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Across the bridge: stories
By Mavis Gallant. 1993
A twist in the tale: twelve short stories
By Jeffrey Archer. 1988
A dozen mysterious adventures ranging from a game of chess with a sexy stranger to a wine expert challenged to…
a tasting with a bizarre difference. The first story involves a man visiting his mistress; on arrival he sees her in the arms of another man, waits until he has gone and then begins an argument that ends in death. No one has seen him come or go. Has he just committed the perfect murder? 1988.The tent
By Margaret Atwood. 2006
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men…
and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation. 2006.Stone mattress: nine tales
By Margaret Atwood. 2014
In "Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on a storage locker has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman with…
a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth," we re-meet Tony, Charis, and Roz from "The Robber Bride", but, years later, as their nemesis is seen in an unexpected form. In "Torching the Dusties," an elderly lady with Charles Bonnet's syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is revenged in the Arctic. Bestseller. 2014.The doctor's sweetheart and other stories
By L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.The complete short stories: "the Hanging Garden", "beggars Banquet"
By Ian Rankin. 2005
Rankin's two critically acclaimed short story collections - A Good Hanging and Beggars Banquet - come together in one volume,…
along with Atonement - a new Rebus story, written especially for this collection. A Good Hanging contains twelve Inspector Rebus mysteries. Beggars Banquet contains twenty-one stories, ranging from suburban murders to the sinister workings of a serial killer's mind. 2005. Good hanging -- Beggars banquet -- Atonement. Playback -- Dean curse -- Being Frank -- Concrete evidence -- Seeing things -- Good hanging -- Tit for tat -- Not Provan -- Sunday -- Auld lang syne -- Gentlemen's club -- Monstrous trumpet -- Trip trap -- Someone got to Eddie -- Deep hole -- Natural selection -- Facing the music -- Principles of accounts -- Only true comedian --- Herbert in motion -- Glimmer -- Unlucky in love, unlucky at cards -- Video, nasty -- Talk show -- Castle dangerous -- Wider scheme -- Unknown pleasures -- In the frame -- Confession -- Hanged man -- Window of opportunity -- Serpent's back -- No sanity clause.True trash (Bloomsbury Classic Ser.)
By Margaret Atwood. 1991
Uncommon type: some stories
By Tom Hanks. 2017
Seventeen stories, each in some way involving a different typewriter (Hanks is an avid collector of vintage typewriters and owns…
over one hundred of them). The stories feature an immigrant arriving in New York City after his family and life have been torn apart by his country's civil war; a man who bowls a perfect game (and then another, and another), becoming ESPN's newest celebrity; an eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant on the hunt for something larger in America; and the junket life of an actor. Bestseller. 2017.Tiger, tiger
By Johanna Skibsrud. 2018
"Tiger, Tiger" takes readers from the Paradise Valley Senior Center parking lot all the way to Mars and explores the…
contradictions of our existence along the way. Readers are introduced to an astonishing array of characters that come up against the challenges of everyday life--both mundane and exceptional--and their experiences never fail to surprise and delight. Masterfully crafted and astonishingly wise, these are stories that explore the limits of human understanding, the future of mankind, and establish Skibsrud as a rare and exceptional talent. 2018. Uniform title: Short stories.All the beloved ghosts
By Alison MacLeod. 2017
In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new coat to…
a dance that will change everything. A teenager searches for his lover on a charged summer evening in 2011, as around him London erupts in anger. A cardiac specialist lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he awaits a new heart - and is transported to an attic room half a century ago. In an ancient Yorkshire churchyard, the author visits Sylvia Plath's grave and makes an unexpected connection across time. On a trip to Brighton, reluctant jihadists face the ultimate spiritual test. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury Group, is overcome by the past, all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. 2017.Thanks and giving all year long: Marlo Thomas and friends
