Summary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALSummary: Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305 ROOBeattie, Ann
Summary: This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEASummary: "Sixteen acclaimed authors--including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling novelist, and a beloved actress--join forces for a cross-genre YA anthology of linked short stories about the first days of college. Jilly cannot believe her parents keep showing up at all of her orientation events. (Except, yes, she can totally believe that.) Isaac wants to be known as someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FIRSummary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAMurrow, Vita
Summary: What if princesses didn't always marry Prince Charming and live happily every after? This stunning anthology features 15 favorite fairytales retold for a new generation. From Sleeping Beauty who becomes a world-famous sleep disorder specialist to Cinderella who goes on to become Prime Minister to Little Red Riding Hood, the environmentalist and Princess of the Wolves, these princesses are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC MURSummary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONSummary: 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 TOGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGSummary: A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BLASummary: What's better than a deliciously cozy, swoon-worthy holiday story? Four of them! These original stories follow teens finding love during the winter holiday season. Whether it's an unexpected detour in a snow storm, a Hanukkah miracle for a department store elf, a surprising gift exchange, or a scavenger hunt at an airport, get ready to fall in love! -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SNORussell, Karen
Summary: A collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the images on his body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSPacker, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Packer 2011Packer, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things said or done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PACOates, Joyce Carol
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2017Summary: "Thrilling short stories featuring fan favorite characters from the beloved High Republic series each written by a New York Times bestselling author. The High Republic authors share unmissable short stories that bridge Phases, resolve mysteries, and offer tantalizing hints of what is to come. Rejoin the adventures of the Jedi and Padawans, Pathfinders and Path members, heroes and villains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press, an imprint of Buena Vista Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TALBinchy, Maeve
Summary: Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BINSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction FliSummary: "The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger's popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle's most acclaimed detective. Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective's genius,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M INSummary: "Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie six stories of the distant past, lost adventures, forgotten songs, and heartbreaking histories."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021
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Summary: Collects six short stories and three novellas featuring Jack Reacher, including "Too Much Time," in which Reacher witnesses a bag-snatching while in a small town in Maine, but there is more to the simple crime and it could prove fatal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHISummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012