Capri, Diane

Summary: Five short books never before available in one collection. Includes three short books in Diane Capri’s beloved Hunt for Jack Reacher spin off series from Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, featuring FBI Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar collected in one volume. Also includes two short books from Diane Capri’s popular Hunt for Justice Series.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: August Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAP

Johnson, Barb.

Summary: "The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love."--p. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Marcus, Ben

Summary: A collection of life-affirming tales, including the dystopian Rollingwood, in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Marcus, Ben

Summary: A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a narrator's marriage and sanity unravel in a single breathless sentence.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Summary: "Enjoy two series of romances under one cover from authors Kimberley Comeaux and Cathy Marie Hake. First head to Springton, Texas, where two Texas belles - a pretty outcast and a shy nurse - find rattlesnakes easier to lasso than the hearts of the men they desire. Then join the Gregor brothers from Scotland - doctor, cobbler, lawman - as they settle in the Wild West, seeking wives to help them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LON

Machado, Carmen Maria

Summary: Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Summary: "Adolescence is a time of firsts. First kiss. First love. First loss. First job. The first taste of adult responsibilities, and the first look at an independent life away from both the restrictions and the security of home. And in this case, a very different type of "first": murder. This short story collection of murder mysteries adds a sinister spin to the joy and pain of firsts that have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIF

Summary: A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today's leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHE

Mayer, Mark

Summary: Aerialists is a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

MacDonald, Betty Bard.

Summary: A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MAC

Twain, Mark

Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022

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Twain, Mark

Summary: " ... a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identity, a gambler who'd bet on anything, and a very unusual frog named Daniel Webster."--Contain insert.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Audio 2010

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Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SER

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SER

Summary: Featuring original illustrations created by diverse artists from around the world, this collection of empowering short stories highlights inspiring acts of courage and kindness shown by Disney princesses and "Frozen" queens.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAL

Summary: "Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this ... woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she ... brought to life in her acclaimed novels"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC REU

Sojourner, Mary.

Summary: "In these stories set in the southwest, the mostly working--class characters struggle to rise beyond their pasts and their own worst tendencies. Sojourner uses passion, high -- energy storytelling, and unflinching empathy to break the reader's heart." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOJ

Gaitskill, Mary

Contents: College town, 1980 -- Folk song -- Old virgin -- Agonized face -- Mirror ball -- Today I'm yours -- Little boy -- Arms and legs of the lake -- Description -- Don't cry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAI

Øyehaug, Gunnhild

Summary: "A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway's most celebrated writers. First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OYE

Miller, Mary

Summary: "Acerbic and ruefully funny, Always Happy Hour weaves tales of young womendeeply flawed and intensely realwho struggle to get out of their own way. They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

South, Mary

Summary: "A collection of stories featuring characters who use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOU

Eugenides, Jeffrey

Summary: This collection of stories presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her immigrant family lead...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC EUG