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An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002100 histoires du soir: Pour aider votre enfant à surmonter les soucis du quotidien
By Sophie Carquain. 2021
Des histoires pour faire face à toutes les situations et aider les enfants à surmonter les petits bobos et les…
gros chagrins. Tout comme l'adulte, l'enfant n'est pas à l'abri des soucis de l'existence. Face aux difficultés, il n'a pas tous les outils. Par ses personnages attachants auxquels l'enfant peut s'identifier, le conte lui permet de nouer un dialogue avec son entourage et d'amadouer son anxiété en évoquant, directement ou non, ce qui le trouble. Près de cent histoires pour dédramatiser toutes les situations : peur du noir, cauchemars, entrée à la grande école, disputes, maladie, naissance d'une petite sœur... Des fiches pratiques expliquent le traumatisme que vit l'enfant et donnent les clés pour l'aider à y faire face. Une lecture à trois voix, avec Julie Pouillon et Cyril Romoli et la participation exceptionnelle de l'autrice, pour accompagner petits et grands avec bienveillance. Inlus un PDF d'accompagnement avec la table des matièresHome town tales: Recollections of Kindness, Peace, and Joy
By Philip Gulley. 2000
Front porch tales: WARM-HEARTED STORIES OF FAMILY, FAITH, LAUGHTER AND LOVE
By Philip Gulley. 2000
Jungfrau: a selection of works from the Caine Prize for African writing
By Mary Watson. 2007
Seventh annual short story collection includes the Caine Prize winner and works shortlisted for 2006 and tales by 2007 Caine…
Prize workshop writers. In South African Mary Watson's title piece, a girl becomes jealous of her mother's impoverished students and discovers a family a secret. Some strong language. 2007Man of the house: The Dreamers One In A Million Father At Heart
By Felicia Mason, Doris Johnson, Adrianne Byrd. 2003
Three contemporary romances featuring African American fathers in love. In Adrianne Byrd's "One in a Million," successful businessman Gregory Woods…
reunites with a former lover and the nine-year-old son he never knew he had. Includes Felicia Mason's "The Dreamers" and Doris Johnson's "Father at Heart." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003The elephant and my Jewish problem: selected stories and journals, 1957-1987
By Hugh Nissenson. 1988
Baseball in April and other stories
By Gary Soto. 1990
Eleven vignettes set in central California feature young Mexican-Americans going about the business of growing up. Fausto, who longs for…
a guitar, fraudulently receives a hefty reward when he returns a stray pet to a wealthy neighbor, but he is guilt-ridden until he relinquishes the money in church. And Marie, who declines a boring family vacation, is angry that fun was had without her. For grades 5-8 and older readersNine Florida stories (Florida sand dollar book)
By Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Kevin M. McCarthy, William L. Trotter. 1990
First published from the 1920s to 1940s in the Saturday Evening Post, these stories embody the environmental concerns of Marjory…
Stoneman Douglas. Set in various parts of South Florida, they reflect conditions, including threats to wildlife, land, and water, that endanger the uniqueness of the region. Douglas's characters range from smugglers to a farm worker, and include veiled autobiographical bits about the indomitable authorBlack 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. 2019Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn
By Kevin Kling. 2009
National Public Radio commentator pens good-humored autobiographical stories about holidays throughout the year. Describes celebrating his fourth birthday inside a…
glass "cage" at the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, after measles postponed his operation, and holding his breath--and fainting--during Easter services at church. 2009A time to love: stories from the Old Testament (Other or No Series)
By Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers. 2003
A retelling from the perspective of teenage characters of six Bible episodes exploring the complexities of love. Includes the stories…
of Delilah, Reuben, Naomi, Isaac, Zillah, and Aser. For junior and senior high readers. 2003For more than thirty years Elton Miles, a past President of the Texas Folklore Society, has been collecting the stories…
and legends that spring from the unique Big Bend lifestyle. This volume includes never-before-published tales, variations on familiar legends, local border corridos, folk poems and other regional lore. AdultThe Reading Group: February (Part #3)
By Della Parker. 2016
'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' Trisha Ashley. Meet the Reading Group: six…
women in the seaside village of Little Sanderton come together every month to share their love of reading. No topic is off-limits: books, family, love and loss . . . and don't forget the glass of red!Kate has tried to be a good wife to her husband Anton. Ever since he got demoted at work - answering to a woman no less - Anton simply hasn't been the same. Kate wants to help, but as the months pass and Anton pulls away from her both emotionally and physically, Kate can't help but feel a bit abandoned. Then Kate means Bob: the handsome, blue-eyed carpenter that Anton has hired to refurbish their kitchen. Kate instantly feels a powerful physical connection between them . . . but dare she risk her marriage for a man she barely knows?This month the Reading Group is enjoying Lady Chatterley's Lover . . . and trying not to giggle too much at the naughty parts!I Will Love You For the Rest of My Life
By Michael Czyzniejewski. 2015
In I Will Love You For the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories, Michael Czyzniejewski examines twenty-nine cases of human…
