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Austin, Blair

Summary: "In a city far in the future, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. A line of mosquitos in uniforms and reglia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world - the conflict that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUS

Stridsberg, Sara

Summary: "In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Peace, David

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEA

Zombie, Zack

Summary: Have you ever wondered what life is like for a Minecraft Zombie? The biggest PVP Tournament of the year is happening, and Zombie is in with a shot at the bigtime, thanks to his new lucky controller. In fact, he is so sure of a win, he won't stop bragging about it during class! When Principal Hogskins confiscates the controller, Zombie is frantic. He can't win without it! So Zombie ropes his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Koala Books 2020

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