetime chief of the Crow Nation, the inventors of peanut butter and the portable X-ray machine, and the first person to make a wooden clock in this country? They were all great African Americans. For parents and teachers interested in fostering cultural a... [Read More]

  • Beloved (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: B000TWUTYG
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

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