Download or read book The Inn and other tales written by Kane Banway and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Dashing Pony! Varrik, the innkeeper, will be happy to offer you his tasty beer while you get to know his customers... most charming! Between an enchanted sword reduced to slavery and alcoholic elves, take a stool and take a moment to rest.... drink, vomit, and laugh at the misfortunes of masochistic heroes... Sometimes, adventure doesn’t always require going through a door! Afterwards, if you still have a train station to go (or a meal at the end of digestion...), some short stories: "Sekai, where the tribulations of an immortal or divine being...and his gaze on our world." - The Flower, when Faerie invite itself into the trenches of the First World War. - The lift, don’t always escort your friends after a party... - Humanity, the last moments of a condemned man. Good reading (I hope!) to you...
Download or read book The Inn at the Top written by Neil Hanson and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inn at the Top is an entertaining ramble around the Inn, the breath-taking Dales countryside and a remarkable array of local characters, giving an insight into life in a very different different time and place.
Download or read book The Inn at the Edge of the World written by Alice Thomas Ellis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five strangers gather at Eric's inn on a remote Hebridean island after he advertises in the London weeklies for "Christmas at the edge of the world." Harry, a military widower, is fascinated by General Gordon and the last days of Khartoum. Jessica is a voice-over artist and actress. Jon is a vain actor who is dangerously obsessed with Jessica. Anita, a salesperson in the stationary department of a store and, Ronald, a psychoanalyst who is pining for the cooking and domestic skills of his recently departed wife. Each has their own reasons for escaping the usual festivities, but the refuge of the island is complicated as Eric's wife Mabel flounces out at the last minute and the locals and visitors mingle and clash. A beautifully timed comic novel with a hint of the supernatural.
Download or read book Hidden History written by Melody Carlson and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While giving the laundry room of Grace Chapel Inn a thorough cleaning, Alice Howard finds an old hatbox containing her father's journal from the early 1900s. As she reads it aloud each evening to her sisters Louise and Jane they discover fascinating events their beloved father had never even hinted at. With Alice dressing up for a change, Jane concocting delicious new recipes for the inn's guests and Louise knitting a beautiful pink sweater--for a pig--the sisters move through the one year anniversary of their father's death with a deeper love and respect for their life together.
Download or read book The Last Tide written by pirateaba and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first installment in the Last Tide series, as told by renown fantasy writer pirateaba, is the story of Solca Vis, a young woman transported into another world. Rather than landing near any nation or continent on earth, Solca finds herself at the end of the world. A [Fisher] by class and a fisherwoman by trade, Solca Vis will discover what classes, levels, monsters, and magic are at the place where even [Stormcaptains] and the bravest of adventurers fear to sail.
Download or read book The heir of Beech hall and other tales written by S E. Rookes and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Trail of Giants Ig Og Ug and Other Tales written by Don Hones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joey is enjoying the simple life of the village when adventure arrives at his doorstep in the form of three giants, Ig, Og, and Ug. With Peppy the Puppy, a dog of uncommon wisdom, as his guide, Joey is soon on the trail of giants and other remarkable people in this delightful series of tales. On his journey Joey develops a friendship with Nuria, Raul, and Isabella, children of the peregrine, skilled in healing and music. Together they learn many things: that all life and every place are sacred, that illusion comes in many forms, that sometimes you can be in two places at the same time, and that small people working together can overcome large problems. On the Trail of Giants: Ig, Og, Ug, and Other Tales is book one of The Peregrine Way, a three-part series that will follow the lives of Joey, Nuria, Raul, and Isabella as they come of age in a world of dark challenges and ancient beauty.
