Barnes, Jennifer Lynn

Summary: "Novellas and short stories set before, during, and after the Inheritance Games series"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company

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Coelho, 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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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE COE

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Hunt, Laird

Summary: "Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's not where she's really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life! The residents of this rural town have their routines, their preferences, their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Summary: A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today's leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHE

Summary: "The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

Friedlander, Omer

Summary: "The poignant, whimsically imaginative stories in Omer Friedlander's debut transport readers to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa. Across the sharply drawn borders that divide them, Friedlander's characters, often outsiders or even outcasts, are haunted by the past, or by the promise of a future that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRI

Rodari, Gianni

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 ROD

Summary: On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover--from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators! Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder--a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs--where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ON

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Child, Lee

Summary: "Throughout his career, Lee Child published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law. Packed with action and suspense, the stories show the author's mastery of the short form, and they've never been collected before now. Together these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Summary: "Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume."--Amazon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BES

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OAT