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Jackie Glassman
The Berry Best Friends` Picnic

2003 y.
Publisher: Grosset &, Dunlap
Description: To have the berry best picnic ever, Strawberry Shortcake and her friends need a little help-from one another! Each friend is going to make a special treat, but the kids soon learn that they can`t do it without sharing ingredients. Sharingturns the picnic into a sweet success for all! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0448431343
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Megan E. Bryant
The Berry Big Storm

2003 y.
Publisher: Grosset &, Dunlap
Description: Uh-oh!- A huge spring rainstorm hits Strawberryland, and Huckleberry Pie`s fort is flooded! There`s a big mess to clean up, but Strawberry Shortcake and her friends know that even the hardest jobs are easier to tackle when everyone works together. Since all the kids help out, Huckleberry`s fort gets fixed up in no time-and ends up even better than before! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0448431351
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Megan E. Bryant
The Berry Blossom Festival

2007 y.
Publisher: Grosset &, Dunlap
Description: Spring has sprung early in Strawberryland, and Strawberry Shortcake hurries to plant her berry patch. But one night, a late frost comes to Strawberryland! Strawberry and her friends spend the night trying to save the plants from the frost, but only time will tell if they were successful. When Strawberry finds the strawberry plants abloom with sweet white flowers, it calls for a celebration—a Berry Blossom Festival for all of her friends! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0448445557
Book size: —; Page extent: 10.

 

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The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader

— y.
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ISBN: 1584654228
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Ray Schreyer and John McCarter
The Best 100 Web Sites for HR Professionals

— y.
Publisher: Impact Publications
Description: The Internet is a vast smorgasbord of information for human resource professionals. However, many become overwhelmed with so many Web sites proclaiming to be `the best.` Here`s the book that cuts through the hype and provides assistance in locating some of the best online resources. The HR field runs at a hectic pace, and often clear, precise, and up-to-date answers are needed on a moment`s notice. Professionals must be able to quickly find the most accurate data available online, without getting lost in the abyss of materials available. They need to know where to find different recruiting services, legal information, tips on salary administration, and more. Designed to help readers get results fast, this informative reference guide: Shows where to start an online search. Directs users to the best sites. Organizes popular sites into ten different HR-related categories. Identifies special features that make each site informative and unique. Includes… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-57023-130-3
Book size: —; Page extent: 150.

 

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Mark Oldman, Samer Hamadeh
The Best 109 Internships (BEST INTERNSHIPS)

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: How can an internship launch your career? What do Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, and Bill Clinton have in common? They all had internships: Winfrey began her career interning at WTVF in Nashville, Couric got on the road to fame interning at aWashington radio station, and Clinton wet his political feet interning for Senator J. William Fulbright. Is there an internship that’s perfect for you? Yes, there is. An internship can put you on the path to success, point you in a new career direction, help you discover your talents, and give you great experience. A successful internship can also help ensure gainful employment after you finish high school, college, or grad school. What advantage does The Best 109Internships give you? The competition for good internships is fierce, but this book gives you a competitive edge. The Best 109 Internships puts you on the inside track for the best opportunities in law, the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0375763198
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The Best 50 Cookie

2007 y.
Publisher: Bristol Publishing Enterprises
Description: This book presents simply the best cookie recipes: classic shortbreads, drop cookies, ginger snaps and chocolate chip cookies. You will never need another cookie recipe. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1558673296
Book size: —; Page extent: 78.

 

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The Best Adventure and Survival Stories 2003

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThe fourth edition of publishing?s only adventure annual offers another exhilarating collection of the year?s most gripping and entertaining adventure stories?from the world?s coldest waters to its scariest wildfire. Drawn from the year?s most memorable adventure book titles, magazine pieces, and websites, these stories focus on men and women pushing beyond their limits?from the woman who swam to Antarctica to the seven snowboarders who tried to ride out an avalanche in British Columbia?s untracked Selkirk Mountains, to the biologist trying to survive his search for a new species of bear. Including new work by David Roberts, Sy Montgomery, Peter Leschak, and Tim Cahill, these selections prove once again that today?s best adventure literature ranks among the best writing anywhere. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1560255064
Book size: —; Page extent: 364.

