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4) Florida
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English
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Florida: a place of storms, snakes, and sinkholes, and so much more. Lauren Groff explores a different side of her adopted home state in this collection of stories. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries. Yet Florida-- its landscapes, climate, history, and state of mind-- becomes the gravitational center as Groff writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time.
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Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
6) Suite 606
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English
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Featuring a new Lieutenant Eve Dallas novella, this collection contains four all-new stories of paranormal desire and suspense by four hot, "New York Times"-bestselling authors--Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas. Original.
7) If it bleeds
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"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
8) Matchup
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers,...
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"Amish Country is known for an atmosphere of peace and quiet, perfect for front-porch sitting with a good book. Join New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, her daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, as they share 18 heartwarming stories from Amish Country. These fictional short stories include journeys we can all relate to as we seek how to live led by love, joy, peace, patience, and other Fruits of the Spirit. Meet Anna, who struggles...
10) Filthy animals
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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In Taylor's linked stories he focuses on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. The stories, set among young people in the American Midwest, provide a portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it. -- adapted from jacket
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A collection of short stories that show what it took to build in the west. The stories show how men fought to survive, fought to bring law and order to a lawless land, and the perils that faced those who simply traveled across the land. The stories are fiction, yet they could have happened to any of the many souls that will never be known who reached out to the west for a better life.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway--who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture--interweaves a close study of biographical events with excerpts...
13) Big medicine
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English
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1. "Big Medicine" --In "Big Medicine," old Billy Dunbar has discovered some great gold-bearing gravel--but he's also discovered nine Apaches. If they catch sight of his burros or his prospect holes, Billy's a goner. 2. "Trail to Pietown" --Dusty Barron's idea of riding into Jarilla to make peace hits a few snags. 3. "McQueen of the Tumbling K" tells the story of Wade McQueen, foreman of the Tumbling K ranch, who finds evidence of a fight on ranch...
14) My Gal Sunday
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Henry and Sunday mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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Contains four mystery stories featuring the sleuth team of Henry Parker Britland IV, a wealthy former president, and his young wife, Sunday, a newly elected Congresswoman.
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
The Trading Post (by Michael Zimmer) -- Coffin Nails in Callaway County (by Lonnie Whitaker) -- The Judgment Tree (by Johnny D. Boggs) -- Wren's Perch (by Vonn McKee) -- Rider from Bordeaux (by John D. Nesbitt) -- An Hour Before the Hangman (by Michael R. Ritt) -- The Prairie Fire (by Larry D. Sweazy) -- Old Gun Wolf (by Frank Leslie) -- Dirty Old Town (by Greg Hunt) -- A Small Thing (by Matthew P. Mayo) -- Little Cheyenne (by Ethan J. Wolfe) -- My...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hager's fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in what's left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the...
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this ... woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she ... brought to life in her acclaimed novels"--
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For twenty-four years, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Contention and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier...
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