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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]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

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

  • Short Stories: Five Decades (Phoenix Fiction)

    A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw’s writing —as demonstrated in thes... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: B00BBPWB78
    • ASIN: B00BBPWB78
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

    Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend";  Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "La... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0679745130
    • ASIN: 0679745130
    • ISBN: 0679745130
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Her Cowboy: A Steamy Older Man Curvy Younger Woman Romance

    There’s a curvy, gorgeous young blonde on my doorstep, and she’s the most forbidden woman on this green earth.Rose is pure, hot, forbidden temptation in a shirt that’s too tight and shorts that are too short.She needs a place to stay and she’s willing to earn her keep.Her old man was my best friend, so of course I open my home to her.But now I have a problem on my hands.From the moment she showed up, I’ve been obsessed. She’s in my every waking thought. In all my sinful dreams. Madness surges through me when I see other men look at her.And what’s worse? She’s daring me. Tempting me. Flirting. Her lips are begging me to claim her. Her words are telling me just how inexperienced she is.She wants me to show her how we do it in cowboy country.It’s not right, but I don’t kno... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: B07V7GVJM3
    • ASIN: B07V7GVJM3

  • Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)

    This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st century’s most iconic names in fiction. No other sport has inspired as many great writers as baseball has, and this exceptional anthology brings together 34 short stories about the nation’s favorite pastime. The stories span several decades and are written by some of America’s favorite writers, including Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Michael Chabon, among others. Many of the stories are about the game itself, while others use baseball as a backdrop for timeless themes, such as morality, greed, and love. Eight new stories have been added to this expanded edition and include “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff, in ... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: 1613743769
    • ASIN: 1613743769
    • ISBN: 1613743769
    • Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press

  • 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

    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 character and voice.” These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biog... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: B00QPI449E
    • ASIN: B00QPI449E
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    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 will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” Mulling over the question of character likability, ser... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0547939418
    • ASIN: 0547939418
    • ISBN: 0547939418
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • 100 Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    "This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, begin with tales by Daniel Defoe ("The Apparition of Mrs. Veal," 1705), Benjamin Franklin ("Alice Addertongue," 1732), and Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker," 1824). Highlights from the nine... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
    • ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant on America’s Funniest Home Videos, and a gay man desperate to be a father—unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell.The Best American ... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
    • ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Secret Games

    Dante Vanderbilt. 6”4. Muscular. Sexy hazel eyes. Dark silky hair. The sort of man that no woman wants to say no to. And he knows it. He’s cocky, arrogant, and the most handsome man I’ve ever met in my life.I’m not the sort of girl to have a one night stand. I’m not the sort of girl that hooks up in someone’s office, but when I met Dante, I no longer recognized the sort of girl that I was. I decided to let caution sail to the wind and go with the flow and submit everything to him.But then, Dante did something unexpected. Suddenly he turned the heat to up 100 and I’m left hanging on by confused angry threads. Now it’s my turn to tables on him. Now it’s my turn to play some secret games.NOTE: This novella is a free steamy prequel to the full-length standalone novel Dante, t... [Read More]
    Best Contemporary Short Stories

    • ASIN: B07KG77J9M
    • ASIN: B07KG77J9M

  • The Best American Short Stories 2018

    Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short
    Best Contemporary Short Stories
    Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a

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  • 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

    An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series over 100 years that tells the history of American short fiction. 30,000 first
    Best Contemporary Short Stories
    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 character and voice.” These forty stories represent their eras but also

    • UPC: 45056350
    • Rating: 5.0

  • No More Man: Who Needs a Man When You can Have Your Best Friend? - Contemporary Lesbian Erotica Short Story - eBook

    I am in love with my best friend. However, I cannot tell her because she is in a relationship; an abusive relationship. I am always there for her due to the fact that she does not deserve to go through what she is going through alone, even though she does not deserve go to through it at all. But, what do I know?Before I know it, we are hooking up and in a relationship. It is everything that I ever wanted. Until it isn’t. For no reason, Alisha leaves me and I am left to pick up the pieces of
    Best Contemporary Short Stories
    No More Man: Who Needs a Man When You can Have Your Best Friend? - Contemporary Lesbian Erotica Short Story -

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  • More Stories We Tell : The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women

    The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few). We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from
    Best Contemporary Short Stories
    The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few).We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2005

    The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Short Stories 2005 includesDennis Lehane • Tom Perrotta • Alice Munro • Edward P. Jones • Joy Williams
    Best Contemporary Short Stories
    The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.The Best American Short Stories 2005 includesDennis Lehane • Tom Perrotta • Alice Munro • Edward P. Jones • Joy Williams •

    • UPC: 34682001
    • Rating: 3.75

  • More Stories We Tell : The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American ...

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  • More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Wome

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  • Forgiveness: Ireland's Best Contemporary Short Stories (Voices One) Book The

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  • A Tongue in Yer Heid: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Short Stories in Sc,

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  • Six Great Contemporary Short Stories - Stripped Cover Lit Six List

    Stripped Cover Lit's Adrian and Dalton discuss six of their favorite contemporary short stories. The majority of these are available for free online, give them a read and let us know what you think...
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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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    Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series (FULL Audiobook)

    Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series - audiobook VARIOUS ( - ) This book is composed of 24 short stories, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, and is the second coll...
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