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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 Seagull Reader: Stories, Second Edition by Joseph Kelly Publisher Comments Like all Norton anthologies, The Seagull Reader: Playsis responsibly edited and has helpfuleditorial apparatus, offering Norton quality at less than a third of the price of full-length drama anthologies.... (read more) List Price $30.55 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) by Michael Martone Publisher Comments More than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors were surveyed and asked to select the best literature written since 1970. The short stories included in this anthology represent the best short... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985 by Daniel Halpern Publisher Comments Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers—a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.50 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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Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stephen King Publisher Comments Three horror classics—with an introduction by Stephen King Some of literature’s most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome. @NotoriousDOC Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. My new ‘man’ will be an... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World by Lucy Popescu Publisher Comments The freedom to write is under threat today throughout the world, with more than 1,000 writers, journalists, and publishers known to be imprisoned or persecuted in more than 100 countries. Writers Under Siege bears witness to the power and danger of the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning by Mary Jane Moffat Publisher Comments Death silences not only those it takes, but those it leaves behind: All too typically we can neither express our grief nor express sympathy for the bereaved. In his sensitive collection, toss finds a voice -- or several voices -- in the poetry, fiction... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Mistresss Sparrow Is Dead 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) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Book of Love by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments How do we define love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang. Perhaps this is why Cupid is depicted with a quiver of arrows, because love feels at times like being pierced in the chest. It is a wholesome violence. . . . People... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists by John Warner Publisher Comments If a mountain man felt compelled to dance, how would he do it? If koala bears could talk, what would they say? And what's the right pickup line, if you're a necrophiliac? (Maybe "I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get you pregnant.") In the throes of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Humor for the Holidays: Stories, Quips, and Quotes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years by Jack W Hayford Publisher Comments Celebrate the holidays with the marvelous gift of humor! Holidays can be both fun and frustrating, can't they? All the chaos that goes with the holidays can make you grin or groan. What you need for happy holidays is to have your stocking stuffed with... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Amnesty International Publisher Comments Sixty years ago, the United Nations took a moral stand against human rights crimes and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a proclamation of thirty rights that belong to us all, starting memorably with Article 1: “All human beings... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories by Daniel Halpern Publisher Comments Following the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers—those born after 1937—to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting to the depth, range, and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters Publisher Comments In its sixth edition, the most widely adopted anthology of its kind continues to offer an exceptional array of stories, writer commentaries, and editorial features to help students read, think, and write about short fiction.... (read more) List Price $57.50 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crafting the Very Short Story: An Anthology of 100 Masterpieces by Mark Mills Publisher Comments This anthology is an international collection of stories and essays by critically-acclaimed authors, chosen for their intellectual and emotional appeal. Each story or essay is one to six pages in length, making these authors' short works easily... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $16.95 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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Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories about People Who Know How They Will Die by Ryan North and Matthew Bennardo and David Malki Publisher Comments The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. No dates, no details. Just a slip of paper with a few words spelling out your ultimate fate — at once all-too... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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