Summary: A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGVan den Berg, Laura
Summary: "A dislocating collection of short stories from the author of "The Third Hotel""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSpyra, Jen
Summary: "Jen Spyra has worked in nearly every kind of comedy there is: penning stories for The Onion, writing skits and one-liners for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, contributing pieces to The New Yorker and McSweeney's, and taking the stage for improv at UCB Theater in Manhattan. Her incredible range is on display in this uproarious, addictive collection of short stories that include a twisted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPYJen, Gish
Summary: "In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENHaigh, Jennifer
Summary: A series of interconnected stories portrays the close-knit coal mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, exploring themes of regret, redemption, and acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction HaighBán, Zsófia
Summary: "Perfect for anyone looking for a little more Nohoo (or "know-how") in your life, Zsófia Bán's mock-textbook, Night School: A Reader for Grownups covers all the important subjects, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French, complete with a hearty dose of irony. Bán's "lectures" tell of the travels of young Flaubert to Egypt with his friend Maxime, and includes a missive from Laika the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANLoory, Ben
Summary: A dazzling new collection of stories from the critically acclaimed author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for The Day Ben Loory returns with a second collection of timeless tales, inviting us to enter his worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor, in the signature voice that drew readers to his highly praised first collection. In stories that eschew literary realism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOOMarcus, Ben
Summary: A collection of life-affirming tales, including the dystopian Rollingwood, in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarcus, Ben
Summary: A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a narrator's marriage and sanity unravel in a single breathless sentence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARSummary: "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.Bova, Ben
Summary: "In this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVSummary: 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 THISummary: A collection of ten stories from award-winning YA authors celebrates first love, unrequited love, surprising love, and love that's been there all along.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SERSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: "Edited by New York Times best-selling author, Elizabeth Lim, this Twisted Tale anthology features sixteen twisted short stories with new takes on fan-favorite Disney films. Swoon as Ariel and Eric meet right after the Little Mermaid saves her prince; join Tiana and Naveen on a race to get back to Maldonia; take a ride on a pirate space ship with Jim Hawkins; and uncover just what power Tinker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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Summary: "A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOContents: Introduction / by Jody Lynn Nye -- The Illustrators of the Future contest / by Echo Chernik -- Art gallery -- The edge of where my light is cast / by Sky McKinnon ; illustrated by Carina Zhang -- Son, spirit, snake / by Jack Nash ; illustrated by Pedro N. -- Nonzero / by Tom Vandermolen ; illustrated by Jennifer Mellen -- On writing and science fiction / by L. Ron Hubbard -- The last drop / by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Galaxy Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC L.Tokarczuk, Olga
Summary: A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOKSummary: From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VandriverChen, Te-Ping
Summary: "A debut story collection offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of life for contemporary Chinese people, set between China and the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHESummary: "Here are ten original stories about the valiant Jedi and the evil Sith. Larger-than-life characters clash in epic lightsaber battles that will appeal to young readers and to the young Star Wars fan in all of us! Ten acclaimed authors imagine new tales for some of the most iconic Star Wars characters ever, from Luke Skywalker to Darth Vader, from Obi-Wan Kenobi to Darth Maul, and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2022