Towles, Amor
Summary: The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Features a comprehensive collection of the author's works, including such classics as "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven" and lesser-known works such as "Loss of Breath" and "Spirits of the Dead."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813 PoeBieker, Chelsea
Summary: A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to salvage her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEMurakami, Haruki
Summary: Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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Summary: "For the first time in English, the work of master Haruki Murakami is available in manga form. In this collection you'll find striking full-color adaptations of these iconic short stories: Super-frog saves Tokyo -- A few days after an earthquake, Katagirl-san finds a giant frog in his home. The frog promises to save Tokyo from the next earthquake, but Katagiri-san must help him. Is this real,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd. 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include 'El Hechicero,' by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend; Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's tale of bandits, 'La buenaventura,' and his 'La Comendadora,' inspired by an incident in a Granada convent; three tales by Leopoldo Alas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 SPAMann, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2019
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATISummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALCornwell, Bernard
Summary: "My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred ... The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time. The novels tell the epic story of the birth of England and introduces one of the greatest ever fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORReyes, Ruben
Summary: "An ordinary man wakes one morning to discover he's a famous reggaetón star. An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet. A struggling academic discovers the horrifying cost of becoming a Self-Made Man. In There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. conjures strange dreamlike worlds to explore what we would do if we woke up one morning and our lives were unrecognizable....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAChild, Lee
Summary: "Throughout his career, Lee Child published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law. Packed with action and suspense, the stories show the author's mastery of the short form, and they've never been collected before now. Together these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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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 BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURSummary: An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLSummary: "Thrilling short stories featuring fan favorite characters from the beloved High Republic series each written by a New York Times bestselling author. The High Republic authors share unmissable short stories that bridge Phases, resolve mysteries, and offer tantalizing hints of what is to come. Rejoin the adventures of the Jedi and Padawans, Pathfinders and Path members, heroes and villains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press, an imprint of Buena Vista Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TALSummary: Collects eighteen stories featuring Anna, Elsa, and the other characters from the movie "Frozen."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2016
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Summary: A middle-grade collection of scary stories that weave into a larger mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NANAkiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
Summary: Fourteen stories that illuminate the strange workings of the human heart
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2015
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 AKISummary: "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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Summary: A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man’s character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals kidnap an elderly couple and begin blackmailing their grandson, demanding that he pay back what he owes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: A collection of five Pinkalicious stories, along with many extras.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011