Summary: "The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Adolescence is a time of firsts. First kiss. First love. First loss. First job. The first taste of adult responsibilities, and the first look at an independent life away from both the restrictions and the security of home. And in this case, a very different type of "first": murder. This short story collection of murder mysteries adds a sinister spin to the joy and pain of firsts that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIFYu, Hua
Summary: Presents thirteen tales about the sorrows, joys, and constants of modern China, including the story of an awkward youth who uses the perks of his government to court two women and a couple who toils in factories only to learn that their son has been wasting their money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Kelton, Elmer
Summary: Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, the second-ever collection of tales of the American West from renowned, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton Each of Elmer Kelton's superb stories of the West showcase the strength and power western spirit. They are filled with marvelous characters--from a rodeo clown who seeks redemption via romance, to an outlaw who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELGilchrist, Ellen
Summary: Master short story writer Ellen Gilchrist, winner of the National Book Award, returns with her first story collection in over eight years. In Acts of God, she has crafted ten different scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control somehow manage to survive, persevere, and triumph, even if it is only a triumph of the will. -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILGilchrist, Ellen
Summary: A novella and nine stories. The novella, Nora Jane and Company, is on a woman with a zest for living, The Dog Who Delivered Papers to the Stars is on a dog caught up in a marital dispute, and in A Man Who Looked Like Me, a woman reflects on the kind of man she should have, but did not marry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILGilchrist, Ellen
Contents: The famous poll at Jody's Bar -- Revenge -- There's a Garden of Eden -- In the land of dreamy dreams -- 1944 -- Summer, an elegy -- Victory over Japan -- Music -- Jade Buddhas, red bridges, fruits of love -- Miss Crystal's maid name Traceleen, she's talking, she's telling everything she knows -- Traceleen, she's still talking -- Drunk with love -- The young man -- Traceleen at dawn -- Anna,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little,Brown 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILKelton, Elmer
Summary: "In The Cowboy Way, acclaimed western writer Elmer Kelton chronicles the highs and lows of cowboy life. These sixteen tales, collected together for the first time, brim over with action, adventure, brotherhood, betrayal, and the romance of the American West"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATJohnson, Barb.
Summary: "The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love."--p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: "In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOUCawthon, Scott
Summary: "Have you ever wanted something badly, even though you shouldn't? . . . Steve's dreams of a video game programming career and starting a family lead him to take a job that seems too good to be true. Aiden and Jace can't resist scaring some young kids in the tube maze of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. And all Billy wants is to become the perfect ideal of what he knows he really is -- an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAWBradbury, Ray
Summary: In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAEllis, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ELLMacDonald, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MACOyeyemi, Helen
Summary: "A collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OYEOyeyemi, Helen
Summary: The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OYECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oyeyemi 2016Summary: 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 BESPoe, Edgar Allan
Contents: CD1. To- (1:48) -- Alone (1:01) -- The city and the sea (3:01) -- The fall of the House of Usher (22:57) -- The pit and the pendulum (30:27) -- CD2. Masque of Red death (16.25) -- The tell-tale heart (13:40) -- The black cat (25:57) -- CD3. The raven (8:15) -- The facts of the case of M. Valdemar (15:15) -- The cask of Amontillado -- The bells (4:02) -- Annabel Lee (2:03) -- Eldorado (:39) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN POE1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POE
Poe, Edgar Allan
Summary: A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder. The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red. A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors. A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave. Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first, secretly thrilled....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC POECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POESummary: "Bunny bonanza! Join Thumper and his sisters for their greatest adventures ever! Build a secret clubhouse, have a day out with Papa, make some new friends, and more in this brand-new collection. Each story is ideal for reading aloud in five minutes, perfect for bedtime, story time or anytime!"--back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in short horror fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Andy Davidson, Tananarive Due, Gemma Files, Jeffrey Ford, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Angela Slatter, and others. For more than four decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2023