Various Miracles: Stories (King Penguin)

Twenty-one stories depict ordinary people encountering extraordinary situations, including coincidences and revelations

Literature & Fiction

Shields, Carol Diggory

United States

Penguin??Books

The previously unknown poetic talents of Mary Swann surface only after she is found brutally murdered, leading four unlikely individuals to reconsider their conceptions of her work, the poet, and themselves

Swann

Literary

A story of the persistence of love in modern times follows Fay, a fickle folklorist falling hard for her neighbor Tom, an all-night disc jockey three times divorced. 10,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

The Republic of Love

Portrays the changes in a marriage, involving new evaluations of friends, family, career associates, and particularly the partners themselves, when the loving wife goes away for a short time and the happily married husband has a mid-life crisis

Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition

From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life

The Stone Diaries

Contemporary

Judith Gill's world is shaped by the actions of those around her. As a biographer, she spends her days analyzing the minutiae of past lives. As a mother, she is perplexed by her children's developing lives. As a wife, she struggles to sympathize with and support a man who sometimes acts like a stranger. Her own life recedes, overshadowed by the urge to observe and understand the people she encounters. Yet, in this lovingly documented year of a woman's life, Judith is revealed to herself; a person with desires, passions, and faults; with instincts that are sometimes right and often wrong. And it is through the very observations she can't help but make that Judith finds her place in the world: as translator and celebrant of life's small - and very important - ceremonies.

Small Ceremonies

Andy thinks that his life would be so much better if he could transform his noisy baby brother into a simple dog, yet with time, Andy realizes that he loves his brother and accepts him completely, crying and all. Reprint.

I Wish My Brother Was a Dog (Picture Puffins)

Children's Books

Animals

Puffin

A weekend visit between a child and his grandfather reveals their similar likes and dislikes through whimsical watercolor illustrations and a breezy text by the author of Lunch Money. Reprint.

Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate (Picture Puffins)

From the creators of the bestselling Lunch Money, here is a long-awaited follow-up collection of lively, lighthearted school poetry. Exploring a broad range of school-based events—from oral reports to science projects to bake sales—these poems shed hilarious new light on the universal experience of grade school. Filled with wit, humor, and laugh-out-loud verse, the twenty-two poems in this collection are sure to please students (and teachers!) of all ages.

Almost Late to School: And More School Poems (Picture Puffin Books (Paperback))

Puffin Books

From her calamitous 1905 birth in Manitoba to her journey with her father to Indiana, throughout her years as a wife, mother, and widow, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to understand her place in her own life. Now, in old age, Daisy attempts to tell her life story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.

The Stone Diaries, Penguin Essential Edition

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