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The circus in the attic, and other stories: And Other Stories
Par Robert Penn Warren. 1947
A collection of stories that variously portray Southern small town society, rural life, and a professor in academia. "Blackberry Winter"…
is a man's boyhood reminiscence about a rude drifter who visited his family's Kentucky farm years ago and made an indelible impression. 1947.The company of strangers
Par Robert Wilson. 2001
In 1944, while the endgame of the intelligence war is silently being fought, Andrea Aspinall and Karl Voss enter the…
sophisticated world of the war. It is here in this corrupted paradise that they each attempt to find love. After a night of terrible violence Andrea is left with a secret which provokes a lifelong addiction to a clandestine world. In ice-gripped East Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets are held not by governments but by those closest to you. 2001.The communist's daughter
Par Dennis Bock. 2006
Battlefield surgeon Norman Bethune - when not tending to Mao's starving army - is diligently writing a philosophical yet jarringly…
frank memoir for the daughter he has never seen. His musings over bombs, blood, betrayals, and lost love offer little in the way of comfort, providing trenchant insights into human nature instead. They reflect the troubled soul of a war-weary idealist whose dreams of a better world were battered by ugly reality. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.Si c'est ça l'amour et autres nouvelles
Par Bronwen Wallace, René-Daniel Dubois. 2017
Dans ces onze nouvelles remarquables, Bronwen Wallace observe avec une maîtrise sans compromis notre humanité au quotidien. À l'instar de…
Timothy Findley ou d'Alice Munro, ses contemporains, elle use tantôt d'humour, tantôt d'imaginaire ou reste au contraire très ancrée dans la réalité, qu'elle applique sur la toile des jours par touches toujours savamment dosées. Qu'elle décrive la sensation inoubliable laissée par le ruissellement de l'eau sur la peau lors d'une journée torride, l'angoisse d'une mère en proie au doute devant le comportement de ses enfants adolescents ou le désespoir ravageur qui seul reste après la disparition de l'être aimé, il est impossible de ne pas être envouté par ses personnages tant ils nous deviennent familiers en un clin d'oeil. Porteur avant tout d'un message de vie, Si c'est ça l'amour saisit le moment où le talent littéraire de l'auteure, trop tôt disparue, se révèle dans toute sa splendeur. 2017. Titre uniforme: People you'd trust your life to.The burning summer
Par Claire Rayner. 1984
Ruthie Lee is seven, and England is at war. Brought back from the countryside to live with her mother and…
baby brother in London, she spends summer in the hot dusty streets and the warm companionship of the East End Jewish community. As if air-raids were not enough, there is a shadow across all their lives, for her father has deserted from the army, there is no money coming in, and soldiers are looking for him. 1984.The boat
Par Nam Le. 2009
Stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa;…
from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea - while taking us to the heart of what is means to be human. 2009.The caretaker
Par Thomas William Simpson. 1998
Samantha Henderson's husband, Gunn, receives a mysterious job offer that includes a lot of perks, especially a house with a…
caretaker. Sam becomes involved with the servant, not realizing he's a threat to her family. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 1998.The chains of fate (Goldhayes trilogy ; #2)
Par Pamela Belle. 1987
Civil war raged over the land, and Thomazine married Dominic whom she could never love, believing her Francis to be…
dead. When she learned that Francis was alive she rode north, deserting her child, to find the man she loved. Time and again, her chains of fate would tear Thomazine and Francis apart, yet some day the chains of love must prove stronger. Sequel to "The moon in the water". Followed by "Alethea". 1987. (Goldhayes trilogy ; 2)The cellist of Sarajevo
Par Steven Galloway. 2008
Sarajevo, 1992. A cellist plays Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor as a memorial on each of twenty-two days following a…
mortar attack that kills twenty-two citizens who are standing in a bread line. The music deeply affects a sniper, a father, and an older man. Inspired by historic events. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Winner of the 2009 Evergreen Award. 2008.The bottle imp
Par Robert Louis Stevenson. 1981
Presents a Hawaiian couple who find themselves saddled with a genie in a bottle who is no bargain; and three…
other supernatural tales: Markheim; Thrawn Janet; and Olalla. 1981. Uniform title: Short stories.The breadwinner (Breadwinner Ser. #1)
