In this prize-winning collection of short stories, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Extra', a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy and we see...
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Author:Li, YiyunSummary: - Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
A fun-for-all-ages collection of over thirty spooky stories in settings across Western Canada. When friends and family gather around a campfire, good times and scary stories are sure to follow. In Campfire Stories of Western Canada,...
- Author:Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:
Mark Anthony Jarman is one of Canada’s most original and compelling writers of short fiction. My White Planet is his latest collection of fourteen new stories, many of which have previously won or been short-listed for literary magazine...
- Author:Grannan, Mary, Hume, Margaret AnneSummary:
For twenty-three years during the golden age of radio in Canada, stories for children by Mary Grannan, "Just Mary," were broadcast by CBC and beloved across the country. She retired from broadcasting in 1962 and died in 1975, but her...
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The first-ever collection of Aaniiih/Gros Ventre narratives to be published in the Aaniiih/Gros Ventre language, this book contains traditional trickster tales and war stories. Some of these stories were collected by Alfred Kroeber in...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
Under the Christmas tree: When the folks of Virgin River discover a box of adorable puppies under the town's Christmas tree they call on local vet Nathaniel Jensen for help. But it's his budding romance with Annie McCarty that really...
- Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
10 Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada’s preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a meaningful...
- Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
Ten Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada's preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a meaningful...
- Author:Stinson, KathySummary:
A quirky collection of stories about teens in lust and in love. From the first stirrings of same-sex desire to paternity questions around a teen pregnancy, 101 Ways to Dance reflects the spectrum of teen sexuality from the sweet to the...
- Author:Pawlowski, MichaelSummary:
With stories that chronicle the abused, the homeless, the suicidal, those seeking a world away from the reserve, and those returning to the indigenous community to improve themselves, 13 Lives is a fact-based account of events affecting...
- Author:Jarman, MarkSummary:
With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about...
- Author:Anderson, Kevin J., McFetridge, JohnSummary:
18 exhilarating journeys into Rush-inspired worlds
The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, and thought-provoking futures and...
- Author:Golden, ChristopherSummary:
The stellar stories in this volume include a tale set in the world of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, the first published fiction by Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, and a tale of love, family, and resurrection from the...
- Author:Heath, JackSummary:
10 Histoires 10 Situations dangeureuses 10 Enfants braves 30 Minutes pour s'échapper George est coincé dans un avion en chute libre sans moteur et sans pilote. Milla est recouverte de déchets radioactifs et sa combinaison de...
- Author:Lovecraft, H.P.Summary:
Works by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle and Many More!
- Author:Kawabata, YasunariSummary:
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl on the onset of puberty. The student...
- Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:
Carol Bruneau, author of six acclaimed works of fiction (most recently, These Good Hands), brings her finely honed voice to 12 new stories about shifting concepts of Nova Scotian identity. In "The Race," a war bride's remarkable life...
- Author:Nowlan, AldenSummary:
Alden Nowlan's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon" is a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan's first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960 but published posthumously in 1988. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions...
- Author:Brown, PeterSummary:
Always on the verge of something better, Brown's characters in this short story collection are often hard drinking and fast driving--tending to be both violent and religious. And as they grasp for hope, they sometimes make a leap into a...
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
Quinn delivers an original short story answering the question on all his fans' minds: How exactly did Chet (the dog) and Bernie (the PI) meet? Everyone knows that Chet met Bernie on the day he flunked K-9 police school, but the...
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