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The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 116 pages

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This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe. A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories. Contained within this volume are the following: The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Balloon-Hoax,...

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The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris (Ironweed American Classics)

by Frank Norris

Published: 1998-10

Paperback: 180 pages

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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Published: 2001-02-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, ...

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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)

by O. Henry

Published: 1994-03-22

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.  The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in...

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The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)

by Bill Cosby

Published: 1997-09-01

Paperback: 40 pages

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Longing for the new Space Explorers video game, Little Bill and his friends are disappointed when their parents refuse to buy the game and wonder how they can still have fun without it. Original."Oprah Book Club� Selection, December 1997: Well-loved comedian Bill Cosby encourages kids...

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The Bestiary

by Nicholas Christopher

Published: 2007-06-26

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From “a writer of remarkable gifts,” “Borges with emotional weight, comes a tale that is at once a fantastical historical mystery, a haunting love story, and a glimpse into the uncanny—the quest for a long-lost book detailing the animals left off Noah’s Ark. Xeno Atlas grows u...

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The Bestseller

by Olivia Goldsmith

Published: 1997-08

Mass Market Paperback: 0 pages

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In a scathingly wicked and irreverent portrait of the publishing world, five authors and their books--all handled by big-time New York City publishing house Davis and Dash--compete for a position on the New York Times bestseller list. 125,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. Tour...

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Bet Me

by Jennifer Crusie

Published: 2004-08-31

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Even if he is gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey. Cal knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. Even if she does wear great sh...

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Bet Your Bottom Dollar: A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel

by Karin Gillespie

Published: 2005-05-31

Paperback: 293 pages

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Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar, and coffee and gossip are free. For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee, logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So wh...

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Betrayal

by Fern Michaels

Published: 2011-07-01

Paperback: 395 pages

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Kate and Alex Rocket are blessed with a wonderful marriage and a lovely home. Although Kate can't have children, she and Alex look upon Sara and Emily, daughters of their good friends Don and Debbie Winter, as part of their family. With one phone call, everything changes. Sara accuses Alex of a terrible...