Paley, Grace.
Contents: Two ears, three lucks -- The little disturbances of man. Goodbye and good luck -- A woman, young and old -- The pale pink roast -- The loudest voice -- The contest -- An interest in life -- An irrevocable diameter -- Two short sad stories from a long and happy life. The used-boy raisers ; A subject of childhood -- In time which made a monkey of us all -- The floating truth -- Enormous changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALHadley, Tessa
Summary: "A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of these twelve stories, small events have huge consequences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADLin, Grace
Summary: Twin sisters Ling and Ting have fun together playing in all kinds of weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: "The award-winning author of The Past once again 'crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural' (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional. The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADHadley, Tessa.
Summary: Collects stories featuring dramas, generational sagas, love affairs, and life-altering realizations, from a girl who insists on marrying her professor to a producer's wife who gets to lead a different life after her husband's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADMoore, Hadley
Summary: "Not Dead Yet studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore's debut collection of short stories presents a contemporary set of narratives from a lush cast of characters. We find the protagonists of her stories tenderly revealing their pain after the loss of loved ones and coping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autumn House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOSummary: "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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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FITDrake, David.
Contents: Foreword : we happy few -- At any price -- Counting the cost -- Rolling hot -- The warrior-- The day of glory -- Afterword : what's for sale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRARubin, Adam
Summary: "Here are six thrilling stories--ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to adventure--set in six different worlds, featuring artwork from six different illustrators."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBSterling, Bruce.
Contents: I. Favela chic -- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google -- Kiosk -- The hypersurface of this decade -- White fungus -- The exterminator's want ad -- II. Dark euphoria. -- Esoteric city -- The parthenopean scalpel -- The lustration -- III. Gothic high-tech. -- Windsor exectutive solutions / by Chris Nakashima-Brown and Bruce Sterling -- A plain tale from our hills -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEItō, Junji
Summary: "A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world...A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021
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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 CAWSummary: "Open the files on seventeen new crime stories to probe the brutal and complex hearts of criminals ... Invisible Blood is a gripping collection of the compulsions of the criminal mind."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INVSummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: "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 YOUSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction FliSummary: A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019