Download or read book Pink Icing and Other Stories written by Pamela Mordecai and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2009-11-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories of ordinary lives with delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada.
Download or read book Summer Promise And Other Stories written by Elvi Rhodes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Erica James will love this collection of stories to suit the reader's every mood - tender, funny, romantic, ironic, bitter-sweet, nostalgic - multi-million copy seller Elvi Rhodes has captured them all. Perfect to settle down with... READERS ARE LOVING SUMMER PROMISE AND OTHER STORIES! 'A very easy and enjoyable read' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent' -- ***** Reader review 'Wonderful' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************** These enchanting stories are guaranteed by turn to entertain, soothe, intrigue and touch you... The couple in Summer Promise are, at first glance, placed in an appalling situation, but nevertheless in the warmth of southern France, their relationship develops in an unexpected way. Be Your Age, Dear is a delightful tale of a generation gap which, in one family, seems non-existent - or has it gone into reverse? The Meeting describes the ten-yearly reunion of a group of friends which, for obvious reasons, dwindles each time. The two members most closely involved come to a decision that was, perhaps, inevitable. Model of Beauty is set in a painting class, where the temporary illness of the generously endowed model brings about surprising consequences. Summer Promise and Other Stories is a wonderful collection - the perfect dose of escapism and tonic to settle down with...
Download or read book Alice in Wonderland and Other Stories written by Neela Subramaniam and published by Sura Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death in Midsummer And Other Stories written by Yukio Mishima and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1966-01-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought.
Download or read book House of Mourning and Other Stories written by Desmond Hogan and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape—distinctly Irish and burdened by history, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern.
Download or read book Drowned Sprat and Other Stories written by Stephanie Johnson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories to dip into and devour, by a prize-winning writer. These 23 stories show the breadth of Stephanie Johnson's fine writing. It features poignant insights as well as her sharp wit, with characters as diverse as a woman arranging a second wife for her husband, a criminal returning to the care of his mother, and a widow who hears an octopus call her name.
Download or read book The Convict and Other Stories written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.
Download or read book The Longing of Elizabeth Martin and other stories written by John Flanagan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 11 short stories with settings in Ireland, the English countryside, the Middle East, New York City, Bangkok and in the 'fantastic' country of Ambrosia. Adult fiction but not salacious or gratuitously erotic portraying the lives and loves, needs, wants, disappointments and fantasies of a wide range of characters.
Download or read book Empty Bones and Other Stories written by Breton Dukes and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empty Bones is weightlifting, infidelity, drunk driving, facelifts and childbirth it s a family and their weekend reunion. It is Lisbon to Madrid on the night train and Auckland to Wellington on a motorbike. It is the end, the beginning and the gristly in between. Empty Bones is a novella accompanied by five equally raw, intense and comical short stories, from the author of the acclaimed Bird North. Wow. Breton Dukes BIRD NORTH is a knockout. Brilliantly intense book. Emily Perkins, Twitter Roddy Doyle is a hard act to follow, but in Bird North New Zealand author Breton Dukes does it with a gritty and sometimes disturbing collection of stories. Ian Williams, Otago Daily Times Confidant, nuanced and unselfconsciously local, this is an accomplished debut. Sam Finnemore, NZ Listener Breton Dukes lives with his wife in Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin. He is a telephonist for the government. His interests include rabbit shooting, tenting and cookery. Cover: Dylan Horrocks"
Download or read book A Duel with Destiny and Other Stories written by Edith Townsend Everett and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered written by Winfried Siemerling and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.
Download or read book Strictly Business More Stories of the Four Million written by O. Henry and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Strictly Business More Stories of the Four Million written by O. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education and Social Development written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains important criticisms of the historical developments of education, the meanings and changing intersections of development, schooling, citizenships and their exclusions, and the important interplays of globalization, knowledge, culture and languages.
Download or read book What s a Black Critic to Do II written by Donna Bailey Nurse and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What's a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through the lens of literature. This collection, featuring well-known writers, such as Lawrence Hill, Afua Cooper, Christopher Paul Curtis, Natasha Trethewey, Toni Morrison, David Chariandy, Joseph Boyden, and Kwame Dawes. What's a Black Critic to Do II is of especial interest to black readers as well as teachers, librarians, and book clubs. This companion to 2003's What's a Black Critic to Do? constitutes a candid conversation about race in an ostensibly "post-racial" world.
Download or read book Monday Lunch in Fairyland and Other Stories written by Angela Huth and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sparkling collection of short stories, dealing with love, loss and the tiny happenings that make up our everyday experience. Her most brilliant stories are about successful couples who own comfortable houses, enjoy interesting lives, raise attractive children - and commit adultery. On the other hand, the author is equally concerned with the old, the lonely and the hard-up, perceiving the exiguous sources from which they derive their hope or consolation and the last straws which drive them to despair. Like an experienced naturalist, she moves invisibly through social undergrowth, observing the quirks of human fauna, solitary, coupling, flocking, moulting, displaying or dying. Angela Huth has the gift of infiltrating the lives and minds of her characters whatever their age and social background.
Download or read book Sprinkles Secrets Other Stories written by Lisa Schroeder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily is invited to be a part of The Baking Bookworms with some of her classmates and friends in Frosting and Friendship. The only problem? Lily is much more comfortable making music than making delicious treats. And when she is asked to make a show-stopping, mouthwatering dessert for one of the fellow Baking Bookworms, has Lily bitten off more than she can bake?
