Contents: Reginald on house parties / Saki -- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREBerry, Wendell
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1986
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Summary: A collection of illustrated short stories, each one about the relationship of humans and the animals, both wild and domestic, that share the urban environment of the inner city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TANPratchett, Terry
Summary: An anthology of fourteen unpublished short stories, written when Pratchett was in his teens, shares insights into his writing process and the early ideas that inspired his later career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PRAPratchett, Terry
Summary: An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PRANiven, Larry.
Summary: This book collects a dazzling assortment of Niven's most eclectic work into one captivating volume. Here are hand-selected excerpts from his novels as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, collaborations, and correspondence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVBarry, Kevin
Summary: This is a collection of stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as "the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARHannah, Barry.
Summary: Combines the best from the author's four story collections as well as the final manuscript he left behind after his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANSummary: A collection of ten stories from award-winning YA authors celebrates first love, unrequited love, surprising love, and love that's been there all along.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SERButler, Octavia E.
Summary: This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BUTJames, Henry
Contents: A tragedy of error. -- The story of a year. -- A landscape painter. -- A day of days. -- My friend Bingham. -- Poor Richard. -- The story of a masterpiece. -- The romance of certain old clothes. -- A most extraordinary case. -- A problem. -- De Grey: a romance. -- Osborne's revenge. -- A light man. -- Gabrielle de Bergerac. -- Travelling companions. -- A passionate pilgrim. -- At Isella. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Henry
Contents: The real thing -- The figure in the carpet -- The turn of the screw -- The tree of knowledge -- Maud-Evelyn -- The beast in the jungle -- The jolly corner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Konemann 1969
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Contents: From The four million (1906). The gift of the Magi -- The cop and the anthem -- Springtime a la carte -- The green door -- After twenty years -- The furnished room -- From Heart of the west (1907). The pimienta pancakes -- From The trimmed lamp (1907). The last leaf -- From The voice of the city (1908). The voice of the city -- While the auto waits -- From Roads of destiny (1909). A retrived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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Summary: A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENSummary: Twenty-one bestselling authors have written short stories to accompany Jonathan Diaz's fantastical photographs of children who are battling cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TRUNovak, B. J.
Summary: A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes, only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to become a singer-songwriter. Author John Grisham contemplates a monumental typo. These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014