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Baker, Liza Barker, Clive Hill, Joe Packer, Ann Rash, Ron Walker, Landry Q. (Landry Quinn)Packer, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Packer 2011Packer, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things said or done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PACBarker, Clive
Summary: "Infernal Parade begins with the tale of a convicted criminal, Tom Requiem, who returns from the brink of death to restore both fear and a touch of awe to a complacent world. Tom becomes the leader of the eponymous "parade," which ranges from the familiar precincts of North Dakota to the mythical city of Karantica. Golems, vengeful humans both living and dead, and assorted impossible creatures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONBaker, Liza
Summary: Presents excerpts from the Disney versions of five classic fairy tales--"Beauty and the Beast," "Cinderella," "The Little Mermaid," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and "Aladdin."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWAs anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This years Nebula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr, an Imprint of Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEBSummary: An anthology of short stories, by a variety of the international artists. Includes the full-color work of top animators for video games, DreamWorks, emerging Web cartoonists, and established comic book and graphic novel creators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FLIWalker, Landry Q. (Landry Quinn)
Summary: The worlds of Star Wars are full of countless alien species, each stranger and more fascinating than the last. Here you'll find six stories about just some of the amazing aliens who appear in the smash-hit movie. Featuring a dashing tale of piracy and double crosses, the story of a wise Jakku constable and an unfortunate droid, and a mystery that can be solved only by the gruff cook at Maz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Hill, Joe
Summary: "Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction HilRash, Ron
Summary: Showcases the acclaimed author's artistry and craftsmanship in thirty-two stories culled from previously published collections. Each work of short fiction demonstrates Rash's dazzling ability to evoke the heart and soul of this land and its people -- men and women inexorably tethered to the geography that defines and shapes them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014