Summary: The annual that has included the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Max Allan Collins is back with another array of traditional mysteries and tales of crime and suspense from its usual roster of luminaries. Besides presenting twenty of the year's finest crime and mystery stories, from Sharan Newman and James W. Hall to Anne Perry and Jeffery Deaver, The Deadly Bride is also the only annual to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEASummary: Tales, nursery rhymes, and poems featuring characters that are extraordinarily large or small, such as giants, elves, and fairies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 DIACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.21 DIAHudson, Wade (EDT)/ Hudson, Cheryl Willis (EDT)/ Bryan, Ashley (FRW)/ Various (NRT)
Summary: A collection of essays, letters, poems, songs, and stories celebrates standing up against prejudice and racism, and includes entries by such authors as Kwame Alexander, Kat Williams-Garcia, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jason Reynolds.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 808.8 WESummary: "These 101 stories showcase an America filled with good people who volunteer in their communities, help their neighbors, and pride themselves on doing the right thing"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 CHIConroy, Pat
Summary: "A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 CONSummary: Here is a collection of some of the finest and most important writing of the Roman period. An introduction precedes each selection, identifying the author and providing information that allows modern readers to consider these texts in a new light. What we discover might be surprising. For instance, in Cicero's orations and Marcus Aurelius' meditations, we hear echoes of today's political forums...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 870.8 claReader's Digest (COR)
Summary: "Alive! is a heart-stopping collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader's Digest's 'Drama in Real Life' series. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they are drawn into the dramatic tales of everyday people suddenly cast into lifeor death situations. Editors have mined the Reader's Digest archives to bring readers Alive! Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 ALIContents: From The adventures of Roderick Random / Tobias Smollett -- From Memoirs of a woman of pleasure / John Cleland -- From The history of Henry Dumont, esq. / Charlotte Gibber Charke -- I and my chimney / Herman Melville -- From Joseph and his friend : a story of Pennsylvania / Bayard Taylor -- From South sea idyls. In a transport / Charles Warren Stoddard -- From Marius the epicurean / Walter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.8 MITContents: Introduction : three views of the shadow / Robert Bly -- Touching our darkness through stories and art / Mark Robert Waldman -- Ruplestiltskin / Anne Sexton -- The monster never dies / Stephen King -- A dark fable / Joyce Carol Oates -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Not with a bang / Howard Fast -- In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 SHARothschild, Hannah
Summary: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTSummary: A collection of 101 true stories from people about the incredible things their dogs have done, from funny to fearsome, from heartwarming to heroic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 CHISummary: A collection of 101 stories for middle school students written by other young teens and by adults about their experiences in middle school. All stories are true personal anecdotes covering a range of topics from funny and embarrassing moments, to teen love and friendship, to family issues and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Pub. 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 158.128 CHISummary: Our dogs make us smile every day with their crazy antics and acts of love. This book is full of hilarious and heartwarming stories about the many ways our canine companions surprise us, make us laugh, and touch our hearts. Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dog Did What? will have you saying just that, as you read these 101 humorous and heartwarming stories about our lovable, goofy, and comical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636 CHISummary: An compilation of essays, fiction, and cartoons on the world of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker features contributions by Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever, and Roald Dahl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2008