Olo Books: 58 books

Are women ruining medicine? Nah. Real life in the emergency lane, zeroing on body parts and chicks in scrubs. Just like Grey’s Anatomy, medicine with a little bit of sex.  And, like Fifty Shades of Grey, a tiny bit of torture.

When magical creatures need a cure, they journey to the Wizard's Hospital. Hans Christian Andersen wrote about a girl who would have danced herself to death in a pair of magical red shoes if an executioner had not chopped her feet off.  Have you ever wondered what happened to the shoes...

The hours are inhumane. Thoracic surgeon: "Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie down. Never lie down when you can sleep." Orthopedic surgery resident: "We do 72 hours on call on the weekends...but if you just accept that you'll have no life for five years,...

A story of three women, linked by blood and diamonds. The first, a Ph.D. who loves her research more than any living thing. The second, a Montreal woman who knows her bulging, aching abdomen must conceal a terrible secret. The third, resident doctor Hope Sze, who, in struggling to save her patient,...

When my father--the smart, strong, mostly silent type--got diagnosed with a brain tumor a few months after his 56th birthday, I figured we'd ended up with the worst Christmas present ever. Instead, he and my infant son taught me the most important Christmas lesson of all. An inspirational tale originally published in a Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

Octavia Klein unearths a box of buried treasure while digging a fertility garden in the backyard of her Montreal mansion. The treasure belongs to one foul-mouthed leprechaun who promises her three wishes if she’ll just hand back the treasure, “you periwinkle snot-nose cavorter with beasts!”...

One family. Three days. Two theme parks. Will they survive? The players. Code name: The Skeptic. When he was a kid, his parents would drive him and his sister down on annual torture-trips to Florida, with the dog sandwiched between them. The Skeptic hates crowds and noise, and barely...

When magical creatures need a cure, they journey to the Wizard's Hospital.  On a cold day in December, a mysterious man makes a pilgrimage to a hidden corner of Montreal, Canada.  He has been walking for almost 2000 years and must negotiate a dwarf, a three-headed dog, and worse...

​What if loaves of bread could talk to you, and you could hear them? What if you could hear the story of all inanimate objects? What would you do with that power? Would you try to save the world, or would you just try to save yourself? A short story about strangers, ESP, and the curious sense of connection and wonder.  

Who wants to lose a few pounds? I do, I do! Who wants to read about weight loss? Um… Look. I know where you're coming from. Doctors like me should get all excited about slimming down, but if you ask me to count calories or eat like a cavewoman, I sprint for the door....

When Melanie's mother dumps her at the Little Flower Preparatory College for Girls, Melanie can handle the uniforms and the 6 a.m. wake-up calls.  But when the nuns' discipline turns savage and Melanie discovers that the parents have essentially abandoned them, Melanie must save herself and her best friend, even if it means consorting with a vampire.

All Octavia “V” Ling wants for the holidays? Inner peace and a piece of the sizzling spy named Dario. Since gingerbread men will dance the cha cha before Dario swears his undying devotion, V jets off to Goa, India, ready to rock the handstands with a yogini named Raven. Only Raven...

Jimmy can talk to animals. No big deal, probably part of his Mohawk heritage. He's been doing it for the past six years, and now he's just another 14-year-old too smart for school, a.k.a. jail. But one day, Coyote tells him, "You have to go to school." She won't take no for an answer....

Fresh out of jail and off drugs, Fred Redish embarks on a new life.  First up:  getting to know his two young sons, who are under the custody of his mother-in-law.  Problem is, she poisons them against Mohawks in general and Fred in particular.  How can he get his boys back before...