Orem Library

"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...

Ginger the fox learns that, even though life with just her mother was very different, being part of a family can be a good thing, such as when some unwanted cats try to take over the children's clubhouse.

Cast out of his coalition, Stride the cheetah embarks on a perilous mission for the Great Parent, accompanied by a honey badger burdened with a dark and mysterious past. Whisper the water buffalo has been searching desperately for her brother Echo, presumed dead after a terrible fall. And the hyena now known as Breathstealer finds herself courted by the Great Spirit at one moment and other times tempted by the Great Devourer...The balance of power...

Bob and his friends help out their animal friends by helping the badgers get to the stream, providing a belfry home for the bats, and a new home in the building yard for a parrot.

On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....

Most of the queer science fiction and fantasy anthologies published in the last thirty-five years have been narrowly focused: specifically gay male or lesbian (or, more recently, transgender) themes, or all science fiction or all fantasy, or adhering to a specific theme or subgenre. Far Out, on the other hand, features both science fiction and fantasy short fiction from the last decade and includes characters, perspectives, and stories that span the...

El mundo de Ellie no es exactamente como el nuestro. Están el colegio, los amigos y el centro comercial. Pero también existe Kirby, su perro fantasma, y un poder ancestral que corre por sus venas y le permite convocar a los espíritus de los que ya no están. Lo heredó de su abuela, junto con su nombre apache, Elatsoe, colibrí. Un pájaro muy pequeño, pero increíblemente fuerte, como ella. Cuando el espíritu de su primo Trevor la visita en...