This volume presents eight of Louis L'Amour's ever popular short stories, including "Mistakes Can Kill You," "The Man from the Battle Flat," "The Lion Hunter and the Lady," "The One for the Mojave Kid," and others.
Short stories
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Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary: - Author:Summary:
Collection of stories written by first and second generation authors from the western part of Iceland, who emigrated to North America, particularly Manitoba.
- Author:Kennedy, A.L.Summary:
A. L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt, and terror, but also the redemption of love, and she does so with enormous human...
- Author:Jones, AmySummary:
Amy Jones's Metcalf-Rooke Award-winning short fiction collection What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another. Whether a...
- Author:Flood, CynthiaSummary:
In these twelve stories that unfold over a few hours or a weekend or five decades, adults deceive themselves about their motives - greed, desire for control, jealousy, fear, ambition. With unflinching realism, reminiscent of William...
- Author:Hobsbawn-Smith, DeeSummary:
In her first collection of short fiction, dee Hobsbawn-Smith creates protagonists struggling to navigate the troubles common to life everywhere, including children attempting to make their parents proud, the collapse of romantic...
- Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's haunting "What Had Become of Us," is from her 2003 debut book of short fiction, Way Up.Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
This collection of short stories by Governor General’s Award winning author Paul Yee takes readers into the lives of Chinese teens in Canada, who must deal with their cultural backgrounds as well as battle parents over schooling,...
- Author:Boswell, Joan, Pike, SueSummary:
This newest anthology of short crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle takes a spirited look at baby boomers as they go from young, hairy and hip to old, bald and bad. The children of the sixties are are up to no good in another...
- Author:Martz, SandraSummary:
This enchanting collection of writings and photographs evokes the beauty, humor and courage of women living in their later years and tells of the endearing moments of joy--and passion--to be found in the rich and varied world of midlife...
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This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, brings together today's leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.
- Author:Labatut, BenjamínSummary:
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger--these are...
- Author:Parmar, Prabhjot, Somaia-Carten, NilaSummary:
This collection features the writing of women from places as diverse as Slovakia and Portugal, India and Uruguay, Korea and Kenya, Italy and Iran. They look and think differently. They have distinctive traditions, cultures and history....
- Author:Harrs, NormaSummary:
Dreams vanish in most of the masterful stories that make up Norma Harrs’s new collection. A young Irish girl falls in love with an older married professor and has her first date with heartache; a middle-aged woman attends her niece’s...
- Author:Law, Lucas K., Mak, Derwin, 1963-Summary:
All emotions are universal. We born, we dream, we strive, we die...Where the stars rise? Stories that bind us together regardless where we come from or where we are going-on Earth or in space. Futuristic Istanbul. Kerala waters. Cebu...
- Author:Lee, Fonda, Szal, Jeremy, Sun, Amanda, Smith, Angela Yuriko, Abad, Anne Carly, Jim, Calvin D., Bharathan, Deepak, Mak, Derwin, Xin, Diana, Myers, E.C., Chapman, Elsie, Lee, Gabriela, Chng, Joyce, Lowachee, Karin, Law, Lucas K., Yuan-Innes, Melissa, Dare, Miki, Kang, Minsoo, Sundar, Naru Dames, Fernandes, Pamela Q., Sridhar, Priya, Mehrotra, Rati, Wang, Regina Kanyu, Zhao, Ruhan, Divya, S.B., Hu, Shaoyan, Pi, TonySummary:
All emotions are universal. We live, we dream, we strive, we die... Stories that explore magic and science. Stories about love, revenge, and choices. Stories that challenge ideas about race, belonging, and politics. Each wrestling...
- Author:Wangersky, RussellSummary:
Winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, 2013, short-listed for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and finalist for the 2012 BMO Winterset Award From critically acclaimed and award-winning writer, Russell Wangersky, comes...
- Author:Soop, AlexSummary:
Following the immense success of his debut collection of horror stories, Midnight Storm, Moonless Sky, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop once again scares the wits out of readers while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism...
- Author:Vernon, SteveSummary:
A new collection of ghost stories from every corner of New Brunswick. Pull up a seat and listen closely-storyteller Steve Vernon has another collection of classic, bone-chilling tales to tell. Steve takes readers from one end of New...
- Author:Curtis, WayneSummary:
There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which inevitably accompany any attempt to break...
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