title: Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files
author:  Jim Butcher 
description: Fans of Butcher's long-running and bestselling urban fantasy series featuring Chicago wizard PI Harry Dresden were stunned by the concluding events of the 2010 novel Changes. They'll probably want to skip ahead to the last of this collection's 11 stories, "Aftermath," set just hours after the end of that book. With Dresden's fate uncertain, it's his longtime ally, Sgt. Karrin Murphy, who must help find a kidnapped werewolf. This entry is the collection's strongest, full of powerful emotion. The rest of the book is a mixed bag, ranging from Butcher's first attempt at short fiction--"a novice effort" that "wasn't up to par for professional publication"--to more recent tales set around and between the novels. First-timers will be lost, and this uneven volume mostly makes the case that Butcher's talent is best displayed in longer form. (Nov.) (c) <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Young Engineers in Nevada
  
  
  CHAPTER I. ALF AND HIS “MAKINGS OF MANHOOD”
  
  CHAPTER II. TROUBLE BREWS ON THE TRAIL
  
  CHAPTER III. JIM'S “ARMY” APPEARS
  
  CHAPTER IV. SOLD OUT FOR A TOY BALE!
  
  CHAPTER V. NO NEED TO WORK FOR PENNIES
  
  CHAPTER VI. TOM CATCHES THE “NEVADA FEVER”
  
  CHAPTER VII. READY TO HANDLE THE PICK
  
  CHAPTER VIII. JIM FERRERS, PARTNER
  
  CHAPTER IX. HARRY DOES SOME PITCHING
  
  CHAPTER X. TOM'S FIGHTING BLOOD SURGES
  
  CHAPTER XI. PLANNING A NEW MOVE
  
  [CHAPTER XII. NEW OWNERS FILE A
  CLAIM](The%20Young%20Engineers%20in%20Nevada_split_001.html#filepos188667)
  
  [CHAPTER XIII. JIM TRIES THE NEW
  WAY](The%20Young%20Engineers%20in%20Nevada_split_001.html#filepos197578)
  
  [CHAPTER XIV. THE COOK LEARNS A
  LESSEN](The%20Young%20Engineers%20in%20Nevada_split_001.html#filepos208650)
  
  [CHAPTER XV. WHY READE WANTED
  GOLD](The%20Young%20Engineers%20in%20Nevada_split_001.html#filepos229644)
  
  [CHAPTER XVI. THE MAN WHO MADE
  GOOD](The%20Young%20Engineers%20in%20Nevada_split_