Half a Day and Other Stories
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Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
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ISBN : 9789966254320
Half a Day and Other Stories
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Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa, East
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Fox & Chick: The Party
Author : Sergio Ruzzier
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452152882
Book Description
A 2019 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award Honoree NPR Best Books of the Year, New York Times Notable Children's Book, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year Join the dynamic, yet opposite duo as they learn to appreciate differences among friends: Fox and Chick don't always agree, but Fox and Chick are always friends. With sly humor and companionable warmth, Sergio Ruzzier deftly captures the adventures of these seemingly opposite friends. With spare text and airy images, this early chapter book is also accessible to a picture book audience. • Book teaches a lesson about accepting and cherishing our differences through sweet and funny characters as they embark on silly adventures • Luminous watercolor images showcased in comic-book panel form will entice emerging readers, keeping them engaged and wanting more • Sergio Ruzzier is a Sendak Fellow whose work has been lauded by the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, and the Society of Publication Designers "A subtle lesson, couched in humor: We can be friends with people who aren't just like us." — The New York Times • Great family and classroom read-aloud book • Books for kids ages 5-8 • Books for early and emergent readers
The Time and the Place
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525431632
Book Description
Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz's novels: The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle to survive the poverty; melancholy ruminations on death; experiments with the supernatural; and witty excursions into Cairene middle-class life.
Half in Love
Author : Maile Meloy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743234006
Book Description
Fourteen remarkable stories that combine strong Western settings with a subtle and distinct female voice. This critically celebrated debut collection marks the exciting beginning of prize-winner Meloy’s promising career. Lean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy’s stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy’s unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with the same remarkable skill and intuition. In “Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976,” two couples face a complicated grief when one of the four dies. In “Ranch Girl,” the college-bound daughter of a ranch foreman must choose which adult world she wants to occupy. In “A Stakes Horse,” a woman confronts risk and loss at the racetrack and at home. And in “Aqua Boulevard”—winner of the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction—an elderly Parisian confronts his mortality. Meloy’s command of her characters’ voices is breathtaking; their fears and desires are deftly illuminated. Smart, surprising, and evocative, Meloy’s brilliantly observed stories fully engage the mind and heart.
Dimanche and Other Stories
Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307739317
Book Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Two and a Half Words and Other Stories
Author : Abbas Zaidi
Publisher : Gowanus Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
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ISBN : 9780982606957
Book Description
A collection of short stories by Pakistani-born writer Abbas Zaidi. Some may wonder whether or not it is possible for Pakistani writers writing in English to escape the very stereotypes that mobilize the modern perceptions of Pakistan. The world of these stories, whether Pakistan, Borneo, or Singapore may be modern, but it bubbles like a stewpot of the primitive, sometimes the downright atavistic. The crocodiles lie in wait for the Pakistani professionals lured to the river's edge by Filipino pondans who may or may not be real women. The characters may be frequently absurd, but they are never just that, and we experience them as both ridiculous, deeply pathetic, and sometimes frightening.
How They Met and Other Stories
Author : David Levithan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375849424
Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
Author : Megan Milks
Publisher : Emergency Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0989473686
Book Description
Kill Marguerite and Other Stories collects thirteen risk-taking stories obsessed with crossing boundaries, whether formal or corporeal. Narrative genres are giddily mongrelized: the Sweet Valley twins get stuck in a choose-your-own-adventure story; Mean Girls-like violence gets embedded within a classic video game. Protagonists cycle through a series of startling, sometimes violent, changes in gender, physiology, and even species, occasionally blurring into other characters or swapping identities entirely. One woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and a Greek god impregnates a man’s thigh with a sword. More than just a straightforward celebration of the carnivalesque, though, these fictions are deeply engaged, both critically and politically, with the ways that social power operates on, and through, queer bodies.
Half as Happy
Author : Gregory Spatz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938126093
Book Description
Eight stories--each as expansive as a novel--reveal the ways we hurt and heal one another. From the author of Inukshuk.
