Martinez, Juan
Summary: "Praise for Juan Martinez: "A little out of the ordinary.... He takes this very unnatural environment and changes it into a landscape."-Hannah Tinti "I loved it."- Etgar Keret These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than ex-pected. There's humor, but it's going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWCarll, Hayes.
Contents: Stomp and holler -- Hard out here -- Chances are -- Grand parade -- Kmag yoyo -- Another like you (with Cary Ann Hearst) -- The letter -- Bye bye baby -- The lovin' cup -- Bottle in my hand -- Grateful for Christmas -- Hide me.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lost Highway 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CARSummary: Explore Enchancia with Sofia the First, and sail the Never Sea with Jake and his crew. Help Doc diagnose her toy patients; hang out at the Clubhouse with Mickey, Minnie, and the rest of the gang; and have a roarsome time with Henry Hugglemonster! This fun-filled book features eighteen stories starring your favorite Disney Junior pals!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The aleph / Juan Luis Borges -- The balcony / Felisberto Hernández -- The third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa -- The one who came to save me / Virgilio Piñera -- Hell most feared / Juan Carlos Onetti -- Luvina / Juan Rulfo -- Blow-up / Julio Cortázar -- Love / Clarice Lispector -- Ana María / José Donoso -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINSummary: Unabridged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Brzezinski, Mika.
Summary: The hosts of "Morning Joe" recount their early years and careers while discussing their contrasting values and lifestyles, explaining how they have forged a camaraderie based on mutual respect that can serve as a model in a politically contentious culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Goble, Paul
Summary: A girl who understands the spirits of all things sets out to find seven brothers she's seen in her mind. Together with them -- in a remarkable way -- she shows us we are not alone.A boy goes into the hills to pray to the Great Spirit to help his hungry people. He returns with a herd of magnificent animals, Sacred Dogs with "thunder in their nostrils and lightning in their legs" -- later known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: J Native GobleWideman, John Edgar
Summary: In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIDSummary: "Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMECampbell, Bonnie Jo
Contents: The trespasser -- The yard man -- World of gas -- The inventor, 1972 -- The solutions to Brian's problem -- The burn -- Family reunion -- Winter life -- Bringing Belle home -- Falling -- King Cole's American salvage -- Storm warning -- Fuel for the millennium -- Boar taint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI S.C. CamSeuss
Summary: A compilation of more than a dozen previously published Dr. Seuss books, plus essays by nine authors and other book lovers, including Audrey Geisel, widow of Dr. Seuss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHBruchac, Joseph
Contents: Silver fox and coyote create earth / Miwok -- How the people hunted the moose / Cree -- How grandmother spider named the clans / Hopi -- How the spider symbol came to the people / Osage -- The rabbit dance / Mohawk [Kanienkahageh] -- The deer dance / Yaqui -- Eagle boy / Zuni -- Turtle races with beaver / Seneca -- Octopus and raven / Nootka -- How the butterflies came to be / Papago -- Salmon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 BRUZitkala-Sa
Summary: "Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Sá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering a free education to all Sioux children. The catch: the children must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Sá begs her mother to let her go--and her mother, aware of the advantage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESContents: The legend of pig-eye.--The disappeared.--Love is not a pie.--Tall tales from the Mekong Delta.--The trip back.--The point.--Oil and water.--Another short day in La Luz.--The custodian.--Separation.--The body shop.--Houdini.--Bologoye.--Glossolalia.--Viva la Tropicana.--Willing.--Friend of my youth.--American, abroad.--Dog stories.--A sandstone farmhouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1991