Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, agile, and inventive; Lydia Davis' newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis' sincere love and mastery of the form.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
Author
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1897, Thirty Strange Stories contains such well-known stories as "The Triumphs of a Taxidermist," about the outrageous exploits, both authentic and fraudulent, of a taxidermist, who then reappears in "A Deal of Ostriches," a tale of a con man's exploitation of human greed after one of five ostriches swallows a precious diamond. Also included are "The Stolen Bacillus" about an anarchist who plans to release what he believes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mossy is a very bossy mosquito. Mossy thinks he lives in the country at a beautiful pond. Actually, it is a backyard pool in town. He loves playing with his best friends but often finds himself not considering their feelings. Mossy's friends have to learn to do the right thing even when Mossy does not.
Mossy has a difficult time taking advice from others. This causes him to make a terrible decision that puts himself and his best friends in danger.
Bossy...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is the day of Halloween and Harey, the hare-brained rabbit, and his friends go playing and looking for ghosts in a disused factory building with dangerous results. They are approached several times during the day by a strange man and woman. That night, they dress up and go out knocking on people's doors, when Harey is finally kidnapped by the two strangers, but rescued in the end. 32 pages, full colour, no stickers.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Meadow is enjoying a carefree country summer, tending her beloved 4-H chickens and freely exploring the outdoors. Content at home with her father, brother, and Nanna, Meadow wishes she could stay a kid forever. Everything changes the day the man in the green car stops her on the road, alarming her with an uncomfortable request. The brief encounter fills her with a strange new anxiety that she can't share with anyone. As fear fills her every move,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.
9) The Martins
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a struggling Parisian writer asks when he challenges himself to write about the first person he sees when he steps outside his apartment. Secretly hoping to meet the beautiful woman who occasionally smokes on his street, he instead sets eyes on octogenarian Madeleine. She's happy to become the subject of his project, but first she needs to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Three women, three men, connected through marriage or infidelity. Each is to blame for something. But only one is a killer in this #1 New York Times bestselling psychological thriller about human frailty and obsession.
Just what goes on in the houses you pass by every day?
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and evening, rattling over the same...
Just what goes on in the houses you pass by every day?
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and evening, rattling over the same...
13) The lost ticket
Author
Publisher
Berkely
Language
English
Description
When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, the first person she meets is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date, but Frank lost the bus ticket with her number on it. For the past sixty years, he's ridden the same bus trying to find her. Libby is inspired to action and she papers the bus route with posters advertising their search. Their quest also shows Libby...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Mieville. In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He tries--and fails--to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below,...
16) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a storm when all the forest animals are huddled in their dens, two strangers wander into the area and are turned away while seeking shelter, until a little fox shows some kindness and his family is repaid when their roof collapses.
17) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Language
English
Description
Under the watchful eye of animals, two strangers from different lands meet in the year 1534.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, with Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work and Bobby's reluctance to face what life has to offer. They've never felt less like a family. Then, in the midst of a sibling shouting match, a mysterious...
Author
Language
English
Description
Binx was SO excited he could sing and dance - he and his family were off to France! Wandering around the city with glee, he soon realised he'd lost his family. An unexpected adventure - oh, what a mess. Luckily, his senses were up to the test. Thankfully, he'd learned well and knew what to do. And now Binx the black cat wants you to know too!
Binx Lost in France is a story to help children understand stranger danger and what to do if they ever get...
20) Skellig
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Penticton Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Items must be over 1 year old.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service for new books published this year. Submit Request