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The Dancing sun: a celebration of Canadian children
By Jan Andrews. 1981
A Christmas to remember: an anthology (Avon romance)
By Lisa Kleypas, Lorraine Heath, Vivienne Lorret, Megan Frampton. 2017
Four holiday short stories from popular historical romance writers, originally written between 2001 and 2015. Includes "I Will" by Lisa…
Kleypas, about a man who blackmails a spinster into a pretend courtship. Other authors include Lorraine Heath, Megan Frampton, and Vivienne Lorret. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2017Galway Bay
By Mary Pat Kelly. 2011
1839. Soon after Honora Keeley is accepted to the convent, she meets Michael Kelly and they fall in love. As…
the Great Starvation sweeps across Ireland, they struggle to feed their growing family. Then, an opportunity to immigrate to America is offered to them. Conflict follows the family. Some violence. 2009Mistletoe christmas: An anthology
By Eloisa James. 2021
From four beloved writers—Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley—come four original stories that tell a hilarious tale…
of a Christmas house party that serves up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of Greystoke's Christmas Revelry is famous throughout the British Isles for its plays, dancing, magical grotto... not to mention scandals leading to the marriage licenses he hands out like confetti. But not everyone welcomes a visit from Cupid. Lady Cressida, the duke's daughter, is too busy managing the entertainments—and besides, her own father has called her dowdy. Her cousin, Lady Isabelle Wilkshire, is directing Cinderella and has no interest in marriage. Lady Caroline Whitmore is already (unhappily) married; the fact that she and her estranged husband have to pretend to be together just makes her dread the party all the more. But not as much as Miss Louisa Harcourt, whose mother bluntly tells her that this is her last chance to escape the horrors of being an old maid. A house party so large that mothers lose track of their charges leads to a delightful, seductive quartet of stories that you will savor for the Season!Have you seen Luis Velez?: a novel
By Catherine Ryan Hyde. 2019
Teenager Raymond leads a lonely life, shuttling between the homes of his divorced parents. Millie, an elderly blind woman who…
lives in his mother's building, asks him if he has seen the man who was her caretaker. He starts helping Millie, and looking for the missing Luis Velez. 2019Four weddings and a sixpence: an anthology
By Elizabeth Boyle, Julia Quinn, Laura Lee Guhrke, Stefanie Sloane. 2017
A collection of novellas from popular historical romance authors. Four friends at boarding school find an old sixpence coin in…
a mattress. They decide that it will be their lucky charm, helping each find true love and the perfect husband. Some descriptions of sex. 2017Flame tree road
By Shona Patel. 2015
When Biren Roy's father dies at the age of thirty-four, young Biren decides to study to become a lawyer to…
advocate for and protect the interests of his now-widowed mother. He grows up and must navigate the divergent cultures of Britain and Bengal. 2015African stories
By Doris Lessing. 2014
Nobel Prize winner Lessing spent twenty-five years in Africa, writing about the land and people she loved. This collection, originally…
published in 1964 and long out of print, gathers all of her short stories set on the continent and includes four stories never before anthologized. 1964The farmer's bride collection: 6 Romances Spring from Hearts, Home, and Harvest
By Kimberley Comeaux, Debby Mayne, Susan Downs, Susan K. Downs, DiAnn Mills, JoAnn A. Grote, Ellen Edwards Kennedy. 2013
Novellas from six authors explore romance on the homestead. In Grote's A Homesteader, a Bride, and a Baby, set in…
1878 Minnesota, Lorette arrives for a visit with her sister's family only to find that they have all recently died from diphtheria--except for the baby. 2000Teatime for the firefly
By Shona Patel. 2013
India, 1943. Seventeen-year-old Layla Roy has been taught the value of education and independence by her grandfather Dadamoshai. She falls…
in love, marries, and learns to navigate life as the effects of World War II reverberate through the country. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2013Amor (Vintage Espanol Ser.)
