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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
This is not it	Lynne Tillman	As Booklist says, "Tillman tackles issues on her terms, freshly reshaping traditional literary forms." In This is Not It, Lynne Tillman's collection of 20 years' worth of important and compelling sho…	OL103203W
Little Mook	Wilhelm Hauff	Two stories in which disadvantaged characters use magic to overcome adversity.	OL10402W
Michael Bond's book of bears	Michael Bond	Presents stories about bears and teddy bears by Enid Blyton, Jane Hissey, Michael Bond, and others.	OL10490561W
Variations	Claire Lorrimer	A collection of stories to suit the reader's every mood... tender, funny, romantic, bitter-sweet, nostalgic... Sensitively written and with particular insight into the emotions of the young and the o…	OL10540181W
Mystery Stories	Thomas Wright,Paul Ernst,Carl Gustav Jung,Joan Aiken,Ambrose Bierce,Ray Bradbury,Emily Brontë,Rodrigues Ottolengui,Paul Jennings,Agatha Christie,Diana Wynne Jones,Eleanor Farjeon,Ann Pilling,Helen Cresswell,Adrian Reynolds	The green arches / Joan Aiken -- The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui -- Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë -- The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon…	OL1065287W
The tale of Peter Rabbit and other stories	Beatrix Potter	The classic tales of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, the Tailor of Gloucester, Jeremy Fisher, Benjamin Bunny, Miss Moppet, and the Two Bad Mice, plus Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes,…	OL108713W
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter	Beatrix Potter	A collection of tales featuring Peter Rabbit and his friends.	OL108750W
The Door in the Hedge	Robin McKinley	"She took a deep breath, and stepped through the door in the hedge." Four tales of stolen princesses, magical hinds, talking frogs, and dancing princesses, on the far side of the door into faer…	OL109415W
A book of the short story	Arthur Conan Doyle,Антон Павлович Чехов,E. A. Cross,Charles Dickens,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Jack London,Ethan Allen Cross	The prodigal son / The Bible The mysterious bride / James Hogg Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott The pistol shot / Alexander Pushkin Ligeia / Edg…	OL11020634W
Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories	Elmore Leonard	Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western fronti…	OL111650W
Houses without doors	Peter Straub	This spectacular collection of 13 dark, haunting tales by bestselling author Straub exposes the terrors that hide beneath the surface of the ordinary world, behind the walls of houses without doors. …	OL114291W
The secrets of Dr. Taverner	Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)	Perhaps no occultist in the 20th Century has so fully combined a practical knowledge of Magick with a deep understanding of depth psychology as Dion Fortune, unless it be Israel Regardie. Dion For…	OL114610W
Tales of terror from the Black Ship	Chris Priestley	Not for the faint-hearted, The Black Ship is a novel packed with chills, thrills, nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping revelations At the Old Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a …	OL11644755W
Vampires I have kissed	Lydia Galt	Fourteen tales of bloodcurdling romance.	OL11826386W
Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatu…	Barrett Harper Clark,Gerda Charles,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,Maxim Lieber,Charles Dickens,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Theodore Dreiser	The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna and the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumæus' : talk / Homer -- The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus and the thief / …	OL1191826W
L'exil et le royaume	Albert Camus	"[Exile and the kingdom] consists of six "short stories". The term must be as loosely applied as was that of "novel" to last year's The Fall. The tales, precise, almost stark, are concerned with illu…	OL1230611W
All Aunt Hagar's children	Edward P. Jones	A collection of fourteen short stories is set in Washington, D.C., and follows morally complex characters caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations of modern city life	OL12379545W
Seven Gothic tales	Isak Dinesen	Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales c…	OL1325745W
Dog people	Joseph Bruchac,Murv Jacob	A series of stories, set in the northern New England ten thousand years ago, about the special relationship between the Abenaki people and the dogs who were their faithful friends.	OL13501462W
The Call of the Wild and Other Stories	Jack London	The call of the wild That spot In Yeddo Bay An adventure in the upper sea Charlie's coup All gold canyon To build a fire Love of life.	OL144782W