Download or read book Gifts from an Empty Suitcase and Other Short Stories written by Aviva Butt and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts from an Empty Suitcase and Other Short Stories: And Twenty Poems presents stories and poems about our turbulent, modern times-a world filled with tragedy and a growing refugee population. Each story centers around a disturbing event in recent decades and is set in various locations such as Egypt, Afghanistan, Michigan and Australia. The story "An Ethereal Mishap" includes a description of Japanese culture. The story "Luna," set in the Australian outback, describes the reaction of an indigenous Australian to the recent Gulf war in Iraq. The characters are incredibly life-like so that t.

Download or read book Gifts from an Empty Suitcase and Other Short Stories written by Aviva Butt and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts from an Empty Suitcase and Other Short Stories: And Twenty Poems presents an array of stories and poetry about people in our turbulent, modern world that encompasses both East and West. It is a world filled with tragedy and a growing refugee population. The fate of birds is also interwoven within these tales of human joy and sadness. These fascinating stories are truly Gifts, and are set in Egypt, Afghanistan, Michigan and Australia. The poems often complement the stories, with the last poem describing Dunedin, New Zealand, where the author now lives. The characters are all ages and come from all walks of life. They are Arab; Jewish-American; Hispanic; Israeli; Japanese; and Australian, both white and indigenous. About the Author: Aviva Butt was born in New York City, was educated in Australia and now calls Dunedin, New Zealand home. This is her first book. Her second book, already underway, will be Poets in a War Torn World: Four Essays by Aviva Butt with Introduction by Reuven Snir. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/AvivaButt

Download or read book The Yellow Suitcase written by Meera Sriram and published by Penny Candy Books. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What memories will Asha's yellow suitcase hold now that grandmother is gone?

Download or read book On Screenwriting and Love and Politics written by Aviva Butt and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book On Screenwriting and Love and Politics: The Screenplay “Blue Mist,” is written in an engaging literary style. It attempts to illuminate the emotions, theories, and process that go into crafting a screenplay. As a special appendix, the book includes the author’s latest full-length screenplay Blue Mist. About this screenplay, Aviva says: “I write about love and politics. My screenplays are theatrical feature films on Middle Eastern subjects. This time with my screenplay Blue Mist, the world situation and the Middle East come to New Zealand.” The book also features an introduction from Gaetano Nino Martinetti, an award-winning cinematographer, who contributes his views on the role of cinematography in making movies.

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Download or read book Poets from a War Torn World written by Aviva Butt and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two essays in Poets from a War Torn World are about mysticism in modern Arabic poetry. The second two essays are about literary philosophy in modern Hebrew poetry. All four essays focus on the 1960s and 1970s, a time when poets hoped that through their writings they could help bring peace to a war torn Middle East. Reuven Snir's introduction is in clear simple language. It provides background knowledge that will assist the general reader who has no previous knowledge of specifically Arabic or Hebrew poetry. Otherwise, the introduction and essays are of interest to scholars, students and the general reader, those interested in poetry, poetics or diverse cultures. The four essays include Aviva Butt's translations of entire poems, so the book also includes a collection of poems that are enjoyable to read. The leading poets under discussion in the first three essays are Adunis (Adonis), Mahmud Darwish (Arabic poets) and Natan Zach (Hebrew poet). Rashid Husayn (Arabic poet) is also mentioned. The last essay, A Surge of Poetry, deals with the creativity of Hebrew poets Natan Zach, Yehuda Amichai, Meir Wieseltier and Asher Reich. Natan Alterman is also mentioned. Author of: Gifts from an Empty Suitcase and Other Short Stories: And Twenty Poems (2012) Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/AvivaButt Aviva is currently publishing academic articles in a Turkish journal entitled The International Journal of Kurdish Studies (IJOKS) - Diyarbakir. Her articles on the Kurdish poet Salim Barakat are on the social media academia.edu Aviva visited Diyarbakir Turkey over the holiday season, and is back in Tasmania Australia where she presently lives.

