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The year's best fantasy and horror: twelfth annual collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ser.)
By Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling. 1999
Collection of thirty-eight stories and eight poems covering a range from fairy tales to gothic horror. Authors include: Kelly Link,…
Stephen King, Jane Yolen, Steven Millhauser, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Straub, Charles de Lint, Ilan Stavans, and A.S. Byatt. 1999The camp robber and other stories
By Zane Grey. 1979
Collection of six western short stories. In the title story, a new ranch hand, Wingfield, is accused when the payroll…
is missing. Wingfield follows tracks to a remote cabin to find not only the stolen money but also a missing piece of his lifeWáchale!: poetry and prose about growing up Latino in America
By Ilan Stavans. 2001
A mosaic of writings about the Hispanic experience in the United States. Selected memoirs, poems, and stories "from different national…
groups, different backgrounds, and...different generations" are presented in English, Spanish, and Spanglish--a hybrid way of communicating. For grades 6-9. 2001The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 1999 / XXIII (Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses #23)
By Bill Henderson, Henderson, Prize Pushcart. 1999
Sixty-eight selections--essays, poems, and short stories--from forty-two publishers. Contains works by both little-known and famous writers. Andre Dubus reflects on…
teaching Hemingway's "In Another Country." Joyce Carol Oates's "Faithless" depicts two girls whose mother has disappeared. Also includes a poem by Edward Hirsch, "The Lectures on Love." Some strong languageThe best of O. Henry (Courage classics)
By O Henry, O. Henry. 1992
Twenty-six short stories, originally published in the New York World newspaper, about city life in the early 1900s. Includes such…
well-known tales as "Gift of the Magi" and less familiar ones, such as "Memories of a Yellow Dog." While their themes vary, the stories share O. Henry's incisive humor, irony, and pathosThe Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 1996 / XX (Pushcart Prize Ser.)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 1995
Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming…
authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's "Inferno" and Eileen Pollack's "Milk." Descriptions of sex and some strong languageRainy day: stories and poems
By Caroline Feller Bauer, Michele Chessare. 1986
The portable Walt Whitman
By Walt Whitman. 1959
Anthology of prose and poetry by the nineteenth-century American poet. Includes selections from 'Leaves of Grass,' 'Specimen Days', 'Democratic Vistas,'…
and much of 'A Backward Glance o'er Traveled Roads,' with an introduction by editor Mark Van DorenSeptuagenarian stew: stories & poems
By Charles Bukowski. 2009
Collection of short stories and poems by the author of Hollywood (DB 85240) and On Writing (DB 84046) exploring the…
lives of those who live in the backstreets of Los Angeles. In "I like your books," a gambler deals with an overly inquisitive person. Violence and strong language. 2007Relations: An anthology of african and diaspora voices
By Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. 2023
Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Relations punctures the…
human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared humanity despite differences in language, identity, class, gender, and beyond. This vital anthology is Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's striking vision of a meeting place of perspectives, centered in the African and diaspora experience. In a post-Black Panther world, it is an urgent and welcome embrace of the diversity of Blackness. A refreshing collection of genre-spanning literature, it offers a vibrant meditation on being—inviting connection across real and imagined borders, and celebration of the most profound relations. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobookEl deli latino: prosa y poesía
By Judith Ortiz Cofer, Elena Olazagasti-Segovia. 2006
This prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican…
immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." Some descriptions of sex. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Spanish language. 2006Giants in the earth: the California redwoods
By Peter Johnstone, Peter E. Palmquist. 2001
Literary anthology of stories, poems, natural history compositions, and articles selected from three hundred years of writing about the California…
redwoods. Authors Walt Whitman, John Muir, Jack London, Tom Wolfe, Armistead Maupin, and others who visited the groves felt inspired to write about their experiences and feelingsBehind our eyes: stories, poems and essays by writers with disabilities
By Sanford Rosenthal, Executive Director, Editor Marilyn Smith. 2007
Twenty-seven contributors, many blind, express their experiences dealing with everyday situations and emotions. In "Her Day Versus My Day," a…
twenty-five-year-old suffers a stroke. In "Rebel with a Cane," a thirteen-year-old who is blind defies her overprotective parents and walks home alone from school. 2007Thirteen short, humorous, rhyming stories in two voices, for beginning readers or for a child and an adult. Intended to…
celebrate the joys of reading together, the stories are about "cats and puppies, bears and mice, snakes, telephones, snowmen, birthdays, friendships and more." For grades K-3. 2001Here there be unicorns
By Jane Yolen. 1994
This collection of eight poems and ten stories relates tales of the well-known mystical beast in both medieval and traditional…
settings. The story "Unicorn Tapestry" was inspired by two famous unicorn tapestries, the Hunt of the Unicorn and the Lady with the Unicorn. For grades 4-7 and older readersHere there be dragons
By Jane Yolen. 1993
Five poems and eight stories about dragons by Jane Yolen, who precedes each with an introductory note about the piece.…
The collection includes "Why Dragons?" "The Dragon's Boy," "The Making of Dragons," and "Here There Be Dragons." For grades 4-7 and older readersIl y a des joies dont on ignore l'existence
By Cato Fortin. 2022
Une jeune femme adoptée par un couple de Québécois qui trouve du réconfort dans un restaurant, une enseignante de Montréal-Nord…
qui reconnecte avec ses racines grâce à ses élèves, deux femmes qui trouvent l'amour aux abords de la 40, une famille choisie qui imagine une maison de retraite en Gaspésie, un-e poète qui partage des portraits de ses ami-es, une religieuse qui joue au ballon-chasseur, une enfant qui apprend à retirer son nom de la bouche des autres, une fille qui trône sur une charrette, des chants religieux qui nous ramènent à la maison, la tête qui nous tourne dans une quinceañera, un périple depuis la plage vers Hochelaga, une série de réflexions sur notre rapport au mondeFarmer's garden: rhymes for two voices
By David L Harrison. 2000
Tun-ta-ca-tun: more stories and poems in English and Spanish for children
By Sylvia C. Pena. 1986
Opens the door to the world of literature for English and Spanish speaking children of pre-school to young adult reading…
levels. The collection of short stories and poems is designed to stimulate children's imagination and creativity, as well as their linguistic mastery and reading skills. It reflects the characters, themes and customs specific to Hispanic culture in the United States. For preschool to grade 2. Unrated. Bilingual: English and SpanishAn annual collection of short stories, essays, and poetry published in magazines and by small presses. In "Grounded," a mother…
joins her son, who is running away from home. In "Oxygen," a man recalls one summer he spent delivering oxygen tanks to dying people. Descriptions of sex and strong language