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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
Archie Double Digest #345 (Archie Double Digest #345)
Par Archie Superstars. 2023
TWO BRAND NEW STORIES! First, CHRISTMAS IS CANCELED!? When Ethel reads a rumor online that Santa won’t be delivering presents…
to Riverdale this year, everyone is up in arms! Could this be true or is it just internet misinformation? Then, the Shield enlists Archie in finding a dangerous artifact before the winter celebration becomes a disaster!Josie Anniversary Spectacular (Josie & the Pussycats #1)
Par Holly G. 2023
All the News I Need: A Novel (Juniper Prize for Fiction)
Par Joan Frank. 2017
EXCERPTBecause of course she feels what he feels. . . . People their age natter along not copping to it…
but the awareness is billboarded all over their faces—a wavering, a hesitation, even those who used to crow and jab the air. The tablecloth of certainty, with all its sparkly settings, has been yanked, and not artfully. It's why people drink.All The News I Need probes the modern American response to inevitable, ancient riddles—of love and sex and mortality. Frances Ferguson is a lonely, sharp-tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in San Francisco. Friends by default, Fran and Ollie nurse the deep anomie of loss and the creeping, animal betrayal of aging. Each loves routine but is anxious that life might be passing by. To crack open this stalemate, Fran insists the two travel together to Paris. The aftermath of their funny, bittersweet journey suggests those small changes, within our reach, that may help us save ourselves—somewhere toward the end.Time and the Riddle: Thirty-One Zen Stories
Par Howard Fast. 1975
A collection of Fast&’s best short fiction, from science fiction and fantasy to philosophy and suspenseThis collection of short stories…
encompasses twenty years of work by Howard Fast, including some of his best-known and most treasured tales. Not merely fantasy or science fiction, these &“Zen stories&” explore the world&’s mysterious and unanswerable questions, big and small, and the results are at once bizarre, humorous, chilling, and poignant. An American general shoots down what appears to be an angel during a Vietnam War battle, a celebrated author becomes a hunted man, and a mouse is granted human thought and emotion by a group of alien beings. The thirty-one stories in Time and the Riddle showcase Fast&’s range and supreme talent as a storyteller. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&’s estate.Cuentos reunidos
Par Cynthia Ozick. 2004
La gran heredera de Henry James. «Peleo con cada frase, sílaba a sílaba. Bien mirado, escribir es en el fondo…
un acto de valor.»Cynthia Ozick Al hablar de la condición humana en general se corre el riesgo de caer en la frivolidad, pero basta con leer cualquiera de los cuentos de Cynthia Ozick para olvidarse de las frases hechas y asumir lo que es ajeno como nuestro. En esta recopilación de cuentos descubrimos a hombres y mujeres que a primera vista podrían parecer seres patéticos, pero que en el fondo conservan y muestran su dignidad, a menudo gracias a la ironía, siempre tan oportuna. Si, como decía Mark Strand, vivir consiste en estar alerta y prestar atención al mundo, Cynthia Ozick es el testigo que buscábamos.Reseñas:«El estilo más logrado y elegante de la narrativa contemporánea.»The New York Times «Cuando Ozick habla, el periodista escucha.»David Aliaga, entrevista para QuimeraPlaying Games
Par Huma Qureshi. 2023
'A gem of a novel' i'A beautifully written debut' RedThe remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: a…
poignant story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayalHana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a perfect marriage. It is her younger sister Mira who is a mess. But Hana wants children and her husband is hesitating, and perhaps her control is slipping.Mira dreams of a creative life but she's stuck working at a local café. She hates her flatmate and Hana's dismissal of her writing but she can't find the right inspiration.One night, a fight between Hana and her husband sparks something in Mira: the words ring in her head and she starts typing. But what can you borrow from your sister? And what can be forgiven?'Warm and moving . . . Playing Games thoughtfully and elegantly considers what it means to be a sister, a mother and a writer' Chloë Ashby, author of Wet Paint'A riveting and evocative tale of two sisters navigating love, loss and desires' Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is a Foreign Country'Reading Qureshi's crystal prose is a rare pleasure. I found Playing Games unputdownable' Molly Aitken, author of The Island ChildTopographia Hibernica
Par Blindboy Boatclub. 2023
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view…
in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboyboatclub.These are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible; stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion.Taking its title from a twelfth-century English manuscript of the same name, which dehumanised the people and culture of Ireland to facilitate domination, Topographia Hibernica is a collection that unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature and colonisation from a contemporary Irish perspective.Called 'one of the most gifted writers of his generation' by the Irish Times, Blindboyboatclub is the essential voice for the Irish condition in the twenty-first century. Topographia Hibernica is his unmissable new short-story collection.The King's Indian: Stories and Tales
Par John Gardner. 1972
An iconic collection that showcases Gardner as a master craftsman navigating an uncertain worldIn this exceptional book, author John Gardner…
