Download or read book Floozy and Other Stories written by Stephen B Bagley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got two nuns and a goat? Do you enjoy Sabbath Night Fever? Or own a flying robot monkey army serving our Alien Masters? If you do - and even if you don't - this is the book for you! Enjoy humorist Stephen B. Bagley's views of our world in more than 80 hilarious tales from his decidedly different life.
Download or read book Murder by the Acre Second Edition written by Stephen B. Bagley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The librarian and the reporter are back! This time Bernard and Lisa stumble on the body of a local jeweler and ladies' man in an underground house. As the couple and Chief Donaldson investigate, they find themselves drawn into a confusing mystery of lies and alibis that involves the upper crust of Ryton, Oklahoma. Questions abound: Who killed him and how? Why doesn't the widow care that her husband is dead? Why doesn't his mistress? What does the mysterious Aventura Corporation have to do with the murder? What is the corporation hiding? Soon events spiral out of control as the killer strikes again and again. As the three dig for the truth, they upset powerful, vengeful people. The chief might lose his job, but Bernard and Lisa could lose their lives in this suspenseful sequel to "Murder by Dewey Decimal."
Download or read book Blackbirds Second Flight written by Stephen B. Bagley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy these dark fantasies: A writer challenges her murderous muse. Dragons and riders stage a daring rescue. Gangsters face off over the world's fate. Warriors duel to their deaths in the sky. A dad battles ghost to save his daughter. The sidhe will never forget nor forgive. It's Malone's way, or the cat fur will fly. A shaman invades Tulsa on a killing hunt. And much, much more!
Download or read book Blackbirds First Flight written by Stephen B. Bagley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unhappy wife can't decide what to do about her boorish husband until an uneaten meal gives her a dark idea... Something is raising zombies in Tulsa, and Justina Grave is the only one who can stop it... When a fat farm promises to make Edyth thin again, her dream comes true. She will never be fat again-or safe... Hopping a freight train can be a cheap way to travel. Unless you pick the wrong boxcar... One kiss gives Francois immortality, but at a cost he doesn't see coming... A woman warrior must choose her fate as the Romans ravage her land... Stalked by terrible creatures seeking vengeance, a band of robbers runs for their lives in medieval France... This anthology will lead you into dark, twisted places filled with mystery and delight. Enjoy thrilling stories and chilling poems by authors Stephen B. Bagley, Kent Bass, Wendy Blanton, Gail Henderson, Tamara Siler Jones, and Jean Schara.
Download or read book Innocents of War and other Stories written by Colin Richards and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A varied collection of short stories of war, love, mystery hatred and revenge. written to appeal to a variety of tastes
Download or read book Rosebud and Other Stories written by Wakako Yamauchi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In your heart there will always be a small ache reminding you that a place waits for your return. The dancers pause. The singers call. The fireflies await. Secret desires, unfulfilled longing, and irrepressible humor flow through the stories of Wakako Yamauchi, writings that depict the lives of Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans. Through the medium of Yamauchi’s storytelling, readers enter the world of desert farmers, factory workers, gamblers, housewives, con artists, and dreamers. Elegantly simple in words and complex in resonance, her stories reveal hidden strength, resilience, and the persistence of hope.
Download or read book Shiloh and Other Stories written by Bobbie Ann Mason and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games. "Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader," said Robert Towers in The New York Review of Books.
Download or read book Curly Hair Other Stories written by Betty Hunley Carlyon and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Curly Hair and Other Stories, Betty Hunley Carlyon reminisces about her Midwestern upbringing, her married life, and her duties as first lady of a nationally renowned community college in Michigan. Throughout the book, she shares happy and humorous tales of family, friends, marriage, children, and grandchildren. Readers will find this to be a beautiful testament to her. Lovely in face, spirit, and heart, Mrs. Carlyon was a prolific letter writer and a gracious and consummate hostess. In this book, she fills her stories with laughs, insights, perspectives, understandings, information, and even some tears—the good kind! They are heartfelt, written with love and gratitude.
