Best American Humorous Short Stories

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  • Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965

    • ASIN: B000MLBPHE
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston,

  • Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965

    • ASIN: B0059VYXPS
    • Manufacturer: Macgibbon & Kee

  • Fifty Great Short Stories (Bantam Classics)

    • ASIN: 0553277456
    • ISBN: 0553277456
    • Brand: Bantam Classics
    • Manufacturer: Bantam Classics

    50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous,... [Read More]

  • Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

    • ASIN: 1607749769
    • ISBN: 1607749769
    • Brand: Ten Speed Press
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

    It’s a scientific fact: Women rock!  A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of striking, singular art, this fascinating colle... [Read More]

  • 100 Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    "This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Co... [Read More]

  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

    • ASIN: 1416532277
    • ISBN: 9781416532279
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, ... [Read More]

  • Fahrenheit 451

    • UPC: 642688055004
    • ASIN: 1451673310
    • ISBN: 9781451673319
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commoditi... [Read More]

  • Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

    • ASIN: 1451626657
    • ISBN: 1451626657
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • The Glass Castle: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 074324754X
    • ISBN: 9780743247542
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Giving Tree

    • UPC: 038332606249
    • ASIN: 0060256656
    • ISBN: 0060256656
    • Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper & Row

  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings

    • UPC: 201560256672
    • ASIN: 0060256672
    • ISBN: 0060256672
    • Brand: Harper Collins
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

  • Animal Farm

    • ASIN: 0451526341
    • ISBN: 9780451526342
    • Brand: Orwell, George
    • Manufacturer: Signet

    George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise ... [Read More]

  • I Sing the Body Electric: And Other Stories

    • ASIN: B00CKOQCAQ
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    The mind of Ray Bradbury is a wonder-filled carnival of delight and terror that stretches from the verdant Irish countryside to the coldest reaches of outer space. Yet all his work is united by one common thread: a vivid and profound understanding of the vast seet of emotionsthat bring strength and mythic resonance to our frail species. Ray Bradbur... [Read More]

  • The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0062667580
    • ISBN: 0062667580
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND DECEMBER PICK FOR REESE WITHERSPOON'S HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB"Filled with envy, deception, and power, it’s a great reading escape. And there is a thrilling twist at the end!!" —Reese Witherspoon“Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.”�... [Read More]

  • And Then There Were None

    • ASIN: 0062073486
    • ISBN: 0062073486
    • Brand: Harper
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine . . ."At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a ... [Read More]

  • Dune

    • UPC: 074748335380
    • ASIN: 0441172717
    • ISBN: 0441172717
    • Brand: Ace
    • Manufacturer: Ace

    Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, and Charlotte Rampling.... [Read More]

  • To Kill a Mockingbird, 50th Anniversary Edition

    • ASIN: 0062420704
    • ISBN: 0062420704
    • Brand: Harper
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold m... [Read More]

  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

    • ASIN: 0062748203
    • ISBN: 0062748203
    • Manufacturer: Amistad

    New York Times Bestseller • Amazon's Best History Book of the Year 201 • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’... [Read More]

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0061120073
    • ISBN: 0061120073
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family�... [Read More]

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060883286
    • ISBN: 9780060883287
    • Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece... [Read More]

  • Best American Humorous Short Stories

    The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup (FULL Audiobook)

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