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Sous le soleil jaguar: [nouvelles]
Par Italo Calvino. 1990
Stupid boys are good to relax with
Par Susan Swan. 1996
Swan subverts the assumption that it's only the long partnerships that shape our lives. Instead, Swan suggests that random encounters…
often define us in ways we least suspect and point us, for better or worse, in new directions. "A Patrick Crean book." 1996.Swinging through Dixie: Novellas And Stories
Par Leon Rooke. 2016
The two novellas and three short stories in this new collection are united by place and mood. The title novella,…
set in a southern post-WWII American town, sports a Watermelon Queen, a ten-year-old businessman, and other colourful eccentrics, all of whom are puzzled by the familiar lead in a new sexy movie that's come to town. The second novella takes place further south, in a small village perched in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Daring young women, mad mothers, and traumatized children are affected radically by the magic of their world. With these joyful, touching, brilliantly crafted pieces, Rooke speaks to a time and sensibility long forgotten. 2016.Stubborn bones
Par Karen E Smythe. 2001
A collection of short stories in which many of the characters blur the boundary between love and mourning with their…
stubborn hearts and bones. The stories reveal not only the emptiness death causes, but also the way in which it bridges gaps and forces us to take stock of ourselves and our lives. 2000.Tales from the Isle of Spice: a collection of new Caribbean folk tales
Par Richardo Keens-Douglas. 2004
Three magical tales retold for middle readers: enter the richly magical world of Tales from the Isle of Spice and…
visit a bottomless lake where an enchanted princess lives; try your luck against the sinister woman who walks in moonlight stalking souls; catch a glimpse of the mysterious boy with an angelic face whose scarred body hides beneath the waves. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2005 Golden Oak Award. 2004.Tales from the Blue Stacks
Par Robert Bernen. 1978
Engaging tales by a young farmer in the hill country of Ireland. He offers accounts of ancient farming methods and…
portraits of self-sufficient people on subsistence farms. Followed by "The hills : more tales from the Blue Stacks." 1978.Tales of terror and the supernatural
Par Wilkie Collins. 1972
Talking to the dead and other stories
Par Sylvia Watanabe. 1994
Set in a Hawaiian village. The characters in these ten related short stories are poised between conflicting generations and cultures.…
In the title story, a tall young woman with dim marriage prospects apprentices herself to the local kahuna to learn ancient burial rites. And in another story, a father is haunted by World War II memories as he copes with a son on leave from war in Vietnam. 1994.Tales from Watership Down
Par Richard Adams, John Lawrence. 1996
The author returns to the memorable world of the rabbits in this collection. The first part includes several traditional folk…
stories known to all rabbits. Then follow tales about the adventures of El-Ahrairah, the mythical rabbit hero. In the third and principal section are stories about Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and their companions. Grades 5-8. 1996.Sunshine sketches of a little town
Par Stephen Leacock. 1996
Sun and candlelight: Alethea Thomas is more than grateful when Dr Sarre van Diederijk saves her pride from being crushed…
by another man. So when Sarre asks her to marry him and become a mother to his children, Alethea accepts. Only when she gets to Holland does she realise the enormity of the task. A star looks down: Professor Alexander van Zeust's four young nieces and nephews need someone to care for them temporarily. As soon as he meets Beth, the professor knows she's the one to help him. Beth is kind, loving and gets on well with the children, so everyone's happy. Except Beth - who's fallen in love with her employer! 2003.Sword of the samurai: adventure stories from Japan
Par Eric A Kimmel. 1999
Seven stories about the famous samurai warriors of Japan. A lone samurai is attacked by two men - can he…
still be a samurai, even with his head cut off? A brave girl fights tradition to learn swordsmanship, but can she master the arts of the samurai? Grades 3-6. 1999.Shenzheners
Par Yiwei Xue, Darryl Sterk. 2016
Stories inspired by the young city of Shenzhen, a market town north of Hong Kong that became a Special Economic…
Zone in 1980 as an experiment in introducing capitalism to Communist China. A city in which everyone is a newcomer, Shenzhen has grown astronomically to become a major metropolitan centre. These award-winning stories have been hailed as a Chinese "Dubliners". 2016. Uniform title: Chu zu che si ji.Sex is red
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.Skating the edge (New leaf editions. Series seven)
Par Calvin Daniels. 2001
Strays: stories
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.Specimen: stories
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.So this is love: lollipop and other stories
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.Small accidents
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.Song of ascent: stories
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.