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a.53 Great Grapes
 List Price: Price: $1.48 You Save: $2.47 (63%) DescriptionGrapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward--a test of gardening skill.In Great Grapes, you'll learn all you need to know to grow superb grapes, including how to: -Choose the most suitable cultivars for your area -Choose the right site -Prepare the soil -Build trellises -Plant and train the vines -Prune for maximum yield -Propagate new vines -Control pests -Harvest the grapes at the peak of ripeness
The Best American Short Stories 1997
 List Price: Price: $3.55 You Save: $9.45 (73%) DescriptionThe preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories is the only annual that offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling guest editor. This year, E. Annie Proulx's selection includes dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert Stone, Junot D'az, and T. C. Boyle as well as an array of stunning new talent. In her introduction, Proulx writes that beyond their strength and vigor, these stories achieve "a certain intangible feel for the depth of human experience, not uncommonly expressed through a kind of dry humor." As ever, this year's volume surprises and rewards.Proulx E Annie News
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guardian.co.ukA Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet She starts with Mary Rowlandson, a minister's wife in colonial Massachusetts who became famous for her memoir of captivity by Narragansett Indians, and ends with a divorced late-starter, Annie Proulx, author of gritty, contemporary westerns who is
New WestA Few Thoughts on the West of Reif Larsen's 'TS Spivet' tight-lipped mumblings of cowboy dialogue (the only clear masters of the form are, in descending order, Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx), a rancher saying “sho” and “mudder” is like reaching into a cookie jar to find a mousetrap.