Download or read book The Courier and Other Tall Tales written by Tom Badgett and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery. Humor. Happy stories. Sad stories. The unusual. This little book of short stories covers it all. And overall, you meet a range of interesting, real-life people. You will identify with the residents of a small town, probably not unlike your own. You will laugh as you follow an elderly couple on an overnight getaway trip. You will empathize with a young girl who becomes a woman under some of the harshest circumstances you could imagine. You will follow another young mother who does what mothers do, anything to protect the safety of her daughter. You will think back on your own relationship with your father as you read a young man's memories of many fishing trips. There's a mystery in Boston and in a small southern lakeside town. If you never played outside as a child, you will learn how a kid's life used to be before cell phones and the Internet. This book offers a collection of people, places, and stories that will pique your interest, touch your memories, entertain, and surprise you.
Download or read book Gothique Fantastique and Other Tall Tales written by Ron Clooney and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Pancardi’s Pride and A Measure of Wheat for a Penny comes this new, fresh and innovative collection of stories. Ron Clooney uses his mastery of the crime thriller genre to bring us tales of murder, erotic encounters and the supernatural, which all blend together in this fabulous selection of stories that both stand alone and feed into one another. For those readers who can discover it, a dark hidden subtext lies beneath all thirteen tales in this collection, taking the stories into a complex new dimension.Ron’s storytelling is of the highest order, riddled with subtlety and imagination, he creates the sort of book that makes you check that your door is locked when it’s dark outside...Are you brave enough to read Gothique Fantastique?
Download or read book Crime and Management and Other Tall Tales written by Eugene M. Silverman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crime and Management, and Other Tall Tales, Carmine Cacciaguida gets a toy car for his fifth birthday. He checks his fathers car to see if it works the same way and discovers a dead body in the trunk. Years later, he becomes boss of his fathers gang but hates the violence. He and his daughter Claire devise a way to manage violent crime, similar to the way HMOs manage health care. Constituents pay insurance, the proceeds of which go to the criminals to ensure that they dont commit crimes. Victims of crime are reimbursed from this collected money reducing what the criminals get. So the criminals have no incentive to commit crimes. The story traces Carmines idea from its birth to implementation through deals with politicians and the contentious but humorous heads of the twelve major crime families in New York City. After one year, crime is down thirty-four percent in the city and Carmine makes plans to extend the network outside of the city. The six other tall tales reflect the quests for emotional intimacy of a dying Nobel laureate, a reluctant Don Juan, and the point of view of a surprised frog, an icon and a teapot, an artist who takes liberties with a statue, and a politicians wife. Exciting, readable, humorous, full of multicultural flavorsbut beneath all that is the ingenious comparison of ways of dealing with medical needs and a potential way of dealing with crime. Robert Kahn, Director, Institute for Social Research
Download or read book The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales written by George MacDonald and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good and evil fairies abound in this rich collection of compelling tales by one of the foremost fantasy writers of the nineteenth century. So do magical lands, sinister monsters, giants, ogres, and other creatures from the realm of the imagination. In "The Light Princess," a young royal, bewitched at birth by her spiteful aunt, is cursed with uncontrollable bouts of lightness. (Gravity, it seems, doesn't affect her!) A little boy in "The Golden Key" is told he can find a magical key at the end of the rainbow. What the key will open, though, is part of its mystery. And in "The Giant's Heart," the monster in question is truly heartless, for he's hidden his heart, and it's up to two determined children to find the awful thing and put an end to the colossal ogre. These and five other beguiling tales, all delightfully illustrated by famed pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes, are sure to charm readers of all ages — those already familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time.
Download or read book The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales written by Arthur Quiller-Couch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents illustrated versions of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and six other, less well-known fairy tales from France and other sources.
Download or read book The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen engaging tales exuding originality, whimsy and humor — among them "Great Claus and Little Claus," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Red Shoes," "Thumbelina," and the title story.
