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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013
In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical...
In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical...
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Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, featuring "The Black Phone," soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions
Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .
Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .
John is locked in
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"A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona...
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A collection of nine stories about love and life featuring best friends, princes, trolls, imaginary boys, and Simon Snow.
Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. In these nine stories, Rowell's characters explore love, life, friendship, and Simon Snow. -- adapted from back cover
6) Finna
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"When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store - but not that one - slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture...
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Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 3
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English
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"Grab a flashlight, crawl under the covers, and dive into the twisted, unexpectedly hilarious world of Rowley Jefferson's imagination. You'll meet zombies, vampires, ghosts, and much more in these comically terrifying tales. Rowley's spooky stories might leave you laughing, but beware--you could end up sleeping with the lights on!"--
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BOOM! Box, a division of Boon Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Cryptids, and kittens, and costumes, on my! Neither rain nor heat nor mischievous faeries can put a damper on the fun at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types! Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley are helping throw a huge, mid-summer costume bash with the rest of the Lumberjane scouts, but the decorations, snacks, and supplies keep going missing, thanks to some pesky faeries!Then, the Roanoke scouts have...
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2022.
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In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. After losing touch, they meet several times by accident. Seemingly...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
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218 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"The beloved author of Early Morning Riser ("The funniest novel of the year." The Washington Post) brings us twelve glittering stories of love--friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts--in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime"--
The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to tenderly touching. In "Damascus,"...
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Toys trilogy volume 2
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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159 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
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English
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Six stories relate further adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys, as they encounter a fearsome (possible) shark, enjoy a dance party, and deal with rejection by The Girl, who is growing up
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Pony/Stabenfeldt
Pub. Date
2009
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152 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Times are tough at Mercy Ranch, Carlotta Mancini's stable for retired or abused horses. This means, unfortunately, that Carlotta has to sell a few horses, starting with Sheila, a beautiful Black Forest Shire mare. In doing so she's going to break the heart of Sheila's caretaker, Cheryl, and set off a chain reaction of events that will rock the world of all the kids and horses at Mercy Ranch. Will peace ever be restored? Once Ricki, Diablo and...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Today is a very nice day. There has never been a day so nice as this, except for maybe yesterday. Join Vernon and his friends Skunk and Porcupine on a series of three enchanting adventures entitled Waiting, Fishing, and Gardening, as they comb the forest floor for trinkets and go fishing in their own unconventional way.
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Dog and Bear volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm
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English
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Three more easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between a dachshund named Dog and a stuffed bear
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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132 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Hello! Freddie Parrott III here with some exciting news. Too exciting, in fact. The stories I have to tell you are rather feather-raising. But don't worry. Somehow my butler and best friend, Peccary, always finds a way to save the day. Then he and I have a big chuckle--at my expense. They don't call me famously funny for nothing!
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IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Pinkie Pie eats a magic apple, Ponyville gets ready for Nightmare Night, and Rainbow Dash has an unusual idea for bringing excitement to the ponies of the retirement village.
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