Download or read book Valley of the Dogs written by James Musgrave and published by Emre Publishing Fiction. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Stories for Readers with Surreal and Deep Tastes Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave's collection of eleven stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of "star power," but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical "Hollywood endings" in very unique and literary ways. This collection has a remedy for the past year's traumas caused by a worldwide pandemic. Award-winning short fiction author, Jacob M. Appel says, "With the publication of Valley of the Dogs, Jim Musgrave joins the ranks of George Saunders, Steven Millhauser, and Kevin Brockmeier at the heart of the modern American short story's second great renaissance." "Entering the consciousness of a reader is the most sacred enterprise an author can have. These stories have been collected as my Zen reflection during the past year's COVID-19 plague. This shamanistic mental state, which the Japanese term "Mushin," or "no-mind" is close to the stream-of-consciousness technique that Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, and William Faulkner used to such success. However, it is also a form of channeling that defies definition. This is the mystical realm that creatives around the world know so well, and we worship at its altar every day we put fingers to keys or pen to paper. I want to thank readers who enjoy dark stories, as in this age of political correctness and what publishers often term "accessibility," it is becoming more difficult for us authors, especially us authors who don't make a lot of money from our work, to find an audience. I will go out on a limb and say that if the author does make a lot of money from a dark story, he/she will get marketing to back him/her up to ride the tide of money to the bank. If you ride this wave of Gustav and all the other characters in my collection, then thanks for that. It's been a tough year for all of us. Bless you." --James Musgrave "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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Download or read book Running with the Dogs written by Frederick P. Frankville and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Marines fighting in Korea between 1950 and 1953 were often outflanked and almost always outnumberedbut they were never outwitted. The marines of Dog Company, Second Battalion, Seventh Regiment (D-2-7) and their comrades learned quickly how to fight the erratic enemys unfamiliar tactics and strategies and the harsh weather conditions in which they operated. Author Frederick P. Frankville, who fought up and down Korea with D-2-7 for nine months in 1950 and 1951, narrates in detail how the regiment succeeded in its mission and helped create a free South Korea. As he demonstrates, the Dogs adopted new tactics as they fought to accomplish what marines in every war are trained to do: inflict more pain and suffering on the enemy than they receive in return. In this gripping, graphic, heartbreaking, and sometimes humorous memoir, Frankville shares his experiences and those of his fellow marines in wartime conditions and, more importantly, explores the true meaning of the Marine Corps motto, Semper Fialways faithful.

Download or read book The Valley of Light written by Terry Kay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical and poignant novel from one of America's greatest storytellers, the author of To Dance with the White Dog. On a sunny summer day in 1948, Noah Locke arrives in Bowerstown, a small North Carolina community bordered by lakes and set deep in the Valley of Light. A quiet, simple man and a war veteran, Noah has a mystical gift for fishing, yet he remains haunted by the war and by the terrible scenes he witnessed when his infantry unit liberated Dachau. His wandering—doing odd jobs and catching fish for sale or trade—is both an escape from his past and a search for a place to call home. In the valley, Noah is initially treated with amusement by the locals he meets at Taylor Bowers's general store—until he begins fishing. Once they see his almost magical skills, however, he becomes the talk of the valley and is urged to stay long enough to participate in the annual school fishing contest. He agrees, accepting a job offer by Taylor to paint his store when he isn't filling orders for fish. He finds lodging in an abandoned shack by a small lake the locals call the Lake of Grief and, also, the Lake of No Fish, because they think all the fish have disappeared. Noah knows they are wrong. Beneath the water is a warrior bass waiting to test Noah's gift. In the way that innocence creates powerful events, Noah meets Eleanor Cunningham, a young widow whose husband supposedly killed himself after returning home from the war. Over the course of a week, Noah will be led into the secret lives of the residents of the Valley of Light, will join them as they mourn a tragedy, and will experience a miracle that will guide him home at last. Luminous, memorable, and deeply moving, The Valley of Light is the finest work to date from a brilliant storyteller.

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Download or read book The Valley of Hope written by David N. Sanders and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early 1970s, the Valley of Hope follows a group of expatriates, predominately Americans and Australians, who are engaged at the forefront of Indonesia's ambitious quest for petroleum riches. They work for the Indonesian company NUKI—Nusa Udara Kisaran Indonesia (Island Helicopters Indonesia)—the largest helicopter operator in Indonesia. It operates a fleet of venerable Huey helicopters of Vietnam War fame—the same helicopter that is being featured daily, along with body-counts from the war, on prime-time TV. For the multitude of oil field workers and support personnel manning the rigs in the interior of Borneo, the Huey is their only link to civilization and perhaps their only chance for survival if they became injured or afflicted with illness. the Huey is both life and death. Due to the rigorous demands on both the flight crews and the aircraft, accidents are a frequent occurrence. Most NUKI employees approach life with a lighthearted attitude and strive do everything possible to make their existence in Indonesia more enjoyable. Even so, some of them are in the process of coming to terms with the traumas of their wartime experiences, while others are dealing with relationship problems. the Valley of Hope provides glimpses of Indonesian customs and culture that help to explain how decades of endemic corruption have resulted in the turmoil and political instability that is shattering Indonesia today.

