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Race Rider
Jack Short is appropriately named. An undersized high school student, he's not quite five feet tall, but is a scrappy kid just itching for a fight. He finds one with a freshman bigger than he is, and who has been calling him names all year. Jack is sent home from school. He's grounded and must finish the year serving in-school and in-home suspension. His father challenges Jack to stop trying to become his six-foot four-inch-tall brother and figure out how to be happy being himself.Jack's brother's college football career ended earlier in the year when he broke his leg. His brother invites Jack to come to Hollywood Park, where he's working to earn money to stay in school. Jack is soon offered a job as an exercise rider for the race horses, having proven that he's a natural in the saddle and has a rare affinity with horses. This is one career where being short is an advantage! Jack is mentored by a retired horse racer and soon starts winning races. Now Jack is slated for the top contests, including the Kentucky Derby. Enter the exciting world of horse racing in the must-read Race Rider.
The Manufactured Family
Rose Walker’s fourteen-year marriage is not on her mind the day she decides to work from home. But her marriage is so much a part of her that she is shocked when a process server brings her a divorce petition and a letter from her husband, Hal, announcing he is leaving her. He tells her that he has met someone who shares his goals and makes him feel young and alive again. As her last rational act before going to the business they built together, she asks her day-worker to stay late so her nearly eleven-year-old son, Brad, will have someone waiting when he comes home from school. Rose is pulled over for speeding while driving to work. The officer recognizes she is distressed, and after givi...
Hail, The Invisible Watchman
A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022 Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry—Oliver’s formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. The poems in Hail, the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picket-fence—and as suggestive. Behind the charms of iambs lurks a dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. Metered rhyme sets the tone like a chilling piano score as insidiousness creeps into the neighbourhood. A spectral narrator surveils social gatherings in the town of Sherbet Lake; community members chime in, each revealing their various troubles and hypocrisies; an eerie reimagining of an Ethel Wilson novel follows a young woman into a taboo friendship with an enigmatic divorcée. In taut poetic structures across three succinct sections, Alexandra Oliver’s conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny.
The Dramatic Index for ...
Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.
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