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Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers--characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,"...
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"The three stories presented here present an "examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In 'So Late in the Day,' Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in 'The Long and Painful Death,' a writers arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Boll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and...
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2024.
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The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
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281 pages ; 22 cm
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"A family curse that turns spoken prophecy into truth. A world where your soulmate's feelings appear as words on your skin. A boy who has to decide whether or not to attend his brother's wedding even though their parents have forbidden it. A girl who encounters the boy she loved and lost and realizes where her heart truly lies. These genre-bending stories focus on the magic (and tension) of the biggest family gathering. Both award-winning and debut...
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Stinetinglers volume 2
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
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201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"From R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes ten new stories that are sure to send a shiver down your spine. Two kids embark on a field trip to the zoo...and stumble upon a creature they never expected to meet. A boy makes a machine that puts kids in charge...but at what cost? A child is sure his new house is haunted...but is it just in his head? And each story comes with a personal introduction from Stine himself. Laced with Stine's...
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Cette délicieuse collection d'histoires courtes pour l'heure du coucher vise à divertir, inspirer et enseigner aux enfants l'importance des vertus intemporelles. À travers des personnages dynamiques et des récits passionnants dans chacune de ces courtes histoires morales pour enfants, ces histoires morales pour enfants encouragent leur esprit à adopter les valeurs qui les façonnent. Avec chaque histoire, les enfants se lanceront dans une aventure,...
10) Hornbeam all in
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Beach Lane Books
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[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Hornbeam the moose goes on a picnic with his best friend Eureka, sleeps over his friend Cuddy's house, and learns how to swim with Adorabelle.
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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[1997]
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xxi, 664 pages ; 21 cm.
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Twenty-eight stories set in farms and small towns around Lake Huron. They include Dance of the Happy Shades, on a retired piano teacher, and Walker Brothers Cowboy, on two children making calls with their salesman father during the 1930s depression.
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Harcourt, Brace and Company
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[1939]
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208 p. ; 21 cm.
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Contains three short novels, -- Old Mortality, a story of race tracks, of the Deep South, of the survival and shattering of a family legend; Noon Wine, Texas and a dairy farm rescued from decay by a man who turns out to be an escaped lunatic from Dakota and of the tragedy that ended it all; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a mystical story of the narrow ledge between life and death, set at the time of the flu epidemic. --Kirkus Reviews
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Tusquets Editores
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2022.
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209 pages ; 21 cm
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"En plena d�ecada de los a�nos 90 una mujer se gana la vida como novia de alquiler de hombres gays. En un fumadero de Harlem una travesti latina conoce �intimamente nada menos que a Billie Holiday. Un grupo de rugbiers regatea el precio de una noche de sexo y a cambio recibe su merecido. Monjas, abuelas, ni�nos y perros nunca son lo que parecen. Los nueve relatos que componen este libro est�an habitados por personajes extravagantes y profundamente...
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Unfaithful Together is a series of connected, steamy, romance, short stories following one couple, as they pursue their sexual desires together. They are intended to be read in order. Olivia Van der Mol is conservative, and sweet. The kind of woman to take home to meet the family. Jake Johnson is thoughtful, and kind, but with a sexually adventurous side. A chance encounter leads Olivia to believe they were destined to be together. As they grow, Jake...
17) Boundless
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Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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360 pages ; 24 cm
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"From platonic and romantic love to grief and heartbreak, these stories explore navigating life at the intersection of identities, and what it means to grow up surrounded by a multitude of traditions, languages, cultures, and interpersonal dynamics"--
18) Antarctica
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Grove Press
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[2016].
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207 pages ; 21 cm
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Summary: This debut collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects.
19) Roar
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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x, 273 pages ; 22 cm
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Cecelia Ahern gives us thirty stories, all titled 'The Woman Who...', that capture the different facets of women's lives. Humorous, moving and poignant, the stories capture the moments the characters are overwhelmed by guilt, confusion, frustration, intimidation, exhaustion -- the private moments when they feel the need to roar.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
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279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Gilbert's visit to his injured brother takes a haunting turn when he discovers a mysterious satchel of cassette tapes containing chilling stories that seem to hold the key to saving his brother, but he may be opening a door to something much, much worse.
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