Download or read book Cartwheels in the Sand written by Ann Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cartwheels in the Sand written by Lauren Chester and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was a child, I learned to turn a cartwheel. Since then, life has never really been the same. Something about turning end over end sideways and landing, face to the sun, arms in the air, was like grasping life, breath, and joy. Whenever I found a large open space - the finished basement of my favorite cousin's house, a long driveway, my spacious grassy front yard, and most exciting, the beach - I would cartwheel and cartwheel, in lines, circles, and squares, until I was dizzy with glorious headiness, nausea, and delight. This collection is about the things in life that make us dizzy with life - nature, love, friendship, family, heartache, and more.
Download or read book The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman written by Bruce Jay Friedman and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “irresistible” collection of short fiction by an author who “has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen” (The New York Times Book Review). Hailed by Newsweek as “a bona fide literary event,” The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman brings together dozens of the New York Times–bestselling author’s greatest stories, which originally appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, and other magazines. “Readers who feel short stories are too high-flown—too literary, arcane, and serious—will find counterbalance in Friedman, whose stories have uncomplicated structures, obvious gists, intelligible metaphors, and unambiguous endings and come wrapped in humor. This compilation of his output in the short story form between 1953 and 1995 has a thematic arrangement, with categories such as ‘Mother,’ ‘Crazed Youth,’ and ‘Sex.’ Some of the more outstanding pieces are ‘The Subversive,’ about the narrator’s air force buddy whom the narrator believed to be the most all-American guy he ever met until his friend commits a crazed act; ‘The Gent,’ concerning a man who succumbs to a seduction by his best friend’s daughter; and ‘The Night Boxing Ended,’ in which ringside heckling goes way out of bounds.” —Booklist “From poignant bildungsroman to sly satire, from wicked comedy to surrealistic farce, this virtuosic collection covers more than four decades’ worth of short stories . . . Friedman explores themes such as loneliness, aging, fear, parenthood and ethnicity, spinning tales in an expertly modulated voice.” —Publishers Weekly “Friedman [is] more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth, and Bellow . . . What makes him more important is that he writes out of the viscera instead of the cerebrum.” —Nelson Algren, The Nation “Pure delight.” —Newsday
Download or read book Cartwheels on the Faultline written by Barbara L. Baer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunset Terrace written by Rebecca Donner and published by MacAdam/Cage Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelled by pity for a wayward girl, Elaine is blind to Bridget's dangerous influence on her daughter, Hannah, who at the summer's end takes part in a malicious game that irrevocably alters the course of all of their lives.
Download or read book Tsk Tsk written by Suzan Hackney and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I was made in Coffee Bay. Right there on the beach, in the sand.' From the opening lines, we are drawn in and engrossed by this startling memoir of a singular childhood. Suzan is adopted as a newborn in the late 1960s into a seemingly loving and welcoming family living in Pietermaritzburg. But Suzan is set on a collision course with, most particularly, her adoptive mother, and society, from her very beginning. Suzan's relationship with her mother is fraught with drama, which veers over into a level of emotional abuse and needless cruelty that is shocking. At the age of thirteen, Suzan is sent to a place of safety as a ward of the state, effectively 'orphaning' her. From there, she spirals out of control – fighting to survive in a world of other neglected, abandoned and abused children. She becomes a 'runner', escaping at every opportunity from her various places of confinement, grabbing her schooling in snatches, living on the edges of a drug and prostitution underworld, finding love wherever she can. Suzan's young life was the stuff of movies, but it is her writing, in a voice that is unforgettable and true, that transforms her memories into something magical rarely matched in South African literature. A new classic.
Download or read book Stories for Lilah written by Inge Logenburg Kyler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories for Lilah is a delightful manuscript comprising stories and poems written over a span of years. The stories and poems are certain to bring enjoyment to all ages, young and old, and covers a wide range of topics from dont feed the bears, why the tulip tree loses its leaves early, being different, several Millie the cow stories, as well as stories and poems that have hidden guidance or are just fun to read and share to the whole family!
Download or read book Cart Wheels written by Lela McGuire Rustemeyer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A near blizzard howled through the John Day Valley in Eastern Oregon. Fine snow sifted through the cracks around the windows of the board-and-batten ranch house. Homemade curtains were tacked to the windowsills to keep everything inside snug and warm. In the corner of the kitchen a hot fire burned in the iron cook-stove, and the old black iron teakettle hummed as the steam from its spout drifted almost to the ceiling.
Download or read book Borrowed Eyes And Feet written by T.E. Corner and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life of fear and anger is not a life worth living were the words that manifested for him. Tired of the constant battle deep within he gave up, no longer willing to tolerate a life of anger and self-destruction. T.E. was faced with a self imposed ultimatum to either end the struggling and suffering by leaving the physical world behind or change the way he viewed the world and the people in it. Prepare yourself for an intimate and revealing glimpse into a personal hell of struggle and self-hatred to see it miraculously transform into a world of peace and acceptance. Borrowed Eyes and Feet chronicles what the author refers to as his year of enlightenment. For decades he tolerated life behind a veil of anger and retaliation which worked for him, but regrettably left a trail of hurt and regret. He summoned the courage to rise-up against his inner rage, self-doubt and self-destruction to find another way toward love.
Download or read book Infinite Sacrifice written by L.E. Waters and published by Rock Castle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya’s shocked to discover it’s not the heaven she imagined; in fact, a life of adventure begins the moment you die. Zachariah, her faithful spirit guide, explains the rules of the dead: in order to regain complete awareness and reunite with loved ones all souls must review their previous lives. Maya plunges warily into her turbulent pasts as a sociopathic High Priest in ancient Egypt; an independent mother protecting a dangerous secret in glorious Sparta; an Irish boy kidnapped and enslaved by Vikings; and a doctor’s wife forced to make an ethical stand in plague-ridden England. All the while, Maya yearns to be with those she cares about most and worries that she hasn’t learned all of heaven’s most vital lessons. Will she be forced to leave the tranquility of heaven to survive yet another painful and tumultuous life? Or worse, accept the bitter reality of having to go back alone? Free, freebie
Download or read book Fire on the Beach written by David Wright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Civil War to the turn of the century, this is the true-life story of the original Coast Guard and one crew of African-American heroes who fought storms and saved lives off America's southeastern coast. 31 halftones.
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Download or read book Intralingual Translation of British Novels written by Linda Pillière and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the ESSE 2022 Book Awards Shortlisted for the 2022 SAES / AFEA Research Prize Building on an upsurge of interest in the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter series, this book explores the various ways that British novels, from children's fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have been adapted and rewritten for the US market. Drawing on a vast corpus of over 80 works and integrating the latest research in multimodality and stylistics, Linda Pillière analyses the modifications introduced to make British English texts more culturally acceptable and accessible to the American English reader. From paratextual differences in cover, illustrations, typeface and footnotes to dialectal changes to lexis, tense, syntax and punctuation, Pillière explores the sociocultural and ideological pressures involved in intralingual translation and shows how the stylistic effects of such changes – including loss of meaning, voice, rhythm and word play – often result in a more muted American edition. In doing so, she reveals how homing in on numerous small adjustments can provide fascinating insights into the American publishing process and readership.
