Keep and Other Stories

Keep and Other Stories
Author: Peter Biles
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1666753262

Emerging writer Peter Biles offers his first anthology of short stories. Composed with experimental boldness, the stories extend from the hilarious to the grim, from urban disillusionment to rural desperation, from fantasy to gritty realism, and from frustrated longing to quiet hope. With creative debts owed to the likes of Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Connor, and Anton Chekhov, Keep and Other Stories explores human life and relations in a world where utility and power are all that matters. “Keep,” the penultimate story about two teenage lovers in a dying Colorado lumber town, seeks to unify the anthology into a thematic whole with its tender treatment of characters who are at a crossroads with each other, the dispassionate way of the world, and their own conflicted hearts.

Keeping the House

Keeping the House
Author: Tice Cin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781913505080

From a bewitching new voice, a story of a young woman coming into her own

The Green Hand and Other Stories

The Green Hand and Other Stories
Author: Nicole Claveloux
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1681371081

Now in paperback, a collection of “darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing” (The New York Times) short stories by the lauded French comics artist Nicole Claveloux. Nicole Claveloux’s short stories—originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English—are among the most beautiful comics ever drawn: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are strange but oddly recognizable, filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through. In the title story, written with Edith Zha, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance—complete with talking shrubbery, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This selection, designed and introduced by Daniel Clowes, presents the full achievement of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics.

Fox & Chick: The Party

Fox & Chick: The Party
Author: Sergio Ruzzier
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781452152882

A 2019 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award Honoree NPR Best Books of the Year, New York Times Notable Children's Book, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year Join the dynamic, yet opposite duo as they learn to appreciate differences among friends: Fox and Chick don't always agree, but Fox and Chick are always friends. With sly humor and companionable warmth, Sergio Ruzzier deftly captures the adventures of these seemingly opposite friends. With spare text and airy images, this early chapter book is also accessible to a picture book audience. • Book teaches a lesson about accepting and cherishing our differences through sweet and funny characters as they embark on silly adventures • Luminous watercolor images showcased in comic-book panel form will entice emerging readers, keeping them engaged and wanting more • Sergio Ruzzier is a Sendak Fellow whose work has been lauded by the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, and the Society of Publication Designers "A subtle lesson, couched in humor: We can be friends with people who aren't just like us." — The New York Times • Great family and classroom read-aloud book • Books for kids ages 5-8 • Books for early and emergent readers

How They Met and Other Stories

How They Met and Other Stories
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375849424

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.

In Kropsberg Keep and Other Stories

In Kropsberg Keep and Other Stories
Author: Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In Kropsberk Keep and Other Stories by Ralph Adams Cram is about old Peter Rosskopf looking after two young men who are studying painting in the haunted castle Brixleg. Excerpt: "To the traveler from Innsbrück to Munich, up the lovely valley of the silver Inn, many castles appear, one after another, each on its beetling cliff or gentle hill,--appear and disappear, melting into the dark fir trees that grow so thickly on every side,--Laneck, Lichtwer, Ratholtz, Tratzberg, Matzen, Kropfsberg, gathering close around the entrance to the dark and wonderful Zillerthal."

The Wagon and Other Stories from the City

The Wagon and Other Stories from the City
Author: Martin Preib
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0226679810

Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department—a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib’s daily life on the job, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City chronicles the outer and inner lives of both a Chicago cop and the city itself. The book follows Preib as he transports body bags, forges an unlikely connection with his female partner, trains a younger officer, and finds himself among people long forgotten—or rendered invisible—by the rest of society. Preib recounts how he navigates the tenuous labyrinths of race and class in the urban metropolis, such as a domestic disturbance call involving a gang member and his abused girlfriend or a run-in with a group of drunk yuppies. As he encounters the real and imagined geographies of Chicago, the city reveals itself to be not just a backdrop, but a central force in his narrative of life and death. Preib’s accounts, all told in his breathtaking prose, come alive in ways that readers will long remember.

Other Stories and Other Stories

Other Stories and Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141912804

A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent Individually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith's storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous. ***** 'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times 'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement

Dancing on My Grave

Dancing on My Grave
Author: Gelsey Kirkland
Publisher: John Curley & Assoc
Total Pages: 585
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781555043254

The candid self-portrait of one of America's most famous ballerinas and a story of the high-pressure world of dance that brought the acclaimed dancer to a nightmare world of illness, drug addiction, and suicidal despair

Zima Blue

Zima Blue
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Gollancz
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780575084551

A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair Reynolds Reynolds' pursuit of truth is not limited to wide-angle star smashing - not that stars don't get pulverised when one character is gifted (or cursed) with an awful weapon by the legendary Merlin. Reynolds' protagonists find themselves in situations of betrayal, whether by a loved one's accidental death, as in 'Signal to Noise', or by a trusted wartime authority, in 'Spirey and the Queen'. His fertile imagination can resurrect Elton John on Mars in 'Understanding Space and Time' or make prophets of the human condition out of pool-cleaning robots in the title story. But overall, the stories in ZIMA BLUE represent a more optimistic take on humanity's future, a view that says there may be wars, there may be catastrophes and cosmic errors, but something human will still survive.