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Home Schooling: Stories
Par Carol Windley. 2006
From the acclaimed author of Visible Light comes a collection of seven outstanding stories, each set against the rural landscape…
of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. In these stories the memories and dreams of characters are examined, revealing them to be both cages and keys to the cages. The life lessons learned by the characters are often as complicated and painful as they are illuminating. In the title story, two sisters fall in love with their math tutor on one of the Gulf Islands, inhabited equally by the ghosts of the misfits and Hollywood stars who came to live there, and the children of an alternative school, run by the girls’ criminally optimistic father. In “Sand and Frost,” a young girl drops out of UBC, returns home, and discovers that her domineering grandmother is the sole survivor of a shocking act of family violence. In “What Saffi Knows,” a child, unable to explain to her self-involved parents, struggles with the knowledge of the whereabouts of another missing child. In these remarkable seven stories, Carol Windley creates a sense of place and of people that breathe the cool wet air of a spring morning on Gabriola Island.Life Without Death
Par Peter Unwin. 2013
In Life Without Death, the latest short story collection from Peter Unwin, ordinary men and women search for meaning in…
lives subject to change, chance, coincidence, and catastrophe. A man recalls a lifetime of love and loss while copying contacts out of his old little black book. A woman is left her dying father's secret stash of pornography, and is entrusted with the unenviable task of disposing of it. A new father unexpectedly discovers a way of connecting to his autistic son. For one day, guests to a wedding set aside their various past misdeeds in order to celebrate a young couple's union. A teenager newly introduced to a life of petty crime suddenly finds himself in way over his head. A man's former acquaintance resurfaces decades later as the subject of a haunting art film. Unwin's characters live full, complex lives within each story. Though they may not find the simple answers they seek, if such answers even exist, they-and readers-gain something farmore valuable on their journeys: perspective.The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society: Stories
Par Christine Estima. 2023
Todo es eventual
Par Stephen King. 2003
Catorce relatos que te sorprenderán, te provocarán escalofríos y que, aunque quieras, no podrás dejar de leer. Todo es eventual…
es una fantástica recopilación de relatos de Stephen King. Publicados anteriormente en revistas, en internet, leídos en público por el autor o bien inéditos, son textos sorprendentes, misteriosos, terroríficos...Desde historias de encuentros con muertos y una habitación de hotel con un fantasma asesino hasta escenas del realismo más directo y brutal, King nos transporta al mundo de su increíble imaginación. La crítica ha dicho...«Este libro será la colección de relatos más vendida. ¿Y por qué no? Nadie lo hace mejor.»Publishers WeeklyToo Weird for Ziggy (Books That Changed the World)
Par Sylvie Simmons. 2004
The renowned rock journalist for Rolling Stone and Mojo takes readers into the outrageous netherworld of pop music in this…
debut collection of short fiction. British rock journalist Sylvie Simmons spent decades covering and interviewing music legends from Stevie Nicks to Frank Zappa; from Muddy Waters to Michael Jackson; and from The Clash to Guns n&’ Roses, and beyond. Now she takes everything she&’s seen, heard, and experienced in the company of these music legends and funnels it all through her vivid imagination. From heavy metal megalomaniacs to country crooners and a brokenhearted punk-pop singer named Pussy, Simmons conjures a cast of larger-than-life characters that ring all too true. In these eighteen interlocking stories, &“Simmons has all the details of record-company politicking, rock-biz noblesse oblige, and backstage ritual down pat&” (Kirkus Reviews).Black Light: Stories
Par Kimberly King Parsons. 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD&“The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . . .…
I loved every moment of this book.&” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesWith raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire&’s darkest hollows—those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howl—sharp-voiced, acerbic, and wise."Cat Person" and Other Stories: Cat Person And Other Stories
Par Kristen Roupenian. 2019
*Includes the story &“Cat Person&”—now a major film* A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often…
darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. &“These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.&” —Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award Finalist and author of Her Body and Other Parties &“Kristen Roupenian isn&’t just an uncannily great writer, she also knows things about the human psyche…The world has made a lot more sense since reading this book.&” —Miranda July, New York Times bestselling authorPreviously published as You Know You Want This, &“Cat Person&” and Other Stories brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can&’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for &“something mean&”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart&’s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed &“biter&” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker. Spanning a range of genres and topics—from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural—these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable—or worse, understood—as if to say, &“You want this, right? You know you want this.&”This Is Salvaged: Stories
Par Vauhini Vara. 2003
Named a most anticipated book of the year by Literary Hub, Electric Literature and The Millions A Best Book of…
Fall 2023 by Bustle. Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving aunt. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible’s specifications. In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in This Is Salvaged, unmoored in turbulence, are searching fervently for meaning, through one another.Damas, caballeros y planetas
Par Laura Fernández. 2023
Después de La señora Potter no es exactamente Santa Claus (premios Las Librerías Recomiendan, Finestres y El Ojo Crítico), llega…
el primer libro de relatos de Laura Fernández. «Un humor y una inteligencia que van más allá de cualquier IA de origen terrícola que podamos imaginar. Leerlos es un viaje intergaláctico a los confines de un universo literario lleno de damas y caballeros (algunos con tres ojos) apasionados y locos por los libros y la escritura».Lola Larumbe, librería Alberti (Madrid)Los relatos aquí reunidos son lo que podríamos llamar «cuentos escogidos», y si algo tienen en común es que no son de este planeta. Literalmente. Pues están ambientados en desopilantemente absurdos rincones de la galaxia. Con un humor y una imaginación que no se detienen ante nada ni nadie, Laura Fernández reinventa nuestro mundo desde otros infinitos mundos poblados por famosos detectives mutantes, periodistas fantasma, dinosaurios oficinistas, autodirigibles que hablan más de la cuenta, limoneros que no son exactamente lo que parecen y habitantes de otros planetas que podrían habitar perfectamente éste. Estas novelas en miniatura dan cuenta del exuberante universo que Laura Fernández ha ido creando y expandiendo a lo largo de quince años. Además de los cuentos que han sido editados previamente —en todo tipo de pequeñas publicaciones y antologías—, Damas, caballeros y planetas incluye un prólogo y otros textos adicionales de la propia autora, así como una nouvelle y un relato inéditos. Galardonada con los premios de narrativa El Ojo Crítico, Las Librerías Recomiendan, Finestres y Kelvin 505 por La Señora Potter no es exactamente Santa Claus, regresa una de las autoras más audaces, brillantes, singulares y talentosas de nuestro panorama literario. Los libreros opinan:«Leer a Laura Fernández es revivir la curiosidad, el asombro y la diversión que sentías de pequeña cuando leías aquel libro debajo de las sábanas con la luz de una linterna».Alejandra Lata de Diego, librería Berbiriana (A Coruña) «Como escritora de relatos es genial. De pluma dickiana, con toques de humor al estiloDouglas Adams, Fredric Brown o Robert Sheckley, Laura Fernández es brillante. ¡Leedla!».Antonio Torrubia, librería Gigamesh (Barcelona) «Dejarse llevar por la meticulosa, precisa, irónica, salvaje, divertida prosa de Laura Fernández es un regalo con muchos momentos de felicidad asegurada».Laia Alegret, librería Drac Màgic (Mallorca)«No sabes qué te vas a encontrar ni por dónde te va a salir porque todo es posible. Lo maravilloso de su narrativa es que siempre apela al niño que hay en ti. Y eso, a día de hoy, es impagable».Bernabé Naharro, librería Luces (Málaga) «Si fuera librera, Laura Fernández sería una lectora voraz, entusiasta, selectiva, audaz. Como escritora es además fantasiosa, elegante, dueña de una voz desmitificadora y bienhumorada. Una de las nuestras».Rafael Arias, librería Letras Corsarias (Salamanca)When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
Par Eric Smith, Sun Yung Shin, Mark Oshiro, Shannon Gibney, Nicole Chung, Mariama J. Lockington, Jenny Heijun Wills, Matthew Salesses, Meredith Ireland, Stefany Valentine, Kelley Baker, MeMe Collier, Susan Harness, Lisa Nopachai, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom. 2023
"An emotion-filled collection." —Kirkus ReviewsTwo teens take the stage and find their voice . . .A girl learns about her heritage…
and begins to find her community . . .A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost . . .There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences.This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives. With stories by:Kelley BakerNicole ChungShannon GibneyMark OshiroMeMe CollierSusan Harness Meredith IrelandMariama J. LockingtonLisa NopachaiStefany ValentineMatthew SalessesLisa Wool-Rim SjöblomEric SmithJenny Heijun WillsSun Yung ShinForeword by Rebecca CarrollAfterword by JaeRan Kim, MSW, PhDUltimate Greek Mythology: Adventurous Stories, Fun Facts, Amazing History, and Beyond!
