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Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this prestigious annual story anthology contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Principal Anne DeWitt knew her past could catch up with her, but she didn't expect it would make her late for school. Killing a man does take time though; so does disposing the body...if you do it right. After three relatively quiet years at Travis High School, it seems Anne is in danger of being exposed--even the baseball coach knows more about her former life than she ever imagined. Now, she must find out who else holds her secrets and who wants...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In 'Thief,' a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In 'We...
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Featuring contributions from some of today's best horror writers--including Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, and Joyce Carol Oates--this collection of new and exclusive short stories are inspired by and pay tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson.
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A visionary young literary artist presents this adventurous, unsettling debut collection in which she moves from expansive moods to unease and violence, also from deliberate and generative ambiguity to shocking, revelatory exactitude. Original. The nature of love is questioned at a golf course, a flower shop, an all-you-can-eat buffet. The clay head of a man is bought and displayed as a trophy. Interior life manifests on the physical plane, where...
94) Marionettes, Inc
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In five stories (one of them original to this collection, plus a rare, previously unpublished screen treatment) Bradbury explores the concept of Robotics and examines its impact on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people.
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
97) Rag: stories
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Heartbreaker, a disquieting collection tracing the destructive consequences of the desire for connection.
A man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanizing dogs for a living. A stepbrother so desperately wants to become his stepsibling that he rapes his girlfriend. In Maryse Meijers decidedly dark and searingly honest collection Rag, the desperate human desire for connection slips into a realm that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies....
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This 17th anthology of short stories set in the beloved Valdemar high fantasy universe features tales by debut and established authors and a brand-new story from Mercedes Lackey. The Heralds of Valdemar are the kingdom's ancient order of protectors. They are drawn from all across the land, from all walks of life, and at all ages—and all are Gifted with abilities beyond those of normal men and women. They are Mindspeakers, FarSeers, Empaths, ForeSeers,...
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