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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Poets Against the War
by Sam Hamill


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Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings in many different countries and almost all of the 50 states. Since then, over 9,000... (read more)

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Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
by Kevin Smokler


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An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of literature in the twenty-first century. Or simply, "How do we talk about writing and reading in an age where they... (read more)

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The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories
by Alberto Manguel


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Christmas is the storytelling time, the beginning of things expected but not yet seen, of tales suspenseful and mysterious, and full of a comfort of sorts. Internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers an immensely enjoyable collection of... (read more)

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The Campfire Collection: Spine-Tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark
by Eric B Martin


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The Sun has set, the campfire is lit, and dark night presses in?suddenly, the wilderness seems very big and very scary. In the good old-fashioned tradition of story-telling, The Campfire Collection offers twenty-five spine-tingling tales, both true and... (read more)

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Vintage Book of War Stories
by Sebastian Faulks


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Included in this collection of war fiction, from the First World War to the Gulf War, are stories by Erich Maria Remarque, Pat Barker, Isaac Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll, Norman Mailer, J.G. Ballard, Tim O’Brien, Julian Barnes and... (read more)

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The Future Dictionary of America
by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss and the staff of McSweeney's


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This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like... (read more)

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Obit.: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
by Jim Sheeler


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Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he... (read more)

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Lit Riffs
by Matthew Miele


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Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic... (read more)

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The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: Blackbook Presents Dispatches from the New Counterculture
by Aaron Hicklin




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With contributions from Augusten Burroughs, Jonathan Ames, Neal Pollack, Naomi Klein, Chuck Palahniuk and more, BlackBook magazine's tremendous compilation of Dispatches from the New Counterculture offers an edgy collection of lucid and colorful prose.... (read more)

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The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction (Oregon Literature)
by Glen A Love


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Oregonians have always created stories to help themselves and others understand their world. This process of "storytelling the land" began with the Native American tradition of oral storytelling and continues to this day. The World Begins Here guides the... (read more)

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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
by David Samuels


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A brilliant journalist takes us on a skewed odyssey through an american populated by idealists and outsiders in his first book, reminiscent of the classic new journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion. Writing for Harper's magazine and the New Yorker over... (read more)

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Three American Poets
by Jonathan Bean


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This volume presents work from three great American poets, all of whom preferred the solitary life; yet each responded, in very different ways, to the greatest social event of their times, the challenge of living in a country recovering from a civil war.... (read more)

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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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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
by Neil Astley


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Staying Alive is an anthology of life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time where much in the world feels unreal and inhuman. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping... (read more)

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A Christmas Miscellany: A Victorian Holiday Treasury
by Ian Jackman


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A Christmas Miscellany harkens back to the magic and wonder of Christmases past. Find here a delightful grab-bag of Victorian-era stories, news clippings, poems, recipes, gift suggestions, and so much more. Inside are recipes for plum cake and cream... (read more)

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Get to Know Yourself and Transform Your Life with the Wisdom and Magical Power of Stories
by Pejman Aghasi


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Stories can heal many minor and major problems without harming the listener. By telling a story to number of people, each one of them can subjectively relate the story to their own situation and find a solution to their problem, without even the story... (read more)

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When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School
by John Mcnally


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A collection of whimsical personal essays recounts the foibles of the high school experience, from awkward first kisses and intimidating in-crowders to embarrassing moments and sadistic gym teachers, in a volume that includes contributions by such top... (read more)

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