Download or read book How Come Stories written by Douglas Evans and published by WT Melon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How come a classroom has so many unanswered questions? How come a school bus is yellow? How come kids go to school for nine months? How come the janitor's room is so small? Now find out how come!
Download or read book Come West and See Stories written by Maxim Loskutoff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an indelible mark." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and an unemployed millworker joins a militia after returning home. Written with “blade-sharp prose” (Electric Literature), the twelve stories in this debut collection expose the simmering rage and resentments of small-town America “with extraordinary eloquence and compassion” (National Book Review).
Download or read book Killer Come Back To Me The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury written by Ray Bradbury and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called "one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written." Is it murder to destroy a robot if it looks and speaks and thinks and feels like a human being? Can a ventriloquist be incriminated by the testimony of his own dummy? Can a time traveler prevent his younger self from killing the woman they both loved? And can the survivor of a pair of Siamese twins investigate his own brother's murder? No other writer has ever rivaled the imagination and narrative gifts of Ray Bradbury, and the 20 unforgettable stories in this collection demonstrate this singular writer's extraordinary range, influence and emotional power.
Download or read book Scoffers Will Come short stories written by David Porter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scoffers Will Come is the second collection of short stories from David Porter, one-time drama student, children's theatre performer, drama teacher, examiner/assessor, political organiser and Member of Parliament. Accompanying the anthology, Wild Beasts and Plague (2018), here are new stories and re-dreamed tales from the 1960s to the present day and beyond. They play through strange and normal times, absurdity and surrealism, dark humour, tragedy, suffering, thwarted plans and growing old ? the lot of human life. They wind through life's quirks, character idiosyncrasies, from natural settings to the obscure in the style he's developed over a lifetime of writing, public speaking, performing and presenting. Walk in My Shoes Publications? is the imprint of a man suffering the deformed feet of the condition, Charcot Marie Tooth disease. The short story compilations and the dark revenge novel Old Men's Dreams (2015) are available in paperback and Kindle versions.
Download or read book We Come to Our Senses Stories written by Odie Lindsey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Redeployment, a searing debut exploring the lives of veterans returning to their homes in the South. Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story “Evie M.” is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her suicide; in “We Come to Our Senses,” a hip young couple leaves the city for the sticks, trading film festivals for firearms; in “Colleen” a woman redeploys to her Mississippi hometown, and confronts the superior who abused her at war; and in “11/19/98” a couple obsesses over sitcoms and retail catalogs, extracting joy and deeper meaning. The story “Hers” is about the sexual politics of a combat zone.
Download or read book You Can Come and Celebrate With Me A Collection of Christmas Stories written by Andy Ruff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories inspired by hope and love - inspired by caring and sharing - the underlying essence that is and will hopefully always be Christmas.
Download or read book The World to Come written by Jim Shepard and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale"--
Download or read book 100 Days of Sunlight written by Abbie Emmons and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down. Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. But when her grandparents place an ad in the local newspaper looking for a typist to help Tessa continue writing and blogging, an unlikely answer knocks at their door: Weston Ludovico, a boy her age with bright eyes, an optimistic smile...and no legs. Knowing how angry and afraid Tessa is feeling, Weston thinks he can help her. But he has one condition -- no one can tell Tessa about his disability. And because she can't see him, she treats him with contempt: screaming at him to get out of her house and never come back. But for Weston, it's the most amazing feeling: to be treated like a normal person, not just a sob story. So he comes back. Again and again and again. Tessa spurns Weston's "obnoxious optimism", convinced that he has no idea what she's going through. But Weston knows exactly how she feels and reaches into her darkness to show her that there is more than one way to experience the world. As Tessa grows closer to Weston, she finds it harder and harder to imagine life without him -- and Weston can't imagine life without her. But he still hasn't told her the truth, and when Tessa's sight returns he'll have to make the hardest decision of his life: vanish from Tessa's world...or overcome his fear of being seen. 100 Days of Sunlight is a poignant and heartfelt novel by author Abbie Emmons. If you like sweet contemporary romance and strong family themes then you'll love this touching story of hope, healing, and getting back up when life knocks you down.
Download or read book Bluebeard s Keys and Other Stories written by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Darkness come on in The Box Set Horror stories Weird tales written by Germano Dalcielo and published by Germano Dalcielo. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you look in the face of evil, evil's going to look right back at you. This is the complete collection of the three volumes in the Darkness, come on in... series: 4 horror short stories, 3 weird tales and 5 flash-fiction stories that will keep you on the edge of your seats! Make sure the lights are on... 1) You Die, I Survive: An evil man holds two boys captive. He is playing a macabre game. Together, the two must choose who lives and who dies. Who is going to win? 2) Calandrina: A mysterious, lonely woman is staring out the window. Who is she waiting for? What is she watching? She has been "blessed" with a peculiar gift. What price will she pay for this unwanted "skill"? 3) Big Brother is on my floor: What if your house spy-hole turned into a black hole sucking out all your free will? 4) The Ouija board: You really should NOT have opened that door. You handed a window on our world to the Jinn on a silver platter. Who will be safe from now on? 5) Ring around the rosie: Ring around the rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes, ashes, We all fall down! The ex-asylum for children in Aguscello, Italy, has been abandoned for forty years. Who is still playing on the carousel inside the courtyard? 6) Occam's razor: The case solution is hidden in plain sight. Will the Assistant District attorney see it in time? 7) The House is in charge: What would you do if one day, you found out all the objects in your house are planning to kill you?
Download or read book Stories from the Old Testament written by Mrs. Henry Carlton Parker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Portent and Other Stories written by George MacDonald and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1909 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Stories and the Life Course written by Michael W. Pratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book draws from work that focuses on the act of telling family stories, as well as their content and structure. The process of telling family stories is linked to central aspects of development, including language acquisition, affect regulation, and family interaction patterns. This book extends across traditional developmental psychology, personality theory, and family studies. Drawing broadly on the epigenetic framework for individual development articulated by Erik Erikson, as well as on conceptions of the family life cycle, the editors bring together contemporary examples of psychological research on family stories and their implications for development and change at different points in the life course. The book is divided into sections that focus on family stories at different points in the life cycle, from early childhood and the beginnings of narrative skill, through adolescence, young adulthood, midlife, and then mature adulthood and its intergenerational meaning. During each of these periods of the life cycle, research focusing on individual development within an Eriksonian framework of ego strengths and virtues is highlighted. The dynamic role of family stories is also featured here, with work exploring the links between family process, intergenerational attachment, and storytelling. Sociocultural theories that emphasize how such development is situated in the wider cultural context are also featured in several chapters. This broad lifespan developmental focus serves to integrate the exciting diversity of this work and foster further questions and research in the emerging field of family narrative. The book is intended primarily for researchers and advanced-level students in the fields of developmental and personality psychology, as well as those in family studies and in gerontology. It may also be of interest to those in the helping professions who are concerned with family therapy and family issues, and may--due to its content and illustrative material--have appeal to a wider market of the lay public. The chapters are written in a readily accessible style and the analyses are presented in a fairly non-technical way. Because family stories are charted across the lifespan, it would be a suitable companion book to a more traditional lifespan textbook in certain courses.
Download or read book The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stories sketches and studies written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best Short Stories of and the Yearbook of the American Short Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where I Come from written by Rick Bragg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.
Download or read book Crazy Stories Sane God written by John Alan Turner and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a woman tricking her father-in-law into having a child together, to a talking donkey and demons being cast into pigs, theologian John Alan Turner explains what these odd stories are doing in the Bible and why they matter.
