When Mystical Creatures Attack
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When Mystical Creatures Attack
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Author : Kathleen Founds
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2014-10
When Mystical Creatures Attack written by Kathleen Founds and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10 with Fiction categories.
Collects humorous, whimsical, and strange stories that combine unusual subject matter with emotional expression and exhibit a broad diversity of form.
Omnifray Rpg Expert Manual
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Author : Matt West
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Omnifray Rpg Expert Manual written by Matt West and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with Games categories.
The Enshrouded Lands ' an earth-like world where magic bubbles away beneath the surface, beyond the ken of the common folk ' may take so many forms that they really are a thousand worlds in one. This is the second rulebook for the Omnifray RPG. It continues on from the Basic Handbook, delving deeper into the mysterious fabric of the Enshrouded Lands, with detailed information on possible backgrounds for player characters and masses of material on an array of secretive cults. It presents the standard advanced rules for fantasy Omnifray in full. The complete Omnifray system awaits you. This book gives your PCs greater access to feats of physical energy and concentration as well as full access to feats of elder magic, unholy magic, holy magic, mystical power and destiny, downtime feats such as divination and herbalism and feats of combined physical energy and concentration. You must be familiar with the Basic Handbook to use this book. Omnifray is intended for a mature audience.
Every Mother Has A Story Volume Two
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Author : Frances Lefkowitz
language : en
Publisher: Shebooks
Release Date : 2014-09-14
Every Mother Has A Story Volume Two written by Frances Lefkowitz and has been published by Shebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Every mother—and every daughter—has a story, and four of the best appear in the second volume of this Shebooks/Good Housekeeping collaboration. Heartwrenching and heartwarming, these top picks trace the twisting contradictions in the relationships between four very different sets of mothers and daughters. In Yo-yo Mama, Laura Hurwitz describes the summer her mom introduced her to dieting, and the unintended consequences her new body sparked. In Happy Mommy Pills, Kathleen Founds tells what happens when the worst doesn’t happen to her young, pregnant self. Deborah Batterman’s Diamonds and Manicures considers the crossroads between femininity and feminism, and realizes that pampering herself does not mean giving up her principles. And, in The $25,000 Pyramid, Mashaw McGuinnis takes us on a rollicking ride in her almost-unbelievable tale of sneaking out of the house to audition for a TV game show—and transforming bitterness into a date with Betty White. True lives, deep emotions, compelling stories we all can relate to.
The Woods
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Author : Janice Obuchowski
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2022-11-10
The Woods written by Janice Obuchowski and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-10 with Fiction categories.
The Woods explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areas—a place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land begins to shift into something untamed. In the tradition of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, these stories follow people who carry private griefs but search for contentment. As they try to make sense of their worlds, grappling with problems—worried about their careers, their marriages, their children, their ambitions—they also sift through the happiness they have, and often find deep solace in the landscape. What do we find in the woods? An uplifting of spirit or a quieting of sorrow. A sense of being haunted by the past. Sometimes rougher, more violent things: abandoned quarries and feral cats, black bears, brothers caught up in an escalating war, a ghost who wishes to pass on her despair, monsters who boom with hollow ecstatic laughter. But also songbirds: the hermit thrush and the winter wren. Rushing rivers glossy with froth. A nineteenth-century inn that’s somehow gotten by all these years. And far within, a vegetal twilight and constant dusk that feels outside of time. This remarkable debut illuminates the ways we all carry within ourselves aspects stark, beautiful, wild, and unknowable.
My Name Was Never Frankenstein
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Author : Bryan Furuness
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
My Name Was Never Frankenstein written by Bryan Furuness and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Tarzan. Odysseus. Zorro. Your favorite characters come back to life in new and exciting escapades in this must-have anthology. In this inventive collection, a stellar cast of writers uses classic adventure tales as a launch pad for an eclectic mix of prequels, alternate universes, spin-offs, and total reboots. Imagine Ahab is shipwrecked on an island of cannibals, or Mr. Hyde tells his side of the story, or the scarecrow from Oz struggles with the mystery of his existence. By turns wry and haunting, My Name Was Never Frankenstein upends old territory and classic characters to reclaim them for a new generation. “Editor Bryan Furuness explains that while this playful collection of 14 short stories by 14 different writers all have similar jumping off points, ‘they jump in different directions.’ The result is, as Furuness says, ‘wild and grand and strange.’” —Bloom Magazine
Deer Michigan
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Author : Jack C. Buck
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-09-07
Deer Michigan written by Jack C. Buck and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-07 with Fiction categories.
