Twain, Mark
Contents: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The £1,000,000 bank-note -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- The mysterious stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1992
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Contents: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Pudd'nhead Wilson, a tale -- No. 44, the mysterious stranger -- Jim Smiley and his jumping frog -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Private history of a campaign that failed -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- How to tell a story -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- To the person sitting in the darkness -- The United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWADahl, Michael
Summary: Six-year-old Brandon hates to go up the stairs to bed because there is always a man sitting there, a man only he can see, but tonight he closes his eyes and makes the climb with his mother watching, and then he hears his mother scream--and that is only one of the stories in this collection about all-too-real fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Contents: The stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro -- A Judas memoir -- An African story -- Disheveled nymphs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THEGrey, Zane
Summary: Four tales of love and adventure in the Old West introduce a cast of characters that includes a brave Texas ranger who risks his life against avenging outlaws to rescue the woman he secretly loves; a beautiful seductress comes between two brothers; a desperate fugitive seeks sanctuary with a peace-loving people; and a daring young schoolteacher journeys West to meet the man who has captured her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1960
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREColfer, 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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Summary: A collection of six short stories imagines future lands with new technologies and beings, where in spite of advanced capabilities, people still must confront deeply human problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROTTolstoy, 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 TOLBoyle, T. Coraghessan
Summary: "From the title story, which features a so-called relive box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past, to 'The Five-Pound Burrito,' the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection represent a whole new way of looking at the world"--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYLindholm, Megan.
Summary: Collects previously published and new short works written under both of the writer's pseudonyms, with brief notes by the author prefacing every piece that offers insight into the story's origin. The first seven stories are written under the name Megan Lindholm and the last three are written under the name Robin Hobb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBChristie, Agatha
Summary: This collection contains 12 crime cases, including the disappearance of Lord Listerdale, a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance, a strange encounter on a train, and a mild woman's sudden personality change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRSummary: With her English accent and her London ways, Rose Coyne is the only "stranger" in her rural Northern Ireland town, until 4,000 Americans arrive at the nearby WWII airbase. As Rose finds herself acting as peacekeeper between the disgruntled locals and the soldiers, she is also drawn to the engaging young Captain Dreyfuss. Will Rose risk her family for this forbidden love?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series My 2017Ruzzier, Sergio
Summary: Fox and Chick are unlikely friends, but somehow they seem to get along together, even though Fox is calm and thoughtful, and Chick has is hyperactive and flighty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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Summary: A collection of fourteen short stories by Lee Smith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIHouser, Jody
Summary: "When Will Byers finds himself in the Upside Down, an impossible dark parody of his own world, he's understandably frightened. But that's nothing compared with the fear that takes hold when he realizes what's in that world with him!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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Summary: Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society -- these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog. In the title story, a vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBChristie, Agatha
Summary: A collection of stories by the renowned mystery author featurs bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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Summary: The kids at school dare John to visit the old house on the hill at night, and when he and his sister go in they find dusty dishes set on the table, a book open like it is waiting for a reader, and something hiding under the bed in the attic--and that is only one of the five scary stories with unexpected twists that are included in this collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BRAChristie, Agatha
Summary: A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius.In The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer. . . . In The Actress, a great star's shady past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1997
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Summary: John Taylor presents a collection of short stories featuring legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGo 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M TAYCortázar, 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 CORPratchett, Terry
Summary: An anthology of fourteen unpublished short stories, written when Pratchett was in his teens, shares insights into his writing process and the early ideas that inspired his later career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PRAPargeter, 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