Title search results
Showing 1 - 20 of 7240 items
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Historias de todos los tiempos y de todas las tradiciones se trenzan en este libro para conformar una infinita narración…
de narraciones que a su vez constituye el compendio filosófico más completo. «Como los gusanos que, según dicen, fecundan, ciegos, la tierra que atraviesan, las historias pasan de boca a oído y dicen, desde hace mucho tiempo, aquello que ninguna otra cosa puede decir.» Con estas palabras describe Jean-Claude Carrière el inmemorial poder que las historias han ejercido sobre la humanidad desde la noche de los tiempos. Carrière guionista, dramaturgo, brillante colaborador de Luis Buñuel durante veinte años recoge en este bellísimo volumen el legado oral de la especie humana. Historias de todos los tiempos y de todas las tradiciones; zen y sufíes, chinas y judías, indias y africanas, americanas y europeas, se trenzan en este libro para conformar una infinita narración de narraciones que a su vez constituyeel compendio filosófico más completo. Solo a través de los mejores relatos del mundo entero podemos alcanzar la sabiduría, iluminar nuestros días y encontrar la respuesta a las preguntas de siempre. En el principio de los tiempos, los hombres se contaban mitos que eran verdaderos porque su autor era el cosmos. Después llegaron los narradores de cuentos e inventaron historias. Fueron los primeros mentirosos. Jean-Claude Carrière, ilustre heredero de esa maravillosa estirpe, los ha reunido a todos para que los escuchemos a lo largo de una cálida y mágica noche. La crítica ha dicho:«Estos cuentos filosóficos demuestran que las inquietudes de un poblador de África son las mismas que las de un piel roja o las de un emperador chino: la condición humana, el más allá, la verdad o el tiempo.»El Mundo «Una recopilación de la sabiduría universal a través de cuentos, fábulas y apólogos de todas las culturas.»Andreu Jaume, Crónica Global «[El círculo de los mentirosos] resume una de sus pulsiones esenciales: narrar y narrar con una inmensa sonrisa en los labios.»Antón Castro, Heraldo de Aragón «Historias curiosas y solemnes que nos recuerdan con elegancia que la risa es característica del hombre en casi todas partes.»Ouest Dimanche Sobre el autor:«Toda su obra, en el cine como en el teatro, no fue sino una indagación de las posibilidades infinitas de la imaginación. [...] Carrière siempre conservó la inocencia a la hora de hablar de literatura o de cine. A los ochenta años aún no había perdido la ilusión por ese mundo que había descubierto de niño y que le seguía pareciendo fascinante e inagotable. Fue una de sus grandes lecciones.»Andreu Jaume, Crónica Global «Jean-Claude Carrière era un hombre vitalista, arrollador, simpático, con un inmenso carisma, había conocido a multitud de personajes, historias y secretos. Era un gran bibliófilo, [...] y tenía la picardía candorosa de los soñadores, de los palabristas, de los que lo dan casi todo por una bella historia.»Antón Castro, Heraldo de Aragón «Un encantador de palabras. Un narrador nato.»Lire «Un hombre sabio, ocurrente, generoso y audaz.»Jaume Ripoll Vaquer, co-director de Filmin
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Once reconocidas autoras y activistas se unen en un solo álbum de cuentos para abordar temas imprescindibles para vosotras, las…
feministas del futuro. ¿Has pensado alguna vez por qué no salen casi mujeres en tus libros, o por qué en las películas las chicas parecemos tontas? ¿Sabes que hay niñas en el mundo que no pueden ir a la escuela? ¿Te has parado a pensar por qué existen cosas de chicos y cosas de chicas? En estos once relatos, llenos de sororidad y esperanza, las protagonistas no somos princesas, sino las guerreras que este mundo necesita. Con cuentos de:Towanda Rebels * Pilar Aguilar Carrasco * María Murnau * Oh!MamiBlue * Lula Gómez * Agostina di Stefano * Lorena Morales * Marina Marroquí * Nasara Iahdid Sahid * Amelia TiganusIlustrado por Sara Tomate
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Rhonda Douglas’s debut collection dazzles with its daring and dangerous prose. Welcome to the Circus, where every moment is a…
tight-rope act, precariously balancing on the edge of destruction. In these stories, a choir processes its collective grief at the loss of one of its members to cancer; a teenage boy marks himself with the poetry of John Donne; God explains the collapse of the cod fishery; Mata Hari stands trial; and two sisters try to reconcile their respective places in the family porn emporium business before everything blows up. These ten strikingly original stories explore love and escape—how we escape to love, escape through love, and escape ourselves and hold on to love. Together, the stories of Welcome to the Circus highlight the acrobatic, courageous circus acts we all learn to perform.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Do you ever look back and wonder, What if...? Meet Sylvie — funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can’t always…
