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RECENT WORKS BY INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
found in fiction section on main floor

Adams, Alice............. The Last Lovely City...After You've Gone
Agee, Jonis...........Taking the Wall: Stories
Agueros, Jack..........Dominoes & Other Stories
Allende, Isabel..........The Stories of Eva Luna
Amis, Martin..........Heavy Water and Other Stories
Archer, Jeffrey.........The Collected Short Stories...Twelve Red Herrings
Asimov, Isaac........The Complete Stories
Atwood, Margaret..........Wilderness Tips
Auchincloss, Louis.........Anniversary and Other Stories. . . The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
The Atonement and Other Stories
Banks, Russell.........Trailerpark...Searching for Survivors
Beattie, Ann.........Park City: New and Selected Stories
Binchy, Maeve.........The Lilac Bus...This Year It Will Be Different
Boyle, T. Coraghessan..........Without a Hero and Other Stories
Bradbury, Ray..........Driving Blind and Other Stories...The Stories of Ray Bradbury
Bruchac, Joseph..........Turtle Meat and Other Stories
Calvino, Italo...........Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
Carver, Raymond..........Where I'm Calling From.....Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Cheever, John The Stories of John Cheever
Clark, Mary Higgins..........The Lottery Winner: Alvirah and Willy Stories
Clarke, Arthur C...........Tales From the Planet Earth
Cooper, J. California..........Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Cross, Amanda..........The Collected Stories (mystery)
Dixon, Steven..........Sleep: Stories . . . The Stories of Steven Dixon
Dorrie, Doris.........What Do You Want From Me? and Fifteen Other Short Stories
Dorris, Michael Working Men, Stories
Dubus, Andre.........Dancing After Hours...Selected Stories...Separate Flights
Elkin, Stanley..........Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
Gilchrist, Ellen..........Flights of Angels . . .The Courts of Love
Gilliatt, Penelope..........22 Stories
Gordimer, Nadine..........Jump and Other Stories
Goran, Lester..........Tales from the Irish Club
Grimm, Mary..........Stealing Time
Harness, Charles L...........An Ornament to His Profession (science fiction)
Jakes, John............In the Big Country: the Best Western Stories ...
Jen, Gish..........Who's Irish: stories
Jones, Thom.......... Cold Snap Stories...Pugilist at Rest
Just, Ward......... Twenty-one: Selected Stories
King, Stephen.......... Night Shift... Skeleton Crew...Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Klima, Ivan......... Short Stories
Krist, Gary.......... Bone by Bone
Leguin, Ursula......... Compass Rose
Levi, Primo The Sixth Day and Other Tales
Lewin, Michael .......... Z. Rover's Tales (dog stories)
Lively, Penelope.......... The Five Thousand and One Nights
Maclean, Norman ..........A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories
Mahfouz, Naguib.......... The Time and the Place and Other Stories (Najib Mahfuz)
Maitland, Sara.......... Angel Maker
Malamud, Bernard......... Complete Stories
Mason, Bobbie Ann.......... Love Life...Midnight Magic
Matheson, Richard........... By the Gun Six (western short stories)
Merrill, Richard.......... Calls From the Granite State
Moore, Lorrie.......... Birds of America: Stories
Mrozek, Slawomir......... The Elephant
Munro, Alice........... Love of a Good Woman: Stories
Norris, Frank The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris
Oates, Joyce Carol Assignation...Collector of Hearts...American Gothic Tales
O'Brian, Patrick The Rendezvous and Other Stories
O'Brien, Edna.......... A Fanatic Heart
Pelevin, Viktor.......... A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories
Perabo, Susan ...........Who I Was Supposed To Be: Short Stories
Price, Reynolds.......... Short Stories
Proulx, Annie.......... Close Range: Wyoming Stories...Heart Songs and Other Stories
Rodriguez, Abraham........... The Boy Without a Flag : Tales of the South Bronx
Reed, Kit........... Thief of Lives
Roth, Philip Goodbye, Columbus and 5 Short Stories
Rule, Rebecca........... The Best Revenge : Short Stories
Singer, Isaac Bashevis........... Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Spark, Muriel..........The Stories of Muriel Spark
Spence, June.......... Missing Women : Stories
Sternberg, Alan Camaro City (Connecticut stories of working class)
Stone, Robert........... Bear and His Daughter
Swick, Marly............ The Summer Before the Summer of Love
Theroux, Paul........... The Collected Stories
Trevor, William........... Collected Stories...News from Ireland and Other Stories
Updike, John............ Afterlife and Other Stories...Museums and Women, and Other Stories
Vonnegut, Kurt............ Bagombo Snuff Box
Weldon, Fay............ Wicked Women
Welty, Eudora ..........The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty...The Bride of the Innisfallen
West, Dorothy............ The Richer, the Poorer
Wick, Lori.......... Beyond the Picket Fence (Christian fiction)
Willis, Connie........... Impossible Things (science fiction stories)
Wolff, Tobias.......... The Night in Question: Stories

