Les nouvelles de Cœur atout, qui mettent en scène des petites gens de la Gaspésie et de la Côte-Nord, constituent en quelque sorte une poignée de main aux années cinquante et soixante, la plupart ayant été écrites et publiées dans des...
Short Stories
- Author:Guy, Georges, Bernier, FranceSummary:
- Author:DE CRESCENZO, LucianoSummary:
A collection of well-written and very humorous short stories about the Italian city of Naples, and the Neopolitan lifestyle. - Per il professore don Gennaro Bellavista le banalit ̉che si dicono e si scrivono su Napoli e i suoi abitanti...
- Author:Smith, RussellSummary:
In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental...
- Author:READ, MissSummary:
This is a delightful selection from the author's popular Fairacre books. It contains seven stories: Christmas at Fairacre, Village Christmas, Jingle Bells, No Holly for Miss Quinn, Christmas at Caxley 1913, The Christmas Mouse, and...
- Author:Chabin, LaurentSummary:
Marc tente de prendre ses distances vis-à-vis du gang, tout en sachant qu'il risque de se faire tabasser par les autres, s'il veut rompre vraiment. N'ayant aucune porte de sortie, il essaie donc de jouer double jeu. Tout...
- Author:Chabin, LaurentSummary:
Je ne voulais plus rien savoir de la Fraternité. Enfermé chez moi, je ne parlais à personne. Mais l'appel du gang a été le plus fort. Je suis retourné à la rue.
- Author:Chabin, LaurentSummary:
Je sens la menace se préciser autour de moi. Je suis livré à moi-même, sans aucun recours. L'angoisse m'empêche de réfléchir. Ce qui m'obsède, c'est l'idée que je serai le suivant à disparaître.
- Author:Chabin, LaurentSummary:
Après l'ivresse de ses débuts dans le gang, Marc se rend de plus en plus compte du côté violent, souvent «militaire» de sa fraternité. Il fait entrer de la drogue à l'école, monte son réseau et engage de jeunes...
- Author:Chabin, LaurentSummary:
Marc est dorénavant respecté, simplement parce qu'il s'affiche avec plus d'arrogance. Il commence à aimer la sensation du pouvoir. À la suite d'une bagarre dans laquelle il est impliqué, il doit changer d'...
- Author:Chabin, LaurentSummary:
Marc est un garçon solitaire, pas très courageux. Il est témoin d'une scène de viol par des jeunes de son quartier, dans un terrain vague de Montréal. Paralysé par sa peur, il n'intervient pas et se sauve. Mais il vit...
- Author:CANFILED, JackSummary:
A treasury of short stories that people of all ages will love - those who already are golden aged, and those who want to make their 'mature years' the best.
- Author:Trevor, WilliamSummary:
The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event. One of our finest chroniclers of the human condition, Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the lives of ordinary people are evidenced once again in this...
- Author:Richardson, PeterSummary:
short stories and fragments of poetry from a wordsmith's half-century love affair with Queensland's Sunshine Coast
- Author:Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white...
- Author:Hagey, MarySummary:
This debut short-story collection showcases Mary Hagey's uncanny ability to capture the essence of being human. These richly satisfying stories, told with wry humour, intelligence, and verve take us into fictional territory that is...
- Author:Butcher, JimSummary:
An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures...
- Author:Hasiuk, BrendaSummary:
We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuk’s new collection of short stories, Boy Lost in Wild. Adrift in unfamiliar surroundings, strangers to the strangers around them, the characters in...
- Author:Bechtel, GregSummary:
In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us. Boundary Problems vibrates on the edge of...
- Author:Boucaud, S. I.Summary:
The stories and poetry in this book came to the writer between the years 2013 and 2017. She believes that stories have the power to disclose, heal, lead, and, for many, to transform. Her stories have been described as sometimes loving,...
- Author:Ma, LingSummary:
A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma...