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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) 2007 by David Foster Wallace (Editor) 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 $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity In a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - 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: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life as We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com by Jennifer Foote Sweeney Publisher Comments "...these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don't want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life...is alive and well, but it is not like anything you ever read about before in your life." -- Jane... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for the New Millennium by Robin Morgan Publisher Comments Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful -- named by The American Librarians' Association one of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Twentieth Century" -- comes this landmark new collection for the twenty... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.”Jerome... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2007: The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Tim Folger Publisher Comments Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science Writing 2009 (Best American Science Writing) by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk,andPacking for Mars,this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics) by Robert J Diyanni Publisher Comments 0205186947 / 9780205186945 Fifty Great Essays & M MyWritingLab -- Valuepack Access Card Package Package consists of 0205668976 / 9780205668977 MyWritingLab -- Valuepack Access Card (12-month access) 0205706789 / 9780205706785 Fifty Great... (read more) List Price $36.90 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by Mary Oliver 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 $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption by Sara Holloway Publisher Comments This volume is an honest, heartwarming, and heartbreaking collection featuring important authors personally involved in all sides of adoption. Here are more than 20 pieces, many published for the first time.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Norton Book of Personal Essays (97 Edition) by Joseph (ed.) Epstein Publisher Comments In this anthology of twentieth-century essays, some of our most-admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and--above all--various opinions. Topics range from Tangier to a lake in Maine, from racial... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves by Camille Peri Publisher Comments The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by Chistopher Hitchens Publisher Comments The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is reliable and yet still surprisingthe best of the best” (Kirkus Reviews).... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Century of American Historiography (10 Edition) by James M. Banner Publisher Comments Editor James M. Banner, Jr. has compiled a collection of 15 historiographical essays by respected scholars to provide an up-to-date overview of major topics in American History. Each essay offers a concise and insightful assessment of a central field... (read more) List Price $14.20 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships by Robert B Silvers Publisher Comments Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Birth of Nation' Hood (97 Edition) by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination. As they pertain to the scandal, the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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