Category: Short Stories, Anthologies & Essays

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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Grove Press : January 1994

Seller ID: 90332

ISBN-13: 9780802150585

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 this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical context, allowing the readers to enjoy the book both as literature and as a guide to the cultural history of Japan. Selections include Man yoshu or Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves from the ancient period; Kokinshu or Collection of Ancient and Modern P...
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Blue Cathedral

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Red Hen Press : March 2000

Seller ID: 59483

ISBN-13: 9781888996210

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

We began in the dark, and from the dark, we created myths, stories, the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness, Odysseus returning home, Buddha sitting lotus quiet. We had a few good stories to sustain our wanderings. Over several thousand years, the fire of myths began to burn out. Or we burned them out. We burned Troy, the prophets, and Joan of Arc, and finally, as one myth after another descended onto the pile of ashes, we found ourselves outside the church, the cathedral, the pyramid, the synagogue, with no path, and no journey. No Holy Grail to seek for, no reason to seek a grail...
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COUNTERPARTS

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Great Books Foundation : 2015

Seller ID: 89194

ISBN: 281DES1004740

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers & Daughters

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Beacon Pr : January 1991

Seller ID: 77779

ISBN-13: 9780807009109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Moms Don't Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Skyhorse : February 2021

Seller ID: 67987

ISBN-13: 9781510765962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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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Pie & Whiskey: Writers under the Influence of Butter & Booze

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Publisher: Sasquatch Books : October 2017

Seller ID: 88916

ISBN-13: 9781632171122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

What happens when good writing is inspired by and served with a slice of pie and a shot of whiskey? Pie & Whiskey is a literary event series started in Spokane, Washington, where the idea was to serve good pie, good whiskey, and good writers reading prose or poetry about pie and whiskey. This collection features the best original work from the series by writers such as Anthony Doerr, Elissa Washuta, Kim Barnes, and more. Proving that good writing is best served with a slice of pie and a shot of whiskey, a smattering of pie recipes and whiskey-centric cocktails are included alongside dozens of ...
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Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle

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Publisher: HarperTeen : April 1967

Seller ID: 32836

ISBN-13: 9780688412319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Here are modern poems chosen for their individual excellence and their special appeal to young people. Exciting photographs accent the contemporary tone of the collection.From lighthearted Phyllis Mc-Ginley to pessimistic Ezra Pound; from the lyricism of Edna St. Vincent Millay to the vigor of Lawrence Ferlinghette; from Carl Sandburg on loneliness to Paul Dehn on the bomb -- such is the range. The little known or unknown poet and the widely recognized appear side by siide.Whatever the subject matter -- pheasant or flying saucer; lapping lake water or sonic boom; a deer hunt, a basketball, or ...
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2005

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press : November 2005

Seller ID: 81235

ISBN-13: 9780231137805

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 proves that print journalism is as vital as ever, offering information, amusement, connection, and perspective to those who love to lose themselves in a good read. This year's selections, chosen from National Magazine Awards finalists and winners, include David Grann's article from the New Yorker on the execution of a possibly innocent man; Sheri Fink's report from the New York Times Magazine on the alleged euthanization of patients during Hurricane Katrina; and Fareed Zakaria's compelling take from Newsweek on Iran's weakening regime. The Best American ...
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The Ex-Files: New Stories About Old Flames

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Publisher: Context Books : February 2000

Seller ID: 87770

ISBN-13: 9781893956025

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Ex-files" are becoming something of a folk institution on the Web, where an ever-increasing number of personal Web sites reveal stories about ex-lovers for the reading enjoyment of Websurfers. In this book, some of today's best new writers give a decidedly literary twist to this phenomenon, providing a multifaceted view of past loves and the way they haunt the present.The contributors include both established talent such as David Foster Wallace, and lesser-known but critically acclaimed newcomers like David Means, Ben Marcus, and Amy Sohn. Their stories range from nostalgic memoirs to humorou...
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The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1: Single-Sitting Summaries of All Time Great Books

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Publisher: Scarab Book Ltd : June 1992

Seller ID: 67163

ISBN-13: 9781880184042

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Great American Bathroom Book had its beginnings on a cross-country flight, as Lan England started wishing he had a short summary of every classic he'd heard about but didn't have time to read.Lan decided he wasn't the only person who felt this way. He hired Stevens Anderson, an editor, who hired college professors and other bookworms who loved to read. The result was the The Great American Bathroom Book, Vol I, a collection of 130 2-page summaries from great books of all genres, from Don Quixote to The Road Less Traveled. Volume I also features 90 research overviews on subjects like "Putti...
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Unholy Orders

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Intrigue Press : November 2000

Seller ID: 64764

ISBN-13: 9781890768287

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Seventeen acclaimed mystery authors are brought together under a general religion/mystery theme. Some of the stories are inspirational, some are terrifying, but all are clever mysteries by writers at the top of their form.While some of the mystery stories feature familiar religious figures, such as Father Dowling, others tread new ground into the shamanistic visions of the Navajo and the rituals of the Hasidim.
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Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Library of America : September 2002

