Summary: In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECHSummary: A treasury of short stories, carefully selected because they make speedy bedtime reads. Each of these ten traditional tales takes just ten minutes to read aloud. Ideal for sharing with younger children; as children learn to read on their own they can tackle these simple stories on their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.Summary: Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine; fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has pored through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Solaris 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Presents a collection of stories by popular authors whose work inside and outside of the mystery genre has been influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORSummary: A brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Leslie Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly regarded mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ECHAboulela, Leila
Summary: "Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life. Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the lives of immigrants at home and abroad as they forge new identities and reshape old ones. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOSummary: Responding to America's love for short-short stories, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty stories-each under 2,000 words, each with its own element of surprise-whether traditional, experimental, humorous, moving, or magical. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, among them Lan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Bantock, Nick
Summary: "Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Nick's doorstep. Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of strangely familiar, quirkish glyphs, plus a cryptically poetic note...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Offers 13 great stories in Spanish, from classics by Cervantes and Alarcon to contemporary works by Borges and Goytisolo. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. Includes Spanish-to English vocabulary and biographical-critical introductions."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FICTION SPA1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH SPA
Gaiman, Neil.
Summary: "Spanning Gaiman's career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a...collection from one of the world's most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers. A ... representation of Gaiman's...imaginative fiction, this...volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults--Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gaiman 2020McCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest 1998
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Contents: The camel's hump -- The cat that walked by himself -- Pussy can sit by the fire and sing -- The conversion of St. Wilfrid -- Garm-a hostage -- The white seal -- The maltese cat -- Lukannon -- How fear came -- The law of the jungle -- My lord the elephant -- I keep six honest serfing-men -- "Rikki-tikki-tavi" -- Darzee's chaunt -- Moti Guj-mutineer -- I will remember what I was -- Private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dales Large Print Books 2004
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Summary: "Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short stories In the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty.45; in "The Island," a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISHConstantine, David
Summary: The first American publication by one of the greatest living fiction masters, In Another Country spans David Constantine's remarkable thirty-year career. Known for their pristine emotional clarity, their spare but intensely evocative dialogue, and their fearless exposures of the heart in moments of defiance, change, resistance, flight, isolation, and redemption, these stories demonstrate again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Biblioasis 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONMacLeod, Alison
Summary: "A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he waits for his new heart to be delivered, still beating, from another body--and is carried on a tidal wave of memories to an attic room half a century ago. Visiting Sylvia Plath's grave in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMantel, Hilary
Summary: A dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Absorbing and evocative, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MANRuncie, James
Summary: Introduces unconventional clergyman Sidney Chambers, who teams up with roguish Inspector Harry Keating to investigate a suspicious suicide, a jewelry theft, the unexplained demise of a jazz promoter, and a shocking art forgery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012