The Best American Mystery Stories 2005
10 best books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (Joyce Carol Oates): Yours Ever: People and Their Letters, The Best American Essays 2004, The Best American Comics 2009, The Best American Comics 2008, The Book of Leviathan, The Best American Mystery Stories 2007, The Best American Mystery Stories 2006, The Best American Mystery Stories 2002, The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, Crying Freeman, Vol. 3
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
| Author | Thomas Mallon |
| ISBN | 0679444262 |
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.
Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable...
| Author | Louis Menand |
| ISBN | 0618357092 |
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 0618989765 |
This newest edition to the Best American Series--"A genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle)--returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden--acclaimed cartoonists in their own right--...
| Author | Peter Blegvad |
| ISBN | 1585670987 |
Welcome to a new strange world. In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet...
| Author | Carl Hiaasen |
| ISBN | 0618812652 |
The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year’s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.
Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful...
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow
Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for...
| Author | James Ellroy |
| ISBN | 0618124934 |
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
| Author | Kazuo Koike |
| ISBN | 1593074891 |
A failed assassination attempt brings into Freeman’s possession Muramasa, the Devil’s Sword, an ancient samurai blade that brings misfortune and death to any who possess it. Wishing to spare Freeman and tame the sword’s malevolent spirit, Tiger Orchid, Freeman’s wife, takes the blade...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1401229999 |
The final deluxe hardcover collection of Brian K. Vaughan’s spectacular series mixing politics and superheroes.In this last deluxe EX MACHINA hardcover, Mayor Mitchell Hundred descends into the NYC sewers to learn why he was given the strange powers that helped him become the heroic Great Machine...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2004
| Author | Nelson DeMille |
| ISBN | 0618329676 |
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
| Author | Sue Grafton |
| ISBN | 0395835852 |
This year's guest editor, Sue Grafton, has put together a wonderfully diverse collection of stories to surprise and satisfy all fans of the genre. In this volume, best-selling writers such as Mary Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Block, Jay McInerney, and Donald E. Westlake stand alongside...
| Author | Jeffery Deaver |
| ISBN | 0547237502 |
I don't care much for the short story. A master's program in writing will do that to you. Every group has at least five earnest twits trying to be the next Raymond Carver and get their dreary present-tense tale of post-modern angst published in The Atlantic Monthly.
There are two kinds of people...
| Author | George Pelecanos |
| ISBN | 0618812679 |
“A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories.”—Booklist
The award-winning author and Emmy-nominated television writer George Pelecanos serves as editor of the twelfth installment of this genre-expanding anthology, featuring twenty of the past year’s most enthralling,...
| Author | Lisa Scottoline |
| ISBN | 0544034600 |
Variety Pack!
“The Best American Mystery Stories” is your own personal sampler box. You can’t ask for much more stylistic range than these selections. Your mileage may vary, depending on flavor preferences. It’s hard for me to imagine that every reader will love every story here,...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2010
| Author | Lee Child |
| ISBN | 0547237464 |
Featuring twenty of the year's standout crime short stories handpicked by one of the world's best thriller writers, Best American Mystery Stories 2010 showcases not only the very best of the crime genre, but the best of American writing full stop. Within its pages, literary legends rub shoulders with...
Shade and Kathy find themselves drawn to Madness outbreaks, first in San Francisco then in New York. Shade and Kathy are separated and Kathy meets Lenny, a young artist. Shade, on the other hand, meets someone he never thought he'd see again...
Yeah, this is one of those times where I'm not exactly...
| Author | Robert B. Parker |
| ISBN | 0395835836 |
The history of the "best of" American mystery short story anthology probably dates back to 1931 and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year, edited by Carolyn Wells, up through David C. Cooke's Best Detective Stories of the Year published from 1947 to 1959. More modern incarnations have been The...
Hiroaki Samura's latest Blade of the Immortal volume finds Manji and Rin recovering from their harrowing escape out of Edo's underground prisons and finally confronting their odd relationship. Döa and Isaku have something important to announce when Anotsu and the Itto-ryu reunite with their missing...
SHIVERING SANDS is a bit of an experiment: part Greatest Hits collection, part late-night ramblings, all crackling text transmissions sent down the wire from anywhere Warren Ellis had access to a computer and something to say. These essays, stories, music reviews, the occasional chemically-induced...
The Information Design Handbook
| Author | Jennifer Visocky O'Grady |
The best information design often goes "unnoticed" by the viewer because it conveys information so quickly and effectively. The Information Design Handbook celebrates graphics that are exemplars of communication and esthetics, and reveals the thought processes and design skills behind them....
