Summary: "In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all--the Deuces, or people with minor superpowers. In Deuces Down, iconic celebrities and landmark events are seen in a whole new light, such as John Jos. Miller's exciting 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Michael Cassutt's first moon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUSummary: "Just in time to celebrate the first decade of the Frozen franchise, we join Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf as they embark on new adventures through the Frozen universe with friends new and old"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALLSummary: In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECHBurke, James Lee
Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURSummary: A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: GK Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PROJohnson, Barb.
Summary: "The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love."--p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHEnright, Anne
Summary: The sum of these stories is a rich tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another--and with themselves--in a rapidly changing Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRSummary: "Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year 2023, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this ... woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she ... brought to life in her acclaimed novels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC REUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REUSummary: Explore Enchancia with Sofia the First, and sail the Never Sea with Jake and his crew. Help Doc diagnose her toy patients; hang out at the Clubhouse with Mickey, Minnie, and the rest of the gang; and have a roarsome time with Henry Hugglemonster! This fun-filled book features eighteen stories starring your favorite Disney Junior pals!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2014
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Contents: College town, 1980 -- Folk song -- Old virgin -- Agonized face -- Mirror ball -- Today I'm yours -- Little boy -- Arms and legs of the lake -- Description -- Don't cry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAISummary: A collection for Pixar fans presents eighteen stories from such movies as "Toy Story," "Monsters, Inc.," "Coco," "Soul," "Luca," and "Onward."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2022
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Summary: "In these stories set in the southwest, the mostly working--class characters struggle to rise beyond their pasts and their own worst tendencies. Sojourner uses passion, high -- energy storytelling, and unflinching empathy to break the reader's heart." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS
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Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOJMiller, Mary
Summary: "Acerbic and ruefully funny, Always Happy Hour weaves tales of young womendeeply flawed and intensely realwho struggle to get out of their own way. They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSouth, Mary
Summary: "A collection of stories featuring characters who use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOUNoyes, Anna
Summary: This is an extraordinary book of stories. Many of the characters are anchored to coastal Maine, but a particular quality of wildness animates nearly all of them. The stories are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book. Charles Baxter Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOYSummary: "Adolescence is a time of firsts. First kiss. First love. First loss. First job. The first taste of adult responsibilities, and the first look at an independent life away from both the restrictions and the security of home. And in this case, a very different type of "first": murder. This short story collection of murder mysteries adds a sinister spin to the joy and pain of firsts that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIFMacDonald, Betty Bard.
Summary: A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MACTwain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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Summary: This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAPacker, 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 PACMayer, Mark
Summary: Aerialists is a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019