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One day even Trevi will crumble
Par Neale McDevitt. 2002
A collection of short stories set in the Montréal neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Half the stories are narrated by McVie, a…
down-and-out ex-pat living in the same place he was born, getting by on sex and alcohol. Deeper insights into his life are gleaned from those things revealed by the male narrators of the other half of the stories. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2002.The topography of love: stories
Par Bernice Morgan. 2000
A day spent at the home of a movie star leads three fiends to divulge secrets. A woman returns home…
after many years to find that her childhood friend has led a bleak version of her own life. Morgan's short stories take place in Newfoundland and focus on the bonds between family and friends. Some strong language. 2000.Grasslands
Par Michael Hetherton. 2003
A collection of stories about alienation, failure to communicate, and the seemingly random inevitability of fate. In one story, a…
middle-aged hunter encounters a stranded teenager who's running from one kind of trouble to another. In another, a fatherless boy finds himself on the rocky road to manhood when he starts works on the oil rigs. 2003.Willem de Kooning's paintbrush: stories
Par Kerry-Lee Powell. 2016
Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a…
pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these stories are populated by barkeeps, good men down on their luck, rebellious teens, lonely immigrants, dreamers and realists, fools and quiet heroes. Each character, no matter what their choices, is deeply human in their search for connection. Powell holds us in her grasp, exploring with a black humour themes of belonging, the simmering potential for violence and the meaning of art no matter where it is found, and revealing with each story something essential about the way we see the world. 2016. In a kingdom beneath the sea -- Willem de Kooning's paintbrush -- Kindness -- Firebirds -- Property of Fatty -- Moon cakes -- Scenes of Acapulco -- The prince of Chang -- Social studies -- Talking of Michelangelo -- The spirit of things -- In the company of others -- Vulnerable adults -- There are two pools you may drink from -- Right or wrong.Astray
Par Emma Donoghue. 2012
Goldminer. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. These characters, from puritan Massachusetts to the Yukon gold rush,…
antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s Toronto highway, have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex and sanity; they travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. 2012.The hero of Currie Road: complete short pieces
Par Alan Paton. 2008
A classic collection of 20 short stories, the core of which is formed by Alan Paton's famous first volume of…
short stories Debbie Go Home (1961), published in the US as Tales from a Troubled Land. The rest of the stories are taken from other sources, 10 of them from Paton's last volume, Knocking on the Door (1975). The collection is prefaced by Paton's lively interview of himself. c2008. Uniform title: Short storiesChestnut Street
Par Maeve Binchy. 2014
Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in…
a collection of stories: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America for six weeks every summer and turns the house - and Nessa's world - upside down. Lilian, the generous girl with a big heart, and the fiancé not everyone approves of. And Melly, whose gossip about the neighbours leads to trouble in the form of the fortune teller, 'Madame Magic'. Bestseller. 2014.The other voice
Par K. D Miller. 2011
A collection of stories that hover on the threshold between innocence and corruption, secrets and revelations, sanity and madness. When…
evil makes an appearance, it is the kind that, in the words of W.H. Auden “shares our bed and eats at our own table.” Includes violence. 2011.Dim sum: little pieces of heart, British Chinese short stories
Par Graham Chan. 1997
This collection of short stories by British Chinese writers offers a rare insight into the experiences of a generation caught…
between the face of tradition and the development of their own cultural identity.Zero gravity
Par Sharon English. 2006
The author's second collection of short stories. The book is rooted in Vancouver, with side trips to British Columbia's Kootenay…
mountains, Montreal and Delphi, Greece. English's characters lead accelerated lives only to be seized by spiritual emptiness. They attempt to escape by joining, by quitting, or by falling in and out of love. Descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 2006.Writers talking
Par John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.The rule of last clear chance
Par Judith McCormack. 2003
A grocer who sells lobsters, a Cuban apothecary, a hapless thief and a dreamy lawyer who navigates by smell, among…
others, fall in and out of trouble. Stories follow their attempts to find footing in a colourful but tricky landscape. 2003.Uncomfortably numb
Par Sharon English. 2002
In this collection of short stories, Germaine Stevens attends a preppie high school. She belongs to the only counter-culture group,…
the Rockers, and her friends are desperate people. But no one is as disaffected as they seem, or want, to be. For junior and senior high readers. 2002.Garbage Creek: and other stories
Par W. D Valgardson. 1997
In this collection of eight stories, the characters must use their own wits to solve the problems they face. In…
the title story, two friends clean out litter from a creek, and are rewarded in the autumn by seeing some fish return to the waters. Grades 3-6.Open: stories
Par Lisa Moore. 2002
Ten short stories of heartbreak and getting through it. Includes stories of a husband's memory of an early piercing love…
affair, a mother and her infant boy getting knocked down by the force of a fire hose, and the interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake. 2002.Whirl away
Par Russell Wangersky. 2012
Stories that look at what happens when people’s personal coping skills go awry. From the caretaker of a prairie amusement…
park to the lone occupant of a collapsing Newfoundland town, from a travelling sports drink marketer with a pressing need to get off the road to an elevator inspector who finds himself losing his marriage while sensuously burying himself in the tastes and smells of the kitchen, these are people who spin wildly out of control, finding themselves in a new and different world. Includes sex, violence and strong language. c2012.This cake is for the party: stories
Par Sarah Lucille Selecky. 2010
A woman who plans to conceive ends up in the arms of her husband's best friend; a man who baby-sits…
a neglected four-year-old ends up questioning his own dysfunctional relationship; a chance encounter at a gala event causes a woman to remember when she volunteered for a nightmarish drug-testing clinic. In "Standing up for Janey", a woman discovers that her best friend who is about to get married has just had an affair. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2010.By a frozen river: the short stories of Norman Levine
Par Norman Levine. 2000
A collection of short stories that examine the complexities of the human condition. In the title story, a Canadian writer…
visits a small rural town in order to collect his thoughts; in "A Small Piece of Blue," a young student travels to a Canadian mining town and in doing so is forced to acknowledge the humble reality behind the great dreams of youth. 2000.Family sins & other stories
Par William Trevor. 1990
Includes 12 tales of country life in Ireland, which are portraits of everyday folk in crisis. Those characters seem resigned…
to the bleak fates they themselves have arranged: here, a daughter's virtue is traded for a bit of land and a seemingly happy union proves to have had grim origins. 1990.Girls to the rescue: book #7
Par Ed Lansky Bruce. 2000
Once again, girls save the day in these eight exciting stories from around the world. Kimberly must land a plane…
during a storm when the pilot is knocked out, while Taneya, a Rwandan girl, uses her wits and her skill at basketball to outwit poachers. Grades 3-6. 2000.