Download or read book The Short End of the Stick and Other Stories written by Irving Shulman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine stories—many of them in novella length—display the entire scope of The Amboy Dukes, author Irving Shulman's unique style. Each offers a highly individual look at a segment of experience—caught mercilessly, ruthlessly explored, and with overtones that echo long after the reader has reached the end of the last page. Titles include: “Tears to Drown the Wind,” “Every Job's an Education” and “Your Hands Entrap my Quivering Heart”.
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Story Index 1959 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of a Madman and Other Stories written by Lu Xun and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English idiom that masterfully captures the sardonic wit, melancholy pathos, and ironic vision of China's first truly modern writer." -Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia The inventor of the modern Chinese short story, Lu Xun is universally regarded as twentieth century China’s greatest writer. This long awaited volume presents new translations of all Lu Xun’s stories, including his first, “Remembrances of the Past,” written in classical Chinese. These new renderings faithfully convey both the brilliant style and the pungent expression for which Lu Xun is famous. Also included are a substantial introduction by the translator and sufficient annotation to make the stories fully accessible, enabling readers approaching Lu Xun for the first time to appreciate why these stories occupy a permanent place not only in Chinese literature but in world literature as well.
Download or read book Ship of Secrets and Other Stories written by Jane Denison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman risks everything following a fortune-teller's advice, but finds much more than she expected.People are not what they claim, including her!
Download or read book Curly Hair Other Stories written by Betty Hunley Carlyon and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Curly Hair and Other Stories, Betty Hunley Carlyon reminisces about her Midwestern upbringing, her married life, and her duties as first lady of a nationally renowned community college in Michigan. Throughout the book, she shares happy and humorous tales of family, friends, marriage, children, and grandchildren. Readers will find this to be a beautiful testament to her. Lovely in face, spirit, and heart, Mrs. Carlyon was a prolific letter writer and a gracious and consummate hostess. In this book, she fills her stories with laughs, insights, perspectives, understandings, information, and even some tears—the good kind! They are heartfelt, written with love and gratitude.
Download or read book Deep Blue Funk and Other Stories written by Daniel B. Frank and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1983-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage pregnancy has attracted the attention of sociologists, psychologists, social workers, teachers, politicians, taxpayers, and parents. But in the midst of gathering statistics and designing programs, few people have stopped long enough to pay close attention to the young people themselves—to try to understand who they are and what they feel about their lives. In this book, Daniel B. Frank has drawn a series of sensitive and revealing portraits of adolescents confronted with the fact of parenthood. For two years Frank worked as a tutor at Our Place, a Family Focus center for black teenagers in Evanston, Illinois, listening to them talk about their lives, their feelings, and their private dreams. The power of this volume lies in the voices of these young people describing the pleasures as well as the shocks and bruises of thier new role. Hope, disillusion, fortitude, loneliness: these themes occur and recur as each story unfolds. Readers will be drawn into the lives of these teenagers and will emerge with fresh insight and understanding about teenage parenthood. theirtheir
Download or read book Where s My F cking Latte and Other Stories About Being an Assistant in Hollywood written by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff and published by Glenneyre Press. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kindle Bestselling book featured on TV's "ACCESS HOLLYWOOD" DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS... Every movie and TV star has one. So does every agent and manager. Some producers and studio execs have two or even three. I'm talking about an assistant. Someone to answer your phones, pick up your dry cleaning. Someone to hide your drugs. Your assistant knows what you eat, who you're sleeping with and what medications you're taking. They listen in on your phone calls. They are the eyes and ears of Hollywood... and occasionally they talk. Culled from dozens of interviews with former and current Hollywood assistants, Where's My F*cking Latte is a no-holds barred insider's look at what really goes on behind Tinseltown's closed doors. PRAISE FOR "WHERE'S MY F*CKING LATTE?" "I can tell you firsthand that what goes on behind-the-scenes of Hollywood's glittering facade is usually shocking, insane and full of sex offers. Where's My F*cking Latte perfectly captures the abusive and often hysterically unbelievable world of celebs and Tinseltown power-brokers and the culture of excess and entitlement they live in. Two thumbs WAY, WAY UP!" - Daniella Cracknell, Publicist to many of TV's iconic stars from Dick Clark, Howie Mandel, Geraldo Rivera, Mario Lopez to name a few... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff is a bestselling and award-winning author living in Los Angeles who has been known to occasionally moonlight as a TV host, voice-over artist and rock journalist. A professional composer of music for television for many years, opportunity knocked and transformed him into a screen/TV writer and author featured on "Access Hollywood." Then a podcast recorded in his car became a weeknightly drive-time radio show on Sirius Sateillite Radio. This led to a handsome feature in Playboy Magazine that compared Mark to Howard Stern and Jon Stewart.
Download or read book Writers Talking written by John Metcalf and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight interviews, eight stories, eight commentaries. Eight of Canada's finest writers. Writers Talking gives readers a chance to listen in: Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael Winter on writing Newfoundland, K. D. Miller on being an actor who writes. The volume also features stories by and conversations with Mary Borsky, Steven Heighton, Elise Levine, Annabel Lyon, and Lisa Moore.
