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Best Food Writing 2004

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books: September 2004

Seller ID: 128520

ISBN: 1569244162

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For the fifth year, Best Food Writing assembles the most exceptional writing from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites.
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The Best American Essays 1998

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Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1998

Seller ID: 128873

ISBN: 0395860520

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals.
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Best Food Writing 2007

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Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books: November 2007

Seller ID: 128523

ISBN: 1600940390

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Now in its eighth year, Best Food Writing 2007 hosts a literary feast of the finest culinary prose from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. With eight sections ranging from Food Fights to Fast Food, The World's Kitchen to Why I Cook, this stellar collection features both established food writers and rising stars who serve up their culinary forays, musings, and discoveries. By turns luminous, nostalgic, witty, sensual, and sometimes just plain funny, this delectable sampler will invoke your imagination and tantalize your taste buds-whether you're in ...
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Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

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Price: $7.00

Publisher: Eerdmans: April 2006

Seller ID: 129428

ISBN: 0802829317

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Leading Lives That Matter draws together a wide range of texts -- including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy -- offering challenge and insight to those who are thinking about what to do with their lives. Instead of giving prescriptive advice, Mark Schwehn and Dorothy Bass approach the subject of vocation as an ongoing conversation. They include in this conversation some of the Western tradition's best writings on human life -- its meaning, purpose, and significance -- ranging from ancient Greek poetry to contemporary fiction. Including Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Il...
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Great English Short Stories

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Price: $4.00

Publisher: Laurel: July 1987

Seller ID: 133145

ISBN: 044033084X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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McSweeney's Issue No. 9

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: McSweeney's: January 2002

Seller ID: 135343

ISBN: 0971904758

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Best American Short Stories of the Century

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: April 1999

Seller ID: 134412

ISBN: 0395843685

Binding: Hardcover

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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 literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He...
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The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973-09-19)

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: January 1819

Seller ID: 135348

ISBN: B01FKTI1EM

Binding: Hardcover

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Anne Bogart: Viewpoints (Career Development Series)

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc: March 1995

Seller ID: 136257

ISBN: 1880399806

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Dog at My Feet: Stories of the Dogs We Love

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Publisher: Revell: October 2014

Seller ID: 137593

ISBN: 0800723090

Binding: Trade Paperback

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As any pet lover knows, a wagging tail or a tender purr can soothe the soul after a hard day. And sometimes, the presence of dogs and cats in our lives can do even more. In these delightful books, Callie Smith Grant collects stories that celebrate the dogs and cats in our lives--stories that touch our hearts, renew our spirit, and show us how God created these creatures for unique purposes.
Well-known authors, as well as new voices, share their inspirational true stories of these otherwise ordinary cats and dogs whose presence in the lives of humans make them remarkable. Each book also inc...
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Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 1991

Seller ID: 107553

ISBN: 019214202X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"'I think it must have been two o'clock at least when I thought I heard a sound in that--that odious dark recess at the far end of the bedroom.... Without at first a suspicion of anything supernatural, on a sudden I saw an old man, rather stout and square, in a sort of roan-red dressing-gown, and with a black cap on his head, moving stiffly and slowly in a diagonal direction, from the recess, across the floor of the bedroom, passing my bed at the foot, and entering the lumber-closet at the left. He had something under his arm; his head hung a little at one side; and, merciful God when I saw h...
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Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 1991

Seller ID: 123971

ISBN: 019214202X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"'I think it must have been two o'clock at least when I thought I heard a sound in that--that odious dark recess at the far end of the bedroom.... Without at first a suspicion of anything supernatural, on a sudden I saw an old man, rather stout and square, in a sort of roan-red dressing-gown, and with a black cap on his head, moving stiffly and slowly in a diagonal direction, from the recess, across the floor of the bedroom, passing my bed at the foot, and entering the lumber-closet at the left. He had something under his arm; his head hung a little at one side; and, merciful God when I saw h...
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2007

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2007

Seller ID: 48456

ISBN: 0618812652

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood

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Price: $6.50

Publisher: North Point Press: May 1997

Seller ID: 36925

ISBN: 0865475113

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This remarkable collection of twenty stories about motherhood by writers who are mothers evokes every stage of the journey, from pregnancy and birth through the childhood years, adolescence, and adulthood. Together they depict the complexity of mothering in America today as woman are actually experience it.
The works gathered here constitute a step toward a new mothers literature that puts to rest the long-held myth that has separated motherhood from a woman's creativity. In these pages women from all walks of life, single, married, divorced or just out of their teens and well into t...
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The Chelsea Green Reader: Selections from 30 Years of Independent Publishing, 1984-2014

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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing: December 2014

Seller ID: 86751

ISBN: 1603586016

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Chelsea Green, the Vermont-based independent publisher, has always had a nose for authors and subjects that are way ahead of the cultural curve, as is evident in this new anthology celebrating the company's first thirty years in publishing.

