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The dead are more visible
Par Steven Heighton. 2012
These 11 stories encapsulate divergent themes of love and loss, containment and exclusion. In the title story, a parks &…
recreation worker faces an assailant who does not leave the altercation intact. A medical researcher and his claustrophobic fiancée are locked in the trunk of their car after a failed carjacking (the thief can't drive standard). A young woman enters a pharmaceutical trial in the outer reaches of suburbia and slips between sleeping and waking with alarming ease. 2012.The day nothing happened
Par Terence Clarke. 1988
This collection of 12 short stories is set in Sarawak, Malaysia during the 1960s with the central character of Dan…
Collins, an engineer on loan from the American government. All stories provide sensitive portrayals of human experiences that transcend cultural differences. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1988.The Dancing sun: a celebration of Canadian children
Par Jan Andrews. 1981
The clarinet polka: A Novel (Raysburg Ser. #1)
Par Keith Maillard. 2002
Discharged in 1969 after serving in Guam, non-combatant pilot Jimmy Koprowski returns to his parents' house in Raysburg, West Virginia.…
Trying to readjust though sex and booze, he begins a messy affair with Connie. But things really spiral out of control when his sister starts an all-girl Polka band, and Jimmy can't control his disturbing feelings for 15-year-old clarinet virtuoso Janice. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2002.The dark side of Guy de Maupassant: a selection and translation
Par Guy De Maupassant, Arnold Kellett. 1989
The dark: new ghost stories
Par Ellen Datlow. 2003
16 new ghost stories, varied in locale, period, and style, including westerns, faux memoirs, and romance. In Glenn Hirshberg's "Dancing…
Men," the ghost is the shadow of the Holocaust, which haunts a survivor of the concentration camps. A grandfather clock is animated by the spirit of a murder victim in "The Ghost of the Clock", while the lingering influence of a madwoman who terrorizes a child appears in "Feeling Remains". Some descriptions of violence and strong language. 2003.This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are…
complete and unabridged. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published. Each story stands alone but several are linked together by events and characters. Grades P-2. 1997.The corvette (Nathaniel Drinkwater Ser. #Bk. 5)
Par Richard Woodman. 1985
Commander Drinkwater is dispatched in haste to replace the captain of HMS "Melusine", who has been shot in a duel.…
"Melusine" sails as escort to the whaling fleet from Hull on its annual expedition to the Greenland Sea. During the whale hunt the loss of one of the vessels sets off a train of misfortune, disaster, death and treachery in this remote sea. Sequel to "The bomb vessel" (DC29184). 1985.The cut-rate kingdom: a novel
Par Thomas Keneally. 1980
By 1942 the whole world is at war and Australia looks with alarm at the course of events in Asia.…
Prime Minister Johnny Mulhall and his reporter friend, "Paperboy" Tyson, share the same ambivalence: rallying the nation to action while feeling the burden of sending thousands of young men to Asia and certain death. The Japanese assault on Singapore has altered the balance of power: the old relationship with Britain is giving way to the new one with America. 1980.The custodian of paradise
Par Wayne Johnston. 2006
Sheilagh Fielding - a striking, unconventional, six-foot-three Newfoundland columnist - has holed up on the island of Loreburn after her…
mother dies. There, Fielding senses the presence of her mysterious "Provider," who has shadowed her all her life and whom she has never met face-to-face. As Fielding tells her life story and keeps her secrets, her Provider draws closer. Sequel to "The colony of unrequited dreams" (DC17664). 2006.The dark and other love stories
Par Deborah Willis. 2015
The characters in these thirteen stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house…
is haunted. A drug dealer’s girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenage girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humour, these subtle, complex stories—about the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reporter—show how love ties us to one another and to the world. Winner of the 2018 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. 2015.The conformist: a novel
Par Alberto Moravia, Angus Davidson. 1983
As a young boy Marcello feels a conflict between pleasure in violent acts - like killing lizards - and his…
desire to be "normal." His struggle continues into adulthood during the Mussolini era, until he receives an assignment that causes him to lose control. Basis for the 1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci. Some violence. 1983, c1951. Uniform title: Conformista.The dark way: stories from the spirit world
Par Virginia Hamilton. 1990
Twenty-five eerie tales from myth, legend, and folklore gathered from around the world are retold in this collection. Some are…
funny, others horrifying, and others heroic. Familiar stories of Medusa and Baba Yaga and the golem appear, as well as a Mexican legend based on the Aztec ritual of human sacrifice, and a North American Indian trickster tale of Manabozo. Grades 5-8. c1990.The crystal frontier: a novel in nine stories
Par Carlos Fuentes, Alfred J Mac Adam. 1998
Nine stories by the award-winning Mexican author are tied together by the title reference to the border between Mexico and…
the United States. Fuentes explores the cultural and economic differences between the Hispanics and the Anglos where they intermingle geographically. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1998, c1995. Uniform title: Frontera de cristal.The corner garden
Par Lesley Krueger. 2003
Jessie Barfoot is 15, precocious, witty, and wounded, and has just moved to Toronto with her mother and new stepfather.…
She becomes curious about their cranky neighbour Martha, originally from the Netherlands, who is not only a superb gardener but someone who has been ferociously guarding a secret since she was Jessie's age. Once Jessie charms her way into the garden, Martha's past slowly becomes revealed, threatening both their futures. Strong language. 2003.The collected short stories
Par D. H Lawrence. 1974
In this complete collection, famous stories like "Odour of Chrysanthemums", dealing with a wife's feelings on the death of her…
drunkard miner husband stand next to lesser-known ones like "The Blind Man", where war-blinded Maurice, in harmony with nature, towers both mentally and physically above the characterless, sighted, social success Bertie. For senior high readers. 1974.The complete robot
Par Isaac Asimov. 1982
The complete stories
Par Bernard Malamud, Robert Giroux. 1997
Collection of fifty-five previously published stories written between 1940 and 1984. They demonstrate Malamud's development from narratives grounded in the…
real-life surroundings of his parents' Brooklyn grocery to tales of fantasy written later in life. Concludes with experimental pieces about Virginia Woolf and Alma, wife of composer Gustav Mahler. 1997. Uniform title: Short storiesThe collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Par Isaac Bashevis Singer. 1982
When accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 Singer said that the storyteller must be "an entertainer of the…
spirit". His stories range from the fantastic and supernatural to tales of ordinary life and people. 1982.The comfort of strangers
Par Ian McEwan. 1981
For Mary and Colin, on holiday in a city where everything is strange to them and they are continually lost…
both physically and mentally, it is easy to close their eyes to the hidden danger lurking behind Robert's apparent friendliness. 1981.