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Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art 1 review
Modern Library, 2005
The Time of the Season
With all the hoopla that comes with the Christmas shopping season, everybody needs a short respite. What better way to do it than to pick up a book, or better yet, give a book that reflects the holiday season? The New Yorker partners with Random House with CHRISTMAS AT THE NEW YORKER: STORIES, ...
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The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (Writing American Women)
Syracuse University Press, 2001
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Under The Boardwalk: A Dazzling Collection Of All New Summertime Love Stories (Sonnet Books) 11 reviews Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, ...
Pocket, 1999
nice beach reading
+ I enjoyed this book... + Howard & Hunter's Stories were the best + Decent novella compilation
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Great Short Stories of the Masters 1 review Charles Neider
Cooper Square Press, 2003
An Old but Good Collection
This book, published in 2002, was an unabridged republication of the 1989 version (Great Short Stories: Fiction from the Masters of World Literature). Earlier versions were published in 1950 and 1972 as Great Short Stories from the World's Literature. Most of the compiler's choices appear to have ...
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Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam 20 reviews Susan O'Neill
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
One of my favorite Army Nurses
+ Great + sincere and deeply felt + Masterful Storytelling + Highly recommended
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Island: The Complete Stories 16 reviews Alistair MacLeod
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
Finest writing I've read in ages
+ Island + Island - The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod + A Bittersweet Look Back Home + An English Assignment Gone Well...
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Just Our Best Short Stories 2005 5 reviews Janet Sue Terry
Just My Best, 2005
A VERSATILE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY TALENTED WRITERS
+ Simply Beautiful + A GOOD MIX OF STYLES & GENRES IN THIS COLLECTION! GREAT READS! + THESE SHORT STORIES ARE REALLY GOOD! + MY AUNT LIKES THESE STORIES
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Rear View: Stories 5 reviews Peter Duval
Mariner Books, 2004
Hard, gritty, real
+ Wise, Funny, Humane + Fantastic Decription + Peculiar Plots = Excellent Stories + Flash Fiction at it's Finest + Duval's masterful text
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A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories 1 review
Henry Holt & Company, 1997
A BLACK PERSPECTIVE ON CHRISTMAS
Everyone is familiar with the traditional Christmas stories that will be shared during this holiday. Ah, but there are other Christmas stories which put a unique twist on Christmas from an African-American perspective. Collected for the first time in one source are Christmas stories told by ...
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Mark Twain : The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It (Library of America) 28 reviews Mark Twain
Library of America, 1984
Review of INNOCENTS ABROAD by Mark Twain
+ The Hobo Philosopher + Perfect Gift + As always a wonderful read + Timeless Twain
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Across the Bridge of Sighs: More Venetian Stories 6 reviews Jane Turner Rylands
Pantheon, 2005
Wonderfully enchanting
+ a slice of Venetian life + This should not be missed...
Ever since I read Venetian Stories I've been awaiting a sequel with all of the anticipation of a ten-year-old J.K.R. fan. Thank you, Mrs. Rylands, for not disappointing. I savored this book for over a week, trying to carefully digest each vignette before it slipped into the intertwined mass of the ...
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The Undiscovered Zane Grey Fishing Stories 1 review Zane Grey, George Reiger
MacMillan Publishing Company, 1992
Excellent look into the heart of Grey, his motives for livin
The book contains 3 or four short stories that carry well Mr. Grey's attitudes about fishing and life in general. These stories are interwoven with information about him that I had not heard before. About his prowess as a horseman. His horses carried familiar names of those used in his writings, ...
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No Time for Sergeants: A Novel (Voices of the South) 4 reviews Mac Hyman
Louisiana State University Press, 1995
No time for airmen neither!
+ One of the funniest books ever written! + This is a very funny book! + Totally fun
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Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks) 8 reviews
Random House, 2000
Wonderful collection
+ Terrific! + A brilliant collection + A must-read for literary fiction fans
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Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Stories 23 reviews Thisbe Nissen
Anchor, 2000
Sharp, Sweet, Stealthy
+ Another Iowa success story + Wonderful + Beautiful and disarming collection of short stories!
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Black No More : A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks) 9 reviews George S. Schuyler
Modern Library, 1999
Life is a Con
+ Will the Real Black Man Please Stand Up + Wonderful and thought provoking + What it means to be black in America
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When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories 14 reviews David Benioff
Viking Adult, 2004
An Overlooked Collection of Short Stories
+ Amazing writing and great stories..... + Each story is a new suprise! + A Diverse Collection + Sex, Lies & Short Stories
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Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings (Library of America) Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien
Library of America, 1992
Featuring her wonderfully readable and often anthologized short stories, the third and final volume (with "Early Novels and Stories" and "Later Novels") of the most comprehensive Cather edition available anywhere. Includes the short-story collections "Youth and the Bright Medusa," "Obscure Destinies," and "The Old Beauty and Others," the novellas "Alexander's Bridge" and "My Mortal Enemy," ...
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Theodore Dreiser : Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men (Library of America) Theodore Dreiser
Library of America, 1987
A master of naturalism, Theodore Dreiser brought the American novel into the twentieth century. Fascinated by the city street, its parade of fashion and its threat of poverty and degradation, his journalistic eye lets us see as they were first seen the now familiar realities of modern living. "Sister Carrie" traces the fate of a small-town girl drawn into the brutal metropolitan worlds of Chicago ...
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Natasha: And Other Stories 33 reviews David Bezmozgis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004
Excellent book with basic respect for the reader
+ The Title Story is My Favorite + Little treasure of a book + Same Characters in Different Short Stories Don't Quite Make a Novel
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