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Author
Series
Library of America volume 338
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...
3802) The prime of Miss Jean Brodie: The girls of slender means ; The driver's seat ; The only problem
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 274
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 462 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In four short works of contemporary fiction that probe metaphysical truths, a charismatic teacher has a devastating impact on her students, young women struggle for survival in a post-war London hostel, a woman searches for her own death, and a man is implicated in his wife's terrorist activities.
3804) All through the night
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tales of erotic encounters includes Suzanne Forster's story in which Kerry Houston, a reclusive software designer who is terrified of the outside world, meets the man of her dreams in a video game, as well as stories by Thea Devine, Lori Foster, and Shannon McKenna.
3805) The Blythes are quoted
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 521 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This final book consists of Montgomery's final sequel to her internationally bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In an unusual twist to her writing style, Montgomery employs a mix of stories, poems, and vignettes, not telling one particular narrative but instead presenting snapshots of new and familiar residents of Glen St. Mary, of Anne and her family, and of their discussions around the poems composed by Anne and later by her son Walter. In these...
3806) His favorites
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a "borrowed" golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents' rocky marriage into demise. She is ready...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (2 hr., 40 min.) : CD audio, digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scruffy pup eagerly awaits a new home just in time for Christmas, a little girl discovers an adorable kitten in her garden, a dog makes an unlikely new friend, a hamster makes a daring escape and a girl tries to help a family of fluffy ducklings.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Demon Slayer Masachika kills a demon to save Sanemi's life, and then he takes the younger boy under his wing. Years later, the pair investigates disappearing children and ends up facing off against one of the Twelve Kizuki! In other tales, Kanamori hopes to smooth out Hotaru's rough personality through marriage, Inosuke searches for Kiyo's stolen butterfly clip, Muichiro helps Kotetsu repair the Yoriichi Type Zero, and Rengoku leads a mission to...
3810) Thriller
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
iv, 893 pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gentry Coats' fatal overdose stuns a small community in North Carolina, triggering a series of tragic events that threaten the town's traditional values. It triggers a mental breakdown in his best friend, a police officer, whose wife grapples with the burden of her vows in the face of her husband's disturbing behavior. Bitter and lonely, Gentry's mother struggles to place blame surrounding the death of her oldest son, while her younger son retreats...
3812) Westward journeys
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Westward Journeys contains stories focusing on the American westward expansion. Minnow and Rose: a girl on the Oregon Trail meets a native girl. Pappy's Handkerchief: an African-American family during the Oklahoma Land Run. A Book for Black-Eyed Susan: a girl facing tragedy on the Oregon Trail"--
3813) Igifu
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or igifu, gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent's bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor...
3814) Dearborn: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens. Tensions...
3817) The liminal zone
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
207 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After abruptly departing from a train in a small town, a couple encounters a "weeping woman"--a professional mourner--sobbing inconsolably at a funeral. Mako changes afterward--she can't stop crying! In another tale, having decided to die together, a couple enters Aokigahara, the infamous suicide forest. What is the shocking otherworldly torrent that they discover there? One of horror's greatest talents, Junji Ito beckons readers to join him in...
3818) Leaving home
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this collection of stories about small-town life, Dale takes a step toward manhood and Darlene sets off for Minneapolis to begin a new life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr., 28 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection of twenty-five Hercule Poirot adventures is compiled from short stories written by Agatha Christie in 1923 for The Sketch magazine.
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