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Twain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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Summary: Stephen King delivers an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction KinBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRISittenfeld, Curtis
Summary: Presents a collection of ten short stories that feature both new and previously published pieces, including "The World Has Many Butterflies," in which married acquaintances play an intimate game, with devastating consequences.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SITHanks, Tom
Summary: A collection of 17 short stores by two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game-- and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: An electrifying first collection of short stories from the author of Eileen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSRich, Simon.
Summary: A collection of nine short stories by well-known American authors. From wild and wacky to knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud fun, these humorous tales represent some of the best of recent sessions of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts."--Publisher description.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Listeners who love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV holiday specials, holiday episodes of their favorite sitcoms, and especially holiday anthologies are going to fall in love with stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. There are twelve reasons this season to stay...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MYMarcus, Ben
Summary: A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a narrator's marriage and sanity unravel in a single breathless sentence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARSummary: This anthology of short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BESKatz, Jon.
Summary: In his first collection of short stories, Katz shares 16 tales of heartwarming relationships between humans and their four-legged friends. The title story features a housekeeper who loses her job, then discovers that her dogs have a special talent--one that could help her family get back on its feet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KATContents: Disc 1. Good living / Aleksandar Hemon (performed by Boyd Gaines) (13:22) -- Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri (performed by Rita Wolf) (49:29) -- Disc 2. The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (performed by Condola Rashad) (25:04) -- Breaking and entering / Sherman Alexie (performed by B.D. Wong) (30:20).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: "I think people have an absolute ear for what is true," Garrison Keillor told an interviewer. It is this rare and marvelous sense of truth--of laughter, joy, and compassion and situations--that makes Keillor such a brilliant and beloved storyteller. This audio collection includes his own favorite stories from his many years as a contributor to The New Yorker and from two of his best-selling...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEIKing, Stephen
Summary: In four previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views-- until he himself becomes the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEBierce, Ambrose
Summary: This volume of selected stories represents an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm, irony and element of surprise, they differ from the fiction admired in Ambrose Bierce's time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIESummary: Selected war time short stories read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. I am not a Jew (23:05) / John Biguenet ; read by David Strathairn -- Devotion (39:34) / Adam Haslett ; read by John Shea -- Disc 2. The worm in the apple (14:43) / John Cheever ; read by Anne Meara -- Mother's son (41:32) / Tessa Hadley ; read by Shohreh Aghdashloo -- Disc 3. Sarah's story (30:10) / Galina Vromen ; read by Jane Curtin -- Draft day (28:37) / Rattawut Lapcharoensap ; read...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELConnelly, Michael
Summary: Baseball is the background for both stories. Two Bagger is the story of a parolee who feels he owes the gang for helping him when he was in jail, but he learns that they expect him to kill someone at Dodger Stadium. Chickasaw Charlie Hoke is a story of a former Major Leaguer who is trying to land a job as a celebrity host at a casino in Las Vegas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONContents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELContents: Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005