Summary: "Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinventing of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventures, but this collection is from real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and all its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nonstop Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ASHSummary: "The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger's popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle's most acclaimed detective. Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective's genius,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INSummary: 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: Four brand new stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, meet a dragon, and then go on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile"; all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover; a penguin arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood during the winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILSummary: 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
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRASummary: In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECHAboulela, Leila
Summary: "Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life. Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the lives of immigrants at home and abroad as they forge new identities and reshape old ones. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOSummary: Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine; fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has pored through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Solaris 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESMorrell, 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 MORCoelho, Joseph
Summary: UK Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents twenty tiny tales -- each one illustrated by a different artist, and each just ten words long -- in a book that's as much a work of art as an invitation to budding writers. Is it possible to spin a tale using just ten words? In this magnificent compendium, author and poet Joseph Coelho proves that it is -- with mini-stories of underwater worlds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COESummary: "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
Summary: "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: 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: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: Cemetery Dance Publications 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIChristie, Agatha
Summary: There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCSummary: "These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include 'El Hechicero,' by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend; Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's tale of bandits, 'La buenaventura,' and his 'La Comendadora,' inspired by an incident in a Granada convent; three tales by Leopoldo Alas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 SPAChristie, Agatha
Summary: Train journeys through rolling countryside and cruises across the open ocean might sound like paradise, but when murder strikes mid-journey, they're anything but. Even on vacation, tensions can bubble beneath the surface, and when the end of the line leads to murder, everyone's a suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHRDickins, Rosie
Summary: Canter into this collection of traditional tales, filled with bold little ponies, kindly carthorses... and just a touch of magic. --Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DICMurakami, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURDickins, Rosie
Summary: "Entertaining animal stories from around the world, specially selected and retold for younger children. Contains five classics: The Fox and the Tiger, Chicken Licken, How the Zebra Got His Stripes, The Greedy Dog, The Brave Little Hare"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the nineteenth century, in the hands of such writers as Heinrich von Kleist and E.T.A. Hoffmann, the short story established itself as one of the most expressive and characteristic genres in German literature. Twentieth-century authors such as Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka continued to deepen and strengthen the tradition. New five German short stories--each a well-known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC FIVBantock, Nick
Summary: "Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Nick's doorstep. Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of strangely familiar, quirkish glyphs, plus a cryptically poetic note...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon 2023