A dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love. Over five previous collections, A. L. Kennedy has shown herself to be a master of the short form, with a perfect way with sentences and a voice so distinct as to be...
Short stories
- Author:Kennedy, A.L.Summary:
- Author:Friedman, KathySummary:
Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within Toronto’s Jewish South African community, as...
- Author:Sullivan, Andrew F.Summary:
All We Want is Everything, Andrew F. Sullivan's exceptional debut collection of short stories, finds the misused and forgotten, the places in between, the borderlands on the edge of town where dead fields alternate with empty warehouses...
- Author:Alzayat, DimaSummary:
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or the great-aunt struggling...
- Author:Cho, AllanSummary:
A wide-ranging anthology of Asian Canadian literature to celebrate 20 years of Ricepaper.
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian-Canadian writing. Over the years, Ricepaper...
- Author:Rowell, RainbowSummary:
Almost Midnight by Rainbow Rowell is a beautiful gift edition containing two wintery short stories, decorated throughout for the first time with gorgeous black and white illustrations by Simini Blocker. Midnights is the story of Noel...
- Author:Galeano, EduardoSummary:
El mundo es eso. Un montón de gente, un mar de fueguitos. Cada persona brilla con luz propia entre todos los demás. Al fin y al cabo, somos lo que hacemos para cambiar lo que somos. Ellos son dos por error que la noche corrige. Los...
- Author:Campbell, Bonnie JoSummary:
In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it ever existed, lies discarded like so much rusty scrap metal. For the inhabitants of Campbell's tales, the real truth of life can be found in industrial accidents, soul-deadening labor, and...
- Author:Chaon, DanSummary:
Stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Twelve short stories plus a reading group discussion guide. A...
- Author:Tursten, HeleneSummary:
Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and ... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series,...
- Author:Bierce, AmbroseSummary:
During the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge, awaiting hanging. And other western short stories.
- Author:Dawe, TomSummary:
An Old Man's Winter Night: Ghostly Tales is the newest collection of ghost stories by Tom Dawe, one of Newfoundland and Labrador's most distinguished writers. The stories, all based on ones Dawe himself has collected across...
- Author:Smith, Cynthia LeitichSummary:
These stories and poems by both new and veteran Native American writers burst with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
- Author:Westhead, JessicaSummary:
The forlornly funny stories in And Also Sharks celebrate the socially awkward, the insecure, the unfulfilled, and the obsessed. A disgruntled follower of a self-esteem blog posts a rambling critical comment. On the hunt for the perfect...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators for personal truth. Readers will recognize Larry Sole from -The Lesser Blessed- in...
- Author:Leggat, AlexandraSummary:
Finalist, Trillium Book Award.
The stories in Animal depict people on the brink of major life change. Often at a crossroads they are oblivious to, Leggat's characters seem to be captured in a cinematic slo-mo, teetering on the...
- Author:Macleod, AlexanderSummary:
From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill &...
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
Kids encounter all kinds of animal ghosts in this spirited debut volume. Some involve pets, others involve wild animals, but all are based on fact and very, very scary! When a fishtank comes mysteriously to life, a boy struggles to...
- Author:Dunning, NormaSummary:
I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It. Back.” I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it...
- Author:Major, A.L., Allfrey, Ellah WakatamaSummary:
Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the...
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