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Children's stories, American FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors) JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Birds JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Pigs JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Intermediate Monsters Latin America Fiction Science fiction Short stories Short stories, AmericanMantel, Hilary
Summary: "In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Sharp and funny, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues." For the child narrator, the only way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANMuñoz, Manuel
Summary: ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: "Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONSummary: "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2022
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Summary: A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: Bestselling author Jonathan Maberry brings together some of today's top storytellers for a series of anthologies featuring all-new stories from the X-Files. Scully and Mulder continue their journey into darkness as they face aliens, monsters, shadow governments, and twisted conspiracies.This first volume includes stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Tim Lebbon, Max Allan Collins, Heather Graham, Brian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MABAlarcón, Daniel
Summary: "A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAOrozco, Daniel
Summary: In this collection, Orozco leads the reader through the secret lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. Each story in the collection has a gut-punch impact, softened only by lyricism and black humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OROFuji, Nao
Summary: "The comic misadventures of Chewie, Captain Marvel's catlike pet flerken. Join Captain Marvel's pet, Chewie, as she wreaks havoc in the lives of Marvel Comics' most popular characters. Gain a new persepective on beloved favorites such as Spider-Man and Iron Man, formidable villains including Thanos and Galactus, and antiheroes like Deadpool, as they all become the playthings of this capricious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC FUJWeiner, Eric Daniel
Summary: Hello! Freddie Parrott III here with some exciting news. Too exciting, in fact. The stories I have to tell you are rather feather-raising. But don't worry. Somehow my butler and best friend, Peccary, always finds a way to save the day. Then he and I have a big chuckle--at my expense. They don't call me famously funny for nothing!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WEISummary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019