 

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The Best American Comics 2006 (Best American (TM))

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web. Contributors include Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and Lynda Barrya€”and unique discoveries such as Justin Hall, Esther Pearl Watson, and Lilli CarrA©. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618718745
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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The Best American Comics 2007 (The Best American Series)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0618718761
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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The Best American Comics Criticism of the 21st Century

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Best American Comics Writing of the 21st Century, edited by New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Bookforum critic Ben Schwartz, is the first-ever attempt to collate the very best criticism of the contemporary graphic novel boom in a way that contextualizes and codifies one of the most important literary movements of the last 60 years. Via its various authors - John Updike, Daniel Clowes, Jonathan Lethem, Chris Ware, Frank Miller, Will Eisner, David Hadju, Douglas Wolk, and more - the book also functions as a valuable readers` guide for fans, academics, and librarians, tracing the current comics renaissance from its beginnings and creative growth to today`s bestseller appeal, and where it`s headed. Best American Comics Writing of the 21st Century also features a cover by nationally known satirist Drew Friedman (The New York Observer, Old Jewish Comedians) spotlighting `The Comic Book Critics of America` in a tongue-in-cheek take on a formerly low medium increasingly held in high regard. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1606991485
Book size: —; Page extent: 280.

 

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Jane Smiley, Mary Gaitskill, Steve Almond and Nelson George
The Best American Erotica 2005

2005 y.
Publisher: Touchstone
Description: Susie Bright is the fearless boundary crosser of contemporary erotica, and The Best American Erotica 2005 features stories of unprecedented literary pedigree and a stunning breadth of imagination. Pulitzer Prize - winner Jane Smiley details a beautiful erotic interlude in an otherwise sordid real estate deal, Mary Gaitskill celebrates the unexpected ardor of one middle-aged couple, Steve Almond reminisces about the best one-man/three-girl Ecstasy party ever, Nelson George recounts the erotic escapades that befall a young man who accompanies a celebrity athlete when he picks up a gaggle of girls, and Carol Queen explores the joys of making love with summer fruit. Readers will also thrill to the year`s most stellar stories from every imaginable erotic genre. The class of `The Best American Erotica 2005` is changing the rules about writing about sex. It`s no longer pulp fiction: it`s must-read literature showcasing the best writing around, all packed into the year`s… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-7432-5850-9
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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David Sedaris, John Updike, Tom Perrotta, Lynn Freed
The Best American Erotica 2006

2006 y.
Publisher: Touchstone
Description: Famous for taking her readers to undiscovered places, Susie Bright has changed the rules for writing about sex. Erotica is no longer under-the-covers reading, it`s thrilling literature that showcases the best writing around. Best American Erotica 2006, Bright chooses stories that toy with desire in excerpts from some of the most sexually charged and fearless writing of the year. John Updike`s story recalls his narrator`s first love and how they began to have sex. David Sedaris takes us into his strip poker card room. Tom Perrotta portrays a bored married man whose wife busts him as he navigates his Internet swinger life. Helen Walsh`s diary shows a college student in England who drifts from a promis-ing academic career into the arms of prostitutes. In Best American Erotica 2006, today`s most popular writers add their voices to a collection for any reader - straight, gay, curious - seeking memorable sex and riveting storytelling Формат: 14 см x… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-7432-5852-5
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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The Best American Essays 2004 (The Best American Series)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country`s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Here you will find another `splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays` (Booklist), chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand, another collection with `delights on every page` (Dallas Morning News). The Best American Essays once again earns its place as the liveliest and leading annual of its kind. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618357092
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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The Best American Essays 2005 (The Best American Series )

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Now in its twentieth year, this `consistently refined and lively series` (Booklist) still highlights `the best that the form can be` (Philadelphia Inquirer). Edited by the best-selling writer Susan Orlean, this year`s collection highlights lively and provocative writing for these difficult times. Contributors include Roger Angell, Andrea Barrett, David Sedaris, Holly Welker, and others. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618357130
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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The Best American Essays 2006 (Best American Essays)

