Download or read book Dead Leaves written by Kealan Patrick Burke and published by Kealan Patrick Burke. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange text messages portend a strange kind of apocalypse...Two brothers find themselves drawn to the only house in the neighborhood not decorated for Halloween…A man returns to his hometown to bury his overbearing mother, and finds more than memories awaiting him in the shadows of his childhood home…A young girl walks a lonely country road, recalling a rhyme that brings with it memories of death…A teenager hoping for romance gets more than he bargained for when the object of his desire introduces him to the object of hers…An aging millionaire awakes buried in a cheap coffin with only a lamp and a bell for company…The son of a woman accused of being a witch accepts the villagers' peace offering at her funeral, but all is not quite as it seems…A woman with a violent past realizes that this year's Halloween party may be coming for her…and a lonely trick-or-treater awakes in a house rumored to be a place of death. Featuring a new introduction, and rounded out by the author's recommended Halloween reading and watching lists, DEAD LEAVES makes for the perfect autumnal read.
Download or read book House of Leaves written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Download or read book Dead Leaves written by Andrew David Barker and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the draconian days of the early 80s, a group of friends try to track down a video of The Evil Dead before all copies are destroyed.
Download or read book Fletcher and the Falling Leaves written by Julia Rawlinson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the autumn season sets in, Fletcher is very worried his beautiful tree has begun to loose all of its leaves. Whatever Fletcher attempts to do to save them, it's simply no use. When the final leaf falls, Fletcher feels hopeless... until he returns the next day to a glorious sight. A tender, uplifting tale about acceptance and hope for the future.'Captivating' Publishers Weekly'Preschoolers will love being in on the joke, even as they marvel at the bright petals that herald the astonishing beauty of spring' ALA Booklist
Download or read book Fallen Leaves written by Will Durant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of one of the world’s greatest minds, a man with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. Over the course of Durant’s career he received numerous letters from “curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.” With Fallen Leaves, his final book, he at last accepted their challenge. In twenty-two short chapters, Durant addresses everything from youth and old age to religion, morals, sex, war, politics, and art. Fallen Leaves is “a thought-provoking array of opinions” (Publishers Weekly), offering elegant prose, deep insights, and Durant’s revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species. In Durant’s singular voice, here is a message of insight for everyone who has ever sought meaning in life or the counsel of a learned friend while navigating life’s journey.
Download or read book Family of Fallen Leaves written by Charles Waugh and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and later their children, suffered from ailments including diabetes, cancer, and birth defects. This remarkably diverse collection represents a body of work published after the early 1980s that stirred sympathy and indignation in Vietnam, pressuring the Vietnamese government for support. "Thirteen Harbors" intertwines a woman's love for a dioxin victim with ancient Cham legend and Vietnamese folk wisdom. "A Child, a Man" explores how our fates are bound with those of our neighbors. In "The Goat Horn Bell" and "Grace," families are devastated to find the damage from Agent Orange passed to their newborn children. Eleven of the pieces appear in English for the first time, including an essay by Minh Chuyen, whose journalism helped publicize the Agent Orange victims' plight. The stories in Family of Fallen Leaves are harrowing yet transformative in their ability to make us identify with the other.
Download or read book The Dead Leaves written by B鈇rbara·Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Oats and Dead Leaves written by Albert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of a Leaf written by Steven Vogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. A companion website with demonstrations and teaching tools can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/vogel/index.html
Download or read book Fallen Leaves written by Henry Livermore Abbott and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Henry Livermore Abbott of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was the most widely known and highly respected officer of his rank to serve in the Army of the Potomac. This text contains a collection of his wartime letters to family and friends.
Download or read book Three Dead Leaves written by Elizabeth Slavick Schatz and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his Christian upbringing, Jacob Morgan's life of sex, alcohol, and deception is spinning out of control. When his latest girlfriend announces she's pregnant and will have an abortion, Jacob faces the hardest task of his life. Can he face his responsibility and find God's forgiveness?
Download or read book Celebrating the Fallen Leaves written by Alicia Lidwina and published by Alicia Lidwina. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a certain nook inside my heart that is covered in everlasting snow. Seasons come and go, time passes on and on, yet the frost never thaws. But even this blizzard-covered land had once experienced warmth. In a memory long forgotten; in a tale of love long forsaken.
