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The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

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Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1993

Seller ID: 43818

ISBN: 0671683063

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 h...
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McSweeney's Issue 15 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing: January 2005

Seller ID: 47913

ISBN: 1932416145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

McSweeney's has grown to be one of the country's best and largest-circulation literary journals, committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times.
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Speaking with the Angel

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: February 2001

Seller ID: 72664

ISBN: 1573228583

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nick Hornby...Giles Smith...Helen Fielding...Roddy Doyle...Irvine Welsh...Zadie Smith...Dave Eggers...Robert Harris...Melissa Bank...Patrick Marber...Colin Firth...John O'Farrell

Compiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both sides of the Atlantic, Speaking with the Angel is a fresh and funny collection that is sure to be the literary anthology of the year.

Here is a book that was inspired by a very special boy and a very special school. Some money from each copy of Speaking with the Angel sold will benefit a...
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series Â®)

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mariner Books: April 2000

Seller ID: 112007

ISBN: 0395843677

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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McSweeney's Issue 25 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing: November 2007

Seller ID: 174879

ISBN: 1932416846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

If issues were anniversaries, this one would have to be printed on silver plates. You could melt it in some sort of forge and then pound it on an anvil until you had a set of earrings. Instead, it's a hardcover book with stories by a few of our old favorites--Steven Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Padgett Powell--and more than half a dozen others, investigating everything from ape men to unlucky island-hoppers to what happens when Canadians go AWOL in Bosnia. Pound this one on an anvil and it'll pound you right back.

Featuring three different cover types, and illustrations of various horses...
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The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Shambhala: July 2007

Seller ID: 429931

ISBN: 1590304551

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were "real architects of change. There is no doubt that we're living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary movement, which is an important part of the larger picture of cultural and political change in this country during the last forty years, when a four-letter word couldn't appear on the printed page and minority rights were ridiculous."

Anne Waldman, ...
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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)

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Price: $15.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: September 2019

Seller ID: 433905

ISBN: 0241299837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A landmark collection of stories--nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, who now lives in Italy and reads exclusively in Italian

A Penguin Classics Hardcover

When Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader--and writer--took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight and
unexpected freedom.

This collection brings together forty writers who have shaped her love of the Italian ...
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The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series Â®)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2019

Seller ID: 434517

ISBN: 1328484246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019.

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands t...
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The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library)

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1992

Seller ID: 445057

ISBN: 0140151028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoir this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. Featuring: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, Michael McClure, and more.
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110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11

By: Baer, Ulrich

Price: $4.00

Publisher: November 2011

Seller ID: 169458

ISBN: 0814799051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11.

Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy...
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Best American Short Stories 2015

By: Best American

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 342421

ISBN: 0547939418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, "The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition."

Boyle's choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories w...
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Best American Short Stories 2016

By: Best American

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 342425

ISBN: 0544582896

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." --Shelf Awareness for Readers

The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot D az. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.
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Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

By: Best American N/Eggers, Dave

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 68757

ISBN: 0618246940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Best American Short Stories 2014

By: Best American/Egan, Jennifer

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2017

Seller ID: 413041

ISBN: 0547868863

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." -- Shelf Awareness for Readers

The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as "a new classic of American fiction." Egan "possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart" (New York Times Book Review).
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Best American Short Stories of the Century

By: Best American/Updike, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: September 2010

Seller ID: 107347

ISBN: 0965069680

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

By: Best/Moore, Lorrie/Pitlor, Hei

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 418469

ISBN: 0547485859

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls "all its wildnesses of char...
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Goodbye to All That

By: Botton, Sari

Price: $7.00

Publisher: February 2014

Seller ID: 344662

ISBN: 1580054943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From Roxane Gay to Cheryl Strayed, 28 groundbreaking writers share their visceral, heart-bending stories about the everlasting magic-and unavoidable misery-of living in New York City

In 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That, a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion's tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.

In this captivating collection, 28 writers take...
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