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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories shine new light on our physical vessels set against our physical world, two landscapes irretrievably connected and altered over time. These eleven stories take us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical...
2) Stitches
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A tumor shaped like a man's face slowly moves across a woman's body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing--her face is a total blank"--
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
20240521
Language
English
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Description
"A YA anthology of short stories ranging in genres from horror to romance; featuring classic and original monsters and creatures; and highlighting authors from the LGBTQIA+ community, including Claire Kann, Kalynn Bayron, Jonathan Lenore Kastin, and H.E. Edgmon"--
Publisher
Nhà xuá̂t bản Hội nhà văn
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Mõ̂i truyện là một mảnh đời, một khía cạnh xã hội, một hướng đi mà các tác giả hướng đé̂n. Trong sách có những truyện ngá̆n như "Hoa Tử Sa", " Mùa hoa núi" của tác giả Tó̂ng Ngọc Hân - tác giả đạt vô só̂ giải thưởng lớn nhỏ trong mảng chuyện ngá̆n. "Say ná̆ng ở Budapest" hay "Người đàn bà trên đỉnh cao" của tác giả Kiè̂u Bích Hậu và những...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a staggering debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life's broken promises. Parents awaken in a home in the woods, again and again, to find themselves aging as their infant remains unchanged. An employee is menaced by a conspiracy-minded security guard and accused of sending a sinister viral email. An aging tour guide leads a troublesome...
Series
Publisher
Lingo Mastery
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
No language is easy to learn without reading -- even if you know all of the rules and have watched the videos -- you'll still have trouble. Diving into interesting material (such as stories) can be the difference between mastering a language and never leaving the basic level. For this reason, we have created another Japanese Short Stories for Beginners title to ensure you can acquire even more learning in this wonderful language--back cover.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (C. Pam Zhang). A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by foxhunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as "paper children" in America find their pasts--and...
10) 5-minute stories
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Join Gabby, Pandy Paws, and all the other Gabby Cats in this collection of six cat-abulous stories. Each story takes about five minutes to read, so they're perfect for bedtime, story time, or just about any time!"--
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
20240521
Language
English
Description
A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from a Giller-longlisted author and one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reservations and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters in Coexistence are searching for connection. They're learning to live with and understand one another, to see beauty and terror side by...
Author
Publisher
Virgin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable - but there will be a terrible price to pay once his work is done."--Page...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Modern Canadian Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
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...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 379
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This seventh volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's work presents five novels that showcase her literary range. In the Locus Award-winning The Lathe of Heaven (1971), justifiably one of Le Guin's best-known works, George Orr begins have effective dreams: dreams that change reality itself. But when he turns to the sleep researcher William Haber for help, Haber sees an opportunity to use Orr's dreams for his own...
17) Yellow Roses
Author
Publisher
New York Relit
Pub. Date
20240305
Language
English
Description
A captivating collection unveiling the intricacies of love, life, and legacy
These twelve stories, told from the viewpoint of young women in life's mid-passage, explore the splendors and miseries of love, both carnal and spiritual, and cast back through sickness and health to the engraving experiences of childhood and forward to the rituals and release of death and its occasion for recall.
They tell us of a dutiful but not guiltless daughter faced...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Collects six adventures of Strawberry Shortcake and her friends as they baby sit a mischievious berrykin, bake in the Berry Bitty Baking Contest, and go camping."--
19) 5-minute stories
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Dolphin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Collects eight Margaret Wise Brown stories that can be read in approximately five-minutes.
Author
Publisher
Albatros Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Once there were three friends, Pipo, Bud and Kenny, who were always thinking up new ways to play. They were always at their happiest when they were together. Until one day Pipo didn't fancy eating watermelon like the others. Off he went and found an unusual earthworm, which wasn't going to leave the earth without a bitter struggle. After battling and defeating his adversary, Pipo discovered something he hadn't expected. A funny new story for spring...
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