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The Best American Short Stories 2011 by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2011, Geraldine Brooks draws the comparison between a well-told joke and a good short story. She writes, “Each form relies on suggestion and economy. Characters have to be drawn in a few deft... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Best American Nonrequired Reading #2011: The Best American Nonrequired Reading by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2012 by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments 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 volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading (Best American Nonrequired Reading) by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by David Brooks Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Best New American Voices 2007 (Best New American Voices) by Sue Miller Publisher Comments Bestselling novelist and acclaimed teacher Sue Miller continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this years volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of writing programs... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Best American Short Stories) by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Three American Poets by Jonathan Bean Publisher Comments A unique collection of poems from three writers living under the shadow of the Civil War Three great American poets, all of whom preferred the solitary life, and yet each responded, in very different ways, to the greatest social event of their times: the... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $2.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forche Publisher Comments Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Best New American Voices (Best New American Voices) by Mary Gaitskill Publisher Comments Critically acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this years volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Edited by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Edwidge Danticat, author ofBrother, I Am Dying,this classic collection of essays showcases the year's best.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers by Rosemarie Robotham Publisher Comments The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure by Larry Smith Publisher Comments The turning points, revelations, epiphanies, dramatic changes, the opening or closing of a door—in a life, a career, a love—can occur in a single glorious, terrible, unpredictable, serendipitous, crucial, calamitous, chaotic, amazing .... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Best New American Voices (Best New American Voices) by Dani Shapiro Publisher Comments Praise for the Best New American Voices Series: "A wonderful assortment of the coming attractions."--Chicago Tribune "A heads-up for readers interested in emerging talent." -- Hartford Courant The bestselling novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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2033: Future of Misbehavior by Nervecom Publisher Comments What is the future of sex? Some of the brightest minds writing today offer their predictions in this tantalizing anthology. Rick Moody considers the repornification of Times Square, Lisa Gabriele predicts 100 percent divorce rate, Ana Marie Cox sees the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (American Poets Project) by John Hollander Publisher Comments Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic "The Devil's Dictionary" quatrains to the latter-day comic... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Best American Essays 2011 (Best American Essays) by Edwidge Danticat Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Dance (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Everymans Publisher Comments From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the... (read more) List Price $12.25 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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