Search Results | Payson Library

Book, Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...

2) Ford County : stories

Author

Grisham, John

Formats

Description

John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, "A Time to Kill," with this wholly surprising collection of stories.

3) The bazaar of bad dreams

Author

King, Stephen

Formats

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"--

4) Arcanum unbounded : the Cosmere collection

Author

Sanderson, Brandon

Formats

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

These wonderful works, originally published individually, convey the expanse of the Cosmere and tell exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, including the Hugo Award-winning novella, "The Emperor's Soul" and an excerpt from the graphic novel "White Sand." Arcanum Unbounded will also contain the Stormlight Archive novella "Edgedancer," which will appear in this book for the first time anywhere.

5) Dragons at Crumbling Castle: and other tales

Author

Pratchett, Terry

Pub. Date

2015.

Formats

Description

An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic "spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.

6) If it bleeds

Author

King, Stephen

Publisher

Scribner

Pub. Date

2020.

Formats

Description

Stephen King delivers an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds, each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider, this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone", an intergenerational friendship...

7) A barnyard collection: Click, clack, moo and more

Author

Cronin, Doreen

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

[2010]

Description

An illustrated collection of three stories from the barnyard by Doreen Cronin, including "Click, Clack, Moo," and others.

8) Quite enough hot dogs and other silly stories

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

2009

9) Richard Scarry's bedtime stories

Author

Scarry, Richard

Formats

Description

A collection of five stories featuring familiar characters such as Lowly Worm and Uncle Willy.

10) The Stinky Cheese Man and other fairly stupid tales

Author

Scieszka, Jon

Formats

Description

Books to Read Before Kindergarten

Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

11) The great big treasury of Beatrix Potter

Author

Appears on list

Formats

Description

A collection of tales featuring Peter Rabbit and his friends.

12) Mike Mulligan and more: a Virginia Lee Burton treasury

Author

Burton, Virginia Lee

Pub. Date

2002.

Appears on list

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

A collection of children stories by Virginia Lee Burton.

13) Mouse tales

Author

Lobel, Arnold

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

c1972

14) Life before legend: stories of the criminal and the prodigy

Author

Lu, Marie

Formats

Description

Find out more about June and Day in this never-before-seen glimpse into their daily lives before they met in Marie Lu’s New York Times bestselling LEGEND series. As twelve-year-olds struggling to survive in two very different worlds within the Republic’s stronghold, June was starting her first day of school at Drake University as the youngest cadet ever admitted, and Day was fighting for food on the streets of the Lake sector. LIFE...

15) Look both ways: a tale told in ten blocks

Author

Reynolds, Jason

Pub. Date

2019.

Formats

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--

16) War party

Author

L'Amour, Louis

Formats

Description

A collection of stories about men and women on the Western frontier, including a mail-order bride, a gold prospector, a gunfighter, and a homesteader.

17) Long ride home

Author

L'Amour, Louis

Formats

Description

RIDE ALONG INTO DANGER

Traveling under an alias, the last thing gunman Clip Haynes wanted was attention. But Basin City needed a town-taming marshal, and a cold-blooded murderer was hiding behind Haynes’s real name. Now Haynes was coming out of hiding to protect his honor, save a town, and catch a killer—even if it cost him his life.

Lou Morgan was as tough as they came. But it wasn’t just the money

...

18) In love and war: a collection of love stories

Author

Kelly, Carla

Publisher

Sweetwater Books, An Imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc

Pub. Date

2013

19) Full dark, no stars

Author

King, Stephen

Pub. Date

2010

Formats

Description

Master of the Macabre Stephen King—Hugo Award-winning author of such horror classics as The Shining, Carrie, and The Stand—never fails to produce riveting tales eagerly devoured by his colossal fan base. His novellas and short stories also garner critical acclaim, such as the O. Henry Award-winning "The Man in the Black Suit." Inspired by the theme of retribution, Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four never-before published novellas.

...

20) Out to get you: 13 tales of weirdness and woe

Author

Allen, Josh

Publisher

Holiday House

Formats

Description