The Bed Book of Short Stories

The Bed Book of Short Stories PDF Author: Lauri Kubuitsile
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1920397310
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying - which give 'bed' special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether 'bed' relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of 'bed', in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories - some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre - is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.

The Bed Book of Short Stories

The Bed Book of Short Stories PDF Author: Lauri Kubuitsile
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1920397310
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying - which give 'bed' special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether 'bed' relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of 'bed', in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories - some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre - is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.

Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories

Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories PDF Author: Max Brallier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646972951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Book Description
Bumble and Bee have some hysterical ideas for an adventurous day on the pond, such as going on a search for treasure and a wacky new version of hide-and-seek. Unfortunately, Froggy wants no part. Will Bumble and Bee's contagious energy be enough to tempt Froggy into joining them for a fun day?

The Big Bed

The Big Bed PDF Author: Bunmi Laditan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466897848
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
From Bunmi Laditan, the creator of the Honest Toddler blog, The Big Bed is a humorous picture book about a girl who doesn't want to sleep in her little bed, so she presents her dad with his own bed—a camping cot!—in order to move herself into her parents' big bed in his place. A twist on the classic parental struggle of not letting kids sleep in their bed.

The Bed Book

The Bed Book PDF Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571145539
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Book Description
Pocket-sized beds, bird-watching beds, beds that fly, bounceable beds... this lively rhyming story for young children is designed to make going to bed a huge adventure.

Bed

Bed PDF Author: Tao Lin
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Book Description
An absurdist short story collection about the woes of 21st-century living—from an author whose writing is “moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious” (Miranda July) College students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny’s, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manhattan three times in two sleepless days, all while yearning constantly for love, a better kind of love, or something better than love, things which—much like the Loch Ness Monster—they know probably do not exist, but are rumored to exist and therefore “good enough.”

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed PDF Author: Mariana Enriquez
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0593134087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken—fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history—with bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can’t let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.

The Bed Moved

The Bed Moved PDF Author: Rebecca Schiff
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101875429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
The audacious, savagely funny debut of a writer of razor-sharp wit and surprising tenderness: a collection of stories that gives us a fresh take on adolescence, death, sex; on being Jewish-ish; and on finding one’s way as a young woman in the world. A New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a “clothing optional resort” in California. A nerdy high-schooler has her first sexual experience at Geology Camp. A college student, on the night of her father’s funeral, watches a video of her bat mitzvah, hypnotized by the image of the girl she used to be . . . Frank and irreverent, Rebecca Schiff’s stories offer a singular view of growing up (or not) and finding love (or not) in today’s ever-uncertain landscape. In its bone-dry humor, its pithy observations, and its thrilling ability to unmask the most revealing moments of human interaction—no matter how fleeting—The Bed Moved announces a new talent to be reckoned with.

Talking in Bed

Talking in Bed PDF Author: Antonya Nelson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684838001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Book Description
Two men meet in hospital where their fathers have died, one is a manual worker, the other a psychologist. The psychologist invites the other home, they have dinner with their wives and adultery follows. A study in characters, class and domestic crisis.

Under my bed

Under my bed PDF Author: Anupa Lal
Publisher: Favola Forlag
ISBN: 8283667963
Category : Social Science
Languages : no
Pages : 11

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Book Description
Det er et monster under sengen min! Hjelp meg å finne ut hva det er som er så skummelt i mørket, kanskje det ikke er noe farlig monster allikevel?

Women in Bed

Women in Bed PDF Author: Jessica Keener
Publisher: The Story Plant
ISBN: 9781611880755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Jessica Keener returns with this collection of nine stories that thematically address variations of love, love of self, family, and sexual relationships, from loneliness and isolation, desperation and rejection, to need and passion, forgiveness and, finally, to love found.