Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Pan
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0330263153
The Songs of Summer
Robert Silverberg
The Songs Of Summer And Other Stories
The Songs Of Summer And Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Songs Of Summer And Other Stories book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Heart Songs and Other Stories
Annie Proulx
Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416588900
Heart Songs and Other Stories by Annie Proulx Pdf
Before she wrote the bestselling Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small town life. The country is blue collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.
Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah
Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429927840
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah Pdf
From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.
It's Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories
Erin Flanagan
Author : Erin Flanagan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803246294
It's Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories by Erin Flanagan Pdf
“It’s not going to kill you,” a mother tells her protesting child. And maybe it won’t, but that doesn’t mean anyone is getting off scot-free. A no-man's-land between exoneration and repercussion, this is the place where the people in Erin Flanagan’s stories live: in events as big as 9/11 and as small as an infatuation with a dog groomer, as meaningful as the birth of a baby and as senseless as a car crash, as unique as a 1980s air band living out dreams for a city in decline and as common as an afterschool job that sucks. These stories accept that we all make mistakes, but it’s what we do in the aftermath that defines us. Sharp-witted and tenderhearted, these are stories in which readers will find people they recognize but never really knew until now.
The Naked Song and Other Stories
Mandla Langa
Author : Mandla Langa
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0864863136
The Naked Song and Other Stories by Mandla Langa Pdf
Frog Music
Emma Donoghue
Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447249757
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue Pdf
Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything – and leaving one of them dead. A New York Times bestseller, Frog Music is a dark and compelling story of intrigue and murder.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1575 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795349737
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke by Arthur C. Clarke Pdf
Six decades of fascinating stories from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey gathered in one compendium (The New Yorker). Arthur C. Clarke, along with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein, was a definitive voice in twentieth century science fiction. A prophetic thinker, undersea explorer, and “one of the true geniuses of our time,” Clarke not only won the highest science fiction honors, the Nebula and Hugo Awards, but also received nominations for an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize, and was knighted for his services to literature (Ray Bradbury). Now, more than one hundred works of the sci-fi master’s short fiction are available in the “single-author collection of the decade” (Booklist, starred review). This definitive edition includes early work such as “Rescue Party” and “The Lion of Comarre,” classics like “The Nine Billion Names of God” and “The Sentinel” (which was the kernel of the later novel and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), and later works including “A Meeting with Medusa” and “The Hammer of God.” Encapsulating one of the great science fiction careers of all time, this immense volume “displays the author’s fertile imagination and irrepressible enthusiasm for both good storytelling and impeccable science” (Library Journal). “One of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print.” —The New York Times “As his Collected Stories helps to demonstrate, there has been no popular writer since the days of C S Lewis and Charles Williams whose disposition is more nakedly apocalyptic, who takes greater pleasure in cradling eternity in the palm of his hand.” —The Guardian
A summer in the life of two little children, by the author of 'The lilies of the valley and other stories'.
Summer
Author : Summer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600061684
A summer in the life of two little children, by the author of 'The lilies of the valley and other stories'. by Summer Pdf
Music for Wartime
Rebecca Makkai
Author : Rebecca Makkai
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698195523
Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai Pdf
Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The L Magazine Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers will be available in summer 2018. Rebecca Makkai’s first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, even as her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father’s past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. When the prized elephant of a traveling circus keels over dead, the small-town minister tasked with burying its remains comes to question his own faith. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction. These transporting, deeply moving stories—some inspired by her own family history—amply demonstrate Makkai’s extraordinary range as a storyteller, and confirm her as a master of the short story form. “Richly imagined.” —Chicago Tribune “Impressive.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Engrossing.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Inventive.” —W Magazine
Songs in Ursa Major
Emma Brodie
Author : Emma Brodie
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593318621
Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie Pdf
"A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, alive with music, sex, and fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk, for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six"--
Subtle Variations and Other Stories
Miriam Karmel
Author : Miriam Karmel
Publisher : Holy Cow! Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780998601014
Subtle Variations and Other Stories by Miriam Karmel Pdf
A dazzling, lively, and masterful collection of short stories that is the recipient of the inaugural Holy Cow! Press "First Fiction" prize. Nearly every story has been previously published; three have won the Tamarack Award, the Waasnode Short Fiction Prize, and the Moment/Karma short fiction prize. With humor and insightfulness, the topics range from motherhood, Jewish American culture, marriage/divorce/old age.
When God Laughs & Other Stories (當上帝發笑時與其他短篇小說選)
Jack London
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
When God Laughs & Other Stories (當上帝發笑時與其他短篇小說選) by Jack London Pdf
This collection includes "The Apostate," "Just Meat," "A Piece of Steak," and "Chinago."
The Queen ́s Twin and Other Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett
Author : Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732697588
The Queen ́s Twin and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett Pdf
Reproduction of the original: The Queen ́s Twin and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Whole Story and Other Stories
Ali Smith
Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141912929
The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith Pdf
A brilliant collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to . . . How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence? In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar.
Songs for the End of the World
Saleema Nawaz
Author : Saleema Nawaz
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771072598
Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz Pdf
An enthralling, hopeful novel about the power of human connection in a time of crisis, as the bonds of love, family, and duty are tested. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. How quickly he'd forgotten a fundamental truth: the closer you got to the heart of a calamity, the more resilience there was to be found. This is the story of a handful of people living through an unfolding catastrophe. Elliot is a first responder in New York, a man running from past failures and struggling to do the right thing. Emma is a pregnant singer preparing to headline a benefit concert for victims of a growing outbreak—all while questioning what kind of world her child is coming into. Owen is the author of a bestselling novel with eerie similarities to the real-life crisis, and as fact and fiction begin to blur, he must decide whether his lifelong instinct for self-preservation has been worth the cost. As we discover these characters' ties to one another—and to the mystery of the so-called ARAMIS Girl—what emerges is an extraordinary web of connection and community that reveals none of us is ever truly alone. Brilliantly told by an unforgettable chorus of voices, this glittering novel is a moving and hopeful meditation on what we owe to ourselves and to each other. It reminds us that disaster can bring out the best in people—and that coming together may be what saves us in the end.
