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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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Next American Essay (03 Edition) 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: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seagull Reader: Essays (2ND 08 Edition) by Joseph (ed.) 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 $33.25 Your price: $24.00 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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Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (Modern Library) by Arnold Krupat Publisher Comments Twenty-seven Native American writers describe their lives and art in this compelling collection. When the editors Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann asked twenty-seven Native American writers to describe their lives in relation to their art, they received an... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison Publisher Comments The new paperback in the bestselling series of inspiring personal philosophies This collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventy-five essayistsranging from famous to previously unknowncompleting the thought that begins the books title.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Zapatista Reader by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments The electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year's Day, 1994, has provided inspiration for activists all over the world. A... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $10.95 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 $17.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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50 Essays: Portable Anthology (3RD 11 Edition) by Samuel Cohen Publisher Comments 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price. Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction : Work From 1970 To the Present (07 Edition) 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: $11.00 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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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind Publisher Comments Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 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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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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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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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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