Category: Short Stories

Face Relations: Eleven Stories About Seeing Beyond Color

Price: $4.75

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers : May 2004

Seller ID: 242407

ISBN-13: 9780689856372

Why can't a white kid sit with the black kids in the cafeteria? What happens when a biracial girl from Trinidad falls for a guy from a very different culture? How does a teen deal with being the only Palestinian boy or the only Japanese girl in a small American town? "Face Relations" offers eleven original works by celebrated authors Joseph Bruchac, Marina Budhos, M. E. Kerr, Kyoko Mori, Jess Mowry, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rene Saldana Jr., Marilyn Singer, Rita Williams-Garcia, Sherri Winston, and Ellen Wittlinger that explore the possibilities of embracing diversity in a world still rife with big...
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Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories About Beauty

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams : May 2007

Seller ID: 241608

ISBN-13: 9780810916074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Every person lives with his or her ideal concept of beauty. As a teenager, this ideal can be challenging: Am I pretty enough? What does it mean to be pretty? Is beauty fair? Ranging from funny to desperate, each of the stories in this collection portrays a turning point moment when individual dreams of beauty collide with reality. In Lauren Myracle's story, a Homecoming Queen deals with a truly enormous and possibly enchanted chin hair. In Ellen Wittlinger's contribution, a young model questions the career her mother has foisted on her. In Mary Ann Rodman's piece, a white American feels baffle...
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Wedding Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Everyman's Library : May 2017

Seller ID: 190286

ISBN-13: 9781101907863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic--by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS. The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, O. Henry's The Marry Month of May, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Bridal Party, Joy Williams's The Wedding, and Lorrie Moore's Thank You For Having Me--encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, an...
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Chocolate For A Womans Heart: 77 Stories Of Love, Kindness & Compassion to Nourish Your Soul & Sweeten Your Dreams

By: Allenbaugh, Kay

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Touchstone : May 1998

Seller ID: 242603

ISBN-13: 9780684848969

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Love, like chocolate, comes to us in many varieties -- pure and simple, rich and complicated, sweet and bittersweet, and always memorable. Now the creator of the bestselling Chocolate for a Woman's Soul serves up 77 delectable new chocolate stories, real-life tales that celebrate the many ways we express our love. You'll find strength in stories that honor the power of unconditional love, and learn a lesson in courage as you read about women facing their ultimate moments of truth. You'll take delight in a reflection on the ever-elusive perfect relationship, and find comfort in stories about th...
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Pearson English 1010 Reader (Custom Edition for Utah State University)

By: Barry, Dave

Price: $6.99

Publisher: na, na : January 2011

Seller ID: 84123

ISBN-13: 9781256112099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Book of Virtues

By: Bennett, William J.

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : September 1996

Seller ID: 242862

ISBN-13: 9780684835778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American histor...
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Her Infinite Variety: Stories of Shakespeare and the Women He Loved

By: Berkman, Pam

Price: $3.99

Publisher: na, Scribner : June 2001

Seller ID: 87574

ISBN-13: 9780743212557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With elegance, sympathy, and nuance, Her Infinite Variety celebrates the women in William Shakespeare's world. These lyrical stories move from Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare is drawn to the plight of the young wife of a wealthy friend, to a wintry Denmark, where Ophelia struggles to understand her love for Hamlet, and to Shakespeare's Stratford home, where his daughter Judith deliberately enters into a shameful marriage. At the center of this remarkable book is Shakespeare's enduring love for Anne Hathaway, his beautiful, passionate, illiterate wife. Together, the masterfully interwoven...
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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

By: Canfield, Jack,Hansen, Mark Victor,Kirberger, Kimberly

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc. : October 1998

Seller ID: 158265

ISBN-13: 9781558746169

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of inspiring stories to help teenagers take control of their lives.
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Cat Caught My Heart: Stories of Wisdom, Hope, and Purrfect Love

By: Capuzzo, Michael,Capuzzo, Teresa Banik

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Bantam : March 1998

Seller ID: 236384

ISBN-13: 9780553106381

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The nationally syndicated columnist of "Wild Things" (which reaches more than ten million readers in newspapers across America) shares true stories sent in by his readers, in this irresistible cat compendium. The cats in these tales bring mice home to "feed" nursing babies; meow sadly when the kids go off to school; keep folks company through their later years, all the while transforming their "owner's" lives (for who really owns a cat?). "Cat Caught My Heart" and Our Best Friends are sure to be a winning combination.
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Altmann's Tongue: Stories and novella

