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High lonesome
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Joyce Carol Oates |
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and inclu… |
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Sap rising
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Christine Lincoln |
Set against the backdrop of the rural American South, captures the lives of a group of struggling young African Americans whose dreams are tempered by their difficult circumstances. |
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The year we left home
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Thompson, Jean |
Chronicles the happiness pursuits of the Eriksons from their 1970s coming-of-age to the near-present day, in a story told from revolving viewpoints. |
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Wild child
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T. Coraghessan Boyle |
With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civiliz… |
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Drop City
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T. Coraghessan Boyle |
"It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska--in… |
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A good American
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Alex George |
The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more … |
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Best new American voices 2010
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Dani Shapiro,John Kulka,Natalie Danford |
From the Publisher: Bestselling novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro brings her expertise to this year's volume of Best New American Voices. Now in its eleventh year, this series gathers the best fict… |
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Private life
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Jane Smiley |
A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War II. |
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Cinderella And Other Stories
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Richard Harding Davis |
Cinderella--The servants of the Hotel Salisbury, which is so called because it is situated on Broadway and conducted on the American plan by a man named Riggs, had agreed upon a date for their annual… |
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Buttered Side Down
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Edna Ferber |
Born in Kalamazoo, MI, Ferber (1885-1968) moved with her family to Chicago and Iowa before settling in Appleton, WI at age 12. After graduating from high school, she was a reporter on the *Appleton D… |
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Laugh track
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David Galef |
"Though David Galef is best known for his novels Flesh and Turning Japanese, he has also published over sixty short stories in magazines spanning the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Cana… |
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On Picket Duty and Other Tales
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Louisa May Alcott |
"So was I! Aint it odd how fellers fall to thinkin' of thar little women, when they get a quiet spell like this?" |
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Costly habits
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Peter Makuck |
"A father on vacation nearly loses his eye on an ocean fishing pier while trying to escape the demands of his family. A systems analyst, embittered by the loss of his job and resentful of a seemingly… |
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Justice for all
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Amanda Stephens |
Boston in 1773 is an inhospitable place for the two teenagers whose lives are about to intersect there. |
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The real McCoy
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Darin Strauss |
"Loosely based on the real life of a turn-of-the-century icon and charlatan, The Real McCoy introduces a character like no other in recent contemporary fiction. "Kid" McCoy was a man of many talents … |
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Commonwealth
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Joey Goebel |
From the author of the internationally acclaimed Torture the Artist, a fiercely funny novel about red-state politics, family traditions, and a common man who decides to fight back. Somewhere in the m… |
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Skin of the Earth
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Art Gibney |
"Nevada's back country is a region of vast spaces, drought-parched sagebrush and snow-clogged winters, rugged ranchers and fiercely independent loners seeking solitude in remote canyons. But the Neva… |
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
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Lydia Davis |
"Lydia Davis's first major collection of stories, Break It Down (1986), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was described as "A magnetic collection of stories" (Booklist), "Strong, seemingly effo… |
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Burial of the Guns, The
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Thomas Nelson Page |
1860s. Six tales depicting the South of the days before and after the war, with deep affection for the old patriarchal society but without blindness to its darker side. Title-story a gallant, patheti… |
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Big Bend
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Bill Roorbach |
"In "Fog," a teenage boy learns hard lessons about canoes, the Gulf of Maine, sex, and love. A struggling young artist goes home for the holidays in search of succor for the stomach - and heart - wit… |
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