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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
In these previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
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Description
"A knock-out debut story collection that follows women and families facing economic and environmental justice issues in the American West. Firmly rooted in the rural spaces and small towns of Colorado and Nevada, Site Fidelity spans the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This collection includes some of O. Henry's best stories, featurd here: 1) Strictly Business 2) The Gold that Glittered 3) Babes in the Jungle 4) The Day Restaurant 5) The Fifth Wheel 6) The Poet and the Peasant 7) The Robe of Peace 8) The Girl and the Graft 9) The Call of the Tame 10) The Unknown Quantity 11) The Thing's the Play 12) A Ramble in Aphasia 13) A Municipal Report 14) Psyche and the Pskyscraper 15) A Bird of Bagdad 16) Compliments of...
4) Faceoff
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
Author
Series
Tales of elemental spirits volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
What magical beings inhabit Earth's waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. Here are seven tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson....
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series is available in this collection, including a brand new novella. Includes Drive; The Butcher of Anderson Station; The Churn; Gods of Risk; The Vital Abyss; Strange Dogs; Auberon; and The Sins of Our Fathers.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An anthology of nineteen tales by well-known authors of young adult and adult literature which explore the lives of teens raised after a catastrophe, either in the first few years after the change or in the distant future.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of stories that explores the musings of a writer, a prisoner, a student, and others who consider how their lives might have unfolded differently had they made different choices.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Collects thirteen stories about moments in a teen's life, such as a first kiss and obsessing over a pair of special sneakers, by various authors, including Laura Godwin and Stephen Roos.
Author
Language
English
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Description
An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In
In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And "Hyena" begins simply: "That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by classic tales and films, a collection of fourteen short stories ranging from bloody horror, to psychological thrillers, to supernatural creatures, to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, by acclaimed YA authors of every genre"--
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A group of bestselling authors pays tribute to legendary New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy, capturing her unforgettable spirit, joy, and humor in stories of reunions and love.
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