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?

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?

Creative Types

Creative Types PDF Author: Tom Bissell
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 152474915X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Book Description
From the best-selling coauthor of The Disaster Artist and “one of America's best and most interesting writers" (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark—unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and life A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises—writers, video-game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.

How They Met and Other Stories

How They Met and Other Stories PDF Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849424
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.

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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Book Description
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 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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Book Description
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 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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Book Description
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 Haunted Ghost

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

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Book Description
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.

Deadheading & Other Stories

Deadheading & Other Stories PDF Author: Beth Gilstrap
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781636280011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Book Description
From the brokenhearted to the afflicted, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South.

Good-bye, Mr. Chips, and Other Stories

Good-bye, Mr. Chips, and Other Stories PDF Author: James Hilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895776303
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Mr. Chips and all his adventures; and what Mr. Chips taught me.

Fox & Chick: The Party

Fox & Chick: The Party PDF Author: Sergio Ruzzier
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781452152882
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
A 2019 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award Honoree NPR Best Books of the Year, New York Times Notable Children's Book, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year Join the dynamic, yet opposite duo as they learn to appreciate differences among friends: Fox and Chick don't always agree, but Fox and Chick are always friends. With sly humor and companionable warmth, Sergio Ruzzier deftly captures the adventures of these seemingly opposite friends. With spare text and airy images, this early chapter book is also accessible to a picture book audience. • Book teaches a lesson about accepting and cherishing our differences through sweet and funny characters as they embark on silly adventures • Luminous watercolor images showcased in comic-book panel form will entice emerging readers, keeping them engaged and wanting more • Sergio Ruzzier is a Sendak Fellow whose work has been lauded by the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, and the Society of Publication Designers "A subtle lesson, couched in humor: We can be friends with people who aren't just like us." — The New York Times • Great family and classroom read-aloud book • Books for kids ages 5-8 • Books for early and emergent readers