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"Professor Jim Feldster will do anything for his cows and his students of dairy management...and anything to avoid an evening at home with his bossy, house-proud wife, Mirelle. A member of every lodge in the county, he's out of the house most evenings, and on this particular nigh...
Presents some of the best science fiction short stories written in 2016.
The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. In 'The Pleasure of Her Compa...
"Saddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin' helpin' of tales of America's frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers, wilderness exploring and range war...
Nothing big ever happens in The Shores. Ceilidhs, yes. Killings, numbers That all changes when amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister trips over a body on the beach and tumbles head first into a murder case. Cottager Lance Lord, dressed like Jimi Hendrix, has had his head split open with ...
"The distinction of the Canadian short story - genre that boasts two of the leading short-story writers in English, Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant - has been recognized internationally, and was celebrated in 1986 by the publication of the acclaimed first edition of this book, of w...
The Shores is celebrating a killer 200th anniversary. A skull tossed up on the beach sparks a heritage murder investigation. Meanwhile, serial widow Vera Gloom moves into the village with her three ex- husbands. Are they one big happy family? Amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister has her...
"Herrings are falling from the sky over The Shores - an unusual phenomenon anywhere, but especially so in this case. A newcomer, Anton Paradis, has set up a restaurant that specializes in dangerous dining, cooking up food that can kill to tantalize the palates of wealthy clients...
The Shores is celebrating a killer 200th anniversary. A skull tossed up on the beach sparks a heritage murder investigation. Meanwhile, serial widow Vera Gloom moves into the village with her three ex- husbands. Are they one big happy family? Amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister has her...
A murder in a yarn store leads to some wild and woolly adventures in this "energetic and merry" mystery ( Publishers Weekly ). When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town races to Miss Jane Fuzzywuz...
It's Christmas at The Shores. There's no snow yet, but there are so many outdoor lights that the tiny coastal village can be seen from space. Apart from Ian Simmons' place, there's only one house in the village that isn't lit up. It's been dark for years. That's about to change. ...
Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction A Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006) National Post Best Books (2006) A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers. Stories ...