Lucky And Other Stories

Author : Melanie Florence
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781772601053

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Just Lucky by Melanie Florence Pdf

Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things…like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t. Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you’ve ever known has been taken from you?

Author : Tanya Huff
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625671158

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Third Time Lucky by Tanya Huff Pdf

There's a lot of responsibility involved with being the most powerful wizard in the world, and Magdelene wants nothing to do with any of it. Lazy, lusty, and more likely to be found lying in the sun than casting runes or sacrificing unfortunate goats, she'd really rather avoid dealing with challenges, errant apprentices, demons, dragons, death, and bureaucracy. These seven stories include Third Time Lucky, Tanya Huff's first professional sale to George Scithers at Amazing Stories. Thirty years, thirty novels, eighty-three short stories, and one television show later, this is where it all began.

Author : Susan Patron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416990598

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Lucky for Good by Susan Patron Pdf

The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the cafe, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.

Author : Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : OXFORD:590688961

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Lucky Ducks and Other Stories by Mrs. Molesworth Pdf

Author : Mary Arden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : OXFORD:502118839

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Luck, and Other Stories by Mary Arden Pdf

Author : René Goscinny,Vicq,Dom Domi,De Groot
Publisher : Cinebook
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781800449022

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Lucky Luke - Volume 81 - The Hanged Man’s Rope and Other Stories by René Goscinny,Vicq,Dom Domi,De Groot Pdf

The Old West was full of itchy trigger fingers, but also had its share of hemp necktie enthusiasts. Lucky Luke is not a fan of such summary justice, and when he interrupts an improvised hanging with no less than three ropes for a single man, he runs afoul of an unpleasant individual with a knack for manipulating bored and drunk crowds ... Seven short stories by Goscinny and his friends and illustrated by Morris himself – pure Lucky Luke concentrate!

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385539821

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Lucky Alan by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine stories that demonstrate his mastery of the short form. Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in “Pending Vegan”; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in “Traveler Home”; a political prisoner in a hole in a Brooklyn street in “Procedure in Plain Air”; and a crumbling, haunted “blog” on a seaside cliff in “The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear.” Each of these locates itself in Lethem-land, which can be discovered only by visiting. As in his celebrated novels, Lethem finds the uncanny lurking in the mundane, the irrational self-defeat seeping through our upstanding pursuits, and the tragic undertow of the absurd world(s) in which we live. Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes: the anxiety of influence taken to reductio ad absurdum in “The King of Sentences”; a hapless, horny outsider summoning bravado in “The Porn Critic”; characters from forgotten comics stranded on a desert island in “Their Back Pages.” As always in Lethem, humor and poignancy work in harmony, humans strive desperately for connection, words find themselves misaligned to deeds, and the sentences are glorious.

Author : Joey Bui
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774795

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Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui Pdf

A debut collection of stories announcing an intelligent, vibrant and highly original Australian-Vietnamese voice in contemporary literature.

Author : Mary Arden
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0836941675

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Luck, and Other Stories by Mary Arden Pdf

Author : Milton Friedman,Rose D. Friedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226264157

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Two Lucky People by Milton Friedman,Rose D. Friedman Pdf

This "rich autobiographical and historical panorama" ("Wall Street Journal") provides a memorable and lively account of the lives of the Friedmans: their involvement with world leaders and many of this century's most important public policy issues. 26 photos.

Author : Jenn Bennett
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534425187

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Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett Pdf

In this coming-of-age romance perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen, scandal and romance collide when an ambitious teen returns to her hometown only to have her plans interrupted after falling for the town’s “bad boy”—a.k.a. her childhood best friend. Sometimes to find the good, you have to embrace the bad. Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it’s not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there. What she doesn’t plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel…and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the newly returned Josie. But everything changes after a disastrous pool party, and a poorly executed act of revenge lands Josie in some big-time trouble—with Lucky unexpectedly taking the blame. Determined to understand why Lucky was so quick to cover for her, Josie discovers that both of them have changed, and that the good boy she once knew now has a dark sense of humor and a smile that makes her heart race. And maybe, just maybe, he’s not quite the brooding bad boy everyone thinks he is…

Author : Jamel Brinkley
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979959

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A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.

Author : Marissa Stapley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982157500

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Lucky by Marissa Stapley Pdf

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A thrilling roller-coaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers’ hearts. What if you had the winning ticket that would change your life forever, but you couldn’t cash it in? Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She’s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity—when things go sideways. Lucky finds herself alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, the two figures from whom she’s learned the art of the scam. When she discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, her elation is tempered by one big problem: cashing in the winning ticket means she’ll be arrested for her crimes. She’ll go to prison, with no chance to redeem her fortune. As Lucky tries to avoid capture and make a future for herself, she must confront her past by reconciling with her father; finding her mother, who abandoned her when she was just a baby; and coming to terms with the man she thought she loved—whose dark past is catching up with her, too. This is a novel about truth, personal redemption, and the complexity of being good. It introduces a singularly gifted, multilayered character who must learn what it means to be independent and honest...before her luck runs out.

Author : Terence Park
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291868050

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Lucky and other stories by Terence Park Pdf

What if you're not like anybody else? What if you can't be? What does it mean to be human? The odds are stacked against the lost and alone. Lucky is alien. Yep she really is an alien, and this edition collects the first four episodes in her tale. Long, long ago, there was war in the heart of the galaxy. The core stars were ripped apart by the fury of that conflict. Lucky is a survivor from it. Her ship charts a careful course, ploughing its lonely furrow between the stars, always away from what she once knew. She'd stop running but it's now all she knows. Eventually she comes upon a back-water of the Milky Way, known locally as Orion's Belt. Also in this collection, four short stories: After School - civilisation is collapsing, even in the UK. Writing Day - a tale of the last library on Earth. Flower to Tree - all SF nightmares have a beginning. Joe and the Xenophids - humanity are next up on the extinction list. Some explicit content. http: //tparchie.wordpress.com/luck

Author : Wakako Yamauchi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824860943

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Rosebud and Other Stories by Wakako Yamauchi Pdf

In your heart there will always be a small ache reminding you that a place waits for your return. The dancers pause. The singers call. The fireflies await. Secret desires, unfulfilled longing, and irrepressible humor flow through the stories of Wakako Yamauchi, writings that depict the lives of Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans. Through the medium of Yamauchi’s storytelling, readers enter the world of desert farmers, factory workers, gamblers, housewives, con artists, and dreamers. Elegantly simple in words and complex in resonance, her stories reveal hidden strength, resilience, and the persistence of hope.