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American fiction 20th century Authorship Fiction Authorship Japan Japan Social life and customs Fiction Murakami, Haruki 1949- Murakami, Haruki 1949- Translations into English Science fiction, American Short stories, American United States Social life and customs 20th century FictionTowles, 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: "A magnificent collection of short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, all extending the story of Outlander in thrilling new directions "The Custom of the Army" begins with Lord John Grey being shocked by an electric eel and ends at the Battle of Quebec. Then comes "The Space Between," where it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GABSummary: "This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's 'Reloj sin dueño' and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's 'La mañana de San Juan' to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's 'Las mulas de Su Excelencia' and the vivid romanticism of 'Amor secreto' by Manual Payno,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC MEXCall number: 863.0108 MEX
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITPoe, Edgar Allan
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 PoeSummary: 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 WALBarrett, 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 BARSummary: A celebration of the short story as it was popularized in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Features works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Kate Chopin, O' Henry, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press, imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 GREVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: An anthology of sixteen previously unpublished works includes selections from the iconic writer's early literary career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VONFlint, Eric
Summary: The inhabitants of Grantville, a modern-day West Virginia town hurtled back in time to Germany during the Thirty Years War, battle the tyrants of seventeenth-century Europe, in a second collection of alternate history tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLISmiley, Jane
Summary: "Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SMIMorrell, David
Summary: Before I Wake is a thriller fan's dream, a rich, resonant collection that reminds us, once again, of its author's enduring and unmistakable importance. This is popular fiction as it should be written. It doesn't get better than this. Before I Wake shows us Morrell at the top of his game. Each of the stories gathered here is a compelling, beautifully crafted gem. Each is the clear product of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORZabuz͡hko, O. S. (Oksana Stefanivna)
Summary: "Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZABBieker, 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 BIESummary: Spider-Man's most notable stories are brought together in this anthology that features tales of identity, hero-worship, and Spidey's early career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEESummary: "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMESummary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEEMurakami, 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: Twelve short stories revisit the locales of the author's previous works of fiction and focus on a theme of love, in an anthology that is complemented by a novella-length sequel, "Rabbit Remembered," to his Harry Angstrom series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDFromm, Pete
Summary: "After setting aside his ambitions to stay home and care for his failing mother, a young man becomes a janitor so he can follow her into a nursing home, all the while attempting to uncover a secret and wonderful past for her."--BOOK JACKET. "An FAA investigator has spent his career listening to black-box tapes - "eavesdropping on what become their very last words on earth" - yet finds himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRORusso, Richard
Summary: In his first collection, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood movie-maker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored; a precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love, and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve; another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape; an elderly couple rediscovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2003
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Bradbury, 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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Summary: F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for "The curious case of Benjamin Button," a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning "in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007