Rita and Los Angeles, Leo Romero's first short story collection, gives life to a fascinating collection of characters: an elderly woman living in a trailer near a petroglyph site who makes it her business to educate visitors about the drawings, a young boy who falls in love with the picture of a woman on an old orange crate, and a rather unattractive single man who must make up stories of sexual encounters in order to entertain his married ...

Hugh and Laura Walker could never have anticipated that the single greatest source of joy in their lives could so suddenly fill them with such unrelenting grief. The death of their only child, seven-year-old Michael -- struck by a car just seconds after stepping off his school bus -- has left them stranded in a sea of sorrow. With no emotional compass to guide them, the Walkers retreat to an old cottage near Cape May, New Jersey, where, ...

"Here's a novelty: Short stories that are actually stories; beginnings and endings, that sort of thing. These are stories with instant insights, with humor, with just enough malice to keep the reader honest. Wonderful, most of them; weird, all of them". -- Los Angeles Times ...

J. Cunningham Raleigh died in an Oregon rain storm, struck by lightning while playing an electric guitar on a river dock. A mediocre rock musician who never quite left the Sixties, Ham Raleigh was an intimate part of a long-standing triangle. Millie and Jake Prince, a forty-something couple, were Ham's best friends. He was a part of Jake's life from childhood and Millie's since college. He was an intruder in their marriage and also the glue that ...

Mark Perdue is a young physicist who has been catapulted into fame and fortune by nothing other than good luck. His neighbor, Roger Hoberman, has seen only luck's downside. Now, luck--in the form of an adverse property claim--is about to bring them together in this transcendently wise comedy of manners and epistemology. ...

An enchanting story of Edgar Wellington, a book editor pushing sixty and afraid love has passed him by forever. Then Kelly O'Leary, beautiful, sensuous, tenderhearted, steps into his life. Despite the obstacles they face, a warm, refreshing relationship results. ...

McClelland & Stewart's elegant New Canadian Library series acknowledges and celebrates Canada's glorious literary achievements. Original Afterwords and bibliographies by leading writers complete each book.<BR>-- Over 300 years of excellence in Canadian writing<BR>-- Over one million sold since 1990 ...

"Raven Returns the Water" tells of the time when the world's water disappeared. Raven went searching for it - and found it all in the belly of a giant frog! ...

This grand Gothic novel is about the outer reaches of passion--of the body and of the mind--and about the betrayals that so often breed in that perilous place. "Properties of Light" carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light. ...

"Stein tells the surprisingly appealing story of a teenager living through the complexity of a premature adulthood. Comparisons between 16-year-old Will Sterling and the immortal Holden Caufield are inescapable. The result is an absolute charmer with a spry and sarcastic edge". -- Kirkus ...