love at their most critical junctures, bearing witness to the absurdity of longing. An astronaut's husband cheats while his wife is in space; a scallop opens a portal to another dimension; a man exploits his peanut allergy for kinky sex; a blind date turns into a bestial kidnapping. Self-doubt, unshakable distrust, unrequited longing, and the prospect of eternal loneliness haunt these romantics. The heart wants what it wants, but it doesn't always last forever.The Reading Group: January
By Della Parker. 2016
'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' Trisha Ashley. Meet the Reading Group: six…
women in the seaside village of Little Sanderton come together every month to share their love of reading. No topic is off-limits: books, family, love and loss . . . and don't forget the glass of red!Anne-Marie has always considered herself a bit of a matchmaker - never mind that she's only got one real success under her belt. And this year she's determined to up her game: Little Sanderton's singles could certainly benefit from her expertise! But while Anne Marie thinks she knows what's best for everyone else, her own life couldn't be less of a fairytale romance. Between looking after her cranky father and running her own business, she doesn't have time for a relationship. Her friends in the Reading Group know better though: after all, love can be found in the most unexpected of places . . .This January the Reading Group is tackling Jane Austen's Emma . . . but who's got time for fiction when romance is in the air?Amazing Love Stories: Inspirational Stories
By Charles Margerison. 2010
What is it that makes one person fall in love with another? Explore this eternal question in Amazing Love Stories,…
which provides a unique perspective on love stories that feature amazing characters including Emperor Napoleon and Josephine, Marina Gamba and her lover Galileo, William Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway. Explore what drew these people together and what pulled them apart? Love stories come in different forms, and those in this book reveal many areas of attraction from the bedroom to the boardroom and beyond through a new story format called BioViews. A BioView is a series of short biographical stories, similar to an interview. These unique stories provide new insight on love and can help you better understand your own life and relationships.On The Way
By Cyn Vargas. 2015
Cyn Vargas's debut explores the whims and follies of the heart. When a mother disappears in Guatemala, her daughter refuses…
to accept she's gone; a divorced DMV employee falls in love during a driving lesson; a young girl shares a well-kept family secret; a bad haircut is the last straw in a crumbling marriage.The Business of Naming Things
By Michael Coffey. 2015
"Riveting . . . vibrant and unsparing." -Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)"Superb. . . . Startlingly original." -Library Journal…
(starred review)"Once I started reading these stories, I couldn't stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language-the language of a poet." -JAY PARINI, author of Jesus: The Human Face of God and The Last Station"Sherwood Anderson would recognize this world of lonely, longing characters, whose surface lives Coffey tenderly plumbs. These beautiful stories-spare, rich, wise and compelling-go to the heart." -FREDERIC TUTEN, author of Self Portraits: Fictions and Tintin in the New World"Whether [Coffey is] writing about a sinning priest or a man who's made a career out of branding or about himself, we can smell Coffey's protagonists and feel their breath on our cheek. Like Chekhov, he must be a notebook writer; how else to explain the strange quirks and the perfect but unaccountable details that animate these intimate portraits?" -EDMUND WHITE, author of Inside a Pearl and A Boy's Own StoryAmong these eight stories, a fan of writer (and fellow adoptee) Harold Brodkey gains an audience with him at his life's end, two pals take a Joycean sojourn, a man whose business is naming things meets a woman who may not be what she seems, and a father discovers his son is a suspect in an assassination attempt on the president. In each tale, Michael Coffey's exquisite attention to character underlies the brutally honest perspectives of his disenchanted fathers, damaged sons, and orphans left feeling perpetually disconnected.Michael Coffey is the author of three books of poems and 27 Men Out, a book about baseball's perfect games. He also co-edited The Irish in America, a book about Irish immigration to America, which was a companion volume to a PBS documentary series. He divides his time between Manhattan and Bolton Landing, New York. The Business of Naming Things is his first work of fiction.Yudl
By Layle Silbert. 2013
Set in 1920s Chicago, the short novel Yudl follows its eponymous protagonist, a middle-aged editor at a left-leaning newspaper called…
The Yiddish Courier. Yudl and his wife have decided to become landlords, purchasing a vacant lot and hiring an acquaintance--aptly named Mason--to oversee the construction of their future apartment building. However, delays in the construction leave Yudl and his family without a home, forcing them to stay with Mason and his family until the construction is finally complete. Told with wry wit and a masterful sensibility for metaphor, the story explores gender, Zionism, and the immigrant experience in the US. The selection of short stories that follow the novel in this volume were selected by the author from her deathbed during her last weeks and then hours on earth. Silbert's graceful short stories focus on the family, allowing the reader glimpses of a child's happiness, the cripplingly contradictory demands of femininity, the complexity of grief, and a sustained meditation on life and death.