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Introduction to Literature
Type Price Book
THREE-GENRE $130.25 Arp, Perrine’s Literature, 11e (Cengage, 2012)
$120.75 Kirszner, Literature, 8e (Cengage, 2013)
$112.75 Kalaidjian, Understanding Literature w/09 MLA Update (Cengage, 2004)
$104.25 DiYanni, Literature, 6e (MGH, 2007)
$87.50 Kennedy, Literature, 12e (Pearson, 2013)
$87.50 Roberts, Literature, 10e (Pearson, 2011)
$77.50 Delbanco, Literature: Craft and Voice, 3-volume set (MGH, 2013)
$76.00 Meyer, TheBedford Introduction to Literature, 10e (BSM, 2013)
$75.00 Booth (formerly Beaty), The Norton Intro. to Literature, 10e (Norton, 2010)
$75.00 Mays, The Norton Intro. to Literature, 11e (Norton, 2014)
THEMATIC $115.25 Schwiebert, Reading & Writing from Literature, 3e (Cengage, 2005)
$114.00 Beiderwell, The Literary Experience (Cengage, 2008)
$111.00 Schmidt/Bogarad, Legacies, 5e (Cengage, 2013)
$85.75 Stanford, Responding to Literature, 5e (MGH, 2006)
$81.00 Barnet, Literature for Composition, 9e (Pearson, 2011)
$81.00 Gillespie, Literature across Cultures, 5e w/2009 MLA Update (Pearson, 2008)
$81.00 Henderson, Literature and Ourselves, 6e w/2009 MLA Update (Pearson, 2009)
$81.00 Madden, Exploring Literature, 5e (Pearson, 2012)
$71.00 James, Reading Literature & Writing Argument, 5e (Pearson, 2013)
$69.75 Schmidt, Portable Legacies, 2e (Cengage, 2013)
$67.00 Schilb, Making Literature Matter, 5e (BSM, 2012)
$66.00 Kennedy, Literature for Life, 1e (Pearson, 2013)
$51.50 Pike/Acosta, Literature: A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, & Essays, 2e (Pearson, 2013)
$44.00 Abcarian, Literature: The Human Experience, 11e (BSM, 2013)
COMPACT $101.25 Kirszner, Literature, Compact 8e (Cengage, 2013)
$90.75 Beiderwell, The Literary Experience, Compact (Cengage, 2008)
$81.00 McMahan, Literature and the Writing Process, 9e (Pearson, 2011)
$76.75 Barnet, Introduction to Literature, 16e (Pearson, 2011)
$70.50 Kennedy, Literature, Compact 7e (Pearson, 2013)
$70.50 Roberts, Literature, Compact 5e (Pearson, 2012)
$64.50 Kirszner, Portable Literature, 8e (Cengage, 2013)
$61.00 Mays, Norton Intro to Lit Shorter, 11e (Norton, 2013)
$61.00 Charters, Literature & Its Writers, 6e (BSM, 2013)
$61.00 Meyer, The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, 9e (BSM, 2012)
$61.00 Schilb, Making Arguments about Literature (BSM, 2005)
$51.25 Barnet, A Little Literature (Pearson, 2007)
$51.25 Kennedy, Backpack Literature, 4e (Pearson, 2012)
$48.00 Schakel, Approaching Literature, 3e (BSM, 2012)
$45.00 Beiderwell, The Literary Experience, Essential Ed. (Cengage, 2009)
$43.00 Meyer, Literature to Go, 2e (BSM, 2014) July 2013
$43.00 Meyer, Literature to Go (BSM, 2011)
$39.75 Gwynn, Literature: A Pocket Anthology, 5e (Pearson, 2012)
$38.50 Kelly, The Seagull Reader: Literature, 2e (Norton, 2008)
$37.50 Kirszner, LIT (Cengage, 2012)
$33.00 Abcarian, Literature: The Human Experience, Shorter 9e (BSM, 2007)
$33.00 Gardner, Literature, 3e (BSM, 2013)

