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Home Schooling: Stories
By Carol Windley. 2006
From the acclaimed author of Visible Light comes a collection of seven outstanding stories, each set against the rural landscape…
of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. In these stories the memories and dreams of characters are examined, revealing them to be both cages and keys to the cages. The life lessons learned by the characters are often as complicated and painful as they are illuminating. In the title story, two sisters fall in love with their math tutor on one of the Gulf Islands, inhabited equally by the ghosts of the misfits and Hollywood stars who came to live there, and the children of an alternative school, run by the girls’ criminally optimistic father. In “Sand and Frost,” a young girl drops out of UBC, returns home, and discovers that her domineering grandmother is the sole survivor of a shocking act of family violence. In “What Saffi Knows,” a child, unable to explain to her self-involved parents, struggles with the knowledge of the whereabouts of another missing child. In these remarkable seven stories, Carol Windley creates a sense of place and of people that breathe the cool wet air of a spring morning on Gabriola Island.Life Without Death
By Peter Unwin. 2013
In Life Without Death, the latest short story collection from Peter Unwin, ordinary men and women search for meaning in…
lives subject to change, chance, coincidence, and catastrophe. A man recalls a lifetime of love and loss while copying contacts out of his old little black book. A woman is left her dying father's secret stash of pornography, and is entrusted with the unenviable task of disposing of it. A new father unexpectedly discovers a way of connecting to his autistic son. For one day, guests to a wedding set aside their various past misdeeds in order to celebrate a young couple's union. A teenager newly introduced to a life of petty crime suddenly finds himself in way over his head. A man's former acquaintance resurfaces decades later as the subject of a haunting art film. Unwin's characters live full, complex lives within each story. Though they may not find the simple answers they seek, if such answers even exist, they-and readers-gain something farmore valuable on their journeys: perspective.The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society: Stories
By Christine Estima. 2023
Arkansas: Three Novellas
By David Leavitt. 1998
Three &“sly, self-knowing, and hilarious&” novellas from the highly acclaimed author of The Lost Language of Cranes (The New York…
Times). Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In &“Saturn Street,&” a disaffected LA screenwriter delivers lunches to homebound AIDS patients, only to find himself falling in love with one of them. In &“The Wooden Anniversary,&” Nathan and Celia—familiar characters from Leavitt&’s story collections—reunite after a five-year separation. And in "The Term-Paper Artist," a writer named David Leavitt, hiding out at his father&’s house in the aftermath of a publishing scandal, experiences literary rejuvenation when he agrees to write term papers for UCLA undergraduates in exchange for sex. &“Confessional, audacious and outrageous . . . This is classic Leavitt—writing with subtlety, maturity and compassion about the complexity and fragility of human relationships.&” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewWalter Benjamin Stares at the Sea
By C. D. Rose. 2023
&“A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino&’s &“If on a Winter&’s Night a Traveler,&” Nabokov&’s &“Pale…
Fire&”, and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.&” — Michael Dirda, The Washington PostA collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form …Perfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortázar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 dreamlike tales.Welcome to the fictional universe of C. D. Rose, whose stories seem to be set in some unidentifiable but vaguely Mitteleuropean nation, and likewise have an uncanny sense of timelessness — the time could be some cobblestoned Victorian past era, or the present, or even the future.A journalist&’s interview with an artist turns into a dizzying roundelay of memory and image. Two Russian brothers, one blind and one deaf, build an intricate model town during an interminable train ride across the steppe. An annotated discography for the works of a long-lost silent film star turns into a mysterious document of obsession. Three Russian sailors must find ways to pass the time on a freighter orphaned in a foreign port. A forgotten composer enters a nostalgic dream-world while marking time in a decaying Romanian seaport.In these 19 dreamlike tales, ghosts of the past mingle with the quiddities of modernity in a bewitching stew where lost masterpieces surface with translations in an invisible language, where image and photograph become mystically entwined, and where the very nature of reality takes on a shimmering sense of possibility and illusion.&“Every madness is logical to its owner,&” one of Rose&’s characters says. And it is that line — between logic and madness — that Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea walks with such assuredness and imagination.The Lives of Rocks: Stories
By Rick Bass. 2006
&“Stop-in-your-tracks short stories&” of survival, sorrows, and the power of our connection to the earth (Booklist, starred review). A New…
