Category: Literature

Good Poems

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : August 2003

Seller ID: 95320

ISBN-13: 9780142003442

America's beloved author, humorist, and storyteller offers a selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m. Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson,...
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New Stories from the South 1995: The Year's Best

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books : January 1995

Seller ID: 25187

ISBN-13: 9781565121232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Stories by writers with Southern backgrounds deal with the modern problems of life in the South.
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Shaking the Tree: A Collection of Fiction and Memoir by Black Women

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : August 2003

Seller ID: 70103

ISBN-13: 9780393050677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shaking the Tree offers a panorama of both fiction and memoir, revealing perspectives as diverse as they are dynamic: asha bandele recounts how she fell in love with a prisoner charged with murder; Rebecca Walker explores a childhood split between disparate racial and cultural landscapes; ZZ Packer remembers her near-abduction from summer camp at a time when local black children were being found murdered; Danzy Senna and Carolyn Ferrell tell tales about being young and biracial in a society that sees only in black and white.This anthology is as urgent as it is historical--these voices are the ...
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : April 1999

Seller ID: 80995

ISBN-13: 9780395843680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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 Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 1993

Seller ID: 75825

ISBN-13: 9780671683061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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 wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in "The Book of Virtues, " an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American hist...
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We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short Stories by North American Women Since 1945

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Publisher: Pantheon : April 1990

Seller ID: 84973

ISBN-13: 9780679728818

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Ann Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.
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The Book of Virtues

By: Bennett, William J.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : September 1996

Seller ID: 81883

ISBN-13: 9780684835778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American histor...
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The Horizontal Reader

By: Collective,

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Inc. : January 1961

Seller ID: 94769

ISBN: B000OKO2O6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

By: Feynman, Richard P.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Basic Books : August 2000

Seller ID: 64969

ISBN-13: 9780738203492

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard Feynman--from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.
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Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

By: International, Amnesty

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Crown : January 2011

Seller ID: 73036

ISBN-13: 9780307588838

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bestselling authors bring together a thought-provoking collection of short stories, each inspired by one of thirty human rights adopted by the United Nations and promoted by Amnesty International. Freedom is a mix of thoughtful, serious, funny, and thrilling stories that harness the power of literature to celebrate--and affirm--our shared humanity. Published in association with Amnesty International, an array of internationally acclaimed & award-winning writers remind us these fundamental freedoms - ratified in 1948 - are just as crucial to protect and uphold today as ever. The United Nation...
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Island: The Complete Stories

By: MacLeod, Alistair

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : November 2011

Seller ID: 95729

ISBN-13: 9780393341188

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to violence when he reluctantly sells the family horse. A passionate girl who grows up on a nearly deserted island turns into an ever-wistful woman when her one true love is felled by a logging accident. A dying young man listens to his grandmother play the old Gaelic songs on her ancient violin as they both fend off the inevitable. The events that propel MacLeod's stories convince us of the importance of tradition, the beauty of the landscape, and the necessity of memory.
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Fifty Years of Russian Prose: From Pasternak to Solzhenitsyn (Volume 1)

By: Pomorask, Krystyan

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Publisher: The MIT Press : November 1973

Seller ID: 65492

ISBN-13: 9780262660198

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The writings in this anthology represent a highly personal and qualitative selection from both the "golden period" of Russian prose immediately following the 1917 revolution and the period from Stalin's death to the present -- a time of "thaw," protest, and a new revival of art.A number of the stories have been published previously, but about half are original translations. They vary in length from five to over a hundred pages. Each volume in the anthology contains an introductory essay by Krystyna Pomorska and brief biographical sketches of the authors.Volume 1 presents fifteen stories by wri...
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The Treasury of American Poetry

By: Sullivan, Nancy (Compiled by)

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Guild America Books; Doubleday Direct, Inc. : January 1978

Seller ID: 95322

ISBN-13: 9781568653679

Binding: Hardcover

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The Old Forest and Other Stories

By: Taylor, Peter

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Picador : August 1996

Seller ID: 95728

ISBN-13: 9780312146955

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the grand master of the American short story, these fourteen tales of domestic life in the South during the thirties and forties explore that extraordinary world of manners, expectations and unspoken understanding. The reader is drawn as if by magnetic force into a world rendered in breathtaking, painterly detail. These stories are marvelous entertainments, rich with amusement, yet Taylor renders his characters truly and understands them in a profoundly meaningful way.

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From Death to Morning

By: Thomas Wolfe

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Publisher: The Scribner Library : 1935

Seller ID: 82895

ISBN: 281DES1004212

Binding: Trade Paperback

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MISREAD CITY

By: Timberg, Scott,Gioia, Dana

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Red Hen Press : May 2003

Seller ID: 93477

ISBN-13: 9781888996692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This new and necessary book--a collection of author profiles, literary journalism and speculative pieces about the Southland's writing and publishing scene--aims to capture the Southern California of here and now. We want to get at the Los Angeles that came after the gumshoes, the wisecracking Englishmen, after the Boosters, the Beats, and the boozers, after the despairing heroines of Joan Didion and the coked-up rich kids of Bret Easton Ellis.
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An Unspoken Hunger : Stories from the Field

By: Williams, Terry Tempest

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pantheon : April 1994

Seller ID: 95704

ISBN-13: 9780679432449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Williams weaves her observations in the naturalist field and her personal experience--as a woman, a Westerner, and a Mormon--into a resonant manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, making clear as well that, through our disregard of this world, we have lost an essential connection to our deepest selves.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Category: Literature