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Language
English
Description
"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of four novella-length tales, complementing the title piece with the stories, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, and Rat.
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 4
Language
English
Description
"'Homecoming' takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's ... stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing Time Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world....
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three untold stories about three cats of the warrior Clans include a ShadowClan leader's path to redemption, a ThunderClan cat forced to choose between her past and future, and a young warrior's choice to defy her leader for the good of all five Clans.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning master of psychological suspense is in top form in this collection of diverse and diabolically clever stories.
In the never-before-published “Just One More,” a married couple—longing for that old romantic spark—creates a playful diversion that comes with unexpected consequences.
Lippman’s beloved Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan keeps a watchful eye on a criminally resourceful single father in “Seasonal Work,” while her...
10) 3 days to live
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three stories of suspense, including "3 Days to Live," in which a CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned--leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge.
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 375 pages : 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this prestigious annual story anthology contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
150 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and inventive new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
188 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and weaves them into one funny, poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.