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Best African American fiction, 2009: 2009 (Best African American fiction)
By E. Lynn Harris, Gerald Early. 2009
Anthology of African American fiction incorporating a diversity of themes and locales features eight short stories and eight excerpts from…
adult and young adult novels. In "The Saving Work" two white American mothers, married to black men on a Caribbean island, watch their church burn down. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 2009War is: soldiers, survivors, and storytellers talk about war
By Marc Aronson, Patty Campbell. 2009
Anthology of memoirs, poems, letters, and fiction that illustrate the life of a soldier at war. Servicemen and servicewomen, family…
members, journalists, and others depict experiences of adventure, terror, boredom, and mental and physical duress. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2008The O. Henry prize stories: 2007 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
By Laura Furman. 2007
Twenty short stories selected from diverse periodicals. In Brian Evenson's "Mudder Tongue" a teacher gradually loses his language ability. Includes…
"The View from Castle Rock" by Alice Munro and "El Ojo de Agua" by Susan Straight. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2007Armageddon in retrospect: and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace
By Kurt Vonnegut. 2008
Twelve fiction and nonfiction pieces representing Vonnegut's views on violence and war and his desire for world peace. Contains both…
a 1945 letter to his family summarizing his prisoner-of-war experience in Germany and his last speech, written in 2007. Introduction by his son Mark Vonnegut. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008Words without borders: the world through the eyes of writers : an anthology
By Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman, Samantha Schnee. 2007
Translated stories, essays, poems, and excerpts by twenty-eight writers from twenty-one countries including Bosnia, China, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria.…
In Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani's "A Drowsy Haze," a Cairo man prepares for death. In Norwegian writer Johan Harstad's "Vietnam. Thursday," a psychologist interviews a napalm-burned refugee. 2007Stories for a winter's night: short fiction by Native Americans
By Maurice Kenny. 2000
Thirty-seven tales reflecting both the traditional and contemporary Native American experience. Includes Peter Blue Cloud's "Coyote Meets Raven," Leslie Marmon…
Silko's "His Wife Had Caught Them Before," and E. Pauline Johnson's "The Derelict," in which an English minister faces a moral dilemma when he falls for a half-Chippewa woman. 2000The Portable western reader (Viking portable library)
By Various, William Kittredge. 1997
Anthology of stories, poems, essays, and excerpts exploring the range and evolution of Western American literature including the Native American…
experience. Features selections by Louise Erdrich, Lewis and Clark, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry, Raymond Carver, W.H. Auden, Ken Kesey, Barry Lopez, and others. 1997Dark matter: reading the bones
By Sheree R. Thomas. 2004
Collection of speculative fiction and nonfiction by twenty-eight writers of the African diaspora exploring "the languages of love and lore,…
oppression and abuse, identity and community, revelations and new frontiers." Companion to Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Disapora (RC 52151). Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2004Hanukkah lights: stories of the season : from NPR's annual holiday special
By Media Melcher, Sandra Dionisi. 2005
Twelve stories celebrating Hanukkah by contemporary authors Myra Goldberg, Daniel Pinkwater, Harlan Ellison, Dani Shapiro, Elie Wiesel, Mark Helprin, and…
others. In Anne Roiphe's "The Demon Foiled," a new Jewish mayor attempts to light the family Hanukkah candles while he is being filmed for local TV. 2005Skin folk
By Nalo Hopkinson. 2001
The author of Brown Girl in the Ring (DB 52063) presents a collection of fifteen Afro-Caribbean tales, some set in…
Toronto, involving fantasy and folklore. In "Riding the Red," Red Riding Hood is now a grandmother. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. 2001The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 2006 / XXX (Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses Ser.)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 2006
Sixty-one short stories, essays, and poems from literary magazines, online and print journals, and small presses. Includes Rick Bass's "Her…
First Elk" and works by E.L. Doctorow, Edward Hirsch, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Busch, Carl Phillips, and others. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2006Twenty-two short stories about Jewish heroines in Europe, Israel, and the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth…
centuries. The compilation portrays both very ordinary and also utterly exceptional women. Includes works by Dvora Baron, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholom Aleichem, and David Bergelson. Introduction by Francine Prose. 2003The O. Henry prize stories: 2003 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
By Laura Furman. 2003
Anthology of twenty pieces of North American short fiction that describe the human condition--love, war, repression, and life-changing moments. Includes…
Anthony Doerr's "The Shell Collector," Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams," and selections by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Marjorie Kemper, and A.S. Byatt. Some strong language. 2003Cabbage and bones: an anthology of Irish American women's fiction
By Caledonia Kearns. 1997
A collection of twenty-four short stories and excerpts from novels by twentieth-century writers of Irish American heritage. Includes several new…
authors and some already well-known such as Mary McCarthy, Maureen Howard, Tess Gallagher, Alice McDermott, Anna Quindlen, and Mary Gordon. 1997Fourteen Yiddish tales told in colloquial language depict Jewish life in Eastern Europe and in New York. In each case…
the author speaks through a man or woman who relates a story of personal woe, often involving humor and satire. 1998The Oxford book of English short stories (Oxford Books of Prose Ser.)
By A. S. Byatt. 1998
Anthology of thirty-seven tales by nineteenth- and twentieth-century English authors such as Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling,…
H.G. Wells, Saki, G.K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, V.S. Pritchett, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, T.H. White, Penelope Fitzgerald, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. 1998A humorous look at the workplace from the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip. The Dilbert Principle is that "the…
most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--management." BestsellerOld songs in a new café: Selected Essays
By Robert James Waller. 1983
Nineteen essays written since 1983 by Waller, a folksinger and author of the bestselling Bridges of Madison County (DB 35861).…
The writings include a loving tribute to his wife, thoughts on his daughter leaving home at eighteen, a book signing on a snowy day in St. Ansgar, playing "Wabash Cannonball" for a program with Charles Kuralt, and thoughts on his fiftieth birthday. BestsellerAdvertisements for myself
By Norman Mailer. 1992
An anthology of short stories, newspaper columns, extracts from novels, essays, and interviews--connected by autobiographical comments, or "advertisements." Mailer's diversity…
of forms is matched by his range of styles--from simple and direct, as in "Advertisement for Three War Stories," to his sarcastic responses to reviews of his work, such as "The Last Draft of The Deer Park." Strong languageThe best short stories of Theodore Dreiser
By Howard Fast, Theodore Dreiser. 1989
Although Dreiser worked as a newspaperman in St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York, he is best remembered for his…
fiction. This collection of his short stories includes "The Shadow," "The Old Neighborhood," and "The Prince Who Was a Thief."