American Short Story Masterpieces
Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 2, 1989
Price: $7.99
This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. With a bias toward realism editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight.
But what...
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Written by Sylvia Plath
Foreword by Ted Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1998
Price: $16.95
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of...
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Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $27.95
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies...
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Against Wind and Tide
Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $14.99
Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those first books on flying, she tapered off into long silences broken by an infrequent volume of verse or prose.” ...
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Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.99
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on...
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Portraits and Observations
Written by Truman Capote
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capote’s eye for detail and dazzling style made his reportage and commentary undeniable triumphs...
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