Summary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEEAlarcón, Daniel
Summary: "A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAJohnson, Adam
Summary: "In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. "George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine" follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. "Nirvana," portrays a programmer whose wife has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHSethi, Mira
Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETHanks, Tom
Summary: A collection of 17 short stores by two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game-- and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANTalty, Morgan
Summary: "Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction TaltyVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: "Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASKrauss, Nicole
Summary: The National Book Award finalist explores contemporary gender realities in a collection of short fiction that traces the experiences of diverse characters at various stages of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRABurke, James Lee
Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURFord, Richard
Summary: A new collection of stories about memory, love and loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FORGaitskill, 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: "A new collection of sixteen stories that explore disturbing, magical, and delightful phenomena in everyday American life, and the deepest and darkest desires that we keep hidden from even ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILNewman, Leigh
Summary: Newman's stories turn a spotlight on women struggling in Alaska, facing not just grizzly bears and charging moose, but the psychological complexities of love and family. From Anchorage to the remote, unsettled wilderness, her stories reinvent what we think about the American frontier-- and what we believe about hope and human connection. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWTowles, Amor
Summary: The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPCore, Leopoldine
Summary: "A sly, provocative, and psychologically astute debut story collection from a 2015 Whiting Award winner In Leopoldine Core's stories, you never know where you are going to end up. Populated by sex workers and artists, lovers and friends, her characters are endlessly striving to understand each other. And while they may seem to operate at the margins, there is something eminently relatable, even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORJackson, Greg
Summary: "A collection of stories, most of which have been published in The New Yorker and other magazines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016