Portis, Charles
Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORButler, Octavia E.
Summary: This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BUTPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
Summary: Stories provide an ironic viewpoint on life in nineteenth-century Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSEisenberg, Deborah.
Summary: Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISBarthelme, Donald
Summary: "This comprehensive gathering highlights Barthelme's unique approach to fiction: his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths; his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights; and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century"..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARFaulkner, William
Summary: "William Faulkner called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry." The fifty-four stories gathered here show him not only mastering the form but revolutionizing its possibilities, distilling an epic breadth of vision into narratives that conjure an intimate sense of place and the abiding presence of history and legend. Library of America caps its Faulkner edition with this volume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUOrkin, Ivan
Summary: Ivan Orkin is a self-described gaijin (guy-jin), a Japanese term that means "outsider." He has been hopelessly in love with the food of Japan since he was a teenager on Long Island. Even after living in Tokyo for decades and running two ramen shops that earned him international renown, he remained a gaijin. Fortunately, being a lifelong outsider has made Orkin a more curious, open, and studious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5952 ORKMaisel, Ivan
Summary: "In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Max's car was found abandoned in a parking next to Lake Ontario. Two months later, Max's body would be found in the lake. I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye is the storyof Maisel's love for a son who was so different from him, but who he loved so deeply, and how he came to learn that grief for Max was nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAISEL, IVAN MAIPaley, Grace.
Contents: Two ears, three lucks -- The little disturbances of man. Goodbye and good luck -- A woman, young and old -- The pale pink roast -- The loudest voice -- The contest -- An interest in life -- An irrevocable diameter -- Two short sad stories from a long and happy life. The used-boy raisers ; A subject of childhood -- In time which made a monkey of us all -- The floating truth -- Enormous changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALAnderson, Sherwood
Summary: Collects the complete works published by the author during his lifetime as well as a selection of previously uncollected and unpublished stories, in a volume that explores themes of small-town life, moments of change, and sexual awakening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSinger, Isaac Bashevis
Contents: A friend of Kafka & other stories -- A crown of feathers & other stories -- Passions & other stories -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Glossary and notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINWoolson, Constance Fenimore
Summary: With this volume Library of America presents the biggest and best edition of Woolson’s short fiction ever published. Here are twenty-one stories chosen from her four collections—Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875), Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880), The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895), and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896)—as well as two uncollected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOBowles, Paul
Summary: Collects the author's short stories, a novella titled "Up Above the World," and a travel book first published in 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWCohen, Ivan
Summary: "The Dark Knight teams with Scooby-Doo and the sleuths of Mystery Inc. to solve mysteries featuring ghosts, phantoms, and the supernatural"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COHCarver, Raymond.
Contents: Will you please be quiet, please? -- Fat -- Neighbors -- The idea -- They're not your husband -- Are you a doctor? -- The father -- Nobody said anything -- Sixty acres -- What's in Alaska? -- Night school -- Collectors -- What do you do in San Francisco? -- The student's wife -- Put yourself in my shoes -- Jerry and Molly and Sam -- Why, Honey? -- The ducks -- How about this? -- Bicycles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Though primarily known as a novelist, L'Amour wrote hundreds of short stories. This volume collects 35 of his Western stories, the genre for which he has received the most notice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAML'Amour, Louis
Summary: Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAM VOL. 4Rohr, Richard.
Contents: Jesus: forgiving victim, transforming savior -- The spirituality of imperfection -- The maternal face of God -- Dying: we need it for life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Anthony Messenger Press 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.48 ROHL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAM VOL. 3L'Amour, Louis
Summary: The second volume in a series of anthologies that will present the complete collection of short fiction by the popular novelist features more of his action-packed tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAM VOL. 2L'Amour, Louis
Summary: Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAM VOL. 7Carter, Angela
Summary: Forty-two stories. In The Bloody Chamber, a bride discovers she married a sadist, The Quilt Maker is on aging, and Our Lady of the Massacres is on the destruction of Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1996
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Place a hold to request this item.Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman.
Summary: Nate the Great : When Nate gets an urgent call from Annie about a lost picture, he immediately plunges into his new and baffling case with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade. Nate, the boy detective who "likes to work alone," solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process, he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Porter, Joyce.
Summary: A collection of stories featuring Inspector Wilfred Dover, Scotland Yard's most incompetent detective. Typical is Dover Goes to School, where despite his cockeyed reasoning, he manages to solve a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foul Play Press 1995