Summary: From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MBASummary: Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305 ROOSummary: 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 Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEED'Onofrio, Vincent
Summary: "A collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D'Onofrio This is not a story woven around plot, characters, and contrivance. Rather, it is what acclaimed actor Vincent D'Onofrio's mind produces when on idle, when he is not thinking about servicing a story. His words are, in the purest sense, ideas that fall unexpectedly upon his head, "like an apple from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron + Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 D'ONSummary: A follow-up to Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine. Chicken Soup for the Soul shares the funniest stories from its library of more than 250 books, all gathered in this new collection of 101 humorous tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit NewmarkSummary: "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: "Ice melt; sea level rise; catastrophic weather; flooding; drought; fire; infestation; species extinction and adaptation; water shortage and contamination; intensified social inequity, migration and cultural collapse. These are but some of the changes that are not only predicted for climate changing futures, but already part of our lives in Canada. Although these transformations are global and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caitlin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 RISSummary: "Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.83 TALSummary: An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC COLSummary: "From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAGSummary: "From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country's ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AFRSummary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Walker, Martin
Summary: After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a Senegalese man's coffee sells superbly at the market, some cafe owners become incensed by the new competition and take matters into their own hands. As a Swiss tourist and a St. Denis native fall in love over the fruit-and-veggie stall, one of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Capote, Truman
Summary: "In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPCore, Leopoldine
Summary: "A sly, provocative, and psychologically astute debut story collection from a 2015 Whiting Award winner In Leopoldine Core's stories, you never know where you are going to end up. Populated by sex workers and artists, lovers and friends, her characters are endlessly striving to understand each other. And while they may seem to operate at the margins, there is something eminently relatable, even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORDoctorow, E. L.
Summary: "E. L. Doctorow selected some of his finest stories to create this pinnacle collection, his final project before his death. There are 15 stories total, including "The Water Works," "Jolene," "All the Time in the World," and Doctorow's own revision of "Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCJackson, Greg
Summary: "A collection of stories, most of which have been published in The New Yorker and other magazines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACWink, Callan.
Summary: "A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Wild West re-enactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Indian "squaw" who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor caught in a scary dispute over land and cattle with her former step-son - Callan Wink's characters are often confronted with predicaments few of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINSummary: Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book, her close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REUSummary: "New York Times bestselling author Chris Grabenstein and his all-star cast of contributing authors team up for Super Puzzletastic Mysteries, a group of interactive short stories that invite the reader to solve the mystery themselves."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUPBurke, 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