The more than one hundred books represented in this collection reflect the many distinct areas in which we have published-from literature and memoirs to progressive politics, to highly practical books on green building, organic gardening and farming, food and health, and related subjects-all of which reflect our underlying philosophy: "The ...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2008

Seller ID: 86979

ISBN: 061890283X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This brilliant collection highlights a bold mix of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writ
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McSweeney's Issue 30 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McSweeney's: March 2009

Seller ID: 98653

ISBN: 1934781223

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Featuring new work by Wells Tower, Michael Cera, and Etgar Keret, along with as always a bevy of lesser-known but nonetheless excellent writers investigating everything from mental hospitals to sentient mists, and possibly some kind of poster, Issue 30 warrants every ounce of attention and industry you'll give it, even if you are very important and your time is valuable--even if the fate of nations rests on your weary shoulders. You should still read Issue 30.

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Writes of Spring: Stories and Prose

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Price: $4.00

Publisher: Nodin Press: March 2012

Seller ID: 107753

ISBN: 1935666371

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

These short stories were written by authors asked only to use springtime as a setting and to make 'Aucrime'Au an important element of their stories. Some abandon reality a bit and delve into different genres. A few are nonfiction. Others are preview chapters from novels in progress. In short, there is something here for every taste
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The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism

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Price: $7.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press: April 1995

Seller ID: 118641

ISBN: 0231072422

Binding: Hardcover

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More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
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The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1987

Seller ID: 127206

ISBN: 0140079491

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world."
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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: August 2004

Seller ID: 117516

ISBN: 1400034825

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. You could build a civilization with them." --Ben Marcus, from the Introduction
Award-winning author of Notable American Women Ben Marcus brings us this en...
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The Best American Short Stories 2007

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: October 2007

Seller ID: 126020

ISBN: 0618713476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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 weather or foul, not sparing the fireworks. It gets emotional. It struts its stuff. In fact, that's its job."
Wonderfully eclectic, The Best American Short Stories 2007 collects stories by writers of undeniable talent, both newcomers and favorites. These stories examine the turning points in life when we, as children or parents, lovers or fr...
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New Stories from the South 1999: The Year's Best

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books: January 1999

Seller ID: 135346

ISBN: 156512247X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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It was an anthology that began simply enough: as a way to gather together the best kinds of writing going on in the South. It was also a way, back then, for editor Shannon Ravenel to keep tabs on who was writing what. Some of those voices that she heard first are now well-known: Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Olen Butler, Marly Swick, Rick Bass, Abraham Verghese, James Lee Burke, Larry Brown.
Our goal is still the same-to find the most original and affecting stories. And this year, in our newest tradition, we're pleased to include a preface by Tony Earley, which calls into question the message ...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2003

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2003

Seller ID: 143865

ISBN: 0618118829

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
More and more readers are discovering the pleasu...
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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Modern Library: October 2002

Seller ID: 145449

ISBN: 0375761276

Binding: Trade Paperback

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When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder's description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era--among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Steve Martin, and Christopher Buckley. Fierce Pajamas is a treasury of laughter from the magazine W. H. Auden called the "best comic ...
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I Fled Him, Down the Nights and Down the Days; The Text of the Hound of Heaven.

By: Algimantas, Kezys,Thompson, Francis

Price: $2.98

Publisher: Loyola Pr: June 1970

Seller ID: 125359

ISBN: 0829401954

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Twelve Trademarks of Great Literature: Essays, Stories and Poems

By: Baldwin, J. F.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Fishermen Press: August 2002

Seller ID: 106393

ISBN: 0972089004

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ship Fever: Stories

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $7.48

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 1996

Seller ID: 69504

ISBN: 0393316009

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. And i...
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A Treasury of Humor and Toastmaster's Handbook

By: Barrows, Marjorie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Grolier: January 1955

Seller ID: 135342

ISBN: B0007EJINY

Binding: Hardcover

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Wives & Lovers: Three Short Novels

By: Bausch, Richard

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Publisher: Harper Perennial: July 2004

Seller ID: 117515

ISBN: 0060571837

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Wives & Lovers is a collection of three short novels from the author whom the Boston Globe calls "one of the most expert and substantial of our writers."
Requisite Kindness -- published here for the first time -- tells the story of a man who must come to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. Rare & Endangered Species demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lived, and affects the lives of people who don't even know her. Finally, Spirits View More...

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Category: *Short Stories / Essays