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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

by Katie Couric

Published: 2011-04-12

Hardcover: 288 pages

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What was the tipping point for Malcolm Gladwell? What unscripted event made Meryl Streep who she is? How did Mario Batali cook up his recipe for success? In this inspiration-packed book, Katie Couric reports from the front lines of the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports, philanthrop...

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The Best American Comics 2010 (The Best American Series (R))

Published: 2010-10-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Neil Gaiman?one of the top writers in modern comics and the award-winning author of�novels�and children's books?has culled the�best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspap...

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The Best American Poetry 2008: Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Charles Wright

Published: 2008-09-16

Paperback: 224 pages

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The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his pa...

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The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman

Published: 2009-09-22

Paperback: 240 pages

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David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner...

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The Best American Short Stories 2007 (The Best American Series (TM))

Published: 2007-10-10

Paperback: 448 pages

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Wonderfully eclectic, The Best American Short Stories 2007 collects stories by undeniable talents, both newcomers and favorites. These stories examine the turning points in life when we, as children or parents, siblings or friends or colleagues, must break certain rules in order to remain ...

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The Best American Short Stories 2007

Published: 2007-10-10

Hardcover: 448 pages

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In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, “Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever' . . . Talent can?t help itself; it roars along in fair weather or foul, not sparing the fi...

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The Best American Short Stories 2012 (Best American R)

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 384 pages

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The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country?s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume?s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites....

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The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

by Ira Byock MD

Published: 2012-03-15

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life. It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majo...

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

by Barbara Robinson

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 128 pages

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Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant Ever follows the outrageous shenanigans of the Herdman siblings, or “the worst kids in the history of the world.” The siblings take over the annual Christmas pageant in a hilarious yet h...

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

by Deborah Moggach

Published: 2013-01-03

Paperback: 0 pages

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Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel, a group of very different pensioners leave England to begin a new life in India. They soon discover that life and love can begin again, even in the most unexpected circumstances.