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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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This trio of romance stories includes Susan Mallery's "Say You'll Stay," in which Shaye Harper, after swearing off men, meets army vet Lawson Easley during a pit stop on the road to a better life and is drawn to both him and his quirky town. In "This Time for Keeps" by Synithia Williams, Michaela Spears is on a mission: reconcile with the one man she can't forget. And "Best Man Next Door" by Stefanie London draws you in with Sage Nilsen, coming back...
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Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
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El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quizá no se trate solo de sequías y herbicidas, quizá se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un cliché cuando finalmente sucede. Distancia de rescate sigue estra vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿hay acaso algún apocalipsis que nosea personal? ¿Cuál es el punto exacto...
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A Nightfire Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three "saints"...
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids. Olga Ravn's prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating,...
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Publisher
GemmaMedia
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Flesch-Kincaid Level 3.2. On a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons are about to cross the dark Mississippi River into Iowa Territory on a tiny boat. Penny Cooper, Nate Tilden, Aunt Sunday, and Jonathan and Ella Butterman are full of questions. Aunt Sunday just wants to know if they're going to drown. Jonathan and Ella wonder if they will succeed in the new Territory. And Penny and Nate are eager to learn if they are going to be free-to marry,...
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Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future. What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject's perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy...
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Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths" -- Provided by publisher.
"FALLEN RANGER: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he's put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue." --...
10) Prankster
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Jeremiah decides he's done being the butt of his coworker's jokes at their small game studio. Joel is counting the days until he can quit his family's garden center and hit the road to a new life. Aimee finally works up the courage to ditch her loud-mouthed, annoying friend at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. But when it comes to Five Nights at Freddy's, even the most well-meaning actions can reap horrible consequences"--
11) From scratch
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Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In this short novel, a single mother goes back to school in order to run her own bakery."--
12) Social fiction
Author
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An anonymous official chides a man under surveillance for stepping out of view of a security camera; visitors to an underground mall are forced to form a new society when a nuclear strike may (or may not) have left them as the sole survivors on Earth; newlyweds living in an authoritarian New York City attempt to navigate the insidious hurdles of being permitted to have a child; and a Puerto Rican boxer discovers that segregation continues in America,...
13) The Italian cure
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A woman travels to Italy to cure her broken heart in this short novel."--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Outsourcing their storytelling to artificial intelligence comes with unintended results for the executives of the Fazbear Entertainment board of directors ... Tony's search for the player behind the impossibly high scores at the Pizzaplex Fazcade leads him down a rabbit hole with no way out ... And Abe's journey to find the first generation animatronics causing problem for his Bobbiedot home assistants lead him to believe he should have never moved...
15) Lally's game
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A forbidden artifact from her fiancé's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay"--
16) Worst date ever
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This funny short novel follows a single mom on a number of first dates."--
17) Somniphobia
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"What are you running from? . . . Sam is afraid of just about anything and everything that's unhealthy ever since his father died. Something about the Springtrap costume in the role-playing area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex chills Luca to the core. And Grady's fear of being trapped in small spaces makes working as a Pizzaplex technician extremely challenging. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, our deepest fears have a way of chasing...
18) Gumdrop angel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A string of bad luck you can't seem to shake... for Angel, Hudson, and Sergio, it's an all too familiar feeling. Repulsed by her spoiled stepsister's lavish birthday party, Angel exacts a hasty and ill-fated revenge. Hudson's young life is littered with tragedy and broken dreams, but a well-paying security job might just be all he needs to turn things around. Sergio acquires a unique novelty toy that instantly brings good luck, but is the toy really...
19) The cliffs
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Some things must be learned the hard way...Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son. Chris, eager to join the Science Club at school, agrees to undergo a grisly experiment to be accepted. But in the malevolent universe of Five nights at Freddy's,...
20) 23 1/2 lies
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
23 1/2 lies: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths.
Fallen Ranger: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he's put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue.
Watch your back: When a starving artist is paid to expose his client's cheating wife, can he paint the picture that will...
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