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Summary: Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CUTSummary: A brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Leslie Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly regarded mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ECHArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love, and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life forever. Revel in the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ARCCohen, Sam
Summary: "In Sarahland, Sam Cohen ... explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories, new ways to love, and new possibilities for life itself. A Jewish college Sarah is passively swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. A Sarah unmoored by late capitalism plays dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COHEugenides, Jeffrey
Summary: This collection of stories presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her immigrant family lead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC EUGGaiman, Neil
Summary: A rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Harrison, Jim
Summary: The title novella is about an aging writer who spars with his estranged wife, weathers the slings and arrows of literary success, and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim. In "Eggs," a woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in "The Case of the Howling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "In this dazzling collection, Elin Hilderbrand offers nine delicious stories--prequels, sequels, and "missing chapters" from her cherished books--some of which have never been published, until now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILKing, Stephen
Summary: "In If It Bleeds, King gives listeners four brilliant new stories sure to prove as iconic as their predecessors. Once again, King's remarkable range is on full display. In the title story, fan favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider -- this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," an intergenerational friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINRash, Ron
Summary: Showcases the acclaimed author's artistry and craftsmanship in thirty-two stories culled from previously published collections. Each work of short fiction demonstrates Rash's dazzling ability to evoke the heart and soul of this land and its people -- men and women inexorably tethered to the geography that defines and shapes them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RASRogers, Andrea L.
Summary: Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection, from werewolves to vampires to zombies, all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROGStrahan, Jonathan
Summary: "From Asia to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imaginations in myths and legends. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020