The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 by Lisa Scottoline
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Best American
A best-selling novelist and Edgar Award winner, Lisa Scottoline brings her mastery of the thriller genre as well as her wit and heart to this collection of the must-reads in mysteries.
The Best American Short Stories 2013 by Edited by Elizabeth Strout
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Best American
Edited by the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" ("Wall Street Journal"). With the masterly Strout picking the best of the best, America's oldest ...Show more
The Best American Sports Writing 2013 by Glenn Stout
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Best American
J. R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature writer and the author of "The Tender Bar, " has selected the best in sports writing from the past year. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications and, increasingly, the top sports blogs, this collection showcases those jou ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2014 by Robert Manne
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Category: Anthologies
'Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinchi ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2015 by Ariel Levy
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Best American
Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. This year s writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marr ...Show more
Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future by Julianne & Gleeson, Brendan (ed Schultz
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Griffith REVIEW
AUSTRALIAN politics and national life are trapped in a permanent present. There are few opportunities to imagine the future, and even fewer to create it. Politics, commerce, media all focus relentlessly on the here and now. This breeds a corrosive cynicism. Yet when alternatives are presented they are o ...Show more
In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper by Lawrence Block
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Category: Anthologies
"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers." Says Lawrence Block, who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented anthology of brand new stories. The results are remarkable and range across all ...Show more
Granta #140 : The Mind by Sigrid (EDT) Rausing
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
We know how the brain works, but do we understand the mind? In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world. With new fiction, reportage, poetry, photography, and art add ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2017 by Melbourne Books
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Category: Anthologies
Each edition of Award Winning Australian Writing represents approximately 50 Writing organisations and competitions around Australia that run short story and poetry writing competitions. A sample of those represented includes: Alan Marshall Short Story Award Banjo Paterson Writing Award Bruce Dawe Na ...Show more
The Story of Synko-Filipko and other Russian Folk Tales by Elena Polenova (Illustrator)
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Category: Anthologies
A collection of charming folk tales and rhymes illustrated by Russian artist Elena Polenova, and designed by Christoph Stolberg. Russian folk tales have a timeless, slightly unworldly quality that children, and those who read to them, find particularly appealing. This is Fontanka's second book of folk ...Show more
Freedom: Vintage Minis by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms t ...Show more
Unexplained : Supernatural Stories for Uncertain Times by Richard MacLean Smith
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Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
'A grisly treat' Financial Times on the podcast Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries which might be best left unexplained. . . ******************************* What can a case of demonic possession in 1970's Germany teach us about ...Show more