Download or read book Coyote s Song Part One with Millennium and Other Stories Revised written by Matthew Theisen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyote is not the most reliable character in the galaxy, but when Lady Nature commissions him for a job, he takes it for the promised reward. There are, however, contrary personages whom desire to have their own schemes and story-lines prevail. Whether to stay a free agent or enlist in a group becomes of paramount importance as the struggles intensify. Characters want their own versions of stories with their own images, yet for that to occur, they must be an individual, which can be a dangerous thing in battling societies of divisive factions. Coyote's Song: Part One is written in pentameter rhyming couplets. Millennium and Other Stories explores how family life has changed in America, with new figures rising daily as role models to adopt humans as wayward children whom require eternal vigilance. The scripts supplied to people are vapid renditions of mass-produced corporate art. The only uniqueness is an unoriginal sin of art-theft; the good and bad is decided by bottom-line profit. The revised collection of nine stories contains a variety of genres and how characters are inspired by sundry authors, be it Ganesha or Raymond Chandler, in different systems on collision courses.
Download or read book The Manara Library Volume 6 Escape from Piranesi and Other Stories written by Milo Manara and published by Dark Horse Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milo Minara is a well-known and much-loved Italian graphic novelist, and he has been collaborating with Dark House to bring a comprehensive catalogue of his work to the English-speaking world. Manara's artwork and satirical voice are both in top form in this latest edition, and these stories, spanning two decades, are among his funniest, sexiest and most beautiful. The latest in a series of nine volumes, this reprint allows classic Manara stories to be experienced by a whole new audience.
Download or read book Enola Holmes The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets written by Nancy Springer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess! Now a Netflix original movie starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Helena Bonham Carter! Enola Holmes--younger sister to Sherlock Holmes--is back on another case! (Cover may vary) Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's right-hand man, so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued but wary; she's still hiding from her older brothers, and getting involved could prove to be disastrous. But Enola can't help but investigate, especially when she learns that a bizarre bouquet--with flowers all symbolizing death--has been delivered to the Watson residence. Enola knows she must act quickly, but can she find Dr. Watson in time? Praise for Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Edgar Award Nominee! "Empowered, capable, and smart . . . [with] an impactful message that you can do anything if you set your mind to it."--Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things * "Enola shows herself to be an intelligent, rational, resourceful, and brave protagonist. Readers will look forward to hearing this heroine's unique voice again." --Publishers Weekly, starred review * "This is a terrific package. Springer not only provides two fine mysteries, breathtaking adventure, and key-eyed description, but she also offers a worthy heroine." --Booklist, starred review
Download or read book The Atonement and Other Stories written by Louis Auchincloss and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-09-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaze into the lives of the twentieth century’s wealthy and declining WASP establishment in these twelve stories by the author of The Education of Oscar Fairfax. No one else writes about the moral life of America’s moneyed class with anything approaching Louis Auchincloss’s understanding, sympathy, irony, and humor. In this, his first book of short fiction since the acclaimed Collected Stories, he again brings us news that no other writer can deliver, news about how America’s great families and fortunes are run and the axes and crises on which they turn. Here is how the privileged view their privilege—some with smugness, some with style, some with a crushing sense of civic and personal responsibility. Here is how the rich marry, how they divorce, and, more important, why. Here, definitively and indelibly, is the eastern seaboard’s Wasp establishment—sometimes in its glory, more often in its decline, and always with its values, assumptions, and increasingly fragile sense of self held up for our scrutiny by a master, the most subtle critic of American manners since Edith Wharton. Praise for The Atonement and Other Stories “The 12 stories collected in “The Atonement” reveal a writer at, or very near, the top of his form.” —Los Angeles Times “In this PC world, Auchincloss’ crisp, confident tales of the WASP elite almost qualify as guilty pleasures. These 12 stories . . . will satisfy longtime fans and initiates alike with their portraits of investment bankers, lawyers, and socialites testing the limits of silver-plated social niches . . . . As usual, Auchincloss etches out the moral dilemmas of the blue-chip social stratum with reassuring clarity. A” —Entertainment Weekly “Fragile, often smug, and sometimes silly characters populate this noteworthy collection . . . . these glimpses of the Eastern elite’s manners and moral quandaries will provide an accessible first taste for the Auchincloss novice and an enjoyable read for longtime fans.