• The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, fifteen Bay Area high school students have gathered each week in the basement of an independent publishing house to pore over online and print literary journals, magazines, books, plays, and graphic novels. They read things they couldn’t shake and engaged in deep conversations about how good writing brings people together, no matter what else is happening around the world. With the help of New York Times be... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0358093163
    • ASIN: 0358093163
    • ISBN: 0358093163
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing.New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Good Creature, The Soul of an Octopus, The Good Good Pig, and more, Sy Montgomery, 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 the disciplines.  

    • ASIN: 1328519007
    • ASIN: 1328519007
    • ISBN: 1328519007
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ISBN: 1328484246
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for excellence in travel writing.

    • ASIN: 0358094232
    • ASIN: 0358094232
    • ISBN: 0358094232
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Food Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year’s finest writing about food and drink.Best-selling author and winner of numerous awards, Samin Nosrat, selects the year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.

    • ASIN: 132866225X
    • ASIN: 132866225X
    • ISBN: 132866225X
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • 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

  • The Best American Essays 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an “unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation” (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.

    • ASIN: 1328465802
    • ASIN: 1328465802
    • ISBN: 1328465802
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction. Jonathan Lethem, “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Washington Post), selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual “treat for crime-fiction fans” (Library Journal).

    • ASIN: 1328636097
    • ASIN: 1328636097
    • ISBN: 1328636097
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Sports Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curates a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, and the pure passion they tap into... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1328507858
    • ASIN: 1328507858
    • ISBN: 1328507858
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2018, guest-edited by National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado. 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 spaceships 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. Wit... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1328604373
    • ASIN: 1328604373
    • ISBN: 1328604373
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)

    The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501127802
    • ASIN: 1501127802
    • ISBN: 1501127802
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • 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 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: B07897WYRY
    • ASIN: B07897WYRY
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The Best American Comics 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

     Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year.Jillian Tamaki, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller This One Summer, selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today. 

    • ASIN: 0358067286
    • ASIN: 0358067286
    • ISBN: 0358067286
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • 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

  • The Best American Short Stories 2018

    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

    • UPC: 746152764

  • The Best American Essays of the Century

    An anthology of fifty-five essays on a variety of topics features contributions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and other notable twentieth-century literary

    • UPC: 1572777
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2019 : Best Recipes, Equipment Reviews, and Tastings

    9781945256530

    • UPC: 917626840

  • 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 travel writing 2018 - paperback: 9781328497697

    A collection of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected by Cheryl

    • UPC: 984338730

  • BFF'S 2 : Best Frenemies Forever Series

    Kayla, upset that Evelyn has been cheating with her husband and that Trina has known about it, decides to leave her friends behind, but when Evelyn sets her sights on Trina's beau too, things really

    • UPC: 55159478
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

    An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise

    • UPC: 661769729

  • 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 Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

    Best-selling author Hope Jahren edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature

    • UPC: 55963164

  • BFF's Forever : Best Frenemies Forever Series, Books 1-3

    Kayla, Evelyn, and Trina have been on-and-off-again girlfriends for many years, but the lines of true friendship have been crossed, the knives that went into another friend's back cut deep, and trust no longer applies

    • UPC: 896472199

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