Seller ID: 86768

ISBN-13: 9781931082273

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Where Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thompson imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock." In Writing Los Angeles, The Library of America presents a glittering panorama of the city, encompassing fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by over seventy writers. This revelatory anthology brings to life the entra...
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Mad to Live (Flume Press Chapbook Series, No. 23)

By: Brown, Randall

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Flume Press : January 2008

Seller ID: 61039

ISBN-13: 9781886226135

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Delta : January 1987

Seller ID: 66062

ISBN-13: 9780385295314

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them

By: Ciuraru, Carmela

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Scribner : April 2001

Seller ID: 56272

ISBN-13: 9780684864396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Poets describe their first encounters with poetry in this unique collection of essays that includes works by Sherman Alexie, Virginia Hamilton Adair, J. D. McClatchy, Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, and other notable writers. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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How Did You Get This Number

By: Crosley, Sloane

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Portobello : January 2010

Seller ID: 81996

ISBN-13: 9781846272257

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

ANYONE IS POSSIBLE

By: CULL & GALE, MARK & KATE

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Red Hen Press : January 1997

Seller ID: 59484

ISBN-13: 9781888996012

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Potpourri: A Short Story Collection

By: Ertell, Irene Ebel

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Irene Ertell : August 2018

Seller ID: 65583

ISBN-13: 9780996215749

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Devilish Doings

By: Finamore, Frank J.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Gramercy : July 1997

Seller ID: 86761

ISBN-13: 9780517185049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Devil himself has a starring role in these 20 fiendish tales by such literary giants as Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Charles Dickens. A highlight of the collection is Stephen Vincent Benet's classic "The Devil and Daniel Webster".
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The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

By: Gaiman, Neil,El-Mohtar, Amal,King, Catherine,North, Claire,Swift, E. J.,Smythe, James,Shamsie, Kamila,Logan, Kirsty,Parker, K. J.,Manickavel, Kuzhali

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Solaris : March 2017

Seller ID: 86749

ISBN-13: 9781781084175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers. Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows th...
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The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction

By: Gorman, Edward

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Black Lizard Books : May 1987

Seller ID: 71831

ISBN-13: 9780887390395

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling

By: Goss, Linda

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Touchstone : November 1989

Seller ID: 70106

ISBN-13: 9780671671686

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Kinsey and Me: Stories

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Marian Wood Books/Putnam : January 2013

Seller ID: 75807

ISBN-13: 9780399163838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey s origins and Sue s past. I've come to believe that Grafton is not only the most talented woman writing crime fiction today but also that, regardless of gender, her Millhone books are among the five or six best series any American has ever written. Patrick Anderson, "The Washington Post" "Kinsey and Me" has two parts: The nine Kinsey stories (1986-93), each a g...
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Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

By: Hamer, Judith A.,Hamer, Martin J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub : November 1994

Seller ID: 70105

ISBN-13: 9780809015764

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies

By: Harris, Alexandra

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : February 2016

Seller ID: 86757

ISBN-13: 9780500518113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The weather is vast and yet we experience it intimately, and Alexandra Harris builds her remarkable story from small evocative details. There is the drawing of a twelfth-century man in February, warming bare toes by the fire. There is the tiny glass left behind from the Frost Fair of 1684, and the Sunspan house in Angmering that embodies the bright ambitions of the 1930s. Harris catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals. "Bloody cold," says Jonathan Swift in the "slobbery" January of 1713. Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one. Weatherland is a c...
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Han Holzer's Haunted America

By: Holzer, Hans

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books : January 1993

Seller ID: 82275

ISBN-13: 9781566191937

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Poached Egg on Toast: Stories

By: ITANI, Frances

Price: $4.00

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd/Phyllis Bruce Book : January 2004

Seller ID: 67926

ISBN-13: 9780002005845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Just Plain Folks: Original Tales of Living, Loving, Longing, and Learning, As Told by a Perfectly Ordinary, Quite Commonly Sensible, and Absolutely Awe-Inspiring colore

By: Johnson-Coleman, Lorraine

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Little Brown & Co : July 1998

Seller ID: 6236

ISBN-13: 9780316460842

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sometimes black history doesn't march, Sometimes black history doesn't shout, Sometimes black history just comes wearily down a dirt road, dragging a cotton sack and wearning a head rag....
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Irish Girl: Stories (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction)

By: Johnston, Tim

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of North Texas Press : November 2009

Seller ID: 91360

ISBN-13: 9781574412710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2009

Inside Tim Johnston's Irish Girl (winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction) readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance--of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark--and often darkly funny--these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the reader who just loves a great story.

Cowboy Tales

By: LeCoq, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Studio : April 1990

Seller ID: 81362

ISBN-13: 9780670831937

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Short Stories, Anthologies & Essays