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Bierhorst, John. Garland, Sherry. Petrushevskaia, Liudmila. Rich, Simon. Rule, Ann.Garland, Sherry.
Summary: An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explantory notes following each story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GARContents: 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 SELBierhorst, John.
Summary: Over forty cultures are represented by sixty-four selected myths and tales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native BierhorstSummary: Brings together the words of over 60 writers, from Twain's earliest reviews to today, probing the many facets of his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, and his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Classics of the United States, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 MARPetrushevskaia, Liudmila.
Summary: Masterworks of economy and acuity, these brief, trenchant tales by Russian author and playwrite Petrushevskaya, selected from her wide-ranging but little translated oeuvre over the past 30 years, offer an enticement to English readers to seek out more of her writing. The tales explore the inexplicable workings of fate, the supernatural, grief and madness, and range from adroit, straightforward...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRich, 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.Rule, Ann.
Summary: A collection of true-crime tales, selected from the author's "Crime Files" series, is accompanied by three new cases that chronicle the crimes of seemingly ordinary men possessing a twisted obsession with violence and death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From powerful and moving to knee-knocking suspense and troubled love, these darkly comic tales of lives on the edge represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Performances recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and on tour around the country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space Inc. 2013