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We the Sea Turtles: A collection of island stories
By Michelle Kadarusman. 2023
In a collection of powerful stories by Governor General’s Award-nominated author Michelle Kadarusman, eight children on islands around the world…
are each changed by a chance meeting with a turtle as they find their own grounding in an increasingly unpredictable world.Tun-ta-ca-tun: more stories and poems in English and Spanish for children
By Sylvia C. Pena. 1986
Opens the door to the world of literature for English and Spanish speaking children of pre-school to young adult reading…
levels. The collection of short stories and poems is designed to stimulate children's imagination and creativity, as well as their linguistic mastery and reading skills. It reflects the characters, themes and customs specific to Hispanic culture in the United States. For preschool to grade 2. Unrated. Bilingual: English and SpanishThe book of dragons
By Michael Hague. 1995
My favorite spooky stories box set: 5 Silly, Not-too-scary Tales! A Halloween Book For Kids (I Can Read Level 2 Ser.)
By Herman Parish, Jane O'Connor, Alvin Schwartz, David Keane. 2013
Five books, written between 1984 and 2013, feature tales of Halloween and creepy things. Includes In a Dark, Dark Room…
and Other Scary Stories, Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia, Flat Stanley and the Haunted House, Monster School: First Day Frights, and Lulu Goes to Witch School. For grades K-3. 2013Black enough: stories of being young & Black in America
By Coe Booth, Kekla Magoon, Rita Williams-Garcia, Varian Johnson, Tracey Baptiste, Justina Ireland, Jason Reynolds, Lamar Giles, Brandy Colbert, Dhonielle Clayton, Ibi Zoboi, Leah Henderson, Renée Watson, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jay Coles. 2019
Seventeen short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, and emphasize that one person's experiences, reality,…
and personal identity are different from someone else's. Contributors include René Watson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, and Justina Ireland. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2019More two-minute mysteries
By Donald J. Sobol. 1971
The essays (Penguin classics)
By Francis Bacon, John Pitcher. 1985
The awakening, and selected stories (Penguin American library)
By Kate Chopin, Sandra M. Gilbert. 1984
First published in 1899, The Awakening is a novel about a liberated young woman who rebels against the constraints of…
marriage and engages in extramarital love. The results are disastrous, in the book and on the career of the author. In an introduction to the novel and the twelve short stories in this collection, the editor reflects on Chopin's continuing impact on feminist literature. 1983Life in the iron mills, and other stories: Second Edition
By Rebecca Harding Davis, Tillie Olsen. 1985
The title piece, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1861, tells the story of an artist living in…
one of the early industrial towns of America and portrays the deprivation of the mill hands and their families. Also included are "The Wife's Story," "Anne," and a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. These describe the lives of women constrained by society and by their own senses of dutyThe time patrol
By Poul Anderson, Paul Anderson, Tom Doherty Associates. 1991
In eight short stories and one novella, Anderson explores the idea of time travel and the problems that can arise…
when a person wants to go back in time and change history. In most of the stories, it is the responsibility of Time Patrol agent Manse Everard to see that no one so irrevocably alters the past that the future to which he or she belongs never happens. His travels take him from 542 B.C. to the thirty-first century. Some strong language. 1991Paper trail: essays
By Michael Dorris. 1994
Personal essays on a wide range of topics. One prominent subject is the history and culture of Native Americans. Another…
is the burden of fetal alcohol syndrome and its impact on the author's three adopted children. But essays grouped under "family occasions," "home," and "going places" provide Dorris with opportunities to display his sense of humor, joy, and awe in relationships as a son, a husband, and a parentTo begin again: stories and memoirs, 1908-1929
By M. F. K. Fisher, M. F. K Fisher, M.F.K. Fisher. 1992
Fisher has assembled a memoir of her first twenty-one years by collecting previously written pieces about her childhood and adolescence.…
Journal entries from 1927 are mixed with essays written between 1957 and 1992. The development of Fisher's sensibility as a gourmet and a writer can be traced through her reminiscences about family and friends. Prequel to Long Ago in France (DB 35012)Old songs in a new café: Selected Essays
By Robert James Waller. 1983
Nineteen essays written since 1983 by Waller, a folksinger and author of the bestselling Bridges of Madison County (DB 35861).…
The writings include a loving tribute to his wife, thoughts on his daughter leaving home at eighteen, a book signing on a snowy day in St. Ansgar, playing "Wabash Cannonball" for a program with Charles Kuralt, and thoughts on his fiftieth birthday. BestsellerSleeping at the Starlite Motel: and other adventures on the way back home
By Bailey White. 1995
Collection of thirty-seven short stories depicting places, experiences, and acquaintances in White's life. One story tells of a family member's…
desire to "reunite" the Chippendale chairs that are now scattered throughout the family. Another portrays a woman who feels she has the right to pick from the town's rose garden because she was once the rose queen. BestsellerA humorous look at the workplace from the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip. The Dilbert Principle is that "the…
most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--management." BestsellerWith the snow queen
By Joanne Greenberg. 1993
In the title novella, a woman experiments with time travel in an attempt to relive her life. Of the thirteen…
short stories, most focus on everyday routines with unexpected twists. Two tales concern an author's relationship with characters created on paper. Some strong languageAt her majesty's request: an African princess in Victorian England
By Walter Dean Myers. 1999
The life of an African princess who was about to be killed in a ritual sacrifice in 1850 when she…
was rescued by Commander Forbes, taken to England, and presented to Queen Victoria as Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The queen became Sarah's protector and godmother to her first child. For grades 5-8Woodcuts of women: Stories
By Dagoberto Gilb. 2001
Ten tales of longing, lust, love, relations between men and women, and Mexican-American identity. "Shout" portrays the tensions between a…
couple with three little boys living in a cramped apartment where the husband clings destructively to his macho self-image. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2001In Cuba I was a German shepherd
By Ana Menéndez, Ana Menendez. 2001
Eleven tales about postrevolutionary Cubans set in Miami and Havana. In the title piece, four elderly men--two Cubans and two…
Dominicans--meet in a Miami park each morning to play dominos. Mximo, the smaller Cuban, tells jokes that reveal his heartbreak. Some strong language. 2001Twenty-two short stories about Jewish heroines in Europe, Israel, and the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth…
centuries. The compilation portrays both very ordinary and also utterly exceptional women. Includes works by Dvora Baron, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholom Aleichem, and David Bergelson. Introduction by Francine Prose. 2003