Download or read book Blowing Up Walmart and Other Short Stories written by Jackie Pentecost and published by Authorpro Creatives and Marketing. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can laugh at your own foibles as well as those of others, you will enjoy this collection, from the intrepid Amazonian activist to the tame copywriter who discovers she might have inherited wild Gypsy blood, as well as the three sisters who all claim possession rights to an inherited doll. To roughly paraphrase, everyone is a little crazy, but each in his or her own way. They are uneven in length because they were originally written for various publications that had different word count requirements. The pieces are set in California and Florida because everything is a bit more in Florida and California but they could happen anywhere.

Download or read book Blowing up Walmart and other Florida and California Stories written by Jackie Pentecost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can laugh at your own foibles as well as those of others, you will enjoy these stories, from the intrepid Amazonian activist to the unflappable Steve Cochran. To paraphrase, everyone is a little crazy, but each in his or her own way. The pieces are set in Florida and California because everything is a bit more in Florida and California.

Download or read book Stupperich Stories The Revenge of Jake Mathews and Other Short Stories written by David Stupperich and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by David Stupperich: Jake Mathews Revenge Fast Forward The Life and Time of Harry Badine Bad Seed

Download or read book The Yellow Room and Other Terrifying Short Stories written by A.J. Carfagno and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to haunt you to your very core. The short and terrifying stories in this book are all inspired by true events. Stalkers, ghosts, demons, aliens, and more all make their way into this collection of stories. The stories in this book are written in a way to fully immerse you in the suspense and terror. The Yellow Room and Other Terrifying Stories will leave a lasting and nightmarish presence on you for years to come.

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2021 written by Jesmyn Ward and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you"forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew. The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes GABRIEL BUMP - BRANDON HOBSON - DAVID MEANS- JANE PEK - TRACEY ROSE PEYTON - GEORGE SAUNDERS - BRYAN WASHINGTON - KEVIN WILSON - C PAM ZHANG and others

Download or read book Collection of Short Stories written by Maria Clary and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility written by Philip Kotler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate social responsibility has grown into a global phenomenon that encompasses businesses, consumers, governments, and civil society, and many organizations have adopted its discourse. Yet corporate social responsibility remains an uncertain and poorly defined ambition, with few absolutes. First, the issues that organizations must address can easily be interpreted to include virtually everyone and everything. Second, with their unique, often particular characteristics, different stakeholder groups tend to focus only on specific issues that they believe are the most appropriate and relevant in organizations' corporate social responsibility programs. Thus, beliefs about what constitutes a socially responsible and sustainable organization depend on the perspective of the stakeholder. Third, in any organization, the beliefs of organizational members about their organization's social responsibilities vary according to their function and department, as well as their own managerial fields of knowledge. A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility provides a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge theories and research that can lead to a more multifaceted understanding of corporate social responsibility in its various forms, the pressures and conflicts that result from these different understandings, and some potential solutions for reconciling them.

Download or read book Inspiration Motivational Short Stories for Your Success Part II written by CA. Gonugunta Murali and published by Nitya Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am dedicating this book to my parents, family members, faculty and friends. I would like to appreciate policies of the Government to introduce & implement Insolvency and Bankruptcy code and Valuation courses for the development of the Nation.

Download or read book Original Content Seven Short Stories for Movie Mavens written by Len Koepsell and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chanteuse “She was the kind of singer you’d like to walk in on, in a club, in a strange city, on a Thursday night.” Tom Butler, an irrigation-systems salesman from Iowa, begins the adventure of his life in Cincinnati, in the summer of 1985. The Fountain Room Cassidy, a burgeoning New Mexico artist, channels her great grandmother’s Apache courage as she confronts a crass opportunist with the help of a rodeo cowboy. Justice Delayed Crimes go unpunished on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Lives are ruined. A survivor’s plea for justice makes matters worse. When no one else seems to care, Anthony, an Episcopal priest, can’t let it go. Weightlessness Dalton, fresh out of grad school, returns to his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Although grounded in familiar surroundings and a secure job, his yearning for a grand romance leads him down uncharted alleys of both disappointment and ecstasy. Sorina’s America Among the Yoopers of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Sorina discovers her new country is not what she expected back in Bucharest, Romania. For better or worse, her America must be what she makes it. While Waiting for a Deer Jack wants to be a wildlife photographer. Perched in a tree stand to photograph a handsome buck, events unfold beneath him, spilling craziness into his life. Amorous teenagers? A kidnapping? Will Norway pay the ransom? Eventually, Jack responds as any ex-Navy Seal would. The Fossa (A Novella) In this sequel to Volume I’s “Original Content” short story, newlywed author Evan Walker ventures to Costa Rica to research his next novel. Through a maze packed with exotic locations, colorful rogues, and a Danish vixen overachiever, Evan struggles to understand and capture the essence of his villain, the Fossa.

Download or read book The Wal Mart Effect written by Charles Fishman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highly readable, incisive, precise, and even elegant." —San Francisco Chronicle "Insightful." —BusinessWeek Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g., Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004 its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of the Fortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping our lives.

Download or read book Short Stories for Busy Boomers written by Brian Dickens Barrabee and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Short Stories for Busy Boomers is not going to solve the world’s problems. It may, however make you forget them for a minute or two while reading. Maybe even make you laugh. The stories are about Boomers for Boomers and are only a couple of pages each. The author has planned it that way, so you can go back to being busy. About the Author Brian Dickens Barrabee is the author of Confessions of a Real Estate Man, Confessions of an American Male, and Confessions of a Professional Working Man. His latest book, this one, is an effort for him to appear busy, although he is retired. Mr. Barrabee is the proud father of four children and six grandchildren.

Download or read book Video Gaming in Science Fiction written by Jason Barr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming--first emerging almost fifty years ago--still resonates in modern science fiction. The author reveals how negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have endured in depictions of modern gamers in the media and how honest portrayals are still wanting, even in the "forward thinking" world of science fiction.

Download or read book Short Stories About My Life written by Anthony Groenink and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just imagine with me that you all of a sudden see a road that is dusty and you decide to see what is down it and you see a café called the journey has begins so as you enjoy this burger zack the person that works as a tour guide starts to tell you that you have turned down a road where you will find out about Tony {T-bone} life at different parts like Wal-Mart and church and school and about girls. He will also tell you stories about his friends. I think this journey also might help you meet T-bone and maybe help you in your journey if you are ready well then open this book.

Download or read book The Visibly Invisible Man and Other Short Stories written by M D Noel B Searle and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 14 imaginative and fast-paced short stories presents plots that are believable, and also have endings with unusual twists.----The Visibly Invisible Man and Collected Short Stories begins with a stranger moving to a small town in Kentucky. He is heavily covered from head to toe in clothing, allegedly to cover burn scars from the war in Vietnam. He is accepted into the community and circulates freely around town. But months later, the man robs the local bank of $200,000 and then disappears without a trace. The solution to the crime - and its twist - makes the story unforgettable.----The book's other short stories include "The Old Man on the Tee," about the death of a golfer. There's also the tale of an exciting encounter with a UFO, and a tiny man who becomes a shot putter on the American Olympic Track and Field Team. This unusual batch of stories takes readers on a fun ride.

Download or read book Fishin With Bubba written by Derek Allan Herring and published by Derek Allan Herring. This book was released on 2014-07-20 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishin' With Bubba is a set of humorous short stories about fishing that the Author has witnessed over the years.