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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and...
2) Poachers
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella (selected for the anthologies New Stories
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Five nights at Freddy's.Fazbear frights volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Presents three novella-length tales of horror set in the world of Five nights at Freddy's.
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Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
He can lead this girl to the altar, but she might be diverted along the way... Second in an exciting trilogy of short stories set in medieval Scotland. Effie Campbell cannot fathom marrying a stranger just because her brother arranged it and is determined to marry only for love. She finds an unlikely ally in Connor Maclachlan, her intended husband, who also balks at being led by his parents to the altar. They scheme to support each other in the pursuit...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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First in an exciting new trilogy of short stories set in medieval Scotland, bridging Amanda Forester's medieval and Regency series. Three Campbell sisters find true love with the ancestors of the three heroes featured in the author's hot new Regency romances. In this first installment, the clan has gathered for May Day festivities, and Laird Campbell is trying to arrange marriages for his younger sisters. Practical Elyne Campbell is pleased to marry...
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Series
Bacombe volume 4
Language
English
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLA "Perhaps the best novella of the year" - Locus "Pretty close to perfect - SFcrowsnest YEAR'S BEST SF SELECTION (GARDNER DOZOIS) YEAR'S BEST SF&F SELECTION (RICH HORTON) YEAR'S TOP SHORT SF NOVELS SELECTION (ALLEN KASTER) "London after the war wasn't a place you went to on holiday ..." Gunther Sloam comes to Nazi-occupied London in search of an old flame. But when she turns up dead, Gunther is accused...
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Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Though best-known for his science fiction novels, #1 bestseller Kevin J. Anderson has also written dozens of darker stories, ranging from eerie suspense, to surprise shockers, to monster encounters, to atmospheric Bradbury-esque tales, ranging in length from flash fiction to novellas. In these 29 stories, you will read about a nightmarish Wisconsin small town, rock stars raised from the dead, vampires, werewolves, zombies, murderers and sorcerers…and...
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English
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Collects three novellas from Jim Harrison, including the title selection, a coming of age story in which a young girl faces the harsh realities of life when her mother leaves; "Brown Dog Redux," in which Brown Dog tries to prevent his adopted daughter from being locked in an institution; and in "The Games of Night," a retired werewolf reflects on his past while he attempts to lead a normal life.
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Molly may not be the Smitten Book Club's biggest reader, but her new friend Gage seems to read her like an open book.
Molly's really more of a romantic comedy movie fan than a reader, but being a member of the Smitten Book Club is so much fun that she reads the selections anyway. And the Book Club has seen her through some dark days.
When Gage Turner offers to help Molly with her failing business, her book club talks her into accepting his help,...
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English
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With two parts and seventeen stories, Stephen Crane's The Open Boat and Other Stories is an eclectic collection that stuns with its use of naturalism and angst. In the first part, titled Minor Conflicts, Crane shares eight works of short fiction. Among these is The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky, a tense drama that explores themes of change with the portrayal of a Texas marshal who is saved from gunfight by his bride. Death and the Child follows a...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories -- a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap , the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. A blinding snowstorm -- and a homicidal maniac -- traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple setup, Agatha Christie...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In these five prequel novellas to "Throne of Glass," feared assassin Celaena embarks on daring missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and avenge tyranny.
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The highly prolific and influential science fiction author Philip K. Dick published 44 novels and more than 120 brief works during his lifetime. This anthology presents his finest short stories and novellas that originally appeared in pulp magazines of the early 1950s. Contents include "The Variable Man," "Second Variety," "Beyond the Door," "The Defenders," and more.
20) Blue Water
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Blue Water is a collection of true adventure stories from a writer in love with the sea ... A salt-encrusted anthology of a writer in love with the sea, in the manner of tessa Duder's bestselling sailing collections. the ideal gift for the sailor in the family, this book contains a selection of stories, and a novella inspired by a lifetime of sailing adventures and misadventures. the writer is a sailor whose love of the sea has brought him back time...
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