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.Summary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Summary: UK Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents twenty tiny tales -- each one illustrated by a different artist, and each just ten words long -- in a book that's as much a work of art as an invitation to budding writers. Is it possible to spin a tale using just ten words? In this magnificent compendium, author and poet Joseph Coelho proves that it is -- with mini-stories of underwater worlds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COEMa, Ling
Summary: "A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAWeiner, Eric Daniel
Summary: Hello! Freddie Parrott III here with some exciting news. Too exciting, in fact. The stories I have to tell you are rather feather-raising. But don't worry. Somehow my butler and best friend, Peccary, always finds a way to save the day. Then he and I have a big chuckle--at my expense. They don't call me famously funny for nothing!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WEIBrallier, Max
Summary: A collection of five scary stories, first featuring Jason, sleeping over at his uncle Henry's house, who needs to take a long, dark walk to the bathroom only to find someone is waiting for him inside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BRABrallier, Max
Summary: An anthology of six original Last Kids short stories, designed to bridge the gap between books 6 and 7, features contributions by prominent graphic artists and finds Jack and his friends spinning yarns about their over-the-top post-apocalyptic adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Brallier 2021Rubin, Adam
Summary: "Here are six thrilling stories--ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to adventure--set in six different worlds, featuring artwork from six different illustrators."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBGaitskill, Mary
Summary: Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories-her first in more than ten years. In "College Town l980," young people adrift in Ann Arbor, Michigan, debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale "Mirrorball," a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; and in "The Little Boy," a woman haunted by the death of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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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
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Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOJSummary: A collection of 13 horror stories all written by queer authors of color and each told through the lens of a teenager of color about the Halloween night that changed their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIGSummary: Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GRIFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: "Known not only for his brilliant novels but also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz,' F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd Die for You were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: A collection of short stories by the "Queen of Suspense" features her first published short story, "Stowaway."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clark 2015Rubin, Adam
Summary: "Reader, be advised that the events in this book may tickle your funny bone: A boy and his robot nanny travel the globe in search of the world's tastiest treat. A girl and her sister compete in an ice cream eating contest--against an honest-to-goodness pig. A child prodigy invents a new way to create the freshest dessert ever. And we should probably mention the evil ice cream seller terrorizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022