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Product Description: Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of “enduring quality” (Chicago Tribune) this year...read more
By Heidi Pitlor (editor) and Richard Russo (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780547055282 | Houghton Mifflin, October 5, 2010, cover price $28.00 | also contains The Best American Short Stories 2010 | About this edition: Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal).

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Amazon.com Review: Book Description Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth...read more
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Hardcover:

9780375414961 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 4, 2009), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: If you are not completely happy with your purchase, we will refund the entire purchase price if notified within 14 days of order.

Paperback:

9781400030910 | 1 reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780739328613 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, August 4, 2009), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.

Miscellaneous:

9780307273307 | Vintage Books, August 4, 2009, cover price $15.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739318928 | Unabridged edition (Random House, August 4, 2009), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal and profoundly moving end-of-life accounts that cover a wide spectrum of human experience...read more
By Richard Russo (editor)
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Hardcover:

9781410410504 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 17, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand.
9780892727513 | 1 edition (Down East Books, April 1, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand.

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By Richard Russo (narrator)
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Miscellaneous:

9781602527256 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, September 25, 2007), cover price $74.99
9780739371237, titled "Bridge of Sighs: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, September 25, 2007), cover price $74.99 | also contains The Bridge of Sighs: Library Edition

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Product Description: Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston...read more
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Hardcover:

9780701175979 | Vintage Uk, October 4, 2007, cover price $32.45 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Presents a story of parents and children, of family both benevolent and malevolent, of small-town community and its hidden toxic effects, with dark seam of glittering secrets.

Paperback:

9781400030903 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 12, 2008), cover price $14.95 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life.

Miscellaneous:

9780307267900 | Vintage Books, September 25, 2007, cover price $14.95 | also contains Bridge of Sighs

Miscellaneous:

9781602522251, titled "The Bridge of Sighs" | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, September 25, 2007), cover price $49.99 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York.
9780739371244, titled "The Bridge of Sighs" | Findaway World Llc, September 25, 2007, cover price $49.99 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739318898 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 25, 2007), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of forty years, Sarah, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier.

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Product Description: Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston...read more
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Hardcover:

9780701175979 | Vintage Uk, October 4, 2007, cover price $32.45 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Presents a story of parents and children, of family both benevolent and malevolent, of small-town community and its hidden toxic effects, with dark seam of glittering secrets.
9780375414954 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 25, 2007), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of forty years, Sarah, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier.

Paperback:

9781400030903 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 12, 2008), cover price $14.95 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life.

Miscellaneous:

9780307267900 | Vintage Books, September 25, 2007, cover price $14.95 | also contains Bridge of Sighs

Miscellaneous:

9781602522251, titled "The Bridge of Sighs" | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, September 25, 2007), cover price $49.99 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York.
9780739371244, titled "The Bridge of Sighs" | Findaway World Llc, September 25, 2007, cover price $49.99 | also contains Bridge of Sighs | About this edition: Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York.

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Paperback:

9788495908698 | Emece, January 1, 2004, cover price $29.95
9788495908698 | Emece, January 1, 2004, cover price $29.95

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Collects one hundred favorite recipes by such top chefs as Ming Tsai, Lidia Bastianich, and Emeril Lagasse, providing for a range of meals and traditions and offering accompanying stories about why each is special to its contributor.
By Michael J. Rosen and Richard Russo (foreword by)
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Hardcover:

9780767913713 | Broadway Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Collects one hundred favorite recipes by such top chefs as Ming Tsai, Lidia Bastianich, and Emeril Lagasse, providing for a range of meals and traditions and offering accompanying stories about why each is special to its contributor.

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The author of Nobody's Fool chronicles a singularly eventful week in the life of William Henry Devereaux, Jr., a once-promising novelist and now the middle-aged chairman of a university English department in hilarious disarray. Read by Hal Linden.
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Hardcover:

9780679432463 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: During one tortuous week, Hank Devereaux, head of the English department at the state university in Railton, Pennsylvania, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, finds his secretary is a better writer than he is, suspects his wife is having an affair, threatens wild fowl, and confronts his father.

Paperback:

9780375701900 | Vintage Books, June 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author of Nobody's Fool chronicles a singularly eventful week in the life of William Henry Devereaux, Jr.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739307861 | Unabridged edition (Random House, August 1, 2003), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Chronicles a singularly eventful week in the life of William Henry Devereaux, Jr.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780739306918 | Unabridged edition (Random House, August 1, 2003), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Chronicles a singularly eventful week in the life of William Henry Devereaux, Jr.
9780679460046 | Random House, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: During one tortuous week, Hank Devereaux, head of the English department at the state university in Railton, Pennsylvania, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, finds his secretary is a better writer than he is, suspects his wife is having an affair, threatens wild fowl, and confronts his father.

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A first collection of short fiction by the author of Empire Falls explores the mysteries and complexities of human behavior and motivation in the lives of such characters as a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape, and a septuagenarian nun. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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Hardcover:

9780786248902, titled "The Whore's Child: And Other Stories" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.
9780375411687, titled "The Whore's Child: And Other Stories" | 1st edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.

