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Par Bill Gaston. 1998
A collection of short stories set mainly in New Brunswick and dealing primarily with middle aged men trying to make…
sense of their lives. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 1998.Par Calvin Daniels. 2001
Par Ed Kavanagh. 2013
“Strays” features ten stories that explore the lives of those who somehow find themselves adrift. In “The Strayaway Child” a…
ninety-year-old woman recalls her girlhood during the Great Depression; in “The Red Merc” a boy learns deep truths about his often absent father; and in “The Wind” a Newfoundlander in a big Canadian city struggles with issues of identity. Affecting and often humorous, “Strays” speaks to our desire to belong. c2013.Par Irina Kovalyova. 2015
Short stories that explore science and the human heart; the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional…
lives. In “The Blood Keeper,” a young academic travels to North Korea to work on her dissertation and embarks on a dangerous affair. In “Mamochka,” which was nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize, an archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk must come to terms with her daughter’s marriage to a Chinese man in Vancouver. And in “The Big One,” a woman and her daughter find themselves trapped in the rubble of an underground parking garage after an earthquake. 2015.Par Gilbert Reid. 2004
In an overcrowded hospital in war-torn Bosnia, a Muslim soldier and a young Serbian woman - one crippled, the other…
blind - find solace in "Pavilion 24." In small-town Ontario, a father and daughter relive the summer when a mysterious, ethereal girl entered their lives and a brutal assault changed everything. From Paris to Italy to Bosnia to rural Ontario, these nine stories take the reader on a journey of love, sex, violence and the politics of desire. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2004.Par Andrew Gray. 2001
Twelve short stories featuring innovative conceits, characters fleeing from life's problems, and doses of ironic, dark humour. In "Outside," a…
car accident separates a couple, while in "Ring Around the Moon," a buttoned-down insurance worker goes off on an adventure when his father moves back to his native Scotland. Roaming from Canada to Fiji to Australia, these are portraits of outsiders and lost souls who worship at the altar of medical science while secretly praying for redemptive love. 2001.Par Gabriella Goliger. 2000
German Jews Ernst and Hannah Birnbaum flee Hitler but cannot escape the shadow of the Holocaust. In Montreal they attempt…
to create a shelter for their children, Rachel and Avi. This new generation struggles with the inherited alienation that accompanies exile, striving to both protect and escape their vulnerable elders. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2000.Par Jaspreet Singh. 2004
In a series of linked short stories, two Sikh boys, named Adi and Arjun, come of age in an Indian…
army camp in Kashmir. Each story builds upon a minor character from another story, creating a portrait of the border community. Some of the people the boys meet include a boatman's daughter, a captured officer, a celebrity cricket umpire, and Parachute Aunty. Some strong language. 2004.Par Ann Copeland. 1994
Claire Delaney left her convent after eleven years as a nun. Now married with grown children, she explores the complicated…
territory of middle age. Some of the stories depict actual or emotional pilgrimages to the past, as when Claire honours an unexpected summons from her former Mother Superior, now dying and wishing to see her. In the final story, she agrees to go on a television talk show to explain why she became a nun and why she abandoned that life. Sequel to "The golden thread". 1994.Par Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.Par Dean R Koontz. 1996
A collection of haunting stories which includes two full length novels, one of which has never before been published, nine…
novelettes, and over half-a dozen short stories, all sharing a common theme of strange highways from one end of America to the other. 1996.Par Margaret Atwood. 2001
A collection of original stories by twelve of Canada's most celebrated and best loved authors, including Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier,…
Timothy Findley, Antonine Maillet, Alberto Manguel and Michael Turner. When presented with the question - What are the great events in Canadian history? - they responded by travelling into the past to discover the moments that shaped our nation. 2001.Par Oscar Wilde. 1986
Does the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will he meet his match in…
the Otis family? Or will the rambunctious Otis children be the very death of him? The answers lie in these witty, hilarious tales. 1986. Uniform title: Short stories.Par Stuart McLean. 1995
This new collection of stories from McLean's CBC radio show "The Vinyl Cafe" features peculiarly Canadian traits, like shopping trips…
to the Bay, and a character who worries about being a hoser. The cast includes Margaret Dwyer, a suburban housewife who startles herself by shoplifting a pepperoni sausage, and record store owner Dave, whose humanity is challenged by a $563.30 bill for a sick guinea pig. Some strong language. 1995.Par Timothy Findley. 1988
These nine stories, which are linked in various ways, look at urban life, relationships and, especially, obsessions. The collection closes…
with "Stones", a compelling look at the landing at Dieppe told through the eyes of a boy contemplating his father's ruined life.Par John D Seelye. 1994
The literature of the old west is very old, but stories from the region only began to appear after the…
civil war, as the short story emerged as a major literary form and the west emerged as a separate, distinctly American culture. This collection brings together fifty of the best stories of the old west, by some of America's finest writers, including Bret Harte, Stephen Crane, Jack London and Mark Twain. 1994.Par Lurlene McDaniel. 1998
Three short stories taking place at Christmas time. In "Christmas Child" a teenager confronts the death of her newborn sister.…
In "Last Dance" Brenda is confused by a cancer patient's love for her. In "Kathy's Life" Ellie learns to reject high school pettiness. Junior and senior high readers. 1998.Par Don Hunter. 1989
Descendants of pioneer settlers, native Indians and more recent arrivals weave their way through these warm and witty short stories…
set in the fictional community of Spinner's Inlet in British Columbia's Gulf Islands. Nominated for the 1990 Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. c1989.Par Connie Gault. 1987
Par Ramona Dearing. 2004
A collection of stories that seem to be searching for justice. Includes stories about such characters as Lyle Margoulis, a…
man who is prompted to resume to search for his missing grandson after finding a body in a ravine; and a young woman who likes to punch people on the nose who learns that the man she admires spends time with her only because they live in isolated Labrador. 2004.