Category: Anthologies

McSweeney's Issue 51 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Price: $2.00

Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing : December 2017

Seller ID: 576603

ISBN-13: 9781944211448

Issue 51 features eighteen brand-new stories so compelling that you'll read through the night and far into the next day, until your boss calls and warns you that you're on thin ice, buddy, and better get to the office right the {expletive} now--but we swear it's well worth it. There are high-stakes cock fights and incredibly ill-conceived murder plots, forays into booger-eating and wisdom from gruff old mermaids, church officials dressed as tortoises and ape urine-filled squirt guns, all under the same sumptuous hardcover roof, illustrated by Jesse Jacobs. Plus: splendid splendid new writing ...
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Moms Don't Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Skyhorse : February 2021

Seller ID: 630122

ISBN-13: 9781510765962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

JOIN AWARD-WINNING PODCASTER ZIBBY OWENS OF MOMS DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ BOOKS ON A JOURNEY FILLED WITH FOOD, EXERCISE, SEX, BOOKS, AND MORE. It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast MomsDon't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine call...
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The Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

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Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2018

Seller ID: 639185

ISBN-13: 9780544582941

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. "I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed," writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world." The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from...
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T.C. Boyle Stories : The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle

By: BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin USA : November 1998

Seller ID: 630731

ISBN-13: 9780670879601

Binding: Hardcover

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Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation

By: Evans, Mari

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Anchor : August 1984

Seller ID: 634488

ISBN-13: 9780385171250

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

This unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics, and detailed biographical and bibliographical data.Included are Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and ten other outstanding writers."
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Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank

By: Hilderbrand, Elin,Trigiani, Adriana,Callahan Henry, Patti,King, Cassandra,Dupree, Nathalie,Wentworth, Marjory,Monroe, Mary Alice

Price: $8.00

Publisher: William Morrow : April 2021

Seller ID: 605773

ISBN-13: 9780063048935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy.Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she so brilliantly brought to life in her accla...
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Homeland and Other Stories

By: Kingsolver, Barbara

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : April 1991

Seller ID: 646898

ISBN-13: 9780060917012

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from northern-California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, Kingsolver's distinctive voice -- at times comic, but often heartrending -- rings true as she explores the twin themes of fami...
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Last of Her Name

By: Lok, Mimi

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Kaya Press : October 2019

Seller ID: 587928

ISBN-13: 9781885030610

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the 2020 PEN America Literary Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Mimi Lok's Last of Her Name narrates the interconnected lives of diasporic women from '80s UK suburbia to WWII Hong Kong and contemporary CaliforniaMimi Lok's Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales, including '80s UK suburbia, WWII Hong Kong and contemporary urban California, the book features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them, an elderly housebreaker...
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Bedtime Stories for Women

By: Madore, Nancy

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Aeon Pub Inc : January 2004

Seller ID: 640195

ISBN-13: 9781932560497

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

BEDTIME STORIES FOR WOMEN, a series of short stories, features a unique and engrossing combination of erotic fantasies and familiar fairy-tale classics, offering women a fun and sexy alternative to what they've been reading in (or out of) bed.
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The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings

By: McQuade, Donald, Atwan, Robert

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's : January 2009

Seller ID: 640488

ISBN-13: 9780312486860

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

The readings in The Writer's Presence are selected exclusively for the quality of the writing. Editors Donald McQuade of the University of California, Berkeley, and Robert Atwan, Series Editor of The Best American Essays scoured hundreds of essays in search of teachable readings with strong voices and clear points of view. The result is a blend of classic pieces by favorites like James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, and Amy Tan; and fresh pieces by rising stars like Michael Pollan, Geeta Kothari, James McBride, and Daniel Harris. The voices in The Writer's Presence represent different communities, ti...
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Love Stories: Classic Tales of Romance

By: michael-kelahan,

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fall River Press : January 2010

Seller ID: 649033

ISBN-13: 9781435129832

Binding: Hardcover

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Best Horse Stories

By: O'Mara, Lesley

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Wings : January 1992

Seller ID: 626108

ISBN-13: 9780517072516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The 18 stories in this collection represent the imaginations of writers renowned for their horse tales, such as James Herriot, Anna Sewell, and Enid Bagnold, as well as other great authors including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, who offer their own unique visions and experiences with the noblest of creatures.BEST HORSE STORIES is a diverse collection of tales about all different breeds. You'll root for Kipling's "The Maltese Cat," an appropriately uncommon name for a polo pony who inspires his team of underdogs in the heat of a match. "How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive and...
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Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Silko, Leslie Marmon

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : December 2006

Seller ID: 635365

ISBN-13: 9780143104919

Binding: Trade

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The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace t...
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Image for Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Arent as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, And One Other Stories We Coul

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Arent as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, And One Other Stories We Coul

By: THOMPSON, TED, HOROWITZ, ELI

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pub Group West : September 2005

Seller ID: 631415

ISBN-13: 9781932416350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Interspersed with charts, graphs, and various crossword puzzles, A Book of Noisy Outlaws, Evil Marauders, and Some Other Things . . . features some of today's best authors spinning new tales ranging from the spooky to the strange. George Saunders tells the story of a father who takes caution to dangerous extremes in "Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband." In "ACES by Phone," a small boy finds a cell phone that lets him listen in on the thoughts of dogs, and in "Small Country," Nick Hornby introduces a country too small for a postal system but, unfortunately for one bookish boy, ju...
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Best of Sisters In Crime

By: Wallace, Marilyn (Edited and Introduced by)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. : January 1998

Seller ID: 600351

ISBN-13: 9780762101061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

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Category: Anthologies