Essays

A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut

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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
by Bill Bryson

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Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of... (read more)
 
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Womens Literature

The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer

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Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more)
 
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United Kingdom Poetry

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney

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"I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a... (read more)
 
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Miscellaneous Literature

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser

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Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he... (read more)
 
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American Literature

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (07 Edition)
by Eggers

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From Q & A by Dave Eggers A group of senators and assemblypersons were pressing The Best American Nonrequired Reading on a number of questions relating to the collection, so we decided to kill that stone in the shape of an introduction in the shape of a... (read more)
 
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Erotica

The Best of Best American Erotica 2008: 15th Anniversary (Best American Erotica)
by Susie Bright

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The best of the best. The hottest of the hot. To mark its fifteenth anniversary, the top-selling erotica series achieves a scorching new climax with a special edition showcasing standout stories from the entire series as well as never before... (read more)
 
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Literature

Paris Stories (02 Edition)
by Mavis Gallant

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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade. Michael... (read more)
 
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Poetry

Good Poems
by Garrison Keillor

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A must-have collection for fans of Garrison Keillor and all lovers of... good poems. Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems... (read more)
 
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970
by Lex Williford and Michael Martone

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Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970. Sherman Alexie • Margaret Atwood... (read more)
 
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
by Paul (edt) Auster

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Miscellaneous International Poetry

Book of Longing
by Leonard Cohen

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Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling... (read more)
 
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Love Poetry

Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage
by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell

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The best collection of wedding-related poetry I found. The editors also include an useful primer on wedding service scripts (in case you're writing your own), presenting standard examples from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Zen traditions. Dave... (read more)
 
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Pacific Northwest Poetry

Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon
by Liz Nakazawa

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A wonderful collection of work by 33 Oregon poets that celebrates the state (and state of mind) of Oregon, eco-region by eco-region, west to east, from the Pacific coast to the high desert country and the Blue Mountains. Editor Liz Nakazawa describes... (read more)
 
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American Poetry

Tau & Journey to the End (City Lights Pocket Poets)
by Philip Lamantia and John Hoffman

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Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. Tauis Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his evolving religious beliefs. Journey to the Endcontains the... (read more)
 
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Prize Winning Literature

Best New American Voices 2007 (Best New American Voices)
by Sue Miller

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Bestselling novelist and acclaimed teacher Sue Miller continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of writing... (read more)
 
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Readers from Magazines

The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II
by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch

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Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. From William Faulkner's determination that a great... (read more)
 
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