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Rainbow rainbow: stories
Par Lydia Conklin. 2022
"In this exuberant, prize-winning collection, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming characters seek love and connection in hilarious and heartrending stories that…
reflect the complexity of our current moment. A nonbinary writer on the eve of top surgery enters into a risky affair during the height of COVID. A lesbian couple enlists a close friend as a sperm donor, plying him with a potent rainbow-colored cocktail. A lonely office worker struggling with their gender identity chaperones their nephew to a trans YouTube convention. And in the depths of a Midwestern winter, a sex-addicted librarian relies on her pet ferrets to help resist a relapse at a wild college fair. Capturing both the dark and lovable sides of the human experience, Rainbow Rainbow establishes debut author Lydia Conklin as a fearless new voice for their generation.." -- Provided by publisherTomorrow in Shanghai: and other stories
Par May-Lee Chai. 2022
"In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow…
in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality--always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. These stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, where a city doctor harvests organs to fund a wedding and a future for his family; on a vacation to France, where a white mother and her biracial daughter cannot escape their fraught relationship; inside the unexpected romance of two Chinese-American women living abroad in China; and finally, to a future Chinese colony on Mars, where an aging working-class woman lands a job as a nanny. Chai's stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world." -- Provided by publisherLa sangre de Medusa: y otros cuentos marginales
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2020
"The Blood of Medusa gathers stories written by José Emilio Pacheco from 1956 to 1984, scattered until now in magazines,…
newspapers and pamphlets that are no longer available. Works of precocious solidity the oldest and of persistent strength the most recent, these stories have pursued their author, like stubborn ghosts, until they obtained from him their final version and escaped from the limbo of ephemeral reading publications. The result is the difficult re-reading that the mature writer makes of the pages that marked the stages of his development as a storyteller (and also that of Latin American narrative in its manners and concerns of the last forty years): "although I have modified them completely, their primitive structure remains intact. We can change everything except our vision of the world and our syntax." The stories that make up The Blood of Medusa constitute a series of extremely varied texts, an exhibition of mastery and registers: from the Borgesian precision of the juvenile tales or the brilliant satires in the manner of the Latins or Swift, to the avant-garde "horror" toys, the acidic two-line mini-stories, the conjectural monologues inspired by political-politicians' events. Like everything written by Pacheco, these texts speak directly to the reader, with a radical intelligibility, to think, to feel, to know with him and also, most especially in this volume, to invite him to enjoyment, the pleasure of inventing, the festive complicity that is literature." -- Translation provided by NLSKentucky Club
Par Benjamin Alire Sáenz. 2014
"Collection of seven short stories exploring the concept of boundaries. In 'He Has Gone to Be with the Women,' Javier…
and Juan Carlos meet and develop a relationship neither is sure he wants." -- Provided by NLSEl viento distante (Biblioteca Era. Narrativa #44/14)
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2011
"It has been said that a poem never stops being written. Neither does a short story, as confirmed by this…
new edition of José Emilio Pacheco's The Distant Wind. Originally published in 1963, corrected and augmented in 1969 and subject, since then, to the work and refinement that the prose of this meticulous writer imprints on his stories, this book continues its patient maturation even though it has been an essential part of our modern literary canon for more than thirty years. The reader of these fourteen stories will find, in addition to the loving inventory of the distant years of a country, the lively evocation of its protagonists: children capable of embodying the deepest sufferings, the most icy terrors; adolescents on fire whose light is that of everyday passions, the light that falls on all of us; characters that history does not record but whose steps along these pages leave an imprint of inevitability in the great events. All of them more prone to the small textures of pain than to the shadowless plainness of joy." -- Translation provided by NLSMachine of death: a collection of stories about people who know how they will die
Par Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki. 2010
Machine of Death tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears…
jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprise. Because even when people have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Some violence and strong languageThe flood of '64: stories
Par David Long. 1987
Bring out the dog: stories
Par Will Mackin. 2018
The eleven stories in Will Mackin's mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force…
in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kit. Whenever possible he incorporated those notes into his journals. Years later, he used those journals to write this book. He gives a realistic inside view on what it takes to fight the Taliban. UnratedArtificial divide
2021
A collection of short stories by authors who are blind or visually impaired about central characters who are blind or…
visually impaired. They write in a variety of genres including fantasy, school stories, and crime. Adult. UnratedPor favor, rebobinar
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2012
"Connecting directly with Generation Ñ, the second novel by Fuguet runs at a breakneck speed. It sometimes feels more like…