explores the literary form as a vehicle of vision, and creates heroes that personify his tremendous artistic ideals: A Boston schoolmaster abandons his dreams of owning a farmhouse in rural Illinois only to be taken on a voyage across the seas and into self-discovery, faith, and love; an artist&’s rapturous enthusiasm inspires an aging university professor to approach life&’s chaotic moments as opportunities for creation. Each of these stories is wonderful in its own right, and provides valuable insight into the author&’s literary beliefs. Written just prior to his critical masterwork, On Moral Fiction, The King&’s Indian is a must-read for those interested in learning more about Gardner&’s highly controversial artistic philosophies. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International)
Par Gabriel García Márquez. 1995
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble…
family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition
Par Ernest Hemingway. 2023
A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams’s solo fishing trip in…
Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean."The finest story of the outdoors in American literature." —Sports IllustratedA century since its publication in the collection In Our Time, “Big Two-Hearted River” has helped shape language and literature in America and across the globe, and its magnetic pull continues to draw readers, writers, and critics. The story is the best early example of Ernest Hemingway’s now-familiar writing style: short sentences, punchy nouns and verbs, few adjectives and adverbs, and a seductive cadence. Easy to imitate, difficult to match. The subject matter of the story has inspired generations of writers to believe that fly fishing can be literature. More than any of his stories, it depends on his ‘iceberg theory’ of literature, the notion that leaving essential parts of a story unsaid, the underwater portion of the iceberg, adds to its power. Taken in context with his other work, it marks Hemingway’s passage from boyish writer to accomplished author: nothing big came before it, novels and stories poured out after it. —from the foreword by John N. MacleanFor a Night of Love (Hesperus Classics)
Par A. N. Wilson, Émile Zola. 2002
In these three short stories, Émile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment—romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give…
us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Thérèse commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will dispose of the body; the pregnant Flavie manipulates a neighbor's interest in her dowry to arrange a shotgun wedding; and churchgoing women find their hunger for Christianity unsatisfied by a vapid priest. These are beautiful and poignant stories unified by the powerful themes of deception and discontent.Minicuentos: 365 buenas noches en forma de cuento
Par Varios Autores. 2023
Ha llegado la hora de dormir, ¡elige un minicuento! Ciervos que hablan, dragones que asan patatas en vez de humanos…
e ¡incluso extraterrestres que van a fiestas de disfraces! Entre las páginas de este libro encontrarás estas y muchas otras historias ideales para leer antes de ir a dormir. Historias cortas y sencillas perfectos para pasar un rato en familia todos los días. ¡Tienes una para cada día del año!Un recopilatorio de 365 cuentos cortos, perfectos para leer en voz alta, que será el regalo ideal para niños y mayoresNueva York. La novela: La apasionante historia de Nueva York desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad
Par Edward Rutherfurd. 2009
Los 400 años de Historia de la ciudad de Nueva York se conforma de miles de historias, escenarios y personajes…
extraordinarios. «Partiendo de la vida de los indios que habitaban sus tierras vírgenes y los primeros colonos holandeses hasta llegar a la dramática construcción del Empire State Building o la creación del edificio Dakota en el que vivía John Lennon. Durante la Guerra de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos, Nueva York fue territorio británico; tiempo más tarde, los neoyorquinos crearon canales y vías ferroviarias que abrieron las puertas a la America del Oeste. »La ciudad ha estado en el centro del huracán en buenos y malos momentos, como lo fueron el crash del 29 o el ataque del 11 de septiembre. Grandes personajes han poblado su historia: Stuyvesant, el holandés que defendió Nuevo Ámsterdam; Washington, cuya presidencia arrancó en Nueva York; Ben Franklin, que abogó por la América británica; Lincoln, que dio uno de sus mejores discursos en la ciudad...»Pero, ante todo, para mí, se trata de la historia de gente ordinaria: indios locales, pobladores holandeses, comerciantes ingleses, esclavos africanos, tenderos alemanes, trabajadores irlandeses, judíos e italianos llegados vía Ellis Island, puertorriqueños, guatemaltecos y chinos, gente de bien y gángsters, mujeres de la calle y damas de alta alcurnia.»Edward RutherfurdChina. La novela
Par Edward Rutherfurd. 2021
Por el autor best seller internacional de París, Nueva York y Londres. Edward Rutherfurd nos lleva a un estimulante nuevo…
