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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that's the case, I've got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later." Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 features...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Best American Comics 2016 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web to make a collection that is full of varied, provocative feats of cartooning .
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning and best-selling Jonathan Franzen picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. He brings his "elegance, acumen, and daring as an essayist" (New York Times) to the collection.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever." --Publishers Weekly“The essay is politicaland politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocativebecause of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix...
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Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"[A] terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to transport you." USA Today The Best American Short Stories 2017 will be edited by Meg Wolitzer, who is "almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it" (San Francisco Chronicle), making her the perfect person to helm this literary time capsule of a collection.
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the years best mystery short fiction. Jonathan Lethem, “one of Americas 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).
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Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from...
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Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
#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.
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