Download or read book Now Then written by Richard Seltzer and published by Seltzer Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30 black-and-white illustrations. Boston Globe -- "A highly original collection of short stories -- sometimes humorous, sometimes profound." Philadelphia Daily News -- "Seltzer has produced four charming stories for, he suggests, children around the age of nine. Adults will find the book has its appeal too: My favorite story is the one about the little princess who had a nice mother and was very happy and therefore very unhappy because how could Prince Charming come and rescue her if there was nothing to rescue her from?"
Download or read book Now and Then and Other Tales from Ome written by Richard Seltzer and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Good Kind of Trouble written by Lisa Moore Ramée and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what’s right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it’s like all the rules have changed. Now she’s suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she’s not black enough. Wait, what? Shay’s sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that’s trouble, for real. "Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free, and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest, she starts to see that some trouble is worth making." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")
Download or read book Coming Home and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming Home I The young men of our American Relief Corps are beginning to come back from the front with stories. There was no time to pick them up during the first months--the whole business was too wild and grim. The horror has not decreased, but nerves and sight are beginning to be disciplined to it. In the earlier days, moreover, such fragments of experience as one got were torn from their setting like bits of flesh scattered by shrapnel. Now things that seemed disjointed are beginning to link themselves together, and the broken bones of history are rising from the battle-fields. I can't say that, in this respect, all the members of the Relief Corps have made the most of their opportunity. Some are unobservant, or perhaps simply inarticulate; others, when going beyond the bald statistics of their job, tend to drop into sentiment and cinema scenes; and none but H. Macy Greer has the gift of making the thing told seem as true as if one had seen it. So it is on H. Macy Greer that I depend, and when his motor dashes him back to Paris for supplies I never fail to hunt him down and coax him to my rooms for dinner and a long cigar. Greer is a small hard-muscled youth, with pleasant manners, a sallow face, straight hemp-coloured hair and grey eyes of unexpected inwardness. He has a voice like thick soup, and speaks with the slovenly drawl of the new generation of Americans, dragging his words along like reluctant dogs on a string, and depriving his narrative of every shade of expression that intelligent intonation gives. But his eyes see so much that they make one see even what his foggy voice obscures. Some of his tales are dark and dreadful, some are unutterably sad, and some end in a huge laugh of irony. I am not sure how I ought to classify the one I have written down here.
Download or read book Before and After written by Judy Christie and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents—hiding the fact that many weren’t orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Christie and Wingate tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, many of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. Advance praise for Before and After “In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate’s blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. With a journalist’s keen eye and a novelist’s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book.”—Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphan’s Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris
Download or read book The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories written by Max Apple and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call it Kmart magical realism.-Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Indu s Home Coming and Other Stories written by Durgaprasad Mishra and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hike written by Drew Magary and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Hike just works. It’s like early, good Chuck Palahniuk. . . . Magary underhands a twist in at the end that hits you like a sharp jab at the bell. . . . It’s just that good.” —NPR.org “A page-turner. . . . Inventive, funny. . . . Quietly profound and touching.”—BoingBoing From the author of The Night the Lights Went Out and The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tales and video games into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects. On a quest of epic, life-or-death proportions, Ben finds help comes in some of the most unexpected forms, including a profane crustacean and a variety of magical objects, tools, and potions. Desperate to return to his family, Ben is determined to track down the “Producer,” the creator of the world in which he is being held hostage and the only one who can free him from the path. At once bitingly funny and emotionally absorbing, Magary’s novel is a remarkably unique addition to the contemporary fantasy genre, one that draws as easily from the world of classic folk tales as it does from video games. In The Hike, Magary takes readers on a daring odyssey away from our day-to-day grind and transports them into an enthralling world propelled by heart, imagination, and survival.
Download or read book Amy s new home and other stories written by Amy (fict.name.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories written by Max Apple and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call it Kmart magical realism.-Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories written by Arthur Christopher Benson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories: Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset" by Arthur Christopher Benson offers a collection of enchanting tales that transport readers to mystical realms and explore the depths of human emotions. Benson's lyrical prose and vivid imagination create a captivating atmosphere, where readers can immerse themselves in the world of fantasy and introspection. From tales of love and loss to contemplations on the meaning of life, "Paul the Minstrel" showcases the author's mastery of storytelling and his ability to touch the hearts and minds of readers.
Download or read book The Long Way Home The Collected Short Stories Other Bruises of Frank Howson written by Frank Howson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of writings by acclaimed Australian author, filmmaker, playwright and lyricist Frank Howson.
Download or read book A New Home and Other Stories written by Penny Bonadonna Donehoo and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could happen when you leave behind the life you have known and travel to a faraway country? Would you go to a place where everything feels different, and no one speaks like you do? Have you ever thought about what that must be like? Join Lina and her family on their adventures to a new home. This historical memoir will take you on a road of fulfilling dreams and the troubles along the way.
Download or read book Let S Go Home And Other Stories written by Meenakshi Mukherjee and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first eye-witness story of the Kashmir Operations permitted by the Government of India to be published in book form. On 22 October 1947, in a flash and without warning, war burst upon Kashmir. Indian troops were rushed to defend the state, after the request of the Ruler to accede to the Indian Union was accepted by the Government of India. The Story of Poonch , which is the central theme of the book, gives a vivid picture of the conditions under which the whole campaign was fought. This book, which is a reprint, is fully illustrated with maps and excellent photographs.
Download or read book Sunshine at Home and Other Stories written by Timothy Shay Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Later home life in New York City written by Mary Elizabeth Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunbeam Willie and Other Stories Etc With Plates written by Isabel Reaney and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
