Strange Lands Short Stories

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Flame Tree Collections
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1839642378

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Strange Lands Short Stories by Anonim Pdf

• Marketing focus on combination of gift production and high content values, delivering a curated read to genre enthusiasts. • Spotlight on submission process for the new stories, promoted online through blogs and social media • Monthly newsletter to increase mailing list of genre special interest readers. • Major interest pushed through Instagram, with Youtube reviewers and influences. Strange lands in fiction stretch from deep below the earth, to the outer reaches of space. This incredible new collection combines the talents of a new generation of writers with classic and ancient storytellers: from H.G. Wells to Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe to Jules Verne. Find here too the Land of the Lotus Eaters from Homer’s Odyssey and the mad horrors of H.P. Lovecraft, the utopian fantasies of Samuel Butler and, from Hans Christian Andersen an early fantasy about visiting the moon. ‘Strange Lands’ is fabulous collection of enduring and brand new tales. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Rhoads Brazos, Ed Burkley, Ramsey Campbell, Victoria Dalpe, Philip Ellis, Marissa Harwood, R. Leigh Hennig, Gordon Linzner, Christian Macklam, S.R. Masters, P.L. McMillan, Hannah Onoguwe, Alex Penland, Kelly Sandoval, Sam Stark, and M. Elizabeth Ticknor. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Author : Sarah Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590591015

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Stories of strange lands; and fragments from the notes of a traveller by Sarah Lee Pdf

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444710236

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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

The original uncut edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Hugo Award winner Robert A Heinlein - one of the most beloved, celebrated science-fiction novels of all time. Epic, ambitious and entertaining, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND caused controversy and uproar when it was first published and is still topical and challenging today. Twenty-five years ago, the first manned mission to Mars was lost, and all hands presumed dead. But someone survived... Born on the doomed spaceship and raised by the Martians who saved his life, Valentine Michael Smith has never seen a human being until the day a second expedition to Mars discovers him. Upon his return to Earth, a young nurse named Jill Boardman sneaks into Smith's hospital room and shares a glass of water with him, a simple act for her but a sacred ritual on Mars. Now, connected by an incredible bond, Smith, Jill and a writer named Jubal must fight to protect a right we all take for granted: the right to love.

Author : Sonia Nimir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623710804

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Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimir Pdf

WINNER OF THE PRESIGIOUS ETISALAT AWARD AN ADVENTURE-FILLED HISTORICAL-FOLKLORIC NOVEL ABOUT A PALESTINIAN GIRL WHO DEVELOPS GREAT HEALING SKILLS AND TRAVELS AROUND THE REGION, SOMETIMES DRESSED AS A MAN Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist-fable-plus-historical-novel that tells an episodic travel narrative, like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman. The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero—Qamr—is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Qamr’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. Qamr’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamr takes her favorite book, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, and flees through Gaza, to Egypt, where she is captured, enslaved, and sold to the sister of the mad king in Egypt. After escaping, she flees to study with a polymath in Morocco. But when it’s discovered she’s a girl, she must leave again, disguising herself as a boy pirate to sail the Mediterranean. Through all her fast-paced battles, mysteries, and adventures, Qamr never finds a home, but she does manage to create a family.

Author : Jon Michaud
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616200558

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When Tito Loved Clara by Jon Michaud Pdf

Clara Lugo grew up in a home that would have rattled the most grounded of children. Through brains and determination, she has long since slipped the bonds of her confining Dominican neighborhood in the northern reaches of Manhattan. Now she tries to live a settled professional life with her American husband and son in the suburbs of New Jersey—often thwarted by her constellation of relatives who don’t understand her gringa ways. Her mostly happy life is disrupted, however, when Tito, a former boyfriend from fifteen years earlier, reappears. Something has impeded his passage into adulthood. His mother calls him an Unfinished Man. He still carries a torch for Clara; and she harbors a secret from their past. Their reacquaintance sets in motion an unraveling of both of their lives and reveals what the cost of assimilation—or the absence of it—has meant for each of them. This immensely entertaining novel—filled with wit and compassion—marks the debut of a fine writer.

