Download or read book In the Heart shaped Ashtray written by Will Sly and published by Will Sly. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories based in the Heartland.
Download or read book Sweet Tooth written by Yves Navarre and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a New York as gritty and brutal as Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles--a city of muggings, cockroach-infested apartments, dank hospitals, and casual murders--three characters cross paths and collide. Sweet Tooth is a book of anonymous sexual encounters and of lust that grades into love: a story by one of the most brilliantly uncompromising innovators of gay literature that shocks with candor and builds to an incredible climax. Its last line--"Adventure is dead"--grounds everything that has come before and gives a conclusive, melancholy tone to a book that is much more than shocking.
Download or read book The Stories of Mary Gordon written by Mary Gordon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age; it is their turn to face bodily decline, mortality, and the more complex anxieties of modern life. With their powerful insights into how we make do, both socially and privately, these stories are a treasure of American fiction.
Download or read book Bitch We Can Share written by Chenette Whitfield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet four female best friends:Sequoia Birmingham-Wallace, Zikhya Palmer,Menijah Jones,and Raleigh McDowell. These girls were like sisters and didn't dare let anything or anyone come in between them. Sequoia's husband,Morton Wallace a.k.a. Mo-T in the streets dissaprove of his wife's choice of friends. Sequoia refuses to choose between the people whom she love the most in the whole world.Due to his own infidelities,he fears that her friends will suck her into the life of betrayal,lies,and deceit. Selfishly,Morton comes up with a plan to destroy the girls' friendship forever. Read how selfishness,jealousy,and betrayal put a life long relationship and friendship on the line. This time,will they survive the tragedy?
Download or read book Mary Mary written by Jean Kerr and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1965 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As Howard Taubman of the New York Times describes: You will not be overwhelmed to discover that Mary is contrary and that her trouble is basic insecurity. Seems she had an older sister, a stunner. Oh, the traumatic effect on Mary! In hi
Download or read book The Bride Of Texas written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the widely acclaimed author of Dvorak in Love and The Engineer of Human Souls comes an unusual Civil War novel based on the documented memories of Czech soldiers who fought for the Union in the 26th Wisconsin battalion under General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Download or read book The First Time Jesus Winked at Me written by M. Sophie Schneider and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Time Jesus Winked at Me is a spiritual memoir about how extraordinary moments in an ordinary life move us to a place that Mark Nepo so beautifully describes as our inch of lightthat place where we, as humans, grow into grace and our souls shine. The author takes us on a journey through the joy and knee-bending sorrow of her life as she navigates toward a brighter understanding of how faith can light the way to a better understanding of who we are and why we are here.
Download or read book Project Keepsake written by Amber Lanier Nagle and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating personal histories are revealed through the stories of cherished objects, in this anthology celebrating the meaningful mementos of our lives. Amber Lanier Nagle has always been interested in keepsakes, whether her own or those she encounters in her friends’ homes. Seemingly ordinary items—a glass bluebird, a pocketknife, a dime-store locket, a faded fishing lure, a dented cake pan, a model train car—become priceless treasures when their stories are uncovered. In Project Keepsake, Nagle collects the tales of these objects and their beloved memories from contributors near and far. “Why do you keep this?” Nagle asks. “Where did it come from?” And then she listens as the stories pour out. Told in first-person by both seasoned and aspiring writers, every essay in the anthology is unique—yet each reveals common threads that connect us all and celebrate the glorious human experience.
Download or read book The Light in the Ruins written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills of Tuscany, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. But when two soldiers—a German and an Italian—arrive at their doorstep asking to see an ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis’ bucolic tranquility is shattered. 1955: Serafina Bettini, an investigator with the Florence Police Department, has successfully hidden her tragic scars from WWII, at least until she’s assigned to a gruesome new case—a serial killer who is targeting the remaining members of the Rosati family one by one. Soon, she will find herself digging into past secrets that will reveal a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart.
Download or read book Warman s Depression Glass Handbook written by Ellen Schroy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Touch of Glass Warman's Depression Glass Handbook is an easy-to-use reference featuring a one-of-a-kind thumbnail pattern guide for quick identification and discovery of this popular and delightful glass. Featuring 170 Depression glass patterns, detailed pattern drawings, values, a shape guide and glorious color pictures throughout, the handbook is the most extensive portable guide on the market. Depression glass has been a longstanding favorite of collectors and is experiencing a renaissance among those looking to add a splash of style to their home entertaining. Ideal for both new and established fans alike, Warman's Depression Glass Handbook is the perfect guide for enjoying and exploring the timeless beauty of this marvelous glass.
Download or read book From the Bottles at the Bottom of the Sea of Lust written by Will Sly and published by Will Sly. This book was released on with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man’s odyssey through the peaks and valleys of experimentation and addiction in drug-infested, rural Ohio as the American small-town charm fades.
Download or read book God Don t Make No Mistakes written by Mary Monroe and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monroe is a masterful storyteller." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Monroe's use of humor to depict ordinary people with complex and messy lives will keep readers glued to each and every page." --Library Journal These days, Annette Goode Davis has a full plate--literally and figuratively. Although she's trying to reconcile with her husband, Pee Wee, she's still seeing other men. A woman's got to cover her bases, right? Annette should be pleased with her busy love life. Instead, the stress has her eating everything in sight and packing on the pounds. Meanwhile, her best friend, Rhoda O'Toole, has her hands full with her wild child daughter, Jade. And when Jade's antics almost cost Rhoda her man, Rhoda throws her out. Annette thanks her lucky stars that her daughter, Charlotte, has her head on straight. And she's doubly blessed to have a strait-laced neighbor look after Charlotte when she's caught up in Pee Wee and Rhoda's problems. But when Annette's world is rocked by a terrible revelation, she'll discover that appearances can be very deceiving--and she'll have to summon every ounce of strength to protect the ones she loves.
Download or read book The Official Price Guide to Pottery and Porcelain written by Harvey Duke and published by . This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a price list for American-made pottery and porcelain, from dinnerware to art pottery.
Download or read book The Stories of Heinrich B ll written by Heinrich Böll and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.
Download or read book The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll written by Heinrich Boll and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form. Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. A Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.
Download or read book Oak Bluffs written by Alice Levine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Abbe, a summer reporter at the picturesque village of Oak Bluffs in Martha’s Vineyard and Matt, the Police Chief. They find themselves involved in the disappearance of a young couple, a drowning, and a criminal invasion.
Download or read book Tamar written by Mal Peet and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed British sensation Mal Peet comes a masterful story of adventure, love, secrets, and betrayal in time of war, both past and present. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War -- and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar’s life forever.
