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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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The Best American Short Stories 1999 by A Tan Publisher Comments In choosing this year's best American short stories, guest editor Amy Tan found herself drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she once loved as a child, when she was addicted to fairy tales. The result is a vibrant... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania Edited With Commentaries Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Jerome Rothenberg Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1968, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters Publisher Comments Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom and knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. For those who want a smaller... (read more) List Price $80.95 Your price: $29.00 Used - Trade Paper
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20 under 40: Stories from the New Yorker by Deborah Treisman Publisher Comments In June 2010, the editors of the New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under 40”the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry by Marilyn Sewell Publisher Comments Edited by best-selling author Marilyn Sewell, this rich and diverse anthology of more than 300 poems celebrates the sacredness of women's lives: the experiences that shape them, the relationships that sustain them, and the legacy that they build. In... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine with DVD-ROMs by New Yorker Staff Pick The title says it all. This superb — nay, essential — set of eight DVD-ROMs includes everything ever printed in every issue of the New Yorker, right down to the vintage advertisements. The content is searchable in every way possible from your... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Great Short Stories by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions) by Candace Ward Synopsis Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.... (read more) List Price $3.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Anth. of Japanese Lit. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) by Donald Keene Synopsis The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Irish Girls about Town by Maeve Binchy Publisher Comments Get ready to paint the town green. New York Times bestselling authors Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes top an impressive roster of the Emerald Isle's most popular women writers as they celebrate the joys and perils of love and the adventure and constancy of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Norton Introduction to the Short Novel by Jerome Beaty Publisher Comments Designed with the undergraduate in mind, the anthology includes a helpful introduction by Professor Beaty that defines the short novel in contrast to the short story and the longer novel and explores the formal and thematic corollaries of this particular... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - 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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The Best American Short Stories 2001 by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments Kingsolver's selections for this anthology showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 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 $12.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition: Volume C: 1865-1914 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: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell Staff Pick The best collection of wedding-related poetry I found. The editors also include an useful primer on wedding service scripts (in case you're writing your own), presenting standard examples from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Zen traditions.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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 Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Cecilia Vicuna Publisher Comments Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world. Editors Cecilia Vicu�a and Ernesto Livon... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $32.00 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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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 $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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