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Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments andquot;[Mom] bursts with stories that are unvarnished, sad, funny, wise, and most of all, very real.andquot; -Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice) Featuring StoryCorps' most revealing stories on the subject, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - 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: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I'm with the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories by William J. Bennett Publisher Comments Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer Staff Pick Neil Gaiman! Aimee Bender! Kelly Link! Michael Cunningham! It's impossible to list the contributors to this book without using exclamation points. This wickedly entertaining collection reclaims fairy tales from the children's library and reaffirms their... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best American Magazine Writing (Best American Magazine Writing) by The American Society Of Magazine Editors Publisher Comments The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 contains award-winning features, exposes, and profiles along with extraordinary commentary, fiction, and poetry from America's leading magazines. This year's selections include stories that not only covered the... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro (P.S.) by Jeffrey Eugenides Publisher Comments "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers -- An Anthology by Alane Salierno Mason and Dedi Felman and Samantha Schnee Publisher Comments A cutting-edge compilation of literary works from around the world features an array of avant garde stories, poems, novel excerpts, essays, and other nonfiction from little-known writers representing more than fifteen countries, all introduced by such... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Walk in My World: International Short Stories about Youth by Anne Mazer Publisher Comments A treasury of short stories about young people, written by some of the world's best writers. This volume of sixteen stories written by some of the world's best writers--including three Nobel Prize winners--will transport readers to all parts of the globe... (read more) List Price $13.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford Publisher Comments An exceptional showcase of topflight memoir, literary journalism, personal essay, and cultural criticism, this uniquely comprehensive collection is the first and only creative nonfiction volume to cover all genres, from magazine writing to book excerpts.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate Publisher Comments The first anthology devoted to the literary form known as the personal essay. A compilation of more than 60 selections by such masters as Plutarch, Montaigne, Orwell, Baldwin, Tanizaki, and Woolf, as well as contemporary personal essayists from... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Next American Essay by John Dagata Publisher Comments In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, "The Search for Marvin Gardens," D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 (Best American Magazine Writing) by American Society Of Magazine Editors Publisher Comments The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 proves that print journalism is as vital as ever, offering information, amusement, connection, and perspective to those who love to lose themselves in a good read. This year's selections, chosen from National... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 (Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories) by Laura (com) Furman Publisher Comments The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Best of the Web 2008 (Best of the Web) by Nathan Leslie and Steve Almond Publisher Comments This print anthology compiles the best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that online literary journals have to offer in an eclectic collection in the manner of other broad-ranging anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Non-Required... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $2.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories by James Moffett Publisher Comments Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Stories of Motherhood by Diana Secker Tesdell Publisher Comments Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Nina Baym Publisher Comments Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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