Par Deborah Ellis. 2000
A story about loyalty, survival, families and friendship, set against the backdrop of an intolerable existence in war-torn Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old…
Parvana lives in Taliban-controlled Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. Masquerading as a boy, Parvana goes to work in the streets so that her family can eat. Parvana becomes the breadwinner. Grades 5-8. 2000.The breached wall (Wheels of fortune ; #3)
Par Anita Burgh. 2007
Spring 1915. Far away in France, the Great War was not over by Christmas as was confidently predicted. It shows…
no sign of ending, and the peaceful calm of Cresswell Manor in Devon has been shattered. It is now a convalescent home for soldiers from the Front. The old social order is crumbling as surely as time begins to breach the walls of the ancient manor house. Sequel to "The heart's citadel". 2007. (Wheels of fortune ; 3)The broken bough (Hallam Family ; #1)
Par Nicola Thorne. 2001
In the early 1900s pretty Cathy Read is widowed when her husband, Bill, is killed in an accident and soon…
life is a struggle. She has three young children to feed and clothe: Verity, Addie and Peg, so when Cathy's eldest sister offers to adopt Verity, she reluctantly agrees. Despite a new marriage to an old friend of Bill's, Cathy's hardships only increase with the addition of two more children and, eventually, the outbreak of war in 1914. During the war, Verity becomes a nursing sister, Addie a teacher, and Peg considers embarking on a career as a journalist. By the time of the Armistice, each member of the family finds her life radically changed by a world with strange new values. 2001. (Hallam Family ; 1)The bomb vessel (Nathaniel Drinkwater Ser. #Bk. 4)
Par Richard Woodman. 1984
Drinkwater is determined to turn the "Virago" back into a fighting ship and, despite falling foul of Lord Nelson and…
nearly losing his ship, succeeds in playing a crucial role in the Battle of Copenhagen. Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of the old 'Virago', a stores tender in the Baltic expedition of 1801. 1984.The book of ifs and buts: stories (Vintage tales)
Par Rabindranath Maharaj. 2002
Nine stories that mainly deal with the experiences of ethnically Indian Trinidadian men who have immigrated to Canada. In "Swami…
Pankaj", a Trinidadian master farmer, who wishes nothing more than to retire to the Himalayas and become a mystic, leads a strange second life as a Brampton taxi driver. "The House in Lengua Village" concerns a schoolteacher who returns home, only to unexpectedly officiate at his father's funeral. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2002.The bully boys
Par Eric Walters. 2000
While the War of 1812 rages, Tom Roberts, fourteen, is left behind to look after the family farm. That all…
changes when he stops some American soldiers from robbing the local store. His quick thinking and bravery catch the eye of Lieutenant James FitzGibbon and lead to Tom joining the Bully Boys, FitzGibbon's unit. There Tom learns more about the fascination, and the horror, of war than he ever wanted to know. Junior high readers. 2000.The bush soldiers
Par John Hooker. 1984
Five stranded soldiers, two British, three Australian, try to survive as they trek across a bleak stretch of Australia in…
1943 destroying anything that might help the invading Japanese. The story of their adventures and privations alternates with flashbacks to the story of the heroic Sawtell, a dutiful member of the Australian Volunteer Defence Corps. Some strong language. 1984.The burning blue
Par James Holland. 2004
Joss Lambert has always been a loner, constrained by a secret from his past, until he finds friendship and solace…
firstly with Guy Liddell, a friend from school, and then with Guy's family, who welcome him into their farmhouse home. Joss increasingly comes to depend upon the Liddells and treats Alvesdon Farm as the one place where he feels not only appreciated but also truly happy. The idyll cannot last. With war looming, Joss is forced to confront the past. He escapes through flying, becoming a fighter pilot in the RAF. But with the onset of war, even the Liddells's world is crumbling. As Joss is fighting for his life in the Battle of Britain, so he begins to fall madly in love with Stella - Guy's twin. 2004.The butterfly ward
Par Margaret Gibson. 1976
Collection of compassionate short stories by an award-winning Canadian writer. Delves into the personalities of those who are considered "insane"…
by those of us who consider ourselves "normal." Gibson attempts to show that one person's so-called madness us another person's reality. Some strong language. 1976.The Blythes are quoted
Par L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.