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	<title>Playaway Short Stories Collections</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2012 20:24:17 GMT</pubDate>

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			<title>Classic American Short Stories</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Crane, Stephen Twain, Mark Bierce, Ambrose Henry, O. London, Jack </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American. Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge leaves echoes in the imagination; the stories by Crane and London recall the themes of the Civil War and the Klondike for which they are well known. Twain's humor is to the fore in The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and O. Henry's sharp observation makes his neat tales a joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection!   
   
William Robertshas appeared extensively in television, film and theater, varying from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles to Martin Chuzzlewit and A View to Kill.. He is also a familiar voice on radio and audiobooks, with numerous dramas and books to his credit.]]></description>
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			<title>Classic American Short Stories</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Twain, Mark Crane, Stephen London, Jack Henry, O. Bierce, Ambrose </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American. Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge leaves echoes in the imagination; the stories by Crane and London recall the themes of the Civil War and the Klondike for which they are well known. Twain's humor is to the fore in The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and O. Henry's sharp observation makes his neat tales a joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection!   
   
William Robertshas appeared extensively in television, film and theater, varying from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles to Martin Chuzzlewit and A View to Kill.. He is also a familiar voice on radio and audiobooks, with numerous dramas and books to his credit.]]></description>
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			<title>Drinking Coffee Elsewhere</title>
			<link>http://audiobook.playawaydigital.com/titles/drinking-coffee-elsewhere</link>
	
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Packer, Z.Z. </author>
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						<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Award-winning writer ZZ Packer shows an impressive range and command of language in her debut story collection. She surprises and dazzles us with unexpected turns and indelible images as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream.  
  
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking performance -- fresh, versatile, and captivating. It introduces an arresting and unforgettable new voice.  
  
ZZ Packer's stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories 2000. A graduate of Yale, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University, Packer is currently a Jones lecturer at Stanford University. Reader Shirley Jordan has appeared in numerous stage and television productions on both coasts, and also works as an acting and dialogue coach.]]></description>
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			<title>Interpreter of Maladies</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Lahiri, Jhumpa </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. <br /><br/>
A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakistani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. <br /><br/>
Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.]]></description>
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			<title>World's Shortest Stories of Love & Death, The</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Authors, Multiple </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[Love and death, and all of the horror in between. A second helping of the most amazing short stories ever written - each one just 55 words long! Imagine O. Henry's tales if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon.  
  
Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. No, it's an impossibly tiny number. It's what O.Henry might have conjured if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words.  
  
Includes stories from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, Barnaby Conrad, Alfred C. Martino, Neil Steinberg, Herbert Gold, Norman Lear, Larry Niven and more....  
  
  
Readers: Alyssa Bresnahan, Laura Hamilton, Jeff Woodman, Frank Muller, Suzanne Toren and Kathy Garver.]]></description>
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