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Download or read book Morning Child and Other Stories written by Gardner Dozois and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of award-winning science fiction written by two-time Nebula award winner, Gardner Dozois. Here youll find Dozois short stories "Morning Child" and _The Peacemaker,Ó both winners of the Nebula for best science fiction short story. Also includes Dozois classics "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," "The Hanging Curve," "The Bride" (with Jack Dann), and "Ancestral Voices" (with Michael Swanwick). From the introduction: The stories in this collection were published between 1970 and 2003, and thus represent a considerable chunk, perhaps a majority share, of not only my career but my life. . .when some critic asks me what was in my mind when I came up with a certain trope in one of those stories, or what some bit of symbolism really means, why I chose some word or image instead of another, or sometimes even just what the specific inspiration for a story was, often I just cant tell him¾Im not that kid anymore. . .So, perhaps its an odd way to review your career, by the places where youve lived. Probably not very satisfactory to the critics. The most disgruntled among them will just have to get that time-machine and go back and ask that bright-eyed young twenty-year-old kid about his work. If you see him, say hi for me. Gardner Dozois is known for his beautiful evocation of setting and emotional intensity within a truly alien and often austere vision of the future. He is a science fiction master of the first order¾a fact fully on display in this outstanding collection. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). _Lyric, haunting, heartbreaking¾this is science fiction at its best.Ó¾George R.R. Martin Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductee Gardner Dozois is the winner of two Nebula awards for fiction. _My generation of writers has produced relatively few authentic masters of the short form. Gardner Dozois is one of them.Ó¾William Gibson
Download or read book Advantages and Other Stories written by Markwick Smith and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advantages and Other Stories is a collection of short stories, more-or-less in chronological order, occasionally approaching the autobiographical, and always understated as a means of inverted emphasis.
Download or read book Saving the Rainforest and Other Stories written by Claire Tham and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe in the sanctity of the ordinariness of everyday life: beyond its charmed boundaries lies confusion.” So speaks the voice of conservatism and conformity. But shouldn’t one fly, push oneself to the limit and beyond, break all rules? With humour and intelligence, the stories in Saving the Rainforest explore the tensions that can arise when the desire for personal fulfilment clashes with society’s norms. The Series This title is being reissued under the new Marshall Cavendish Classics: Literary Fiction series, which seeks to introduce some of the best works of Singapore literature to a new generation of readers. Some have been evergreen titles over the years, others have been unjustly neglected. Authors in the series include: Catherine Lim, Claire Tham, Colin Cheong, Michael Chiang, Minfong Ho, Ovidia Yu and Philip Jeyaretnam.
Download or read book The Sharpener and Other Stories written by Andrés Berger-Kiss and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four short stories round out this collection of well-honed social consciousness and complex characters. Andr�s Berger-Kiss upholds the virtues of the common man in his stories while often weaving a delicate thread of whimsy through many of his stories, such as in the award-winning title story, "The Sharpener." Many of his characters are not strangers to hope, and the inspiration they seek—or provide to others—is transmitted through the author's deeply moving prose and his clear vision of reality.
Download or read book Undercover Other Stories written by Dominic O'Sullivan and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a Time Traveller makes a sudden return to Ely and its enormous cathedral? Why is the au-pair being suddenly let loose in the cowshed? And what drives Elena to consult a mysterious 'healer' or James to visit his former teacher? In this collection of intriguing short stories the reader is taken on a journey with sometimes unforeseen results.
