A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.
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Author:LaValle, Victor D.Summary: - Author:Caldwell, PatriceSummary:
Evoking Beyoncé's Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler's heirs have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that puts Black women and gender-nonconforming individuals at its center. A Phoenix...
- Author:Bush, Mary BucciSummary:
Each of these impeccably crafted and sensitive stories is built around the outstanding ordinary individuals, the eccentrics of the rural working class of Mary Bush's native upstate New York. These are gritty depictions of the day-to-day...
- Author:Bliss, LauraleeSummary:
Enjoy a simple Christmas, sweetened by love, in historical communities of plain faith people. Four romances develop among the Ohio River Valley Quakers of the mid-1800s. Two Mennonite couples face influences from outside their old...
- Author:Carlucci, PaulSummary:
Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci.Penetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of...
- Author:Bradbury, RaySummary:
Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork--a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. This collection of sixteen selected shorter works explores the origins of that...
- Author:Archer, JeffreySummary:
From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the...
- Author:Rogal, StanSummary:
A Rogue's Decameron consists of ten tales based within the spirit of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's The Decameron: extravagance, joy and ribald humour around sex, lust, vice, death and other "hungers...
- Author:Altrows, RonaSummary:
Rona Altrows’ short stories go to the core of what it is to be human — to cherish a departed mate beyond reason, to love a child to distraction, to keep the faith with a friend no matter what, to laugh in the face of self-doubt. This...
- Author:Mulcahy, Don, Edwards, CaterinaSummary:
Migration stories are an essential component of Canada's historical/literary continuum; we need to know of such writings to rationalize about who Canadians really are, and where they are from. Aren't we all the children of migration?...
- Author:Hodd, ThomasSummary:
Nova Scotia-born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject,...
- Author:Sawai, GloriaSummary:
In her stunning, Governor-General's-Award-winning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people on the margins.
In her stunning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines...
- Author:Trites, LesleySummary:
A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy and its challenging aftermath; a troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter’s birthday, the three-tiered pastel layer cake in the passenger seat...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
A collection of true Christmas stories by Gary Collins, Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller!
Gary Collins invites us to live again the gone forever. These stories embody the soul of Christmas in outport Newfoundland...
- Author:Musial, CharlotteSummary:
A Touch of Elegance is a lavish collection of heart-warming, witty, sometimes mystical tales of love and loss, betrayal and redemption…and other angst-ridden issues of the human condition. Take young Willow, for instance, whose elegant...
- Author:Levi, PrimoSummary:
These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a...
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
A collection of amazing and touching stories that celebrates women and shows that miracles are still possible.
- Author:Atwood, Margaret, Petričić, DušanSummary:
Wordplay and outrageous adventures rule the day in these three humorous stories from Margaret Atwood, with illustrations by Dušan Petričić. Now published together in a chapter book for the first time! In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring...
- Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary:
Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize. Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. On New Year's Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A...
- Author:Bulgakov, MikhailSummary:
With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric...
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