Download or read book Jessie Jesus Cousin Claire written by Raymond Andrews and published by Peachtree. This book was released on 1994-05-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie and Claire make their unique mark on the rural South. Look out! Here come Jessie Mitchell Blackshear and her equally dangerous double, Cousin Claire. Sexy, smart, and sassy, these powerful Black women survive and thrive in the male-dominated world of the rural South. Thoroughly different and equally dedicated to getting their way, Jessie and Claire will entertain and amaze you—if they don't swallow you whole! In these two hilarious and hair-raising novellas, Raymond Andrews has painted portraits of two very different black women whose means and modes of manipulation are mirror-opposites of each other, but whose motivations are frighteningly similar. The results—and their impact on those around them—are equally profound. Welcome to the darkly comic world of Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire, vividly presented in the rambunctious and rollicking prose of a master storyteller and inspired seer into human nature. Published shortly before Andrews's death in 1991, Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire won a 1992 American Book Award.
Download or read book The Unkind Word and Other Stories written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jessie s neighbour and other stories written by Jessie (fict.name.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cryptic Death and Other Stories written by Kalpana Swaminathan and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Aunt Lalli do before she retired from something clerkish in the police? The question intrigues us even as the narrator and her aunt Lalli plunge headlong into adventures in each of these engrossing detective stories. Aunt Lalli ingeniously solves each mystery, and we celebrate the emergence of a new sleuth into the world of detective fiction.
Download or read book The Unkind Word and Other Stories By the Author of John Halifax Gentleman Miss D M Mulock Afterwards Craik written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen of the Dormitory and Other Stories written by Angela Brazil and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Queen of the Dormitory and Other Stories" by Angela Brazil. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The unkind word and other stories by the author of John Halifax gentleman written by Dinah Maria Craik and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jessie s Island written by Sheryl McFarlane and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a long list of activities and events to attend, cousin Thomas paints a picture of city life that makes Jessie’s world seem a little dull in comparison. When her mother suggests they invite Thomas to visit their island, Jessie wonders glumly what she could possibly write in her letter that would sound as exciting as zoos, planetariums or video arcades. But as Jessie looks out over her island home, she sees a world of endless variety, from killer whales in the strait and bald eagles soaring overhead to anemones in tide pools and tiny hermit crabs on the shore. She thinks of countless days spent exploring, fishing, swimming and canoeing.
Download or read book The Necklace and Other Stories written by William H. Coles and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine short stories about American life, unrequited love, familial distrust, and unfair parental control, and a novella where cultures clash and humans survive with caring and selflessness overcoming the default of violence and destruction. Each story rich with unique characters proving they have the will to survive life's most difficult obstacles, and discover their own capabilities to affect their own destinies.
Download or read book It s All Relative written by S. C. Stephens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The club was packed, the music was loud, and the alcohol was flowing. Jessie couldn't keep her eyes off of the exotic man drinking by himself across the room. Kai couldn't keep his gaze from the buxom brunette laughing with her friends at the bar. Fate pulled them together, giving them a night that neither one would soon forget. But then, you know what they say about fate. While their one night of bliss was perfect, neither Jessie nor Kai could have imagined what would be in store for them the next time they met, when fate again crossed their paths. As they both soon discovered, sometimes life places obstacles in the way that are insurmountable ... even for soul mates.
Download or read book To Hell with Fate written by Kevin J. Cunningham and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young love is a myth. It's something we're conditioned to expect by movies and stories. It's something we all wanted but could never find. And even when we get older and know the truth, we still wish, just a little, that we had it. When two young cousins find themselves bored to tears at a family funeral, they find another cousin willing to tell them a little story about his young love: how a simple Valentine's Day gift from a mini-mart became one of the best he'd ever given. It's a fine story on its own, but as the girls dig deeper, they find themselves enveloped in a longer saga, told one story at a time. One about the difference between a crush and love. One that challenges their notions of fate and perfection. One about how our own worst enemies can be ourselves, and how in the end, we're all just a little messed up.
Download or read book Prowler Boy And Other Stories written by Patricia Bevan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book of short stories, Patricia Bevan finds both humor and tragedy revealed in the lives of her unique characters. Here you will discover secrets and truth in a bewildering supply of subjects you will not soon forget.
Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Locks and Other Stories written by Zoe Plunket (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Well Read Lives written by Barbara Sicherman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged women found alternative routes to expressive literacy. Jewish immigrants Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin acquired new identities in the English-language books they found in settlement houses and libraries, while African Americans like Ida B. Wells relied mainly on institutions of their own creation, even as they sought to develop a literature of their own. It is Sicherman's masterful contribution to show that however the skill of reading was acquired, under the right circumstances, adolescent reading was truly transformative in constructing female identity, stirring imaginations, and fostering ambition. With Little Women's Jo March often serving as a youthful model of independence, girls and young women created communities of learning, imagination, and emotional connection around literary activities in ways that helped them imagine, and later attain, public identities. Reading themselves into quest plots and into male as well as female roles, these young women went on to create an unparalleled record of achievement as intellectuals, educators, and social reformers. Sicherman's graceful study reveals the centrality of the era's culture of reading and sheds new light on these women's Progressive-Era careers.
Download or read book Murder Mayhem Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the great success of 2015's Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with hard-boiled detectives, monsters, psychopaths and a high body count. Tales of death and destruction from classic authors are cast with previously unpublished stories by exciting contemporary hardcore crime writers. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Sara Dobie Bauer, Michael Cebula, Carolyn Charron, James Dorr, Tim Foley, Steven Thor Gunnin, Kate Heartfield, David M. Hoenig, Liam Hogan, Patrick J. Hurley, Michelle Ann King, Claude Lalumière, Gerri Leen, K.A. Mielke, Alexandra Camille Renwick, Fred Senese, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Dean H. Wild, and Nemma Wollenfang. These appear alongside classic stories by authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Dick Donovan, Edith Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker.
Download or read book Once a Week written by S. Lucas and published by . This book was released on with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jessie Carlton written by Francis Forrester and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
