Paine, Thomas
Contents: Common sense, The crisis, and other pamphlets, articles and letters -- Rights of man -- The age of reason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 PAILangley, Andrew
Summary: More than 75 million people fought in World War II nearly all of them men. Who was going to produce the weapons and the food, and do countless other vital jobs? The answer was women. Millions stepped forward to take on work they had rarely done before, such as fighting fires, ploughing fields and cracking codes. These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist Wom LangleyCortázar, Julio
Summary: "In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-story collection Blow-Up--Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORGulley, Philip.
Contents: Porch talk -- A curious obsession -- Charley -- The jig's up -- Call me coach -- Pond life -- The slow life -- You get what you pay for -- The compact -- The tornado -- The state of housing -- Better late than never! -- Exercise and other dirty words -- My conflicted life -- Too many friends -- Professional thinkers -- Zipper -- The writing life -- My wife, the scofflaw -- The death of freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 242 GULPargeter, Edith
Contents: A grain of mustard seed -- Light-boy -- Grim fairy tale -- Trump of doom -- The man who met himself -- The linnet in the garden -- How beautiful is youth -- All souls' day -- The cradle -- My friend the enemy -- The lily hand -- A question of faith -- The purple children -- I am a seagull -- Carnival night -- The ultimate Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARUpdike, John.
Summary: Twenty-two stories on life in the sunset lane, illustrating the saying that every age has its charm, including old age. By the author of Brazil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDFisher, Philip A.
Summary: "In Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Fisher shares his philosophy, offering valuable insights into the most fundamental and important aspects of buying and selling stock. Here are solid guidelines on when and what to buy, sound reasons for selling common stock, as well as critical information on profit margins and dividends. There is also Fisher's famous list of Top-Ten "Don'ts" for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.632 FISBrallier, Max
Summary: A collection of five scary stories, first featuring Jason, sleeping over at his uncle Henry's house, who needs to take a long, dark walk to the bathroom only to find someone is waiting for him inside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BRAMaclean, Norman
Contents: A river runs through it -- Logging and pimping and "Your pal, Jim." -- USFS 1919.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1976
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Summary: Hugh does not like walking home alone through the woods which the other children say is inhabited by a monster, but today he has no choice, and it is not only his shadow that follows him--and that is only one of five scary stories included in this collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BRADahl, Michael
Summary: When Bradley takes a shortcut through the graveyard one evening, he encounters a mysterious girl who keeps jumping out from behind the gravestones; she is wearing clothes that resemble a doll that Bradley took from his sister and accidentally ruined, and now that doll with the melted face is back for revenge--and the reader will find five more equally chilling stories in this collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Contents: Bo Geesty.--Johnnie Cope in the morning.--General knowledge, private information.--Parfit gentil knight, but.--Fly men.--McAuslan in the rough.--His Majesty says good-day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRASummary: "Bob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series in 2016 but also of the rich history of writing and storytelling in the region. As series editors Michael Delp and M. L....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELTolstoy, Leo
Summary: Annotation In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLRash, Ron
Summary: A collection of thirty-four stories set in Appalachia illuminates the tensions between the traditional and the modern, the old and new South, tenderness and violence, and man and nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASSummary: Loup Garrou, trickster rabbits, and spirits with names that can't be spoken--the plains and forests of North America are alive with characters like these, all waiting to meet you in this collection of folklore retold in comics! This fifth volume of the "Cautionary Fables and Fairytales" anthology series features updated takes on ancient stories from tribes spanning the continent, bursting with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC WOMColfer, Chris
Summary: "Mother Goose from The Land of Stories relates her adventures throughout history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLSmith, Ali
Summary: "Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives-- our own personal libraries-- make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMINovak, B. J.
Summary: "B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVOliver, Diane
Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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Summary: A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death and the erotic all focusing on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOLCheever, John.
Contents: Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- Torch song -- The pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- The season of divorce -- The chaste Clarissa -- The cure -- The superintendent -- The children -- The sorrows of gin -- O youth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Fourteen short stories from Dean Koontz's career as a writer, from 1966 to 2013.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction SC Koontz 2014Butler, Octavia E.
Summary: "Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work ... These works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2005