Summary: A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGPaley, Grace.
Contents: Two ears, three lucks -- The little disturbances of man. Goodbye and good luck -- A woman, young and old -- The pale pink roast -- The loudest voice -- The contest -- An interest in life -- An irrevocable diameter -- Two short sad stories from a long and happy life. The used-boy raisers ; A subject of childhood -- In time which made a monkey of us all -- The floating truth -- Enormous changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2007
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Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Sharp and funny, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues." For the child narrator, the only way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANSummary: 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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Summary: "Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATSummary: 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: In this work the author offers a collection of 11 previously uncollected stories, including a title piece that tracks the friendship between Elizabeth Short, famously known as the Black Dahlia, the victim of a markedly brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles that remains unsolved, and her roommate, Norma Jeane Baker who became Marilyn Monroe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Summary: "Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners" (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her new collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense. In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old named Jill is in thrall to an older male relative, the mysterious, attractive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017
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Summary: "The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters theminds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2018
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Summary: "A collection of psychologically daring, suspenseful stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: A collection of eight original stories tests the bonds between damaged people, showing how full--and how devoid--of humanity individuals can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. The novella "Love, careless love"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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Summary: Re-imagines the final days of five major American writers, in a collection of short works written in the subtly nuanced language style of each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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Summary: A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2011
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Summary: Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge ... A white man shoots dead a black boy creating a media frenzy. But could it be that it was self-defense as he claims? A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: An anthology of short fiction selected by the author herself features selections from "The Wheel of Love," "Marriages and Infidelities," and "Heat," as well as nine previously unpublished works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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Summary: Presents a collection of stories that explores the musings of a writer, a prisoner, a student, and others who consider how their lives might have unfolded differently had they made different choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940smagazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2021
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Summary: "A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: A devoted yet amoral creature ensures a girl's blood sugar stays up. A gory ritual creates a charming woman's perfect smile. A neglected and overworked wife is slowly subsumed by violent fantasies. In this collection of short horror comics, cartoonist Joy San masterfully explores the ways in which we contort and control ourselves, balancing the bloody and brutal with unexpected levity. --from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SANSummary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: A collection of thirteen diverse scary short stories for young readers, including fantasy, science fiction, and ghost tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cricket Books 2007