Download or read book Strange Stars Alien Shadows written by Ann K. Schwader and published by Lindisfarne Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann K. "Ankh" Schwader is a well-known science fiction, fantasy, and horror poet, but she is also a prose writer. Here at last is a collection of her dark fiction, including all her Cthulhu Mythos tales to date. Included are "Home Visitor" and "Twenty Mile," both of which have received honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, as well as "Mail Order Bride" and "Lost Stars," possibly her best work to date. With a preface by the author, a foreword by Robert M. Price, and cover and interior artwork by Steve Lines. Edited by Kevin L. O'Brien.
Download or read book Worst Contact written by Hank Davis and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STORIES OF ALIEN CONTACT GONE WRONG. Will it be, "Greeting, fellow Sentients" or, "Nice PlanetÊwe'll take itî? These stories from SF greats answer the question, "Are we alone in the universe?" with a resounding, "No, but we wish we were!" When the first contact between humans and aliens from another planet happens, will they say, _Take me to your leader,î or is _Surrender, puny primitive bipedsî more likely? Or maybe, _Hello there, Im selling the latest edition of the Galactic Encyclopedia, and no planet should be without a set,î might be the first words from the alien visitor. Ever since H.G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds, science fiction writers have speculated on what the first contact might be like. From attacking invaders to wise and benevolent visitors who are ready to solve all our problems for us, from horror stories to hilarious satire, with all the stops in between, including plenty of tales in which the aliens are the ones who wish theyd stayed at home and never come across Earth and its inhabitants. With stories by such science fiction masters as Poul Anderson, David Drake, William Tenn, Sarah A. Hoyt, Tony Daniel, and more, this is a collection filled with chills, thrills, and laughter, all reporting on what happens when First Contact turns into Worst Contact. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for anthologies edited by Hank Davis: A Cosmic Christmas 2 You: _This creative and sprightly Christmas science fiction anthology spins in some surprising directions . . . A satisfying read for cold winter evenings, this anthology is a great stocking stuffer for SF fans.îÊPublishers Weekly In Space No One Can Hear You Scream: _From Arthur C. Clarke's interplanetary riff on the lonely night's walk ("A Walk in the Dark") to George R.R. Martin's award-winning classic of irresponsible alien pet ownership ("Sandkings"), the 13 tales in this collection blend sf with horror to demonstrate the resiliency of both genres. VERDICT: Including selections by Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Sheckley, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, and other stars, this seasonal collection offers strong tales by the genre's best storytellers.î ÊLibrary Journal
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 5135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1960 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Download or read book Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie A Clue like Whodunnit Mystery for Fans of Agatha Christie written by Albert Michie and published by Albert Michie. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eyler family was anything but average. The father a top literary agent and the mother a duchess, they thrived in their prestigious oakmont mansion surrounded by luxury…and secrets. Secrets that would eventually cost them their lives. On a cold autumn night, their legacy ended with a grisly massacre in one of the most horrific scenes ever investigated. Soon details splashed across every newspaper of how the family of five lay slaughtered in their library, cursing the mansion as it became branded the execution estate. With no witnesses and no motives, the killer remained free. The case grew colder. Speculations grew darker. Answers grew dimmer. You will: • Learn everything you need to know about norse paganism or asatru. • Discover who the vikings and anglo-saxons were and find out about their belief systems. • Find out if heathenry is different from asatru. • Discover what the nine noble virtues are and what other codes the asatru follows. • Learn who the aesir and vanir deities are and how they were connected. • Explore how asatru is connected with nature and what the land spirits or vaettir are. • Read about who the jotuns are. • Identify the origin of the cosmos, according to norse paganism, including who the first being was and how others came to be. Discover the secrets to her unparalleled success as you explore the power of observation, the art of storytelling, and the importance of understanding human nature. Learn how christie cultivated resilience, embraced change, and found purpose through her passions. Uncover the invaluable lessons she learned about the complexities of relationships, the significance of perseverance, and the enduring power of the human spirit.
Download or read book Goodbye Old Friends Other Stories written by Len Custer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-12-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 14 absorbing short stories on a variety of interesting subjects. In Goodbye Old Friends, an elderly man is faced with losing his beloved team of mules. His health is failing and the care and companionship of his faithful friends of 15 years is his only reason to continue living. As he sits alone, during the night before the mules are to be taken by his son, he reflects on his long and adventurous life. The final goodbye to his old friends is a heart-wrenching scene. The other 13 stories cover a wide spectrum of subject matter.
Download or read book Babylon and Other Stories written by Alix Ohlin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their various locales--from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to New Mexico (where a Soviet-era exchange student redefines home for his hosts)--the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. Babylon and Other Stories showcases the wit, humor, and insight that have made Alix Ohlin one of the most admired young writers working today.
Download or read book The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories written by Funso Aiyejina and published by Tsar Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. African Studies. This brilliant and witty collection of short stories by a Nigerian writer treats with biting satire the political and cultural life of that African country, in which a wealthy and powerful military elite rules over a beleaguered populace. The stories are set in a rural area in a forgotten corner of Nigeria, and depict day-to-day life of ordinary people, the villagers, trying to cope with bureaucrats and soldiers who have been sent to enforce the law.
