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By Ian Hamilton. 2022
By Christine Estima. 2023
By Kangni Alemdjrodo. 2006
[...] Les femmes, la vie, les surprises des voyages... Le fil conducteur qui relie les nouvelles de Kangni Alem a…
pour texture la nostalgie, servie par une langue en liberté totale et une conscience politique toujours à l'affût. -- 4e de couvBy 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.By Claudia Larochelle. 2011
"Jeunes, moins jeunes ou bien installées dans la vieillesse, les femmes dépeintes par Claudia Larochelle marchent en talons sur le…
fil de fer tendu au-dessus de l'abîme. Travaillées au ventre par le désir ou la solitude, par l'absence ou la promesse de maternité, par l'abandon et par le temps ravageur que des couches infinies de fard ne peuvent contrer, elles offrent au monde le visage de la passion et du désespoir combinés, la tension sous la beauté, et le carnage sous le visage peint. Ces femmes sont champs de bataille." -- 4e de couvBy David A Adler. 1980
Eric Shelton is planning to enter the Junior News Photography Contest, and his friend Cam is helping him search for…
a subject. When mysterious lights appear floating above the trees, Eric snaps away and Cam puts her photographic memory to use. Is the U.F.O. real or only a prank? Cam and Eric decide to find out. For grades 3-6By William Trevor. 1967
A collection of 12 short stories by an Irish-born writer. They focus on misfits, dealing with a bore harrassed by…
an inebriated woman at a cocktail party, a general's alcoholic dreams of the past, and a couple who maintain a myth of a child they don't haveBy David A Adler. 1984
Cam, her parents, and her friend Eric go to the theater on Sunday afternoon to see "Shoe Escape." The first…
half is great, but the second half is...missing! The manager is convinced that Mr. Bender's Bargain theater took it. But Cam's photographic memory tells her that it was really someone else. The police are on the way to arrest Mr. Bender. Will Cam be able to find the real thief in time? For grades 3-5By Daphne Du Maurier. 1976
By David A Adler. 1981
As Cam, her friend Eric, and Eric's twin sisters Donna and Diane wait in line at Lee's Bookstore for an…
autograph by Poochie, the famous television dog, a suspicious-looking man in line just ahead is holding a dog that looks exactly like Poochie. After a commotion, Cam's photographic memory tells her that the dogs have been switched. Will Cam, Eric, Donna, and Diane be able to rescue the real Poochie? For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1982
On the way to school with their science fair projects, Cam and her friend Eric stop so that Cam can…
take a picture with her homemade box camera of Eric with his big wooden sundial. A man in a red plaid shirt leaves the coin shop where they are standing, and rudely bumps into Cam. When her box camera disappears from the science fair, and two valuable gold coins vanish from the coin shop, Cam and Eric must use their sleuthing skills to solve both crimes. For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1980
While sitting on a bench in the shopping mall, Cam Jansen and her friend Eric see a tall, heavy man…
with a mustache run from Parker's Jewelry Store just as the burglar alarm sounds. When the police capture him, the witnesses inside the store are sure that it is the wrong man. Can Cam's photographic memory help to capture the real thieves? For grades 3-5By Isaac Asimov. 1950
Nine short stories about human-like robots and robot-like humans in which two young engineers who work as trouble-shooters on space…
stations have difficulty keeping one jump ahead of their robot chargesBy David A Adler. 1982
At the community hobby show Cam and Eric, her friend, test her photographic memory at the Babe Ruth exhibit. When…
the prized item, a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth, turns up missing, Cam's memory is put to a real-life test as she and Eric become super-sleuths in search of the thief. For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1984
Cam, her friend Eric, and Eric's twin sisters Donna and Diane are anxious to test their luck and have fun…
at Button Jar Guess, Water Gun Shoot, Beanbag Toss, and the other booths at the fifth-grade carnival. Cam and Eric soon become suspicious when the same boy and girl keep winning the prizes at the Dime Toss booth, while the other children are loosing. Will Cam's photographic memory help them to find the real winners and loser? For grade 3-5By Caroline B Cooney. 1988
Sixteen-year-old Kelly and her best friend Faith are ready and waiting for romance. Kelly watches the love lives of her…
older brother, her friends, and even her parents, and develops a board game which she calls Romance. Her game is a big success, but when Will comes into her life, she finds that real romance is a lot more complicated. Easy reading for junior and senior high readersBy David A Adler. 1981
When Cam and her friend Eric visit the museum with their class, Cam's photographic memory tells her that something is…
wrong with the Coelophysis dinosaur skeleton. Ms. Tyler, the museum guide, and even the museum director tell her that she is wrong. When Cam and Eric see an off-brand milk truck mysteriously making an evening pick-up, they are soon on their way to finding the missing bones and the culprits. For grades 3-5Stories about young black people who are growing up in different parts of the world. In "Dreaming the Sky Down,"…
a plump, awkward British girl faces her gym teacher's taunts by day, while at night she flies gracefully in her dreams. But is she really dreaming? Barbados, the United States, Jamaica, and South Africa are the settings for other stories. Some strong language. For grades 5-8By Roald Dahl. 1960
A collection of eleven macabre but humorous stories from the late master storyteller. Includes "Edward the Conqueror," "Georgy Porgy," and…
"The Way Up to Heaven." For junior and senior high and older readersBy Reading Rainbow Readers. 2001