Black Teeth is a compelling collection of linked stories that explore growing up in Winnipeg's famously multicultural North End through its 1960s Golden Age and beyond, examining the strange dual...
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Author: Dubanski, RyszardSummary:
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Author: Woolley, BryanSummary:
A new collection of "true Texas stories" to stand alongside his earlier collection, The Edge of the West and Other Texas Stories, including such portrayals of Texas and Texans as: -The title story...
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Author: Shah, Aparna KajiSummary:
The Scent of Mogra and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories about strong female characters dealing with difficult life-changing situations. The turmoil that they face is, often, the...
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Author: Porco, AlessandroSummary:
Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems is the daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco.
Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are...
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Author: Jones, CarrieSummary:
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE People keep changing who they are and defining themselves by their own choices, and that's cool most of the time, but not all the...
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Author: Van Amerongen, JerrySummary:
Kick Butt is a special collection of aging cartoons from the Ballard Street cartoon panel. The droopy people of Ballard Street have an unmistakable, if not energetic, approach to aging that’s sure...
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Author: Lively, PenelopeSummary:
A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author of How It All Began In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It...
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Author: Jones, CarrieSummary:
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE People keep changing who they are & defining themselves by their own choices, and that's cool most of the time, but not all the...
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Author: Hoffmann, E. T. A.Summary:
Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the...
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Author: West, MartinSummary:
Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A...
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Author: Close, Ellen, Griffiths, BradenSummary:
Nine-year-old Phineas interprets the world through his encyclopedic knowledge of animals, but some human behaviour is just too puzzling. Take for example his mom, who insists he learn to fall...
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Author: TWAIN, MarkSummary:
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological...
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Author: Patterson, JamesSummary:
The time has come for Max,Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select...
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Author: Leonard, MarciaSummary:
A collection of jokes, riddles, limericks, and tongue twisters.
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Author: SCHAEFER, JackSummary:
After his parents died, young Ben Hammon came to western Colorado where his uncle Scott was a small-town lawman. Ben had much to learn, especially about the Kean family. A classic short novel and...