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Summary: Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2025
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Summary: "With her novels, The Exhibition of Persephone Q, and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short fiction--originally appearing in such venues as The Paris Review , Harper's, and Tin House --some of her very best work is at last readily available to readers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: "The mission of the Near-Earth Orbital Guard is to ensure the peace and security of the solar system. Commander Maxine Carmichael and Lieutenant Commander Saqib Vahid are at the Mars Orbital Station (MOS) to help facilitate the official handover from NeoG to Mars civilian control as part of the ongoing negotiations. Members of the extreme wings of the fight for Martian independence refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVoyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher 2024
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Summary: "The Talnikov Family (1848) follows Natasha, a girl growing up in a psychologically and physically abusive household of Petersburg actors. Modeled on Panaeva's own life prior to her marriage to radical Ivan Panaev at 18, the piece was published in the important thick journal The Contemporary but was swiftly suppressed. Censors called it "cynical," "immoral," and "undermining of parental power."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The second novel of The Hinder Stars series returns to an intergalactic corporate conflict, set in the Hugo Award-winning Alliance-Union Universe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: November 1816: Restless but naive Emeline Fitzpatrick is desperate to escape her stifling life in foggy Halifax. Her guardian is lining up repugnant suitors, but Emeline has her eyes set on a lieutenant in the British Navy. She just needs to persuade him to propose, or her one chance at happiness will be gone forever. But when Emeline's hopes end in scandal, she finds herself with only one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: In this heartfelt story about finding love in loss, three widows are forced under the same roof, where they'll need to overcome grief, anger, and old secrets to put their family back together. Since her husband's death six months ago, Yesica Diaz-Taylor seems to be taking her grief in stride. Then an angry outburst at work shatters the illusion. Her mandated support group counseling doesn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2024
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Summary: In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains and joys that made them into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2024
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Summary: "Ever since she was a child, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests a cochlear implant. This irreversible operation would give Louise a new sense of hearing, but it would come at the expense of her natural hearing, which has shaped her relationship with the world, full of whispers and shadows." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2024
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Summary: Naissa Nolan is a happy child in 1850s Philadelphia until tragedy strikes while she and her family are on holiday. Alone and heartbroken, she is thrust into an immortal life she never bargained for or imagined. Naissa spends the next few centuries on Earth desperate to learn more about her condition. While working with the esteemed Oberlin Institute in Vienna, she makes an important discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: S. A. Cosby, the award-winning and New York times best-selling author of Razorblade Tears picks the best 20 mystery and suspense stories from the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Summary: When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, her whole future is wide open. But then Zach, the bartender and aspiring actor she's falling for, ghosts her. Her debut novel, a thriller, fails. And she has writer's block worse than ever before. Now, three years later, Zach is famous and Zoe is...not. She's facing her thirtieth birthday, a dead-end job at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECantor, Jillian
Summary: "Fledgling actress Amelia Grant is at rock bottom when offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to star in a biopic about the world-renowned romance author Gloria Diamond, who used her own tragic love story as inspiration for her bestselling books. To prepare for the role, she'll spend a week with Gloria at her secluded Washington estate. It's a chance to get out of LA, away from her cheating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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Summary: "A fast-paced literary thriller for fans of The Bad Seed, set in a crumbling luxury hotel in Egypt, in which an elderly widow and an 8 year old boy find themselves rivals, locked in a gleefully criminal psychological game of cat-and-mouse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "Sparks fly when Ada and Rian just-so-happen to find themselves at the same charity gala-but there's something rotten behind the sparkling gowns and dazzling wealth on display"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Ten thousand years ago, a mysterious people known as the Icari vanished from the Spiral, leaving behind a network of portals that can instantaneously transport passengers hundreds or thousands of light-years across the stars. Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene have been tasked with seeking out these alien artifacts and bringing them under the control of the Icarus Group. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Publishing Enterprises 2024
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Summary: "Ted Molloy has hit his stride with a foreclosure investment scheme that brings him into contact with a cast of shady characters across New York's most diverse borough, from Hollis to Howard Beach. On the side, he helps his activist girlfriend, Kenzie, with her work to halt construction on "the Spike"-a corporate-backed development project in Corona that would displace the largely immigrant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Summary: "April Claus is looking forward to relaxing with her hubby, Nick (aka THE Santa Claus), in the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. But just after Santa departs for his deliveries, an elf pulls into Santaland with three people he found lost in the frozen wilderness. The survivors of a scientific expedition are injured, but their presence endangers the future of Santaland. So, while the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: "A deliciously vengeful and sinister suspense novel, about two older women whose friendship cracks after one son murders the other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: "Sturgeon, Nebula, and Ignyte Awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia's fantasy debut novel--the first in a duology--in which Caribbean mythology meets The Witcher, introduces a world where women warrior-magicians rule, and a child princess and her bodyguard must flee an attempted coup and evade the wave of darkness sent to kill her-fans of Rebecca Roanhorse, John Gwynne, and Ava Reid's The Wolf and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2024
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Summary: "The next installment in Paige Shelton's Alaska Wild series, a gripping, atmospheric, traditional mystery series with a great wilderness hook. Beth Rivers needs to disappear. Her one-time kidnapper, Travis, is on his way to her town in Alaska, and she's losing time to get out quickly. The perfect spot for Beth and her boyfriend, Tex, to hide, presents itself in a camp in the woods, away from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet. In "The Feminist," a young man's passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn't getting him laid. A young woman's unrequited crush in "Pics" spirals into borderline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024