The Prime Minister's Brain

The Prime Minister's Brain PDF Author: Gillian Cross
Publisher: Puffin HC
ISBN: 9780140323122
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Everyone at school is playing the new computer game - Octopus Dare - but Only Dinah is good enough to beat it. As it begins to take hold, Dinah realizes that the game is trying to control her. But why is it happening, and how is the Demon Headmaster involved?

The Prime Minister's Brain

The Prime Minister's Brain PDF Author: Gillian Cross
Publisher: Puffin HC
ISBN: 9780140323122
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Book Description
Everyone at school is playing the new computer game - Octopus Dare - but Only Dinah is good enough to beat it. As it begins to take hold, Dinah realizes that the game is trying to control her. But why is it happening, and how is the Demon Headmaster involved?

Unpossible and Other Stories

Unpossible and Other Stories PDF Author: Daryl Gregory
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933846309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The short stories in this first collection by critically acclaimed writer Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes of children's stories, or fantatics spreading a virus-borne religion, but they are all convincingly human. - Includes two never-before published short stories - Introduction by Nancy Kress

The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories

The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories PDF Author: Caroline Kim
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Exploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America, to a boy growing up in the middle of the Korean War, to an immigrant father struggling to be closer to his adult daughter, or to a suburban housewife whose equilibrium depends upon a therapy robot, each character must face their less-than-ideal circumstances and find a way to overcome them without losing themselves. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try, fail, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other. With humor, insight, and curiosity, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes of culture, communication, travel, and family. Ultimately, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place—or people—that will feel like home.

The Folly Under the Lake

The Folly Under the Lake PDF Author: Salema Nazzal
Publisher: Pneuma Springs Publishing
ISBN: 1782284036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Set in the early 1930s at a country house in Surrey. Witton Park is owned by crooked, multi-millionaire, oil speculator Walter Sinnet and he lives there with his wife Blanche and their two adult children Harry and Rose. Harry is a good-natured bookworm who spends most of his time in the library, and has nothing in common with his father who wants him to work in the family company. His sister Rose, fun but feisty, wants some excitement in her life. Walter has become a multi-millionaire by swindling the investors in his company and has a vast lake and underwater folly engineered and put onto his property. People can sit in the folly and look through the windows into the lake and watch the fish swim past. The Sinnet family have a weekend house party and amongst them are Joseph Brewer and his wife Florence who are a couple in need of money who are desperate to invest in Walter’s business. Another guest is Hattie Abberton, who has been invited by Blanche and has a big secret to hide. Other guests include grieving widow Cordelia Brown, who is Blanche Sinnet’s niece, jewellery expert George Brown and Blanche’s childhood friend Aubrey Sapping, who is in love with her. That night a storm happens that is so severe that a large tree falls down over the entrance gates making it impossible for anyone to leave the estate. The next morning Florence Brewer’s jewellery has disappeared and a dead body is found floating in the lake facing down through the folly’s glass roof. Inspector Marcus Thomas and his son James, who has a day off school because of the storm, soon arrive at the property. Along with bumbling sidekick Constable Turner, the three set out to solve the mystery. Book reviews online: PublishedBestsellers website.

The Haunted Ghost

The Haunted Ghost PDF Author: Aayush Das
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789387649309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Boy meets girl, girl meets boy. Routine story. Except that the girl has been dead for seven years. Boy meets ghost, ghost avoids boy. However, fate brings them together and together they embark upon a rollercoaster ride towards finding what they had always been looking for. They become friends. The girl teaches the boy about death, while the boy teaches her about life. This unlikely friendship is at peril, though, for life and death can never coexist without grave repercussions.

The Affair at 7, Rue de M---

The Affair at 7, Rue de M--- PDF Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 7

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Nabokov's Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books

Nabokov's Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books PDF Author: R. A. Gekoski
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780786714520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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A collector of rare books shares his personal experiences with twenty important volumes and other literary items, including a signed copy of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus, a copy of Nabokov's Lolita from Graham Greene, and the sale of J. R. R. Tolkien's college gown.

Edith and Her Ayah, and Other Stories

Edith and Her Ayah, and Other Stories PDF Author: A.L.O.E.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368901397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Reproduction of the original.

Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories

Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories PDF Author: Murder Squad
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075246650X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Including The Message by Margaret Murphy and Laptop by Cath Staincliffe, both winners of the CWA short story Daggar Award 2012. Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories showcases a group of highly regarded, award-winning crime writers who all share a special passion for crime, which is reflected in this superb new volume. Funny and sad, atmospheric and dark, ingenious and frightening, each of the thirteen stories in this collection will thrill lovers of crime fiction.

GREGORY and other stories

GREGORY and other stories PDF Author:
Publisher: Armida Publications Ltd
ISBN: 9963620728
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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