Category: Fiction Anthology

A Treasury of Asian Literature (A Mentor Book)

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 138362

ISBN: B001MPNMIE

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : October 1990

Seller ID: 146378

ISBN-13: 9780140116977

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edited by the critically acclaimed Terry McMillan, the award-winning author of five previous novels and recipient of the Essence Award for Excellence in Literature, this is a striking collection of works from contemporary African-American authors, both established and emerging. This is the first original anthology of African-American writing in over a decade. Featuring works by over fifty African-American writers and a preface by John Edgar Wideman, this amazing anthology showcases some of our best contemporary writers, including: Terry McMillan, Clarence Major, Wanda Coleman, Ntozake Shange, ...
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Contemporary Fiction: 50 Short Stories Since 1970

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Touchstone : January 1999

Seller ID: 83187

ISBN-13: 9780743269476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Granta 132: Possession (The Magazine of New Writing, 132)

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Granta Books : July 2015

Seller ID: 141631

ISBN-13: 9781905881895

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited - repeatedly - by an incubus. Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits. Also featuring fiction by Marc Bojanowski, Patrick deWitt, Greg Jackson, Daisy Jacobs, Alan Rossi, Hanan al-Shaykh and Deb Olin Unfer...
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Masterworks Of Latin American Short Fiction: Eight Novellas

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Westview Press : September 1997

Seller ID: 134967

ISBN-13: 9780064309844

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of Latin American short fiction which is designed to enable readers to savour an individual writer's style and vision. These eight novellas are by some of Latin America's most popular and critically acclaimed writers.
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Nightstand Reader for Women

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Mark Gilroy Communications : January 2003

Seller ID: 98271

ISBN-13: 9780972168236

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

a few spots of foxing on top edge
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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : April 2005

Seller ID: 112082

ISBN-13: 9780618576807

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, The stories jostle up against each other . . . The effect is a marvelous cacophony that reminds me of . . . one of those South Asian bazaars, a bargaining, carnival-like milieu. The goods on sale in this instance being stories hawked by story-traders: story-wallahs. In this book, some of the world's best fiction writers hawk their wares from different...
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The Best American Short Stories 2006 (The Best American Series)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2006

Seller ID: 151008

ISBN-13: 9780618543526

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Wilderness Tales: Forty Stories of the North American Wild

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knopf : February 2023

Seller ID: 147866

ISBN-13: 9780593318973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Papeachu Review

By: (editor), Megan Gray

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Papeachu Press : January 2019

Seller ID: 141601

ISBN-13: 9781732712423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pride and prejudice: An authoritative text (A Norton anthology ed)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Norton : January 2001

Seller ID: 150791

ISBN-13: 9780393103212

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Irish Girls About Town

By: Binchy, Maeve,Keyes, Marian,Kelly, Cathy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Gallery Books : February 2003

Seller ID: 101336

ISBN-13: 9780743457460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

age discoloration, foxing, general light wear
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Transgressions: Ten Brand-New Novellas

By: Block, Lawrence,Deaver, Jeffery,Farris, John,King, Stephen,McCrumb, Sharyn,Mosley, Walter,Oates, Joyce Carol,Perry, Anne,Westlake, Donald E.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Forge Books : May 2005

Seller ID: 87606

ISBN-13: 9780765308511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain, features short fiction by Donald E. Westlake, Anne Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, John Farris, Sharyn McCrumb, Jeffery Deaver, and Lawrence Block.
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The Best American Short Stories 2014

By: Egan, Jennifer,Pitlor, Heidi

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2014

Seller ID: 151000

ISBN-13: 9780547868868

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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Little Tales of Misogyny

By: Highsmith, Patricia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press : April 1986

Seller ID: 141072

ISBN-13: 9780892962440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories

By: Maclean, Norman

Price: $5.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : September 1992

Seller ID: 110796

ISBN-13: 9780226500577

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," to the last, "I am haunted by waters," A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, the title novella has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life along Montana's Big Blackfoot River and its near magical blend of fly fishing with the troubling affections of the heart. The paperback edition is now available with an evocative new cover by acclaimed Montana ...
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Mental Floss: The Curious Reader: | Facts About Famous Authors and Novels | Book Lovers and Literary Interest | A Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists

By: McCarthy & the team at Mental Floss, Erin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Weldon Owen : May 2021

Seller ID: 137124

ISBN-13: 9781681887555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Readers rejoice Learn amazing facts about authors and their books, from Jane Austen to JRR Tolkien. Readers rejoice From Mental Floss, an online destination for more than a billion curious minds since its founding in 2001, comes the ultimate book for lovers of literature. From Americanah to War and Peace, from Chinua Achebe and Jane Austen to Jesmyn Ward and George R.R. Martin, learn surprising facts about the world's most famous novels and novelists. The Curious Reader will delight bookworms everywhere. This literary compendium from Mental Floss reveals fascinating facts about the world's ...
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Female Trouble: Stories

By: Nelson, Antonya

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Scribner : April 2003

Seller ID: 140056

ISBN-13: 9780743218726

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Female Trouble features thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles in Female Trouble. Set in the vividly rendered Midwest, these moving stories are dark and honest portraits of people in moral quandaries, gray areas, unclear circumstances -- from the three-timing thirty-year-old man of the title story to the divorced mother of a turbulent teen in "Incognito" to the sexually adventurous d...
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In the Land of Men: Stories

By: Nelson, Antonya

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Scribner : February 1999

Seller ID: 140055

ISBN-13: 9780684846866

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this powerful collection of stories, Antonya Nelson portrays women whose lives have slipped loose from their moorings and the men who can't really anchor them. Here we meet Roxanne, the tomboy who consistently chooses men who are not her equal; the loving Marta, whose husband keeps a separate house where he retreats when married life overwhelms him; and Bebe, a married mother of two teenagers who leaves it all behind when her lover comes on a motorcycle to claim her. With painfully keen perception, Nelson creates stories that linger in the mind long after they are read, and which create a u...
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Nothing Right: Short Stories

By: Nelson, Antonya

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA : February 2010

Seller ID: 140058

ISBN-13: 9781608190430

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A contemporary master of the short story, Antonya Nelson writes with uncommon grace and unflinching insight about the remarkable realities of everyday existence. The eleven stories in Nothing Right-a selection of Nelson's greatest recent achievements, along with her latest, previously unpublished work-are largely set in her native Kansas, and resonate with deep familiarity. Nelson elegantly renders all the complexity, ambiguity, and beauty of daily life: the comforting rituals and unexpected disruptions, the maintenance of family ties and the poignant struggles of romance.Honest, witty, and qu...
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Category: Fiction Anthology