Download or read book Dead Leaves of Summer written by Richard Wilson Moss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Only Dead Leaves Fall written by Vincent Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three intertwined lives are forced to confront their past for different reasons...one for revenge...another for greed...and the last to discover the truth.
Download or read book Boarded Windows Dead Leaves written by Michael Jess Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Mister Alexander's neighborhood, it gets very dark very early." - Steve DuBois www.stevedubois.net "The nine stories in Michael Alexander's creepy collection, Boarded Windows, Dead Leaves, explore the creepier side of humanity. The tone is set by 'A Profound Impact' and doesn't let up. He takes on some of the standard horror tropes but also explores new grounds, all the while staying faithful to the theme that there are some very scary things out there, and you'd better be afraid." - Vincent Moore Professor of English & Humanities, Tiffin University Author of Emily Dickinson, Ninja Assassin "In Boarded Windows, Dead Leaves, Michael Jess Alexander takes the reader on a thrill-ride through his haunted imagination. Be sure to hold on tight! There are plenty of twists and turns you won't see coming until it is too late. By the time you manage to avert your gaze, the seeds of nightmare will have already been planted." - Lamont A. Turner "It depends on what you fear more, visiting the dead or being visited by the dead, which of these "nine macabre tales" you will find the most macabre. Will you be haunted more by living (and dying) the last moment of a laser-sliced brain, or by the returning soul able to possess many bodies at once, or by the experience of being eaten alive? Regardless of which one digs deepest into your anxieties, you won't soon forget any of the stories in Michael Jess Alexander's Boarded Windows, Dead Leaves." - H. L. Hix Author of Demonstrategy --- From cultish rituals to cosmic horror, Michael Jess Alexander's collection of horror fiction will leave you disquieted and unsettled. In "Chatterbox," a college professor is haunted by the spirit of a former student. "A Profound Impact" tells the story of a lost group of people who finally find a place they belong. In "Space For Amateurs," a science experiment goes horribly awry. These tales and six others await you in this haunting volume of horror fiction.
Download or read book Brown leaves and other verses written by Ella Stevens Harris and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the evocative world of Ella Stevens Harris's "Brown leaves and other verses", where each poem unfolds a tapestry of emotions, reflections, and nature's wonders. Prepare to be mesmerized by the lyrical beauty and profound depth of this enchanting collection. Embark on a journey through the seasons of life, captured in Harris's exquisite verses that resonate with the subtle hues of autumn leaves and the poignant whispers of passing time. From tender moments of introspection to the vivid portrayal of nature's splendor, this anthology invites readers to explore the intimate connection between the human spirit and the world around us. Harris's masterful use of language and imagery weaves together themes of love, loss, and renewal, creating a rich tapestry of emotions that engages the heart and mind. Each poem serves as a valuable hook-point, drawing readers into a world where the beauty of everyday moments is celebrated and cherished. With its blend of introspective musings and vivid descriptions, "Brown leaves and other verses" sets a contemplative tone that encourages readers to pause and reflect. From the quiet solitude of a forest glade to the bustling energy of urban life, Harris paints a vivid portrait of the world that is both timeless and deeply personal. Since its publication, "Brown leaves and other verses" has garnered acclaim for its heartfelt expressions and universal themes. Its enduring relevance and emotional resonance continue to captivate readers, offering profound insights into the human condition and the natural world. As you delve into the pages of "Brown leaves and other verses", you'll find yourself drawn to its lyrical beauty, thought-provoking themes, and engaging storytelling. Harris's keen observations and her ability to craft a compelling narrative through verse make this collection a cherished favorite for poetry lovers around the world. In conclusion, "Brown leaves and other verses" is more than just a collection of poems—it’s a timeless exploration of life, nature, and the human experience that continues to inspire and enchant readers. Whether you're a longtime admirer of poetry or discovering this gem for the first time, prepare to be swept away by the magic of Ella Stevens Harris's enduring work. Don't miss your chance to experience the beauty and depth of "Brown leaves and other verses". Let this poetic journey transport you to a world of reflection, wonder, and timeless beauty. Grab your copy now and join the many readers who have fallen in love with Harris's literary artistry.
