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Pen America Best Debut Short Stories 2017

Yuka Igarashi, Marie-Helene Bertino, Kelly Link

• Paperback | Engels | Pen America Best Debut Short Stories
• THE INAUGURAL ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE'S MOST PROMISING NEW VOICES A welcome addition to the run of established short story annuals, promising good wor... Lees meer

The Last Pilgrimage

Linda Daly

• Paperback | Engels
• Linda Daly had a seemingly charmed life: her mother Nancy was married to the head of Warner Bros, and her parents were one of the most influential and... Lees meer

Gentrifier

Anne Elizabeth Moore

• Hardcover | Engels
• Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both... Lees meer

A Box of Longing with 50 Drawers

Benka

• Paperback | Engels
• Benka takes us on a re-imagining that cuts through the psychic landscape of America and explores the United States as a a box of longing with fifty dr... Lees meer

Not Now, Voyager

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels
• Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel. Lynne Sharo... Lees meer

Who's Your Mama?

• Paperback | Engels
• Unlike other motherhood books that focus on the experiences of a small group of affluent, married white women, Who's Your Mama? centers on the largely... Lees meer

The World as We Knew It

• Paperback | Engels
• Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives-... Lees meer

Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel

Evan S Connell

• Paperback | Engels
• Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel "A unique tour de force" -- The New York Times Book Review "One of the most remarkable boo... Lees meer

I Have Seen the Future

Peter Hartshorn

• Paperback | Engels
• At the dawn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens, an internationally known and respected political insider, went rogue to work for McClure's Mag... Lees meer

Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men

Dael Orlandersmith

• Paperback | Engels
• Bold, beautiful and fierce-Dael Orlandersmith delivers a riveting story in Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men . This gritty play portrays five unforgettab... Lees meer

The CIA's Greatest Hits

Mark Zepezauer

• Paperback | Engels | Real Story
• A revised and updated edition of the explosive book that blows the lid off the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA's Greatest Hits details how the CI... Lees meer

A Complicated Marriage

Janice Van Horne

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1955, Jenny Van Horne was a 21-year-old, naive Bennington College graduate on her own for the first time in New York City when she met 46-year-old ... Lees meer

The Snow Tourist

Charlie English

• Paperback | Engels
• Combining on-the-slopes experience with off-trail research, author Charlie English follows in the footsteps of the Romantic poets across the Alps, lea... Lees meer

Human Oddities

Noria Jablonski

• Paperback | Engels
• In Human Oddities, by newcomer Noria Jablonski, we meet Siamese twins, newly separated, drag queens, and seedy hospital orderlies. A corpse washed up ... Lees meer

Peaks and Lamas

Marco Pallis

• Paperback | Engels
• Several years ago, Wendell Berry recommended we read Marco Pallis' Peaks and Lamas. He had obtained a copy of this out of print and elusive title, and... Lees meer

Vanishing America

James Conaway

• Paperback | Engels
• A mixture of travelogue and personal narrative, James Conaway's smart, informative essays offer an insightful depiction of his journeys between Washin... Lees meer

Hao

Ye Chun

• Hardcover | Engels
• Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction An extraordinary debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Pr... Lees meer

Officer Clemmons

Francois S Clemmons

• Hardcover | Engels
• This intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's Officer Clemmons, who made history as the first African Amer... Lees meer

Entertaining Disasters

Nancy Spiller

• Paperback | Engels
• "This zany novel will make you appreciate your own fallen soufflés that much more." -- Redbook The writer known only as FW lives high on the food cha... Lees meer

Wintergreen

Robert Michael Pyle

• Paperback | Engels
• In the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington, both the human community and the forest community are threatened with extinction. Virtually every acre o... Lees meer

Muddling Through

Michael Fortun

• Hardcover | Engels
• Messy. Clumsy. Volatile. Exciting. These words are not often associated with the sciences, which for most people still connote exactitude, elegance, r... Lees meer

My Vita, If You Will

Ed McClanahan

• Paperback | Engels
• If you don't know Ed McClanahan, this anthology of his essays, reviews, short stories, and novel excerpts (from early drafts) ought to do the trick ( ... Lees meer

Garbo Laughs

Elizabeth Hay

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a novel about movie love. Set in Ottawa in the 1990s, it is the quixotic tale of tall, thin Harriet Browning, inflamed by the movies she was d... Lees meer

Fear

Joanna Bourke

• Paperback | Engels
• Fear -- the word, itself, conjures the appropriate response. With a dark cacophony of associations like fright, dread, horror, panic, alarm, anxiety, ... Lees meer