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Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771050992 |
For more than three decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada's most celebrated annual fiction anthology and a who's-who of up-and-coming writers. With settings ranging from a wildlife rescue centre to a Living Body exhibit, the thirteen stories in this collection represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging literary talents. On Sunday afternoons, a coven of teenagers gathers at The Lois Lanes bowling alley to discuss their shared obsession with the second hottest boy in school. A patient joins her therapist and her therapist's granddaughter for an unconventional session--a field trip to confront the reviled Feed Machine. Troubled by dreams and trailed by crows, a woman far from home struggles to confront an old guilt. As a half-remembered Beach Boys song plays in the background, a daughter recalls the man her father used to be through a tender inventory of their time together. In a community plagued by petrochemical-induced diseases and environmental ruin, a man spends his nights caring for his dying partner and his days navigating a dangerous workplace. An android watches her creators' relationship break down before her eyes. A gang of girls roams the streets of a ravaged city, hunting their would-be predators. In her journey to become a woman and a healer, a Cree girl enters the woods alone to learn the stories and medicines of plants, only to be transformed by an unexpected connection. The stories included in this volume are contenders for the $10,000 Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
Author | : Sharon Bala |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2018-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771050755 |
The 30th edition of the celebrated annual fiction collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
Author | : Toni Morrison |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618397402 |
The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
Author | : Joe Wilkins |
Publisher | : White Pine Press Poetry Prize |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781935210368 |
A book that interrogates the idea of America--especially our westering, both historical and contemporary.
Author | : David Huebert |
Publisher | : Biblioasis |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1771964480 |
Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction • A Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist • A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Siskiyou Prize Semi-Finalist • A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction Title of 2021 Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world. From refinery operators to long term care nurses, dishwashers to preppers to hockey enforcers, Chemical Valley’s compassionate and carefully wrought stories cultivate rich emotional worlds in and through the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, Chemical Valley doesn’t shy away from urgent modern questions—the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the place of technoculture in this ecological spasm—but grounds these anxieties in the vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters’ lives. Swamp-wrought and heartfelt, these stories run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves.
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771047371 |
“This year, eighty-one different stories battled for our affections, ranging in content from a post-apocalyptic suburb coping with rumours of cannibalism, to a movie theatre in Mauritius where dreams of a better future flicker onscreen, to a mattress store where a long-lasting friendship threatens to come undone. For each of us, it was a chance to partake in a process that now stretches back twenty-five years, a sneak peak at authors who – in the future – will likely become favourites.” --Miranda Hill, Mark Medley, and Russell Wangersky (from their Introduction) Among the stories this year: Brimming with restless energy, Doretta Lau’s “How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?” is a sometimes provocative portrait of adolescent angst and rebellion set among a gang of “dragoons” growing up in Vancouver. It vividly brings to life a twenty-first-century culture clash and illuminates the struggles, and alienation, of Chinese youth – whether from Hong Kong or the Mainland – now living in “Lotus Land.” Doretta Lau’s story positively hums, the language a well-shaken cocktail of influences ranging from hip-hop and Asian cinema to Chinese history and “the slang of the West.” As vibrant and colourful as graffiti. Well-timed and yet still carefully fractured enough to be jarring, Eliza Robertson’s “My Sister Sang” is a marvel of unexpected directions and sharp edges. A deftly-told story of two eavesdroppers, one a linguist, the other, professionally tuned to acoustics, who listen – over and over – to every scrap of a tragedy. Even with the distance and detachment of its characters from the centre of its disaster, there is no easy peace, no mere scientific examination of cause and effect: this is writing as carefully crafted and fine as pastry, with thin, perfect layers where every line serves to strengthen the rest. Naben Ruthnum’s “Cinema Rex” is as rich and visual as the films at its centre, which play on the new movie screen in one neighbourhood of Mauritius in the 1950s. The author beautifully draws the connections between the changing community, inundated by Hollywood and after-school English lessons, and a season of vital shifts for three friends transitioning out of boyhood. Full of heady sensory details, Ruthnum’s deft observations of family and class interactions create an entire world of established histories and hierarchies, even though the reader is only privy to a sliver of these stories.
Author | : Lisa Foad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Both bold and delicate, this collection of eloquently written stories delves into issues of desire, sex and sexuality, and misfits with a variety of tales. The experimental writing swiftly moves through inventive, esoteric plots with a brazen voice that extends an invitation to readers to relate to impossibly private lives. Fearlessly exploring those things culturally considered grotesque and monstrous, these thought-provoking stories find a beauty and intimacy in unlikely characters and their arcane stories.
Author | : Doretta Lau |
Publisher | : Harbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0889712999 |
Building on the success of the Journey Prize-shortlisted title story, the stories of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? present an updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian. Lau alludes to the personal and political histories of a number of young Asian Canadian characters to explain their unique perspectives of the world, artfully fusing pure delusion and abstract perception with heartbreaking reality. Correspondingly, the book’s title refers to an interview with Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, who when asked about the Shanghai Sharks, the team that shaped his formative sporting years, responded, “How does a single blade of grass thank the sun?” Lau’s stories feature the children and grandchildren of immigrants, transnational adoptees and multiracial adults who came of age in the 1990s—all struggling to find a place in the Western world and using the only language they know to express their hopes, fears and expectations.
Author | : National Geographic Kids |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1426330790 |
You've explored the digital world of Jamaa, but now, let National Geographic Kids show you how to bring your adventures to life! A fun and cool collectable for die-hard Animal Jam fans and animal-lovers alike, this journal is filled with imaginative, inspirational, and silly prompts to get kids writing. Paired with fantastic facts about creativity and exploring our planet, Jammers of all ages will want to keep this interactive journal on their bookshelf forever.
Author | : Angélique Lalonde |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1487009585 |
Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home. Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children’s clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends the family garden. Deep in the mountains, a shapeshifting mother must sift through her ancestors’ gifts and the complexities of love when one boy is born with a beautiful set of fox ears and another is not. In the wake of her elderly mother’s tragic death, a daughter tries to make sense of the online dating profile she left behind. And a man named Pooka finds new ways to weave new stories into his abode, in spite of his inherited suffering. A startling and beguiling story collection, Glorious Frazzled Beings is a love song to the homes we make, keep, and break.