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Fire in Beulah
By Rilla Askew. 2001
Set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush, Rilla Askew's Fire in Beulah is a mesmerizing story that…
centers on the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and Graceful, her enigmatic black maid. Their juxtaposing stories-and those of others close to them-unfold against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hatred, lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, when whites burned the city's properous black community. Askew's award-winning first novel, The Mercy Seat, was praised for its astute diepiction of family bonds and the beauty of American landscape. Now she explores the American race story with the same perception.Happy Bithday
By Letícia Kartalian, Alexandra Golovinskaya. 2014
Эти двое влюблены, известны и очень заняты на работе, но существуют дни которые они стараются провести вместе... Их дни рождения…
это одни из них. С мужской и женской точек зрения, Happy Birthday говорит об интенсивных отношениях двух людей друг с другом, о дружбе, о работе, и особенно о любви.Direct Wire
By Clee Garson. 2012
Proyecto De Escritura Para Preparatorias 2.0 Antología De Historias Cortas
By Jeannie Hernández, Stephanie Duncan. 2014
El Proyecto de Escritura para Preparatorias 2.0 presenta algunas historias cortas acerca de personajes adolescentes que han sido escritas por…
estudiantes de preparatoria. Las historias incluidas en esta edición tratan de varios temas que incluyen el suicidio en adolescentes, trastornos mentales, superstición, romance y percepción extrasensorial.Historias cortas incluidas en la antología:Todo por vivir por Steven Roberts - Cuando un turbado estudiante de último año decide terminar con su vida, queda sorprendido al conocer a un hombre que afirma ser su ángel guardián, y quien le muestra el efecto que su suicidio tendrá en sus amigos, seres queridos, e incluso en personas desconocidas.Danica Myerson contribuyó con las siguientes tres historias, protagonizadas por un grupo de estudiantes de la clase de psicología:No siempre es fácil - Diane y Abby eran las mejores amigas. Pero entonces Jack apareció en sus vidas. ¿Podrá la competencia por un chico guapo arruinar su amistad?Lo que el ojo no puede ver - ¿Quién habría adivinado que detrás de la silenciosa y dulce Kelly había una personalidad peligrosa y violenta esperando una oportunidad para salir?Un estado mental - Las cadenas de correo electrónico no significan nada. Son sólo supersticiones. ¿Verdad?La premonición por Seth King - Greg despierta convencido de que algo malo pasará ese día luego de tener una pesadilla. Su hermana mayor insiste en que él sólo está reaccionando ante su enorme imaginación. Pero probar que su pesadilla en efecto fue una premonición costará un precio terrible.Lois Young aportó tres composiciones a la colección:La historia de dos maestras hace una divertida retrospección a las personalidades contrastantes de sus dos maestras de sexto año.Si yo fuera directora muestra su visión acerca de cambiar su escuela.Un paquete navideño relata una simple historiaPor Eso Soy La Guionista De La Telenovela
By Matthew W. Grant, Patricia Moragón. 2014
Sumérgete entre bastidores en la popular telenovela PARA VIVIR Y AMAR gracias a esta divertida y corta historia en que…
el drama de los camerinos es más intenos que el que ocurre delante de la cámara. Sigue al optimista actor Robert Schwarzmann en su viaje de una pequeña ciudad de Maine al ostentoso y glamuroso estilo de vida de la televisión matutina de Hollywood, California. Descubre por qué en una industria en la que la apariencia lo es todo, nada es lo que parece. Temas serios se filtran por debajo de la superficie cómica en esta corta historia de Matthew W. Grant, un semifinalista de los premios Amazon Breakthrough Novel con SECRETS OF SLATERS FALLS. - - - - BIENVENIDO A SLATERS FALLS Descubre quién sale ganando cuando un policía pervertido se encuentra con una zorra que va a por todas en una carretera local desierta. Todo en esta historia-bonus que presenta un argumento fusión con personajes de las novelas de Matthew W. Grant SECRETS OF SLATERS FALLS y WELCOME TO NORTHBRIDGE.The Gift Bearer
By Charles Louis Fontenay. 2012
This could well have been Montcalm's greatest opportunity; a chance to bring mankind priceless gifts from worlds beyond. But Montcalm…
was a solid family man--and what about that nude statue in the park?The Dualitists: or, The Death Doom of the Double Born
By Bram Stoker. 2012
This short story was written by Bram Stoker the world famous author of Dracula. In it a married couple, after…
trying for many years, has a set of identical twins. The dote on the twins for three years unaware that two neighborhood boys have developed an obsession for destroying things. At first the boys ruin various objects found in their houses. However, as time goes by they become bored with inanimate objects and decide to move on to something else.The Secrets of a Fire King
