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  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    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 Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and scores ... [Read More]
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg,  now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Hara... [Read More]
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: 0062316117
    • ASIN: 0062316117
    • ISBN: 9780062316110
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • The Hiding Place

    "Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see."--Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis, and for their work they were tested in the infamous Nazi death camps. Only Corrie among her family survived to tell the story of how faith ultimately triumphs over evil.Here is the riveting account of how Corrie and her family were able to save many of God's chosen people. For 35 years millions have seen that there is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still. Now The H... [Read More]
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: 0800794052
    • ASIN: 0800794052
    • ISBN: 9780800794057
    • Brand: Baker Pub Group/Baker Books
    • Manufacturer: Chosen Books

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (a... [Read More]
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: 076790818X
    • ASIN: 076790818X
    • ISBN: 076790818X
    • Brand: Bryson, Bill
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

  • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel


    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: B0064CPN7I
    • ASIN: B0064CPN7I
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • The Things They Carried

    A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.  Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing.
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: 0618706410
    • UPC: 046442706414
    • ASIN: 0618706410
    • ISBN: 0544309766
    • Brand: Tim O Brien
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel


    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: B00DPM7TIG
    • ASIN: B00DPM7TIG
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Great Gatsby

    A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsessio... [Read More]
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: 0743273567
    • ASIN: 0743273567
    • ISBN: 9780743273565
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Underground Railroad: A Novel

    #1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star Tribune   Look for Whitehead’s acclaimed new novel, The Nickel Boys, available now!Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's... [Read More]
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: 0345804325
    • ASIN: 0345804325
    • ISBN: 0345804325
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

    Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal).If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better.Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with... [Read More]
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

    • ASIN: B01KFJGT50
    • ASIN: B01KFJGT50
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • O. Henry's New York : The Immortality of a Great City Portrayed in Some of the Best Short Stories of All Time

    O. Henry's New York: The Immortality of a Great City Portrayed in Some of the Best Short Stories of All
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time
    O. Henry's New York: The Immortality of a Great City Portrayed in Some of the Best Short Stories of All Time

    • UPC: 53697365

  • O. Henry's New York : The Immortality of a Great City Portrayed in Some of the Best Short Stories of All Time

    O. Henry's New York
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time
    O. Henry's New York

    • UPC: 53673329

  • All the Time in the World - Audiobook

    From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world”.A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper-middle-class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.A college graduate takes a dishwasher’s
    10 Best Short Stories Of All Time
    All the Time in the World - Audiobook

    • UPC: 175093650

  • Top 10 Greatest Novels of All Time

    With these works of literature, authors turned inspiration into a lasting legacy. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Greatest Novels of All Time. Click here to ...
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    Reading Short Stories: Where To Start

    Hello, I’m Jen - I’m the author of the Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series, The Bookshop Book and The Hungry Ghost Festival. Click ‘Show More’ for more info on this video -- MY BOOKS: ...
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    TOLSTOY - The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy - Short story audiobook - FAB

    The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy - Short story audiobook - FAB "The Three Questions" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885 as part of the collection What Men Liv...
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