By Isabel Allende. 2013
Chilean author compiles selections from her novels that deal with the various facets of love, including first love, passion, jealousy,…
magic, and maturity. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2012The Anchor book of modern Arabic fiction
By Denys Johnson-Davies. 2006
English translation of Arabic short stories and excerpts from novels by seventy-nine writers from fourteen countries--from Morocco in the west…
to Iraq in the east. Brief author profiles precede entries. Features "A Man of Letters" by Egyptian Taha Hussein, who has been blind since early childhood. 2006Lighthead: Poems (Penguin poets)
By Terrance Hayes. 2010
The fourth collection by the author portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Hayes…
navigates melancholy, irreverence, and the sublime, and cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. Award winner. Strong language, some violence, some descriptions of sex. 2010The partition
By Don Lee. 2022
A thrilling new story collection from acclaimed writer Don Lee exploring Asian American identity, spanning decades and continents. "The Partition…
is flat-out brilliant: a witty, kaleidoscopic tear through questions of race and identity in America today by a writer who has wrought luminous fiction from these issues for years. Don Lee's collection offers vivid, entertaining proof that ethnicity is never straightforward or easy—no matter who we are, or where we stand." —Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad "I'm a huge Don Lee fan. He's smart, wry, funny. There's also his humane view of humans, and the startling fairness with which he provides everyone's point of view. I admire the graceful way his stories unfold, as if their pleats are intrinsic, once we stop to notice desire's contradictions, and life's wrinkles." —Ann Beattie, author of A Wonderful Stroke of Luck Twenty-one years after the publication of his landmark debut collection Yellow, Don Lee returns to the short story form for his sixth book, The Partition. The Partition is an updated exploration of Asian American identity, this time with characters who are presumptive model minorities in the arts, academia, and media. Spanning decades, these nine novelistic stories traverse an array of cities, from Tokyo to Boston, Honolulu to El Paso, touching upon transient encounters in local bars, restaurants, and hotels. Culminating in a three-story cycle about a Hollywood actor, The Partition incisively examines heartbreak, identity, family, and relationships, the characters searching for answers to universal questions: Where do I belong? How can I find love? What defines an authentic self?My heroes have always been cowboys
By Lorraine Heath, Georgina Gentry, Teresa Bodwell. 2006
Three western romances. In Georgina Gentry's "The Great Cowboy Race," heiress Henrietta Jennings enters a thousand-mile horse race from Nebraska…
to Illinois and falls for her toughest competitor, wrangler Comanche Jones. Also includes Teresa Bodwell's "Moonlight Whispers" and Lorraine Heath's "The Reluctant Hero." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Hanukkah lights: stories of the season : from NPR's annual holiday special
By Media Melcher, Sandra Dionisi. 2005
Twelve stories celebrating Hanukkah by contemporary authors Myra Goldberg, Daniel Pinkwater, Harlan Ellison, Dani Shapiro, Elie Wiesel, Mark Helprin, and…
others. In Anne Roiphe's "The Demon Foiled," a new Jewish mayor attempts to light the family Hanukkah candles while he is being filmed for local TV. 2005The Vintage book of Latin American stories
By Carlos Fuentes, Julio Ortega. 2000
Anthology of thirty-nine short stories from various Latin American countries. Includes old masters of the form such as Jorge Luis…
Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Gabriel García Márquez and recent authors Fernando Ampuero, Juan Villoro, and Rodrigo Fresán. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1998A Regency valentine: five stories (Super Regency, Signet Ser. #1)
By Mary Balogh, Patricia Rice, Joan Wolf, Katherine Kingsley, Emma Lange. 1991
Mary Balogh's Golden Rose features a masked Valentine's Day ball at Bath. Gentlemen are to send anonymous valentines to the…
ladies they want to meet at the dance. Katherine Kingsley, Emma Lange, Patricia Rice, and Joan Wolf contribute four other regency valentine romance novellas: The Secret Benefactor, Lady Valentine's Scheme, Fathers and Daughters, and The AntagonistsThe Journey Prize Stories 33: The Best of Canada's New Black Writers
By Esi Edugyan, Canisia Lubrin. 2023
This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty…
years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by celebrating the best emerging Black writers in the country, as selected by a jury comprising internationally acclaimed, award-winning writers David Chariandy, Esi Edugyan, and Canisia Lubrin. An eagle-eyed mother and a hungry child contend with the aftereffects of an unusual multi-course meal. Both the debts of the past and the promise of the future hover over two siblings as they debate what to do with an unexpected windfall. A pesky but beloved baboon looms large in the memory of a daughter whose family has been forced to move to a new town. Unclear boundaries and cheerful hypocrisy dominate a woman’s whirlwind romance with a photographer. A schoolgirl contends with complicated emotions as she awaits the return of her long-absent mother. News of a hunter’s death reverberates throughout his family, travelling across oceans and phonelines to trouble his cousin’s already-shaky relationship. An office worker joins a lost grandmother on an unexpected pilgrimage. After years away, a woman journeys back to Jamaica—and back to the sister who refused to leave with her—stirring up insecurities, laughter, and wounds unhealed by time. All the instructions in the world cannot protect a family from the impacts of grief. The only Black girls in school experiment with what it means to be a lady when you’re not yet a woman.A day of fire: A novel of pompeii
By Kate Quinn. 2023
From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of…
those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain's wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii's flourishing streets. An heiress dreads her wedding day, not knowing it will be swallowed by fire. An ex-legionary stakes his entire future on a gladiator bout destined never to be finished. A crippled senator welcomes death, until a tomboy on horseback comes to his rescue. A young mother faces an impossible choice for her unborn child as the ash falls. A priestess and a prostitute seek redemption and resurrection as the town is buried. Six authors bring to life overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each other's paths during Pompeii's fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity? Text copyright 2023 by Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane, Eliza Knight, Sophie Perinot, Kate Quinn, Victoria Alvear, and Michelle Moran