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1) My Documents
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My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers-brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and after Pinochet. The cumulative effect is that of a novel-or...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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1 online resource
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An outstanding array—Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi BoysThe Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is both an entryway to Gaiman’s oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman readers old and new will return to many times over.
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HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2024
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1 online resource(1 sound file (6hr.,33min.,3sec.))
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-- We the Animals, it's the characters-in-becoming—flanked by family and rich with detail—that animate each story with special frequencies, especially for listeners grappling with split-identities themselves.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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1 online resource(1 sound file (14hr.,11min.,15sec.))
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“Sara Paretsky is a genius.” —LEE CHILDNew York Times Love & Other Crimes is a celebration of Paretsky’s exceptional storytelling skill and a searing exploration of the dark conspiracies and desperate human acts hiding in plain sight.
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2022
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store.
“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the...
“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the...
8) Brief cases
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Magic. It can get a guy killed. Return to the world of the Dresden Files with Harry Dresden (the only wizard in the Chicago phone book) and friends as they solve supernatural mysteries, protect the helpless, and fight evil.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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1 online resource(1 sound file (27hr.,2min.,45sec.))
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An outstanding array—Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi BoysThe Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is both an entryway to Gaiman’s oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to many times over.Foreword copyright (c) 2020 by Marlon James; Preface copyright 2020 by Neil GaimanSupplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
10) Sabrina & Corina
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-- Sisters read by Kyla GarciaGalapago read by Roxana OrtegaTomi read by Kyla GarciaAny Further West read by Marisol RamirezAll Her Names read by Alma CuervoGhost Sickness read by Roxana Ortega
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
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1 online resource
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A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyThe (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and...
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2019
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1 online resource
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A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses-whether...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
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1 online resource(1 sound file (14hr.,44min.,20sec.))
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Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.Black Panther world, it is an urgent and welcome embrace of the diversity of Blackness. A refreshing collection of genre-spanning literature, it offers a vibrant meditation on being—inviting connection across real and imagined borders, and celebration of the most profound relations.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies...
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2023.
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Portraying the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, this unflinching and unforgettable collection of stories from the beloved award-winning author confront themes of identity, belonging and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.
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2017.
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"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball...
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Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
2019
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1 online resource
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A Dream Come True Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti's early stages of writing and his later texts. They span from a few pages in "Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo" to short novellas, like the celebrated detective story "The Face of Disgrace" and "Death and the Girl," an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of...
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Canadian Language School
Pub. Date
2014
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1 online resource(1 sound file (0hr.,49min.,30sec.))
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This audio-book is for everybody who wants to improve their English. -- A woman goes to an Indian reservation. She wants to see the shaman. She wants him to help her find a husband. The shaman knows a lot of things. Can he help her?A man breaks into a house. He thinks nobody is in the house. He has no idea that inside the house his worst nightmare is waiting for him. -- ©2014 Canadian Language School (P)2014 Canadian Language School
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Lenny
Pub. Date
[2017]
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301 pages ; 22 cm
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"A debut collection of stories that plunge readers into the tender and chaotic hearts of adolescent girls growing up in New York City, from celebrated poet and National Magazine Award nominee Jenny Zhang"--
"Centered on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City, Zhang's exhilarating collection examines the many ways that...
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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1 online resource(1 sound file (19hr.,40min.,44sec.))
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V. S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction-two novels and a collection of stories-that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.The Suffrage of Elvira A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad-whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name-to a rooming house in London-where...
20) Here the Dark
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Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2020
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1 online resource
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-- NEW YORK TIMESWe Are Not OurselvesFrom the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost off the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an aging rancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil and good, obscurity and light. Following men and boys bewildered...
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