Author : Mrs. R. Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213330538

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Stories of Strange Lands by Mrs. R. Lee Pdf

Author : Morgan Jerkins
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780063212442

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Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins Pdf

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year “One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book Riot Featuring a new afterword from the author, Morgan Jerkins' powerful story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America. Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. But while this event transformed the complexion of America and provided black people with new economic opportunities, it also disconnected them from their roots, their land, and their sense of identity, argues Morgan Jerkins. In this fascinating and deeply personal exploration, she recreates her ancestors’ journeys across America, following the migratory routes they took from Georgia and South Carolina to Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California. Following in their footsteps, Jerkins seeks to understand not only her own past, but the lineage of an entire group of people who have been displaced, disenfranchised, and disrespected throughout our history. Through interviews, photos, and hundreds of pages of transcription, Jerkins braids the loose threads of her family’s oral histories, which she was able to trace back 300 years, with the insights and recollections of black people she met along the way—the tissue of black myths, customs, and blood that connect the bones of American history. Incisive and illuminating, Wandering in Strange Lands is a timely and enthralling look at America’s past and present, one family’s legacy, and a young black woman’s life, filtered through her sharp and curious eyes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839643101

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African Myths & Tales by Anonim Pdf

Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong custom of storytelling and which often share similar elements, characters and ideas between peoples. So this collection offers a hefty selection of legends and tales – stories of the gods, creation and origins, trickster exploits, animal fables and stories which entertain and edify – from ‘Obatala Creates Mankind’, from the Yoruba people of west Africa, to ‘The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars’, from the San people of southern Africa, all collected in a gorgeous gold-foiled and embossed hardback to treasure.

Author : John F. Suter
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486818603

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Old Land, Dark Land, Strange Land by John F. Suter Pdf

Set amid the natural beauty of West Virginia, these tales of crime and its detection feature a modern-day investigative team as well as Uncle Abner, Melville D. Post's righteous 19th-century sleuth.

Author : Sarah Bowdich afterwards Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024581317

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Stories of Strange Lands. And Fragments from the Notes of a Traveller by Sarah Bowdich afterwards Lee Pdf

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618245403

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Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

You Would Have Peace Then Prepare for War! Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man. and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings. But Farnham's small group had barely settled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they found that they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapulted Farnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways than one. In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody's slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape. where could he run to... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Andrzej Cirocki,Peña Calvo Alicia
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783734789465

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In a Strange Land by Andrzej Cirocki,Peña Calvo Alicia Pdf

IN A STRANGE LAND is a collection of four original short stories which provide teachers with motivating and engaging classroom material at the CEFR B2 to C1 level. This gripping young adult fiction encourages readers to use their imagination and interact with the texts. The stories are supported by creative tasks in which students can integrate all their language skills, use computer technology, practise learning strategies and exercise autonomy.

Author : Mrs. R. Lee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0332176487

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Stories of Strange Lands by Mrs. R. Lee Pdf

Excerpt from Stories of Strange Lands: And Fragments From the Notes of a Traveller IN the year 1825, Mr. Ackermann, the proprietor of the Forget Me Not, and the person who originated the annual publications in England, applied to me to furnish him with a story for his forthcoming volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Lanie Olson
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1078192251

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The Wonderland Murders by Lanie Olson Pdf

Things are different when you're a burden.I was dumped at Carroll's Home for Troubled Youth by parents I can't quite remember-or maybe I came here on my own. No ... I was found guilty of a crime and that's why I'm here. It all depends on who you ask or choose to believe, I guess.I spend my days with my best friend who's done way more heinous things than I have.He wants me to remember-to tell him stories about being a stranger in a strange land, but I don't want to talk about it because when you talk about things, that's how they become real again. Because it was real, no matter what Dr. Carpenter or any of the orderlies say, and Ever is the only one that believes me. He wants me to go back, but I can't. There's a bounty on my head.I stole something from the Queen and she'll stop at nothing to get it back.Nothing.

Author : David Park
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408892763

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Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park Pdf

'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle 'Wrings the heart' Bernard MacLaverty 'A mighty book' Frank McGuinness 'Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and powerlessness as could be written' Lisa McInerney AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings. But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted by memory and clouded in regret. Travelling in a Strange Land is a work of exquisite loss and transformative grace. It is a novel about fathers and sons, grief, memory, family and love; about the gulfs that lie between us and those we love, and the wrong turns that we take on our way to find them.