Professional storyteller Patrick Ryan has brought together the stories that are at the heart of seven of Shakespeare's masterpieces. He introduces each story with fascinating information about its history and its prevalence in other cultures, as well...
One of the strangest (and funniest) love triangles ever to hit YA fiction, when a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) both fall for the boy who moves in with them...who may or may not be a vampire. Judy and Kyle Renneker are sixteen-year-old fratern...
New Orleans-born writer Patrick Ryan writes 13 dark and beautiful short stories that capture the Crescent City and its thirsty, lonely folk, and are reminiscent of Joyce's portraits of Dubliners.Patrick Ryan was born and raised in New Orleans. He was...
At the end of the Franco-Prussian war, France was defeated and its army largely disbanded. Jud, an ex-confederate soldier, like many other confederates, had refused to surrender to the "damn Yankees." Instead, he had accepted a commission in the Fren...
A young historian travels to Marseille on a fellowship to research the late renowned war photographer and French resistant Pierre Durapau and interview his widow Edna Kartopoulas. Instead, he finds his professional and personal world crumble around h...
'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said. 'Getting our chance at last of a good old crack at the Boche, eh...?' Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance officer, author and humorist Patrick Ryan is perhaps best remembered for this acerbically comic novel ...
For readers of Tom Perrotta and Lorrie Moore, these nine unforgettable stories, all set in and around Cape Canaveral, showcase Patrick Ryan’s masterly understanding of regret and hope, relationships and family, and the universal longing for love. ...
Delancey Murphy and her friend Jojo are in trouble again. The principal called them to the office because someone snuck into the school's kitchen and took the labels off all the canned goods. When the principal heard they also put Saran Wrap on all t...
Introduce children to Shakespeare with the stories that are at the heart of seven of his masterpieces. Each story opens with fascinating information about its history and its prevalence in other cultures, as well as insights into local traditions ...
The Baseball Diet Book is an endearing collection of stories describing the struggles of uncommon moments, both humorous and serious, and brings us closer to the reality of baseball's goodness, hope, and destiny in our lives. Patrick Ryan is a quinte...