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Book Frank Herbert  Unpublished Stories

Download or read book Frank Herbert Unpublished Stories written by Frank Herbert and published by WordFire +ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short fiction features “newfound treasures” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dune (Midwest Book Review). Even the author of Dune—the best-selling science fiction novel of all time—had trouble getting published. At first, Frank Herbert wanted to be a writer, and though today his name is practically synonymous with world-building and epic science fiction, Herbert didn’t start out with a particular genre in mind. He wrote mainstream stories, mysteries, thrillers, mens’ adventure pieces, humorous slice-of-life tales. And, yes, some science fiction. For the first time, this collection presents thirteen completed short stories that Frank Herbert never published in his lifetime. These tales show a great breadth of talent and imagination. Readers can now appreciate the writing of one of the field’s masters in a kaleidoscope of new stories./

Book Jerry Spinelli

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Micklos, Jr.
  • Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780766027183
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Jerry Spinelli written by John Micklos, Jr. and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the award-winning author of "Maniac Magee," "Wringer," and "Milkweed."

Book Calling Major Tom

    Book Details:
  • Author : David M. Barnett
  • Publisher : Trapeze
  • Release : 2017-01-19
  • ISBN : 140916814X
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book Calling Major Tom written by David M. Barnett and published by Trapeze. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I loved everything about it.' Goodreads 'This book made me laugh, cry, giggle and gasp.' Goodreads 'One of my favourite books of the year. Charming and very sweet.' Goodreads ********************** Heartwarming eBook bestseller - the perfect read for anyone who enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Together, A Man Called Ove and Matt Haig. ********************** Forty-something Thomas is very happy to be on his own, far away from other people and their problems. But beneath his grumpy exterior lies a story and a sadness that is familiar to us all. And he's about to encounter a family who will change his view of the world... for good. ********************** AS FEATURED IN THE GUARDIAN, THE FEEL-GOOD MUST-READ FOR 2018 'Must read' Daily Express 'Utterly irresistible' Sunday Mirror 'Funny, moving, sweetly life-affirming tale' Sunday Express ********************** 'Sheer joy.' Lucy Diamond 'Exactly what everyone needs right now.' Rachel Lucas 'I adored this book!' Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things 'A much-needed antidote for these worrying times.' Julie Cohen 'A moving, funny, absorbing hot chocolate of a story.' Daniela Sacerdoti ********************** What other readers are saying about Calling Major Tom: 'Full and rich characters with all touching my heartstrings. Laughed and cried out loud.' Goodreads 'Oh my goodness, I loved this book so much. It made me laugh and cry, then laugh and cry even more.' Goodreads 'I loved this book. All the characters were lovable, charming and for some my heart broke into pieces.' Goodreads 'This was a lovely read with brilliant characters. I loved Tom. Made me laugh and cry. A lovely pick me up read. I loved the ending too. 5*' Goodreads

Book The Search for E  T  Bell

Download or read book The Search for E T Bell written by Constance Reid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling account of this complicated, difficult man.

Book Lifelines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christl Verduyn
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 077351337X
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Lifelines written by Christl Verduyn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before her death in 1985 at the age of fifty-one, Marian Engel had published seven novels, two collections of short stories, and numerous essays and articles. Despite this impressive output and various literary honours, including a Governor General's Award for her novel Bear, Engel's writing has not received the critical attention it deserves. A comprehensive study of Engel's body of work, Lifelines fills a major gap in Canadian literary criticism.

Book Four of a Kind 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Africa Kirk
  • Publisher : Africa Kirk
  • Release : 2024-06-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book Four of a Kind 2 written by Africa Kirk and published by Africa Kirk. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel of a gripping tale from Four of a Kind awaits readers in Four of a Kind 2. When secrets are revealed, the four sisters start to fall apart. Alexis discovers their father, Morris’ secret that may bring more drama. While Jazmine is getting her life together after a dramatic discovers, her former college friend Denise tries to win their friendship back. Yvette’s reactions to the revealed secrets may cause her to lose her relationship with her sisters, Victoria, and her husband. Dina and her fiancé Andrew battle his ex-wife Mia, which may end their engagement and Dina’s career. Love, loyalty, and forgiveness are tested once their mother, Victoria reveals her secrets that can ruin her relationship with her daughters.

