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Audiobooks. Domestic fiction. fiction Fiction. Humorous fiction. Humorous stories. Short stories.Marcus, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMacDonald, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Gaitskill, Mary
Summary: Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories-her first in more than ten years. In "College Town l980," young people adrift in Ann Arbor, Michigan, debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale "Mirrorball," a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; and in "The Little Boy," a woman haunted by the death of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Eugenides, Jeffrey
Summary: This collection of stories presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her immigrant family lead...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017