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Author: Oliver Stack Publisher: Paragon Publishing ISBN: 1782227873 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Thank you for showing interest. Well, you picked me up didn’t you? Now, if only I can hold your attention to the last full stop. Stories? I call them that, but you may call them what you will. Some are personal. Others are merely my observations of people, places and situations. Love, humour and tragedy. The one factor common to all is that they’re honest and they’re mine. G’wan! Read it ... you just might enjoy yourself. Having come this far, you (as a reader) might as well see what’s hidden inside. Hopefully you’ll get something from it, for between these pages there just might be a little of all of us.
Author: Oliver Stack Publisher: Paragon Publishing ISBN: 1782227873 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Thank you for showing interest. Well, you picked me up didn’t you? Now, if only I can hold your attention to the last full stop. Stories? I call them that, but you may call them what you will. Some are personal. Others are merely my observations of people, places and situations. Love, humour and tragedy. The one factor common to all is that they’re honest and they’re mine. G’wan! Read it ... you just might enjoy yourself. Having come this far, you (as a reader) might as well see what’s hidden inside. Hopefully you’ll get something from it, for between these pages there just might be a little of all of us.
Author: Avi Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481445359 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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Here are a few things that sometimes happen: HAPPY THINGS An unpopular Black Crayon proves to a Little Girl how useful he really is. SAD THINGS On a very hot day, an Ice-Cream Cone waits...and waits...to be eaten. EXCITING THINGS A Papa catches cold, so his Little Boy gets to go to work instead! These nine very short stories for very young readers -- culled from Newbery Honor author Avi's first book and illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Marjorie Priceman -- ingeniously capture the funny, surprising spirit of a child's imagination.
Author: Lou Mathews Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1684428238 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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In Shaky Town, Lou Mathews has written a timeless novel of working-class Los Angeles. A former mechanic and street racer, he tells his story in cool and panoramic style, weaving together the tragedies and glories of one of L.A.’s eastside neighborhoods. From a teenage girl caught in the middle of a gang war to a priest who has lost his faith and hit bottom, the characters in Shaky Town live on a dangerous faultline but remain unshakable in their connections to one another. Like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, Katherine Ann Porter’s Ship of Fools, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Pat Barker’s Union Street, Shaky Town is the story of complicated, conflicted, and disparate characters bound together by place.
Author: Anthony Doerr Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439190054 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.
Author: Joan Silber Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393070727 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 250
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Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.
Author: Denis Johnson Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 031242874X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
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Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a place among the classics of twentieth-century American literature.
Author: Jamel Brinkley Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1555979955 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.
Author: Sena Quaren Publisher: Fastpencil Incorporated ISBN: 9781607468226 Category : Languages : en Pages : 126
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Told from the perspective of Sena Quaren, a woman from another star system, this is a story about unifying three very different worlds to create one lasting peace.
Author: Marcia Butler Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 031639226X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 272
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The unflinching story of a professional oboist who finds order and beauty in music as her personal life threatens to destroy her. Music was everything for Marcia Butler. Growing up in an emotionally desolate home with an abusive father and a distant mother, she devoted herself to the discipline and rigor of the oboe, and quickly became a young prodigy on the rise in New York City's competitive music scene. But haunted by troubling childhood memories while balancing the challenges of a busy life as a working musician, Marcia succumbed to dangerous men, drugs and self-destruction. In her darkest moments, she asked the hardest question of all: Could music truly save her life? A memoir of startling honesty and subtle, profound beauty, The Skin Above My Knee is the story of a woman finding strength in her creative gifts and artistic destiny. Filled with vivid portraits of 1970's New York City, and fascinating insights into the intensity and precision necessary for a career in professional music, this is more than a narrative of a brilliant musician struggling to make it big in the big city. It is the story of a survivor. One of 2017's 35 over 35 One of the Washington Post's Top 10 Classical Music Moments of the Year
Author: Oliver Stack
Author: Oliver Stack
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