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By Amy Hempel (editor) and Kathy Pories (editor)

Paperback:

9781565129863 | Algonquin Books, August 17, 2010, cover price $14.95

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A collection of short tales by the author of Tumble Home includes 'Offertory,' in which a modern-day Scheherazade entertains her lover with tales of her past sexual exploits; 'Reference # 388475848-5,' in which a woman affirms her faith by contesting a parking ticket; and 'Jesus Is Waiting,' a series of cryptically honest postcards sent by a woman to her past lover. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780743264518 | Scribner, February 15, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of short tales by the author of Tumble Home includes 'Offertory,' in which a modern-day Scheherazade entertains her lover with tales of her past sexual exploits; 'Reference # 388475848-5,' in which a woman affirms her faith by contesting a parking ticket; and 'Jesus Is Waiting,' a series of cryptically honest postcards sent by a woman to her past lover.

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By Dorothy Allison (editor), Aimee Bender (contributor), Amy Hempel (contributor), Jim Shepard (contributor) and Tin House Books (corporate author)

Paperback:

9780982054215 | 10 org edition (Tin House Books, August 1, 2009), cover price $12.95

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Product Description: She has designed banks and hotels, college master plans and retail spaces, galleries, residences, and studios for leading artists. In more than twenty-five years of practice, Deborah Berke has produced an extraordinary body of work that is grounded in the conviction that architecture is not an end in itself, but a setting that is enhanced by its use...read more
By Amy Hempel (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780300134391 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, November 3, 2008), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: She has designed banks and hotels, college master plans and retail spaces, galleries, residences, and studios for leading artists.

A delightful anthology features the long-admired short story writer's first novella, as well as her latest collection of stories, which address the ironies of life with her trademark quirky intelligence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Paperback:

9780684838878 | Scribner, May 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A delightful anthology features the long-admired short story writer's first novella, as well as her latest collection of stories, which address the ironies of life with her trademark quirky intelligence.

Prebinding:

9781439500613 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $21.00

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A collection of stories portrays a variety of characters whose vision is slightly skewed and whose inner logic keeps leading them to make bad decisions as they become obsessed and irrational about the places they call home. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780684833750 | Scribner, May 1, 1997, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories portrays a variety of characters whose vision is slightly skewed and whose inner logic keeps leading them to make bad decisions, as they become obsessed and irrational about the places they call home

An anthology of poetry, written from the canine point of view, encompasses the contributions of William Wegman, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, John Irving, Cynthia Heimel, Thom Gunn, and other notable writers
By Amy Hempel (editor) and Jim Shepard (editor)

Hardcover:

9780517701409 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, June 1, 1995), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: An anthology of poetry, written from the canine point of view, encompasses the contributions of William Wegman, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, John Irving, Cynthia Heimel, Thom Gunn, and other notable writers

Paperback:

9780609803790 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, March 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An entertaining anthology of poetry, written from the canine point of view, encompasses the contributions of William Wegman, Rick Bass, Susan Minot, Edward Albee, John Irving, Cynthia Heimel, Thom Gunn, and other notable writers.

Miscellaneous:

9780307422590 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $12.95

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A complete collection of short works offers insight into the progression of the writer's work throughout a thirty-year period and features, among other tales, the complete texts of At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
By Amy Hempel and Rick Moody (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780743289467 | Scribner, May 9, 2006, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A complete collection of short works offers insight into the progression of the writer's work throughout a thirty-year period and features, among other tales, the complete texts of 'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' and 'Tumble Home.

Paperback:

9780743291637 | Reprint edition (Scribner, September 18, 2007), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A complete collection of short works offers insight into the progression of the writer's work throughout a thirty-year period and features, among other tales, the complete texts of 'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' and 'Tumble Home.

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Paperback:

9780060976712 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1995), cover price $10.00
9780140149029 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1991), cover price $7.95

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This collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim

Hardcover:

9780394539935 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1985, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This first collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim

Paperback:

9780060976729 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 1995), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556443800 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, December 1, 1992, cover price $25.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556443787 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, October 1, 1992, cover price $13.95

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A collection of stories deals with women's responses to life's challenges

Hardcover:

9780394571744 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories deals with women's responses to life's challenges

This first collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim

Paperback:

9780140086669 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This first collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim

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