Lee, Stan
Summary: "As protector of the universe, Captain Mar-Vell has triumphed over foes large and small. But when the Kree hero is diagnosed with cancer, he finds himself face-to-face with a foe even his vast might can't defeat -- and both he, and the universe that loves him, must rally together to accept the inevitable. Plus: Experience the classic adventures that introduced Mar-Vell and the seminal encounter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEESterling, 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 STEDavis, Jim
Summary: "A secret science experiment goes awry, unleashing giant pets - iguanas, ferrets, hamsters and birds - upon an unsuspecting city. Can a super-sized Garfield save the day?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Shepard, Jim
Summary: ""Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shepard 2017Shepard, Jim.
Contents: Minotaur -- The track of the assassins -- In cretaceous seas -- The Netherlands lives with water -- Happy with crocodiles -- Your fate hurtles down at you -- Low-hanging fruit -- Gojira, king of the monsters -- Boys Town -- Classical scenes of farewell -- Poland is watching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEHarrison, Jim
Summary: "Of all [Jim Harrison's] creations, Brown Dog has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance, scrambling to stay out of jail after his salvage-diving operation uncovers the frozen body of an Indian man in the waters of Lake Superior. Now, for the first time, this book gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HARAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZGautreaux, Tim
Summary: "A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUSummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STASummary: "Edited by New York Times best-selling author, Elizabeth Lim, this Twisted Tale anthology features sixteen twisted short stories with new takes on fan-favorite Disney films. Swoon as Ariel and Eric meet right after the Little Mermaid saves her prince; join Tiana and Naveen on a race to get back to Maldonia; take a ride on a pirate space ship with Jim Hawkins; and uncover just what power Tinker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BESKim, Derek Kirk.
Summary: Presents three short stories in graphic novel format involving the blurred line between fantasy and reality, including an office assistant who falls for an e-mail scam, and a young knight whose life is not what it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Macmillan 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 YANSummary: 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