Unexpected Stories
Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Subterranean Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596069831
Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Subterranean Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596069831
Author : Laura E. Williams
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439455855
Presents a collection of creepy, mind-bending stories including "Baby from Outer Space," "Marked for Death," and "The Telltale Croak."
Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062244604
Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents ariveting collection of unpredictable tales, including: A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddenly called upon to defeat a horrific Beast. When Anne has mumps, her drawings come to life, and she must protect her home from them. Four children become involved in the intrigue surrounding an innocent prince, an evil count, and a brave outlaw. These fifteen stories and one novella will enchant, startle, and surprise!
Author : Donald R. Gallo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763631192
Offers ten stories that provide a look into adventures of discovery.
Author : Sheryl Parbhoo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780998231006
Three people's lives intersect in a tumultuous yet redeeming way that none of them could have ever predicted. Jenny is a young professional from the South with an upbringing she wants to forget. She meets Roshan, an Indian immigrant who has moved to the United States with his mother, Esha, to escape family ghosts. With strong cultural tradition, Esha has devoted her entire life to her only child, both for his own good and for her personal protection from a painful past. Roshan understands his role as his mother's refuge, and from an early age, he commits himself to caring for her. But when Jenny and Roshan embark on a forbidden, intercultural relationship, all three get tangled into an inseparable web-betrayal, violence, and shame-leaving them forced to make choices about love and family they never wanted to make while finding peace where they never expected to look.
Author : Andrea Smorti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3031193377
This book stems primarily from the intention to make public the seminar entitled "Narratives and Cultural Psychology" held by J. Bruner and C. Feldman in May 2000 in Florence. This seminar represents the point of view of these two authors, at an important moment in their scientific and human careers, on two themes: narratives and interpretative communities. The central concept on which this book works is the Aristotelian concept of peripeteia which, born in the world of art, is developed by Bruner in the field of cognitive and cultural psychology and by Feldman in the concept of interpretative community. Thus the first purpose of this book is to analyze the role and usefulness of this concept in the study of the world of stories and culture The second aim of this book is to explain, clarify and comment on the concept, the theoretical assumptions and the key words used by the two authors, while also exploring the issues addressed. In this way, the author wanted to reflect on what contribution this seminar offers today to the theme of narratives and cultural psychology and what the future prospects might be. This book is aimed at students and scholars interested in exploring the role that stories play in human culture.
Author : Morgan Matson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481404547
When a scandal surrounding her father upsets all her carefully laid plans for her future, Andie must learn to accept a new relationship with her father and to embrace a little chaos in her life.
Author : Mary Connealy
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493417207
City dweller John McCall never expected to be out in the High Sierras of 1868 on a wild-goose chase to find the Chiltons' supposedly lost grandson. But now that he's out here, things have gotten even more complicated, mostly due to wildcat Penny Scott. She's not like any woman he's ever met--comfortable in the woods, with a horse, and with a gun. When Penny and John are taken against their will by a shadowy figure looking for evidence they don't have, both realize they've stumbled into something dangerous and complicated. With their friends and family desperately searching for them, Penny and John must make a daring escape. When they emerge back into the real world, they are confronted with a kidnapper who just won't stop. They must bring a powerful, ruthless man to justice, even as this city man and country woman fight a very inconvenient attraction to each other.
Author : Kristina Olsson
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0702248932
A powerful family memoir from the award-winning author of The China Garden Kristina OlssonOCOs mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded a train in the hot summer of 1950. She was young and frightened, trying to escape a brutal marriage, but despite the violence and cruelty sheOCOd endured, she was not prepared for this final blow, this breathtaking punishment. Yvonne would not see her son again for nearly 40 years. Kristina was the first child of her motherOCOs subsequent, much gentler marriage and, like her siblings, grew up unaware of the reasons behind her motherOCOs sorrow, though PeterOCOs absence resounded through the family, marking each one. Yvonne dreamt of her son by day and by night, while Peter grew up a thousand miles and a lifetime away, dreaming of his missing mother. Boy, Lost tells how their lives proceeded from that shattering moment, the grief and shame that stalked them, what they lost and what they salvaged. But it is also the story of a family, the cascade of grief and guilt through generations, and the endurance of memory and faith."
Author : Marcel Theroux
Publisher : Rough Trade Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912722615
Originally written and pressed as Christmas cards for friends and family, An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories collects and presents three funny, tender, modern tales from Marcel Theroux. A hard-pressed barber gets an angelic last-minute customer, a struggling retailer finds un-looked for freedom, and a grieving anthropologist procures a new piece for her collection. These stories are beautifully crafted and underpinned with a wit, charm and light touch that provide perfect seasonal reading.