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2) Pilgrims
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007, ©1997.
Language
English
Description
A short story collection follows the fortunes of a diverse group of characters on singularly American pilgrimages, including an East Coast girl who dares a cowboy to whisk her away to the Rocky Mountains.
Series
Publisher
Jove, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Enter a wonderland of mesmerizing tales. It's a place that's neither here nor there, where things are never quite as they seem. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's whimsical masterpiece, ranging from the impossible to the mad to the curiouser, these stories will have you absolutely off your head.
Author
Publisher
Twelve Winters Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In these eleven short stories by a true master of the form, Grant Tracey guides us across a wide expanse of time and place but always deep into the interior lives of the characters we encounter. From 1918 New York to 1971 Toronto to contemporary Cedar Falls, Iowa - instantly we become involved in the complex relationships of movie actors, college professors, school custodians, teenagers, housewives - always firmly and richly enmeshed in their cultures...
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really, just take a look around the Mos Eisley cantina.) Never mind Han, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan. Who were these other guys? What was their story? Just seeing them brought up questions...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The fifteen stories in this book introduce readers to characters, lonely and adrift, who are searching for connection. In "A Full-Service Shelter, " a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In "Greed, " a spurned wife examines her husband's affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in "Cloudland, " the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager...
10) The long valley
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the-Month Club
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories takes its name from California's Salinas Valley, the setting of much of Steinbeck's work.
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A collection of reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays and poetry by young adult authors.
These fifteen reimaginings of Shakespeare's classic works include a midsummer's dance in a gym. A cast party amongst the star. An ode to a fallen rap legend. The authors put a modern spin on the works, for contemporary audiences. -- adapted from jacket
12) Difficult women
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the newest volume of her World Fantasy Award-winning short story collections, beloved author Jane Yolen's dark side has fully emerged. Her vivid, startling, and thrilling tales and poems of the supernatural--from icy-hearted witches to sometimes-innocent shapeshifters--reveal a classic storyteller at the height of her powers. Welcome to the Midnight Circus--and watch your step. The dark imaginings of fantasy icon Jane Yolen are not for the faint...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories by a writer best known for his work on the television series "The Office," including the title story in which a boy's sweepstakes win proves more harm than good for his family.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of the sensational national best seller For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank establishes Nathan Englander beyond all doubt as the heir to Roth, Malamud, and Babel. A tour de force. The title story, inspired by Carver's masterpiece, is a comic classic, a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the holocaust is played out as a...
Author
Series
Untold legends volume 1
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction's leading voices! In this delicious new collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out--and going out for their first kill--and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire--and a revolution on the page. Vampires...
Publisher
Galahad Books
Pub. Date
1982, ©1975
Language
English
Description
This anthology is a literary bicentennial celebration in recognition of a great American achievement. No single volume could possibly encompass the enormous range of that achievement and it is sad that the number of superb stories omitted has to exceed by far the number that can be included.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-five short works by the American author written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a wide range of publications including "The Atlantic Monthly," "Esquire," and "Ladies' Home Journal."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 186
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
A complete volume of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author's short stories includes a selection of definitive essays as gathered from her 1952 collection, The Days Before, as well as additional works from her early and later years.
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