Download or read book The Story Of An Hour written by Kate Chopin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by director Tina Rathbone, which was part of a PBS anthology called American Playhouse. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Download or read book Trough the clouds Life is a Story story one written by Ilkay Boyaci and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the loneliness of a woman who questions her worth in life. She still can't put her past behind her and has to fight for a future. For her future, otherwise she will be devoured by this cruel and unjust world.

Download or read book Just Under the Clouds written by Melissa Sarno and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you still have a home if you don't have a house? In the spirit of The Truth About Jellyfish and Fish in a Tree comes a stunning debut about a family struggling to find something lasting when everything feels so fleeting. Always think in threes and you'll never fall, Cora's father told her when she was a little girl. Two feet, one hand. Two hands, one foot. That was all Cora needed to know to climb the trees of Brooklyn. But now Cora is a middle schooler, a big sister, and homeless. Her mother is trying to hold the family together after her father's death, and Cora must look after her sister, Adare, who's just different, their mother insists. Quick to smile, Adare hates wearing shoes, rarely speaks, and appears untroubled by the question Cora can't help but ask: How will she find a place to call home? After their room at the shelter is ransacked, Cora's mother looks to an old friend for help, and Cora finally finds what she has been looking for: Ailanthus altissima, the "tree of heaven," which can grow in even the worst conditions. It sets her on a path to discover a deeper truth about where she really belongs. Just Under the Clouds will take root in your heart and blossom long after you've turned the last page. "[A] heartbreaking yet hopeful story of a family searching for a place to belong." --Publishers Weekly "[A] thought provoking debut about the meaning of home and the importance of family."--Horn Book Magazine

Download or read book Firaldi Lost in the clouds Life is a Story story one written by Desiree von Thenen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firaldi has an idea, a very brilliant idea: He wants to touch the fluffy cloudy sky and be above his planet, hundreds of meters high. Some challenges here and there but still keeping track on his dream to be up in the air. Join Firaldi on his first ever magical adventure with lots of singing and maybe you can watch this little boy fulfilling his dream while swinging...

Download or read book Falling Through Clouds written by Damian Fowler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mommy burned up." On a cloudy day in August 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, 4 and 3, were flying in their uncle's plane along with their mother on their way to their grandpa's birthday party near Lake Superior, when Lily noticed the trees out the window were growing close; so close she could almost touch them. Before the trees tore into the cabin, Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. A story of tragedy, survival, and justice, Damian Fowler's Falling Through Clouds is about a young father's fight for his family in the wake of a plane crash that killed his wife, badly injured his two daughters, and thrust him into a David-vs-Goliath legal confrontation with a multi-billion dollar insurance company. Blindsided when he was sued in federal court by this insurance company, Toby Pearson made it his mission to change aviation insurance law in his home state and nationally, while nursing his daughters to recovery and recreating his own life. Falling Through Clouds charts the dramatic journey of a man who turned a personal tragedy into an important victory for himself, his girls, and many other Americans.

Download or read book Speaking Clouds Life is a Story story one written by Bibiana Enasni and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book was made for you: maybe my first love poem.... and how you might get lost on the path to adulthood. ....about fear, loss and violins playing beneath a cherry tree, ...a summer of secret lust and the stories one was never allowed to tell, ... the invisible golden gate of man ruled capitalism and the wild ones living behind it, ...relationships, sex and money in a binary system inside drowning cities and a self made armor to survive.

Download or read book The Cloud Above My Head Life is a Story story one written by Alsu L and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a world where the ordinary is shattered, Roland's morning takes a chilling twist as clouds cascade from the sky. Amidst the panic, he not only faces the inexplicable phenomenon but also confronts resurfacing grief that hangs over him like the dark cloud above his head..." "The Cloud Above My Head" alongside two other captivating tales, each designed to enthrall those in search of the unexpected. Dive deep into a world of tangled secrets, hidden darkness, chilling suspense, and raw, heartbreaking emotions that will mesmerize you from beginning to end.

Download or read book Breaking Through the Clouds written by Sandra Nickel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring picture book about the meteorologist whose discoveries helped us understand how weather works When Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) was a girl, she sailed her boat beneath the puffy white clouds of Cape Cod. As a pilot, she flew her plane so high, its wings almost touched them. And when World War II began and Joanne moved to the University of Chicago, a professor asked her to teach Air Force officers about those very clouds and the weather-changing winds. As soon as the war ended, Joanne decided to seriously study the clouds she had grown to love so much. Her professors laughed. They told her to go home. They told her she was no longer needed. They told her, "No woman ever got a doctorate in meteorology. And no woman ever will." But Joanne was stubborn. She sold her boat. She flew her last flight. She saved her money so that she could study clouds. She worked so hard and discovered so much that—despite what the professors said—she received a doctorate in meteorology. She was the first woman in the world to do so. Breaking Through the Clouds tells the story of a trailblazing scientist whose discoveries about clouds and how they work changed everything we know about weather today.

