Drupal is great, but finding pieces of needed info is really frustrating sometimes.

I need to have a paged list of teasers all of type 'flexinode-x'. When I use flexinode/list/x it gives me the list, only sorted by creation-time. I need it to be title alphabetical instead. Can this be done without using views module? One would imagine it is basic functionality. No need for php snippets or separate modules. But is it? And if, what do I add at the end of url?

Also, if someone knows how I could add one node of the type 'story' as a first item of this list, again without snippets or views module, I would really appreciate.

If there is a clear manual that explains the core functionality and how it can be used to build things as those above, I haven't find it yet. Pointing me to that would be the best thing of all.