The Best American Short Stories 2001 (The Best American ...
 Not experimental but worthwhile: Kingsolver's introduction is well worth reading (much more thoughtful than Sue Miller's to the newest edition of B.A.S.S.). As always the collection is inconsistent, but there are some real winners: "Servants of the [... more]
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At the Bottom of the River
Love, sadness, and growing up in the Caribbean: Jamaica Kincaid's AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER is a study of voice and language that first brought the author recognition beyond the pages of literary journals. These ten stories, all but the last extremely [... more]
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Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales
Amazon.com Review: In his introduction to Everything's Eventual, horror author extraordinaire Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the impact of [... more]
$28.00
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Malgudi Days (Twentieth-Century Classics)
India calling: Malgudi Days, a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan happens to be my favourite book. The book is a compilation of different short stories that covers a plethora of emotions. It is the right balance between humour, and a dose of [... more]
$14.00
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Night Tales: Night Shift/ Night Shadow/ Nightshade/ ...
4 very early Nora tales that are outstanding: Some of Nora Robert's Early works, the "Night" tales are hard to find. You find them in secondary bookstores used - maybe - and for very high prices. Here you have all four tales (four complete [... more]
$14.95
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The Stories of John Cheever
Amazon.com Review: "These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when [... more]
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Wild Cow Tales
Classic Texas Cowboy Book: Ben Green probably writes one of the best cowboy stories I've ever read. A book full of short stories that are enjoyable for the adult as well as the kid. Cowboy vs. cows, a contest of who's smarter: Wild cows, as the author [... more]
$25.00
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Interpreter of Maladies (Edition 001)
Amazon.com Review: Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and [... more]
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First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book ...
Me gusto mucho este libro!: I found this book most helpful in reviewing my knowledge and understanding of Spanish. I could attempt to read the passages in Spanish and then seen if I had understood them correctly by then reading the English version. It is [... more]
$7.95
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The Golf Omnibus
Its a classic: The manner in which Wodehouse has developed the characters in the stories is indeed amazing. One hilarius feature I noticed in many of the stories is the attempt made by the victim (listener) to escape from the oldest member's clutches [... more]
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Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales
Amazon.com Review: In his introduction to Everything's Eventual, horror author extraordinaire Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the impact of [... more]
$7.99
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Amazon.com Review: The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology, entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the humanities, [... more]
$28.95
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