Hemingway, Ernest
Summary: The definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring influence on generations of readers and writers. Contains twenty-one stories not included in the 1938 omnibus "The first forty-nine."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Scribner's Sons 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMOrner, Peter
Summary: In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner ... chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points. In forty-four compressed gems, he grips us with a series of defining moments. Whether it's a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar, or a family's memories of the painful mystery surrounding a forgotten uncle's demise, Orner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORNVan den Berg, Laura
Summary: "A dislocating collection of short stories from the author of "The Third Hotel""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANAkiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
Summary: Fourteen stories that illuminate the strange workings of the human heart
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2015
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 AKISummary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "Known not only for his brilliant novels but also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz,' F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd Die for You were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITKennedy, Sharon M.
Summary: "A compilation of short stories depicting the struggles and lives of contemporary adults in the unforgiving rural environment of Michigan's Upper Peninsula"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern History Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKey, Justin C.
Summary: Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEYGautreaux, Tim
Summary: "A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUKawakami, Hiromi
Summary: "A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People From My Neighborhood. In their lives, details of the local and everyday-the lunch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWNewman, Leigh
Summary: Newman's stories turn a spotlight on women struggling in Alaska, facing not just grizzly bears and charging moose, but the psychological complexities of love and family. From Anchorage to the remote, unsettled wilderness, her stories reinvent what we think about the American frontier-- and what we believe about hope and human connection. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWMurray, Sabina
Summary: "From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" (Washington Post) comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations. Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MURSummary: Collection of easy-to-read stories based on Playhouse Disney characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2009
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Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: Gritty and sublime, the stories of Let's Play White feature real people facing the worlds they're given, bringing out the best and the worst of what it means to be human. If you're ready to slip into someone else's skin for a while, then it's time to come play white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apex Publications 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCaspers, Nona
Summary: Years after Casperss unnamed narrator loses her first lover in a tragic accident, she finds herself wondering, "What did she want from me? What are the things that matter?" In vivid, richly detailed vignettes, the book tracks the cyclical nature of grief and remembrance across a life fractured by loss. At times dryly comical, at other times radiantly surreal, The Fifth Woman is a testament to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASClare, Cassandra
Summary: A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in The Mortal Instruments series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLAHunt, Laird
Summary: "Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's not where she's really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life! The residents of this rural town have their routines, their preferences, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024
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Summary: The complete collection of short stories written for the Dark-Hunter series includes "Phantom Lover" and "Love Bytes" as well as a new, previously unreleased title and tales that have only been published exclusively on the author's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMosley, Walter
Summary: "Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSOliver, Diane
Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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Summary: "A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. How does a North Korean defector connect with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC YOOSummary: A collection for Pixar fans presents eighteen stories from such movies as "Toy Story," "Monsters, Inc.," "Coco," "Soul," "Luca," and "Onward."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2022
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Summary: "A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose 'Western hero' facade hides darkness. An oil rig workers witnesses an attack on a local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2024