Par L. J. Tracosas. 2023
Embark on a journey to the magical world of Greek mythology in this ultimate book of fascinating myths and fun…
facts for kids ages 6 to 9!Travel to the top of Mount Olympus, where the gods and goddesses live. Get to know Zeus, Apollo, Poseidon, Aphrodite, and Dionysus and understand how they shaped the fate of humans and the world. Venture deep down to the caves and wonders of the Underworld, where Hades rules. In this mythological world, action, drama, and lessons abound, humans can achieve godlike endings, deities are flawed, and even monsters can be loved.In Ultimate Greek Mythology, kids will immerse themselves in the amazing stories of muses and heroes and encounter fantastical beasts and creatures while also discovering the incredible facts and history that inspired each myth. FANTASTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS of majestic creatures like Pegasus along with other fierce beasts like the Hydra to marvel at and ignite kids&’ imaginationsKEY CHARACTER PROFILES to learn about their main traits, symbols, and awesome powersFUN FACTS about the fascinating history and culture of ancient Greece to spark wonder about the vast world of Greek mythsEXPLORE CREATIVITY with intriguing questions that invite kids to dive deep into each story and inspire them to create their own fantastic inventionsEASY-TO-FOLLOW PRONUNCIATION GUIDES to encourage independent reading through tricky words and namesIDEAL GIFT for curious minds, young fantasy readers, and kids obsessed with ancient historyArchie Milestones Digest #22: Jughead Christmas Special (Archie Milestones Digest #22)
Par Archie Superstars. 2023
Nightmare!: Book 22 (Horrid Henry #22)
Par Francesca Simon. 2013
Number One for Fiendish Fun!This book contains a TERRIFYING nightmare, a demon dinner lady, a mother's day disaster and a…
CRAZY cat!Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.París. La novela
Par Edward Rutherfurd. 2012
París, ciudad del amor, de la elegancia, de los sueños. Ciudad de la revolución. Una novela con la historia de…
París desde su fundación hasta los días de la revuelta estudiantil de 1968. París se desarrolla a través de las historias de pasiones, lealtades divididas y secretos guardados durante años de personajes tanto ficticios como reales, con el escenario de esta gloriosa ciudad como fondo. De la construcción de Notre Dame a las peligrosas maquinaciones del cardenal Richelieu; de la resplandeciente corte de Versalles a la violencia de la Revolución francesa y las comunas parisinas; del hedonismo de la Belle Époque, cuando el movimiento impresionista alcanza su cénit, a la tragedia que supuso la Primera Guerra Mundial; de los escritores de la Generación Perdida de los años 1920 a los que se podía encontrar bebiendo en Les Deux Magots a la ocupación nazi, los luchadores de la Resistencia y la revuelta estudiantil de mayo de 1968...Un mosaico impresionante, sensual, arrebatador.The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 3
Par Philip K Dick. 1987
The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction…
genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'Minority Report' and 'Sales Pitch', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture.'First time I have read Philip K. Dick and I thoroughly enjoyed his stories and the suspense that he puts into them' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Most of the stories had something to say about society. It was interesting to see how 50 years later so many of the fears and criticism was still relevant. Highly recommended' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Dick's stories are often surprising and spin a captivating yarn, but they are also teeming with fascinating ideas which ensure their ability to age well and keep modern readers interested' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Each tale is filled with twists and turns, and it's a total pageturner' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Cuentos de brujas a medianoche
Par Enid Blyton. 2017
Una colección mágica de cuentos llenos de conjuros, escobas y calderos escritos por Enid Blyton para leer solo o en…
compañía. Esta colección de cuentos cortos escritos por Enid Blyton y protagonizados por brujos, hadas y todo tipo de criaturas mágicas y misteriosas contiene: - 15 cuentos con una temática ganadora - Magníficas ilustraciones a todo colorEl libro ideal para regalar a fans de la autora o para darla a conocer en una maravillosa edición cuidada con todo lujo de detalles.The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4
Par Philip K Dick. 1987
The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction…
genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' and 'The Electric Ant', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture.'A great collection, showcasing Dick's evolution' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'my reason for giving the book a five-star rating has to do with my emotional state I felt when I closed the last page. I feel that I delved into a more extensive realm of PKD's mind by reading this collection' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'An amazing collection of downright bizarre fiction. So many excellent stories that it would be hard to pick a favorite' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Song of the Silent Snow: Stories (Penguin Modern Classics Ser.)
Par Hubert Selby Jr.. 1986
&“Earthy, thoughtful, funny&” stories of love and despair, destiny and dumb luck, by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn…
and Requiem for a Dream (Library Journal). Hubert Selby Jr. made an indelible mark on contemporary American literature with Last Exit to Brooklyn, a controversial novel that explored life at the lowest strata of urban society. But even before that novel altered the landscape of American fiction, Selby was honing his literary craft with short fiction that cast the human condition in a stark light, stories &“known for their harrowing portrayal of mere mortals chasing their delusions down the drain&” (Salon.com). The stories here represent Selby at his best, whether he&’s exploring a married commuter&’s fantasy about a stranger he sees every morning on the subway or wryly spinning the tale of a salesman whose life is dictated by Chinese fortune cookies. In these pages, a homeless man clings to his old army coat during a bitter lost weekend; and a young man&’s successful attempt to impress a girl on their first date comes back to haunt him. In the intimate, sometimes shocking portraits collected in Song of the Silent Snow, Selby finds the delicate balance between joy and despair, revealing humanity in the darkest corners of existence. &“Selby&’s writing never diminished; it always increased. His body of work is among the very highest of contemporary writers. He did not get the acknowledgment that he deserved, but he will.&” —John Rechy, author of City of Night This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author&’s estate.Zero-Sum: Stories
Par Joyce Carol Oates. 2023
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America&’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning,…
best-selling author of BlondeA brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as &“mother.&” In the collection&’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with &“drafts&” of his own suicide.In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates&’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.The Names of the Things That Were There: Stories
Par Antonio Skármeta. 2019
A collection of the best short stories by the author of the unforgettable novel The Postman.Each of the stories in…
this book is an extraordinary piece of literature. Love, youth, desire, and freedom, coupled with versatile prose, sensitivity, and a subtle irony that sometimes morphs into dark humor, confirm Antonio Skármeta&’s position as one of the greatest storytellers in contemporary literature.Juan Villoro has selected and written a prologue for this collection, originally published in five books that influenced an entire generation of writers and brought about a renewal of Latin American prose.