Author: Sheri Keyes
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662464630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
As I wrote some of the stories for this book, I shared them with my brother, requesting that he fill in my memory blanks and verify some of the details. Recently, I sent an email to him with the latest tale attached and asked, “Do strange things happen to me, or am I just strange?” “You are strange, definitely strange,” he returned. Read these accounts and decide for yourself if life has handed me a unique set of experiences, if I am indeed strange, or if maybe both are true! ***** These narratives will prompt you to remember your childhood, remind you of simpler times, and perhaps—probably—make you chuckle.
A Charm Bracelet of Stories
Author: Sheri Keyes
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662464630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
As I wrote some of the stories for this book, I shared them with my brother, requesting that he fill in my memory blanks and verify some of the details. Recently, I sent an email to him with the latest tale attached and asked, “Do strange things happen to me, or am I just strange?” “You are strange, definitely strange,” he returned. Read these accounts and decide for yourself if life has handed me a unique set of experiences, if I am indeed strange, or if maybe both are true! ***** These narratives will prompt you to remember your childhood, remind you of simpler times, and perhaps—probably—make you chuckle.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662464630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
As I wrote some of the stories for this book, I shared them with my brother, requesting that he fill in my memory blanks and verify some of the details. Recently, I sent an email to him with the latest tale attached and asked, “Do strange things happen to me, or am I just strange?” “You are strange, definitely strange,” he returned. Read these accounts and decide for yourself if life has handed me a unique set of experiences, if I am indeed strange, or if maybe both are true! ***** These narratives will prompt you to remember your childhood, remind you of simpler times, and perhaps—probably—make you chuckle.
Puzzling Stories
Author: Steven Willemsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805394274
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream—but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805394274
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream—but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.
The Complete Stories
Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375424970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A compilation of new and previously published short stories of the Australian author, revealing the role of family, memory, exile, and chance in the lives of ordinary people.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375424970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A compilation of new and previously published short stories of the Australian author, revealing the role of family, memory, exile, and chance in the lives of ordinary people.
A Story Lately Told
Author: Anjelica Huston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451656300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The actress and director shares the first half of her unconventional life, from her childhood in Ireland and her teen years in London to her coming of age as a model and budding actress in New York.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451656300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The actress and director shares the first half of her unconventional life, from her childhood in Ireland and her teen years in London to her coming of age as a model and budding actress in New York.
Attila: A Barbarian's Love Story
Author: Peter Hargitai
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469749289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Reincarnation of Attila the Hun? Does the past decide the future? When East meets West, the clash determines whether Attila becomes the barbarian of history or a modern hero who forges his own destiny. The love of a woman, a woman of his own choosing, can either destroy him and his family or make him a warrior that battles for his own heart. Praise for Peter Hargitai's previous novel Attila: A Barbarian's Bedtime Story:
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469749289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Reincarnation of Attila the Hun? Does the past decide the future? When East meets West, the clash determines whether Attila becomes the barbarian of history or a modern hero who forges his own destiny. The love of a woman, a woman of his own choosing, can either destroy him and his family or make him a warrior that battles for his own heart. Praise for Peter Hargitai's previous novel Attila: A Barbarian's Bedtime Story:
The Story of a Marriage
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429945176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes. Lyrical, and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of love to such devastating effect."
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429945176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes. Lyrical, and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of love to such devastating effect."
The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Author: Mavis Gallant
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408858339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1197
Book Description
The ultimate collection of stories by 'one of the great short-story writers of our time' (Michael Ondaatje) 'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in fact, an old fashioned moralist ... luminescent, subtle and lasting, Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century' Guardian 'Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait' Mavis Gallant In 1950, THE NEW YORKER accepted one of Mavis Gallant's short stories for publication and she has since become the one of the most accomplished and respected short story writers of her time. Gallant is an undisputed master whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience in her sweeping portraits set in Europe in the second half of the last century. An expatriate herself, her stories deal with exile, displacement, of love and of estranged emotions, but they are never conventional. This collection of fifty-two stories, written between 1953 and 1995, is timeless, to be savoured and re-read.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408858339
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1197
Book Description
The ultimate collection of stories by 'one of the great short-story writers of our time' (Michael Ondaatje) 'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in fact, an old fashioned moralist ... luminescent, subtle and lasting, Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century' Guardian 'Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait' Mavis Gallant In 1950, THE NEW YORKER accepted one of Mavis Gallant's short stories for publication and she has since become the one of the most accomplished and respected short story writers of her time. Gallant is an undisputed master whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience in her sweeping portraits set in Europe in the second half of the last century. An expatriate herself, her stories deal with exile, displacement, of love and of estranged emotions, but they are never conventional. This collection of fifty-two stories, written between 1953 and 1995, is timeless, to be savoured and re-read.