a video clip than a conventional novel. Fuguet tells stories with a common background of adolescence, of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. At the high speed that this novel is narrated, it questions the present from the perspective of diverse protagonists--men and women living a doubtful and strange modernity; in this sense, |Please, Rewind| is a great chronicle of our times." -- Amazon.comNuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq
Par Jorge Luis Borges. 2003
"Once again the two writers unites, under the pseudonym through which they had previously published "Six Problems for Don Isidro…
Parodi" and "Chronicles of Bustos Domecq", to produce a series of fantasies with the common denominator of absurd humor. Famously, the short story "The Monster's Party" is a harsh parody of the times when Juan Perón ruled Argentina." -- GoodreadsCocktail
Par Lisa Alward. 2023
One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read…
in Fall 2023 • A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023 • A Tyee Best Book of 2023 "A writer to watch."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he’s made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details—a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall—and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.Two nurses, smoking: stories
Par David Means. 2022
"Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They…
tell stories of patients lost and patients saved, of the darkest corners of human suffering and the luminous moments that break through, even here, in the shadow of death. In David Means's virtuosic new collection, time unfolds in unexpected ways: a single, quiet moment swells with the echoes of a widower's complicated marriage; a dachshund, given a new name and a new life by a new owner, catches the scent of the troubled man who previously abandoned her; young lovers become old; estranged couples return to their vows; and those who have died live on in perpetuity in the memories of those whom they touched. The stories in this collection-winners of the O. Henry Prize and the Pushcart Prize, and selected for The Best American Short Stories in 2021-confirm the promise of a writer who extends "the profound empathy of his attention to those who need it most" (Justin Taylor, The New York Times Book Review). A revelatory meditation on trauma and catharsis, isolation and communion, Two Nurses, Smoking reflects the dislocations and anguish of our age, as well as the humanity and humor that buoy us." -- Provided by publisherTun-ta-ca-tun: more stories and poems in English and Spanish for children
Par Sylvia C. Pena. 1986
Opens the door to the world of literature for English and Spanish speaking children of pre-school to young adult reading…
levels. The collection of short stories and poems is designed to stimulate children's imagination and creativity, as well as their linguistic mastery and reading skills. It reflects the characters, themes and customs specific to Hispanic culture in the United States. For preschool to grade 2. Unrated. Bilingual: English and SpanishPubis equinoccial
Par Raúl Vallejo Corral. 2013
"The narrative of erotic love moves us because it touches our naked intimacy. Our desires emerge in the skin and…
are realized in the sexual communion of bodies. In our society, where the culture of spectacle prefers superficial hedonism, the erotic is a utopia inhabited by individuals who resist the trivialization of love. Equinoctial Pubis, the book of stories you are holding in your hands, is shocking because its author tells us stories of everyday people confronted with the secrets of their own sexuality, secrets that are also our own. This book is in the best tradition of Western erotic literature. In these stories we find traces of the mystical eros of The Song of Songs, traces of the debauched abandon of The Decameron, signs of the sexual intrigues of Dangerous Liaisons, vestiges of the abysses of desire to which Anaís Nin and Henry Miller pushed us. Prude moralism has no place in these pages." -- Translation provided by NLSHow to catch a star
Par Oliver Jeffers. 2004
Once there was a boy who loved stars so much that he decided to catch one of his very own.…
But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree isn't tall enough. His rocket ship is made of paper and doesn't fly well at all. Just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be. For preschool to grade 2Thuglit: last writes
Par Nick Kolakowski, James Queally, S. A. Cosby, Blair Kroeber, Todd Robinson, Nick Manzolillo, Aaron Fox-Lerner, Mike McCrary, Andrew Paul, Patrick Cooper, Kyle Summerall, Dale Phillips, William Soldan. 2016
"THIS IS IT!!! The final publication from the award-winning, trailblazing, ass-kicking THUGLIT magazine. And we are going out with a…
bang, people. TWELVE all new stories of crime to blow your faces off like a mistimed quarter-stick of dynamite. We are sure as shit not going quietly into that dark night, Thugketeers. Oh no. We are going out with a BANG!" -- Provided by publisherBlack Range tales
Par James A McKenna. 2002
First published in 1936, Black Range Tales has become one of the classics of southwest Americana. In his inimitable style,…
"Uncle Jimmie" tells of prospecting, Indian fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico. The result is alternately humorous, poignant, amazing or insightful; a singular look at the times. And most of all these tales are true, for by golly, James A. McKenna was thereMaple & Lead (Drumlummon contemporary fiction series #03)
Par Aaron Parrett. 2017
"Perhaps some of the great stories written in our language are not the ones we thought they were. There are…
unjustifiable absences. Masterpieces buried by disdain or neglect or machismo. This anthology of Hispanic American women short story writers arises to question the conviction that we know the great short stories of the twentieth century. Its aim is to destabilize our literary history. It is convenient to completely reread our past to vindicate women authors and texts that we should never forget. This book is just a sample: twenty stories --and twenty women authors--that dialogue with each other, one for each country in Spain and Latin America, that obey no other criterion than the highest artistic challenge." -- Translation provided by NLS