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Silent cruise: stories
By Timothy L Taylor. 2002
A collection of short stories, including the Journey Prize-winning "Doves of Townsend". In the title story, a man obsessed by…
numbers is asked to apply the cascade of digits in his brain to a critical bet on the ponies. And in "Francisco's watch", a man inherits his father's 1934 Movado wristwatch, a gift that ends up telling a story of loss. Strong language. 2002.Screwjack (Classics library)
By Hunter S Thompson. 2013
Sightlines
By Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.Short and tall tales: Moose County legends collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran
By Lilian Jackson Braun. 2002
Short shorts: an anthology of the shortest stories
By Ilana Wiener Howe, Irving Howe. 1982
Short stories
By Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper. 1996
Forty-seven short stories by the noted African American author originally written between 1919 and 1963. The tales, arranged in chronological…
order, include those previously uncollected, such as his first stories (written while in high school) and other early works published in African American journals. Some strong language. 1996. Uniform title: Short stories.Sharpe's Christmas: two short stories
By Bernard Cornwell. 2003
Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stories, Sharpe's Christmas and Sharpe's Ransom. Sharpe's Christmas is set in 1813, towards the end…
of the Peninsular War and falls after "Sharpe's Regiment" (DC29839). Sharpe's Ransom is set in peacetime and provides a glimpse of Sharpe's life in Normandy with Lucille. 2003.Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
By Mark Duncan. 1988
Season of apples
By Ann Copeland. 1996
This collection of short stories, set in both Canada and the United States, deals with men and women struggling with…
the changes of life. The characters adapt and grow, often humorously, with courage and passion.Sense and nonsense (Jerome K. Jerome Ser.)
By Jerome K Jerome. 1991
This selection of stories includes the funniest episodes from "Three Men in a Boat" and "Three Men on the Bummel",…
as well as hilarious pieces from other works not currently in print. Those new to Jerome's work will delight in such minor comic masterpieces as 'The Polite Art of Buying Boots', 'The Man Who Was in Hospital', 'How to go to Bed in Germany' and 'How to be Healthy and Unhappy', while committed fans will rekindle forgotten pleasures. 1991.Scary stories: the complete 3-book audio collection
By Alvin Schwartz, George Irving. 2007
Ghoulish stories of ghosts and witches, startling "jump" stories, macabre songs, frightening legends, and modern-day horror stories. Tales of hauntings,…
walking corpses, dancing bones, vampires, monsters, and narrow escapes from death. Let the faint of heart beware! For grades 4-7 and older readers.Selected short stories: Selected Short Stories
By H. G Wells. 1970
Sans coeur et sans reproche: nouvelles
By Monique Proulx. 1993
Prix Adrienne-Choquette 1983. Grand Prix littérature du Journal de Montréal. Un recueil de quinze nouvelles apprécié pour sa "qualité d'émotion"…
et l'attention portée au choc ressenti par les adolescents qui entrent dans la vie adulte.Sans queue ni tête
By Jacques Pasquet. 1991
Sandhill County lines (Lone Star audio)
By Clay Reynolds. 2008
Sandhill County is the fictional Texas setting for these nine short stories that shine penetrating light on small lives. "The…
Baptism" features a solitary hardware store owner in the dust bowl of Agatite, Texas, who learns there are only two things certain in his world: death and Wal-Mart. In "Bush League," a jilted single mother meets an ex-boyfriend, now a sports agent; she wants revenge for their dirty, tacky little affair, and he wants to sign her baseball-prodigy son. 2008.Sap rising: Stories (Griot audio)
By Christine Lincoln. 2003
Through 12 expressive and haunting short stories, Lincoln explores the lives of an African American community in the South. Each…
of the families survives loss and disappointment, and through growth and change discovers its place in society. 2003.Savage love: stories
By Douglas H Glover. 2013
Peopled with forensic archaeologists, horoscope writers, dental hygienists, butchers — Glover's stories are of our time yet timeless; spectacular fables…
that stand in any era, any civilization. Whether we be sexually ambiguous librarians or desperadoes of the most despicable kind, the author exposes the humanity lurking behind our masks, and the perversities that underlie our actions. Includes sex. c2013.Saint-Laurent mon amour (Collection Chronique)
By Monique Durand. 2017
Saint-Laurent mon amour se présente sous la forme de récits composant autant de ses chapitres. Récits de vies, contemporaines ou…
anciennes. Portraits d'hommes et de femmes dont l'existence est emmaillée à lui, le fleuve. Ode aux gens simples, jamais en représentation d'eux-mêmes, offerts comme un grand livre dont les pages tournent avec le vent du large. 2017.Renaissance en Paganie: suivi de La vie partisane (Typo Ser.)
By Andrée Ferretti. 2005
"Renaissance en Paganie" compare et réunit les deux destins tragiques apparemment sans lien d'Hypatie d'Alexandrie, philosophe et mathématicienne du Ve…
siècle, et d'Hubert Aquin, écrivain du XXe siècle. "La vie partisane" présente neuf récits dont les personnages sont des femmes appartenant à différentes époques et cultures et vivant en parfaite connivence avec leur temps. 2005.Rien que la vie: [nouvelles]
By Alice Munro. 2014
Alice Munro nous emporte avec ses personnages jusqu'aux moments charnières de leurs existences, là où tout peut basculer : une…
mère perd la trace de son enfant, un soldat saute inopinément du train qui le ramène chez lui, une jeune institutrice part enseigner dans un sanatorium reculé, une femme perdue se lie à un inconnu… Le hasard des rencontres, l'étrangeté des actes manqués, les coups funestes du destin, autant de lignes de force que Munro ausculte et nous restitue avec la grâce d'un « Tchekhov de notre temps ». Pour la première fois, elle se confie également sur sa propre vie dans la dernière partie du recueil. Alice Munro est, plus que jamais, l'écrivain de l’âme humaine. 2014.