The White Elephant

Author : Julie Langsdorf
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062857774

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A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observed debut novel perfect for fans of Tom Perrotta, Meg Wolitzer, and Celeste Ng. The white elephant looms large over the town of Willard Park: a newly-constructed behemoth of a home, it towers over the quaint houses, including Allison and Ted Millers’ tiny hundred year old home. When owner Nick Cox cuts down the Millers’ precious red maple—in an effort to make his unsightly property more appealing to buyers—their once serene town becomes a battleground. While tensions between Ted and Nick escalate, other dysfunctions abound: Allison finds herself compulsively drawn to the man who threatens to upend her quietly organized life. A lawyer with a pot habit and a serious mid-life crisis skirts his responsibilities. And in a quest for popularity, a teenage girl gets caught up in a not-so-harmless prank. Newcomers and longtime residents alike clash in conflicting pursuits of the American Dream, with trees mysteriously uprooted, fingers pointed, and lines drawn. White Elephant is a tangled-web tale of a community on the verge and its all-too-human inhabitants, who long to connect but can’t seem to find the words. It's a story about opposing sides struggling to find a middle ground—a parable for our times.

Author : Trish Harnetiaux
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501199912

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A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party, in a mashup reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Clue. There are only a few rules in a White Elephant gift exchange: 1) Everyone brings a wrapped, unmarked gift. 2) Numbers are drawn to decide who picks first. 3) Gifts don’t need to be pricey—and often they’re downright tacky. But things are a little different in Aspen, Colorado, at the office holiday party for the real estate firm owned by Henry Calhoun and his wife Claudine. Each Christmas sparks a contest among the already competitive staff to see who can buy the most coveted gift: the one that will get stolen the most times, the one that will prove just how many more commissions they earned that year than their colleagues. Designer sunglasses, deluxe spa treatments, front row concert tickets—nothing is off the table. And the staff is even more competitive this year as Zara, the hottest young pop star out of Hollywood, is in town and Claudine is determined to sell her the getaway home of her dreams. Everyone is puzzled when a strange gift shows up in the mix: an antique cowboy statue. At least the sales agents are guessing it’s an antique—otherwise it’d be a terrible present. It’s certainly not very pretty or expensive-looking. In fact, the gift makes sense only to Henry and Claudine. The statue is the weapon Henry used to commit a murder years ago, a murder that helped start his company and a murder that Claudine helped cover up. She swore that no one would ever be able to find the statue or trace it to their crime. So which of their employees did? And why did they place it in the White Elephant? What could possibly be their endgame? Over the course of the evening, Henry and Claudine race to figure out who could have planted the weapon, and just what the night means for the secrets they’ve been harboring. Further adding to the drama is a snowstorm that closes nearby roads—preventing anyone from leaving, as well as keeping law enforcement from the scene. And by the end of this crazy night, the police will most definitely be required…

Author : Georgene Faulkner
Publisher : anboco
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736417083

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The White Elephant and Other Tales From India by Georgene Faulkner Pdf

The White Elephant The Grain of Corn The Timid Little Rabbit Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals The Kingdom of Mouseland The Alligator and the Jackal The Bold Blackbird The Kid and the Tiger The Brahmin and the Tiger The Bear's Bad Bargain The Man Who Rode a Tiger

Author : Sid Fleischman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061964916

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The White Elephant by Sid Fleischman Pdf

How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse? Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy's punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom of a tail, and wash behind its ears, and, above all, keep it from doing any work. Oh, if only Run-Run could make the magnificent white elephant disappear! Clever as a magician, he does—but the curse has tricks of its own for Run-Run.

Author : Chynna T. Laird
Publisher : Eagle Wings Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Sensory integration dysfunction in children
ISBN : 0982624328

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White Elephants by Chynna T. Laird Pdf

Family life in the author's childhood home was not pretty, yet no one seemed to notice, and no one did anything about it. As an adult, she took up the challenge to find out what might have helped her mother fight her battle of self-destruction.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443423274

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Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

A man and his girlfriend wait for a train to Madrid at station in rural Spain, the almost casual nature of their conversation evading the true emotional depth of what’s happening between the two of them. “Hills Like White Elephants” is considered to be among Ernest Hemingway’s best short fiction, showcasing the author’s powerful ability to strip writing down to its bare bones and allow the reader’s imagination to fill in the subtext. One of America’s foremost journalists and authors, Ernest Hemingway as also a master of the short story genre, penning more than fifty short stories during his career, many of which featured one of his most popular prose characters, Nick Adams. The most popular of Hemingway’s short stories include “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Indian Camp,” “The Big Two-Hearted River,” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

Author : Elspeth Campbell Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1556614055

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The Mystery of the White Elephant by Elspeth Campbell Murphy Pdf

Sarah-Jane and her two cousins try to uncover the identity of the mysterious old woman who makes the sock monkeys sold at the local craft store.

Author : Barbara Gowdy
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443400794

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The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy Pdf

If elephants could tell just one story, it would be the story of Mud, a young elephant cow orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. Mud’s life on the African plain is changed forever when she and her adopted family are forced by prolonged drought to linger at one of the few remaining watering holes. The herd is ambushed there by ivory poachers, who kill almost all the cows and their young. The traumatized survivors, including a pregnant Mud, set out in search of the talismanic white bone that can lead them to a paradise free from human savagery.

Author : Pridi Banomyong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015069722877

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The King of the White Elephant by Pridi Banomyong Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : ICON Group International
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Jean R.. Knox,Michael P.. McCarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Missions
ISBN : 0834116421

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Thailand by Jean R.. Knox,Michael P.. McCarty Pdf

Author : Judith Gautier
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9357096515

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The Memoirs of a White Elephant by Judith Gautier Pdf

The Memoirs of a White Elephant, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Author : Les Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786406326

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Elephant Story by Les Harding Pdf

The newspapers called him "Overshadowing Monarch Mastodon," "Behemoth of Holy Writ" and "Prodigious Mountain." He was the main event at the greatest show on earth: Jumbo, at around 6-1/2 tons and almost 12 feet tall, the biggest elephant anyone had ever seen. Jumbo's mere presence in the Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson circus guaranteed an additional $3,000 a day in box office receipts. More of an exhibit than a performer, Jumbo was simply paraded around the three rings. But still the people came, just to marvel at the size of this monster pachyderm. This work traces Jumbo's capture in East Africa, his life in the London Zoo, the controversy over his sale for $10,000 to American showman P.T. Barnum, his journey across the Atlantic, his life as the most famous attraction in Barnum's circus, and his tragic death in a railway accident in Canada in 1885.

Author : Margaret Grubiak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268207186

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White Elephants on Campus by Margaret Grubiak Pdf

Examines churches and chapels built on campuses during the twentieth century to reveal declining role of religion within the mission of the modern American university.

Author : Charles Reade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2QWY

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The White Elephant by Charles Reade Pdf