count on herself to make good choices. Like all of us, Sylvie must make decisions that have reverberations for years to come. Unlike the rest of us, Sylvie gets to live more than one life.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In Teardown, Clea Young navigates the whitewater of relationships – familial and romantic, between friends new and old. Her stories…
seize on instances that, at the outset, appear benign – a woman encountering an old boyfriend on a BC ferry, a father chaperoning his daughter’s class on a field trip, a young waitress’ burgeoning friendship with a co-worker – but are in fact fraught, often pivotal times in her characters’ lives. The stories in this arresting debut collection are populated with people you know and people you’ve been. They’re arguing about lamps in IKEA, drinking gin and tonics on a dock in summer, unemployed and without prospects. But under Young’s astute gaze they are anything but ordinary. With sharp, invigorated prose she guides us through shoals and rapids alike, along the way paying homage to our missteps, our foibles, and ultimately to the complicated hearts that comprise a life.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Physician Richard Berringer, his wife, Ann, and their thirteen-year-old son, Torquil, have abandoned their home in Nova Scotia and moved…
to Sierra Leone, despite warnings that the West African country is in a civil war. Two months on, things are not going well. Tensions are rising between Richard and his boss; Torquil—who hates Sierra Leone almost as much as he hates his father—has launched a hunger strike; and Ann is bedridden with illnesses that Richard believes are all in her head. While the Berringers battle with themselves, each other and the worlds they inhabit, the narrative repeatedly returns to their past, shedding light on what brought them together, what keeps them together, why they have come to Africa, and why they might not be able to go home again.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
re You Ready to Be Lucky? If so, meet Roslyn, a spirited divorcée eager for new beginnings. Meet Duncan, a…
British conman with a penchant for collecting ex-wives. Meet Floyd, a hard-living contractor who can fix anyone's house but his own. Irritating, vulnerable, hopeful, they ricochet off one another, trailing a mess of family and friends, all of them trying to beat the odds and find happiness. With razor-sharp wit, Rosemary Nixon takes on the chaos and absurdity of friendship, marriage, divorce, and betrayal—and the heart-pounding, breathtaking, always astonishing complexities of luck and love.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Fantasy, General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness…
of the world around us. Boundary Problems vibrates on the edge of meaning, as carjackers, accidental gunrunners, small-town cabbies, and confused physics students struggle to wring meaning from the strange events that overtake them. Bechtel's worlds of mystery, physics, and magic constantly challenge his characters' pursuit of logical explanations. These compelling tales blur lines and push boundaries—into the surreal, into the playful, into the irresistibility of uncertainty.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Ambitious, emotionally resonant stories about the lives of women and girls in Vietnam over the past thousand years. In The…
Swallows Uncaged, Elizabeth McLean paints a sweeping yet intimate panorama of Vietnam in the style of a Vietnamese eight-panel screen: eight narratives that each capture a moment in time and yet speak to one another. Interweaving historical and fictional characters over ten centuries, the stories portray the passions and turmoils of successive generations of the Nguyen clan’s wives and daughters, and of their men. When the men go away, to war or to advance their fortune, the women stay behind (not always idly or chastely). They dutifully pass down their ancestors’ traditions to their daughters and granddaughters, but also recast the iron rules to gratify their ambitions and desires. At their humble posts by the hearth, they defy authority, scheme to improve their lot, and love zestfully and wickedly. Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted, these stories form a triumphant debut from an author with a superb gift for storytelling.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In…
Butala’s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The stories in this book are the stories of women who have had experiences; women who have seen much of life and have felt the joy of success and the sting of shortcomings; women who hold opinions and come to conclusions about the lives they’ve lived. But Sharon Butala gives us more — not only is each story an observation on aging, each story in Season of Fury and Wonder pays tribute to a classic work of literature that has had an impact on Butala’s writing. Among these writers are Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, James Joyce, Shirley Jackson, Anton Chekhov, Alan Sillitoe, Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe. The result of Butala’s effort is a series of deeply felt tributes to these writers, to the creativity and their power to inspire.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean…
