Summary: "26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar. The Best of World SF draws together stories from across the spectrum of science fiction - expect robots, spaceships and time travel, as well as some really weird stuff - representing twenty-one countries and five continents."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESRiordan, Rick
Summary: Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and imaginative new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RIOWeinstein, Alexander
Summary: Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIRiordan, Rick
Summary: "Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and inventive new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION RIOKennedy, Louise
Summary: "Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation-material, emotional, sexual-but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KENBlack, Robin.
Contents: The guide -- If I loved you -- Immortalizing John Parker -- Harriet Elliot -- Gaining ground -- Tableau vivant -- Pine -- A country where you once lived -- Divorced, beheaded, survived -- The history of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAShearer, Wendy
Summary: "This spook-tactular collection features more than 20 fright-filled stories from around the globe. Retold with ghoulish relish by professional storyteller Wendy Shearer and beautifully illustrated by Teo Georgiev, these hair-raising tales are sure to send shivers down your spine."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Contains horror stories from twenty countries on five continents, from Brazil to Iceland to Japan. This volume introduces readers to award-winning authors whose work was previously unknown in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Valancourt Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VALBausch, Richard
Summary: "In these thirteen indelible stories, Richard Bausch once again proves himself a modern master. From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story"--The New York Times Book Review), thirteen unforgettable tales that showcase his electrifying artistry. Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUCornwell, Bernard
Summary: "My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred ... The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time. The novels tell the epic story of the birth of England and introduces one of the greatest ever fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC COR1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Summary: "What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read? For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that? For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VALSummary: Four brand new stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, meet a dragon, and then go on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile"; all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover; a penguin arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood during the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILLabatut, Benjamín
Summary: "A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.The great mathematician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LABCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LabatutSummary: "Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie six stories of the distant past, lost adventures, forgotten songs, and heartbreaking histories."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Key, Justin C.
Summary: Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "A new collection of Sherlockian tales that shows the Great Detective and his partner, Watson, as their acquaintances saw them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYHammett, Dashiell
Summary: Collects all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring Continental Op, the hardworking private eye with an unyielding personal code.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMFaye, Lyndsay
Summary: "Beloved adventuress Irene Adler teams up with her former adversary in a near-deadly inquiry into a room full of eerily stopped grandfather clocks. Learn of the case that cemented the lasting friendship between Holmes and Inspector Lestrade, and of the tragic crime which haunted the Yarder into joining the police force. And witness Stanley Hopkins's first meeting with the remote logician he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: Presenting four all-new adventures, young readers are invited to the Hundred-Acre Wood to learn about friendship and kindness with the help of Pooh and his friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN PARSparks, Amber
Summary: "Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPAShepard, Jim
Summary: ""Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shepard 2017Andrews, Munya
Summary: The history, legend and mythology of a star cluster associated with women for aeons of human history. Munya captures the richness of the mysterious constellation Pleiades and explains the recurring significance of these celestial sisters who animate the myths of cultures as diverse as Classical Greece and Aboriginal Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spinifex Press 2004