By Marlo Thomas, Christopher Cerf. 2004
Selected stories
By Alice Munro. 1996
Twenty-eight short stories first published from 1961 through 1994 by the renowned Canadian writer. Lake Huron's small towns and farms…
provide the setting for stories that feature elaborate personalities in seemingly ordinary circumstances. Includes "Dance of the Happy Shades," "The Beggar Maid," "The Progress of Love," and "Vandals."Dressing up for the carnival
By Carol Shields. 2000
The facts behind the Helsinki Roccomatios
By Yann Martel. 2004
A Canadian student's life is changed when he hears the Rankin Concerto, written in honour of a Vietnam veteran; a…
prison warden reports to a mother on her son's last moments before he is executed; a surreal fable is presented in which mirrors are made from memories. In the title novella, Paul, a young man, is dying of AIDS, and his student mentor at college devises a plan to keep him engaged in life. They will invent the story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, which will have 100 chapters, each thematically linked to an event of the 20th century. Strong language. 2004, c1993.Ice cream
By Helen Dunmore. 2000
Innovative and yet masterfully controlled, sensuous and brilliant, "Ice cream" is a memorable collection of new stories. They range from…
Victorian tragedy to the tale of a dinner-lady's love, from the death of a lighthouse keeper's wife to the birth of babies from the Superstock catalogue. 2000.The Penguin book of contemporary Canadian women's short stories
By Lisa Moore. 2006
Featuring writings from the last two decades, which capture the paranoia of post-9/11, the white noise of the information age,…
dislocation, bomb scares, sexual freedom, aberration, fractured identities, awakenings of every sort, redemption, and love. Includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, and Eden Robinson. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.Vinyl Café diaries
By Stuart McLean. 2003
A look at the lives of the people on the Vinyl Café radio show. Includes answers to such questions as…
"What is Dave doing by himself in a Halifax hotel room with a duck?" and "Why is Morley skulking around with a man named Frank on the eve of her fortieth birthday?" 2003.75 short masterpieces: stories from the world's literature
By Roger B Goodman. 1996
Être un héros: des histoires de gars
By Deni Ellis Béchard. 2011
[...] Affronter le héros de l'histoire quon sécrit poser passer pour un lâche ; travailler, travailler, travailler un héros, il…
faut que ça travaille ; aller au bout de soi, quelle que soit lépoque ou le lieu ; prendre sa vie en main ; être intimement convaincu qu'un héros sommeille en nous, n'attendant que les circonstances pour se manifester [...]. Être un héros, cest tout ça. Du héros de papier au héros de l'histoire, du héros de tous les jours au héros dun soir, neuf auteurs de la relève déclinent ce thème avec sincérité et sérieux, mais aussi avec humour. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2011.Ï (i tréma): nouvelles et autres textes narratifs
By Gilles Pellerin. 2004
"La nuit sera froide et ma pensée accompagne, muette, un coeur chaud qui s'éloigne. Je referme la fenêtre. Et retourne…
dans les chambres des enfants déposer sur leurs joues endormies ce qui tient sur les lèvres quand on ne sait plus parler. Dans la dernière chambre je devine que Louise m'attend. Gilles Pellerin établissait dans Nous aurions un petit genre une équation entre brièveté et cruauté : la plus grande misère du protagoniste d'une nouvelle tient au fait qu'il ne dispose que de quelques pages pour agir. Ici, dans un recueil regroupant plus de quatre-vingts textes, le temps lui est forcément compté et les situations énigmatiques se multiplient : un jeune marié est jaloux de la mer, un voyageur s'étonne des moeurs étranges de ses hôtes, un divorcé amer propose à ses filles un jeu de poupées à l'image de leur maman, un angle meurt, une patiente fait antichambre dans un curieux cabinet médical... La rapidité d'exécution réclame une narration vigoureuse, qui sert à merveille les registres familiers de l'auteur : ici, l'absurde ; là, l'humour ; là encore, l'exubérance. Mais aussi cette touche de lyrisme au détour d'une page pour nous rappeler que du désordre peut naître la tendresse." -- 4e de couv.