By: Evenson, Brian

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Knopf : August 1994

Seller ID: 236309

ISBN-13: 9780679429128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine

By: Fontaine, Jean de la

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1968

Seller ID: 199085

ISBN-13: 9780486218786

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables -- in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark -- with a Calder drawing for each fable and 12 additional vignettes. Includes -The Lion in Love- and -The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs.- Contains mature content.
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Barbara the Slut and Other People

By: Holmes, Lauren

Price: $5.25

Publisher: Riverhead Books : August 2015

Seller ID: 240064

ISBN-13: 9781594633782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Holmes trains a precise lens on the millennial generation's mixed bag of manners, mores, and machinations... In these] beautifully brazen stories, worlds collide in fresh, imaginative ways." --Elle A fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human. Fearless, candid, and incredibly funny, Lauren Holmes is a newcomer who writes like a master. She tackles eros and intimacy with a deceptively light touch, a keen awareness of how their nervous systems tangle and sometimes short-circuit, and a genius for revealing our most ...
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Quilts Are Forever: A Patchwork Collection of Inspirational Stories

By: Lamancusa, Kathy

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Touchstone : March 2002

Seller ID: 190284

ISBN-13: 9780743210867

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

QUILTS -- PIECES OF FABRIC SEWN TOGETHER LIKE MOMENTS IN TIME, AS HANDMADE AS LIFE ITSELF Every quilt has a story to tell, an endearing story that lasts forever. Whether it is a craft-fair find, a generations-old family heirloom, or an art collector's most prized piece, quilts warm our bodies and our hearts. Ever since pioneer women organized sewing circles to combat the harshness and isolation of the American West, women have turned to quilting to celebrate, share, and heal. In this heartwarming collection of inspirational stories, we see the celebrations, joys, and heartaches behind the st...
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Mothers are Like Miracles: They Make Everything Possible

By: Lanese, Janet

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Touchstone : April 1998

Seller ID: 233613

ISBN-13: 9780684842516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When a child is born, a miracle happens -- someone becomes a mother

For first-time mothers or beloved veterans, this warm, delightful book captures all the joy and humor of one of a woman's most wonderful experiences. Heartwarming observations from such famous names as Oprah Winfrey, Nora Ephron, and Agatha Christie, poems to copy and stick on the refrigerator; words of advice from kids of all ages to "accidentally" leave on a mother's kitchen table; suggestions to smooth the rough times or increase the joy -- it's all here to read and treasure.
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Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration

By: Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey Michae'l

Price: $13.29

Publisher: Gallery Books : February 2022

Seller ID: 205858

ISBN-13: 9781982176556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Time We Ran Away and other short stories

By: Mlynowski, Sarah,Myracle, Lauren,Jenkins, Emily

Price: $1.99

Publisher: scholastic : January 2017

Seller ID: 199083

ISBN-13: 9781338208252

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chicken Soup for the Soul - Various

By: na

Price: $1.49

Publisher: na, na

Seller ID: 84122

ISBN: 281BUL1000596

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Military Families: 101 Stories about the Force Behind the Forces

By: Newmark, Amy

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul : May 2017

Seller ID: 163709

ISBN-13: 9781611599671

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Whether you're a service member, or the spouse, child or parent of one, you know about the sacrifices that you make. You'll find inspiration, support, and appreciation in this collection of personal stories about military families. You'll read about growing up in the military, being a military spouse or the parent of a service member, and moving. Lots of moving And you'll read about pride and patriotism, heartache and joy, miracles, and the amazing stories that could only happen in the military. You'll be helping the USO as well, because royalties from this book will support the USO in everyt...
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

By: Porter, Katherine Anne

Price: $4.99

Publisher: na, Harcourt Brace : September 1979

Seller ID: 88232

ISBN-13: 9780156188760

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume.From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her award-winning short stories, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," where a young woman lies in a fever during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war, and "Noon W...
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Charlotte Temple (Early American Women Writers)

By: Rowson, Susanna

Price: $3.99

Publisher: na, Oxford University Press : February 1987

Seller ID: 99456

ISBN-13: 9780195042382

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The sentimental novels of the early national period were considered a danger to society and were criticized for the corrupting influence they had on the minds of their mostly young and female audience. They told tales of vice and intrigue that purported to be "based on fact" and also advocated the need for better female education that would prepare young women against sweet-talking seducers. Extremely popular in America after the Revolution and throughout the nineteenth century, Charlotte Temple and The Coquette were two of the most successful novels of the period. Reprinted here in their enti...
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Category: Short Stories