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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Powells.com 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 $3.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: Blackbook Presents Dispatches from the New Counterculture by Aaron Hicklin Powells.com Staff Pick With contributions from Augusten Burroughs, Jonathan Ames, Neal Pollack, Naomi Klein, Chuck Palahniuk and more, BlackBook magazine's tremendous compilation of Dispatches from the New Counterculture offers an edgy collection of lucid and colorful prose.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project by Dave Isay Publisher Comments Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones. In its two permanent public... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell Powells.com 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. Dave... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments The eclectic new volume in the annual series presents the finest literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, TV writing, and alternative comics by Judy Budnitz, George Packer, The Onion... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (McSweeney's #10) by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments A Vintage Contemporaries Original Includes: Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon" Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter" Dan Chaon's "The Bees" Kelly Link's "Catskin" Elmore... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999 by Lisa Grunwald Publisher Comments Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen, write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Anthologies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Best American Nonrequired Reading (Best American Nonrequired Reading) by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments From Q & A by Dave Eggers A group of senators and assemblypersons were pressing The Best American Nonrequired Reading on a number of questions relating to the collection, so we decided to kill that stone in the shape of an introduction in the shape of a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Best American Short Stories 2007 by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor Publisher Comments In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, "Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever'....Talent can't help itself; it roars along in fair... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Future Dictionary of America by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss and the staff of McSweeney's Publisher Comments This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Book W/audio Cd) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project by Paul Auster Publisher Comments The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry by Billy Collins Publisher Comments A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America?s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins?s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Outlaw Bible of American Essays by Alan Kaufman Publisher Comments A new installment of a series that includes The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature is a celebration of the nation's tradition of dissidence and nonconformity as it is reflected in lives and letters, in an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The 100 Best Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell Publisher Comments Verses to move you, lines you'll love, from old favorites to modern classics, here are the words we live by. This perfect poetry companion puts your favorite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips. By including only the best-loved... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Best New American Voices 2007 (Best New American Voices) by Sue Miller Publisher Comments Bestselling novelist and acclaimed teacher Sue Miller continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of writing... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 by Lex Williford and Michael Martone Publisher Comments Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970. Sherman Alexie • Margaret Atwood... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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