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The best American short stories 2008 / by Rushdie, Salman.; Pitlor, Heidi.;
Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories, American.; American fiction;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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The best American short stories, 1990 / by Ford, Richard.(CARDINAL)524140; Ravenel, Shannon.(CARDINAL)724565;
River of toys / Edward Allen -- The fireman's wife / Richard Bausch -- A kind of simple, happy grace / Richard Bausch -- Finding Natasha / Madison Smartt Bell -- The wizard / C.S. Godshalk -- The secret of cartwheels / Patricia Henley -- How to talk to a hunter / Pam Houston -- Mr. Morning / Siri Hustvedt -- Car-crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson -- Nothing to ask for / Dennis McFarland -- Eisenheim the illusionist / Steven Millhauser -- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore -- Differently / Alice Munro -- Wigtime / Alice Munro -- Typical / Padgett Powell -- The reverse bug / Lore Segal -- Prowler / Elizabeth Tallent -- In a father's place / Christopher Tilghman -- Commuter marriage / Joan Wickersham -- The little winter / Joy Williams.
Subjects: American fiction; Short stories, American.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cat stories / by Tesdell, Diana Secker.(CARDINAL)487125;
A collection of stories inspired by cats and their relationships with humans.People and their cats -- Cats and their people -- Fanciful felines.
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; Anecdotes.; Cats; Cats;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The secret history of fantasy / by Beagle, Peter S.(CARDINAL)122116;
Includes bibliographical references.Ancestor money / Maureen F. McHugh -- Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire -- Lady of the skulls / Patricia A. McKillip -- We are Norsemen / T.C. Boyle -- The Barnum museum / Steven Millhauser -- Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King -- Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson -- Bones / Francesca Lia Block -- Snow, glass, apples / Neil Gaiman -- Fruit and words / Aimee Bender -- The empire of ice cream / Jeffrey Ford -- The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick -- Super goat man / Jonathan Lethem -- John Uskglass and the Cumbrian charcoal burner / Susanna Clarke -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. Butler -- The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company / Yann Martel -- Sleight of hand / Peter S. Beagle -- Mythago Wood / Robert Holdstock -- 26 monkeys, also the abyss / Kij Johnson.Tired of the same old fantasy? Here are nineteen much-needed antidotes to clichéd tales of swords and sorcery. Fantasy is back, and it's better than ever!
Subjects: Short stories.; American fiction; American fiction; Fantasy fiction, American.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The best American short stories 2011 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by Brooks, Geraldine,editor.(CARDINAL)383748; Pitlor, Heidi,editor.(CARDINAL)477352;
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories.; American fiction; American fiction; Canadian fiction; Canadian fiction; Short stories, American.; Short stories, Canadian.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The Literary lover : great contemporary stories of passion and romance / by Dark, Larry.(CARDINAL)361036;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Faces of madness / Rachel Ingalls -- The sledding party / Steven Millhauser -- Graduation / Andre Dubus -- The most beautiful woman in town / Charles Bukowski -- Innocence / Harold Brodkey -- A romantic weekend / Mary Gaitskill -- Morning / Joyce Carol Oates -- Jewel of the moon / William Kotzwinkle -- The Costa Brava, 1959 / Ward Just -- An interest in life / Grace Paley -- Houses / David Leavitt -- Come to Africa and save your marriage / Maria Thomas -- The lover / Alice Walker -- Safe houses / Nadine Gordimer -- Frank and Billy / Laurie Colwin -- Love song, for a moog synthesizer / John Updike -- The love object / Edna O'Brien -- Instruments of seduction / Norman Rush -- The habit of loving / Doris Lessing -- Letter to the lady of the house / Richard Bausch.
Subjects: Fiction.; Romance fiction, American.; Romance fiction, English.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The PEN/O. Henry prize stories. by Furman, Laura.(CARDINAL)511735;
This book gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town, and the eye of a hurricane. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.O. Henry Memorial Award, 2012.
Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories, American.; Short stories, Canadian.; American fiction; Canadian fiction;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The best American short stories 2012 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by Perrotta, Tom,1961-editor,author of introduction, etc.(CARDINAL)344595; Pitlor, Heidi,editor.(CARDINAL)477352; Anshaw, Carol,1946-Last speaker of the language.; Antrim, Taylor.Pilgrim Life .; Englander, Nathan.What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank.; Gaitskill, Mary,1954-Other place.; Gay, Roxane.North country.; Haigh, Jennifer,1968-Paramour.; Meginnis, Mike.Navigators.; Millhauser, Steven.Miracle polish.; Munro, Alice,1931-2024.Axis.; Osborne, Lawrence,1958-Volcano.; Otsuka, Julie,1962-Diem Perdidi.; Pearlman, Edith,1936-2023.Short stories.Selections.(CARDINAL)408338; Pneuman, Angela.Occupational hazard.; Puchner, Eric.Beautiful monsters.; Saunders, George,1958-Short stories.Selections.(CARDINAL)611803; Selasi, Taiye.Sex lives of African girls.; Solwitz, Sharon.Alive.; Walbert, Kate,1961-M & M world.; Walter, Jess,1965-Anything helps.; Wilson, Adam.What's important is feeling.;
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction." The characters in these stories seek to discover something lacking in their life. Their stories take sharp and surprising turns and often reach dazzling conclusions. In Nathan Englander's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank," a playful discussion between two married couples veers into darker territory, exposing a secret that might have been better left unspoken. Taiye Selasi writes a portrait of a motherless girl on the cusp of pubescence in Africa, where womanhood may not be something to be celebrated. "What's Important is Feeling: by Adam Wilson gives us a window onto a movie set where the narrator aches for something cinematic to happen in his life. Roxane Gay's "North Country" introduces us to an unlikely couple who circle each other in a wary dance of approach and avoidance. An unexpected visitor with a brown glass bottle kicks off a wonderfully strange fable about how we look at ourselves in Steven Millhauser's "Miracle Polish." Full of clear, idiosyncratic voices and intriguing points of view, this multifaceted collection will reward readers. And, as Perrotta unapologetically states, "By any standard, this year's batch of stories is pretty damn good."
Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories, American.; Short stories, Canadian.; American fiction; Canadian fiction;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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The best American short stories.
Subjects: Periodicals.; Short stories, American; Short stories, Canadian; Canadian fiction; American fiction;
Available copies: 77 / Total copies: 80
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The uncanny reader : stories from the shadows / by Sandor, Marjorie,editor.(CARDINAL)773756;
"From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows opens with "The Sand-man," E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1817 tale of dopplegangers and automatons--a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th century masters of the uncanny--including Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Shirley Jackson--form a foundation for sixteen award-winning contemporary authors, established and new, whose work blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. These writers come from Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, England, Sweden, the United States, Uruguay, and Zambia--although their birthplaces are not always the terrains they plumb in their stories, nor do they confine themselves to their own eras. Contemporary authors include: Chris Adrian, Aimee Bender, Kate Bernheimer, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Jonathon Carroll, John Herdman, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Yoko Ogawa, Dean Paschal, Karen Russell, Namwali Serpell, Steve Stern and Karen Tidbeck"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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