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The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society: Stories
By Christine Estima. 2023
Un rêve d'albatros: nouvelles (Continents noirs)
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 couvLife 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.Les bonnes filles plantent des fleurs au printemps: nouvelles
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 couvThe day we got drunk on cake, and other stories
By 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 haveEchoes from the macabre: selected stories
By Daphne Du Maurier. 1976
I, Robot
By 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 chargesStories 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 5-8Kiss, kiss
By 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 readersSports stories you'll have a ball with (Reading Rainbow Readers Ser.)
By Reading Rainbow Readers. 2001
Kiss me again
By Lisa Jackson, Lori Foster, Suzanne Forster, Debbie Macomber. 2005
Four short stories about women who find love in different ways. In "The Marrying Kind" by Debbie Macomber, Jason Ingram…
meets his first true love a few days before his wedding. In "The Brass Ring" by Lisa Jackson, Dr. Shawna McGuire's fiancé has amnesia. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2005Half in love
By Maile Meloy. 2002
A collection of fourteen short stories set primarily in the rural American West. In simple, straightforward prose and understated drama,…
Meloy portrays her diverse characters in moments of crisis, upheaval, and change. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language.Le monde sans les enfants et autres histoires
By Philippe Claudel. 2006
Vingt histoires, à dévorer, à murmurer, à partager. Vingt manières de rire et de s'émouvoir. Vingt prétextes pour penser à…
ce que l'on oublie et pour voir ce que l'on cache. Vingt chemins pour aller du plus léger au plus sérieux, du plus grave au plus doux. Vingt façons de se souvenir de ce qu'on a été et de rêver à ce que l'on sera. Vingt regards pour saisir le monde, dans sa lumière et dans ses ombres. Vingt raisons de rester des enfants ou de le redevenir. Vingt sourires. Vingt bonheurs. Vingt battements de coeur. -- 4e de couvThe eighteen-carat kid, and other stories
By P. G Wodehouse. 1980
Vintage Wodehouse stories never before published in the United States. The title story, a novella, tells the comic tale of…
a wealthy, devil-may-care American student pursued by inept kidnappers. Includes "William Tell Told Again," a breezy version of the famous legend originally written for childrenThe gourmet and other stories of modern China
By Wen-Fu Lu. 1987
Lyrical collection of tales. In "Tang Qiaodi" a night-school teacher at a cotton mill is singled out for persecution during…
a period when intellectuals are under suspicion. In "The Gourmet," a novella, a young, spirited restauranteur sees his country's recurrent struggles between socialism and capitalism as a battle between Spartans and gluttonsThe Arbor House treasury of Nobel prize winners
By Martin Greenberg, Charles Waugh. 1983
Anthology of thirteen short stories by Nobel laureates in literature. Includes stories by Rudyard Kipling, William Faulkner, William Butler Yeats,…
George Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and others. Some strong languageShort stories, 2: friendly brook and other stories (Penguin modern classics)
By Rudyard Kipling. 1971
Selected from five previously published works, these thirteen short stories were written after 1900, and include "In the Interests of…
the Brethren," "A Madonna of the Trenches," and "The Church that was at Antioch."Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair: stories
By Lewis Nordan. 1983
Nine gothic stories of the South featuring men and women whose outlandish world is described by one of the characters…
as "the land of the freak and the home of the strange." In "Wheelchair" an abandoned heartsick paraplegic confronts the fall that paralyzed him. A factory worker in the "Copper Balloons" is struck dumb by the magic of the printed world in a booklet on the English language. Some strong languageSpirits and other stories
By Richard Bausch. 1987
Collected short stories
By Graham Greene. 1986