The Best American Mystery Stories 2012

10 best books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 (Robert Crais): Ivanhoe, The Best American Essays 2012, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, Return of the Thin Man, The Talisman, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015, The Best American Essays 2014, Room to Breathe, The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People, Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams

Ivanhoe

Author	Walter Scott
ISBN	0140436588

For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...

The Best American Essays 2012

Author	Robert Atwan
ISBN	0547840098

The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The 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. A special...

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

Author	Dave Eggers
ISBN	0547595964

Return of the Thin Man

Author

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last--and most successful--novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length...

The Talisman

Author	Walter Scott
ISBN	1592247709

The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades -- a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit. In Scott's own words: ...the warlike character of Richard I, wild and generous, a pattern of chivalry, with all its extravagant virtues, and its no less absurd errors, was opposed...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

Author

Rebecca Skloot

The Best American Series

The next edition in a series praised as “undeniably exquisite” (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining...

The Best American Essays 2014

Author	John Jeremiah Sullivan
ISBN	0544309901

“A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating.” — Publishers Weekly

The Best American Essays 2014 is selected and introduced by...

Room to Breathe

Author	Liz Talley
ISBN	1978691335

A funny, emotional novel full of southern charm about a mother and daughter ready to start over.

For a good part of Daphne Witt’s life, she was a supportive wife and dutiful mother. Now that she’s divorced and her daughter, Ellery, is all grown up, Daphne’s celebrating the best part of...

The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People

Author	Judith Orloff
ISBN	1622036573

What is the difference between having empathy and being an empath? "Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff. "But for empaths it goes much further. We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the...

Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams

Author

Jenny Colgan

Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money ...the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag ...Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out...

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

Author	Louise Penny
ISBN	0544949099

#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year.

Writing short stories takes “Skill....