Download or read book The Legend of Dell Briggers written by Joe Hilley and published by Dunlavy Gray. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dell Briggers was born in Vidalia, Georgia--or so he said--and I believed him, too. When we were growing up, he was my best friend and we told each other everything. But then he died and at his funeral I learned he was actually from Hot Springs, Arkansas; that his father had never worked at a top secret Navy base; and that his mother had never even been to Hollywood ... much less acted in movies or been mentored by Tallulah Bankhead. So, after the funeral, I decided to find out who he really was. And that's where story begins. Using vivid characters, superb writing, and unforgettable stories, Joe Hilley brings us tales that read like a front porch conversation--gossip we've longed to know, questions we've wanted to ask, memories we've tried to forget. The Legend of Dell Briggers presents contemplative fiction at its finest.
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Earl Derr Biggers Illustrated written by Earl Derr Biggers and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 4134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American novelist and short story writer Earl Derr Biggers is best remembered today for his literary creation Charlie Chan. A shrewd Chinese-American detective on the Honolulu police force, Charlie is the protagonist of a series of six mystery detective novels that spawned popular feature films, radio dramas and comic strips. Biggers also wrote World War dramas, humorous tales and gripping adventure stories. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Earl Derr Biggers’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Biggers’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 11 novels, with individual contents tables * The complete Charlie Chan Series * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Features rare short stories, appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Biggers’ rare poetry, written during his student days at Harvard * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Charlie Chan Series The House without a Key (1925) The Chinese Parrot (1926) Behind That Curtain (1928) The Black Camel (1929) Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) Keeper of the Keys (1932) Other Novels Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913) Love Insurance (1914) Inside the Lines (1915) The Agony Column (1916) Fifty Candles (1921) The Short Stories Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories (1933) Uncollected Stories The Poetry Miscellaneous Verses Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Download or read book Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories written by Earl Derr Biggers and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl Derr Biggers is a famous author of detective series about Honolulu detective Charlie Chan. Yet, before creating his stellar character, Earl Derr Biggers wrote wonderful short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post. The stories in this collection are: "Moonlight at The Crossroads," "Selling Miss Minerva," "The Heart of The Loaf," "Possessions," "The Dollar Chasers," "Idle Hands," and "The Girl Who Paid Dividends," "A Letter to Australia," "Nina and the Blemish," "Broadway Broke."
Download or read book Jeff Briggs s Love Story written by Bret Harte and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was raining and blowing at Eldridge's Crossing. From the stately pine-trees on the hill-tops, which were dignifiedly protesting through their rigid spines upward, to the hysterical willows in the hollow, that had whipped themselves into a maudlin fury, there was a general tumult. When the wind lulled, the rain kept up the distraction, firing long volleys across the road, letting loose miniature cataracts from the hill-sides to brawl in the ditches, and beating down the heavy heads of wild oats on the levels; when the rain ceased for a moment the wind charged over the already defeated field, ruffled the gullies, scattered the spray from the roadside pines, and added insult to injury. But both wind and rain concentrated their energies in a malevolent attempt to utterly disperse and scatter the Half-way House, which seemed to have wholly lost its way, and strayed into the open, where, dazed and bewildered, unprepared and unprotected, it was exposed to the taunting fury of the blast. A loose, shambling, disjointed, hastily built structure-representing the worst features of Pioneer renaissance-it rattled its loose window-sashes like chattering teeth, banged its ill-hung shutters, and admitted so much of the invading storm, that it might have blown up or blown down with equal facility.
Download or read book Haunted Seasons written by Derek Johnston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide a necessary seasonal pause for reflection on our fears.
Download or read book EARL DERR BIGGERS Ultimate Collection 20 Mystery Novels Detective Tales Short Stories Including the Charlie Chan Series Illustrated written by Earl Derr Biggers and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 2836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Charlie Chan Series The House Without a Key The Chinese Parrot Behind That Curtain The Black Camel Charlie Chan Carries On Keeper of the Keys Other Novels Seven Keys to Baldpate Love Insurance Inside the Lines The Agony Column (Second-Floor Mystery) Fifty Candles Short Stories The Ebony Stick Moonlight at the Crossroads Selling Miss Minerva The Heart of the Loaf Possessions The Dollar Chasers Idle Hands The Girl Who Paid Dividends A Letter to Australia Nina and the Blemish Broadway Broke Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known for his mystery novels. His first novel Seven Keys to Baldpate was a major success and it was adapted into several movies and plays. Even greater success came with his series of detective novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan. Many of his novels were made into movies.