Book The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert

Download or read book The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert written by Frank Herbert and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert is the most complete collection of Herbert's short fiction ever assembled-thirty-seven stories originally published between 1952 and 1979, plus one story, "The Daddy Box," that has never been appeared before. Frank Herbert, the New York Times bestselling author of Dune, is one of the most celebrated and commercially successful science fiction writers of all time. But while best known for originating the character of Paul Atreides and the desert world of Arrakis, Herbert was also a prolific writer of short fiction. His stories were published individually in numerous pulps and anthologies spanning decades, but never collected. Until now. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The Carrow Haunt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Darcy Coates
  • Publisher : Black Owl Books
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book The Carrow Haunt written by Darcy Coates and published by Black Owl Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remy is a tour guide for the notoriously haunted Carrow House. The old place is a haunt for the superstitious, but Remy hasn't seen any proof of the paranormal yet. So when she's asked to host guests for a week-long stay in order to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly take a sinister turn. Doors open on their own. Séances go disastrously wrong. Their spirit medium wanders through the house at night, seemingly in a trance. But it isn't until one of the guests dies under strange circumstances that Remy is forced to consider the possibility that the ghost of the house's original owner―a twisted serial killer―still walks the halls. And by then it's too late to escape…

Book Read All about It

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Trelease
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1993-08-01
  • ISBN : 0140146555
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Read All about It written by Jim Trelease and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of fifty sensational read-aloud pieces for young adults. From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to Maniac Magee, sci-fi to op-ed, “Casey at the Bat” to a moving true story about the reunion of two Holocaust survivors, this wonderfully diverse collection of excerpts from newspapers, magazines, and books has been created by Jim Trelease especially to turn young people on to the many pleasures of reading. Here are thought-provoking columns from Mike Royko and Pete Hamill; excerpts from classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and “Rikki-tikki-tavi”; autobiographical sketches by Maya Angelou, Moss Hart, and others, highlighting the importance of reading in their lives; and much more. With selections representing many different cultures, genres, writing styles, and interests, Read All About It! is a wonderful introduction to the riches of literature and to a lifetime of reading.

Book The Four Lost Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Wolfe
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781570037337
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Four Lost Men written by Thomas Wolfe and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Four Lost Men is the first publication of the long version of Thomas Wolfe's story of familial and national reflection set during World War I. Here Wolfe supplies a moving portrait of his dying father, as well as a rich meditation on American history and ambitions. Discussion of the title characters - Presidents James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, and Rutherford B. Hayes - provides Wolfe an opportunity to assess the mood and promise of the nation as well as to reflect on the obstacles that had blocked paths toward untapped American potential." "Originally published as a short story of seven thousand words in Scribner's Magazine in 1934 - and later abridged by one thousand words for republication in the 1935 anthology From Death to Morning - Wolfe's expanded tale is published here for the first time in its full length of some twenty-one thousand words."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Preservationist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin Kramon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 1639361146
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Preservationist written by Justin Kramon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Sam Blount, meeting Julia is the best thing that has ever happened to him. Working at the local college and unsuccessful in his previous relationships, he’d been feeling troubled about his approaching fortieth birthday, “a great beast of a birthday,” as he sees it, but being with Julia makes him feel young and hopeful. Julia Stilwell, a freshman trying to come to terms with a recent tragedy that has stripped her of her greatest talent, is flattered by Sam’s attention. But their relationship is tested by a shy young man with a secret, Marcus Broley, who is also infatuated with Julia. Told in alternating points of view, The Preservationist is the riveting tale of Julia and Sam's relationship, which begins to unravel as the threat of violence approaches and Julia becomes less and less sure whom she can trust.

Book Naming the Unnamable

Download or read book Naming the Unnamable written by Tom Dobson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting upon his own prior experiences as Writer, PhD Student embarks on an ethnographic research project which seeks to explain the relationship between Boys’ creative writing and identity. A view of identity as performance is adopted, a main cast of year 6 Boys is assembled, and the stage of the year 6 primary classroom and the secondary school is set. Undertaking participant observation, PhD Student sends his reflections as emails to PhD Supervisor but as their dialogue takes hold, questions relating to the problematic nature of research and representation proliferate. Which identity is PhD Student performing in the classroom: himself, Mr Dobson, Writer or Tom? Is self-reflexivity enough? To what extent can the Boys’ identities ever be known? Rather than silencing these problems, PhD Student looks for a form of writing which lays bare the messiness of research. He rejects the linearity of the traditional form and writes his thesis as a self-conscious fiction: a dialogue on a train between himself, a post/structuralist academic, and You, a humanist non-academic. As PhD Student’s data is analysed, critiqued and deconstructed from both essentialist and interpretivist perspectives, the impossibility of objective representation is explored. Within its own frame of reference, PhD Student’s analysis of the Boys’ writing offers a theoretical framework for thinking about creative writing in terms of identity and agency. However, the thesis-script itself is primarily a methodological critique: one that shows that no matter what is written on pages, between the words, between the letters, there will always be the Unnamable.