Download or read book The Ugly Duckling and Other Fairy Tales written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTitle story plus "The Red Shoes," "Thumbelina," "The Emperor’s New Clothes," "The Little Match Girl," "The Nightingale," two more. /div
Download or read book The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales written by Arthur Quiller-Couch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains four classic fairy tales accompanied by colorful illustrations featuring princesses, charms, and whimsy.
Download or read book The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine charming, sensitive stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Selfish Giant," "The Star-Child," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Remarkable Rocket," "The Devoted Friend," more.
Download or read book Melville s Folk Roots written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville's reputation as a great writer has gradually evolved throughout the 20th century. Tempered by studies that emphasize the Western literary tradition, literary appreciation for Melville's use of folklore has been slow in developing. This study focuses on Melville's immersion with and borrowing from oral traditions: both music and narrative; tall-tale humour; nautical folklore; superstition; and legend. The book also acts as a general introduction to Melville's work.
Download or read book Tall Tales from the Tower written by Stephen G. Morris and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall Tales from the Tower: The Real Hillbilly Elegy By: Stephen G. Morris It’s true. The USAF gave a seventeen-year-old West Virginian hillbilly, a high school dropout, a battery of aptitude tests and determined he could be a Tin Man. And it wasn’t easy. Only seven graduated ATC school out of twenty-two. After a year of intensive training at a high traffic control tower, Stephen G. Morris became a Tin Man, an air-traffic controller who can move heavy air traffic safely and expeditiously. After twenty-seven years as a Tin Man, Morris became the director of a Fortune 100 company and a senior vice president at the fourth largest integrated facility management company in the US; however, his biggest lifetime achievement will always be his time as a Tin Man. When he retired from the USAF in 1984, he took over a former FAA control tower on Cape Cod, one of the hundreds of facilities the FAA PATCO union walked out of and were fired by President Reagan. Tall Tales from the Tower is a peek into the control towers and RADAR air-traffic facilities at airports around the world with true stories of recovering lost aircraft, emergencies, safely landing seventeen fighters in severe thunderstorms, and air traffic control in a war zone.
Download or read book The Moon Maiden and Other Japanese Fairy Tales written by Grace James and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThirty beautifully illustrated stories provide delightful accounts of "The Singing Bird of Heaven," "The Star Lovers," "The Peony Lantern," "The Sea King and the Magic Jewels," and 26 other beguiling tales. /div
Download or read book The Glass Mountain and Other Polish Fairy Tales written by Elsie Byrde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ogre, a miracle-working horse, a talking ant, and other fantastic creatures pop up in the most unexpected places in these 6 charming tales from Eastern Europe
Download or read book American Myths Legends and Tall Tales 3 volumes written by Christopher R. Fee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 1265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.
Download or read book Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales written by Anne Macdonell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fairy tales, including "Companions of the forest" and "Rags-and-Tatters."
Download or read book Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Massachusetts written by Stephen Gencarella and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massachusetts—a New England state with a proud history and a vibrant culture. But there is more to this place than white church steeples and town greens. In the forests, meadows, and beaches surrounding quaint, colonial towns lurk screeching ghosts, cursed treasures, sea serpents and other strange creatures, and even the Devil himself, all awaiting the next hiker to stumble down the trail… For years, tales of these mysterious beings and places existed only in whispers and campfire tales, but now for the first time these legends have been collected and retold in one volume: Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Massachusetts. Alongside each of these captivating tales is the necessary route and trailhead information brave readers will need to go beyond their town lines and test their nerve. With dozens of stories and hikes throughout, readers will discover and explore the legends and forgotten histories from the Berkshires to the Bay.
Download or read book Tall Stories written by Ronald Cameron and published by Pesda Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Jackson's death in December 2004 robbed the Scottish outdoor scene of an extraordinary personality. In this celebration of a truly inspirational life we follow Andy on kayaking adventures in Norway, Nepal, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Iceland, Turkey, Chile and of course his native Scotland. Stories and articles from Andy himself, his friends and family recount his adventures with all the joie de vivre he showed; as a campaigner, kayaker, skier and paraglider. From his scrapes with the 'Polis' and authorities to his worldwide catalogue of first descents. Above all Andy will be remembered for his ability to befriend and inspire everyone he met.
