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  • Someone Should Know This Story

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "'Someone Should Know This Story' is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart," writes Merrill Joan Gerber in the introduction to this retrospective collection of twenty-five stories written over a period of four decades, many of which won awards and appeared in widely read periodicals such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Redbook, and Mademoiselle.Gerber takes her teacher Andrew Lytle ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literacy in Grades 4-8

    Best Practices for a Comprehensive Program

    by Nancy L. Cecil, Joan P. Gipe, Merrill E. Marcy ...
    Comprehensive yet succinct and readable, Literacy in Grades 4-8, Third Edition offers a wealth of practical ideas to help preservice and practicing teachers create a balanced and comprehensive literacy program while exploring the core topics and issues of literacy in grades 4 through 8. It addresses teaching to standards; differentiating instruction for readers and writers; motivating students; ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Hysterectomy Waltz

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "It's truly powerful, and acrid, and barbed, and filled with wonderful, and unexpected, turns of phrase and above all it's shocking in its directness and understated anger and sadness and fear… it's an amazing piece of writing."-Cynthia OzickImagine being told before the age of forty that because you have an ovarian cyst, the surgeon wants to take out the "whole kit and caboodle." Imagine being ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Anna in Chains

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Anna in Chains is a collection of stories about the reality of being an elderly woman in the modern world and all the struggles that go with it.Anna Goldman, nearly eighty years old, widowed and living on her own in the Fairfax Area of Los Angeles, struggles to remain independent as she moves through the modern world. Jewish, but disenchanted with religion in any guise, Anna eats bacon to dare God ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • An Antique Man

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    This is the poignant story of a loving, gentle man, "antique" by virtue, "an antique man" by profession. It is the story of his lingering death, of his transcendent courage, of the agony and solitude of those who must watch-his wife and two daughters. It is everyone's story in that it tells in specific and particular terms the general human experience of love and loss, suffering and death. It is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Botticelli Blue Skies

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Gerber heads to Florence with her husband, a history professor taking a group of students. She goes in nervous, not knowing any Italian, but gradually starts to learn her way around Florence and other cities in Italy. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Honeymoon

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    This exceptional book of short stories, chosen for inclusion in the prestigious Illinois Short Fiction Series, contains Gerber's powerful tale "I Don't Believe This," which won an O. Henry Award. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Revelation at the Food Bank

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Now Molly Knows

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Series series Dzanc rEprint Series
    Now Molly Knows is a novel about a girl's sexual discovery, from early teens and high school through college and on up into marriage. It's set in the American fifties. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • This is a Voice from Your Past

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "Every woman gets a call like this sooner or later. The phone rings, a man says: 'This is a voice from your past.'" The opening of the compelling title story of Merrill Joan Gerber's collection sets the tone for each of the thirteen remarkable pieces therein, two of them previously unpublished. Set mostly in Southern California in seemingly peaceful, suburban households-Gerber's stories expose the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • This Old Heart of Mine

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Merrill Joan Gerber holds the record of having sold more short stories to Redbook Magazine than any other writer. This selection of twenty-five linked tales, published in Redbook from 1964 to 1991, chronicles the passionate (domestic) adventures of Janet, Danny and their three daughters. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rapid Review of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Disorders

    by Jessica Manson, David Isenberg, Sharon Chambers, Michael Shipley, Joan Merrill ...
    Series series Medical Rapid Review Series
    This Rapid Review is a concise, evidence-based guide to the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatological and musculoskeletal disorders. Covering the basic principles of joint examination and key clinical skills, the book describes more than 100 clinical cases especially chosen to illustrate both commonly occurring and more unusual conditions. Each ca ... Read more

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