Download or read book The Pink Suitcase written by Susie Morgenstern and published by Wilkins Farago Pty Limited. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was his grandmother thinking when she bought Benjamin such a strange present: an empty pink suitcase! To his mother's horror, Benjamin is not only drawn to the suitcase--he absolutely loves it. What's more, as he grows older he shows no signs of wanting to give it up. Spanning the generations, The Pink Suitcase is a warm-hearted and amusing tale about being different and celebrating the individual.

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Download or read book Happy Holidays Animated written by William D. Crump and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television. From devotional portrayals of the Nativity to Santa battling villains and monsters, this encyclopedia catalogs more than 1,800 international Christmas-themed cartoons and others with year-end themes of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. Explore beloved television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, theatrical shorts such as Santa's Workshop, holiday episodes from animated television series like American Dad! and The Simpsons, feature films like The Nutcracker Prince and obscure productions such as The Insects' Christmas, along with numerous adaptations and parodies of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night before Christmas.

Download or read book Mammoth Books presents The Best British Crime Omnibus Volume 7 8 and 9 written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 1311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 122 fantastic stories from Britain's best crime writers For ten years the Mammoth Best British Crime series has been publishing an annual volume of the most outstanding crime and mystery short fiction published in the UK. Over 400 stories by the very best writers in the field have been published. Contributors have included, among many others, Mark Billingham, Liza Cody, Roger Jon Ellory, Reginald Hill, Peter James, Simon Kernick, Alexander McCall Smith, Val McDermid, John Mortimer, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, Derek Raymond and Andrew Taylor. On several occasions, stories published in The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime have won some of the most prestigious awards in the field, including the Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger, The Mystery Writers of America Edgar award and the Anthony award, while countless others have featured on the respective shortlists. This truly bumper collection of over 120 stories, an omnibus edition of Volumes 7, 8 and 9, showcases as ever the impressive breadth of crime writing, from cosy tales of detection to noir mayhem and psychological suspense and terror. There are puzzles to solve, nagging questions about the nature of the society in which we live, but, above all, there is an abundance of first-class entertainment. Over 1600 pages of outstanding crime fiction by: Lin Anderson, Kate Atkinson, Ian Ayris, Ray Banks, Robert Barnard, Colin Bateman, Mark Billingham, Nigel Bird, Tony Black, Stephen Booth, Paul D. Brazill, Simon Brett, Gerard Brennan, Christopher Brookmyre, Alison Bruce, Ken Bruen, Declan Burke, Col Bury, Tom Cain, Ann Cleeves, Liza Cody, Natasha Cooper, Bernie Crosthwaite, Judith Cutler, Colin Dexter, Martin Edwards, Matthew J. Elliott, Kate Ellis, R. J. Ellory, Chris Ewan, Christopher Fowler, Simon R. Green, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Allan Guthrie, Sophie Hannah, John Harvey, Mick Herron, David Hewson, Reginald Hill, Matt Hilton, Kate Horsley, Peter James, Paul Johnston, L. Kennedy, Bill Kirton, John Lawton, Simon Levack, Michael Z. Lewin, Toby Litt, Peter Lovesey, Phil Lovesey, Stuart MacBride, Adrian Magson, Barry Maitland, Alexander McCall Smith, Keith McCarthy, Val McDermid, Brian McGilloway, Denise Mina, Steve Mosby, Edward Marston, Amy Myers, Barbara Nadel, Stuart Neville, Christine Poulson, Ian Rankin, Sarah Rayne, Peter Robinson, Nicholas Royle, Zoë Sharp, Roz Southey, Sally Spedding, Jay Stringer, Andrew Taylor, Marilyn Todd, Peter Turnbull, L. C. Tyler, Simon Kernick, Nick Quantrill, Sheila Quigley, Louise Welsh, Marc Werner and Kevin Wignall.

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