Download or read book Sam Briggs V C written by Richard Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Surgeon General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ending written by United States. Surgeon-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides data, statistical and tabular, on the operations and activities of the Surgeon General's Office including financial statements, reports on health and hygiene in the Army, hospitals, medical supplies, brief agency histories, etc.
Download or read book The Irish Fairy Tale written by Vito Carrassi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of "fairy tale" and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in which a culture is formed, while highlighting important features of the Irish narrative tradition, in all its wealth and variety and in its connections with the mythical and historical events of Ireland. The Irish Fairy Tale argues that the fairy tale is a kind of "neutral zone," a place of transition as well as a meeting place for popular beliefs and individual creativity, oral tradition and literary works, historical sources and imaginary reconstructions, and for contrasting and converging views of the world, which altogether allow for a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of reality. The book focuses on stories by Yeats and Stephens, whose approach to the subject marks the culmination of a long tradition of attempts at linking past and present and of bridging the gap between what appear to be contradictory facets of a single culture. This leads to a comparative study of Joyce's Dubliners, which illustrates the universal and exemplary nature of the notion of fairy tale put forward in the work.
Download or read book American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Briggs Land Volume 2 Lone Wolves written by Brian Wood and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Briggs is now the leader of the largest antigovernment secessionist group in the United States, having outmaneuvered both Federal law enforcement and an attempted takeover by white power stormtroopers. But troubles at home remain, and when a chance encounter with innocent civilians blows up into an ugly hostage situation, the privacy and integrity of Briggs Land is compromised. Meanwhile, Jim Briggs, humiliated at losing control of the family, seeks revenge. With its gritty and realistic depiction of a fractured family in a polarized society, Brian Wood and Mack Chater's Briggs Land is an essential mirror of our times, "a uniquely American crime comic you need to be reading." (Nerdist)
Download or read book Pioneering in America written by Assélia Strobhar Lichliter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Beville, Jr. was born 10 October 1723 in Virginia. His parents were Robert Beville and Ann. He married Sarah (Ford?) and they had three known sons. They moved to Georgia in 1758. Robert died in 1766 and Sarah married David Harris in 1774. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. .
Download or read book Story of the Service of Company E written by Hosea Whitford Rood and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Singer of Tales in Performance written by John Miles Foley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great book... " -- Choice "... a groundbreaking work of scholarship... " -- Asian Folklore Studies "This extremely fascinating study opens an important chapter in the ethnography of speech, briliantly confirming the views advanced by Dell Hymes, Albert Lord and Richard Baumann." -- The Journal of Indo-European Studies Building on his work in Traditional Oral Epic and Immanent Art, John Foley dissolves the perceived barrier between "oral" and "written," creating a composite theory from oral-formulaic theory and the ethnography of speaking and ethnopoetics. "…a groundbreaking work of scholarship that clears the path for solving the perennial problem of the interpretation of oral-derived texts. The book will be of immense value to students of folklore and literature, and to those seriously interested in the interface of the two traditionally divided disciplines." -- Asian Folklore Studies
Download or read book Fire Touched written by Patricia Briggs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercy Thompson has been hailed as “a heroine who...always remains true to herself” (Library Journal). Now she’s back, and she’ll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it’s the children who suffer... Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae. Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched?
Download or read book Books in Print Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culturally Responsive Standards Based Teaching written by Steffen Saifer and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching children from diverse backgrounds begins with simple questions: What is my culture? What are my students' cultures? How does culture affect how I teach and how my students learn? Can I learn to value and honour the unique experiences and cultures of my students? These are essential questions for educators with a sincere desire to help all students succeed. This comprehensive guide provides detailed examples that show why and how to create culturally responsive, standards-based (CRSB) instruction in the classroom, schoolwide, and at the district level. Results of effective programs include: increased academic success for all learners; engaged and motivated students; development of critical thinking skills ncessary for higher learning; and strengthened partnerships between students, families, and communities. This new edition is enhanced with nationwide examples, up-to-date resources, and tools that can be implemented immediately. Principals, administrators, K - 12 teachers, curriculum and staff developers, and college instructors will find this handbook a valuable and powerful tool for promoting student engagment and improving struggling schools.
