Reading Short Stories: Where To Start
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Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults
- ASIN: 0440977576
- ISBN: 0440977576
- Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
Here are sixteen representative stories for the eighties, written especially for this collection by today's best-known writers for teenagers. Their impressions radiate through an emotional prism of hope and hate, love and death, despair and joy, in a diverse yet strikingly unified collection.
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Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
- ASIN: 0449300587
- ISBN: 0449300587
- Manufacturer: Fawcett
The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood ... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories 2010 (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: 0547055323
- ISBN: 9780547055329
- Brand: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of ... [Read More]
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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]
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Best Fiction: Book Recommendations-Best Books & Best Short Stories, Including Best Young Adult Books & Good Reads Ranging from Best Historical Fiction to Best Love Stories & Serious Novels (Volume 2)
- ASIN: 1505480809
- ISBN: 1505480809
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Take the luck out of finding a book to get lost in. Whether you seek the best fiction from contemporary authors or tried and true classics, reading recommendations encompass over 400 of the best books in 45 fiction genres, according to a team of book world insiders. The book recommendations include gripping novels of all stripes, from the best hist... [Read More]
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
- ASIN: 0062698729
- ISBN: 0062698729
- Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray
Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America.Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as ... [Read More]
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
- ASIN: 0374518688
- ISBN: 0374518688
- Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine: America's Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons
- ASIN: 1606522043
- ISBN: 9781606522042
- Brand: Reader's Digest
- Manufacturer: Reader's Digest
Collected from one of the omst popular features of Reader's Digest magazine, this compliation of more than 1,000 all-new jokes, quotes, anecdotes, quips, and cartoons is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud each day.This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's m... [Read More]
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City of Girls: A Novel
- ASIN: B07HZ2Q1MK
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
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The Best American Short Stories 2008 Pa (The Best American Series ®)
- UPC: 046442788779
- ASIN: 0618788778
- ISBN: 0618788778
- Manufacturer: Mariner
This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a “magnificent array” (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition “reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect” (Publishers W... [Read More]
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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]
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The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)
- ASIN: 1250044235
- ISBN: 1250044235
- Brand: Tougias Michael J
- Manufacturer: Square Fish
This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. N... [Read More]
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
- ASIN: 0547577311
- ISBN: 0547577311
- Brand: Clarion Books
- Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
- ASIN: 1501116304
- ISBN: 1501116304
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed t... [Read More]
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Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds
- ASIN: 0763695092
- ISBN: 0763695092
- Manufacturer: Candlewick
In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?In “The Cask of Amontillado,” a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend at carnival, luring him into catacombs below the ... [Read More]
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Best American Short Stories 07 Pa (The Best American Series ®)
- UPC: 046442713481
- ASIN: 0618713484
- ISBN: 0618713484
- Manufacturer: Best American
In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, “Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever' . . . Talent can’t help itself; it roars along in fair weather or foul, not sparing the fireworks. It gets emotional. It struts its stuff. In fact, ... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories 2011
- ASIN: 0547242166
- ISBN: 0547242166
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the be... [Read More]
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
- ASIN: 0399588191
- ISBN: 0399588191
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Ne... [Read More]
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God Is With You Every Day (Large Text Leathersoft)
- ASIN: B00ZRP74ZM
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
It’s easier to face the day when you know God is with you.God Is With You Every Day is a brand-new 365-day devotional from Max Lucado, and his first new devotional since the creation of the Grace for the Moment® line. Max’s signature reassuring and encouraging voice, paired with the practical, relevant, and personal message that God is with ... [Read More]
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
- ASIN: 0374303231
- ISBN: 0374303231
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
A New York Times BestsellerStonewall Book Award Winner―Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard ne... [Read More]
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