From the author of the bestselling FarFrom Home comes an unforgettable volume of Christmas stories and poetry set in modern-day Newfoundland. While drawing on her own memories of growing up in outport Newfoundland, Nellie Strowbridge recaptures sights and sounds of the...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2006-10-18

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Longlisted for a ReLit Award (2007) Alcuin Society Citation for Excellence in Design The stories in Sugar Bush & Other Stories deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Most of the pieces feature female protagonists who navigate their young adult years...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2006-10-15

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Pigeon Inlet is the setting for Ted Russell's stories, written for radio between 1953 and 1961. Here you will meet not only Uncle Mose, but other characters whose names have become synonymous with traditional outport life: Grampa and Grandma Walcott, Skipper Joe, Aunt...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2006-03-15

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Shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award The innocence and clarity of Teri Vlassopoulos’s narrative voice reveals new and unexpected layers. The characters in these stories look for signs and omens as they attempt to understand events in their lives by framing...

Editeur : Invisible Publishing
Parution : 1999-12-31

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Stories Subversive offers a selection of Nellie McClung's best short fiction, which includes depictions of difficult rural living conditions in Western Canada as well as "consciousness-raising" stories reflecting the undue restrictions on women and the anti-female laws...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 1997-10-17

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This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians....

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 1980-01-01

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This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians....

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 1980-01-01

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Table of contents Sleeping Beauty has a new thorn - Fary Tail retold The riddel of the spearhead - Agent story The Settlement - This Could Have Been - Archaeologists’ Story The Dagger That Didn't Belong to Rome - Archaeologists’ Story Raven - whatever you think, it's...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2026-01-07

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Splinter Works is a vibrant collection of short stories written across three decades, fragments of thought, feeling, and imagination shaped into self-contained moments. Sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholic, often unexpected, these stories span fiction and truth,...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-07-07

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The following collection in 4 volumes contains just over 60 short stories, each short story is based on a biblical passage from the New Testament like a parable and is applied to our time. A short time to catch your breath, a short time perhaps to reflect, a short time...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-06-30

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"Tonight was Bonfire Night. It was her hometown's beloved social tradition - and there was a good chance that Chris Jacobs would be there." Can reconnecting with your past bring clarity to your present? Singer-songwriter Nora Sänger invites readers to follow Jenna as...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-05-08

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If an experienced bank robber develops a new plan to improve his life and needs a lot of money to do so, his team pays attention to every word and every detail of the plan. They all want to know exactly what they have to do and where they have to rely on others. The...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-04-23

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A strange late-night talk show lifts spirits with absurdity until it doesn't. What is causing distress in the small village, could a children's story be true? Money. That's it. Really, it can make people do awful things. Tragedy after tragedy on a work...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-03-28

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"Life in an ever-shrinking box" is a collection of short stories written by Alisa Popova. A lonely woman sits on a magic train. A baboon ponders about the definition of beauty. Last-minute kisses, inevitable apocalypses, and a man peeling a pomegranate. In awe of...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-02-26

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Of Lilies and Daisies.Of Lilies and Daisies.Of Lilies and Daisies....

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-01-15

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This collection is an album of short stories; each tale a love affair with a particular song, an homage to a DJ and a dedication to someone that influenced and guided the author through his formative years.

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2024-09-26

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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous...

Editeur : Librofilio
Parution : 2024-02-02

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Es sind die zehn besten skurrilen short stories von Bodo Jeske. Sie liegen jetzt zweisprachig vor: in English & German.

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2024-01-23

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Babsi is frustrated. The short vacation that was planned for her and her family in Bergfels Village is cancelled. The Christmas market in Bergfels, which her wife wanted to report on, will not take place. Furthermore, the bazaar, which her daughter, Hannah, was involved...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2023-12-13

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Do you like chickens? Then you probably watch them occasionally and know: chicken cinema is relaxing. You might notice a chicken that behaves a little differently than the rest of the gaggle. You continue to keep an eye on it - and imperceptibly you are on a journey of...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2023-08-02

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