The Lion Sleeps Tonight - A Short Story

The Lion Sleeps Tonight - A Short Story PDF Author: T. M. Bilderback
Publisher: Sardis County Sentinel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17

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Book Description
Meet Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (Ret.), former member of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. Colonel Abernathy retired some years ago as a bachelor, and now lives off his pension and his family’s fortune. He is quite old, and belongs to a stately London gentleman’s club. In The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Colonel Abernathy tells a tale to a club acquaintance – a tale of 1950s British Guyana in South America, and the Colonel’s encounter with a lion. But this is no ordinary lion. This lion has been extinct for 10,000 years! Find out what happened in that long-ago time, in the good Colonel’s own words, in T. M. Bilderback’s rousing adventure short story, inspired by the classic song performed by The Tokens, The Lion Sleeps Tonight!

The Lion Sleeps Tonight - A Short Story

The Lion Sleeps Tonight - A Short Story PDF Author: T. M. Bilderback
Publisher: Sardis County Sentinel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17

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Book Description
Meet Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (Ret.), former member of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. Colonel Abernathy retired some years ago as a bachelor, and now lives off his pension and his family’s fortune. He is quite old, and belongs to a stately London gentleman’s club. In The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Colonel Abernathy tells a tale to a club acquaintance – a tale of 1950s British Guyana in South America, and the Colonel’s encounter with a lion. But this is no ordinary lion. This lion has been extinct for 10,000 years! Find out what happened in that long-ago time, in the good Colonel’s own words, in T. M. Bilderback’s rousing adventure short story, inspired by the classic song performed by The Tokens, The Lion Sleeps Tonight!

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Lion Sleeps Tonight PDF Author: Rian Malan
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN: 1611859948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Book Description
For Rian Malan, the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness astounds those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his bestseller My Traitor's Heart, he is still strongly committed to the struggle against suffocating political rectitude. Malan eviscerates politicians, provokes rabid fury in Aids activists, pursues justice in the music industry, and exults in the company of an extraordinary cast of characters from truckers to tycoons.

My Traitor's Heart

My Traitor's Heart PDF Author: Rian Malan
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Book Description
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbeki’s AIDS policies of the 1990s; and finally he tells the story of the Alcock brothers (sons of Neil and Creina whose heartbreaking story was told in My Traitor’s Heart), two white South Africans raised among the Zulu and fluent in their language and customs. The twenty-one essays collected here, combined with Malan’s sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa; “a grimly realistic picture of a nation clinging desperately to hope” (The Guardian).

Eli's Coming - A Short Story

Eli's Coming - A Short Story PDF Author: T. M. Bilderback
Publisher: Sardis County Sentinel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
“You must hide your heart. Eli’s coming,” said the mysterious vendor to Gretchen Cantrell. Gretchen dismisses this warning, and, later, she is murdered. Gretchen’s friends, Stu Phillips and Cindy Frasier, become embroiled in the death of their friend. And when the mysterious vendor appears to the two friends and gives them the same advice, that advice turns into a very public fight with a demon…a demon that lives on burning heartache. Will Cindy and Stu defeat the demon, or will the demon feed once more? Find out in T. M. Bilderback’s Eli’s Coming!

All the World

All the World PDF Author: Liz Garton Scanlon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442436727
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
This simple, profound, Caldecott Honor story is now available as a Classic Board Book. All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning until night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to the warmth of family connections, to the widest sunset sky. Now available as a Classic Board Book, this Caldecott Honor picture book written by Liz Garton Scanlon and illustrated by Marla Frazee is perfect for the youngest of readers.

Gold - A Short Story

Gold - A Short Story PDF Author: T. M. Bilderback
Publisher: Sardis County Sentinel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Book Description
Two California girls agree to a camping trip with a boy they met in a bar. The boy has a special talent…and the girls’ life expectancy has grown short. This unsettling story, inspired by the hit song by John Stewart, asks, “What is the spooky secret of…Gold”?

Heart Of Glass - A Short Story

Heart Of Glass - A Short Story PDF Author: T. M. Bilderback
Publisher: Sardis County Sentinel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Book Description
Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (Ret.), once a member of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, returns in Heart Of Glass, the follow-up story to The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Colonel Abernathy retired as a life-long bachelor. In this story, the good Colonel tells a tale only known by a precious few. The time of the story is World War II, and the Colonel is a young leftenant stationed in North Africa, fighting Rommel’s Desert Rats. He relates the story of the love of his life, and how his love connects him with the Library Of Alexandria. The Colonel relates a story of love, loss, and great responsibility in T. M. Bilderback’s Heart Of Glass.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Lion Sleeps Tonight PDF Author: Rian Malan
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802194834
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbeki’s AIDS policies of the 1990s; and finally he tells the story of the Alcock brothers (sons of Neil and Creina whose heartbreaking story was told in My Traitor’s Heart), two white South Africans raised among the Zulu and fluent in their language and customs. The twenty-one essays collected here, combined with Malan’s sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa; “a grimly realistic picture of a nation clinging desperately to hope” (The Guardian).

Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion

Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion PDF Author: Alex T. Smith
Publisher: Scholastic Picture Books
ISBN: 1407157795
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Book Description
Little Red sets off to visit her auntie who is poorly. A Very Hungry Lion approaches Little Red, wanting to gobble her up. But despite all the cunning plans by Lion, Little Red outsmarts him and soon has him saying sorry and eating doughnuts instead. A classic fairy tale with a twist by the bestselling Alex T. Smith.

Saturday In The Park - A Justice Security Short Story

Saturday In The Park - A Justice Security Short Story PDF Author: T. M. Bilderback
Publisher: Sardis County Sentinel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Book Description
On a gorgeous spring day, the partners of Justice Security choose to have their annual partner meeting as a picnic in the city park. Joey Justice, Percival “King Louie” Washington, and Dexter and Megan Beck arrive at the park early to find a nice picnic spot, as Misty Wilhite and Jessica Queen are shopping for picnic supplies. The four in the park find unexpected trouble when they are ambushed by a group of killers. Questions are going through the minds of Joey and his partners. Who are these people? Why are they trying to kill the partners? And how did they know to catch them in the park? Saturday In The Park gives you the answers, with action as explosive as you expect from the folks of T. M. Bilderback’s Justice Security!