Presents a collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2018, along with essays by three distinguished writers and jurors on their favorite pieces.

Presents a collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2016, along with essays by three distinguished writers and jurors on their favorite pieces.

"A collection of five spine-tingling short stories"-- Provided by publisher.

Personal accounts of more than thirty men and women who served with the American and Canadian forces in Korea during the years 1950-1953.

When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."

"The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. This volume explores the last thirty years of Leonard Cohen's life, starting with the late 1980s revival of his music career with the successful albums I'm Your Man and The Future. It covers the death of his manager, Marty Machat, and the appointment of another who would ultimately be accused of stealing more than five million...

The harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition aboard the ship Karluk explains the events leading up to the deaths of over a dozen of the vessel’s crew and staff.

Marianela Nunez and Vadim Muntagirov star as Cinderella and The Prince in Frederick Ashton's timeless reworking of Charles Perrault's famous rags-to-riches story, showcasing the choreographer's deft musicality and the beauty of Prokofiev's transcendent score. A creative team steeped in the magic of theatre, film, dance and opera brings new atmosphere to Cinderella's ethereal world of fairy godmothers and pumpkin carriages, handsome princes and finding...

As millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the Hardy Boys, little did the young readers and aspiring sleuths know: the series' author was not Franklin W. Dixon, as the cover trumpeted. It was Leslie McFarlane, a nearly penniless scribbler, who hammered out the first adventures while living in a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Northern Ontario. McFarlane was perhaps the first bestselling ghostwriter in history...