up real nice, but can’t help but unravel back to their original fallen and fascinating selves. <P><P>Their mistakes and misdeeds, temptations and transgressions trample through these stories, twisting out intricate surprises at each turn. <P><P>Whitton navigates contemporary and future, real life and fantasy worlds, continually setting up, if only to send up, modern romantic scenarios. Ultimately, if the boy does get the girl—or vise versa—whether they meet online or on acid, at a wedding or in battle, the object of affection always topples from the pedestal in radical and delightfully refreshing ways.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Ian Williams’s Not Anyone’s Anything is a trio of trios: three sets of three stories, with three of those stories…
further divided into thirds. Mathematical, musical, and meticulously crafted, these stories play profoundly with form, and feature embedded flash cards and musical notations, literal basements, and dual narratives, semi-detached. Roaming through Toronto and its surrounding suburbia, Williams’s characters wittily and wryly draw attention to the angst and anxieties associated with being somewhere between adolescence and more-than-that. They are disastrously ambitious, performing amateur surgery or perfecting Chopin; they are restless and bored, breaking into units of new subdivisions hoping for a score; they continually test the ones they love, and, though every time feels like the last time, they might be up for one more game.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
A poverty-stricken guitar virtuoso navigates the political landscape of nineteenth-century Parisian society as he comes out of retirement for one…
final concert. A sessional instructor competing for the prestigious Interdisciplinary Chair in Aretha Franklin studies gets sidetracked by her obsession with a mysterious student in a yellow hat. A dying doo-wop DJ and his wife try to bridge the estrangement wrought by illness as they travel in search of the horns, drums, and vocals of highlife. In the eleven stories that make up The Doctrine of Affections, Paul Headrick takes us on a fascinating journey into the heart of music. From the perfectly honed decrescendo of a symphony’s string section to the down-home chord progressions at a late-night kitchen party, Headrick’s stories question the subtle differences between hearing and listening, and communicating and understanding. The subjects of this collection are soloists, ensemble players, scholars, collectors, and lovers of music, but their experiences with risk, religion, relief, and often regret make their stories resonate for readers who are hearing their songs for the first time.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards…
from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of being young, Sikh, and female, one growing larger while the other fades. A woman watches with lust and longing as the object of her affections, her pregnant roommate, is pursued by an unsavory suitor. And a precocious child spies on her adoptive mother, trying to grasp the secret of her mother’s hidden obsession and of her own unexplained origins. The seven stories and two novellas in Mother Superior are a heady blend of misfits and mothers, of sisters and complex, mysterious others. Nawaz traces the scars left by family secrets and sings the complex, captivating language of lust and of love.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
An oil spill on the West Coast coincides with a loved one's death. An enigmatic young musician experiences the rise…
and fall of his career, as told through videos posted to YouTube. Sometimes romantic, sometimes elegiac, Alex Leslie's coastal stories take place in ocean inlets and city streets. Haunted as much by technology as by their own ghosts, Leslie's characters face the disappearance of sanity, love, and landscape. An electric, poetic debut.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
56 very short stories about death from Giller Prize finalist John Gould The End of Me is an astonishing set…
of sudden stories about the experience of mortality. With an ear attuned to the uncanny and the ironic, John Gould catches his characters at moments of illumination as they encounter the mystery of their finite being. A marooned astronaut bonds with a bereft cat; kids pelt a funeral procession with plums; a young girl ponders the brief brutality of her last life, and braces herself for the next one. Rife with invention, with fresh ideas and arresting voices, this collection of flash fiction shimmers with compassion and vitality.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
"In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core." paulo da costa's stories get under your…
skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of the forces that hold us together, not always benignly, and those that pull us apart. A hunter and cougar ponder the positions of predator and prey under the dense canopy of a West Coast forest. A nine-year-old girl tells her stuffed rabbit, Carrot, that it's not as easy to run away as she thought, especially when she suspects someone is following her. Like the bubbles that the character in the title story blows while witnessing the dissolution of a love affair, these stories dazzle and beguile: with their craft, their often dark humour, their grasp of people living the extremity that is daily life.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
When you're black and female in America, society's rules were never meant to make you safe or free. In this…
"flawlessly executed work [that] reinvigorates the short fiction genre," Camille Acker's relatable yet unexpected characters break down the walls of respectability politics, showing that the only way for black women to be free is to be themselves (BUST). <p><p> In her debut short story collection, Camille Acker unleashes the irony and tragic comedy of respectability onto a wide-ranging cast of characters, all of whom call Washington, DC, home. A "woke" millennial tries to fight gentrification, only to learn she's part of the problem; a grade school teacher dreams of a better DC, only to take out her frustrations on her students; and a young piano player wins a competition, only to learn the prize is worthless. <p> Ultimately, they are confronted with the fact that respectability does not equal freedom. Instead, they must learn to trust their own conflicted judgment and fight to create their own sense of space and self.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
This must-have collection of behavior tales offers "story medicine" as a creative strategy for parenting, teaching, and counselling. Telling the…
right story at the right time can help children face challenges and change behavior. <p><p> All 42 stories begin with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation. Through metaphor and imaginative story journeys, they lead to a desirable resolution. The stories can lead to nurturing positive values in children. <p><p> Following the alphabet from A to Z, each behavior is identified in the story title--angry, anxious, bullying, demanding, fussy, greedy, jealous, loud, obnoxious, quibbling, uncooperative, and so on. <p><p> The stories, some humorous, some serious, are especially relevant for children of three to nine years of age, as well as the child in every adult! They are for telling and adapting--turn them into homemade picture books or puppet shows, or even create new tales based on them. Pencil-drawn illustrations by Allmut French accompany each story.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Borges: el autor infinito. «El escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes. [...] Uno de los artistas contemporáneos más memorables.…
[...] La deuda que tenemos contraída con él quienes escribimos en español es enorme.»Mario Vargas Llosa El Aleph es un libro icónico de Jorge Luis Borges, el gran autor argentino admirado por García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Banville y tantos otros escritores contemporáneos. Los cuentos que lo integran son un prodigio de puzles filosóficos, intrigas fantásticas o policíacas y personajes que se graban en la memoria, como Emma Zunz. «El inmortal» explora el efecto que la inmortalidad causaría en los hombres; «Los teólogos» es un sueño melancólico sobre la identidad personal; «La otra muerte», una fantasía sobre el tiempo; «El Aleph», publicado por primera vez en 1945 y que en 1949 dio nombre al libro, es uno de los mejores cuentos de todos los tiempos y aborda uno de los temas recurrentes en la literatura de Borges: el infinito. También puede leerse como una historia de amor con un comienzo memorable: «La candente mañana de febrero en que Beatriz Viterbo murió, después de una imperiosa agonía que no se rebajó un solo instante ni al sentimentalismo ni al miedo, noté que las carteleras de fierro de la Plaza Constitución habían renovado no sé qué aviso de cigarrillos rubios; el hecho me dolió, pues comprendí que el incesante y vasto universo ya se apartaba de ella y que ese cambio era el primero de una serie infinita». Críticas:«No lo cite: léalo. [...] Urge no ya leerlo o releerlo, sino, como sugería Bolaño, "releerlo otra vez".»Gonzalo Núñez, La Razón «Es único. Alcanza la cumbre de la literatura universal, [...] y lo hace con sus relatos, auténticas joyas en miniatura.»Carlos Asenjo Sedano, Ideal de Granada «Uno de los escritores más extraordinarios del siglo XX.»The New York Times «El escritor latinoamericano más influyente del siglo XX.»The Washington Post «Junto con un pequeño séquito de colegas y profetas (se me ocurren Kafka y Joyce), Borges es más que un cuentista sorprendente y un brillante estilista: es un espejo que refleja el espíritu de su tiempo.»Chicago Tribune «Borges, visionario escéptico, nos encanta. [...] Ha cumplido un anhelo fundamental en relación con las razones por las cuales leemos.»Harold Bloom, Cómo leer a Jorge Luis Borges «Borges es el escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes. [...] Uno de los artistas contemporáneos más memorables. [...] La deuda que tenemos contraída con él quienes escribimos en español es enorme.»Mario Vargas Llosa