"Something quite wonderful happens when you allow yourself to drift through life without a plan of direction," writes Jack Buck in his poignant debut story collection. The writing in 'Deer Michigan' takes this philosophy to heart, embracing the flux of fate in over fifty ethereal narratives. In one story we meet an exiled Mao on a hiking trail, in another the narrator mourns the graceful disappearance of birds. Buck's stories ripple with nostalgia, a reverence for the natural world and an America with room in which to wander. Though the stories in 'Deer Michigan' are short-in one case spun out in a single sentence-they bottle up an expanse of human experience, offering us a stunning universe of feeling. Allegra Hyde, author of 'Of This New World'
November Storm
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Author : Robert Oldshue
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2016-10
November Storm written by Robert Oldshue and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10 with Fiction categories.
"In each of the stories in Robert Oldshue's debut collection, the characters want to be decent but find that hard to define. In the first story, an elderly couple is told that delivery of their Thanksgiving dinner has been canceled due to an impending blizzard. Unwilling to have guests but nothing to serve them, they make a run to the grocery, hoping to get there and back before the snow, but crash their car into the last of their neighbors. In "The Receiving Line," a male prostitute tricks a closeted suburban schoolteacher only to learn that the trick is on him. "The Field Of Machpelah" features a twenty-something, premed dropout who is guarding a cemetery when a man asks to see his wife's prepaid plot before the hospital disconnects her life support. In "Home Depot," a family uses their foul-mouthed love to survive the birth of a malformed child. A psychiatrist confronts his fear of the past to help a patient in the present in "Mass Mental." In "The Woman On The Road," a twelve-year-old girl negotiates the competing demands of her faith and her family as she is bat mitzvahed in the feminist ferment of the 1980s. The lessons she learns are the lessons learned by a ten-year-old boy in "Fergus B. Fergus," after which, in "Summer Friend," two women and one man renegotiate their sixty-year intimacy when sadly, but inevitably, one of them gets ill. "The Home Of The Holy Assumption" offers a benediction. A quadriplegic goes missing at a nursing home. Was she assumed? In the process of finding out, all are reminded that caring for others, however imperfectly--even laughably--is the only shot at assumption we have. In upstate New York, a November storm is one that comes early in the season. If it catches people off-guard, it can change them in the ways Oldshue's characters are changed by different but equally surprising storms"--
You Never Get It Back
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Author : Cara Blue Adams
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2021-12-15
You Never Get It Back written by Cara Blue Adams and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Fiction categories.
The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.
Stories No One Hopes Are About Them
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Author : A. J. Bermudez
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2022-11-14
Stories No One Hopes Are About Them written by A. J. Bermudez and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-14 with Fiction categories.
At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who are ni de aquí, ni de allá—neither from here nor there—straddle competing worlds, disrupt paradigms, and transition from objects of other people’s stories to active subjects and protagonists of their own. Narratives of humanity and environment entwine with nuanced themes of colonization, queerness, and evolution at the forefront. Big things happen in this collection. But it’s also a collection of small intimacies: misremembered names, chipped teeth, and private rituals; unexpected alliances and barely touched knees beneath uniform skirts; minutiae of the natural world; incidents that quietly, achingly, and delightfully transgress the familiar.
Not A Thing To Comfort You
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Author : Emily Wortman-Wunder
language : en
Publisher: Iowa Short Fiction Award
Release Date : 2019
Not A Thing To Comfort You written by Emily Wortman-Wunder and has been published by Iowa Short Fiction Award this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Fiction categories.
From a lightning death on an isolated peak to the intrigues of a small town orchestra, the glimmering stories in this debut collection explore how nature--damaged, fierce, and unpredictable--worms its way into our lives. These tales of scientists, nurses, and firefighters catalog the loneliness within families, betrayals between friends, and the recurring song of regret and grief.