Download or read book The Valley of the Eagles written by C. J. Carr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Reno stalked the two men that had killed his wife and unborn child. He had escaped earlier from Detective Leo Mc Kenner, who has sworn to track John down and bring him to justice. Leo, now retired, broods over the fact that John Reno was the only prisoner to ever escape his custody. He teams up with bounty hunter Alex Pero to track John down. Alex leads Leo through the wilderness of Alaska where there is danger at every at every turn. Lurking is an unknown enemy whose only aim is to find the valley and kill its inhabitants. After finding the mythical valley John settles in with insecurity, knowing that someday Mc Kenner would track him down. His solitude is broken by the crash landing of an airplane. To make matters worse the pilot is a woman. His mistrust for her turns to love, not knowing she is being hunted for information about a hidden uranium mine she knows nothing of. As the group of men close in, John and Sarah meet up with Alex and Leo in a fight not only for good against evil but ultimately a fight for their very survival.

Download or read book The Dog Fancier written by Eugene Glass and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book In the Valley of the Sorceress Cryptofiction Classics Weird Tales of Strange Creatures written by Sax Rohmer and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Robert W. Chambers was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'In the Valley of the Sorceress' is a short story of an Egyptian mystery. Sax Rohmer was born in Ladywood, Birmingham, England in 1883. In 1903, his first published work, 'The Mysterious Mummy', appeared in 'Pearson's Weekly'. Rohmer continued to write weird fiction, and his major breakthrough came in 1912, when the first Fu-Manchu novel, 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu', was serialized over a period of eight months. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.

Download or read book Archaic Culture Horizons in the Valley of Mexico written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Valley of Bones written by Trece Roe and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Valley of Bones By Trece Roe A pulse-pounding thriller set on the shadowy hills of Los Angeles. A veteran detective must protect her new “pigeon”—a mysterious woman of stunning beauty involved in a scheme of illicit sex, extortion and murder who is on the run from her husband and his henchmen whose aim is to silence her. The stakes are high, but the rewards are even higher, as Trece Roe learns to love, trust and to give herself in a way she never knew before. Readers of The Valley of Bones will find themselves drawn precipitously to the novel’s harrowing conclusion, and they will be left at the finish asking for more.

Download or read book Valley of the Eagle written by Barbara Hartmann King and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The womanising Jonathon Clarke has deserted his wife and daughter for a Boston socialite. These family circumstances bring his son Benjamin, an English Aristocrat to his family's cattle station in Australia. He soon finds his match in the feuding neighbour's daughter, the highly sexed and stunning Miriam O'Shea. Their love cannot endure. They must first be humbled by the consequences of their feuding families? Meet Ben's sister, the fearless, untamed Gully Raking (cattle stealing) Annie and the bold-hearted, enigmatic aboriginal servant Josie. Be enlightened by the magic of the Ancient Mystical Eagle, custodian of the secret Aboriginal Dreamtime place known as VALLEY OF THE EAGLE. Laugh -- Cry -- Endure with this family. Tracking the fortunes of the Clarke family as they battle the elements, the Outback, their neighbours and their love life will be an unforgettable experience.

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Download or read book Valley of the Geeks written by Zack Urlocker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valley of the Geeks skewers Silicon Valley with high-tech hijinks that keep you laughing out loud. This new collection of essays includes the best original humor from the award-winning web site. Urlocker's unique blend of wit and wisdom cover everything from Larry Ellison's ego to Bill Gates' secret plan to take over the government. "Valley of the Geeks is very funny. It's supposed to be funny, right?"-Bruce Eckel, "Thinking in Java" "Let Valley of The Geeks treat you to banner ads we'd like to see."-USA Today · Cellular Hell · Entrepreneurosis · Akamai Sues Self · Towards Simplexity · Recession Cancelled · Lonely at the Middle · Dot Com Survivor.com · Dear Miss Management · Oracle Teams With Mafia · A New Spin on Marketing · Fast Track to the Ground Floor · Microsoft Apologizes for Nukes · What Not To Say To A Recruiter · More Banner Ads We'd Like to See · RTFM: The New High Tech Dictionary 2.0 · Telecom Depressed - Still Can't Get Out Of Bed

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