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Alzayat, Dima Eika, Jonas Hill, Joe Hinds, Gareth Miéville, China. Wolitzer, HilmaSummary: 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 CALEika, Jonas
Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIKMiéville, China.
Summary: London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZWolitzer, Hilma
Summary: "The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLHinds, Gareth
Summary: A volume of graphic novel renderings of some of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known works includes "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 HINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC HINSummary: The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUISummary: 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: "Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESHill, Joe
Summary: "In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC HILHill, Joe
Summary: "In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHill, Joe
Summary: "Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction HilSummary: "Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you'll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and expressions and experiences--because magic is for everyone, and that is cause for celebration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023