Rising And Other Stories

Author : Gale Massey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1952427185

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Rising and Other Stories by Gale Massey Pdf

In story after story in her diverse new collection, Rising and Other Stories, Gale Massey illustrates the moments that shape and alter destiny. Bringing each to life through interconnected themes of moving water and a sense of loss, Massey shares with us an unvarnished narrative of a world that objectifies women and the strength and resourcefulness required to attempt to overcome those limitations. From the panicked mother in Racine who escapes to the ocean and a young girl's last fishing expedition with a dying father in Glass to the inevitable end in Marked and the gamble in Not so Fast, these stories show how simple twists of fate can change a person forever. Ivy Waters and Long Time Coming both explore the loss of a father in very different ways, and how the identities of the daughters are rooted in those losses. And Elise's life in Rising is told in contrasts as she develops the use of her volition to pull her toward the life she deserves. Massey's protagonists are everyday folk depicted in stories that explore the scars of redemption (Lucky Girl), despair (Differences), daring (The Train Runner) and longing (Swimaway and Freedom's Just Another Word), a visceral sense of fate (Low Tide), and, most of all, each character's desires and will to live. These stories will transform you and deepen your view of the world, as Massey helps us discern societal constructs and their acute burdens, and the many ways that people--particularly women and girls--attempt to rise above them.

Author : Priyansh Singh
Publisher : Bigfoot Publications
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788196275822

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One Shall Rise, One Shall Fall and Other Stories by Priyansh Singh Pdf

This book has 9 short stories. Funny, gripping, some that will make you want to go 'ooh!' This book is just right for kids with wild imaginations. This could become your favourite short-story collection.

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780262366656

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The Truth and Other Stories by Stanislaw Lem Pdf

Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.

Author : Bateman
Publisher : Headline
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755382880

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Orpheus Rising by Bateman Pdf

Michael Ryan was the author of a runaway bestseller, Space Coast , but its publication coincided with his wife's murder. Now he's back to face the ghosts of his past. Michael met Claire when she was living with local hard man Tommy, a Gulf War vet. When Tommy leaves town to be a roadie for a band playing a six week stint on a cruise ship, Michael falls in love with Claire, they marry and he writes his novel. But then Claire is killed in a bank raid. Ten years later Michael returns to the scene of the crime to exorcise the ghosts of the past and try to write his second novel. But he discovers the grim truth behind his wife's murder and encounters the strangest of small-town behaviour...

Author : Joseph Devlin
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456621995

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Pilgrims and Other Stories by Joseph Devlin Pdf

Pilgrims and Other Stories, a book written by Joseph Devlin, is a collection of tales of the New West, and tales of China.

Author : Chŏnghŭi O
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231160667

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River of Fire and Other Stories by Chŏnghŭi O Pdf

These nine stories range from O Chonghui's first published work in 1968 to one of her last publications in 1994. Her early stories are compact, often chilling accounts of family dysfunction, reflecting the decline of traditional, agrarian economics and the rise of urban, industrial living. Later stories are more expansive, weaving eloquent, occasionally wistful reflections on lost love and tradition together with provocative explorations of sexuality and gender.

Author : Ron Rash
Publisher : Picador
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466828063

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Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash Pdf

Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.

Author : Arlo Bates
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752332865

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The Intoxicated Ghost and Other Stories by Arlo Bates Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Intoxicated Ghost and Other Stories by Arlo Bates

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466829039

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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

Author : Rebecca Lee
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186489

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Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Pdf

At turns heartbreaking and wise, tender and wry, Bobcat and Other Stories establishes Rebecca Lee as one of the most powerful and original voices in Canadian literature. A university student on her summer abroad is offered the unusual task of arranging a friend's marriage. Secret infidelities and one guest's dubious bobcat-related injury propel a Manhattan dinner party to its unexpected conclusion. Students at an elite architecture retreat seek the wisdom of their revered mentor but end up learning more about themselves and one another than about their shared craft. In these acutely observed and scaldingly honest stories Lee gives us characters who are complex and flawed, cracking open their fragile beliefs and exposing the paradoxes that lie within their romantic and intellectual pursuits. Whether they're in the countryside of the American Midwest, on a dusty prairie road in Saskatchewan, or among the skyscrapers and voluptuous hills of Hong Kong, the terrain is never as difficult to navigate as their own histories and desires.