York Times Book Review Editors&’ Choice A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year Finalist for the Story Prize At once expertly crafted and undeniably moving, these ten stories deftly explore our immutable connection with nature. The centerpiece of the collection is the arresting title story, in which a woman alone in her mountain cabin confronts a terminal illness. In the equally remarkable &“Her First Elk,&” the same character recalls her most memorable and significant hunting experience. Set in locations ranging from Montana to Texas to Mississippi, the remaining stories further illuminate the consequences of our attitudes toward the environment and each other. This masterly collection lays bare the essentials of life with unparalleled passion and grace. &“Bass captures quiet human truths amidst his astonishing portraits of life in the wilderness.&” —People &“Nature is as much a character in this sterling collection . . . .as are any of the oddly off-center but otherwise endearing people who inhabit it.&” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) &“Digs deeply into the geology of the human condition . . . highly polished gems.&” —Seattle Times &“One of this country&’s most intelligent and sensitive short-story writers.&” —The New York Times Book ReviewAbout Time: 12 Short Stories
By Jack Finney. 1957
About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time…
classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape—through time travel—doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Volume 2--Scum and Villainy
By Michael Moreci, Amanda Deibert, Cecil Castellucci. 2024
Beware the power of the Dark Side!From one end of the galaxy to the other, the forces of evil grow…
stronger. Criminal syndicates scheme in the shadows, while vicious bounty hunters track down the guilty and innocent alike. And from the height of the Clone Wars to the darkest days of the Resistance, the agents and acolytes of the Sith work tirelessly to enact the dark will of their shadowy masters.Dark Horse comics presents four tales of scum and villainy, in Hyperspace Stories Volume 2!Collects Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories #5–#8.Harbor Lights: A collection of stories by James Lee Burke
By James Lee Burke. 2024
A story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella.These…
eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge.With his nuanced characters, lyrical prose, and ability to write shocking violence in the most evocative settings, James Lee Burke's singular skills are on display in this superb anthology. PRAISE FOR JAMES LEE BURKE, THE AWARD-WINNING KING OF SOUTHERN NOIR:'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed' Michael Connelly'A gorgeous prose stylist' Stephen King'No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists' Daily MailSince its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do.…
Lynn Johnston's eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The comic strip now appears in 1,550 papers in the U.S. and Canada. Read by people of all ages, the award-winning For Better or For Worse deals honestly with both the light-hearted and the serious, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!Only Home with You (Blue Cedar Falls #1.5)
By Jeannie Chin. 2022
A "must-read voice in romance" (Christina Lauren,New York Times bestselling author) presents a sweet second-chance novella between a free-spirited accountant…
and her brother's best friend.Zoe Leung allowed her mother to pressure her into a safe, stable career path, but her job search has hit a dead end, and now she doesn&’t know what to do with her life. She fills her days with waitressing and volunteering at Harvest Home, her uncle&’s food bank and soup kitchen, while waiting for inspiration to strike. And if she also flirts with fellow volunteer—and her older brother&’s best friend—Devin James, who can blame her? He&’s only the subject of her lifelong crush. And finally looking at her like he returns the sentiment.Construction worker Devin James has always thought Zoe was gorgeous, but he doesn&’t want to jeopardize his friendship with her brother, or her family, who all but took him in when he was younger. But as much as he plans to stay focused on building his dream house, he can&’t stop thinking about Zoe. And the more time he spends with her, the more he realizes that the only home he wants is one with her.Mel's Story: Surviving Military Sexual Assault (Doonesbury #35)
By G. Trudeau. 2014
"An estimated 19,000 rapes and sexual assaults took place in the military last year. Every one of them represents a…
monstrous crime made much worse by the sense of betrayal that accompanied it. That so few victims--just one in seven--report these crimes underscores the utter lack of trust that pervades military culture."-- Retired Gen. Loree Sutton and Garry Trudeau, in a Washington Post OpEd, June 29, 2013The first time B.D. encounters command-rape survivor Melissa Wheeler in the waiting room at the VA Center, he has no idea what to make of the scowling former chopper mechanic. But in the months that follow, witnessing Mel's pain and her healing process help him with his own, and B.D. ends up a staunch and encouraging ally.With the help of VA counselors Cora and Elias, Wheeler is able to reframe her experience and move forward to the point where she re-ups and re-deploys, though the trauma and betrayal continue to haunt her. She and battlebud Roz masterfully manage a perilous rescue op of a downed USO chopper, and in the new post-DADT world the now-out Roz and her now-superior ("That's SERGEANT bitch to you!") help wind down US ops in Afghanistan. Returning stateside, Mel's final obstacle is her father's cluelessness--and a widespread reluctance to hear the truth of her story.As always, Trudeau manages to find humor and humanity in even a tale of suffering, and sheds serious light on one of the most pressing and undermining problems in our military today.Binge Parenting: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Collection)
By Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott. 2017
In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with…
perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, and Wren.Baby Blues expertly illustrates why Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and an unplanned visit to the dentist or auto mechanic occurs just when the bills seem to be caught up.Baby Blues transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott with familiar family life. Inside this annotated collection, Kirkman and Scott intuitively balance the humorous with the poignant though relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes.I'm Gluten Furious: A Get Fuzzy Treasury (Get Fuzzy #24)
By Darby Conley. 2016
Everything in moderation . . . The Get Fuzzy gang is back, and they&’re leaner and meaner than ever.…
Bucky Katt (mastermind of mayhem) is on a steady diet of raw bacon, Beluga nut crunch, and carpa-cola in order to fit into his El Megaroid superhero suit—oatmeal cans are very slimming these days. The hapless and hopeless Satchel Pooch is in the kitchen perfecting his recipe for rubber chicken l&’orange in a crayon/marker reduction sauce. And poor Rob, the vegetarian and &”owner&” of the bunch, is scrounging for scraps in the midst of this gastronomical fury. Delicious and satisfying, this treasury of cartoons features a healthy serving of favorites from Clean Up on Aisle Stupid! and You Can&’t Fight Crazy. Don&’t feel guilty for polishing it off in one sitting. Honestly… . . . moderation is overrated.Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump (Doonesbury Ser. #37)
By G. B. Trudeau. 2016
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER!He tried to warn us. Ever since the release of the first Trump-for-President trial balloon…
in 1987, Doonesbury&’s Garry Trudeau has tirelessly tracked and highlighted the unsavory career of the most unqualified candidate to ever aspire to the White House. It&’s all there—the hilarious narcissism, the schoolyard bullying, the loathsome misogyny, the breathtaking ignorance; and a good portion of the Doonesbury cast has been tangled up in it. Join Duke, Honey, Earl, J.J., Mike, Mark, Roland, Boopsie, B.D., Sal, Alice, Elmont, Sid, Zonker, Sam, Bernie, Rev. Sloan, and even the Red Rascal as they cross storylines with the big, orange airhorn who&’s giving the GOP such fits.Garry Trudeau is the &“sleazeball&” &“third-rate talent&” who draws the &“overrated&” comic strip Doonesbury, which &“very few people read.&” He lives in New York City with his wife Jane Pauley, who &“has far more talent than he has."Man, I Hate Cursive: Cartoons for People and Advanced Bears
By Jim Benton. 2016
Jim Benton's first cartoon collection was nominated for an Eisner. This new volume collects more of Jim's most popular strips…
from Reddit, shining a light on talking animals, relationships, fart jokes, and death. From whimsical to cutting, from gross to poignant, Benton's grasp of the form is on full and hilarious display.BB3X: Baby Blues: The Third Decade (Baby Blues Collection #37)
By Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott. 2020
BB3X is a special Baby Blues treasury that celebrates three decades of one of the most heartwarming, funny, and true-to-life…
depictions of raising children ever seen in the funny pages. In addition to a year's worth of Baby Blues comics, this special collection sheds light on the unique collaborative process of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott, whose cartooning magic has helped transform some of the most stressful moments in life into some of the most hilarious. The book includes a forward from Rick, a reflection by Jerry, and a special "scrapbook" section of archival photographs, memorabilia, and illustrations from the duo's three decades of Baby Blues collaboration.Gross!: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Collection #40)
By Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott. 2016
For more than 25 years, the MacPherson family has brought the joy, humor, and poignancy of raising three children to…
funny pages worldwide in the popular comic strip, Baby Blues. Gross! reveals the sticky underbelly of parenting, shining a comedic light on everything from dealing with picky eaters to too much screen time. From gargantuan messes to legendary sibling disputes, readers will love following along as the MacPhersons--Darryl, Wanda, and children Zoe, Hammie, and Wren--overcome many of life's hurdles.Gross! offers a perceptive glimpse into the lives of modern parents, complemented by witty and informative commentary from the co-creators themselves. This collection will appeal to anyone who has kids or who remembers what it was like to be one.Catabunga!: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Get Fuzzy)
By Darby Conley. 2017
Our tough-as-nails crew has been assembled. Bucky Katt has a plan to take out the ferrets next door, and it…
will require all of his powers of disguise and stealth to get the job done. Satchel Pooch is going on the offense and channeling his inner assault-broccoli to defeat the vegetables before they defeat him. And Rob, the unofficial peacekeeper, is left to clean up the aftermath before the whole thing becomes an international incident. Packed with intrigue, covert aggression, and domestic warfare, Catabunga! is an all-out battle of wit and words that&’s not to be missed.War by Candlelight: Stories
By Daniel Alarcon. 2005
Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war…
and economic crises -- simply put, our world is changing.In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. These are lives at the margins of the globalized and not-yet-globalized worlds, the stories of those who shuttle between them and never quite feel at home in the cities where they were born: an unrepentant terrorist remembers where it all began, a would-be emigrant contemplates the ramifications of leaving and never coming back, a reporter turns in his pad and pencil for the inglorious costume of a street clown.War by Candlelight is a devastating portrait ofa world in flux, and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.