Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Summary: Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Love craft's preeminent interpreter S. T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSmith, Ali
Summary: "Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives-- our own personal libraries-- make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIButler, Octavia E.
Summary: "Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work ... These works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTRoth, Veronica
Summary: A collection of six short stories imagines future lands with new technologies and beings, where in spite of advanced capabilities, people still must confront deeply human problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROTRubio, Marytza K.
Summary: "For fans of Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Lesley Nneka Arimah, a darkly funny and imaginative debut conjuring tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits. "The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria." From former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Marytza K. Rubio comes Maria, Maria, an inimitable collection set across the tropics and megacities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUBCortese, Katie
Summary: A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, attracted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORRuzzier, Sergio
Summary: In three brief episodes about two unlikely friends, Fox talks Chick down from the tree he has climbed, the two go sledding (once they have enough snowflakes), and Chick builds a bookcase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUZMoore, Hadley
Summary: "Not Dead Yet studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore's debut collection of short stories presents a contemporary set of narratives from a lush cast of characters. We find the protagonists of her stories tenderly revealing their pain after the loss of loved ones and coping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autumn House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCooper, Desiree
Summary: "In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. ... With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cooper 2016Colfer, Chris
Summary: With all of the fairy tale characters occupying the same world, Conner and Alex face their biggest challenge to date of restoring order to the human and fairy tale realms.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC COLParetsky, Sara
Summary: This collection of fourteen short stories-- eight of which feature detective V.I. Warshawski-- are a celebration of Paretsky's exceptional storytelling skill and a searing exploration of the dark conspiracies and desperate human acts hiding in plain sight. The stories range from V.I.'s very first investigation (at the age of ten) to a new story in which V.I. treads the line between justice and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARSummary: Duck on a bike : A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Walker, Martin
Summary: After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a Senegalese man's coffee sells superbly at the market, some cafe owners become incensed by the new competition and take matters into their own hands. As a Swiss tourist and a St. Denis native fall in love over the fruit-and-veggie stall, one of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALKaseke, Munashe
Summary: "In Send Her Back and other stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant black woman experience in the United States, equally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous candor, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mukana Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASMalamud, Bernard
Summary: This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America, The 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALDahl, Michael
Summary: A pair of mysterious magic shoes appears every night under Daphne's bed, and they give her the ability to walk through solid objects, like a phantom, but there are consequences for wearing them--and that is only one of the chilling stories in this collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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Summary: With this volume Library of America presents the biggest and best edition of Woolson’s short fiction ever published. Here are twenty-one stories chosen from her four collections—Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875), Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880), The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895), and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896)—as well as two uncollected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOMoyes, Jojo
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and After You, a sensational collection featuring the title novella and eight other stories. Quintessential Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOYDahl, Michael
Summary: In Ravenville's library there is a special, hidden room for biographies of local people, but when Darren enters the room looking for a book to use for a homework assignment he discovers that there is something hungry living among the shelves, and people who enter rarely come out--and that is only one of the scary stories in this collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DAHBazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZChristie, Agatha
Summary: In this collection of mysteries, Agatha Christie presents 12 unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation, including a dog-shaped gunpowder mark, an omen from the 'other side', an eerie wireless messages and a levitation experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRKing, Laurie R.
Summary: "A dynamic short story collection that illuminates many hidden corners of the beloved, best-selling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. Since the first book-length "memoir" appeared in 1994, famous partner, Sherlock Holmes, has excited a community of readers, young and old. With this collection, nine previously published short stories and one never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016