By Kim Edwards. 1997
Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her - until her father condemns her to a…
life of spinsterhood. Joyce has settled into Malaysian life after thirty years as an ex-pat wife - or so she thinks, until a newcomer arrives and reveals just how little of her home she knows. Jade Moon wants the best for her family - but, surrounded by Americans who reject her Korean traditions, she must first work out what 'the best' means. Though cultures and distances separate them, their experiences reflect our universal fears and desires. From a breathtaking island off Singapore to upstate New York and France, Kim Edwards takes in the world, compassionately and gracefully exploring the obstacles of time, place and circumstance in all of our quests for love, happiness and acceptance.Ein Glücklicher Mann
By Nicola Bock, Shawn Inmon. 2014
Beschreibung: Eine Kurzgeschichte mit der richtigen Länge für die Mittagspause - 6.400 Wörter. Noch nie ist etwas für Brett Mann…
schief gegangen - bis heute Nacht. Ein glücklicher Mann ist die Geschichte eines großen Mannes der für sein 25-jähriges Klassentreffen zum Ort seiner High School-Triumphe zurückkommt. Sein Leben war gesegnet mit einer eleganten, schönen Frau, brillanten Kinder, einer Karriere, auf die jeder Mann neidisch war und mehr Geld als er je ausgeben könnte. Die Frage ist: hat er das alles wirklich selbst erreicht oder hat er ein verzaubertes Leben geführt? Noch wichtiger ist für ihn allerdings die Frage, ob der Zauber sich nun in einen Fluch verwandeln würde.A Guide to Being Born
By Ramona Ausubel. 2013
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell--an enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the…
heart of the human condition. Major new literary talent Ramona Ausubel combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story form. A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life--love, conception, gestation, birth--and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel's stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way. In 'Atria' a pregnant teenager believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in 'Catch and Release' a girl discovers the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house; and in 'Tributaries' people grow a new arm each time they fall in love. Funny, surprising, and delightfully strange--all the stories have a strong emotional core; Ausubel's primary concern is always love, in all its manifestationsThe Crayon Papers
By Washington Irving. 2012
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known…
for his short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving is said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also the U.S. minister to Spain 1842-1846.Tree, Spare that Woodman
By Dave Dryfoos. 2012
The Sunnier Side and Other Stories
By Charles Jackson, Blake Bailey. 1977
A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of…
The Lost Weekend.A selection of Jackson's finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set in the town of Arcadia in upstate New York, the stories in this collection address the unspoken issues--homosexuality, masturbation, alcoholism, to name a few--lurking just beneath the surface of the small-town ideal.The Sunnier Side showcases Jackson at the height of his storytelling powers, reaffirming his reputation as a boundary-pushing, irreverent writer years ahead of his time.Fair and Warmer
By E. G. von Wald. 2012
Tensor's melancholia threatened to disturb the entire citizenry, and that was most uncivil! So--if these peculiar aliens caused him this…
distress, by provoking his intellectual curiosity, the remedy was for him to investigate them to his complete satisfaction.... Thus, in this manner, did Tensor get well--and did he learn a bit too....Skin Game
By Charles Fritch. 2012
Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team…
of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. That is--until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took their skinning literally!Jack of No Trades
By Charles Cottrell. 2012
Tulan
By C. C. MacApp. 2012
To disobey the orders of the Council of Four was unthinkable to a Space Admiral of the old school. But…
the trouble was, the school system had changed. A man, a fighter, an Admiral had to think for himself now, if his people were to live.The Mighty Dead
By William Campbell Gault. 2012
What would it be like to live in a world which has conquered the near planets but abolished all literature?…
Bill Gault gives us a look at a world like this--in a not too distant future which finds all our pressure groups united to rule the roost.A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dyna
By Washington Irving. 2012
James Pethel
By Max Beerbohm.