Summary: Reaching back to Mark Twain and forward to contemporary masters such as David Sedaris, Roy Blount, and Bernie Mac, this book is an exclusive collection of the very best American comic writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.08 FIFSummary: "Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMESummary: The Next Wave of Stories in the Harbingers Series Arrives Cycle 2 of the Harbingers series continues the story of four gifted strangers brought together to fight a growing darkness. In Bill Myers's "The Revealing," the team finds themselves in Rome trying to retrieve the mystical spear Hitler once owned--the very spear that pierced Christ's side. This task will take them from hidden chambers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASSSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Featuring guest-editor contributions by the Edgar Alan Poe Award-winning author of the Joe Pickett series, a latest annual anthology features top-selected short mystery and crime fiction stories from the past year"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Rich Larson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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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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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- San Francisco Year, 1929-30 -- Season in Southern California -- Green pastures / by Marc Connelly -- Criminal code / by Martin Flavin -- Berkeley Square / by John L. Balderston -- Strictly dishonorable / by Preston Sturges -- Last mile / by John Wexley -- First Mrs. Fraser / by St. John Ervine -- June moon / by Ring Lardner and George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1930
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESContents: Der Prokurator = The attorney / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Unverhofftes Wiedersehen = An unexpected reunion / Johann Peter Hebel -- Das Erdbeben in Chili = The earthquake in Chile / Heinrich von Kleist -- Don Juan / Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann -- Bergkristall = Rock crystal / Adalbert Stifter -- Das Tanzlegendchen = The little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller -- Eine Frau in meinen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC DEUContents: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936): Naked life (La vita nuda) -- Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920): The crucifix (Il crocifisso) -- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973): The ash of distant battles (La cenere delle battaglie) -- Dino Buzzati (1906-1972): An important man (Un uomo importante) -- Alberto Moravia (1907-1990): My name is Alice I am a spinning top (Mi chiamo Alice sono una trottola) -- Tommaso Landolfi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.3 FIC GREContents: What's grit lit? / Tom Franklin -- Blood and bone / Brian Carpenter -- Memoirs. -- A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews -- "Deciding to live" / Dorothy Allison -- On fire : a personal account of life and death and choices / Larry Brown -- Keeper of the moon : a Southern boyhood / Tim McLaurin -- Ava's man, and, All over but the shoutin' / Rick Bragg -- "A body in the river" /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRISummary: "A groundbreaking and must-read young adult fiction anthology written by adoptees of all backgrounds, for adoptees, that inclusively represents diverse experiences of youth adoptees..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Told in two voices, Clover, twelve, and her autistic brother Fergus, eleven, discover they are descended from Wendy Darling and set off with Peter Pan for adventures in Neverland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADRAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Beatrix and William's impending nuptials are delayed when the remodeling of their future home, Castle Cottage, causes more problems than anticipated in the latest installment of a series that incorporates events from the life of Beatrix Potter and her beloved characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCAlcott, Louisa May
Contents: The rival painters -- The masked marriage -- The rival prima donnas -- The little seed -- A New Year's blessing -- The sisters' trial -- Little Genevieve -- Bertha -- Mabel's May day -- The lady and the woman -- Ruth's secret -- The cross on the church tower -- Agatha's confession -- Little sunbeam -- Marion Earle; or, Only an actress -- Mark Field's mistake -- Mark Field's success -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ironweed Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCAlexander, V. S.
Summary: Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Alexander 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P ALEAlger, Horatio
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Philip Brent leaves his small hometown to seek his fortune in 1880s New York after his spiteful stepmother reveals that instead of being his late father's beloved only son, he is of unknown parentage and must fend for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kessinger Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGAli, Monica
Summary: "Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALIAnderson, Jessica Lee
Summary: When Naomi's veterinarian mother brings home a sick snake, Naomi is inspired to form a snake rescue club, and while her best friend Emma and brother Nolan are on board, her next door neighbor, who is afraid of snakes, is less than thrilled. Includes glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC ANDAndrews, Andy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDArcos, Carrie
Summary: Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018