Choices for Performance of Prose
with some Gavilan Library Call Number Examples
Short Stories
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Author |
Title / Collection |
Gav Library Call No. |
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Aiken, Conrad |
Silent snow, secret snow / Collected short stories |
PS3501. I5 A16 1960 |
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Allen, Woody |
Kugelmass episode / Side Effects |
PS3551. L4455 |
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Whore of Mensa |
Online at New Yorker |
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Baldwin, James |
Going to meet the man / Going to meet the man & Collected stories |
PS3503. A62 PS3552. A45 A6 1998 |
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Sonny’s blues / Going to meet the man |
PS3503. A62 |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Veldt |
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Long rain |
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And there will come soft rains |
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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned |
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Chopin, Kate |
Story of an hour |
PN6120.2 .G68 2004 |
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Clavell, James |
Children’s story |
PS3553.L365 C5 1989 |
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Ellison, Harlan |
Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman |
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Faulkner, William |
Rose for Emily |
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Barn Burning |
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins |
Yellow wallpaper |
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King, Stephen |
Last rung on the ladder |
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Body |
PS3561.I483 D5 1983 |
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Children of the corn |
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London, Jack |
Call of the wild |
PS3523 O46 C26 1931 |
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To build a fire |
PS3523.O46 .T6 eb |
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Meinke, Peter |
Uncle George and Uncle Stefan |
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McCullers, Carson |
Ballad of the sad café |
PS3525 A1772 B3 |
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Tree, a rock, a cloud |
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O’Connor, Flannery |
First confession |
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O’Conner, Frank |
First confession |
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Porter, Kathryn Ann |
He |
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Flowering Judas |
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Roth, Philip |
Conversion of the Jews |
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Thurber, James |
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox |
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Catbird seat |
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Secret life of Walter Mitty |
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Vonnegut, Jr. Kurt |
Harrison Bergeron |
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Welty, Eudora |
Why I live at the P.O. |
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Lily Daw and the three ladies |
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Novels
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Author |
Title |
GAV Library Call No. |
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Benchley, Peter |
Jaws |
PS3552 .E537 J3 1975 |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit-451 |
PS3503 .R167 F3 1991 |
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Something wicked this way comes |
PS3503.R167b S66 2014 |
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Dandelion wine |
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Clavell, James |
Shogun |
PR6053 .L365 S47 |
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Conroy, Pat |
Water is wide |
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Great Santini |
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Lords of discipline |
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The Prince of Tides |
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Beach music |
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My losing season |
PS3553 .O5198 Z465 2003 |
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Koontz, Dean |
Dark rivers of the heart |
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Intensity |
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Sole survivor |
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Breathless |
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Grisham, John |
Firm |
PS3557.R5355 F57 1991 |
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Time to kill |
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Pelican brief |
Paperback Collection |
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Partner |
Paperback Collection |
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Skipping Christmas |
PS3557 .R5355 S58 2001 |
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King of torts |
PS3557 .R5355 K55 2003b |
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Associate |
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Guest, Judith |
Ordinary people |
PS3557 .U345 O7 |
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Hemingway, Ernest |
For whom the bell tolls |
PS3515 E37 F6 |
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Old man and the sea |
PS3515 E37 O4 |
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Herbert, Frank |
Dune |
PS3558 .E63 D8 1984b |
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Keyes, Daniel |
Flowers for Algernon |
PS3561.E769 F56 2005 |
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King, Stephen |
Carrie |
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Misery |
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Cujo |
PS3561.I483 C8 1982 |
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Green Mile |
Paperback Collection |
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McCullers, Carson |
Heart is a lonely hunter |
PS3525 .A1772 H4 |
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Member of the wedding |
PS3525 A1772 M5 1951 |
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McMillan, Terry |
Waiting to exhale |
PS3563 .C3868 W35 |
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Getting to happy |
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Patterson, James & Ned Rust |
Daniel X: Watch the skies |
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See, Lisa |
Snow flower and the secret fan |
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Shanghai girls |
PS3569 .E3334 S53 2009 |
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Steinbeck, John |
Of mice and men |
PS3537 .T43 O3 1937 |
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Grapes of wrath |
PS3537 T3234 G8 1992 |
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East of eden |
PS3537.T3234 E3 1992 |
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Toole, John Kennedy |
Confederacy of dunces |
PS3570 .O54 C66 1995 |
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Uris, Leon |
Exodus |
PS3541 R57 E85 1958 |
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Trinity |
PS3541 .R57 T7 |
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QB VII |
PS3541 .R57 Q9 |
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Walker, Alice |
Color purple |
PS3573 .A425 C6 2003 |
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Wiesel, Elie |
Night |
D810.J4 W514 2006 |
Histories, Biographies, Autobiographies
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Author |
Title |
GAV Library Call No. |
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Bishop, Jim |
Day Christ died |
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Day Kennedy died |
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Brokaw, Tom |
Greatest generation |
D811 .A2 B746 2001 |
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Deford, Frank |
Alex: the life of a child |
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Engel, Joel ed. |
Addicted: in their own words – kids talking about drugs |
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Gregory, Dick |
Nigger |
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Hayden, Torey |
One Child |
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Malcolm X |
Autobiography of Malcolm X |
E185.97 L5 A3 1966 |
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Miller, Merle |
Plain speaking: an oral biography of Harry S. Truman |
E814 M54 1974 |
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Van Devanter, Lynda |
Home before morning |
DS559.5 V36 1983 |
Essays, Letters, Prayers, Diaries
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Author |
Title |
GAV Library Call No. |
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Allen, Woody |
Getting even |
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Without feathers |
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Side effects |
PS3551 L44 S5 |
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Barry, Dave |
Dave Barry’s greatest hits |
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Dave Barry turns 40 |
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Dave Barry talks back |
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Dave Barry’s guide to guys |
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Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus |
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You can search the Gavilan Library Catalog by Author (last name, first name), and by Title (omit leading the, an and a). Once you see the title or work you are looking for take note of the Location and Call No. That will show you where to find the book.
For alternatives not listed in your textbook you might consider a non rhyming children's book, or perhaps an anthology of short stories by year or author or type. Listed below are a few ideas to start you off.
Math Curse by
When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.
I Was Born a Slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives by
This title collects the 20 most significant slave narratives and arranges them chronologically in two volumes to form a mini-library of essential black writing.
The Day the Crayons Quit by
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking -- each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best?
Come Let Us Sing Anyway by
From headless schoolgirls, to talking food and threesomes, pretty much anything can happen in these weird, luminous and witty short stories. Ranging in form from flash fiction to intense psychological drama, magical realism, horror and erotica, these strange, clever, frank and sometimes very funny stories can be serious too.
Behind the Lines : powerful and revealing American and foreign war letters--and one man's search to find them by
Features approximately 200 previously unpublished letters and emails, personal correspondence of US and foreign troops and civilians who have experienced major conflicts firsthand, from the American Revolution to 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq.
North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones by 
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales: by 