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between,` writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. `They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales wrestled sometimes from great pain.` The twenty powerful essays in this volume are culled from periodicals ranging from The Sun to The New Yorker, from Crab Orchard Review to Vanity Fair. In `Missing Bellow,` Scott Turow reflects on the death of an author he never met, but one who `overpowered me in a way no other writer had.` Adam Gopnik confronts a different kind of death, that of his five-year-old daughter`s pet fish -- a demise that churns up nothing less than `the problem of consciousness and the plotline of Hitchock`s Vertigo.` A pet is center stage as well in Susan Orlean`s witty and compassionate saga of a successful hunt for a stolen… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618705295
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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The Best American Magazine Writing 2006 (Best American Magazine Writing)

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted or prestigious than a National Magazine Award. Annually, members of the American Society of Magazine Editors, in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, select the year`s most dynamic, original, provocative, and influential magazine stories. The winning and finalist pieces in this anthology represent outstanding work by some of the most eminent writers in America as well as rising literary and journalistic talents. This prestigious collection includes stories that cover a variety of subjects from Elizabeth Kolbert`s investigation into global warming in the New Yorker and James Bamford`s look at the PR campaign behind the Iraq War in Rolling Stone to Chris Heath`s remarkable profile of Merle Haggard in GQ and Bill Heavey`s hilarious account of teaching his daughter to fish in Field and Stream . Other writers include David Foster Wallace ( The… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0231139934
Book size: —; Page extent: 446.

 

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Michael Connelly
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (The Best American Series (TM))

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country`s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series themost respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. This seventh installment of the premier mystery anthology boasts pulse-quickening stories from all reaches of the genre, selected by the world-renowned mystery writer Michael Connelly. His choices include a Prohibition-era tale of a scorned lover`s revenge, a Sherlock Holmes inspired mystery solved by an actor playing the famous detective onstage, stories of a woman`s near-fatal search for self-discovery, a bar owner`s gutsy… [detailed...]

ISBN: 061832965X
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 (The Best American Series (TM))

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country`s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. Assembled by best-selling suspense author Nelson DeMille, The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 contains a spectacular array of stories by mystery veterans and talented newcomers. Follow a chain reaction that saves a woman`s life, visit a house haunted by a husband`s violent killing spree, enter the high-stakes world of Las Vegas gambling, watch the line between reality and dream blur, travel with a bored salesman driven to crime, and much more. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618329676
Book size: —; Page extent: 448.

 

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (The Best American Series (TM))

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred … If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you.` -- from the introduction by Scott Turow Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year`s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Elmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who`s fled home with a convicted bank robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of two Czech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in Yellowstone Park. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line ``Why don`t we kill somebody?` she suggested.` Wendy Hornsby tells of a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas. Laura Lippman describes the `Crack Cocaine Diet.` And James Lee… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618517472
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (The Best American Series (TM))

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country`s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Dave Eggers, who edits The Best American Nonrequired Reading annually, has once again chosen the best and least-expected contemporary fiction, nonfiction, satire, investigative reporting, alternative comics, and more from publications large, small, and on-line -- Zoetrope, Tin House, the Atlantic Monthly, Bomb, SPX, the New York Times, Texas Monthly, GQ, Iowa Review, Esquire, and others. Read on for `some of the best literature you haven`t been… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618341234
Book size: —; Page extent: 448.

