Download or read book The Emerald Necklace and Other Stories written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic and witty collection of short stories including a story about how an ordinary bridge game in a small south Texas town turns dramatic over the value of an emerald necklace.
Download or read book The Honeybee Emeralds written by Amy Tector and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best First Novel “Debut novelist Tector captures European life and her characters beautifully as she interweaves the perspectives of four women seeking fulfillment and success in this satisfying adventure. Keep an eye on this author.” —Booklist Alice Ahmadi has never been certain of where she belongs. When she discovers a famed emerald necklace while interning at a struggling Parisian magazine, she is plunged into a glittering world of diamonds and emeralds, courtesans and spies, and the long-buried secrets surrounding the necklace and its glamorous former owners. When Alice realizes the mysterious Honeybee Emeralds could be her chance to save the magazine, she recruits her friends Lily and Daphne to form the “Fellowship of the Necklace.” Together, they set out to uncover the romantic history of the gems. Through diaries, letters, and investigations through the winding streets and iconic historic landmarks of Paris, the trio begins to unravel more than just the secrets of the necklace’s obsolete past. Along the way, Lily and Daphne’s relationships are challenged, tempered, and changed. Lily faces her long-standing attraction to a friend, who has achieved the writing success that eluded her. Daphne confronts her failing relationship with her husband, while also facing simmering problems in her friendship with Lily. And, at last, Alice finds her place in the world―although one mystery still remains: how did the Honeybee Emeralds go from the neck of American singer Josephine Baker during the Roaring Twenties to the basement of a Parisian magazine?
Download or read book A Beautiful Life and Other Stories written by The Writers Discussion Group and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic variety of stories, articles, travelogues, commentary, life stories and poetry by 25 talented writers. This is the fifth book by The Writers¿ Discussion Group of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Download or read book The Teeth of the Comb Other Stories written by Osama Alomar and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful short stories that sharpen awareness, from a brilliantly gifted Syrian refugee Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind’s creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot, they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small stories animate new realities and make us see our reality anew. Reading Alomar’s sly moral fables and sharp political allegories, the reader always sits up a little straighter, and a little wiser. Here is the title story: Some of the teeth of the comb were envious of the class differences that exist between humans. They strived desperately to increase their height, and, when they succeeded, began to look with disdain on their colleagues below. After a little while the comb’s owner felt a desire to comb his hair. But when he found the comb in this state he threw it in the garbage.
Download or read book Emerald City and Other Stories written by Jennifer Egan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
Download or read book The Hunter and Other Stories written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of eighteen short stories includes a number of previously unpublished pieces as well as early screen treatments for "On the Make" and "The Kiss-Off."
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Case of the Missing Husband written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Spade, private investigator and bail bondsman in Durham, N.C., must help an international beauty find her missing husband.
Download or read book The Emerald Necklace written by Linda Rosen and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three months after her husband's death in 1969, rosalee linoff is determined to jump back into life. For her, that means returning to her art. She deserately wants to be accepted as a talented sculptor, but that requires she dig up the courage to submit her work again - and be judged. Her paralyzing insecurity mounts when she meets her new neighbor, best-selling author Fran Barish. Fran has the recognition Rosalee craves. But Rosalee's joy with her children, especially her granddaughter, Jill, eats at Fran, a constant reminder of her childlessness. A spiral of mutual envy ensues. It constantly bubbles below the surface of their friendship and is intensified by Fran's long held secret - and her inexplicable fascination with Jill's emerald necklace. As Jill starts college, Rosalee worries about the choices her granddaughter might make. But Jill's passion for women's rights makes Grandma proud. Together with Rosalee's friends, they travel to New York City for the Women's Strike for Equality - which further escalates the tension between Rosalee and Fran. When Jill's convictions are tested, Rosalee faces a dilemma. Does she dare trust Fran to help? Will their mutual jealousy make that impossible? Or will the story behind Jill's emerald bind them together?
Download or read book The Woman s Victory and Other Stories written by Maarten Maartens and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lossie written by Nellie Mae Batson and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl comes of age in a small, seaside community close to Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base during the early days of World War II. In spite of warnings from her father, she falls in love with a handsome, young Marine. Then he goes off to war and leaves her behind and pregnant. Her father intercepts her lover's letters from the front and she doesn't hear from him. She bears their son and raises him alone. She becomes a successful businesswoman but she never forgets the love she shared with her son's father. Filled with many twists and turns and told in the down east, North Carolina, dialect, this is a story of faith and love and determination. Does she ever find her Marine? Read it and find out for yourself.
Download or read book Red Cavalry and Other Stories written by Isaac Babel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled 'Red Cavalry'. Babel's masterpiece, 'Red Cavalry' is the most dramatic expression of his dualism and in his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.
Download or read book Looking for Lionel and Other Stories written by Paul V. Walters and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking For Lionel is a deviation for Walters, whose Savage Trilogy captivated readers across the globe. This quirky and intriguing collection of short stories and previously published essays are a delight to read. From the heart-wrenching Looking For Lionel, Refugee and First Love to the hilarious Le Grand Café, Heavenly Summit and Burying Izzy Lazzard, these stories are sure to entertain the reader looking for “something different.” Walters has the ability to capture the true essence of the short story, and this anthology will take you on a journey to faraway places where the plot lines drag the reader into a world of flawed characters and bizarre situations. Looking For Lionel is a must for anyone who has a love of the short story narrative. “Every one of these stories is a superbly nuanced snapshot… Walters proves he is an adept raconteur on every level.” - Alana Woods, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian
Download or read book Let S Go Home And Other Stories written by Meenakshi Mukherjee and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first eye-witness story of the Kashmir Operations permitted by the Government of India to be published in book form. On 22 October 1947, in a flash and without warning, war burst upon Kashmir. Indian troops were rushed to defend the state, after the request of the Ruler to accede to the Indian Union was accepted by the Government of India. The Story of Poonch , which is the central theme of the book, gives a vivid picture of the conditions under which the whole campaign was fought. This book, which is a reprint, is fully illustrated with maps and excellent photographs.
Download or read book Black Soldier of Mercy written by Joseph E. Brown and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Brown served in two wars during the time when black soldiers were finally getting the respect they deserved in the Unites States military. He was drafted into the U. S. Army at the end of WWII and released early when the war ended. Then the Korean War came and in his third year of medical school, he was called back into service. Soon Joe found himself in a medical unit in the thick of the fighting in North Korea. This is his story in his own words. It is black history at it¿s finest; personal and true to life.
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Diamond Smugglers written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Spade, private investigator in North Carolina, takes off for South Africa to chase down a diamond smuggling operation. Little does he know that his life will be in danger from the very thieves he chases.
Download or read book The Kingdom of America written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2084, in a desperate move to regain some of its lost territory, the UnitedStates launches a surprise attack out of Maryland and Washington, DC aimed atyoung King Henry's territory, the former state of Virginia.
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Merchants of Death written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Spade, a private investigator and bail bondsman in Durham, N.C., is hired by the United States government to eliminate the leader of a drug cartel. As Hammer and his friends pursue their prey, they meet one challenge after another along the picturesque North Carolina coast.
