"John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their...
Violence
- Author:O'Neill, JohnSummary:
- Author:Butler, JudithSummary:
"In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to...
- Author:Rayner, RobertSummary:
- Author:Phillips, WendySummary:
When Natalie moves to a new high school she befriends 3 unwitting victims into her spider-web of manipulations, lies and deceit. Through the poetry and assignments of an English class we glimpse the world of the 4 teens. Natalie, whose...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
In "Evil Eye," we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband's brazen first wife visits one night, Mariana learns a terrible secret that could be a harbinger of doom for her marriage and very soul...
- Author:Murphy, JoniSummary:
Double Teenage tells the story of two young teenagers (best friends, Celine and Julie) who are coming of age in the 1990s along the US–Mexico border—a place where nothing seems to happen, but only because what counts as 'something' is...
- Author:MacLaverty, BernardSummary:
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
Two separate crimes, two tragic outcomes. Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town's Criminal Investigations Division. One hot week in late September, university student...
- Author:Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
This collection of transgressive stories has been compiled through a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, as the best of The Cult workshop.These stories run the gamut from...
- Author:Soto, GarySummary:
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
- Author:Picciolini, ChristianSummary:
At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by skinheads and encouraged to fight to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become a neo-nazi terror. By the time he left the movement and was finally able to see...
- Author:McDonell, ReganSummary:
"Psycho. Sick. Dangerous. Réal Dufresne's reputation precedes him. When the mangled body of his best friend, Shaun, turns up in a field just east of town, tough-as-hell Réal blames himself. But except for the nightmares, all Ré...
- Author:Vonnegut, KurtSummary:
Published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, this is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.
- Author:Younge, GarySummary:
Award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It's a searing portrait of youth, family, and the way that lives can be shattered in an instant on any...
- Author:Lawson, JosephSummary:
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first...
- Author:Kinch, MichaelSummary:
Welcome to Wananelu: Caught between the ’Gades and GlobeTran, their only choice is to fight for the freedom of Africa In a deadly race to strike before the ’gades secure the savannah and wipe out the New SUN resistance, Reya, D’Shay,...
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