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Modern library of the world's best books Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 16 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 18 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 19 Selected shorts : let us tell you a story Selected shorts: a celebration of the short story 17Filter By Series
Modern library of the world's best books Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 16 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 18 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 19 Selected shorts : let us tell you a story Selected shorts: a celebration of the short story 17Hicks, Dan
Contents: Mama's boy blues -- That's where I am -- Hey bartender -- Willie -- One more cowboy (duet with Willie Nelson) -- Barstool boogie (duet with Jimmie Buffett) -- C'mon-a-my house -- First I lost my marbles -- That ain't right -- Cue the violins -- I'll see you in my dreams -- Texas kinda attitude -- That's the smoke they're blowin' -- That ain't right (Gibby phones it in mix) (duet with Gibby...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Surfdog Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HicksSummary: Selected war time short stories read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELRich, 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.Summary: Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors. Hilarious and colorful episodes in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.83 SELContents: 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 SELContents: Disc 1: Part of the story / Stephen Dobyns ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- Second-hand man / read by Audra McDonald -- Disc 2: The man who could see radiance / John J. Clayton ; read by Paul Hecht -- Bush pigs / Richard Dooling ; read by Mark Nelson -- Disc 3: The smoker / David Schickler ; read by Robert Sean Leonard -- Night calls / Lisa Fugard ; read by the author.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELContents: Disc 1. Yma dream / Thomas Meehan (10:46)-- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara (20:00)-- The fix / Percival Everett (29:22)-- disc 2. The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson (21:01)-- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri (51:50)-- disc 3. Valor / Richard Bausch (47:25)-- Enough / Alice McDermott (20:06).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELContents: 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 SELContents: Disc 1: Subsoil / Nicholson Baker ; read by Thomas Gibson -- Farrell's caddy / John Updike ; read by Charles Keating -- Disc 2: Jamaica / David Schickler ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- Chivalry / Neil Gaiman ; read by Christina Pickles -- Disc 3. Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels ; read by David Rakoff -- On the U.S.S. Fortitude / Ron Carlson ; read by Laura Esterman -- Fatso / Etgar...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2004
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELKafka, Franz
Summary: Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1952
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Place a hold to request this item.Highsmith, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Modesitt, L. E.
Summary: A collection of short stories set in the world of the Recluce saga features seventeen new tales and four popular reprints spanning the thousand-year history of Recluse, in an anthology complemented by a background essay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODBinchy, Maeve
Summary: Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BINCampbell, Bonnie Jo
Summary: A collection of stories featuring the working-class struggles and self-sabotaging betrayals of mother and daughter protagonists includes "My Dog Roscoe," "Blood Work, 1999" and "Home to Die.".
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015