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An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002Behind the song
Par K. M. Walton, David Arnold, G. Love, K. M. Walton. 2017
An anthology of stories and personal essays exploring how music inspires creativity and can change a person's life. The pieces…
are written by award-winning young adult authors and contemporary musicians. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2017Jungfrau: a selection of works from the Caine Prize for African writing
Par Mary Watson. 2007
Seventh annual short story collection includes the Caine Prize winner and works shortlisted for 2006 and tales by 2007 Caine…
Prize workshop writers. In South African Mary Watson's title piece, a girl becomes jealous of her mother's impoverished students and discovers a family a secret. Some strong language. 2007The elephant and my Jewish problem: selected stories and journals, 1957-1987
Par Hugh Nissenson. 1988
"A man faces the serious and mysterious consequences of his unusual paternity. A young peasant girl takes an eccentric villager…
as her lover and pays for her audacity. A group of revelers experience horror at the abuses and vicissitudes of a strange visitor. We accompany a sick man on his journey through the landscapes of his feverish delirium, only to get lost along the way and arrive at the end that was not. A man emigrates from his homeland in search of a bait in the form of a woman and ends up facing a fantastic opponent. These are some of Pedro Cabiya's Tremendous Stories, the first book by the then very young writer and a fundamental text that forever changed the rules of the game in Caribbean literature." -- Translation provided by NLSBaseball in April and other stories
Par Gary Soto. 1990
Eleven vignettes set in central California feature young Mexican-Americans going about the business of growing up. Fausto, who longs for…
a guitar, fraudulently receives a hefty reward when he returns a stray pet to a wealthy neighbor, but he is guilt-ridden until he relinquishes the money in church. And Marie, who declines a boring family vacation, is angry that fun was had without her. For grades 5-8 and older readersNine Florida stories (Florida sand dollar book)
Par Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Kevin M. McCarthy, William L. Trotter. 1990
First published from the 1920s to 1940s in the Saturday Evening Post, these stories embody the environmental concerns of Marjory…
Stoneman Douglas. Set in various parts of South Florida, they reflect conditions, including threats to wildlife, land, and water, that endanger the uniqueness of the region. Douglas's characters range from smugglers to a farm worker, and include veiled autobiographical bits about the indomitable authorBlack enough: stories of being young & Black in America
Par Coe Booth, Kekla Magoon, Rita Williams-Garcia, Varian Johnson, Tracey Baptiste, Justina Ireland, Jason Reynolds, Lamar Giles, Brandy Colbert, Dhonielle Clayton, Ibi Zoboi, Leah Henderson, Renée Watson, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jay Coles. 2019
Seventeen short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, and emphasize that one person's experiences, reality,…
and personal identity are different from someone else's. Contributors include René Watson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, and Justina Ireland. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2019For more than thirty years Elton Miles, a past President of the Texas Folklore Society, has been collecting the stories…
and legends that spring from the unique Big Bend lifestyle. This volume includes never-before-published tales, variations on familiar legends, local border corridos, folk poems and other regional lore. AdultOn Highway 17
Par B. Z. Vukovina. 2013
On Highway 17 by B. Z. R. Vukovina where passion burns brighter than fame as an idealistic guitarist makes his…
way to California, and the young musician is suddenly forced to question his destiny.Raw
Par Amélie Hope. 2013
Raw by Amélie Hope is about lust and love and rock 'n' roll. A young groupie craves the pounding music…
and sexual freedom of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Will she ever be able to find love in this playground of music and lust?Well Played
Par Stella Harris. 2013
In Well Played by Stella Harris a young cellist has the chance of a lifetime at a very prestigious institution.…
But her position is soon compromised by her frustratingly gifted, handsome and manipulative section leader.And the Midnight Trio
Par Harper Eliot. 2013
In And the Midnight Trio by Harper Eliot, a jazz singer teases with her eyes, her body and her voice,…
as the wealthy patrons appraise her body as intently as they appraise her songs. But the singer's lover plays piano in their little trio, and he is a very protective man...La volta al món en 80 dies
Par Lewis York. 2014
Un text de ritme àgil, gairebé frenètic, i carregat de matisos i de girs argumentals que oferim sintetitzat per Lewis…
