Summary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Addison Goodheart is a mystery even to himself. He was born in an isolated home surrounded by a deep forest, never known to his father, kept secret from everyone but his mother, who barely accepts him. She is haunted by private demons and keeps many secrets―none of which she dreads more than the young son who adores her. Only in the woods, among the wildlife, is Addison truly welcome. Only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Fourteen short stories from Dean Koontz's career as a writer, from 1966 to 2013.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction SC Koontz 2014Summary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEESummary: Collects sixteen interconnected short stories about a high school's battle of the bands competition, from such authors as Shaun David Hutchinson, Brittany Cavallaro, and Preeti Chhibber.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BATSummary: "Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knightsof the Round Table. The stories are so iconic that just a name, a word, conjures romance and betrayal, chivalry and magic. These are legends so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWOSummary: Featuring contributions from Eric Bell, Katherine Locke and A.J. Sass, this first LGBTQA+ anthology for middle-grade readers presents stories of queer fantasy, historical and contemporary stories for every letter of the acronym.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC THIRylant, Cynthia
Summary: Hornbeam the moose goes on a picnic with his best friend Eureka, sleeps over his friend Cuddy's house, and learns how to swim with Adorabelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RYLRylant, Cynthia
Summary: Motor Mouse takes a hot air balloon ride with his brother Valentino and neighbor Horatio, decides to teach Valentino to drive a car, and spends a day with Valentino at the Funfair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RYLSummary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BESAtwood, Margaret
Summary: In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ATWSummary: "Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth. Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GENPoe, Edgar Allan
Contents: CD1. To- (1:48) -- Alone (1:01) -- The city and the sea (3:01) -- The fall of the House of Usher (22:57) -- The pit and the pendulum (30:27) -- CD2. Masque of Red death (16.25) -- The tell-tale heart (13:40) -- The black cat (25:57) -- CD3. The raven (8:15) -- The facts of the case of M. Valdemar (15:15) -- The cask of Amontillado -- The bells (4:02) -- Annabel Lee (2:03) -- Eldorado (:39) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN POE1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POE
Poe, Edgar Allan
Summary: A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder. The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red. A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors. A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave. Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first, secretly thrilled....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POEMichaels, Fern.
Summary: Making spirits bright. "Melanie McLaughlin desperately wants to adopt two orphaned siblings and give them a real home for Christmas. A just-for-the-holiday marriage to Bryce Landry fits her plan perfectly . . . until unexpected sparks have Melanie dreaming of forever by his side."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
Summary: Three holiday romance stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MICClare, Cassandra
Summary: Follow Jem and see - against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival - Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can be saved one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAShepherd, Jean.
Contents: A fistful of fig newtons, or The shootout in room 303 -- The light at the end of the tunnel -- The mole people battle the forces of darkness -- Marcel Proust meets the New Jersey tailgater, and survives -- The marathon run of Lonesome Ernie, the Arkansas Traveler -- Sociology 101 (Hip Division) -- Lemons on the grass, alas -- The lost civilization of Deli -- The whole fun catalog of 1929 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEThompson, Jean
Summary: Presents a collection of stories that put a modern twist on classic fairy tales, depicting characters ranging from lost children who try to find their way home to adults who confront their past misdeeds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOBennett, Alan
Summary: Presents two short tales of sex, secrets, and misrepresentation, including "The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson," in which a widow supplements her income by being a test subject for medical students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENShepherd, Jean.
Contents: The grandstand passion play of Delbert and the Bumpus hounds -- County fair! -- Scut Farkas and the murderous Mariah -- Ollie Hopnoodle's haven of bliss -- The star-crossed romance of Josephine Cosnowski -- Daphne Bigelow and the spine-chilling saga of the snail-encrusted tinfoil noose -- The return of the smiling Wimpy doll -- Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEThompson, Jean
Summary: Twelve short stories feature an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOMoore, Alan
Summary: "In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022