CSL - Short Story Anthologies | Colorado State Library Resources

1) The adventures & memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Series

Wordsworth classics

Description

"With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys. This EDITION CONTAINS TWO COLLECTIONS of short stories, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes documents the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time, while The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes brings us to what Doyle intended to be Holmes' last appearance, in The Adventure of the Final Problem, as he plunges into the depths of the Reichenbach Falls with his archenemy, Professor Moriarty. This...

2) American Indian stories (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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This accessible and affordable volume combines two essential collections by Sioux author Zitkala-Sa. American Indian Stories assembles short stories, autobiographical reflections, and political essays that offer poignant reflections on the author's sense of being stranded between the white and Native American worlds. Old Indian Legends features tales from the oral tradition legends passed down through the generations that form a genre known as the...

3) The best of Sherlock Holmes (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Series

Wordsworth classics

Description

A collection of the best Sherlock Holmes stories, selected by David Stuart Davies, noted member of the Crime Writers' Association.

4) Black glass (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): short fictions

Author

Fowler, Karen Joy

Description

"First published in 1998 ... and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay, Black Glass showcases the ... talents of this prizewinning author. In fifteen ... tales, Fowler lets her wit and vision roam freely, turning accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside down--pushing us to reconsider our unquestioned verities and proving once again that she is among our most subversive writers"--Dust jacket flap.

5) Bleed into me (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a book of stories

Author

Jones, Stephen Graham

Series

Native storiers

Description

The author, an Indian himself, profiles the lives of many Native Americans and how people treat them just because of their race. Even in today's society the uneasy relations between Indians and white's is still fueled by mistrust, stereo-types and casual violence.

6) Bratwurst haven (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): stories

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"Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory"--

7) Brief interviews with hideous men (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Wallace, David Foster

Description

Twenty-two stories tell of a frightened boy frozen on a diving board, a depressed woman trying to find help, and a group of men who try to rationalize their relationships with women.

8) The case-book of Sherlock Holmes (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Series

Sherlock Holmes mysteries

Description

A selection of Sherlock Holmes short stories that were originally published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927.

9) Coyote stories (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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A powerful force and yet the butt of humor, the coyote figure runs through the folklore of many American Indian tribes. He can be held up as a "terrible example" of conduct, a model of what not to do, and yet admired for a careless. anarchistic energy that suggests unlimited possibilities. Mourning Dove, an Okanagan, knew him well from the legends handed down by her people. She preserved them for posterity in Coyote Stories, originally published in...

10) Damned if I do: stories (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Everett, Percival

Description

"A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem."--BOOK...

11) Denver noir (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Peter Heller, Barbara Nickless, Cynthia Swanson, Mario Acevedo, Francelia Belton, R. Alan Brooks, D.L. Cordero, Amy Drayer, Twanna LaTrice Hill, Manuel Ramos, Mark Stevens, Mathangi Subramanian, David...

12) The Djinn in the nightingale's eye (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): five fairy stories

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handful of brilliantly imaginative historical and contemporary fairy stories for grow-ups by the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession". Packaged in a beautiful little illustrated edition similar to Byatt's extremely successful collection, "The Matisse Stories", this collection will make a lovely, affordably priced gift that will introduce her magical writing to many new readers.

13) The elephant vanishes (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Murakami, Haruki

Description

Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.

14) Girl with curious hair (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Wallace, David Foster

Series

Norton paperback fiction

Description

A collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace that explore the different ways people live their lives.

15) Great short stories by contemporary Native American writers (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Series

Dover thrift editions

Description

This new anthology of short fiction by Native Americans features a wide range of contemporary writers. It includes stories dating from the early twentieth century by Pauline Johnson, daughter of a Mohawk chief, whose works helped define Canadian literature; Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer whose books were among the first to bring Native American stories to wider recognition; John M. Oskison, whose Cherokee ancestry informed his tales of the cultural clash...

16) The hawk is hungry & other stories (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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McNickle, D'Arcy

17) The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Alexie, Sherman

Description

In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.

18) The lottery and other stories (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): 75th anniversary edition

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Jackson, Shirley

Description

"A trove of iconic horror stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson, including the titular story "The Lottery.""--

19) Make something up: stories you can't unread (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Palahniuk, Chuck

Description

"Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display: In "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments,...

20) Never have I ever (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): stories

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"Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap's debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, "A Spell for Foolish Hearts" to the terrifying tension of the urban legend "Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.""--