American fiction - 20th century
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s (Loa #94): The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big
$45.00 Add to cart“The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States.” — Ed Gorman
Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the dec- Series: Library of America Noir Collection #1
- Author: Polito, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 990
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1883011469
- Language: English
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The Black Tortoise
$9.95 Read morePeter Strand is half Chinese and half Cherokee and was adopted by an elderly white couple from Phoenix. Now he’s a forensic accountant in San Francisco, where he’s struggling with his identity.
When h- Series: Rapid Reads #2
- Author: Tierney, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1459812409
- Language: English
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Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (Loa #370): The Murderers / The Name of the Game Is Death / Dead Calm / The Expendable Man / The Score
$40.00 Read moreIn the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter–here are five of their finest works
This i- Author: O’Brien, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 950
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537377
- Language: English
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John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962 (Loa #170): The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Disc
$45.00 Add to cartJohn Steinbeck was never content to repeat himself, and his restless search for new forms and fresh subject matter is fully evident in the books of his later years. This volume collects four novels th… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #4
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1125
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1598530046
- Language: English
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Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present
$25.99 Add to cartThe sequel to Langston Hughes’s 1967 classic anthology The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, Gloria Naylor’s Children of the Night is a “brilliant collection” of short stories by black writers incl… [more below]
- Series: Short Story #2
- Author: Naylor, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0316599239
- Language: English
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Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West–1950 to the Present
$17.00 Add to cartLarry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various… [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0684868830
- Language: English
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The Wine of Youth
$19.99 Add to cartThis new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including “A Nun No More” and “My Father’s God.”
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0876855826
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (Loa #341): Salvador / Democracy / Miami / After Henry / The Last Thing He Wanted
$40.00 Add to cartLibrary of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and novels from mid-career
This second volume in Librar- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 838
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1598536834
- Language: English
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
$32.00 Add to cartSince 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 tim
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Updike, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0395843677
- Language: English
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American Supernatural Tales
$17.00 Add to cartAs Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Joshi, S. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143105043
- Language: English
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The Chaneysville Incident
$18.99 Read more“The Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison’s Invisible Man.” — Christian Science Monitor
Updated with a ne
- Author: Bradley, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0063135620
- Language: English
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Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (Loa #371): The Fiend / Doll / Run Man Run / The Tremor of Forgery
$40.00 Read moreIn the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter–here are four of their finest works
This i- Author: O’Brien, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 950
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537385
- Language: English
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
$36.00 Add to cartWitness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series.
For the centennial celebration of this belove- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Moore, Lorrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0547485859
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (Loa #325): Run River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It as It Lays / A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album
$39.95 Add to cartLibrary of America launches a definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s
Joan Didion’s i- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 980
- Publish Date: November 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 1598536451
- Language: English
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Last Standing Woman
$23.95 Add to cartBorn at the turn of the 21st century, The Storyteller, also known as Ishkwegaabawiikwe (Last Standing Woman), carries her people’s past within her memories. The White Earth Anishinaabe people have liv
- Author: LaDuke, Winona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1774920522
- Language: English
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Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition
$25.00 Add to cartA gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams’s solo fishing trip in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commis
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063297493
- Language: English
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Answered Prayers: The Novel That Scandalized Capote’s Women
$26.00 Add to cartTruman Capote’s unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent a seismic shock through the public and Capote’s own social circle.
“Prose that makes the heart sing a- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593731107
- Language: English
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Playing Easy to Get
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon and rising stars Jaid Black and Kresley Cole unlock the pleasures and perils of embracing the boldest and most powerful of lovers — 100% alpha males
- Author: Cole, Kresley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 1416510877
- Language: English
