Little Sinners And Other Stories
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Little Sinners And Other Stories
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Author : Karen Brown
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Little Sinners And Other Stories written by Karen Brown and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown’s Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit—and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters’ own: an expectant mother in an isolated cottage on Long Island Sound uncovers an unsettling secret in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by a teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious circumstances; a woman and her lover swim the pools of their neighborhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles with mortality and the abandonments in her past. These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise—a world where women’s roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the characters fashion, recklessly and passionately, their own methods of escape.
Saints And Sinners
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Author : Edna O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-05-09
Saints And Sinners written by Edna O'Brien and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-09 with Fiction categories.
With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity. In Send My Roots Rain, Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of "The Shovel Kings" have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland-exiles in both places. "Green Georgette" is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; "Old Wounds" illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O'Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives.
Sinners And The Sea
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Author : Rebecca Kanner
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-04-02
Sinners And The Sea written by Rebecca Kanner and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Fiction categories.
While the fate of the world rested on Noah's shoulders, the survival of the human race rested on hers.
Extinction Events
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Author : Liz Breazeale
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-09-01
Extinction Events written by Liz Breazeale and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-01 with Fiction categories.
In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who struggle to define themselves amid their own personal cataclysms and those igniting the world around them. They are a mother watching the islands of the world disappear one by one, a new bride using alien abduction to get closer to her estranged parent, a daughter searching for her mother among the lost cities of the world, a sister trying and failing to protect her mythical continent-obsessed brother. Here extinction events come in all sizes and shapes: as volcanic eruptions and devastating plagues and meteor impacts, as estrangements and betrayals and losses. Dark, angry, and apocalyptic, Extinction Events is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.
Now We Will Be Happy
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Author : Amina Gautier
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Now We Will Be Happy written by Amina Gautier and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles. Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.
Little Tora The Swedish Schoolmistress And Other Stories
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Author : Mrs. Woods Baker
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-07-30
Little Tora The Swedish Schoolmistress And Other Stories written by Mrs. Woods Baker and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-30 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: Little Tora: The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Mrs. Woods Baker
Better Times
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Author : Sara Batkie
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-09-01
Better Times written by Sara Batkie and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for "troubled women" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times. Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here--with characters stymied by loneliness, motherhood, illness, even cataclysmic climate change--interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women.
Sinner
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Author : Sierra Simone
language : en
Publisher: Sierra Simone
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Sinner written by Sierra Simone and has been published by Sierra Simone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Fiction categories.
An Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance of 2018! I'm not a good man, and I've never pretended to be. I don't believe in goodness or God or any happy ending that isn't paid for in advance. In fact, I've got my own personal holy trinity: in the name of money, sex, and Macallan 18, amen. So when the gorgeous, brilliant Zenny Iverson asks me to teach her about sex, I want to say yes, I really do. Unfortunately, there are several reasons to say no--reasons that even a very bad man like myself can't ignore. 1. She's my best friend's little sister. 2. She's too young for me. Like way too young. 3. She's a nun. Or about to be anyway. But I want her. I want her even with my best friend and God in the way, I want to teach her and touch her and love her, and I know that makes me something much worse than a very bad man. It makes me a sinner. And it's those very sins that are about to save me... ***Sinner is a standalone companion to Priest about Father Bell's brother Sean. You do not have to read Priest or Midnight Mass to read Sinner***
Stories Of Your Life And Others
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Author : Ted Chiang
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-06-19
Stories Of Your Life And Others written by Ted Chiang and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-19 with Fiction categories.
‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ – Guardian With Stories of Your Life and Others, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. The science fiction novella 'Story of Your Life' is the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang’s rigorously imagined fantasias invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it. ‘United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang’s calm passion.’ – China Miéville
With A Silken Thread And Other Stories
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Author : Elizabeth Lynn Linton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
With A Silken Thread And Other Stories written by Elizabeth Lynn Linton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with English fiction categories.