Download or read book Mr Memory and Other Stories of Wonder written by Paul Michael Peters and published by Paul Michael Peters. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uttering the name Mr. Memory evokes the live performances and talk show appearances when he would impress the world with his abilities of recollection. His clarity of remembrance has kept listeners captivated for days while sharing the adventures of his life. In this collection of short stories, we learn the truth about Mr. Memory, the fantastic gone unseen, and a world of wonder which can inspire us to believe. Author Sheila Deeth http://www.sheiladeeth.com "Author Paul Michael Peters introduces Mr. Memory in the first story of this well-crafted collection: An old man, filled with so many memories that he’s tired of the same old questions; a young man with three surprisingly connected gifts; and a storybook that ensues, filled with treasured moments for the reader. The tales are short and quickly read, perfect for coffee breaks – but beware; like chocolate, they lure the reader into just one more. Each story carries hints of mystery in connections waiting to be made. Each takes the reader on flights of well-drawn history and place, and powerful characterization. A sense of parable and myth builds one story into the next, even when the path is so different. And the whole is a beautifully connected diorama of people and place. Mr. Memory carries the day, his visitor’s three questions bracketing the tales the lie between. But perhaps the biggest truth lies in the tale of a woman’s e-connections that drive her into narcissistic isolation. May readers pick up this book, connect and see. It’s a wonderful short collection, filled with achingly short and beautiful stories that linger and grow."
Download or read book Combustible Punch written by Paul Michael Peters and published by Paul Michael Peters. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Philips isn’t a fighter – but he is a survivor Haunted by memories of a high school shooting, not even the bottle can wash away the gnawing guilt and creeping feelings of inadequacy that batter Rick’s conscience daily. His life has been a mess of broken marriages, writer’s block, terrible choices, and the morbid pity of others. When he meets Harriet at a writer’s conference, the record doesn’t scratch as he falls back – only this time, he may not get up. Harriet Bristol Wheeler is a dark temptress – and self-confessed serial killer Harriet has no problem killing – and even fewer issues blending back into the background after the act with the cool, calculating eye of a practiced social chameleon. Manipulative, unpredictable, and exceptionally intelligent, she’s Rick’s worst nightmare – and the ideal subject for his next book. A book that they are both desperate to write. Time is running out – but the sadness will last forever Rick has no choice but to enter the cracked twilight of Harriet’s world and confront the history of her murderous choices up close. As Rick starts to gather the evidence for his long-anticipated book, he finds himself looking into answers that put him in even more danger than before – but this time, he may not survive at all. In the vein of Stieg Larsson and Thomas Harris, Combustible Punch is a memorable novel that captivates readers and lingers long after the last page.
Download or read book The Wheel of Fortune Other Stories written by Roger Leslie Paige and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my tenth collection of short stories. An elderly man becomes 'news' after he writes about his encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Pamplona years ago. A writer holidaying in West Texas meets James Dean in Marfa years after the latter's supposed death. A postal clerk remembers selling a stamp to John Wayne who was filming in London. A reporter traces the ex-chauffeur of a gangster to learn his story. A British Lord worries about his accident prone wife who has gone skiing in the Scottish Borders. A mystery writer becomes a witness in a local murder. A strange ship loads an odd cargo in a port. A mute, nameless man becomes a patient in a psychiatric hospital. A sunken treasure is found off the coast of Florida during a Presidential political campaign. They are a mixed bag of old and new, some semi-autobiographical or humourous, all intended to entertain.
Download or read book The Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grey Parrot and Other Stories written by W.W Jacobs and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In 'The Grey Parrot', a sailor buys a parrot for his wife, whom he suspects isn't faithful in his absence, hoping that the bird will inadvertently repeat anything untoward it hears. Unfortunately for him, the parrot exceeds his expectations, and it's not only his wife who is left blushing.This volume contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs's 150-strong repertory, and includes well-known standalone pieces such as 'The Monkey's Paw', as well as accounts of raucous dockside dalliances and tightly woven tales of poacher Bob Petty's crimes against the unlikely cast of an Essex village. Showcasing a unique assortment of stories spanning his writing career, this edition hopes to shine a light on a hugely talented writer who inspired many of the literary giants we now consider masters of the genre.
Download or read book Macmillan s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Macmillan s Magazine written by David Masson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge written by Mem Fox and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge lives next door to a nursing home. When he finds out that his special friend, Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, is losing her memory he sets out to find what a memory is.
Download or read book A Christmas Carol Other Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old man with no friends or family to love him - he s just so miserable and bitter! One freezing cold Christmas Eve, Marley s ghost pays Scrooge a visit and an eerie nighttime journey begins. The Christmas spirits are here to show Scrooge the error if his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, will Scrooge learn to love Christmas and the others around him?
Download or read book MacMillan s Magazine written by Sir George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book How to Create Chemistry with Anyone written by Leil Lowndes and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do you feel an instant attraction to one person and not another? And how can you help ensure that a connection lasts? With her ability to deliver cutting edge information in a lighthearted style, communications expert Leil Lowndes has made a career of teaching the secrets of successful interaction. In this book, based on the latest findings in cognitive science, she shows readers how to spark that elusive feeling of chemistry with almost anyone -- and sustain it when the relationship moves to the next level, from marriage to parenthood and beyond. Although chemistry affects nearly every relationship, few people understand it -- what initiates it, what destroys it, and what makes it last forever. While genetic makeup and past experiences all play a role, there are many things you can do to influence it. Ultrapractical, How to Create Chemistry with Anyone turns the complex neurological science of attachment into 75 easy communication strategies and unusual techniques that show readers what to do -- and what not to do -- to find and keep love.
Download or read book The Original Tracks written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Love A Novel written by Nicole Krauss and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
Download or read book A White Heron and Other Stories written by Sarah Orne Jewett and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderfully descriptive prose from distinguished regionalist writer includes 10 tales dealing with female friendships, poverty, and compassion: "The Town Poor," "Miss Peck’s Promotion," "The Passing of Sister Barsett," and seven more.
Download or read book The Jew and Other Stories written by Ivan Turgenev and published by Aeterna Classics. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turgenev's place in modern European literature is best defined by saying that while he stands as a great classic in the ranks of the great novelists, along with Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Balzac, Dickens, Thackeray, Meredith, Tolstoi, Flaubert, Maupassant, he is the greatest of them all, in the sense that he is the supreme artist. As has been recognised by the best French critics, Turgenev's art is both wider in its range and more beautiful in its form than the work of any modern European artist.
Download or read book The Eighth Wonder written by Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
