Newman, Leigh
Summary: Newman's stories turn a spotlight on women struggling in Alaska, facing not just grizzly bears and charging moose, but the psychological complexities of love and family. From Anchorage to the remote, unsettled wilderness, her stories reinvent what we think about the American frontier-- and what we believe about hope and human connection. -- adapted from jacket
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: Collects eighteen stories featuring Anna, Elsa, and the other characters from the movie "Frozen."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Collects five tales inculding "Donald's Stinky Day," in which Donald reluctantly draws the attention of a stinky skunk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie six stories of the distant past, lost adventures, forgotten songs, and heartbreaking histories."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Child, Lee
Summary: Collects six short stories and three novellas featuring Jack Reacher, including "Too Much Time," in which Reacher witnesses a bag-snatching while in a small town in Maine, but there is more to the simple crime and it could prove fatal.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIMann, George
Summary: Travel to the far reaches of the Star Wars universe-- including to the remote outer rim world of Batuu from Galaxy's Edge-- with this unique treasury of in-world space tales. Featuring lush illustrations, this beautiful collection includes nine original fairy tales, myths, and fables. Passed down through generations, spanning millennia, carried from planet to planet, these are the legends that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STAAtinuke
Summary: Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATISummary: "12 enchanting adventures, featuring favorite Disney and Disney*Pixar characters from Monsters, Inc., The Lion King, Tangled, and more, each taking only five minutes to read"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DISSummary: "This hardcover collection contains 9 action-packed tales of the LEGO® NINJAGO® warriors that can be read aloud in about five minutes." --amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODTalty, Morgan
Summary: "Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction TaltySummary: Collects nine stories featuring the cat in the hat in a variety of adventures, including a trip to Bing-Bungle-Ba-Boo to search for creatures with unique feet and a visit to Boris the bear, for his tips on falling asleep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATRubio, Marytza K.
Summary: "For fans of Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Lesley Nneka Arimah, a darkly funny and imaginative debut conjuring tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits. "The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria." From former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Marytza K. Rubio comes Maria, Maria, an inimitable collection set across the tropics and megacities of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUBKennedy, Louise
Summary: "Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation-material, emotional, sexual-but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lionni, Leo
Summary: Four titles previously published independently, three of which were Caldecott honor books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The secrets of desire are unlocked in this collection of paranormal passion and suspense that features a new Eve Dallas novella by J.D. Robb, as well as works by Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBAkiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
Summary: Fourteen stories that illuminate the strange workings of the human heart
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 AKIMurakami, Haruki
Summary: Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Few parts of America are as historied as the South, so it's no surprise that many southern horror stories feature the long-lived vampire. Vampire Stories from the American South is a feast of fear for lovers of vampire fiction, offering a dozen tales in which insatiable vampires prowl plantations and scour the bayous in search of mortal blood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 VAMSummary: "Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. ... These are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air."--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Weaver Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAChild, Lee
Summary: Collects eleven stories and one novella featuring Jack Reacher, including "Too Much Time." Together these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher's past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIEllis, Deborah
Summary: "In this powerful collection of short stories, children around the world turn eleven and take a step into their futures. Each one is changed in ways both big and small. Annoyed at having to walk his sister's dog on his birthday, Connor heads into an undeveloped subdivision, where he comes across chilling evidence of a stranger's unhappiness. A girl sneaks away from her class camping trip to a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ELLKolluri, Talia Lakshmi
Summary: "In stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world. Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri's debut collection explores themes of environmentalism, conservation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022