Book The Western Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon Tuska
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1999-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780803294394
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Western Story written by Jon Tuska and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Story: A Chronological Treasury consists of twenty Western stories spanning the years 1892 to 1994. For that generation of American writers who saw the frontier in the last century?including Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Owen Wister?it seemed exotic, strange, wonderful. Others, such as Frederic Remington and John G. Neihardt, reflected the clash between various Indian nations and pioneers. These authors prepared the way for the founders of the first Golden Age of the Western story: Willa Cather, who wrote of pioneer life in Nebraska; Zane Grey, who combined wilderness experiences with romance and the search for spiritual truth; B. M. Bower, who portrayed the cowboys and frontier women she knew growing up in Montana; Max Brand, who created dramas in which the psychological and spiritual meaning of life was more important than the physical terrain; and Ernest Haycox, who combined character and drama with historical accuracy. ø Another generation of writers perpetuated this first Golden Age: Peter Dawson and T. T. Flynn, who began writing Western stories in the 1930s; Walter Van Tilburg Clark, who created a masterpiece in The Ox-Bow Incident; Dorothy M. Johnson and Les Savage Jr., who experimented with making the Western story still more realistic; and Louis L?Amour, whose visibility and popularity won legions of new readers to the genre. ø Humanity, depth, and verisimilitude were already part of the Western story when Will Henry, Elmer Kelton, and T. V. Olsen came on the scene to intensify these qualities in their own stories even as they experimented with new perspectives. And Cynthia Haseloff?s story (written especially for this collection), with its symbolism and its simplicity, may be the harbinger of a second Golden Age.

Book Just a Little Taboo  Shades of Deception  Book 2

Download or read book Just a Little Taboo Shades of Deception Book 2 written by Mallory Rush and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cammie Walker has everyone fooled—almost. On the outside she has the perfect career, perfect looks, perfect tight-knit family, perfect everything. Inwardly, she's a mess. After three broken engagements there is only one man she can love and trust without question: Her adopted brother Grant Kennedy. Grant has loved Cammie like anything but an adopted sister since the day she moved into his parents' house and took up residence in his heart. Knowing Cammie only sees him as her little brother is torture... until Cammie accidentally sees more than a little of him in the buff. Now Cammie and Grant must choose. Risk everything by coming forward with the truth. Or continue to deceive the family they both love as their forbidden love affair spins out of control and threatens to break far more hearts than theirs alone. Previously titled: Taboo SHADES OF DECEPTION, in series order Just a Little Lie Just a Little Taboo Just a Little Misgiving Just a Little Sin OTHER TITLES by Mallory Rush Outlaws and Heroes, a three book series Bad Boy of New Orleans Between the Sheets Hurts So Good Half-Moon Hearts Kissed by the Beast

Book Fight and Flight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Georgia Burdett
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2020-02-01
  • ISBN : 1786835290
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Fight and Flight written by Georgia Burdett and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no published collected criticism on Ron Berry. This is a unique selling point. Berry did not receive the critical acclaim he deserved in his lifetime. This is the first attempt to address this apparent neglect. Berry’s work is hugely relevant to the study of modern Wales, as it straddles the industrial and post-industrial period. His environmental writings and concerns were so progressive that they were perhaps wasted upon his original readership.

Book The Secret Miracle

Download or read book The Secret Miracle written by Daniel Alarcon and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's best contemporary writers—from Michael Chabon and Claire Messud to Jonathan Lethem and Amy Tan—engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write. Paul Auster, Roddy Doyle, Allegra Goodman, Aleksandar Hemon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami, George Pelecanos, Gary Shteyngart, Daniel Alarcón, and others take us step by step through the alchemy of writing fiction, answering everything from nuts-and-bolts queries—"Do you outline?"—to perennial questions posed by writers and readers alike: "What makes a character compelling?" From Stephen King's deadpan distinction between novels and short stories ("Novels are longer and have more s**t in them") to Colm Toibin's anti-romanticized take on his characters ("They are just words") to José Manuel Prieto's mature perspective on the anxieties of influence ("Influences are felt or weigh you down more when young"), every page contains insights found nowhere else. With honesty, humor, and elegance, The Secret Miracle gives both aspiring writers and lovers of literature a master class in the art of writing.