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Summary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2009 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BES

Summary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2011 in graphic novels.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011

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Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BES

Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2012 which were originally published in American periodicals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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Summary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by best-selling author Alexander Chee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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Summary: Wesley Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed New York times critic, selects 20 essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2003

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2003

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Summary: "'Food and travel are natural companions,' writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes 'the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.' The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world--from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain--and deepen our understanding of our...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024

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Summary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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Summary: S. A. Cosby, the award-winning and New York times best-selling author of Razorblade Tears picks the best 20 mystery and suspense stories from the previous year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024

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Summary: Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Summary: 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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Summary: Presents a collection of the best mystery stories written during 2015.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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Summary: 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 2018

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Contents: Spurs / Tod Robbins -- Pastorale / James M. Cain -- You'll always remember me / Steve Fisher -- Gun crazy / MacKinlay Kantor -- Nothing to worry about / Day Keene -- The homecoming / Dorothy B. Hughes -- Man in the dark / Howard Browne -- The lady says die! / Mickey Spillane -- Professional man / David Goodis -- The hunger / Charles Beaumont -- The gesture / Gil Brewer -- The last spin / Evan...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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Contents: Foreword / read by Dave Eggers -- Introduction: dead men talking / read by Zadie Smith -- The guide to being a groupie / by Lisa Gabriele, read by the author -- Things we knew when the house caught fire / by David Drury, read by the author -- The pretenders / Chuck Klosterman, read by the author -- How to write suspense / by James Patterson, read by the author -- Stuff / by J.T. Leroy, read by...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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Summary: 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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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Summary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BES

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