A Totally Awkward Love Story
Author: Tom Ellen
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0553537350
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Some loves are meant to be. Others are awkward. Get ready for the second type in this "laugh-out-loud" (Bustle) romance about missed connections and trying to find—and keep—"The One." Written by a former real-life couple! The summer before college, Hannah swears she’s finally going to find The One. And for five perfect minutes, she does. She just wishes she’d caught his name. For Sam, the summer is off to a bad start. But after five minutes with some strange and hilarious girl, he’s head over heels. With his luck, though, he’ll never see her again, and he’ll remain a girlfriendless, moony-eyed virgin. Forever. But another chance meeting brings them together, only to have a misunderstanding drive them apart. Madcap mishaps, raunchy hilarity, and deep romance follow these two wherever they go. For two people so clearly destined for each other, they sure have a hell of a lot of trouble even getting together. “Filled with madcap, hilarious moments and deep romance, A Totally Awkward Love Story will have readers laughing out loud as they commiserate with Sam and Hannah and remember their own awkward moments.” —Hypable.com "Broad City meets Judy Blume." —YABooksCentral.com "An engaging and endearing story of what it is to find your place in the world and a person to share it with." —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0553537350
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Some loves are meant to be. Others are awkward. Get ready for the second type in this "laugh-out-loud" (Bustle) romance about missed connections and trying to find—and keep—"The One." Written by a former real-life couple! The summer before college, Hannah swears she’s finally going to find The One. And for five perfect minutes, she does. She just wishes she’d caught his name. For Sam, the summer is off to a bad start. But after five minutes with some strange and hilarious girl, he’s head over heels. With his luck, though, he’ll never see her again, and he’ll remain a girlfriendless, moony-eyed virgin. Forever. But another chance meeting brings them together, only to have a misunderstanding drive them apart. Madcap mishaps, raunchy hilarity, and deep romance follow these two wherever they go. For two people so clearly destined for each other, they sure have a hell of a lot of trouble even getting together. “Filled with madcap, hilarious moments and deep romance, A Totally Awkward Love Story will have readers laughing out loud as they commiserate with Sam and Hannah and remember their own awkward moments.” —Hypable.com "Broad City meets Judy Blume." —YABooksCentral.com "An engaging and endearing story of what it is to find your place in the world and a person to share it with." —Kirkus Reviews
The Story of Golf in Oklahoma
Author: Del Lemon
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133003
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Story of Golf in Oklahoma chronicles the links history of the Sooner state, from championships to courses to personalities. Previously unpublished material includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs, layouts of Oklahoma courses, and detailed appendices documenting the dates, locations, champions, and winning scores of every Oklahoma Open as well as of other prominent golf championship played in Oklahoma.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133003
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Story of Golf in Oklahoma chronicles the links history of the Sooner state, from championships to courses to personalities. Previously unpublished material includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs, layouts of Oklahoma courses, and detailed appendices documenting the dates, locations, champions, and winning scores of every Oklahoma Open as well as of other prominent golf championship played in Oklahoma.
Dirty Story
Author: Eric Ambler
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504089693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Desperate for a country to call home, a stateless exile turns soldier of fortune in this Edgar Award–winning author’s international thriller. Eric Ambler first introduced readers to Arthur Abdel Simpson in The Light of Day. Simpson, whose English father and Egyptian mother left him with uncertain citizenship, took part in a daring Istanbul robbery before heading back to Greece on a temporary travel permit. But now he faces the prospect of becoming a noncitizen of any country. Frantic to beg, steal, or forge a passport for himself, Simpson becomes a mercenary for a ruthless Central African mining company seeking control of land rich in rare earth ores. A misfit with little military experience, he quickly finds himself in over his head. But that’s nothing new for Simpson, who nonetheless manages to outwit his ruthless adversaries. Dirty Story was previously published under the title This Gun for Hire.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504089693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Desperate for a country to call home, a stateless exile turns soldier of fortune in this Edgar Award–winning author’s international thriller. Eric Ambler first introduced readers to Arthur Abdel Simpson in The Light of Day. Simpson, whose English father and Egyptian mother left him with uncertain citizenship, took part in a daring Istanbul robbery before heading back to Greece on a temporary travel permit. But now he faces the prospect of becoming a noncitizen of any country. Frantic to beg, steal, or forge a passport for himself, Simpson becomes a mercenary for a ruthless Central African mining company seeking control of land rich in rare earth ores. A misfit with little military experience, he quickly finds himself in over his head. But that’s nothing new for Simpson, who nonetheless manages to outwit his ruthless adversaries. Dirty Story was previously published under the title This Gun for Hire.