mundo con su ya más que reconocido estilo épico en ésta, su nueva novela: China. Edward Rutherfurd ha cautivado a millones de lectores con su grandeza narrativa, sagas históricas profundas que nos cuentan la historia de alguna ciudad famosa a lo largo de múltiples generaciones. Ahora, en China, el autor lleva a sus lectores a la riqueza del entorno fascinante del Reino Medio. La historia comienza en 1839, en el alba de la Primera Guerra del Opio, y continúa con la historia de China a través de la Revolución Cultural de Mao hasta nuestros días. Rutherfurd relata el ascenso y la caída de las fortunas de distintos miembros de familias chinas, británicas y americanas, mientras negocian el devenir de la historia. Por el camino, fiel a su estilo, Rutherfurd nos regala un minucioso y profundo retrato de la historia y de la sociedad china, de sus tradiciones ancestrales, de sus grandes reveses y de la aparición de China como una gran potencia global en ascenso. Y al igual que en sus novelas anteriores, encontraremos romance, aventuras, heroínas y sinvergüenzas, luchas abrumadoras y fortunas increíbles. China da vida al rico terreno de este vasto país que ha vivido bajo una constante evolución. De Shangai a Nankín y a través de la Gran Muralla, Rutherfurd relata el turbulento ascenso y la caída de imperios, mientras el colonial Oeste colisiona con el opulento y complejo Este en una batalla épica entre sus culturas y su gente. Profundamente documentada y majestuosamente narrada, Edward Rutherfurd pinta un apasionante retrato de uno de los países más singulares y extraordinarios del mundo entero. La crítica ha dicho...«Un contundente y adictivo volumen de 850 páginas donde recorre la historia del gigante asiático desde la Primera Guerra del Opio hasta los albores del siglo XX.»ABC Cultura «Se devora sin freno en cuanto comienza a leerse.»Llámamelista «El país, como en sus otras obras, es el primero de los personajes y en los que mezcla historia y ficción.»Carmen Naranjo, eldiario.es«En China varias familias ficticias viven y recorren la historia el convulso siglo XIX del gigante asiático.»Entrevista a Edward Rutherfurd por David Yagüe «Su maravilloso estilo narrativo ha hecho que se convierta en uno de mis favoritos de este año.»Mi terapia alternativa«Su nueva novela abarca 60 años de la Historia de un país que le fascina contada desde diversos ángulos, de comerciantes británicos a un eunuco.»El Correo «Ofrece todo ese placer clásico de la lectura larga e inmersiva.»Lo que yo te diga «Consigue engancharte desde el principio y, a pesar de su extensión, la novela se hace corta.»MagicEverywhere_books«El libro es una auténtica lección de Historia, sobre todo lo que pasó en aquella época, pero, también, sobre la forma de vida de los chinos.»LAKY librosLondres | París | Nueva York (pack digital con las tres novelas)
Par Edward Rutherfurd. 1997
Para celebrar la publicación de China, la nueva novela de Edward Rutherfurd, publicamos esta maravilloso estuche con las tres novelas…
históricas que encumbraron al autor como uno de los grandes referentes del género en todo el mundo. Cada episodio de Londres, profuso en detalles históricos, revela la riqueza, la pasión, el brío y la lucha por sobrevivir de una ciudad única. Desde la fundación de un pequeño asentamiento celta a los bombardeos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pasando por la invasión por parte de las legiones de César en el año 54 a.d, las Cruzadas, la conquista normanda, la creación del teatro Globe en el que Shakespeare estrenaría sus obras, las tensiones religiosas, el Gran Incendio, la época victoriana... Cientos de historias mezclan a personajes reales y ficticios, pertenecientes a unas pocas sagas familiares que se perpetúan a través de los siglos. 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. Los 400 años de Historia de la ciudad de Nueva York se conforma de miles de historias, escenarios y personajes extraordinarios. Partiendo de la vida de los indios que habitaban sus tierras vírgenes y los primeros colonos holandeses hasta llegar a la dramática construcción del Empire State Building o la creación del edificio Dakota en el que vivía John Lennon. Durante la Guerra de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos, Nueva York fue territorio británico; tiempo más tarde, los neoyorquinos crearon canales y vías ferroviarias que abrieron las puertas a la America del Oeste. La ciudad ha estado en el centro del huracán en buenos y malos momentos, como lo fueron el crash del 29 o el ataque del 11 de septiembre.Night-Gaunts: and Other Tales of Suspense
Par Joyce Carol Oates. 2018
Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: &“Oates&’ spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.&”―Booklist In the…
title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herself—as demonstrated in these six stories. One tale opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper&’s Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In &“The Long-Legged Girl,&” an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband&’s latest conquest? In &“The Sign of the Beast,&” when a former Sunday school teacher&’s corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder—but is he really responsible? And another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in &“Night-Gaunts,&” a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft. &“Consummately well-written, stylistically dashing...forthrightly nightmarish.&”―Kirkus ReviewsVeterans Crisis Hotline (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)
Par Jon Chopan. 2018
The twelve stories of Veterans Crisis Hotline offer a meditation on the relationship between war and righteousness and consider the…
impossible distance between who men are and who they want to be. A veteran working at the hotline listens to the stories men tell when they need someone to hear their voices, when they need to access a language for their pain. Two men search for the head of a decapitated Iraqi civilian so that they might absolve themselves of the atrocities of war, a Marine hunts for the man who raped his girlfriend, and a teenage son replaces his dead father on the battlefield. With a quick wit and offbeat humor, Jon Chopan takes us from the banks of the Euphrates to the bars and VFW halls of the Rust Belt, providing insight into the Iraq War and its enduring impact on those who volunteered to fight in it.