Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award.
Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never...
Short stories
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Author:Baker, CarleighSummary: - Author:Baker, CarleighSummary:
... Baker pushes readers to reconsider their desire for resolution. Eschewing the easy, the neat, the smoothed over, allows us to consider the things about ourselves we might not like. There's a political dimension to this. One...
- Author:Bertin, KrisSummary:
The characters in 'Bad Things Happen' - professors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminals - are between things. Between jobs and marriages, states of sobriety, joy and anguish; between who they are and who they want to be. Kris...
- Author:Chang, Sung-sheng, Carver, Ann C.Summary:
This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of 14 writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, age, and political perspectives. It is filled with "unexpected...
- Author:Drache, Sharon AbronSummary:
The interrelated stories of this pseudo-memoir introduce readers to Barbara Klein Muskrat, a successful author of fiction and freelance book reviewer. Spanning some thirty years in her personal and professional life, Barbara...
- Author:Moore, LorrieSummary:
A collection of eight stories that explore the passage of time and summon up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls.
- Author:Crocker, EvaSummary:
Winner, Canadian Authors Emerging Writer Award
Finalist, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
Shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut...
- Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener. However, the lawyer quickly discovers that...
- Author:Watkins, Claire VayeSummary:
Collection of ten short stories focusing on the American West. In "Ghosts, Cowboys" the author ruminates on events surrounding the notorious Manson family commune, of which her father Paul Watkins was a member. Includes strong...
- Author:Marian EngelSummary:
A mousy librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel whose most surprising secret is a bear who keeps the librarian company--shocking company
- Author:Chainani, SomanSummary:
You think you know these stories, don't you? You are wrong. You don't know them at all. Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning...
- Author:Fletcher, CrystalSummary:
Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
King explores'Sherlock Holmes's initial meeting with Mary Russell. Holmes is in a decidedly dark temper as he searches the countryside for wild bees, until he meets the headstrong young woman who will become his apprentice and eventual...
- Author:Katherine GovierSummary:
" With wit, irony and some deft stylish writing Katherine Govier charts the progress of urban middle class women into the full bloom of adulthood."
- Author:Maberry, JonathanSummary:
This collection of short stories features Sam Hunter, PI. When Sam takes on a client they become part of his "pack," and no one protects their own better than a werewolf. At least, the kind of werewolf like Sam.
- Author:Colangelo, JeremySummary:
Beneath the Statue is an inventory of the tactics of the weak, the methods of the contained and the imprisoned, and the weapons of those who cannot fight. Each story is like its own small island on a vast sea, an isolated world where...
- Author:Hearne, KevinSummary:
In the ninth installment in Kevin Hearne’s New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, the ancient gods are still wreaking havoc today in this hilarious, action-packed collection of original short stories featuring Atticus O’...
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Now in its 47th year, 'Best Canadian Stories' has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline...
- Author:Tyler, AnneSummary:
Continuing a two-decade tradition of excellence in literature, New Stories from the South presents the 20 best stories of from 1996 to 2005 selected by Anne Tyler. With such authors as Lee Smith, Judy Troy, William Gay, Stephen Coyne,...
- Author:Leonid Andreyev et al.Summary:
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as...
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