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Selected shorts : let us tell you a storySummary: "A feel-good Young Adult anthology with stories destined for summer reads lists, Short Stuff features bestselling and award-winning authors dialing down the angst for an anthology of light LGBTQ YA romance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHOSams, Ferrol
Contents: Air: The widow's mite.--Howdy doody time.--Judgment.--Earth: Fulfillment.--Saba (An affirmation).--Big star woman.--Fire: FUBAR.--Porphyria's lover.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMBarnes, Julian.
Summary: An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit, intelligence, and emotion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARElliott, Julia
Summary: "At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with grotesque rejuvenating therapies that combine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLJuly, Miranda
Summary: Presents a collection of short works featuring sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC July,Coelho, 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: From powerful and moving to knee-knocking suspense and troubled love, these darkly comic tales of lives on the edge represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Performances recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and on tour around the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VandriverSummary: A collection of short stories by diverse authors that explores acts of bravery by heroes trying to make the world a better place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HERSummary: Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redfines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COOMurrow, Vita
Summary: What if princesses didn't always marry Prince Charming and live happily every after? This stunning anthology features 15 favorite fairytales retold for a new generation. From Sleeping Beauty who becomes a world-famous sleep disorder specialist to Cinderella who goes on to become Prime Minister to Little Red Riding Hood, the environmentalist and Princess of the Wolves, these princesses are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC MURSummary: Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023