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RECENT COLLECTIONS
Books with stories by many authors; shelved alphabetically by title with fiction

African Rhapsody : Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience
American Gothic Tales
American Jewish Fiction : A Century of Stories
The American Story : Short Stories From the REA Award
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe
Baseball's Best Short Stories
Best American Gay Fiction
Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Best American Short Stories
Best American Short Stories of the Century
Best English Short Stories
Best New Horror
The Best of the Best : 18 New Stories by America's Leading Authors
The Best of Cemetery Dance
Caesar, Ann (ed.) - The Quality of Light: Modern Italian Short Stories
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present
First Cases: First Appearances of Classic Private Eyes
Football's Best Short Stories
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories about Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors
Irreconcilable Differences (20 mystery stories)
Krentz, Jayne Ann (and others) - Everlasting Love
Ladies Night in Finbar's Hotel
The Literary Horse: Great Modern Stories about Horses
Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers
Lust, Violence, Sin, Magic: Sixty Years of Esquire Fiction
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown
Monsters in Our Midst (psychological horror stories)
Morrow Collection of Great Western Short Stories
Murder and Other Acts of Literature
Murder By the Book : Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine ...
The Mysterious West (ed. by Tony Hillerman)
Nebula Awards 33: the Year's Best SF and Fantasy...
New Stories From the South : the Year's Best
Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women
Nothing But You : Love Stories from New York
Off the Beaten Path: Stories of Place
On the Couch: Great American Stories About Therapy
Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Historical Mysteries
Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories
Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards
Prize-Winning Radio Stories
Revolutionary Tales : African American Women's Short Stories from the First Story to the Present
Sleuths of the Century
Ultimate Sports : Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (in Reference TEEN section)
Under African Skies: Modern African Stories
Vintage Science Fiction (ed. by Peter Haining)
Women in the Trees : U.S. Women's Short stories About Battering and Resistance
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories
Year's Best Science Fiction

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EARLIER WORKS AND CLASSICS
most can be found in fiction, shelved by author's name

Anderson, Sherwood.......... Winesburg, Ohio. . . Certain Things Last
Bellow, Saul.......... Him with His Foot in His Mouth
Boll, Heinrich.......... The Stories of Heinrich Boll
Borges, Jorges Luis.......... Collected Fiction
Brand, Max The Collected Stories of Max Brand (western stories)
Chekov, Anton.......... The Undiscovered Chekhov . . . The Duel and Other Stories
Christie, Agatha.......... Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories
Crane, Stephen.......... Complete Short Stories
Dick, Philip.......... Collected Stories of Philip Dick (5 volumes of science fiction)
Dickens, Charles.......... Compleat Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.......... The Eternal Husband
Doyle, Arthur Conan.......... Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Faulkner, William.......... Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Fitzgerald, F. Scott.......... The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Freeman, Mary Wilkins.......... A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader
Gallant, Mavis.......... The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel.......... Collected Stories
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.......... The Charlotte Perkins Reader
Gorky, Maxim.......... The Selected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky
Greene, Graham.......... Collected Stories
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.......... Hawthorne's Short Stories...Twice Told Tales
Hemingway, Ernest.......... The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Henry, O. ..........The Complete Works of O. Henry...Tales of O. Henry
Horgan, Paul.......... The Peach Stone: Stories From Four Decades
Hughes, Langston.......... Short Stories
Jackson, Shirley.......... Just An Ordinary Day
James, Henry.......... The Short Stories of Henry James
Joyce, James..........Dubliners
Kafka, Franz.......... Complete Stories...The Penal Colony
Lardner, Ring.......... The Ring Lardner Reader
London, Jack.......... Young Wolf: the Early Adventure Stories of Jack London
Malamud, Bernard.......... The Complete Stories
Mann, Thomas.......... Stories of Three Decades
Melville, Herman.......... Piazza Tales
Mishima, Yukio.......... Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
Munro, H. H........... The Short Stories of Saki (H. H. Munro)
Nabokov, Vladimir.......... The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
O'Connor, Flannery.......... Everything That Rises Must Converge
O'Connor, Frank.......... The Stories of Frank O'Connor
O'Faolain, Sean..........Collected Stories of Sean O'Faolain...Foreign Affairs
O'Flaherty, Liam The Stories of Liam O'Flaherty
O'Hara, John.......... Collected Stories of John O'Hara...The Cape Cod Lighter
Ozick, Cynthia.......... The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
Poe, Edgar Allan.......... The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Sketches
Porter, Katherine Anne The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Pritchett, V. S........... Complete Collected Stories
Singer, Isaac Bashevis.......... The Collected Stories...A Crown of Feathers
Stevenson, Robert Louis.......... The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson
Stockton, Frank R........... Storyteller's Pack...Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories
Tolstoy, Leo Graf.......... Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
Trollope, Anthony.......... The Complete Short Stories
Welty, Eudora.......... The Bride of Innisfallen, and Other Stories
West, Jessamyn.......... Collected Stories of Jessamyn West
Wharton, Edith.......... The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
Wideman, John Edgar.......... The Stories of John Edgar Wideman
Wolfe, Thomas.......... The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe
Wright, Richard.......... Uncle Tom's Children

