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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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.Harris, Charlaine
Summary: "Principal Anne DeWitt knew her past could catch up with her, but she didn't expect it would make her late for school. Killing a man does take time though; so does disposing the body...if you do it right. After three relatively quiet years at Travis High School, it seems Anne is in danger of being exposed--even the baseball coach knows more about her former life than she ever imagined. Now, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: The title novella is about an aging writer who spars with his estranged wife, weathers the slings and arrows of literary success, and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim. In "Eggs," a woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in "The Case of the Howling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Lethem, Jonathan.
Summary: Nine short tales vacillate between reality and surrealism and include the stories "Pending Vegan," "The King of Sentences" and "The Porn Critic."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETSummary: With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEASummary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: A group of bestselling authors pays tribute to legendary New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy, capturing her unforgettable spirit, joy, and humor in stories of reunions and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REUSummary: 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.Contents: Jerry and Molly and Sam / Raymond Carver -- Blow-up / Julio Cortazar -- Your Arkansas traveler / Budd Schulberg -- Rear window / Cornell Woolrich -- Sentinel / Arthur C. Clarke -- Supertoys last all summer long / Brian Aldiss -- Minority report / Philip K. Dick -- Spurs / Tod Robbins -- Fly / George Langelaan -- Herbert West-reanimator: six shots by moonlight / H.P....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005