Download or read book Our Lady Fetta and Other Tales written by Theodore Lyons and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Lady Fetta opens in Portland, Me., and involves a small Hollywood estate with too many beneficiaries. The disposition of the will naturally carries the protagonist back to the Midwest and ultimately to the Southwest to reconnect with his former college classmates, one of whom acts as his attorney. The novel¡¦s diverse settings include Halifax, Chicago, Mesa, Santa Fe oand Tucson, where a couple of transplanted Mainers also figure among the hero¡¦s allies. Sanctimony, greed, religiosity, acculturation, the preservation of natural habitats, and other topics are explored; in addition to commentary and ideas by Robert Louis Stevenson, Somerset Maugham, Carlos Castaneda, Jim Morrison, Bram Stoker, and William Peter Blatty. Jet-setters, one of the short stories featured in the book, centers on a hilarious two-year romp in the Samoan islands at the onset of the global AIDS crisis. Other notable tales include New America, in which the author proposes a simple but macabre solution to overcrowded, tax-draining prisons, nnamely, banishment aboard galleons; Cardinal du Jour, about a teenage boy who narrowly escapes being molested by a high-ranking priest; Louse Party, about an LSD party and the horrors of addiction and drug abuse; and House with Ghost, based on actual events, about a man suffering from spirit attachment, whose ghostly companion haunts the home in which he rents a room and drives him out of the house.
Download or read book Miss Harriet and Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Tutis Digital Pub. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daughter of Regals Other Tales written by Stephen R. Donaldson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author—available in trade paperback for the first time. “Donaldson proves that he is as adept at the short story as he is at the novel" (Denver Rocky Mountain News), in this superb collection. The famous outtake from The Illearth War, “Gilden-Fire,” headlines eight tales of mystics and unicorns, angels and kings—all written with the dazzling style and imagination that have made Stephen R. Donaldson one of the top fantasists of the day.
Download or read book Strange Folk You ll Never Meet written by A.A. Balaskovits and published by Santa Fe Writers Project. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark encounters with familiar fairy tales, odd people from history, and weirdos who may be living right next door. Among the characters in these bizarre stories, a starving beauty finds a beast who can save her village, a man eats everything in sight but is never full, a woman gives birth to bloody animal parts, and a daughter is forced to dance every night to the reenactment of her father's murder. These tales invite you to spend time with people who, in the maddest of circumstances, chew their way forward. With elements of psychological horror, sly humor, and the fantastic, these stories will burrow under your skin, haunt your dreams, and make you wonder what worlds lie just beyond that tiny hole in the wall.
Download or read book The Inn at Harts Haven written by Patricia Davids and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Patricia writes with heart, integrity and hope. Her stories both entertain and edify—the perfect combination.” —Kim Vogel Sawyer, award-winning and bestselling author In this close-knit Amish community, she’ll hide in plain sight… Pregnant and desperate, Victoria Worthington runs to the only place that’s ever felt safe. For years she’s been controlled, first by her crime-boss father, then by her ex-boyfriend. Donning a hand-sewn dress, a kapp and a new name, she escapes as Abby Martin to the Amish community of Harts Haven, where she spent happy summers with her grandparents. Taking a job as a maid at the local inn, Abby plans to repair her grandparents’ abandoned house and build a new life for her baby. Since a tragedy took his family, contractor Joseph Troyer has traveled from one Amish town to another, refusing to let anyone get close. Not that it stops the inn’s elderly, eccentric owner, Rose, from doing some matchmaking while Joe renovates her kitchen. Though Abby is more outspoken than any Amish woman he knows, something draws him to her—and to the secrets she’s hiding. Taken under Rose’s wing, Abby begins to find her place at last. But even here there’s no hiding from the past. Only by facing it with courage, faith and the unexpected gift of love can this haven become the home she’s longed for. The Matchmakers of Harts Haven Book 1: The Inn at Harts Haven
Download or read book The Insanity of Jones and Other Tales written by Algernon Blackwood and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Blackwood's best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". Contents: The Willows The Insanity of Jones Ancient Sorceries The Man Who Found Out The Wendigo The Glamour of the Snow The Man Whom the Trees Loved Sand
Download or read book The Necklace and Other Tales written by Guy De Maupassant and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes The Necklace, Butterball, The Tellier House, On the Water, Mademoiselle Fifi, The Mask, The Inn, A Day in the Country, The Hand, The Jewels, The Model, The Entity (The Horla) These stories—poignant scrutinies of social pretension, wicked tales of lust and love, and harrowing examinations of terror and madness—display the full genius of Guy de Maupassant in an enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. They reveal Maupassant’s remarkable range, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, and his ability to create whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages
Download or read book The Inn at the End of the World written by Dan Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen tales for the imagination from the author of The Beggar King, The Chameleon Lady, and The Everlasting Child.
Download or read book Village and Other Tales written by Hannah More and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Orphans and Other Tales With Illustrations written by Orphans and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
