Download or read book The Dinner Club and Other Stories written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dinner Club and Other Stories sees a slight shift away from the fantasy elements of previous books to a style of story more rooted in the here and now. However, all the most popular characters and set-ups from the first two books are present here, along with many new characters and some innovative storylines.
Download or read book The Alien in My E Mail and Other Stories written by Wolfgang Niesielski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us have encountered frustrating incidents in our lifetimes. For humor columnist Wolfgang Niesielski, one of his most exasperating moments involves an expensive hotel room, a faulty thermostat, and a patronizing front desk clerkonly to be rescued by two gentlemen who, after conferring with each other in hushed tones, change their pleasant demeanor into the serious miens of surgeons before a heart transplant operation. In this compilation of his humor columns, Niesielski provides an amusing take on everyday experiences. See what its like to have an evil cyber presence monopolize your e-mail account, understand the overwhelming differences between first class and tourist class on an airplane, and find out why its important to choose the right gift for a loved oneeven if it is a Salad Shooter or an electric nail-file buffing system. From learning how unforgiving Mother Nature truly is when he forgets how to water the lawn to the moment when he discovers he is a procrastinator in the worst way, Niesielski illustrates what fun life can be when one learns to laugh at himself. The Alien in My E-Mail and Other Stories takes others on a delightful ride through one mans wacky lifeSalad Shooter and all.
Download or read book The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellis is annoying Isla... but suddenly he isn’t there... Oscar’s written what he thinks about everyone... and left the paper in a library book...
Download or read book The Fairly Magic Show and Other Stories written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of The Alien in the Garage, Rob Keeley’s new collection The (Fairly) Magic Show and other Stories comprises nine more children’s stories which combine fantasy elements with the reality of everyday life.
Download or read book Childish Spirits written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ellie and her family move into Inchwood Manor, Ellie quickly discovers strange things are happening. Who is the mysterious boy at the window? What secrets lie within the abandoned nursery? Who is the woman who haunts Ellie’s dreams – and why has she returned to the Manor, after more than a century?
Download or read book The Coming of the Spirits written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the award-winning Spirits series. Sequel to High Spirits – Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Award winner 2018. Rob Keeley is back with the fifth and final instalment in his award-winning Spirits series. The series allows young people to learn more about other times, as well as the time in which they live.
Download or read book The Teacher Who Knew Too Much written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job... This new novel from award-winning children’s and YA author Rob Keeley is a quick and breathless read, a comedy crime thriller that will enthral the young reader and keep the pages turning! Perfect for confident readers, reluctant readers or as a holiday gift. “Rob Keeley does it again with another fantastic book for children! I have long admired his writing... His award-winning Spirits series was fabulous... I am very excited to share this book with my class in the new year. A five-star triumph from Rob Keeley.” Book Addict on The Treasure in the Tower
Download or read book The Treasure in the Tower written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A school trip to historic Deanchester becomes more exciting when Jess and her friends discover the city hides a secret treasure. Local historian Dr Joseph Pyrite left a series of clues scattered around Deanchester’s landmarks, which Jess, Mason and Kessie are determined to solve.
Download or read book The Alien in the Garage and Other Stories written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil's little brother is driving him mad. There can't really be an alien living in the garage... can there?Luke is bored. Adam has too much to do. Until they decide to swap lives...A camping trip takes a spooky turn when a ghost story seems to be coming true...These are just some of the tales in this funny and sometimes scary collection. You can also find out whether Liam and Justin would eat earwigs, why aliens like custard creams, and what exactly is the sinister creature lurking outside the tent...The Alien in the Garage and other Stories will appeal to boys and girls aged 8-12... And parents reading the stories to their children! Written for those with a boundless imagination, a strong sense of humour and a desire to learn more about their world.
Download or read book The Spirit of London written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On returning to London, Ellie investigates the mystery surrounding 47 Foster Square. Who is the sender of ghostly messages asking her for help? What is the secret of the Meadowes family? And what does Edward know about all this?
Download or read book Carrots Don t Grow On Trees written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables – but is tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees.
Download or read book High Spirits written by Rob Keeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Keeley is back with High Spirits, the fourth instalment in his multi-award-listed Spirits series. The series allows young people to learn more about other times, as well as the time in which they live.
Download or read book Neighbors and Other Stories written by Diane Oliver and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction by Tayari Jones A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories reverberate into the present day. There’s the nightmarish “The Closet on the Top Floor” in which Winifred, the first Black student at her newly integrated college, starts to physically disappear; “Mint Juleps not Served Here” where a couple living deep in a forest with their son go to bloody lengths to protect him; “Spiders Cry without Tears,” in which a couple, Meg and Walt, are confronted by prejudices and strains of interracial and extramarital love; and the high tension titular story that follows a nervous older sister the night before her little brother is set to desegregate his school. These are incisive and intimate portraits of African American families in everyday moments of anxiety and crisis that look at how they use agency to navigate their predicaments. As much a social and historical document as it is a taut, engrossing collection, Neighbors is an exceptional literary feat from a crucial once-lost figure of letters.
Download or read book The Big Day and other stories written by Dave Lauby and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do invisible rats, aspiring rapists, axe-wielding gorillas, coffee shop ninjas and clown-faced kidnappers all have in common? They’re just some of the shady miscreants and dubious heroes who populate the pages of the twisted tales making up Dave Lauby’s rollicking short fiction collection The Big Day (and other stories). From the wimpy 13-year-old boy spurred on to criminal acts by his best friend from a Bizarro universe to the arctic survivalist whose sense of day and night (and pain and pleasure) become snow blinded and indistinguishable, the characters of Lauby’s nine exuberant narratives pinball-collide themselves against tragedy and comedy and all the emotional bumpers in-between. Weaving in and out through a maze of twisting turns, unexpected jolts and surprise endings, TBD(aos) provides the reader with a well-balanced and intellectually nutritious nine-course story meal while tasting every bit like dessert with every bite. It’s a guarantee that you’ll want to come back for seconds.
Download or read book Alien Miss written by Carlina Duan and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"
Download or read book The Old Forest and Other Stories written by Peter Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.
Download or read book Morning Child and Other Stories written by Gardner Dozois and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of award-winning science fiction written by two-time Nebula award winner, Gardner Dozois. Here youll find Dozois short stories "Morning Child" and _The Peacemaker,Ó both winners of the Nebula for best science fiction short story. Also includes Dozois classics "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," "The Hanging Curve," "The Bride" (with Jack Dann), and "Ancestral Voices" (with Michael Swanwick). From the introduction: The stories in this collection were published between 1970 and 2003, and thus represent a considerable chunk, perhaps a majority share, of not only my career but my life. . .when some critic asks me what was in my mind when I came up with a certain trope in one of those stories, or what some bit of symbolism really means, why I chose some word or image instead of another, or sometimes even just what the specific inspiration for a story was, often I just cant tell him¾Im not that kid anymore. . .So, perhaps its an odd way to review your career, by the places where youve lived. Probably not very satisfactory to the critics. The most disgruntled among them will just have to get that time-machine and go back and ask that bright-eyed young twenty-year-old kid about his work. If you see him, say hi for me. Gardner Dozois is known for his beautiful evocation of setting and emotional intensity within a truly alien and often austere vision of the future. He is a science fiction master of the first order¾a fact fully on display in this outstanding collection. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). _Lyric, haunting, heartbreaking¾this is science fiction at its best.Ó¾George R.R. Martin Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductee Gardner Dozois is the winner of two Nebula awards for fiction. _My generation of writers has produced relatively few authentic masters of the short form. Gardner Dozois is one of them.Ó¾William Gibson