Author : Geoffrey Cain
Publisher : Currency
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101907252

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Samsung Rising by Geoffrey Cain Pdf

An explosive exposé of Samsung that “reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption, prostitution, and other bad behavior” (The Wall Street Journal). LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in America knows. Seen for decades in tech circles as a fast follower rather than an innovation leader, Samsung today has grown to become a market leader in the United States and around the globe. They have captured one quarter of the smartphone market and have been pushing the envelope on every front. Forty years ago, Samsung was a rickety Korean agricultural conglomerate that produced sugar, paper, and fertilizer, located in a backward country with a third-world economy. With the rise of the PC revolution, though, Chairman Lee Byung-chul began a bold experiment: to make Samsung a major supplier of computer chips. The multimillion- dollar plan was incredibly risky. But Lee, wowed by a young Steve Jobs, who sat down with the chairman to offer his advice, became obsessed with creating a tech empire. And in Samsung Rising, we follow Samsung behind the scenes as the company fights its way to the top of tech. It is one of Apple’s chief suppliers of technology critical to the iPhone, and its own Galaxy phone outsells the iPhone. Today, Samsung employs over 300,000 people (compared to Apple’s 80,000 and Google’s 48,000). The company’s revenues have grown more than forty times from that of 1987 and make up more than 20 percent of South Korea’s exports. Yet their disastrous recall of the Galaxy Note 7, with numerous reports of phones spontaneously bursting into flames, reveals the dangers of the company’s headlong attempt to overtake Apple at any cost. A sweeping insider account, Samsung Rising shows how a determined and fearless Asian competitor has become a force to be reckoned with.

Author : Nicola Barker
Publisher : 4th Estate, Limited
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015042816945

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Does the Sun Rise Over Dagenham? by Nicola Barker Pdf

Author : John T. Chalcraft
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791461432

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The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories by John T. Chalcraft Pdf

Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Leonid Andreyev
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714549019

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Abyss and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev Pdf

Haunting, disquieting, shocking, `The Abyss' - one of the most powerful short stories ever written - is accompanied in this volume by fifteen other stories. Together, they provide a clear account of the lasting legacy of Russia's foremost man of letters of the early twentieth century. As the young Zinaida and her sweetheart, the student Nemovetsky, stroll through the idyllic Russian countryside, their memories, dreams and thoughts about life and the future mingle in the evening breeze. But when night falls, they hasten to retrace their steps back to town through a small wood, where they are accosted by three threatening drunkards, who knock Nemovetsky unconscious and start to chase the girl through the underwood. When the young student comes round, he is confronted with the horror of what has just happened. Haunting, disquieting, shocking, `The Abyss' - one of the most powerful short stories ever written - is accompanied in this volume by fifteen other stories, never translated into English before by Andreyev, including `Silence', `The Thief' and `Lazarus, some of them never translated before into English. Together, they provide a clear account of the lasting legacy of Russia's foremost man of letters of the early twentieth century.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781387152360

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Dutch Courage and Other Stories by Jack London Pdf

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian. DUTCH COURAGE (excerpt) ""Just our luck!"" Gus Lafee finished wiping his hands and sullenly threw the towel upon the rocks. His attitude was one of deep dejection. The light seemed gone out of the day and the glory from the golden sun. Even the keen mountain air was devoid of relish, and the early morning no longer yielded its customary zest. ""Just our luck!"" Gus repeated, this time avowedly for the edification of another young fellow who was busily engaged in sousing his head in the water of the lake. ""What are you grumbling about, anyway?"" Hazard Van Dorn lifted a soap-rimmed face questioningly. His eyes were shut. ""What's our luck?"" ""Look there!"" Gus threw a moody glance skyward. ""Some duffer's got ahead of us. We've been scooped, that's all!""...