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LISTEN TO A SHORT STORY On Audiocassette

AC BOOK Aleichem - Tevye the Dairyman
AC BOOK Best- Best of the West
AC BOOK Binchy - The Lilac Bus.....This Year It Will Be Different and Other Stories
AC BOOK Block - Sometimes They Bite and Other Stories (Lawrence Block)
AC BOOK Bradbury - A Sound of Thunder; Night Call, Collect
AC BOOK Cather - Uncle Valentine and Other Stories . . . Stories
AC BOOK Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
AC BOOK Classic - Classic Ghost and Horror Stories
AC BOOK Coupland - Life After God
AC BOOK Crane - Stories (Stephen Crane)
AC BOOK Doyle - Sherlock Holmes Tales of Betrayal... Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Suspense...( more)
AC BOOK First - First Cases
AC BOOK Great - Great American Writers
AC BOOK Greene - Twenty-One Stories (Graham Greene)
AC BOOK Guterson - The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind (David Guterson)
AC BOOK Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway: Short Stories.....Ernest Hemingway Cassette Library
AC BOOK Henry- O. Henry: A Celebration
AC BOOK How - How the West Was Read
AC BOOK Hurston - Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)
AC BOOK Irish - Irish Short Stories
AC BOOK Jackson - The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
AC BOOK Jewish - Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond
AC BOOK Joyce - The Dead and Other Stories From Dubliners
AC BOOK Kafka - The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
AC BOOK Keillor - Stories ( Garrison Keillor)
AC BOOK Leinster - First Contact and Exploration Team (Murray Leinster)
AC BOOK Malice - Malice Domestic (an Anthology of Original Mystery Stories)
AC BOOK Mortimer - The Trials of Rumpole....Rumpole and the Golden Thread (John Mortimer)
AC BOOK Murder - Murder to Go
AC BOOK Parker - Dorothy Parker, Selected Stories
AC BOOK Pilcher - Flowers in the Rain
AC BOOK Poe - Tales to Make You Check Under the Bed
AC BOOK Roth - Goodbye, Columbus and 5 Short Stories
AC BOOK Saki - Short Stories of Saki (by H. H. Munro)
AC BOOK Selected - Selected Shorts From Symphony Space
AC BOOK Selected - Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story: Tales of Love and Longing
AC BOOK Stories - Stories of New England Then and Now
AC BOOK Taj - Taj Express ( 4 dramatized stories by Indian writers)
AC BOOK Till - Till Death Do Us Part (mysteries)
AC BOOK Twain - The Mark Twain Sampler
AC BOOK Updike - Afterlife and Other Stories
AC BOOK Wagner - Sticks (Karl Edward Wagner)
AC BOOK Weldon - The Bottom Line and the Sharp End and Other Stories (Fay Weldon)
AC BOOK Wilde - Stories (Oscar Wilde)
AC BOOK Wolff - The Night in Question (Tobias Wolff)

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EARLIER COLLECTIONS - A SELECTION
Found on second floor non-fiction shelves , most filed under 808.83 , alphabetically by title

808.83 Black.....The Black Mask Boys: Masters of the Hard-Boiled School of Detective Fiction
808.83 Calling..........Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African American Short Stories
808.83 Company.....The Company of Animals: 20 Stories of Alliance and Encounter
808.83 Contemporary.....Contemporary New England Stories
808.83 Dodd.....The Dodd Mead Gallery of Horror
808.83 First.....First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth
808.83 Growing.....Growing Up Latino: memories and Stories
808.83 Horror.....Horror Hall of Fame
808.83 Lifted.....The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women
808.83 Literary.....The Literary Lover; Great Contemporary Stories of Passion and Romance
808.83 Mammoth.....The Mammoth Book of the Western
808.83 Mirrors.....Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers
808.83 Night.....Night Visions
808.83 Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror
808.83 Pushcart.....Pushcart Prize XXIV 2000 Best of the Small Presses (many other earlier volumes)
808.83 Roger.....Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Cat Stories
808.83 Roger.....Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Dog Stories
808.83 Soldiers.....Soldiers and Civilians: Americans at War and at Home
808.83 Tales.....Tales of the New England Coast
808.83 Tales.......Tales of the Occult (ed. by Isaac Asimov)
808.83 Tales.....Tales of the Witch World
808.83 Undying.....The Undying Past (historical stories)
808.83 Unforgetting.....The Unforgetting Heart : an Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women
808.83 Woman's.....A Woman's Eye (mysteries)
808,83 Women.....Women of Mystery
808.83 Women.....Women of the West
809.8097 Talking .......Talking Leaves : Contemporary Native American Short Stories
810.8 Beacon......Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors

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