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Type Price Book
Poetry $106.25 Arp, Perrine’s Sound and Sense, 14e (Cengage, 2014)
$72.25 Bishop, Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem (Pearson, 2000)
$71.50 Kennedy, An Introduction to Poetry, 13e (Pearson, 2010)
$68.00 Mason, Western Wind, 5e (MGH, 2006)
$56.00 Meyer, Poetry, 7e (BSM, 2013)
$56.00 Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry, 3e (BSM, 2010)
$55.00 Hunter, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, 9e (Norton, 2006)
$39.75 Gwynn, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, 7e (Pearson, 2012)
$25.00 Schakel, 250 Poems, 3e (BSM, 2014) June 2013
$25.00 Schakel, 250 Poems, 2e (BSM, 2009)
$22.50 Kelly, The Seagull Reader: Poems, 2e (Norton, 2007)
Drama $120.25 Barranger, Understanding Plays, 3e (Pearson, 2004)
$119.50 Worthen, Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, 20th Anniversary Edition, 6e (Cengage, 2011)
$110.50 Greenwald, Longman Anthology of Drama & Theater (Pearson, 2001)
$95.75 Worthen, Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Brief 6e (Cengage, 2010)
$92.50 Barnet, Types of Drama, 8e (Pearson, 2001) OUT OF PRINT
$83.00 Gainor, Norton Anthology of Drama (Norton, 2009)
$83.00 Jacobus, The Bedford Introduction to Drama, 7e (BSM, 2013)
$76.75 Greenwald, Longman Anthology of Drama, Compact (Pearson, 2002)
$60.00 Jacobus, Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama, 7e (BSM, 2013)
$39.75 Gwynn, Drama: A Pocket Anthology, 5e (Pearson, 2011)
$25.00 Gardner, 12 Plays (BSM, 2003)
$22.50 Kelly, The Seagull Reader: Plays, 2e (Norton, 2008)
Fiction $117.50 Arp, Perrine's Story & Structure, 13e (Cengage, 2011)
$76.75 Bohner, Short Fiction, 6e (Pearson, 2006)
$76.75 Pickering, Fiction 100, 13e (Pearson, 2012)
$58.00 Charters, The Story and Its Writer, 8e (BSM, 2011)
$57.00 Cassill, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 7e (Norton, 2007)
$46.00 Charters, The Story and Its Writer, Compact 8e (BSM, 2011)
$39.75 Gwynn, Fiction: A Pocket Anthology, 7e (Pearson, 2012)
$25.00 Lawn, 40 Short Stories, 4e (BSM, 2013)
$22.50 Kelly, The Seagull Reader: Stories, 2e (Norton, 2007)

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WORLD LITERATURE
Type Price Book
$72.50 Damrosch, Longman Anthology of World Literature, Compact (Pearson, 2008)/
1 volume
$72.50 Wilkie, Literature of the Western World, 5e (Pearson, 2001)/1 volume
$70.50 (each set)/
$45.00 (each volume)		 Damrosch, Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2e (Pearson, 2009)
$58.00 Lawall, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, 8e (Norton, 2005)/
2 volumes
$54.00 (each set)/
$34.00 (each volume)		 Puchner, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 3e (Norton, 2013)
$53.00 (each volume) Davis, The Bedford Anthology of World Literature, Compact (BSM, 2009)/2 volumes
$39.00 (each volume) Davis, The Bedford Anthology of World Literature (BSM, 2004)/
6 volumes, 2 sets

