Author: Helen McCloy
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1471912752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In this collection of eight stories by one of America's most gifted writers, Helen McCloy takes the reader into a world of mystery and imagination. In the signature story - 'The Singing Diamonds' - Mathilde Verworn enlists the help of Basil Willing, a psychiatrist-sleuth, to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as collective hallucination. Six people from six different locations testify to seeing diamond-shaped objects in the sky, and four of those six have died in peculiar circumstances in the past twelve days ...
The Singing Diamonds and Other Stories
Author: Helen McCloy
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1471912752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In this collection of eight stories by one of America's most gifted writers, Helen McCloy takes the reader into a world of mystery and imagination. In the signature story - 'The Singing Diamonds' - Mathilde Verworn enlists the help of Basil Willing, a psychiatrist-sleuth, to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as collective hallucination. Six people from six different locations testify to seeing diamond-shaped objects in the sky, and four of those six have died in peculiar circumstances in the past twelve days ...
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1471912752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In this collection of eight stories by one of America's most gifted writers, Helen McCloy takes the reader into a world of mystery and imagination. In the signature story - 'The Singing Diamonds' - Mathilde Verworn enlists the help of Basil Willing, a psychiatrist-sleuth, to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as collective hallucination. Six people from six different locations testify to seeing diamond-shaped objects in the sky, and four of those six have died in peculiar circumstances in the past twelve days ...
The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories
Author: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1778522033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“Bridging tenderness and violence, and brimming with danger and magic, The Girl Who Cried Diamonds will leave you breathless.” — Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis “In these 14 hard-edged and unapologetic stories, debut author Garcia tackles topics ranging from human trafficking and drug abuse to eating disorders and middle-age angst, and in no-frills prose, carves out bizarre and palpable realities, breathing strange life into a horde of depressed, deprived, and abused characters.” — Publishers Weekly The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body by shapeshifting into a cloud. A girl reckons with the death of her father and her changing familial dynamics while slowly, mysteriously losing her physical senses. Infused with keen insight and presented in startling prose, the stories in this dark, magnetic collection by newcomer Rebecca Hirsch Garcia invite the reader into an uncanny world out of step with reality while exploring the personal and interpersonal in a way that is undeniably, distinctly human.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1778522033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“Bridging tenderness and violence, and brimming with danger and magic, The Girl Who Cried Diamonds will leave you breathless.” — Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis “In these 14 hard-edged and unapologetic stories, debut author Garcia tackles topics ranging from human trafficking and drug abuse to eating disorders and middle-age angst, and in no-frills prose, carves out bizarre and palpable realities, breathing strange life into a horde of depressed, deprived, and abused characters.” — Publishers Weekly The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body by shapeshifting into a cloud. A girl reckons with the death of her father and her changing familial dynamics while slowly, mysteriously losing her physical senses. Infused with keen insight and presented in startling prose, the stories in this dark, magnetic collection by newcomer Rebecca Hirsch Garcia invite the reader into an uncanny world out of step with reality while exploring the personal and interpersonal in a way that is undeniably, distinctly human.
Diamonds and Curlz
Author: Andrea Williams
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781090531353
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Diamonds and Curlz gives you a peak behind the "Purple Curtain" Fabulously told personal accounts of tour life experiences and other shared moments with Prince, Kim Berry brings this labor of Love to the masses. A captivating, heartfelt recollection of her journey alongside one of the most prolific artist in the world, the book will serve as a healing agent of peace to all who never truly received closure after the death of Prince Roger Nelson, nearly 3 years later.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781090531353
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Diamonds and Curlz gives you a peak behind the "Purple Curtain" Fabulously told personal accounts of tour life experiences and other shared moments with Prince, Kim Berry brings this labor of Love to the masses. A captivating, heartfelt recollection of her journey alongside one of the most prolific artist in the world, the book will serve as a healing agent of peace to all who never truly received closure after the death of Prince Roger Nelson, nearly 3 years later.
Diamonds Are Forever
Author: Mary Long
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786062499
Category : Fans (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mary Long first met Shirley Bassey in 1963 and since then has encountered her hundreds of times, thus developing a unique insight into the life of the iconic singer. 'Diamonds are Forever' is the fascinating story of Shirley Bassey's life, told from the perspective of one of her greatest fans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786062499
Category : Fans (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mary Long first met Shirley Bassey in 1963 and since then has encountered her hundreds of times, thus developing a unique insight into the life of the iconic singer. 'Diamonds are Forever' is the fascinating story of Shirley Bassey's life, told from the perspective of one of her greatest fans.