Download or read book Clouds written by Laura Sobiech and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mother's Prayer, a Son's Goodbye, and a Song that Moved the World

Download or read book Cloud Atlas 20th Anniversary Edition written by David Mitchell and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction Featuring a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England, to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Download or read book Kitabat Life is a Story story one written by Z Surakji and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kitabat" is Arabic for writings. Picking a name for a book is definitely more challenging than I thought it would be. You have to look into having the name resonate with its contents, make it catchy and a bit dramatic for that whiff of pizzazz, and (most importantly) it HAS to contain a part of you within its spirit. The name Kitabat simply checked these boxes for me. Because, at the end of the day, this book is just that: a bunch of my writings. A bunch of Kitabat.

Download or read book Six Days in May Life is a Story story one written by Hannah H and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever gotten your heart broken by someone you only knew for a few days? This spring I found myself hopelessly falling in love somewhere in France. "Six Days in May" is a collection of poems I wrote during that time and after. It contains all the things I could not say out loud.

Download or read book A Voyage in the Clouds written by Matthew Olshan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious fictionalized retelling of the first international balloon flight.

Download or read book Our House in the Clouds written by Judy Blankenship and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous community they came to know in the early nineties when Blankenship taught photography there. They are the only extranjeros (outsiders) in this homely, chilly town at 10,100 feet, where every afternoon a spectacular mass of clouds rolls up from the river valley below and envelopes the town. In this absorbing memoir, Blankenship tells the interwoven stories of building their house in the clouds and strengthening their ties to the community. Although she and Michael had spent considerable time in Cañar before deciding to move there, they still had much to learn about local customs as they navigated the process of building a house with traditional materials using a local architect and craftspeople. Likewise, fulfilling their obligations as neighbors in a community based on reciprocity presented its own challenges and rewards. Blankenship writes vividly of the rituals of births, baptisms, marriages, festival days, and deaths that counterpoint her and Michael’s solitary pursuits of reading, writing, listening to opera, playing chess, and cooking. Their story will appeal to anyone contemplating a second life, as well as those seeking a deeper understanding of daily life in the developing world.

Download or read book The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud written by Kuniko Tsurita and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of a visionary and iconoclastic feminist cartoonist—available in English for the first time The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitious and poetic female voice is like none other currently available to an English readership. A master of the comics form, expert pacing and compositions combined with bold characters are signature qualities of Tsurita's work. Tsurita’s early stories “Nonsense” and “Anti” provide a unique, intimate perspective on the bohemian culture and political heat of late 1960s and early ‘70s Tokyo. Her work gradually became darker and more surreal under the influence of modern French literature and her own prematurely failing health. As in works like “The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud” and “Max,” the gender of many of Tsurita's strong and sensual protagonists is ambiguous, marking an early exploration of gender fluidity. Late stories like "Arctic Cold" and "Flight" show the artist experimenting with more conventional narrative modes, though with dystopian themes that extend the philosophical interests of her early work. An exciting and essential gekiga collection, The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud is translated by the comics scholar Ryan Holmberg and includes an afterword cowritten by Holmberg and manga editor Mitsuhiro Asakawa delineating Tsurita's importance and historical relevance.

Download or read book Book of Clouds written by Chloe Aridjis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...

Download or read book Pause Life is a Story story one written by Hoon Ko and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 2021. A year has passed since the world hit pause. Hyun felt lost. Lonely. Trapped. Frustrated. The lockdown had quarantined his dreams away. He was starting to get sick of everything. And it seemed the only thing he had developed over the pandemic were three unhealthy habits. Austin didn't recognize himself anymore. The burnout had burned him hollow. Physically, he was exhausted beyond expression. And mentally... he was absent. Blank. Everything seemed futile. COVID-19 wasn't the only virus. Another virus called "Hate" was quietly spreading, infecting hearts and souls. This short youth medley delves into a scene from Hyun and Austin's lives, a story of two young adults struggling to navigate their day through the gray haze of the Pandemic in the heart of NYC.