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The Summer of Strawberry Rhubarb Pie is a delightful collection of short stories and poems. Jane Herr Desrosiers, a truly gifted author and talented writer, has completed this most recent book that chronicles glimpses of Connecticut summers, the ups and downs of a life well lived, and the creativity of personalities within these narratives. There is a light within each piece that shines bright on one's ability to laugh, love, and cry at ourselves....
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Award-winning author Verlyn Flieger takes readers through a series of insightful short stories exploring tragic aspects of human nature. A few of the tales are dark, others a bit lighter, but all celebrate the creativity of storytelling. The second part of the book is a collection of new poetry unearthing the wonders of language, the mundane, and grief and mourning as part of life-the dark spot within the light. Death is the inevitable, inescapable...
3) Bloodknots
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A collection of beguiling stories from an American writer who excels at depicting the family ties that bind: fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters whose connections to one another are as fragile as they are irrevocable. Stubbornly honest, and imbued with a sensibility that speaks to the author's Jewish heritage, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with authority, passion, and razor-sharp detail about identity and the longing for human connections in the face...
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In these stories of love, loss, and pleasure, a cat wreaks havoc on a marriage, a woman loses her tooth and her partner, and a child searches for the perfect pet. Imaginative, humorous, and a bit disturbing, the stories in Eyes Shut affirm the pain and joy that holds true at the core of all life.
In "Dead to Me," a woman struggles to forget the life she had with her lover until she receives a phone call that changes the course of her grief. Struck...
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When the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked. In this slapstick novella, Karpilove's narrator lampoons the gaggle of blundering publishers and editors who put her through the ringer and spit her back out again.
Along with A Provincial Newspaper,...
7) Good Father
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In Good Father, you will see the role of three men in the life of a young man's realization of his dream; a coach who recognizes the boy's potential, a father, whose molding of his son is, threatened by what he considers an empty goal and a grandfather, whose voice of wisdom evokes reasoning. Tamba Sawie wants to be a football star. However, Kallon would rather his son acquire farming skills to be a good provider for his family. Oldman Galakpai believes...
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Rona Altrows' short stories go to the core of what it is to be human - to cherish a departed mate beyond reason, to love a child to distraction, to keep the faith with a friend no matter what, to laugh in the face of self-doubt. This collection delivers a humorous yet poignant series of tales told from the perspectives of women.
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In M. B. Goffstein's last work, she offers a collection of stories and verse that paint a world of cosmic twists and inapparent truths that delight and inspire. In this place, little girls save gangsters, all books go to heaven, and it's always summer at Lake Minnetonka. By turns funny, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these novelettos and poems are a beloved author's gift to writers and readers everywhere.
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A grieving PI meets a sick woman he feels compelled to help. A veteran returns from war unsure of his place in the world. A mysterious pack of dogs show up to protect a woman recovering from an abusive relationship. A woman struggles with isolation and a misbehaving sewing machine during a pandemic.
Caroline Smith's imaginative stories weave myth and realism into a modern Southern Gothic world, reimagined. They are filled with the tragedy and...
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The Southern author humorously explores themes of marriage, love, gender, race, age, and more in eighteen short stories.
Unplanned pregnancy, born-again Christianity, and strained sibling relationships are explored through precocious sixteen-year-old narrator Aurora Harris in "The Triumph of Reason," "Have a Wonderful Nice Walk," and "Witness to the Crucifixion." Crystal and her housekeeper Traceleen feel the straining of family ties and the force...
13) Remarkable
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Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people, landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character-neither protagonist nor antagonist-but instead the weird next-door-neighbor you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one-you or Oklahoma?...
14) I, Bartleby
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In these quirkily imaginative short stories about writing and writers, the scrivener Quartermain (our "Bartleby") goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and a host of other literary forebears. Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing reflections – the writer or the written? The thinker or the alphabet? The calligrapher or the pictograms hidden in her Chinese written characters?...
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This rich and accomplished collection showcases the range of a writer at the height of her powers. From the complex stories of artistic influence and the exhilaration and fright of solitude to the incendiary rage of a betrayed young wife who sacrifices everything for revenge to the struggles for independence of the three women who surrounded Ezra Pound like subservient stars, these fictions seize the reader's attention while slashing stereotypes.
This...
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Ce recueil de haïkus haïtiens, en français et en créole, fait honneur à l'île et ses habitants.
Le dit de Diane Descteaux et celui d'Elsie Suréna, - mariage des îles d'une même Amérique aux terres de glace et de feu - partageant un même amour pour Haïti, se complètent l'un et l'autre, limpides et frais comme une seule et même eau offerte dans la coupe de leurs mains réunies.
Diane semble être marquée par un certain sensualisme qu'elle...
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Sous l'influence... japonaise, la poétesse nous livre sans fioriture de petits récits de vie.
Sous influence, l'auteure l'est probablement...
Celle du non-dit, de la césure et des cinq saisons traditionnellement chères au coeur du haïjin.
De brefs poèmes pleins de charme, à la fois cocasses et empreints de tristesse.
EXTRAIT
ah la confiture!
mettre en pot
un peu de l'été
À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURE
Réviseuse linguistique et auteure d'une...
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Le charme minimaliste du haïku sied parfaitement à ces minuscules évènements que nous raconte la poétesse.
Respectueuse du 5/7/5 hérité du haïku japonais, la poétesse canadienne Diane Descteaux ouvre le chemin encore inexploré du haïku-rimes en faisant rimer les premiers et troisièmes vers des tercets.
Divisés en quatre parties (Thé vert du printemps, thé glacé en été, thé ambré d'automne, thé des moines d'hiver), ses textes...
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With a story, that tests your resolve and poems that reverberate long after they've been read, Spark: A Story and Poems Lit Aflame presents a raw, unapologetic voice on divinity, survival, and cruelty. Spark is the pre-release "single" from the long anticipated revised edition of Storm of Roses: A Compilation of Poetry and Short Stories.
This is an essential read for curious readers' eager for their first bite of E. Tara Scurry's thought-provoking...
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À travers ses haïkus, l'auteure nous fait voyager à travers la France, la Roumanie, le Cameroun et bien d'autres pays.
Réputée pour ses nombreux prix et mentions littéraires dans la francophonie, Diane Descteaux, notre haijin québécoise, exploite les mots avec justesse afin de nous transporter, avec son nouveau recueil de haïku, un peu partout à travers le monde, juste À deux pas de là.
Voyageons avec elle grâce à la magie des mots......
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