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The Year's best fantasy and horror: eighteenth annual collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror)
Par Ellen Datlow, James Frenkel, Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant. 2005
Some forty works of fiction and poetry published in 2004 by Peter Straub, Alice Hoffman, Chuck Palahniuk, and others. Editors'…
yearly overview of the genre includes sections on comics and graphic novels, anime and manga, music, and the media. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2004Memories of sun: stories of Africa and America
Par Jane Kurtz. 2004
Short stories and poems by African and American writers about cross-cultural connections and "third culture kids," those who inhabit two…
worlds without a firm foothold in either. Describes safaris, life among the bushmen, African folktales, and transitions to adulthood. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2004The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 2000 / XXIV (Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses #24)
Par Bill Henderson, Prize Pushcart. 2000
Anthology of sixty-two selections from alternative literary presses. Contains Amitav Ghosh's essay "The March of the Novel through History: The…
Testimony of My Grandfather's Bookcase"; the poem "Also Love You," by Reginald Shepherd; and Pam Houston's wistful tale "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had." Some strong language. 2000The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 2001 / XXV (Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses #25)
Par Bill Henderson, Prize Pushcart. 2001
This twenty-fifth anniversary edition collects seventy-four works from fifty-four literary presses. Contains a broad selection of poetry, an essay by…
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, and stories by Kathleen Hill, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Joyce Carol Oates, and Eudora Welty. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2001Papeles de Pandora
Par Rosario Ferré. 2000
La autora puertorriqueña presenta veinticuatro cuentos y poemas fantsticos de corte psicológico. Con estas obras Ferré introduce temas tales como…
la venganza en "La Muñeca Menor," los celos en "El Cuento Envenenado" y el amor ms all de la muerte en "Cuando las Mujeres Quieren a los Hombres."The year's best fantasy and horror: twelfth annual collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ser.)
Par Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling. 1999
Collection of thirty-eight stories and eight poems covering a range from fairy tales to gothic horror. Authors include: Kelly Link,…
Stephen King, Jane Yolen, Steven Millhauser, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Straub, Charles de Lint, Ilan Stavans, and A.S. Byatt. 1999Wáchale!: poetry and prose about growing up Latino in America
Par Ilan Stavans. 2001
A mosaic of writings about the Hispanic experience in the United States. Selected memoirs, poems, and stories "from different national…
groups, different backgrounds, and...different generations" are presented in English, Spanish, and Spanglish--a hybrid way of communicating. For grades 6-9. 2001The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 1999 / XXIII (Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses #23)
Par Bill Henderson, Henderson, Prize Pushcart. 1999
Sixty-eight selections--essays, poems, and short stories--from forty-two publishers. Contains works by both little-known and famous writers. Andre Dubus reflects on…
teaching Hemingway's "In Another Country." Joyce Carol Oates's "Faithless" depicts two girls whose mother has disappeared. Also includes a poem by Edward Hirsch, "The Lectures on Love." Some strong languageThe best of O. Henry (Courage classics)
Par O Henry, O. Henry. 1992
Twenty-six short stories, originally published in the New York World newspaper, about city life in the early 1900s. Includes such…
well-known tales as "Gift of the Magi" and less familiar ones, such as "Memories of a Yellow Dog." While their themes vary, the stories share O. Henry's incisive humor, irony, and pathosThe Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 1996 / XX (Pushcart Prize Ser.)
Par Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 1995
Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming…
authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's "Inferno" and Eileen Pollack's "Milk." Descriptions of sex and some strong languageRainy day: stories and poems
Par Caroline Feller Bauer, Michele Chessare. 1986
The portable Walt Whitman
Par Walt Whitman. 1959
Anthology of prose and poetry by the nineteenth-century American poet. Includes selections from 'Leaves of Grass,' 'Specimen Days', 'Democratic Vistas,'…
and much of 'A Backward Glance o'er Traveled Roads,' with an introduction by editor Mark Van DorenSeptuagenarian stew: stories & poems
Par Charles Bukowski. 2009
Collection of short stories and poems by the author of Hollywood (DB 85240) and On Writing (DB 84046) exploring the…
lives of those who live in the backstreets of Los Angeles. In "I like your books," a gambler deals with an overly inquisitive person. Violence and strong language. 2007Relations: An anthology of african and diaspora voices
Par Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. 2023
Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Relations punctures the…
human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared humanity despite differences in language, identity, class, gender, and beyond. This vital anthology is Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's striking vision of a meeting place of perspectives, centered in the African and diaspora experience. In a post-Black Panther world, it is an urgent and welcome embrace of the diversity of Blackness. A refreshing collection of genre-spanning literature, it offers a vibrant meditation on being—inviting connection across real and imagined borders, and celebration of the most profound relations. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobookEl deli latino: prosa y poesía
Par Judith Ortiz Cofer, Elena Olazagasti-Segovia. 2006
This prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican…
immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." Some descriptions of sex. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Spanish language. 2006Behind our eyes: stories, poems and essays by writers with disabilities
Par Sanford Rosenthal, Executive Director, Editor Marilyn Smith. 2007
Twenty-seven contributors, many blind, express their experiences dealing with everyday situations and emotions. In "Her Day Versus My Day," a…
twenty-five-year-old suffers a stroke. In "Rebel with a Cane," a thirteen-year-old who is blind defies her overprotective parents and walks home alone from school. 2007Thirteen short, humorous, rhyming stories in two voices, for beginning readers or for a child and an adult. Intended to…
celebrate the joys of reading together, the stories are about "cats and puppies, bears and mice, snakes, telephones, snowmen, birthdays, friendships and more." For grades K-3. 2001Here there be unicorns
Par Jane Yolen. 1994
This collection of eight poems and ten stories relates tales of the well-known mystical beast in both medieval and traditional…
settings. The story "Unicorn Tapestry" was inspired by two famous unicorn tapestries, the Hunt of the Unicorn and the Lady with the Unicorn. For grades 4-7 and older readersHere there be dragons
Par Jane Yolen. 1993
Five poems and eight stories about dragons by Jane Yolen, who precedes each with an introductory note about the piece.…
The collection includes "Why Dragons?" "The Dragon's Boy," "The Making of Dragons," and "Here There Be Dragons." For grades 4-7 and older readersIl y a des joies dont on ignore l'existence
Par Cato Fortin. 2022
Une jeune femme adoptée par un couple de Québécois qui trouve du réconfort dans un restaurant, une enseignante de Montréal-Nord…
qui reconnecte avec ses racines grâce à ses élèves, deux femmes qui trouvent l'amour aux abords de la 40, une famille choisie qui imagine une maison de retraite en Gaspésie, un-e poète qui partage des portraits de ses ami-es, une religieuse qui joue au ballon-chasseur, une enfant qui apprend à retirer son nom de la bouche des autres, une fille qui trône sur une charrette, des chants religieux qui nous ramènent à la maison, la tête qui nous tourne dans une quinceañera, un périple depuis la plage vers Hochelaga, une série de réflexions sur notre rapport au monde