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Best American seriesSummary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2009 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESSummary: The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An anthology of top-selected sports writing from the past year is culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty publications as well as a variety of leading sports blogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 BESSummary: 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 / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESSummary: The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, in galleries, minicomics, and the web.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESSummary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESSummary: "Featuring guest-editor contributions by the author of the Outlander series, a latest annual edition compiles top-selected short works of science fiction and fantasy from the year 2019."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" ("Chicago Tribune)." The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch)," ensuring yet another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction: deciderization 2007 - a special report / David Foster Wallace -- Werner / Jo Ann Beard -- The freedom to offend / Ian Burma -- Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner -- Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero -- An orgy of power / George Gessert -- What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell -- Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif -- Operation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESSummary: Guest editor Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers, works with a group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to select The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. The BANR Committee gathers weekly in the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, blogs, transcripts, and anything else that strikes their fancy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016