Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories

✍ Alexander McCall Smith 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Little, Brown 🌐 English ⚖ 127 KB

A new baby brings an abundance of joy to Isabel Dalhousie and her husband, Jamie--but Isabel's almost four-year-old son, Charlie, is none too keen on his newborn brother. In fact, Charlie refuses to acknowledge Magnus, and Isabel must find a way to impress upon her older son the patience and underst

A Distant View of Everything

✍ Smith, Alexander McCall 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 352 KB

When a matchmaker begins to question her latest match, Isabel Dalhousie is called upon to help. A new baby brings an abundance of joy to Isabel and her husband, Jamie—but almost-four-year-old Charlie is none too keen on his newborn brother. In fact, he refuses to acknowledge Magnus, and Isabel

The View From the Lane and Other Stories

✍ Deborah-Anne Tunney 📂 Fiction 📅 2015;2014 🏛 Great Plains Publications;Enfield & Wizenty 🌐 en-CA ⚖ 122 KB 👁 3 views

Spanning the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, this masterful collection of linked stories follows the life of Amy, through tales stretching back to her youth in 1950s Ottawa, her experiences as a young wife and mother in a small Ontario town, and her later years back in the ci

Direct view of a dark and distant world

✍ Sanderson, Katharine 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Nature Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 135 KB

Eastlick and Other Stories

✍ Page, Shannon 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Book View Cafe 🌐 English ⚖ 159 KB

Overview: OH GIVE ME STORIES, LOTS OF STORIES A dragon’s tears; Gilgamesh returned; lovers in space; gin, beer, blood; passion and heartbreak; wild legends, gritty truths—and one truly plucky realtor—you’ll find all this and more in Eastlick and Other Stories. Shannon Page's kaleidoscopic collection

A Good Story and Other Stories

✍ Donald E. Westlake 📂 Fiction 📅 1999;2001 🏛 International Polygonics 🌐 English ⚖ 302 KB 👁 3 views

This collection of short fiction, selected by the author, spans a writing career of more than 40 years and illuminates the heart and soul of the antihero. A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the sole suspect. A genealogist learns just how far rotten apples fall from t