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Best American series Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Library of America 356 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story The Land of stories 1 The Land of stories 2 The Land of stories 3 The Land of Stories. 4 The people and the power gameSummary: A story about the Luckett family of Pennsylvania who travel to unexplored territory in Ohio and those who followed them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AWADriscoll, Jack
Summary: "Few short story writers have received the acclaim offered to Jack Driscoll over the decades. Here he has selected twenty of his best fictions...The qualities that make his work indelible ― his deeply intimate relationship with nature and people, his natural lyricism, the authentic way his credible narratives earn their mystery, all are here in this beautiful collection, the culmination of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DriscollJewett, Sarah Orne
Contents: Deephaven -- A country doctor -- The country of the pointed firs -- Dunnet Landing stories -- Selected stories and sketches.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWSummary: In an adversarial climate of polarization and power confrontations, how can the U.S. government get anything done? In part one of this program, correspondent Hedrick Smith examines the obstacles to bipartisan compromise between the Clinton administration and Congress as well as the difficulties parties have in disciplining their own members in Congress. In part two, Mr. Smith probes the rise...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Baxter, Charles
Summary: Brings together the best of Baxter's previous collections, with seven new stories, giving us the most complete portrait of his achievement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXGilman, Charlotte Perkins
Summary: "Library of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story "The yellow wall-paper." The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman's mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 GILContents: Disc 1. Good living / Aleksandar Hemon (performed by Boyd Gaines) (13:22) -- Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri (performed by Rita Wolf) (49:29) -- Disc 2. The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (performed by Condola Rashad) (25:04) -- Breaking and entering / Sherman Alexie (performed by B.D. Wong) (30:20).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEMuasher, Marwan
Summary: "This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when--if the dream is realized--a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.0974 MUAHannah, Barry.
Summary: Combines the best from the author's four story collections as well as the final manuscript he left behind after his death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANLondon, Jack
Summary: The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LONO'Brien, Edna
Summary: The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRHighsmith, Patricia
Contents: Highsmith country: an introduction by Joan Schenkar -- Strangers on a train -- A mighty nice man -- The still point of the turning world -- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out -- Quiet night -- In the plaza -- The great cardhouse -- The baby spoon -- The price of salt -- Oona, the jolly cave woman -- Two disagreeable pigeons -- Not one of us -- Woodrow wilson's necktie --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2011
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Summary: "Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest"; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASColfer, Chris
Summary: After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION COLColfer, Chris
Summary: "Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLColfer, Chris
Summary: "The Masked Man possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can twins Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Colfer 2015Smith, Lee
Summary: A collection of fourteen short stories by Lee Smith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIColfer, Chris
Summary: Against the will of their grandmother, twins Alex and Conner must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JFIC COLColfer, Chris
Summary: Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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Summary: A collection of stories from the past twenty-five years includes "Mr. Club and Mr. Cuff," "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine," and "Blue Rose."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016