Résultats de recherche de titre
Articles 1 à 20 sur 64
Last Woman: Stories
Par Carleigh Baker. 2024
From one of the country’s most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction that is bracingly relevant, playfully…
irreverent, and absolutely unforgettable.There’s a hole in the ozone layer. Are teenage girls to blame? Floods and wildfires, toxic culture, billionaires in outer space, or a purse-related disaster while on mushrooms—in today’s hellscape world, there’s no shortage of things to worry about. Last Woman, the new collection of short fiction by award-winning author Carleigh Baker, wants you to know that you’re not alone. In these 13 brilliant new stories, Baker and her perfectly-drawn characters are here for you—in fact, they’re just as worried and weirded-out as everyone else.A woman’s dream of poetic solitude turns out to be a recipe for loneliness. A retiree is convinced that his silence is the only thing that will prevent a deadly sinkhole. An emerging academic wakes up and chooses institutional violence. A young woman finds sisterhood in a strange fertility ritual, and an enigmatic empath is on a cleanse. Baker’s characters are both wildly misguided and a product of the misguided times in which we live. Through them we see our world askew and skewered—and, perhaps, we can begin to see it anew.Carleigh Baker’s signature style is irreverent, but her heart is true—these stories delve into fear for the future, intergenerational misunderstandings, and the complexities of belonging with sharp wit and boundless empathy. With equal parts compassion and critique, she brings her clear-eyed attention to bear on our world, and the results are hilarious, heartbreaking, and startling in their freshness.The burglar in short order (Bernie Rhodenbarr #12)
Par Lawrence Block. 2020
Four decades ago, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block introduced the world to one of his most beloved…
and enduring creations: Bernie Rhodenbarr, the clever, nimble-fingered star of novels such as Burglars Can't Be Choosers, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, and The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. Called "the Heifetz of the picklock" by the New York Times, Bernie has stolen not only antiques, stamp collections, and priceless works of art but also millions of readers' hearts. Now, for all those craving more adventures of their favorite bookseller-by-day and burglar-by-night, The Burglar in Short Order for the first time ever collects all of Bernie's short-form appearances in one complete volume. From the story in which a prototype of Bernie first appeared ("A Bad Night For Burglars") to his appearances in Playboy and (maybe? It's kinda complicated) Cosmopolitan...from an essay discussing Bernie's misadventures in Hollywood (how in the world did Whoopi Goldberg ever get cast?) to a piece commissioned by a European publisher for a tourist guide to New York...you'll find every published story, article, and standalone excerpt Bernie has ever appeared in—plus two new, unpublished pieces: an introduction discussing the character's colorful origins and an afterword in which the author, contemplating retirement, comes face to face with his own creation. In all of mystery fiction, there has never been a character like Bernie—and in this, his dozenth book, he demonstrates all the charm and wit and kleptophilic ingenuity that has made two generations of readers welcome their favorite burglar into their homesGalumpf
Par Marie Hélène Poitras. 2023
Dans la langue incisive et poétique qui a fait sa marque, Marie Hélène Poitras interroge la manière dont humains et…
animaux se donnent et se reprennent les uns aux autres, et les compromis nécessaires à la vie ensemble. Un recueil au souffle profond qui rôde à l’intersection des blessures, du désir, de l’égoïsme et de la sollicitude, le lieu exact et difficile où prend forme l’acte d’empathie.Our Lady of Mile End
Par Sarah Gilbert. 2023
Our Lady of Mile End is a neighbourhood of stories where recurring characters face personal challenges and unexpected intimacies against…
a backdrop of renoviction threats and walking tours. The overlapping lives (of girls and women, tenants and landlords, neighbours and strangers, the old generation and the next) chart the tensions and affections among people living in a community that has turned into a destination.Ils finiront bien par t'avoir (QA fiction)
Par Sébastien Diaz. 2023
Un lendemain de tempête, une femme disparue depuis des mois entre dans un petit restaurant. Elle est dans un état…
lamentable. On ignore où elle était, et ce qu’elle raconte à propos d’un futur apocalyptique ne semble avoir aucun sens. Mais il y a déjà un moment que le Mal s’installe et gangrène nos forêts et nos villes. Que ça crie au meurtre, que ça s’entretue, que des gens disparaissent. Et si c’était le juste retour du balancier?Les destins de plusieurs personnes s’entremêlent, de Londres à Charlevoix et d’Acapulco à Saint-Hubert. Chacun devra lutter pour sauver sa peau et échapper à la menace de cette mystérieuse inscription qui apparaît un peu partout : Ils finiront bien par t’avoir.The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society: Stories
Par Christine Estima. 2023
Suite as Sugar: and Other Stories
Par Camille Hernández-Ramdwar. 2023
From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as…
Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, in settings where the veil between the living and the dead is obscured.Avalanche
Par Jessica Westhead. 2023
Featured on 49th Shelf's Most Anticipated: 2023 Fall Fiction PreviewFeatured on CBC's 2023 Fall Fiction Preview"Things used to be easier,…
