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Dreadful young ladies and other stories / Kelly Barnhill.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BARN	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .
AF BARN	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781616207977 (hardback)
ISBN	1616207973 (hardback)
Name	Barnhill, Kelly Regan author.
Uniform title	Short stories. Selections
Title	Dreadful young ladies and other stories / Kelly Barnhill.
Edition	First edition.
Published	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
Published	©2018
Description	288 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Contents	Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch -- Open the door and the light pours through -- The dead boy's last poem -- Dreadful young ladies -- The taxidermist's other wife -- Elegy to Gabrielle, patron saint of healers, whores, and righteous thieves -- Notes on the untimely death of Ronia Drake -- The insect and the astronomer: a love story -- The unlicensed magician.
Summary	A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.
Subjects	Magic -- Fiction
	Unrequited love -- Fiction
	Mate selection -- Fiction
	Grief -- Fiction
Genre	Short stories
Genre	Fantasy fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Fantasy fiction . Grief -- Fiction . Magic -- Fiction . Mate selection -- Fiction . Short stories . Unrequited love -- Fiction . See Also: Fiction . Ghost stories . Science fiction . Fiction . Authors: Barnhill, Kelly Regan .