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Now 78, Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published fourteen previous books — Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; Selected Stories; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; The View from Castle Rock; and Alice Munro’s Best. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Man... Read More
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Emily of New Moon
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Afterword by Alice Munro
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: New Canadian Library
On Sale: February 1, 1989
Price: $7.95
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Written by L.M. Montgomery
Afterword by Alice Munro
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: New Canadian Library
On Sale: February 1, 1989
Price: $7.95
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Away from Her
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 96 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.00
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Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 96 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.00
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The Beggar Maid
Stories of Flo and Rose
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.95
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she... Read more >
Stories of Flo and Rose
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.95
In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she... Read more >
Carried Away
A Selection of Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $25.00
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of... Read more >
A Selection of Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $25.00
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of... Read more >
Dance of the Happy Shades
And Other Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1998
Price: $12.00
In these fifteen short stories—her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career—Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario... Read more >
And Other Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1998
Price: $12.00
In these fifteen short stories—her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career—Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario... Read more >
Friend of My Youth
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
“[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Contents
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Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.95
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
“[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Contents
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical... Read more >
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
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Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
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Lives of Girls and Women
A Novel
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman—is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940’s.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman—is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940’s.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s... Read more >
The Love of a Good Woman
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
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Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
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The Love of a Good Woman
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $14.95
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 26, 1999
Price: $14.95
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
The Moons of Jupiter
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.00
In these endlessly surprising stories, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time.
“How does one know when one is in the grip of art, a major... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $13.00
In these endlessly surprising stories, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time.
“How does one know when one is in the grip of art, a major... Read more >
Open Secrets
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $14.95
In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. Munro shows us how one... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 7, 1995
Price: $14.95
In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. Munro shows us how one... Read more >
The Progress of Love
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 12, 2000
Price: $14.00
Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.
A... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 12, 2000
Price: $14.00
Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.
A... Read more >
Runaway
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Runaway
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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Selected Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $16.95
Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $16.95
Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are... Read more >
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
13 Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
Few writers have perfected the technique of the short story as Alice Munro has. She writes with deceptive simplicity and an extraordinary power of re-creation. Here, in Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, is her familiar coterie of small-town types and her astonishing evocations of the happiness, pain, and pathos... Read more >
13 Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
Few writers have perfected the technique of the short story as Alice Munro has. She writes with deceptive simplicity and an extraordinary power of re-creation. Here, in Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, is her familiar coterie of small-town types and her astonishing evocations of the happiness, pain, and pathos... Read more >
Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Too Much Happiness
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
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Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
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Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $40.00
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Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $40.00
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Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $20.00
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Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $20.00
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The View from Castle Rock
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $14.95
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Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $14.95
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The View from Castle Rock
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $20.00
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Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $20.00
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The View from Castle Rock
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s... Read more >