Diamonds in the Sand and Other Stories
Author: S. T. A. Radcliffe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories
Author: Mary de Morgan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752385626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752385626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan
Kangchenjunga and Other Stories
Author: Robert Halsey
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482824388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Halsey is an active member of a creative writing group called Tapestry that operates out of the Cockburnshire Library in Spearwood, Western Australia. Kangchenjunga and Other Stories is a collection of insights derived mainly from the troubled world in which he lives in, but some have been inspired from real personal experiences and some from history. Kangchenjunga is his imprimatur derived from a real spiritual experience that was born out of talking to young German backpackers in Darjeeling and immersing their experiences in cultural and folkloric material of the tribal people from Nepal and Bhutan. Out of the rich amalgam comes a searing tragedy that will haunt the reader for a long time to come. Man is mortal. We live a short time and then pass on. The world we leave behind remains as cold and indifferent. We leave our stories as testaments to our miserable achievements or lack of achievements, We should be grateful if the stories we leave behind in the insubstantial pages of literature, or history, can offer someone somewhere an insight or some moments of satisfaction having decoded the messages held in stories, poems, and dramas. Such are the delights offered in stories like Adam, Send for Eliab, Through Fire and Brimstone, Cleansing the Land, Lamp Shades and Cushion Covers, and When the God of Death Is the Death of God. Some readers may find some stories distressing, but the poetry that emanates from them tries to compensate for the harsh reality of a heartless and cold world that is indifferent to the stories that derive from our lives we are driven to leading. These stories are like the metaphors of life we leave narrated in and left to time. It is you, the reader, that will give them a measure of immortality as you keep reading, making the stories of these sad victims your own. Live again, but in another dimensionyour own and these others.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482824388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Halsey is an active member of a creative writing group called Tapestry that operates out of the Cockburnshire Library in Spearwood, Western Australia. Kangchenjunga and Other Stories is a collection of insights derived mainly from the troubled world in which he lives in, but some have been inspired from real personal experiences and some from history. Kangchenjunga is his imprimatur derived from a real spiritual experience that was born out of talking to young German backpackers in Darjeeling and immersing their experiences in cultural and folkloric material of the tribal people from Nepal and Bhutan. Out of the rich amalgam comes a searing tragedy that will haunt the reader for a long time to come. Man is mortal. We live a short time and then pass on. The world we leave behind remains as cold and indifferent. We leave our stories as testaments to our miserable achievements or lack of achievements, We should be grateful if the stories we leave behind in the insubstantial pages of literature, or history, can offer someone somewhere an insight or some moments of satisfaction having decoded the messages held in stories, poems, and dramas. Such are the delights offered in stories like Adam, Send for Eliab, Through Fire and Brimstone, Cleansing the Land, Lamp Shades and Cushion Covers, and When the God of Death Is the Death of God. Some readers may find some stories distressing, but the poetry that emanates from them tries to compensate for the harsh reality of a heartless and cold world that is indifferent to the stories that derive from our lives we are driven to leading. These stories are like the metaphors of life we leave narrated in and left to time. It is you, the reader, that will give them a measure of immortality as you keep reading, making the stories of these sad victims your own. Live again, but in another dimensionyour own and these others.
The River of Life, and Other Stories
Author: Aleksandr Kuprin
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The River of Life, and Other Stories is a short collection of stories by Russian author Aleksandr Kuprin. Includes: The River of Life; Captain Ribnikov; The Outrage; and, The Witch.
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The River of Life, and Other Stories is a short collection of stories by Russian author Aleksandr Kuprin. Includes: The River of Life; Captain Ribnikov; The Outrage; and, The Witch.
Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel
Author: Howard Brody
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527564800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical “case study” and a mystery story. The book reviews the works of major authors, from R. Austin Freeman, Helen McCloy, Josephine Bell, and H.C. Bailey, to Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Aaron Elkins, and Colin Cotterill, with briefer reviews of minor authors. It also addresses historical (fictional) physician detectives, psychological detectives, and physician detective nonfiction. Physicians and health workers are avid readers of detective fiction and will welcome this volume, which addresses their specific interests. Its critical analysis of books that have long been viewed as central to detective fiction will also appeal to fans of the mystery story.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527564800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical “case study” and a mystery story. The book reviews the works of major authors, from R. Austin Freeman, Helen McCloy, Josephine Bell, and H.C. Bailey, to Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Aaron Elkins, and Colin Cotterill, with briefer reviews of minor authors. It also addresses historical (fictional) physician detectives, psychological detectives, and physician detective nonfiction. Physicians and health workers are avid readers of detective fiction and will welcome this volume, which addresses their specific interests. Its critical analysis of books that have long been viewed as central to detective fiction will also appeal to fans of the mystery story.
The Transparent Girl and Other Stories
Author: S. Corinna Bille
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739112953
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer. In The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Monika Giacoppe and Christiane Makward have assembled and translated a magnificent collection of Bille's work that exposes an English-speaking audience--many for the first time--to Bille's exotic, captivating, mystical, and sexually provocative stories.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739112953
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer. In The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Monika Giacoppe and Christiane Makward have assembled and translated a magnificent collection of Bille's work that exposes an English-speaking audience--many for the first time--to Bille's exotic, captivating, mystical, and sexually provocative stories.