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Seventeen tomatoes: tales from Kashmir
By Jaspreet Singh. 2004
In a series of linked short stories, two Sikh boys, named Adi and Arjun, come of age in an Indian…
army camp in Kashmir. Each story builds upon a minor character from another story, creating a portrait of the border community. Some of the people the boys meet include a boatman's daughter, a captured officer, a celebrity cricket umpire, and Parachute Aunty. Some strong language. 2004.Strange bodies on a stranger shore
By Ann Copeland. 1994
Claire Delaney left her convent after eleven years as a nun. Now married with grown children, she explores the complicated…
territory of middle age. Some of the stories depict actual or emotional pilgrimages to the past, as when Claire honours an unexpected summons from her former Mother Superior, now dying and wishing to see her. In the final story, she agrees to go on a television talk show to explain why she became a nun and why she abandoned that life. Sequel to "The golden thread". 1994.Street of riches
By Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.Strange highways
By Dean R Koontz. 1996
A collection of haunting stories which includes two full length novels, one of which has never before been published, nine…
novelettes, and over half-a dozen short stories, all sharing a common theme of strange highways from one end of America to the other. 1996.Story of a nation: defining moments in our history
By Margaret Atwood. 2001
A collection of original stories by twelve of Canada's most celebrated and best loved authors, including Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier,…
Timothy Findley, Antonine Maillet, Alberto Manguel and Michael Turner. When presented with the question - What are the great events in Canadian history? - they responded by travelling into the past to discover the moments that shaped our nation. 2001.Stories: Collected Stories
By Oscar Wilde. 1986
Does the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will he meet his match in…
the Otis family? Or will the rambunctious Otis children be the very death of him? The answers lie in these witty, hilarious tales. 1986. Uniform title: Short stories.Stories from the vinyl cafe
By Stuart McLean. 1995
This new collection of stories from McLean's CBC radio show "The Vinyl Cafe" features peculiarly Canadian traits, like shopping trips…
to the Bay, and a character who worries about being a hoser. The cast includes Margaret Dwyer, a suburban housewife who startles herself by shoplifting a pepperoni sausage, and record store owner Dave, whose humanity is challenged by a $563.30 bill for a sick guinea pig. Some strong language. 1995.Stones
By Timothy Findley. 1988
These nine stories, which are linked in various ways, look at urban life, relationships and, especially, obsessions. The collection closes…
with "Stones", a compelling look at the landing at Dieppe told through the eyes of a boy contemplating his father's ruined life.Stories of the old West: tales of the mining camp, cavalry troop, & cattle ranch
By John D Seelye. 1994
The literature of the old west is very old, but stories from the region only began to appear after the…
civil war, as the short story emerged as a major literary form and the west emerged as a separate, distinctly American culture. This collection brings together fifty of the best stories of the old west, by some of America's finest writers, including Bret Harte, Stephen Crane, Jack London and Mark Twain. 1994.Starry, starry night: Three Holiday Stories
By Lurlene McDaniel. 1998
Three short stories taking place at Christmas time. In "Christmas Child" a teenager confronts the death of her newborn sister.…
In "Last Dance" Brenda is confused by a cancer patient's love for her. In "Kathy's Life" Ellie learns to reject high school pettiness. Junior and senior high readers. 1998.Spinner's Inlet
By Don Hunter. 1989
Descendants of pioneer settlers, native Indians and more recent arrivals weave their way through these warm and witty short stories…
set in the fictional community of Spinner's Inlet in British Columbia's Gulf Islands. Nominated for the 1990 Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. c1989.Some of Eve's daughters (McCourt fiction series ; #3)
By Connie Gault. 1987
So beautiful: stories
By Ramona Dearing. 2004
A collection of stories that seem to be searching for justice. Includes stories about such characters as Lyle Margoulis, a…
man who is prompted to resume to search for his missing grandson after finding a body in a ravine; and a young woman who likes to punch people on the nose who learns that the man she admires spends time with her only because they live in isolated Labrador. 2004.Small change
By Elizabeth Hay. 1997
Sojourner's truth & other stories: First Nations Fiction
By Lee Maracle. 1990
Some of the kinder planets
By Tim Wynne-Jones. 1993
Collection of nine short stories takes the reader into an alternate universe of the mind. In "The Night of the…
Pomegranate," Harriet spends too much time outside looking at Mars instead of working on her solar system project. "The Hope Bakery" tells the tale of Sloane and his younger brother, Todd, and their strange trips into the woods. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1993.Standing on Richards
By George Bowering. 2004
A collection of fifteen short stories pushing the limits of storytelling and testing the boundaries of fiction. In "Standing on…
Richards," a man stands on a street corner beside women who are selling their bodies, attempting to seduce people so that he can sell his mind. In "Old Bottles," a woman thinks her neighbour is crazy because he replaces a hedge with a fence of old bottles. In a story entitled only "A Short Story," the writer challenges the conventions of storytelling, asking questions to the reader directly. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. 2004.Space odysseys: a new look at yesterday's futures
By Brian Wilson Aldiss. 1976
Sonny Liston was a friend of mine: stories
By Thom Jones. 1999
Twelve short stories about boxers, soldiers, cancer patients, and others down on their luck. In the title piece, Kid Dynamite,…
a losing welterweight boxer, persists in training just to remain in the world he knows. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 1999.Something out there
By Nadine Gordimer. 1984