Very short stories. Bite sized fiction to entertain, thrill, amuse, or perhaps scare you in a small package. Stories that attempt to really go places in only a few sentences.

An epic novel of unrequited dreams and forestalled lives, Red Dog, Red Dog unfolds over the course of one week in and around a small town in British Columbia, 1958.Elmer Stark is a violent man with a troubled past. Lillian, who married Elmer shortly after the Depression, finds herself retreating steadily into isolation. Their sons, Tom and Eddy, now in their twenties, are bound together by the secrets of their childhood years. As Eddy speeds freely along his reckless path,...

A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies—the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river—ultimately, revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him.Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sha...

This book provides a series of exercises of various types covering matters of hydrology and watershed management. The exercises include true/false questions, multiple choice questions, and numeric, graphical, and analytical exercises. The questions draw on the basic disciplines of hydrology and physics, with some stress placed on correct or appropriate units. The questions reflect the authors' many years of teaching watershed management at undergraduate and graduate levels. Questions cover...

This book will lead you through a process of identifying and then improving who you really are. By applying the teachings, you can become more centered and grounded, affording you a greater effectiveness at meditation, prayer or any other spiritual work. Use it as a daily guide to keep you on the path to success in your physical and spiritual life.

'Miraculous, mischievous and quietly devastating' Rachel Joyce'A tender, delicately devastating novel' Sarah Waters' An engulfing, deeply humane novel about the triumphs and failures of human connection' Marina KempA journey. A reunion. A longing for a place called home...When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane sails home to an England transf...

Very short stories. Bite sized fiction to entertain, thrill, amuse, or perhaps scare you in a small package. Stories that attempt to really go places in only a few sentences.

'Miraculous, mischievous and quietly devastating' Rachel Joyce'A tender, delicately devastating novel' Sarah Waters' An engulfing, deeply humane novel about the triumphs and failures of human connection' Marina KempA journey. A reunion. A longing for a place called home...When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane sails home to an England transf...

From the outside, it looks like an ordinary American home, but since its construction in 1956, people have vanished as soon as they go upstairs, the only clues the things they leave behind: a wedding ring, a phone...an eye.In its sixty-year history, a record number of strange events have been attributed to the house, from the neighbors waking up to find themselves standing in the yard outside, to the grieving man who vanished before a police officer's eyes. The animals gathering in...

When Boston private investigator Patrick Kenzie meets Karen Nichols, she strikes him as an innocent from a protected upbringing. But six months later when Karen takes her own life, Patrick is left wondering what can change so drastically and so quickly that suicide seems the only option?Through the final weeks of a stifling summer, and with the help of his ex-partner, Angela Gennaro, and his friend, the lethally unbalanced Bubba Rogowski, Patrick enters into psychological warfare w...

A New York Times Notable BookNow available with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s Prayers for Rain is a “hard boiled shocker” (New York Times Book Review) and stunning psychological thriller in the fan-favorite Kenzie and Gennaro series, about a master sadist determined to tear Kenzie and Gennaro’s world apart.When Patrick first meets Karen Nichols, she strikes him as ...

Territorio Modiano: el narrador evoca experiencias, personas y lugares que conoció cuando tenía veinte años.«Cuando regresé a Francia, tras una ausencia de diez años, me informé a través de las pocas personas susceptibles de darme noticias de los miembros del grupo. No fueron noticias muy buenas, y me hicieron comprender aún mejor que el tiempo había pasado. Yo, que tan a menudo observaba el envejecimiento ajeno, tuve que acostumbrarme, a mi vez, a la idea de que m...