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American Literature
Type Price Book
$111.25 Lauter, Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise (Cengage, 2004)
$89.25 (each volume) Perkins, The American Tradition in Literature, Concise 12e (MGH, 2009)
$95.75 (each half) Perkins, The American Tradition in Literature, 12e (MGH, 2009)
$85.25 McMichael, Anthology of American Literature, 10e (Pearson, 2011)
$85.25 McMichael, Concise Anthology of American Literature, 7e (Pearson, 2011)
$66.75 (each volume) Lauter, Heath Anthology of American Literature, 7e (Cengage, 2010)
$57.00 Baym, Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8e (Norton, 2012)
$55.00 (each volume) Belasco, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, 2e (BSM, 2014) July 2013
$55.00 (each volume) Belasco, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature (BSM, 2008)
$54.00 (each volume) Baym, Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8e (Norton, 2012)

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Science Fiction
Type Price Book
$110.50 Roberts, Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction & Fantasy(Pearson, 2001)
$85.25 Warrick, Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology (Pearson, 1987)
$43.00 Masri, Science Fiction (BSM, 2009)
$33.10 Le Guin, Norton Book of Science Fiction (Norton, 1993)
$20.00 (list) Silverberg, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Greatest Science Fiction Stories (Tor, 1998)

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CREATIVE WRITING
Type Price Book
$101.75 DeMaria, College Handbook of Creative Writing, 3e (Cengage, 1998)
$79.00 Minot, Three Genres, 9e (Pearson, 2012)
$72.50 Burroway, Writing Fiction, 8e (Pearson, 2011)
$52.25 Boisseau, Writing Poems, 8e (Pearson, 2012)
$44.00 Sellers, The Practice of Creative Writing, 2e (BSM, 2013)
$44.00 Starkey, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, 2e (BSM, 2013)
$37.50 DeMaria, College Handbook of Creative Writing, 4e (Cengage, 2014)
$35.00 Kardos, The Art and Craft of Fiction (BSM, 2013)
$19.00 (list) Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones, Revised Ed. (Shambhala, 2005)

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Film Studies
Type Price Book
$102.75 Pramaggiore, Film: A Critical Introduction, 3e (Pearson, 2012)
$91.75 Boggs, The Art of Watching Films, 8e (MGH, 2011)
$87.75 Bordwell, Film Art: An Introduction, 10e (MGH, 2013)
$86.75 Giannetti, Understanding Movies, 12e (Pearson, 2011)
$85.25 Prince, Movies and Meaning, 6e (Pearson, 2013)
$76.50 Kolker, Film, Form, & Culture, 3e w/ DVD-ROM (MGH, 2006)
$71.00 Barsam, Looking at Movies, 3e (Norton, 2010)
$71.00 Corrigan, The Film Experience, 3e (BSM, 2012)
$71.00 Phillips, Film: An Introduction, 4e (BSM, 2009)
$61.00 Corrigan, Critical Visions in Film Theory (BSM, 2011)
$41.00 Dick, The Anatomy of Film, 6e (BSM, 2009)

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linguistics
Type Price Book
$128.25 Fromkin, Introduction to Language, 10e (Cengage, 2014)
$125.00 Finegan, Language: Its Structure and Use, 6e (Cengage, 2008)
$98.00 Denham, Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction, 2e (Cengage, 2013)
$85.75 Curzan, How English Works, 3e (Pearson, 2012)
$75.00 C/
$50.00 P (list)		 Akmajian, Linguistics, 6e (MIT, 2010)
$73.00 O'Grady, Contemporary Linguistics, 6e (BSM, 2010)
$66.75 Rowe, Concise Intro. to Linguistics, 3e (Pearson, 2012)
$48.00 (est.) Ohio State University Press, Language Files, 10e (OHUP, 2008)

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children's literature
Type Price Book
$74.00 Lukens, A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature, 9e (Pearson, 2006)
$65.00 Lynch-Brown, Essentials of Children's Literature, 7e (Pearson, 2011)
$65.00 Nodelman, The Pleasures of Children's Literature, 3e (Pearson, 2002)
$65.00 Russell, Literature for Children: A Short Introduction, 7e (Pearson, 2012)
$65.00 Tunnell, Children's Literature Briefly, 5e (Pearson, 2012)
$52.00 Hintz, Reading Children's Literature (BSM 2013)

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