Author: by Nasario García
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 155885617X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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A collection of scary stories based on the lore of New Mexico, in English and in Spanish.

Author: Nasario García
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826355668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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When Nasario García was a boy in Ojo del Padre, a village in the Rio Puerco Valley northwest of Albuquerque, he grew up the way rural New Mexicans had for generations. His parents built their own adobe house, raised their own food, hauled their water from the river, and brought up their children to respect the old ways. In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family’s village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.

Author: Ji-li Jiang
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423127543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A winter illness left Lotus, a little girl, without a voice and without friends. A hunter's bullet left Feather, a crane, injured and unable to fly. As Lotus nurses Feather back to health, their bond grows. Soon Feather is following Lotus everywhere, even to school! The bird dances to the girl's reed whistle, much to the delight of the other children. One day, when the village floods, Feather helps raise the alarm as Lotus and her grandfather urge their neighbors to get to high ground. Feather is a true friend to Lotus, but the time comes when Lotus must be a true friend to him--by encouraging him to migrate with the rest of the cranes. The next spring, Feather miraculously returns, and that's not all . . . he has brought new life to the nearby lake. Inspired by the true story of a crane that rescued a Chinese village, and graced with sensitive watercolor illustrations, this lovely book about respecting nature offers deep emotion and delightful surprises.

Author: Tibor Déry
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Tibor Déry (1894-1977), winner of Hungary's highest artistic honor, the Kossuth Prize, in 1948, was first imprisoned in 1934 by the Horthy regime for translating André Gide's diary of his journey to Russia, and again, over twenty years later, for his writings and political activities during the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 against Soviet occupation. Around the world, Tibor Déry Committees formed: Picasso, Camus, Sartre, Bertrand Russel, E.M. Forster, and in the Indian Congress Committee were among the many involved. Today, Tibor Déry is venerated as one of the most important literary figures of Hungary and, like Chekhov, a master of the modern short story. Love and Other Stories presents some of Déry's finest work. In "Games of the Underworld," ordinary people in Budapest try to survive the winter of war in cramped cellars and encounter menacing Arrow-Cross men, a towering giant, a blind horse, a vinegar sponge; in "The Circus," a group of bored children transmogrifies into a grotesque spectacle; in "Love," a political prisoner is released after seven years and returns home to his wife and son. George Szirtes, the award-winning translator from the Hungarian and winner of the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, gives a brilliant introduction to this visionary collection that deals passionately with questions of responsibility and conscience, of social justice and renewal.

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Four of the Irish writer's finest works, among them "The Sphinx Without a Secret," "The Model Millionaire," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," and the title story, plus six "Poems in Prose."

Author: Labriola, Anthony
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN: 1681140233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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These stories, in all their narrative voicings, deal with sorrow and still seek to find life’s joys. Despite conflicts, contradictions, sacrifices, surprises and ironies, the haunted and hunted characters try to comprehend death in detail. In so doing, the human spirit rises up and triumphs against the incomprehensible and bewildering aspects of life, love and death.

Author: George Mackay Brown
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549369
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its name. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s - when the author was a child - to one which ends a hundred years from now.

Author: Doug Cushman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466802952
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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On Halloween night, creatures around the world tuck their little ones into bed. How do skeletons say goodnight? What about werewolves, mummies, or vampire bats? In this silly Halloween romp from author-illustrator Doug Cushman, young children can take a trip through spooky castles and haunted graveyards to find out! If you were a ghost haunting a castle and moat, Rattling thick chains, making underpants float, When you stopped all your moaning and screeching in fright, How would you tell your phantom papa good night?

Author: George MacDonald
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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This new one-volume edition of The Gifts of the Child Christ collects all the best shorter fairy tales and stories that George MacDonald wrote. Among the twenty-one stories included here are 'The Light Princess, ' 'The Golden Key, ' 'The Wise Woman, ' 'The Gray Wolf, ' and the volume's title piece.

Author: John Oxenham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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