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  • The Best American Series 2017

    16 Short Stories & Essays

    by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    series The Best American Series ®
    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 2017 editions:The Best American Short Stories edited by Meg WolitzerThe Best American Essays edited by Leslie JamisonThe Best American Mystery Stories edited by John SandfordThe Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Sarah ... Read more

    € 0,53 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

    by John Joseph Adams and 6 more

    series The Best American Series
    Stories by N.K. Jemisin, Dale Bailey, Peter S. Beagle, and more: “Showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre.” —*TheWashington Post***Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole ... Read more

    € 11,76 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Essays 2017

    by Leslie Jamison

    series The Best American Series
    This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers “essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever” (Publishers Weekly).“The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; ... Read more

    € 10,13 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Short Stories 2017

    by Meg Wolitzer

    series The Best American Series
    The New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others.“If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for ... Read more

    € 11,76 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

    by Hope Jahren and 1 more

    series 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 ... Read more

    € 10,13 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Comics 2017

    by Ben Katchor and 1 more

    series The Best American Series ®
    “Every last page is worth a look.” —BustleBen Katchor, “the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip” (New York Times Book Review), selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2017 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines ... Read more

    € 14,60 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2017

    by John Sandford

    series The Best American Series
    The New York Times–bestselling author presents a thrilling anthology of devious crimes with stories by C. J. Box, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and more.“Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—although there’s ... Read more

    € 8,93 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017

    by Sarah Vowell and 1 more

    series The Best American Series ®
    “A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required.” —USA TodaySarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles "gilded with snark, buoyant on charm" (NPR), worked with the students of the 826 Valencia writing lab to edit this year's anthology. They compiled new fiction, ... Read more

    € 10,13 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Sports Writing 2017

    by Glenn Stout and 1 more

    series The Best American Series ®
    For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year’s guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly and painfully, these stories reflect on that journey, asking difficult questions about who we are, ... Read more

    € 10,13 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2017

    by Lauren Collins and 1 more

    series The Best American Series ®
    “The Best American Travel Writing has been the gold standard for short-form travel writing from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet since its inception.” —New York Times Book ReviewEveryone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain—they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, ... Read more

    € 10,13 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Short Stories 2020

    by Curtis Sittenfeld and 1 more

    series The Best American Series ®
    “To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the ... Read more

    € 11,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Noir of the Century

    by James Ellroy and 1 more

    series The Best American Series
    This “impressive crime anthology” presents a century of American greed, crime and comeuppance by some of the genre’s greatest authors (Publishers Weekly, starred review).James Ellroy, the author of such noir classics as The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential, joins forces with award-winning editor Otto Penzler to present this treasure trove of stories. Ranging from the 1920s to the present day, ... Read more

    € 13,40 or Free with Kobo Plus