but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all agree. So we can all have the same standard applied across the board. So there is no special treatment, which no one should receive. This is why we need the rules."The stories in Avalanche combine humour with an earnest examination and indictment of white entitlement, guilt, shame, and disorientation in the wake of waking up to the reality of racism. Focusing on the perspective of white, cis, straight, and mostly middle-aged and middle-class characters, this collection shines a light on the obliviousness of white privilege, the violence of polite, quiet racism hiding just under the surface of mundane, everyday situations, and the anguished flailing of “well-intentioned white ladies” desperate to confirm their essential goodness at all costs. Westhead writes with compassion and empathy for both her frustrating and frustrated white protagonists and the racialized characters who encounter them, and uses humour not to comfortably distance white readers from the harmful behaviour of her self-absorbed protagonists, but to pull them in close to recognize—and reckon with—those familiar parts of themselves, and to become more aware of the insidious systems of white supremacy at work behind the scenes.Owning up: New fiction
Par George Pelecanos. 2024
Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writer George Pelecanos; "Like…
his hero Elmore Leonard, Pelecanos finds the humanity in the lowest of lowlifes." ( Chicago Tribune ) When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path, that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can takeThe ghost sequences
Par A. C Wise. 2023
"A haunting is a moment of trauma, infinitely repeated. It extends forward and backward in time. It is the hole…
grief makes. It is a house built by memory in-between your skin and bones." A lush and elegant collection of tales—many having appeared in various "Best Of" anthologies—teeming with frightful and tragic events, yet profoundly and intimately human. These chilling tales will engross and enthrall. For readers of Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and Angela Carter, this is a must have collection of ghostly tales set to deliver a frisson of terror and gleeHistorical Christmas stories 1990
Par Nora Roberts, Ruth Langan, Patricia Potter. 1990
Roberts reintroduces the MacGregor family, when a young widow falls for wounded minuteman Ian MacGregor. Another story explores the conflicting…
emotions of relatives and sweethearts divided by the Civil War. Lastly, a rancher's daughter and a former town troublemaker are reunited. Some descriptions of sexAn anthology of nineteen tales by both established writers and newcomers who continue the fantasy adventures of the Witch World.…
The protagonists in these stories include a young man dedicated to revenge, a young woman who learns a revealing secret about herself, a gentle giant beset by giant slayers, and a young woman who denies the existence of magic. For high school and adult readers. Sequel to "Tales of the Witch World 2."Short stories selected from the seven major regions and languages of India. The authors, all women, write about the experience…
of being a woman amid the turmoil of late twentieth-century India. The subjects are diverse, including the status of women, predicaments caused by varying social classes and castes, political oppression, and, above all, an interest in writingLewis celebrates "America's only truly original art form"--the western--by collecting what he considers to be classic western short stories and…
novelettes. The twenty-seven selected authors range from "pulp" writers such as Max Brand to classic authors such as Stephen Crane and Mark Twain, who are not usually thought of as contributors to the genre. Some strong language and violenceLove and war
Par John Jakes. 1987
Ten stories featuring the heroes and villains of Krynn as they pursue their objects of love or war, or sometimes…
both. Passion and selfishness, the tender aspects of love, love and sacrifice, and war as the eradicator of love and life are depicted in this collection. Some violence. Sequel to Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes (RC 36746.)Original short stories in English by Latino writers. Some are based entirely on Latino culture, others explore Latino-Anglo interrelationships, and…
still others examine a dual perspective of Latinos in the United States. In Jose Antonio Villarreal's "The Last Minstrel in California," a man from Chile entertains a camp of prune pickers, inspires a small boy, and cuckolds one of the menWhat these selections by Margaret Atwood, John Updike, and seventy others have in common is their brevity--most consisting of 250…
to 750 words. One story breezes through a couple's entire marriage from meeting to retirement. Others are magical--a woman learns origami and turns all of the apologies she constantly receives into folded shapes. Strong language and some descriptions of sexLatin American writers react to the Spanish conquest. Some writers identify only with pre-Columbian times, some view the invasion by…
Columbus with horror, and a few see the introduction of European culture as a blessing. In "Afterword: Two Anniversaries," Juan Goytisolo contrasts the legacy of the French revolution and its principles of freedom with the Spanish colonization of the New World. Strong languageThis selection of stories from the men's magazine Esquire contains some that have become famous, such as "The Snows of…
Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. Also includes stories by women such as Flannery O'Connor and Gail Godwin. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sexA story from Harper's Magazine--"Is Laughter Contagious?" by Joyce Carol Oates--threatens the dissolution of civilization. Nearly half of the stories…
come from the New Yorker, including Alice Munro's "Carried Away" and Mavis Gallant's "Across the Bridge." One, "It's Come to This," is Annick Smith's first published fiction