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  • 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]

  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey Collection)

    • ASIN: B01IA9AOLM
    • Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

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

    • ASIN: 054458290X
    • ISBN: 054458290X
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    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]

  • Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

    • ASIN: B00KQZY19A
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Great Short Stories by African-American Writers (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759471393
    • ASIN: 048647139X
    • ISBN: 9780486471396
    • Brand: Blaisdell, Bob (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology of short fiction spotlights works by influential African-American authors. Nearly 30 outstanding stories include tales by W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jamaica Kincaid. From the turn of the twentieth century come Alice Ruth Moore's "A Carnival Jangle," C... [Read More]

  • Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)

    • ASIN: 1501127802
    • ISBN: 1501127802
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry... [Read More]

  • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    • ASIN: B00BAXFECK
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

    • ASIN: 0440204232
    • ISBN: 0440204232
    • Brand: 2049145481
    • Manufacturer: Dell

    This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mir... [Read More]

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

    • ASIN: 0544582942
    • ISBN: 0544582942
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    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]

  • Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    • ASIN: B079RLPFG7
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Best American Essays 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544817338
    • ISBN: 0544817338
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    "Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever." --Publishers Weekly “The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its exp... [Read More]

  • 101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • ASIN: B008TVEFSK
    • 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]

  • Lord of the Flies

    • ASIN: B000OCXIRG
    • ISBN: 0399501487
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

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

    • ASIN: 0544582896
    • ISBN: 0544582896
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “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 Wedding Shop

    • ASIN: B01863JMHE
    • Manufacturer: Zondervan

    From New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes The Wedding Shop.“I adored The Wedding Shop! Rachel Hauck has created a tender, nostalgic story, weaving together two pairs of star-crossed lovers from the present and the past with the magical space that connects them. So full of heart and heartache and redemption, this book ... [Read More]

  • An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

    • ASIN: 1616208686
    • ISBN: 1616208686
    • Brand: Algonquin Books
    • Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

    A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2019 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE  WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTA... [Read More]

  • The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

    • ASIN: B07MGS81WS
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Par... [Read More]

  • The Best American Poetry 2000

    • ASIN: 0743200330
    • ISBN: 0743200330
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion

    • ASIN: 1598531077
    • ISBN: 9781598531077
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    Ever wondered who makes a very funny person laugh? Wonder no more. Brought together in this Library of America collection are America’s fifty funniest writers—according to acclaimed writer and comedian Andy Borowitz. Reaching back to Mark Twain and forward to contemporary masters such as David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, Roy Blount Jr., Ian Frazier, ... [Read More]

  • Norwegian by Night

    • ASIN: B008LQ1B1W
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner An ECONOMIST TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER OF THE YEARA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“A soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wilder... [Read More]

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