Best New American Series - April 2024

The Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention c... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078FGZ95D
• ASIN: B078FGZ95D
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

“This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things than ever before.” The twenty-six pieces assembled here chart the full spectrum of those discoveries. From the outer reaches of space, to the mysteries of the human mind, to the changing culture in labs and universities across the nation, we see time and again the someti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328987809
• ASIN: 1328987809
• ISBN: 9781328987808
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Bitterroots: A Novel (Cassie Dewell)

A riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box.The ties that bind can burn you.Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out by the Bitterroot Mountai... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07J4G76BM
• ASIN: B07J4G76BM
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task. “The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great one when you feel it, because it is concentrated life,” writes Hilton Als in his introduction. Expertly guided by Als’s instinct and intellect, The Best American Essays 2018 showcases gre... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544817346
• ASIN: 0544817346
• ISBN: 0544817346
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Contraband (A Stone Barrington Novel Book 50)

Stone Barrington is caught in the web of a national smuggling operation in the latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.Stone Barrington is getting some much-needed rest and relaxation in the Florida sun when trouble falls from the sky--literally. Intrigued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding this event, Stone joins forces with a sharp-witted and alluring local detective to investigate. But they run into a problem: the evidence keeps disappearing.From the laid-back Key West shores to the bustling Manhattan streets, Stone sets out to connect the dots... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07KNTLYYF
• ASIN: B07KNTLYYF
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year’s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.

• ASIN: 1328465810
• ASIN: 1328465810
• ISBN: 9781328465818
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Blood Truth (Black Dagger Legacy Book 4)

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Savior brings you the next sizzling and passionate paranormal romance in the Black Dagger Legacy series.As a trainee in the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s program, Boone has triumphed as a soldier and now fights side by side with the Brothers. Following his sire’s unexpected death, he is taken off rotation against his protests—and he finds himself working with Butch O’Neal, former homicide cop, to catch a serial killer: Someone is targeting females of the species at a live action role play club. When the Brotherhood is called in to help, Boon... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NLHS3RK
• ASIN: B07NLHS3RK
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

“Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova   “An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian   “[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful to read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A renowned scientist and the best-selling author of Lab Girl, Hope Jahren selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across disciplines.

• ASIN: 1328715515
• ASIN: 1328715515
• ISBN: 1328715515
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Best American Mystery Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,” contends Louise Penny in her introduction. “In a short story there is nowhere to hide. Each must be original, fresh, inspired.” Originality is just what’s in store for readers of the twenty clever, creative selections in The Best American M... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544949099
• ASIN: 0544949099
• ISBN: 0544949099
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Summer of '69

The #1 New York Times Bestseller Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unabl... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07J564ZHD
• ASIN: B07J564ZHD
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best America... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328834565
• ASIN: 1328834565
• ISBN: 9781328834560
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

One Good Deed

The #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces an unforgettable new character: Archer, a straight-talking former World War II soldier fresh out of prison for a crime he didn't commit.It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job--and don't ever associate with loose women.The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's y... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NL5VP9J
• ASIN: B07NL5VP9J
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

The New Girl: A Novel (Gabriel Allon Book 19)

#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 USA Today  Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, this summer’s hottest thriller.Now you see her.  Now you don’t.  THE NEW GIRL.  A new thriller of deception, betrayal, and vengeance.She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw at the Burberry boutique in Harrods. She carried a leather bookbag rather than a nylon backpack. Her patent leather ballet slippers were glossy and bright. She was proper, the new girl, modest. But there was somethi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07F18LND4
• ASIN: B07F18LND4
• Manufacturer: Harper

Best American Food Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

“Food writing is stepping out,” legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, the inaugural edition of Best American Food Writing. “It’s about time…Food is, in a very real sense, redesigning the world.” Indeed, the twenty-eight pieces in this volume touch on every pillar of society: from the sense memories that connect a family through food, to the scientific tinkering that gives us new snacks to share, to the intersections of culinary culture with some of our most significant political issues. At times a celebration, at times a critique, at times a wondrous reve... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328662241
• ASIN: 1328662241
• ISBN: 1328662241
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Gi Joe: A Real American Hero: The Complete First Series (DVD)

Yo Joe! G.I. Joe is the code name for Americas highly-trained special missions force. Its purpose: To defend human freedom against Cobra, a ruthless organization determined to rule the world! In 1983 Hasbro made a

• UPC: 21119814
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 4.5

The Best American Poetry 2012 : Series Editor David Lehman

Edited this year by acclaimed poet and writer Doty, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. It is an essential guide to contemporary American verse and the poets who define

• UPC: 19403606
• Rating: 3.0

The Best American Poetry 2010 : Series Editor David Lehman

Gerstler and Lehman present the latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary

• UPC: 13219173
• Rating: 3.5

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Series - eBook

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction.  This special edition contains selections from the following editions:The Best American Short Stories edited by Geraldine BrooksThe Best

• UPC: 611630080
• Rating: 2.0

The New York Times Best of the Week Series: Friday Crosswords : 50 Challenging Puzzles

9781250133229

• UPC: 55312165

The New York Times Best of the Week Series: Wednesday Crosswords : 50 Medium-Level Puzzles

Wednesday might be humdrum in the office but if you're a crossword solver, a Wednesday puzzle will always keep you on your toes! This volume collects all your favorite medium level Wednesday puzzles in one

• UPC: 55312167

The New York Times Best of the Week Series: Sunday Crosswords : 50 Extra Large Puzzles

Are Sundays your favorite? We finish our "Best of the Week Series" up with a collection of the luxuriously long Sunday crosswords! This extra large puzzle is many crossword fans' favorite! Features: - 50 New

• UPC: 55312154

The New York Times Best of the Week Series: Saturday Crosswords : 50 Challenging Puzzles

A collection of Saturday puzzles in a convenient spiral

• UPC: 55312164

The New York Times Best of the Week Series: Tuesday Crosswords : 50 Easy Puzzles

Tuesday puzzles are fun and easy and now they're even easier to solve in this series with big, spiral-bound covers.Features: - Fifty of the Times's Tuesday crosswords, their easiest of the week - Puzzles that

• UPC: 55312168

NEW - The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

• UPC: 312903022744
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 11 USD

NEW - Best American Travel Writing 2017 (The Best American Series (R))

• UPC: 392600109907
• Category: Nonfiction
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The Best American Food Writing 2019 (The Best American Series) PAPERBACK 2019

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• Category: Nonfiction
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NEW - Best American Travel Writing 2016 (The Best American Series (R))

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NEW - The Best American Infographics 2013 (The Best American Series (R))

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• Category: Nonfiction
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NEW - Best American Sports Writing 2016 (The Best American Series (R))

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• Category: Nonfiction
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