Munro, Alice
Summary: A collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate, and is set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: "With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURFaulkner, William
Summary: This collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories was first published in 1958. Each of the stories is introduced by a prelude, and the final story is followed by an epilogue. Included is Faulkner's most famous story, "The Bear", in its original version.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FaulknerSummary: A celebration of the short story as it was popularized in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Features works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Kate Chopin, O' Henry, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press, imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 GRESummary: These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students. Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece ‘Green Tobacco’ by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of ‘The Ants’...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC FREBazterrica, 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 BAZSummary: "A story of community, belonging, and friendship told by South Asian authors through an interconnected anthology, based in the fictional town of Maple Grove, New Jersey, and centralized at the town community center."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRESummary: A collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2007 presents a selection of short fiction, along with essays by the three judges and commentary from the twenty prize winners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKing, Stephen
Summary: "A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Summary: In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOJohnson, Adam
Summary: "In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. "George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine" follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. "Nirvana," portrays a programmer whose wife has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHTalty, Morgan
Summary: "Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction TaltyHale, Nancy
Summary: "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHale, Nancy
Summary: "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALNewman, 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 NEWContents: What's grit lit? / Tom Franklin -- Blood and bone / Brian Carpenter -- Memoirs. -- A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews -- "Deciding to live" / Dorothy Allison -- On fire : a personal account of life and death and choices / Larry Brown -- Keeper of the moon : a Southern boyhood / Tim McLaurin -- Ava's man, and, All over but the shoutin' / Rick Bragg -- "A body in the river" /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIAbouet, Marguerite
Summary: "The plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis--the prettiest girl in school, and evade a witch doctor's potion."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd. 2019
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Summary: While gathering material for a photography book about Edinburgh, Alexander McCall Smith found himself inspired to create stories about the people captured in a number of particularly striking photos. A smiling girl leading a younger girl astride a pony, and a boy in a kilt on a tricycle beside them, gives rise to a story of a lifelong romance between the two riders. A dapper, roguish-looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCClare, 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 CLACopies Available at Kingsley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2007
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Summary: Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATISummary: Presents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format, which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009