Births mark beginnings, while funerals toll in endings. Yet there resides so much in-between drama in the timeline of an extended family: moments of intense joy, times of heart-wrenching grief, and the day-to-day plodding of ups and...
Short stories
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Author:Labozzetta, MarisaSummary: - Author:Ibrahim, DjamilaSummary:
Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S., Things Are Good Now examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. In these pages, women, men, and children who've crossed continents in search of a better...
- Author:Westhead, JessicaSummary:
A collection of stories that seeks to examine the dark side of ordinary people.
- Author:Bozak, NadiaSummary:
Spanning the late 1970s to the late 1980s, Nadia Bozak’s thirteen stories are narrated from the perspective of Shell, the only child of bohemian artisans determined to live off their handicrafts and uphold a left-wing lifestyle. At the...
- Author:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSummary:
2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist. This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary...
- Author:Selecky, SarahSummary:
Finalist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the 2010 Frank O'Connor Award Sarah Selecky’s first book takes dead aim at a young generation of men and women who often set out with the best of intentions, only to have...
- Author:Díaz, JunotSummary:
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
- Author:Blodgett, AstridSummary:
These twelve new short stories from Astrid Blodgett explore the consequences of grief and denial and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever. Crisp prose and unexpected plot twists move relatable...
- Author:Hogan, H. B.Summary:
A bush party leads to self-immolation. A cab ride ends in warfare. A squirrel is eviscerated. A universally impossible dare is accepted and proves not to be fatal. The weird kid triumphs. The stories in H. B. Hogan's debut...
- Author:Baudot, LaureSummary:
Laure Baudot's This One Because of the Dead is a collection of stories about the power of what goes unsaid – of the truths people keep hidden from each other, which guide their relationships and their decisions in unexpected ways. A...
- Author:Martin, SamuelSummary:
This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of others in the community or mourning the...
- Author:Trettwer, JamesSummary:
The fictional town of Liverwood’s main employer is the potash mine that seems to arc over the town and everything people do. With a novel-like persistence to detail, Trettwer’s stories observe how the townspeople thread their way...
- Author:Friedman, Bruce JaySummary:
In the Foreword to his The Collected Short Fiction Bruce Jay Friedman wrote: "In her late years, my mother confessed to me that she had dropped me on my head when I was two. As I've grown older, I've come to believe that her presumably...
- Author:Wangersky, RussellSummary:
A new short story from 2012 Scotiabank-Giller Prize finalist Russell Wangersky. In his first published short story since his critically acclaimed collection, Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky returns with a story about a lonely, ill old man...
- Author:Uppal, PriscilaSummary:
This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s...
- Author:Grey, Andrew, Calmes, Mary, Lane, AmySummary:
For time immemorial, the goddesses of fate have decided which human threads will shine and which will be cut short. But even the fates have off days. Fate Delivers a Prince by Andrew Grey: Finding love shouldn’t be that difficult for a...
- Author:Durban, PamSummary:
In Three Little Love Stories, accomplished storyteller Pam Durban introduces us to a trio of women who have known love, hurt and the oftentimes narrow distance between the two. "Riddle Me This" finds a woman freed from a dangerous...
- Author:Ahdieh, Renée, Carson, Rae, Colbert, Brandy, Cotugno, Katie, Giles, L. R., Gratton, Tessa, Hagen, Bethany, Ireland, Justina, Johnson, Alaya Dawn, Johnston, E. K., Murphy, Julie, Nix, Garth, Roth, Veronica, Tahir, Sabaa, Yovanoff, BrennaSummary:
A collection of sixteen short stories involving love triangles. Includes stories written by Renée Ahdieh, Rae Carson, Brandy Colbert, Katie Cotugno, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Bethany Hagen, Justina Ireland, Alaya Dawn Johnson, E. K....
- Author:Christy, JimSummary:
When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that. It meant things were good, as good as they could get. It’s a good thing in fiction, too. The stories...
- Author:Sharp, Anthea, Tweedie, Jim, Anderson, Pam, Eisner, Keith, Macvie, Meagan, Williams, Caelyn, Anderson, Beth, Koerber, Laura, Marcus, Edward, Staples, Suzanne, De Danaan, Llyn, Hambruch, Eve, Weaver, Jessie, Yunker, Barbara, O'Hara, Kim K., Wanless, KathrynSummary:
Timberland Writes Together explores each writer’s take on optimism and serves as a catalyst for community conversations; myriad and far ranging.Supported by its Foundation, Timberland Regional Library invited writers and artists within...
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