Download or read book Blu Rose and the Land of Saunt written by Robert Pew and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less is more in writing the author's notes, so, my eyes did not see, but my voice spoke what my mind's eye did envision, and my ears heard what my mouth had expressed, my hand recorded what my mouth and ears had divulged; thus, my eyes could forever read what my world had revealed to me. Although this was my course to sublimity, I can not stop the readers of this work from questioning its worth, having not turned the pages yet. It is for the reader to unravel the value of this book for themselves. I have been writing short stories for over thirty years. This time I set out to make from the thin air a story of good versus evil, where the right would prevail over the wrong. I named the main character Blu Rose because at the time of the making of the story seven years ago (2006), there were no blue roses. I selected green roses as the elixir for the same reason. I was traveling a stretch of Indiana highway between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and I felt a story looming someplace in the air about me, and the first story came forth. It is chapter four, The Wizard. It is the story of Fredrick Broomstocker and the beginning of Blu Rose leaning to know herself. Liking the story, I decided to develop it. After a few weeks I repeated the act and another story came to mind. I then created a new story chapter, along the same stretch of road, and when stopped for the night, I would write down what I had told myself. This farmland of Indiana became for me the hollowed land of Blu Rose learning to know herself. For confidence in editing I used the words of Dale Carnegie, Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve. I remember the distance from Milwaukee to Green Bay also setting an excellent stage for development of story lines; but it was New York State where I brought to life chapter twelve, The Deer in the Woods. It was created in the town where Elmer's Glue is made. I was spending the night along the river on the edge of the town in a dirt parking area and was hypnotized by a small lopsided tree whose leaves were being blown in the wind by the breeze. Chapter twelve is my favorite. That is how the novelette came to be. The second story, a long short story, is The Land of Saunt. I will tell you first that I started making it up back in 1974 cursing about the local countryside, and I found the outline so charming that I wrote it down in a notebook. I forgot about it until 2007, when I was finished writing Blu Rose. Like a burst of luck, maybe just the level of creativity, no matter, I remembered the story. Within weeks I developed the plot and wrote a rough little story. Solving the story comes about with five crystals. I had read of the five crystals of South America in a book and had made a mental record of them for years. In The Land of Saunt, you will learn of the Geometric people, and the problem they have come to by way of Ginger's crystal ball. The solution became self-evident and proved as pleasing as it was pleasant to the story plotting. Ginger's world then becomes a transparency for all and she moves on to search out her heart's desire. The last piece of work is a poem, Walking in Confidence. I wrote it after winning a finalist award in the Dayton, Ohio Library Poetry Contest. I have not had the Ivy League university training in writing, nor have I had the workshops used by the bestsellers, but I have had the experience of traveling for a living, and I have visited some of the best museums on the earth. I have also spent more than enough time in the libraries--138 libraries last count. When I had the dream of the library, and it was really a dream, I had to write it. I have included it as the last piece of work because I owed something to the libraries that have taught me the masterful art of storytelling. The book as a whole is all creativity, and yet it comes together from beginning to end in a singular harmonious logic, c

Download or read book The Rector s Daughter written by F. M. Mayor and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-10T14:54:00Z with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rector’s Daughter is the story of Mary Jocelyn, a woman who fears life is passing her by. Having lost her mother and her beloved invalid sister, Mary shares her days in sleepy Dedmayne with her father, the severe and distant Canon Jocelyn. Then, with the arrival in the village of Robert Herbert, her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever.

Download or read book Aunt Lucie s legacy written by Philippe Saimbert and published by Philippe Salamagnou. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible story of a legacy set in south-west France. THE STORY: Aunt Lucie is a real pain in the neck. While she wasn’t exactly a saint when alive, now that she’s dead, she’s making life even more miserable for her family. Her will is crystal clear: to collect the inheritance, nephews and their families have to move into her ramshackle house! But Aunt Lucie has another surprise up her sleeve: a mad treasure hunt, ankle-deep in muck. Welcome to rural France! Things heat up for her darling nephews as they get caught up in this unforgettable adventure. How far will they go to get their hands on the jackpot? Comical situations, funny dialog and dramatic turns of events come fast and furious, masterfully orchestrated by dear Aunt Lucie. Thrilling to the last, unexpected climax! “Aunt Lucie’s legacy” has won acclaim from France Loisirs, France’s number one book club, was selected a jury favorite at the Livre d’Orthez book fair in 2010, named a “digital gem” in March 2014 by the famous Fnac bookstore, and remained for months in the Top 100 best-sellers in Amazon, Kobo and the Fnac on the French market.

