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1) If it bleeds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas. Mr. Harrigan Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films,...
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Language
English
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Description
"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The "perilously beautiful" ("Boston Globe") first story collection by the author of the acclaimed #1 "New York Times" bestseller "All The Light We Cannot See." The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's debut collection take readers from the African Coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties--metamorphosis, grief,...
5) Astray
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Language
English
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A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imagination"--
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Before being transformed into romantic heroes and soft, emotional antiheroes, vampires were figures of overwhelming terror. Now, from some of the biggest names in horror and dark fiction, comes this stellar collection of short stories that make vampires frightening once again.
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The latest Mystery Writers of America story collection, featuring surprising, page-turning twists on the genre from some of the top bestsellers and award winners in crime fiction It’s been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there’s something undeniably alluring in the nature of...
12) My gal Sunday
Author
Series
Henry and Sunday mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Henry Britland, ex-President, and his wife, Sunday, a newly elected Congresswoman, are a team of sleuths in these short stories, with cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Armored Ones Teka has one mission while working undercover with the Storyteller: kill Cyra Noavek. Akos, on the other hand, must prove his wit and mettle in a rite which will likely kill him.
Hearkeners There is a unique symphony, a slow ode of aches and joy, notes created by each body as if it lives as it dies. These songs are heard by a select few. As Darya makes a difficult decision between her role as a recorder of life songs or death songs,...
18) Scary out there
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry compiles more than twenty stories and poems--written by members of the Horror Writers Association--in this terrifying collection about worst fears"--
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
"A dazzling collection of short stories about North American outdoor life—both classic and contemporary—from James Fenimore Cooper and Jack London to Margaret Atwood and Anthony Doerr and many more. The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection...
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