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The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike Publisher Comments Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Norton Anthology of American LI 7TH Edition Vole 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 $60.50 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories by William 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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Best American Short Stories) by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Gothic Novels by E F Bleiler Publisher Comments Full texts "Castle of Otranto," Walpole; "Vathek," Beckford; "The Vampyre," Polidori; "Fragment of a Novel," Lord Byron.<BR>... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family by Nell Casey Publisher Comments In this eloquent collection of essays—from the editor of the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression—contributors reveal their experiences in caring for family through illness and death Today, thirty million people look after... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage) by Mcsweeneys Publisher Comments As John Hodgman says in this book's introduction, “We all know that books are funny. First, they are made of paste and cloth, which is funny, as is the fact that people still buy and read them.” With that in mind, the McSweeney's Joke Book of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant Publisher Comments A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade. Michael... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories by David Sedaris Publisher Comments From the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim comes a collection of the short stories David Sedaris loves most. Containing the work of both contemporary and classic writers, Children Playing Before a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The World's Shortest Stories by Steve Moss Publisher Comments The quintessential short story book for everyone who thinks they don't have any time to read. Each story is less than 55 words long - ideal for the beach, bus, train, anywhere!... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir) by Kevin Sampsell Staff Pick There are a million stories in the naked city. Portland Noir collects 16 of them. The contributor list is amazing: Karen Karbo, Monica Drake, Floyd Skloot, and more. Editor Kevin Sampsell does a great job of setting the stage for the wealth of narrative... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fifty Great Short Stories by Milton Crane Publisher Comments 50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Out on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and Pictures (Workman Wall Calendars) by Clifton Dowell Publisher Comments Over one hundred contemporary black-and-white photographs and rare pictures from family archives and albums accompany scenes, recollections, and coversations drawn from the many works of Southern writers.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Hardcover
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Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives by Elizabeth Benedict Synopsis Benedict delivers a collection of essays by 30 of today's most important writers, detailing the people, events, or books that have influenced their writing.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (Norton Anthology) by Jules Chametzky Publisher Comments Classic and Contemporary Writers: Here, generously represented, are the writers who have shaped the tradition, among them Emma Lazarus, Abraham Cahan, Henry Roth, Nathanael West, Clifford Odets, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart by Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash Vélez Publisher Comments Passionate, edgy, funny, and profound, The Hell With Love is for anyone who has ever suffered the pain of breaking up — and everyone who believes in the unique power of poetry to console and transform. We've all been there...probably more often... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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African Short Stories (85 Edition) by Chinua Achebe Publisher Comments This collection of 20 stories forms an invaluable introductionto the wealth of short fiction currently being written in Africa...Highlyrecommended for both African and short story collections - Library Journal Chinua Achebe has joined with C.L. Innes, co-... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Norton Anthology of Poetry 5TH Edition by Margaret Ferguson Publisher Comments The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.... (read more) List Price $84.25 Your price: $40.00 Used - Trade Paper
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