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

    • ASIN: 0547485859
    • ISBN: 0547485859
    • Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    • 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 Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B078FGZ95D
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also lo... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and t... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ISBN: 1328484246
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B01912QC5Y
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    “The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, ca... [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]

  • Best American Mystery Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544949099
    • ISBN: 0544949099
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,... [Read More]

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544527186
    • ISBN: 0544527186
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

     “What you’ll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeuppance; stories that utilize superb point of view; stories that plumb one particular and u... [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]

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328636097
    • ISBN: 1328636097
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction. Jonathan Lethem, “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Washington Post), selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual “treat for crime-fiction fans” (Library... [Read More]

  • The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442155878
    • ASIN: 0618155872
    • ISBN: 0618155872
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to la... [Read More]

  • Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328834565
    • ISBN: 9781328834560
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Co... [Read More]

  • Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544949080
    • ISBN: 0544949080
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    "Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly “Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situ... [Read More]

  • The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0199744394
    • ISBN: 0199744394
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed & Ward Collection

    • ASIN: 1580512100
    • ISBN: 1580512100
    • Brand: Brand: Sheed n Ward
    • Manufacturer: Sheed & Ward

    The Best American Catholic Short Stories captures twenty of the best short stories from thirteen American Catholic writers over the past seventy-five years. Spanning most of the twentieth century, the stories in this collection deal with many of the issues brought into the spotlight with Vatican II. Pat Schnapp and Dan McVeigh have assembled an ext... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547554834
    • ISBN: 0547554834
    • Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in maki... [Read More]

  • Topgun: An American Story

    • ASIN: 0316416266
    • ISBN: 0316416266
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER"If you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book." -- Fox & FriendsOn the 50th anniversary of the creation of the "Topgun" Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and eight other risk-takers revolutionized the art of aerial combat. When American fighter jets were being downed... [Read More]

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

    • ASIN: 0544526759
    • ISBN: 9780544526754
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Holly... [Read More]

  • Chi-Town Bosses & The Women That Love Em 2

    • ASIN: B07VPK8Y6G
    • Manufacturer: Cole Hart Signature, LLC

    Trying to put her abusive past behind her, Chasity “Chas” Woods struggles with rebuilding her life. She is only focused on getting back on her feet and reopening her salon. Love, relationships, and finding a man to share her life with isn’t in her plans, and all she wanted from a man was purely physical.Uriel “Rel” Wilkerson is enjoying t... [Read More]

  • The Best American Series: 16 Short Stories & Essays

    • ASIN: B01N8SL665
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction.  This special edition contains selections from the following 2016 editions:The Best American Essays edited by Jonathan FranzenThe Best American Mystery Stories edited by Elizabeth GeorgeThe Best American Science and Nature Writing edite... [Read More]

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