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Short Story Press Presents Photo Shy

Author : Short Story Press

Publisher : Short Story Press

Page : 30 pages

File Size : 31,63 MB

Release : 2012-12-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 164891327X

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Short Story Press Presents Photo Shy by Sarah Zachary Michael is a professional photographer. He knows exactly how to take the best pictures and is desperate enough to accept any work when the rent comes due, which is slowly creeping up on him. When he’s offered a new job opportunity from a high-end client, the last thing he expects to be confronted with an abuse scandal in the midst of the cast. He meets an extremely attractive model, someone he soon recognizes from his teenage past. To make things even more complicated, on one end of the scandal is the man responsible for the model’s success, and the model herself is on the edge of disaster. Michael must decide whether to take action or not, before it’s too late, to save his job, or his love interest, and all with a single photo as proof. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.



Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy

Author : Short Story Press

Publisher : Short Story Press

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 28,16 MB

Release : 2013-01-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1648913237

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Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy by Mark Laughlin Do you know a super shy guy? Some guy who appears to have it all together, except for one thing – he can’t talk to women? That’s the problem, Jim, the protagonist of “Super Shy Guy” by Mark Laughlin has. He joins a local book club to try and come to meet people and come out of his shell a bit, and gets a serious crush on Nancy, a stunning brunette. What happens next? • Nancy likes Jim, but wants a man who isn’t quite so shy. • Jim confides in his work friend Debbie, a cute girl herself. • Jim tries, but fails, to impress Nancy. • Nancy gives up on Jim and a new guy enters the picture. • Nancy realizes that giving up on Jim was a mistake, but wait – he’s taken now! • Jim seems to be getting over Nancy by dating another girl. • It turns out that the super shy guy may not be so shy after all... The conclusion should satisfy any reader who’s ever thought two people might make a great couple, but can’t put into words just why. This is a story with heart, soul, and - of course -romance. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.



The Social Photo

Author : Nathan Jurgenson

Publisher : Verso Books

Page : 149 pages

File Size : 41,90 MB

Release : 2019-04-30

Category : Photography

ISBN : 1786635461

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"Mr. Jurgenson makes a first sortie toward a new understanding of the photograph, wherein artistry or documentary intent have given way to communication and circulation. Like Susan Sontag’s On Photography, to which it self-consciously responds, The Social Photo is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free." – New York Times A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world. With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens through which many of us seek to communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism. In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding photography in the age of social media and the new kinds of images that have emerged: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.



Priscilla and the Hollyhocks

Author : Anne Broyles

Publisher : Charlesbridge

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 38,11 MB

Release : 2008-02-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1607341050

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A young African American girl is sold away from her mother as a slave, and then later is sold to a Cherokee Indian, but eventually she is bought by a white man who not only sets her free, but adopts her into his family of fifteen children. Based on a true story; includes instructions for making a hollyhock doll.



Moms Don't Have Time To

Author : Zibby Owens

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 14,52 MB

Release : 2021-02-16

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1510765972

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JOIN AWARD-WINNING PODCASTER ZIBBY OWENS OF MOMS DON’T HAVE TIME TO READ BOOKS ON A JOURNEY FILLED WITH FOOD, EXERCISE, SEX, BOOKS, AND MORE. It’s impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast MomsDon’t Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine called We Found Time. Authors who had been on her podcast wrote original, brilliant essays for busy readers. Zibby organized these profound pieces into themes inspired by five things moms don’t have time to do: eat, read, work out, breathe, and have sex. Now compiled as an anthology named Moms Don’t Have Time To, these beautiful, original essays by dozens of bestselling and acclaimed authors speak to the ever-increasing demands on our time, especially during the quarantine, in a unique, literary way. Actress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Bestselling author Rene Denfeld focuses on her relationship with food after growing up homeless. Screenwriter and author Lea Carpenter and Suzanne Falter, author, speaker, and podcast host, focus on loss. New York Times bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian and Gretchen Rubin write about the importance of reading. Others write about working out, love and sex, eating and cooking, and more. Join Zibby on her journey through the winding road of quarantine and perhaps you, too, will find time.



Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Author : Richard Yates

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 32,24 MB

Release : 2014-07-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466853689

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Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction. First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true—and just beginning to ring a little hollow. In Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, you'll discover some of the most influential and sharply observed short fiction of the 20th century, and find out why Richard Yates was a true American master.



Twice Shy

Author : Sarah Hogle

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 12,74 MB

Release : 2021-04-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 059308554X

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Can you find real love when you've always got your head in the clouds? Maybell Parish has always been a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. But living in her own world has long been preferable to dealing with the disappointments of real life. So when Maybell inherits a charming house in the Smokies from her Great-Aunt Violet, she seizes the opportunity to make a fresh start. Yet when she arrives, it seems her troubles have only just begun. Not only is the house falling apart around her, but she isn't the only inheritor: she has to share everything with Wesley Koehler, the groundskeeper who's as grouchy as he is gorgeous--and it turns out he has a very different vision for the property's future. Convincing the taciturn Wesley to stop avoiding her and compromise is a task more formidable than the other dying wishes Great-Aunt Violet left behind. But when Maybell uncovers something unexpectedly sweet beneath Wesley's scowls, and as the two slowly begin to let their guard down, they might learn that sometimes the smallest steps outside one's comfort zone can lead to the greatest rewards.





The People, Press, and Politics of Croatia

Author : Stjepan Malovic

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 11,53 MB

Release : 2001-05-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0313002592

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Malovic and Selnow examine the evolution of the press-government relationship in Croatia from the Tito era to the present. Their story is one of three interacting players: the Croatian government which until recently has sat firmly in control, the compliant press which seemed little motivated to change, and the largely quiescent public which demanded little from its press or its government. A provocative, often first-hand account that will be of interest to scholars and researchers involved with Balkan current affairs, journalism, and politics.



Shy Mama's Halloween

Author : Anne Broyles

Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 41,77 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Immigrants

ISBN : 9780884482185

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When their father gets sick and cannot take them out trick or treating on their first Halloween in their new country, Anya and her sisters and brother are surprised when their shy mother agrees to accompany them.