 

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Best American)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Pulled once again from the hip to the mainstream, this collection of fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, and `anything else that defies categorization` (USA Today) is as fresh and bold as ever. Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, it`s a `bouillabaisse of nonrequired reading that should be required` (Publishers Weekly). Contributors include Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, William Langewiesche, Stephen Elliott, and others. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618570489
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Yusef Komunyakaa
The Best American Poetry 2003 : Series Editor David Lehman

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description `Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary,` writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction to The Best American Poetry 2003. As a black child of the American South and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa brings his singular vision to this outstanding volume. Included here is a diverse mix of senior masters, crowd-pleasing bards, rising stars, and the fresh voices of an emerging generation. With comments from the poets elucidating their work and series editor David Lehman`s eloquent foreword assessing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2003 is a must-have for readers of contemporary poetry. Jonathan Aaron ? Beth Anderson ?Nin Andrews ? Wendell Berry ? Frank Bidart ? Diann Blakely ? Bruce Bond ? Catherine Bowman ? Rosemary Catacalos ? Joshua Clover ? Billy Collins ? Michael S. Collins ? Carl Dennis ?… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0743203887
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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The Best American Poetry 2005 (Best American Poetry)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the state of the art today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- froma pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman`s perspicacious foreword, The Best American Poetry 2005 is ndispensable for every poetry enthusiast. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0743257588
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Billy Collins
The Best American Poetry 2006 (Best American Poetry)

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best American Poetry 2006 . The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry. In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman`s thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0743257596
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Atul Gawande
The Best American Science Writing 2006 (Best American Science Writing)

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today`s most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that `good science writing is evidently plentiful` ( American Scientist ). [detailed...]

ISBN: 006072644X
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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Sylvia Nasar, Jesse Cohen
The Best American Science Writing 2008 (Best American Science Writing)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Edited by Sylvia Nasar, bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind and former economics correspondent for the New York Times, The Best American Science Writing 2008 brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Distinguished by the foremost voices and publications—among them Pulitzer Prize-winner Amy Harmon, Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore, and award-winning and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—this anthology is a comprehensive overview of our most advanced and most relevant scientific inquiries. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0061340413
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 (The Best American Series (TM))

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, Brian Greene writes that `science needs to be recognized for what it is: the ultimate in adventure stories.` The twenty-five pieces in this year`s collection take you on just such an adventure. Natalie Angier probes the origins of language, Paul Raffaele describes a remote Amazonian tribe untouched by the modern world, and Frans B. M. de Waal explains what a new breed of economists is learning from monkeys. Drake Bennett profiles the creator of Ecstasy and more than two hundred other psychedelic compounds -- a man hailed by some as one of the twentieth century`s most important scientists. Some of the selections reflect the news of the past year. Daniel C. Dennett questions the debate over intelligent design -- is evolution just a theory? --while Chris Mooney reports on how this debate almost tore one small town apart. John Hockenberry examines how blogs are transforming the twenty-first-century battlefield,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 061872222X
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (The Best American Series)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0618722246
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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Barbara Parisi
The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 14 plays: A Roz by Any Other Name and Weird, by B. T. Ryback, Bricklayers Poet, by Joe Maruzzo, Laundry and Lies, by Adam Kraar, Light, by Jeni Mahoney, House of the Holy Moment, by Cary Pepper, The Disruptive, Discursive Delusions of Donald, by Michael Roderick, The Perfect Relationship, by Jill Elaine Hughes, The Hysterical Misogynist, by Murray Schisgal, The Perfect Medium, by Eileen Fischer, Outsourced, by Laura Shaine Cunningham, Elvis of Nazareth, by Jay Huling, Dead Trees, by Rick Pulos, Five Story Walkup, by Daniel Gallant, including his own play and others by John Guare, Neil LaBute, Quincy Long, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Clay McLeod Chapman, and Daniel Frederick Levin, and G.C., by Theodore Mann. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1557837503
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The Best American Short Stories 2004 (The Best American Series (TM))

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country`s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Lorrie Moore brings her keen eye for wit and surprise to the volume, and The Best American Short Stories 2004 is an eclectic and enthralling gathering of well-known voices and talented up-and-comers. Here are stories that probe the biggest issues: ambition, gender, romance, war. Here are funny and touching and striking tales of a Spokane Indian, the estranged wife of an Iranian immigrant, an American tutor in Bombay. In her introduction Lorrie Moore… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618197354
Book size: —; Page extent: 496.

 

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