Paperback:

9780375726019, titled "The Whore's Child: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a cross-country escape.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780792726692, titled "The Whore's Child and Other Stories" | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, December 1, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792726227, titled "The Whore's Child and Other Stories" | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, December 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780060095475, titled "The Whore's Child and Other Stories" | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, August 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.

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Paperback:

9788495908292 | Emece, March 1, 2003, cover price $15.95

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Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.
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Hardcover:

9780786236510 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780679432470 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs.

Paperback:

9780307275134 | Vintage Books, May 3, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs.
9780375726408 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694525591 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, June 1, 2001), cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs.
9780788789281 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, March 1, 2001), cover price $122.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

Prebinding:

9780613810401 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs.

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Tells the stories of the regulars at the Mohawk Grill and a secret from the past that leads to murder.
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Hardcover:

9780375412868 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of the regulars at the Mohawk Grill and a secret from the past that leads to murder.

Paperback:

9780679753827 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Tells the stories of the regulars at the Mohawk Grill and a secret from the past that leads to murder

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Evocative essays by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout complement 120 full-color photographs by an acclaimed landscape photographer in an intimate celebration of Maine through four seasons of the year. 25,000 first printing.
By Ann Beattie (contributor), Richard Ford (contributor), Terrell S. Lester, Richard Russo (contributor) and Elizabeth Strout (contributor)
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Hardcover:

9780375411182 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Depicts the lakes, seacoasts, and landscapes of Maine through the seasons, accompanied by essays written by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout.

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Product Description: For readers looking for a nonexploitative celebration of human sexuality, this sequel to Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters features 17 short stories, including works by Angela Carter and Bharati Mukherjee and poems by Galway Kinnel, Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, Jane Hirschfield, David Mamet, Ntozake Shange, and Louise Erdrich...read more
By Lily Pond (editor) and Richard Russo (editor)
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Paperback:

9780517886120 | Reprint edition (Crown Pub, June 1, 1996), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: For readers looking for a nonexploitative celebration of human sexuality, this sequel to Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters features 17 short stories, including works by Angela Carter and Bharati Mukherjee and poems by Galway Kinnel, Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, Jane Hirschfield, David Mamet, Ntozake Shange, and Louise Erdrich.

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A new collection of pieces from Yellow Silk magazine, a periodical dedicated to the best in erotic literature, encompasses contributions from Angela Carter, Bharati Mukherjee, Galway Kinnel, Ntozake Shange, Louise Erdrich, and David Mamet, among others.
By Lily Pond and Richard Russo (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780517799628 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, February 1, 1995), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of erotic works from 'Yellow Silk' magazine encompasses contributions from Angela Carter, Bharati Mukherjee, Galway Kinnel, Ntozake Shange, Louise Erdrich, and David Mamet

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An adolescent growing up in a small, declining, working-class town is pulled back and forth between his gloomy, romantic mother and his delinquent father, who separated soon after his birth
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Hardcover:

9780394565279 | Random House Inc, October 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Ned, the introspective son of the freewheeling World War II veteran Sam Hall struggles for acceptance from his father while trying to avoid adopting the same hedonistic lifestyle

Paperback:

9780679753834 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An adolescent growing up in a small, declining, working-class town is pulled back and forth between his gloomy, romantic mother and his delinquent father, who separated soon after his birth
9780679723349 | Vintage Books, January 1, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An adolescent growing up in a small, declining, working-class town is pulled back and forth between his gloomy, romantic mother and his delinquent father, who separated soon after his birth

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394579702 | Random House, January 1, 1990, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.

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An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
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Hardcover:

9780517156049, titled "Nobody's Fool" | Random House Value Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens.
9780394577784, titled "Nobody's Fool" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In a humorous epic starring an unlucky man in an unlucky town, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a busted knee, unemployment, a broken truck, and a lack of money

Paperback:

9780679753339, titled "Nobody's Fool" | Vintage Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739307878, titled "Nobody's Fool" | Unabridged edition (Random House, August 1, 2003), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780739306932, titled "Nobody's Fool" | Unabridged edition (Random House, August 1, 2003), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
9780679430506, titled "Nobody's Fool" | Random House, November 1, 1994, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.

Prebinding:

9781417719044, titled "Nobody's Fool" | Turtleback Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: It is Thanksgiving in North Bank and Sully, old Miss Beryl's feckless lodger, does not have much to be thankful for.

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A selection of short stories, poems, and artwork drawn from the award-winning journal 'Yellow Silk' includes contributions by William Kotzwinkle, Marge Piercy, Gary Soto, Jane Underwood, Marilyn Hacker, and Robert Silverberg
By Lily Pond and Richard Russo (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780517577523 | 1st edition (Harmony Books, February 1, 1991), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A selection of short stories, poems, and artwork drawn from the award-winning journal 'Yellow Silk' includes contributions by William Kotzwinkle, Marge Piercy, Gary Soto, Jane Underwood, Marilyn Hacker, and Robert Silverberg

Paperback:

9780517587362 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, January 1, 1992), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A selection of short stories, poems, and artwork drawn from the award-winning journal 'Yellow Silk' includes contributions by William Kotzwinkle, Marge Piercy, Gary Soto, Jane Underwood, Marilyn Hacker, and Robert Silverberg

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