York sobre un suport de luxe: les magnífiques il·lustracions creades per a la ocasió per Ian Cassalucci. La Terra sempre ha tingut més o menys el mateix volum, però els mitjans de transport, cada vegada més ràpids, aconsegueixen que sembli més petita i fàcil de recórrer. Fa 136 anys, fer la volta al món en 80 dies semblava impossible. Però sempre hi ha gent intrèpida amb ganes de superar reptes, com en Phileas Fogg, el protagonista d'aquesta cronometrada obra de Jules Verne. En Fogg, acompanyat del seu fidel majordom Jean Passepartout, ens demostra que si tenim confiança en nosaltres mateixos sempre trobarem el camí. I també que, fins i tot si fracassem, sempre podem aprendre una lliçó positiva. Un clàssic que, ara més que mai, ve de gust revisar, perquè sempre permet noves lectures i noves imatges com aquestes dotze meravelloses il·lustracions a doble pàgina de tècnica mixta: tinta xinesa i aquarel·la.La vuelta al mundo en 80 días
Par Lewis York. 2014
Un texto de ritmo ágil, casi frenético, y cargado de matices y de giros argumentales que ofrecemos sintetizado por Lewis…
York sobre un soporte de lujo: las magníficas ilustraciones creadas para la ocasión por Ian Cassalucci. La Tierra siempre ha tenido más o menos el mismo volumen, pero los medios de transporte, cada vez más rápidos y seguros, consiguen que parezca más pequeña y fácil de recorrer. Hace 136 años, dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días parecía imposible. Pero siempre hay gente intrépida con ganas de superar retos, como Phileas Fogg, el protagonista de esta cronometrada obra de Jules Verne. Fogg, acompañado de su fiel mayordomo Jean Passepartout, nos demuestra que si tenemos confianza en nosotros mismos, siempre encontraremos el camino. Y también que, incluso si fracasamos, siempre podemos aprender una lección positiva. Un clásico que apetece más que nunca revisitar, porque siempre permite nuevas lecturas y nuevas imágenes como estas doce maravillosas ilustraciones a doble página de técnica mixta: tinta china y acuarela.Crimes
Par Alberto Barrera Tyszka. 2015
Unexplained blood stains appear in a young couple's apartment; a disembodied hand is found in a rubbish dump; political prisoners…
resort to horrific measures in order to make a point.In this brilliant new collection of stories, Alberto Barrera Tyszka casts an eye on the violence that afflicts Latin America, and in particular its intimate effects on the individuals who suffer and inflict it.Mixing the surreal with the quotidian, the banal with the unspeakable, Tyszka has created a fragmentary panorama of man's misdeeds against his own kind. These windingly elliptical stories are ceaselessly surprising, and will bury themselves into your subconscious long after the final page is turned.Revolution (The Africa Trilogy)
Par Jakob Ejersbo. 2009
Revolution is a collection of eleven short stories that act as a vital bridge between the novels Exile and Liberty.…
But it is also so much more than that. Ejersbo had a remarkable and unaffected talent for getting inside the heads of his characters: Moses, a worker in a Tanzanite mine who lives in hope of striking it rich; Sofie, a Greenlander who joins a French conman on his trip around the world; Rachel, who tries to make a life for herself in a city where everyone sees her as a whore in waiting. You feel that Ejerbso could have written from the heart of every person living in Tanzania; and that you could go on reading them forever.The Vicar's Organ
Par Percy Quirk. 2013
The Vicar's Organ by Percy Quirk tells a tale of indiscretion and exploitation running rife through the congregation of a…
quaint country parish. But, as the faithful flock reveal their secrets, who is truly the lamb and who is the lion?Water: An Anthology from Short Story Day Africa
Par Rachel Zadok, Nick Mulgrew. 2015
Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on…
the theme of Water. This is the third in the SSDA collection of anthologies, which aim to break the one-dimensional view of African storytelling and fiction writing.Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop, and discuss stories.Rachel Zadok is the author of two novels: Gem Squash Tokoloshe (2005) and Sister-Sister (2013). Nick Mulgrew is a freelance editor and a columnist for the Sunday Times, South Africa.The Return Journey
Par Maeve Binchy. 1999
In this extraordinary collection of stories, the world-wide bestselling author of Evening Class once again reveals her incomparable understanding of…
matters of the heart. In The Return Journey, Maeve Binchy creates powerful compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travelers pick up each other's bags, and then learn when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life. These and many more poignant, ironic, often humorous stories - unforgettable slices of life -make up The Return Journey, a spellbinding trip into the human heart.Read by Kate Binchy(p) 2009 Orion Publishing Group