Download or read book The Grim Smile of the Five Towns written by Arnold Bennett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Download or read book The Twelve Books of Christmas written by Kate Carlisle and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever Christmas mystery in the beloved New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series! San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright and her hunky security-expert husband, Derek Stone, face a puzzling murder mystery during the holidays in Scotland. In the middle of a wonderful Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a frantic phone call from their dear friend Claire in Loch Ness, Scotland. The Laird of the castle, Cameron MacKinnon, has just proposed to her! Cameron and Claire plan to be married on New Year’s Day, and they want Derek and Brooklyn to be their witnesses. And while they’re visiting, Claire hopes that Brooklyn will be able to solve a little mystery that’s occurred in the castle library—twelve rare, very important books have gone missing. Once in Scotland, Brooklyn starts working on the mystery of the missing books but is soon distracted by all of the thumping and bumping noises she’s been hearing in the middle of the night. You’d think the Ghost of Christmas Past had taken up residence. But when one of the guests is poisoned and another is killed by an arrow through the heart, Brooklyn and Derek know this is not the work of any ghost. Now they must race to find a killer and a book thief before another murder occurs and their friends’ bright and happy future turns dark and deadly.

Download or read book Ancient Worlds in Film and Television written by Almut-Barbara Renger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.

Download or read book From Paradise to Hell written by Marjorie Ann Reeves and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1844 when Alabama-born Rose begins writing a journal. She has just reluctantly agreed to marry Nathan Flowers. The years pass, and together Rose and Nathan have five children. A Chickasaw couple, kin to Nathan by marriage, lives with them and helps Rose settle in and raise a family. Rose, Nathan, and their five children could have lived happily ever afterbut then came the War Between the States. The North and South found themselves divided and Rose is pained when two of her children join the Union, while two others join the Confederacy. Her journal keeps her grounded; if she continues to write, perhaps she can make sense of whats happening. Living a normal life during the Civil War is impossible, but Rose does her best to keep calm and care for the remaining members of her family. When the war is over America must rebuild and life is still not easy in the South. The war was difficult for the nation, but it was also hard on individual families. This is the story of one such family, who struggled to love each other despite differing beliefs.

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Download or read book Rooville written by Julie Long and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured as a top read in Buzzfeed, PopSugar, YourTango, and San Francisco Book Review TV weatherman Owen Martin is relieved to leave Southern California—the monotonously mild climate and the holistically hip trends—and head home to Iowa, back to the four seasons and the simple life he knew before his father died. But he can’t predict the atmospheric pressure awaiting him: The town his family founded has become the center of the Transcendental Meditation movement and host to all things alternative. There are mass meditations and dosha discussions, a vegan cafe has replaced the burger joint, and all the doors now face east. Far worse, however, is what the meditating mayor has planned for the Martin family’s farm. In a town divided between “Regulars” and “Roos” (gurus), Owen is sure where he stands—until he falls for a levitating yogi. Before he knows it, he’s caught in a veritable tornado of midwesternness vs. mindfulness. Can he save the farm, get the girl, and reunite the town? Maybe . . . if he’s willing to forecast a change in the weather.

