Murakami, Haruki
Summary: Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEVSummary: "A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Fourteen stories that illuminate the strange workings of the human heart
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2015
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 AKIHemingway, Ernest
Summary: The definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring influence on generations of readers and writers. Contains twenty-one stories not included in the 1938 omnibus "The first forty-nine."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Scribner's Sons 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMDavis, Lydia
Summary: Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon.com) and "one of the quiet giants ... of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This volume contains all her stories to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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Summary: In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner ... chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points. In forty-four compressed gems, he grips us with a series of defining moments. Whether it's a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar, or a family's memories of the painful mystery surrounding a forgotten uncle's demise, Orner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORNKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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Summary: "A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUKawakami, Hiromi
Summary: "A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People From My Neighborhood. In their lives, details of the local and everyday-the lunch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWNewman, 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 NEWCoelho, Joseph
Summary: UK Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents twenty tiny tales -- each one illustrated by a different artist, and each just ten words long -- in a book that's as much a work of art as an invitation to budding writers. Is it possible to spin a tale using just ten words? In this magnificent compendium, author and poet Joseph Coelho proves that it is -- with mini-stories of underwater worlds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: "The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories shine new light on our physical vessels set against our physical world, two landscapes irretrievably connected and altered over time. These eleven stories take us into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint
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Summary: "Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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Summary: El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes," que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ENRKochai, Jamil Jan
Summary: "A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora. In playing "Metal Gear Solid V," a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. A college student in "Hungry Ricky Daddy" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOCSummary: Collection of easy-to-read stories based on Playhouse Disney characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2009
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Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODScieszka, Jon
Summary: Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SciSummary: 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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Summary: "In her first collection of short comics stories, Tillie Walden opens windows into strange new worlds with works such as 'The End of Summer,' 'I Love This Part,' 'A City Inside,' and never-before collected sketches, webcomics, and short comics for magazines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Hill Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WALHaddon, Mark
Summary: "Greek myths have fascinated people for millennia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into the heart of these ancient fables and sees them anew. The dawn goddess Eos asked asks Zeus to give her lover Tithonus eternal life, but forgets to ask for eternal youth. In "The Quiet Limit of the World" Haddon imagines Tithonus' life as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HADCortázar, Julio
Summary: "In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-story collection Blow-Up--Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf 2014