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An exquisite collection of haunting, magical stories from Newbery Medalist Kelly Barnhill
When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in "Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch." In "Open the Door and the Light Pours Through," a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. "Dreadful Young Ladies" demonstrates the strength and power-known and unknown-of...
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Lauded as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them, Curtis Sittenfeld showcases her talents in this first collection of short fiction. Throughout the ten stories in You Think it, I'll say it, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. In "The World Has Many Butterflies," married acquaintances play a strangely intimate...
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2013
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Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved and critically-acclaimed authors on a par with American literary greats like Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. His latest collection of novellas, The River Swimmer, is Harrison at his most memorable: a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old...
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Disney's children's favorites volume 1
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Nineteen stories based on characters from various Disney movies.
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c2018
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Looking for some scary stories to tell at your next sleepover or campout? Look no further. This collection of scary stories will make your blood run cold. Step into a world of creepy clowns, cursed campsites, ghostly graveyards, frightful freak shows, spooky schools, and other ghoulish things. Just beware, the characters lurking within these pages are nightmarish and might just give you…a fright in the night.