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Writing Our Way Home is an important contribution to literary studies.

Ranging from the Persian Gulf to the American South, from ancient Greece to pre-Islamic Arabia, Ali Eteraz's stories observe the clash of civilizations through the surrealist's monocle: lovers play

Expulsion & Other Stories consists of two parts: a novella followed by a group of short stories.

The stories in this collection centre around new immigrants -- spirited people prepared to leave their home and hearth to travel to distant lands in pursuit of dreams of a better life.

Recruits in a boot camp go through tough training exercises to become an elite cadre of readers. The near-death experience of an atheist makes him re-evaluate his life.

Two brothers come to school and do nothing but tell stories. A young woman works at the Indian Consulate in a major American city. A man goes to a singles dance.

The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories is a collection of sudden fiction that compresses its narrative to deliver a variety of stories that alternate the flavour of a philosophical reflection w

A boy finds a vocation as a weaver of bread. A Russian woman, thought dead, e-mails greetings to her adolescent sister in a Canadian suburb.

A collection of stories chronicling the characters and dramas that capture life in small coastal communities.

Two classic novels and a short story collection from the legendary Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author in one volume.

Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark-by authors from H.G. Wells to Willa Cather.

Birth, death and all the big moments in between.

The women in the stories in Out of Cleveland face their challenges with an uncommon blend of intelligence, scepticism, and hope.

Swing in the House paints an utterly contemporary portrait of Canadian families in their most private moments.

A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy and its challenging aftermath; a troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter’s birthday, the three-tiered p