Download or read book Bee My Valentine written by Robyn Neeley and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie Wilkerson hasn’t visited quaint Honey Springs since she was 16 and local boy Nick Porter broke her heart on Valentine’s Day. But when her aunt passes away and leaves Cassie her honey bee farm, she reluctantly returns to the small town, all the while planning to get back to her high-powered NYC life as an advertising executive as soon as possible. Her career plan definitely does not include managing 300,000 insects. Then she discovers Nick is now the farm’s foreman, and he’s been creating amazing honey-based skin care products for the locals. It’s just the thing her biggest client has been looking to bring to market, but Nick’s not interested in selling. As they work together on the farm, old feelings rekindle, and soon another Valentine’s Day approaches. This time, Cassie’s falling for the whole charming town – breaking her no-sugar diet at the local diner, organizing a heart-health festival for the holiday, and even extracting her own honey from the hives. Soon, she faces a tough decision: go back to her high-powered big-city career or see just how sweet life can be in Honey Springs. First published as Her Purrfect Match

Download or read book Juniper Jack or My Aunt s Hobby A farce written by Mrs. HALLETT and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Furiously Funny written by Terrence T. Tucker and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important and timely expansion of American racial discourse. Tucker’s demonstration of how the comic is not (just) funny and how rage is not (just) destructive is a welcome reminder that willful injustice merits irreverent scorn. "—Derek C. Maus, coeditor of Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights "Adroitly explores how comic rage is a skillfully crafted, multifaceted critique of white supremacy and a soaring articulation of African American humanity and possibility. Sparkling and highly readable scholarship."—Keith Gilyard, author of John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love—Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America’s racial divide. In Furiously Funny, Tucker finds that comic rage developed from black oral tradition and first shows up in literature by George Schuyler and Ralph Ellison shortly after World War II. He examines its role in novels and plays, following the growth of the expression into comics and stand-up comedy and film, where Richard Pryor, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock have all used the technique. Their work, Tucker argues, shares a comic vision that centralizes the African American experience and realigns racial discourse through an unequivocal frustration at white perceptions of blackness. They perpetuate images of black culture that run the risk of confirming stereotypes as a means to ridicule whites for allowing those destructive depictions to reinforce racist hierarchies. At the center of comic rage, then, is a full-throated embrace of African American folk life and cultural traditions that have emerged in defiance of white hegemony’s attempts to devalue, exploit, or distort those traditions. The simultaneous expression of comedy and militancy enables artists to reject the mainstream perspective by confronting white audiences with America’s legacy of racial oppression. Tucker shows how this important art form continues to expand in new ways in the twenty-first century and how it acts as a form of resistance where audiences can engage in subjects that are otherwise taboo.

Download or read book Littell s Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buchanan Brothers and the Hand of Brass written by D. W. Dixon and published by D.W. Dixon. This book was released on 2024-05-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a race against time, detective brothers Luke and John Buchanan must unravel a deadly conspiracy threatening to tear their city apart. As steam boilers explode one by one, they face obstacles from all sides: suspicious government agents, a cabal of powerful barons, and a mysterious figure with extraordinary powers. Historic events like the Grand Prix and the launch of the world's first rocket risk being overshadowed by disaster. Can they get to the bottom of the sabotage before Grisham crumbles under the weight of this crisis? Brace yourself for a high-stakes thriller where freedom, lives, and the fate of the city hang in the balance.

Download or read book Aunty Pinau s Banyan Tree written by Helen Berkey and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1978-06-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural children's book is a classic Hawaiian story that both children and parents will love. A familiar sight in Hawaii is the giant banyan tree, its huge mass supported by roots growing down from the branches to the ground below. This engaging story of one such banyan tree—Aunty Pinau's Banyan Tree—begins when the Little Wind soils a clothesline full of clean laundry. Aunty Pinau sets out to buy a "wind catcher" and, to her little nephew Jo-Jo's surprise, returns with a small banyan tree! Through the years, with Jo-Jo's faithful care the little tree grows and grows, putting out more and more roots until finally the tree forms a huge umbrella that provides welcome relief from the hot Hawaiian sun. Within the pages of this entertaining children's story, we meet many people, each authentically reflecting some side of Hawaii's multi-racial background. We catch the real flavor of Hawaii’s countryside and learn something of the different customs and patterns of life outside the city—things little known outside the islands.

Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mayor s Message with Accompanying Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of the heads of the various municipal departments.