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1) Dawnshard
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 3.5
Language
English
Description
When a ghost ship is discovered near the stormy island Akinah, Navani Kholin sends an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In these stories, positioned at the fractured heart of Greek postmodernism, Faïs returns to his signature themes of mourning, death, and absence: "the permanently open wound in my narrative." Aegypius monachus is a semi-autobiographical snapshot of a man roaming the streets of Athens, reflecting on his tumultuous marriage and the childhood roots of his failure at love. Lady Cortisol dramatizes a conversation between one man and one woman, highlighting...
Author
Series
Innkeeper Chronicles volume 3.5
Language
English
Description
Every winter, Innkeepers look forward to celebrating their own special holiday, which commemorates the treaty that protects them, their intergalactic guests, and the people of planet Earth. All Dina hopes is that guests at the nicest bed and breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, during the Treaty Stay, conduct themselves in a polite manner. Is that too much to ask?
Author
Language
English
Description
Tell me your best story: Anne McWilliams has lost everything. Her marriage fell apart so she turned to photography, only to have her world turned upside down again when a hurricane destroyed her home and all of her beloved photos. In the aftermath of the storm, Anne takes to the road to ask long-lost family, friends, and strangers a simple question: "What's your best story?" Can the funny, tragic, inspirational tales she hears on her journey help...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mirror Press, LLC
Language
English
Description
Ian O'Connor spends his days in the purgatory of a New York textile factory, enduring the dangerous conditions to keep his family afloat. Biddy Dillon has lost her home and her family. When she meets Ian, she begins to believe in the possibility of good things to come. When tragedy conspires to pull the couple apart, they must decide if they have a future together.
9) Magic stars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Scarred, solitary Derek Gaunt has separated from his Pack, and is truly a lone wolf. With no family he answers to no one; but is fiercely loyal to a chosen few. So, when several of those close to him are murdered, he'll stop at nothing to hunt their killer through the magic-drenched streets of Atlanta. Never one to be left on the sidelines, equally determined--some might say stubborn--Julie Lennart-Olsen soon joins in his pursuit; and what began as...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Four philosophical novellas which explore our quest for meaning and the mind's ability to escape. In one, a woman loses touch with the physical world by immersing herself in poetry, in another a man discovers history in the bric-a-brac of a motel room.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1981.
Language
English
Description
It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavella talk with his young daughter just home from schoolthat inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I really realized how vulnerable my child's mind was any mind, for that matterunder controlled circumstances. Normally I write and rewrite and...
13) The cliffs
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Some things must be learned the hard way...Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son. Chris, eager to join the Science Club at school, agrees to undergo a grisly experiment to be accepted. But in the malevolent universe of Five nights at Freddy's,...
14) Kill joy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pip is not in the mood for her friend's murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920s fancy dress and pretending that their town is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder. But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn't the only case on her mind"--
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A trio of short novels features "The Fence," in which an Oregon sheriff must race against time to capture the men responsible for brutally murdering the father and grandfather of his former fiancee - before she becomes the next victim. It also includes the story of a judge whose bank depends on funding from his opinionated sister.
16) Carmilla
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Text of and critical essays on the 1872 vampire tale chronicling the experiences of a young woman lured by the charms of a female vampire.
17) The highwayman
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, an area the troopers refer to as no-man's-land because of the lack of radio communication, she starts receiving "officer needs assistance" calls. The problem? They're coming from Bobby Womack, a legendary Arapaho patrolman who met a fiery death in the canyon almost a half-century ago. With an investigation that spans this world...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Una clave más del universo literario de Roberto Bolaño, uno de los escritores imprescindibles de la literatura contemporánea en español. Este volumen incluye tres nouvelles inéditas -"Patria", "Sepulcros de vaqueros" y "Comedia del horror de Francia"--En las que está presente lo mejor del genio literario del autor chileno: el Mal, la violencia, la historia, la literatura, la ironía, México, Chile, el amor, el suspense, la búsqueda ... a lo...
19) Three by Perec
Author
Series
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Here, in one volume, are three "easy pieces" by the master of the verbal firecracker and Gallic wit. The novella "The Exeter Text" contains all those e's that were omitted from A Void (Perec hated waste) and no other vowel (honest). In "Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?" we are introduced to Sergeant Henri Pollak and his vehicle (the aforementioned moped) that carried him between Vincennes and Montparnasse; in "A...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 120
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Chekhov's miraculous stories not only changed the face of the short story form, but have provided for the innumerable readers who have cherished his work and access to the quiet dramas of the soul, and a degree of human fellow-feeling never before offered by literature.
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