Davis, Lydia.
Contents: Boring friends -- A mown lawn -- City people -- Betrayal -- The white tribe -- Our trip -- Special chair -- Certain knowledge from Herodotus -- Priority -- The meeting Companion -- Blind date -- Example of remember -- Old Mother and the Grouch -- Samuel Johnson is indignant -- New Year's resolution -- First grade: Handwriting practice -- Innteresting -- Happiest moment -- Jury duty -- A double...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Lydia.
Summary: Stories by an experimental writer, ranging in length from a sentence to several pages. One story describes the way a few ill-chosen words can turn a minor dispute into high drama, another is on the bad luck of an explorer who accomplishes a perilous expedition, only to die on his way home. By the author of The End of the Story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1997
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Summary: A fifth collection includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations, and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVProust, Marcel
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROSummary: Presents a collection of sixteen books that cover a variety of science topics--with a focus on animals--and basic concepts, as well as an activity book that ties an exercise to each volume in the set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014