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 BESSummary: "An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: "In this revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories, the spotlight is on the most unusual Wild Cards of them all--the Deuces, or people with minor superpowers. In Deuces Down, iconic celebrities and landmark events are seen in a whole new light, such as John Jos. Miller's exciting 1969 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Michael Cassutt's first moon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUBurke, James Lee
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 BURAndrews, Munya
Summary: The history, legend and mythology of a star cluster associated with women for aeons of human history. Munya captures the richness of the mysterious constellation Pleiades and explains the recurring significance of these celestial sisters who animate the myths of cultures as diverse as Classical Greece and Aboriginal Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spinifex Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202.12 ANDSummary: Featuring original illustrations created by diverse artists from around the world, this collection of empowering short stories highlights inspiring acts of courage and kindness shown by Disney princesses and "Frozen" queens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TALChainani, Soman
Summary: Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life, and death. A prince has a surprising awakening. A beauty fights like a beast. A boy refuses to become prey. A path to happiness is lost, then found again. New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHASummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COMSimpson, Helen
Summary: "These thirteen stories brilliantly focus on aspects of contemporary living and unerringly capture a generation, a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior. They give us the small detail that reveals large secrets and summons up the inner stresses of our lives."--P. 2 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMAnders, Charlie Jane
Summary: "In her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary. The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future. A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDNance, Andrew
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 NANDixon, Stephen.
Summary: "The interlinked tales in this Late Stories detail the excursions of an aging narrator navigating the amorphous landscape of grief in a series of tender and often waggishly elliptical digressions"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trnsfr Books, an imprint of Curbside Splendor Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIXLee, Andrea
Summary: In vivid prose infused with wicked irony, award-winning author Andrea Lee takes us into the hearts and minds of a number of extraordinary women—intelligent, beautiful, self-possessed—who, with wit and style, grapple with questions of identity in an increasingly connected world where everyone has become, in some way, a foreigner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEBarrett, Andrea.
Summary: During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARKing, Stephen
Summary: "In If It Bleeds, King gives listeners four brilliant new stories sure to prove as iconic as their predecessors. Once again, King's remarkable range is on full display. In the title story, fan favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider -- this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," an intergenerational friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINKoontz, 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: "Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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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 KOORogers, Andrea L.
Summary: Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGRogers, Andrea L.
Summary: Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection, from werewolves to vampires to zombies, all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROGSummary: Twenty-one bestselling authors have written short stories to accompany Jonathan Diaz's fantastical photographs of children who are battling cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TRUSummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASummary: "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