Truth Tales

Author : Kali for Women (Organization)
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155861012X

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Truth Tales by Kali for Women (Organization) Pdf

   The rich popular tradition of India's women writers is finally available in this collection of short stories translated from seven of the country's languages. The writers and their heroines reflect the complex mosaic of Indian life-they are old and young, rural and urban, rich and poor. Here we meet Muniyakka, called "walkie-talkie" because she mutters to herself; Shakun, the dollmaker, an exploited artist who needs to feel that others depend on her; and Jashoda, professional mother to children of the rich, from Mahasveta Devi's acknowledged masterpiece "The Wet Nurse." These stories "are dense with thsoe customs, manners, and objects that usually remain locked within regional languages," wrote Anita Desai in the New York Review ofBooks . Meena Alexander's thoughtful introduction places the stories and the writers in the context of modern India.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780887846960

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The Truth about Stories by Thomas King Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Annemarie Goldstein Jutel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781487522261

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Diagnosis by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Pdf

The announcement of a serious diagnosis is a solemn moment when directions shift, priorities change, and life appears in sharper focus. It is also a moment when a story takes shape. It is a story we are able to imagine, even if we haven't experienced it firsthand, because the moment of diagnosis is as pervasive in popular media as it is in medicine. Diagnosis: Truths and Tales shares stories told from the perspectives of those who receive diagnoses and those who deliver them. Confronting how we address illness in our personal lives and in popular culture, this compelling book explores narratives of diagnosis while pondering the impact they have on how we experience health and disease.

Author : Fiona Somerset,Nicholas Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814252087

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Truth and Tales by Fiona Somerset,Nicholas Watson Pdf

Imaginatively reconstructs Medieval cultural and communications networks from their extant artifacts.

Author : Alison Mitchell
Publisher : Tales that Tell the Truth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Bible stories
ISBN : 1910307114

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The Christmas Promise by Alison Mitchell Pdf

A captivating retelling of the Christmas story showing how God kept His promise to send a new King. Superb illustrations by Catalina Echeverri and faithful, Bible-centered story-telling by Alison Mitchell combine to make this a book that both parents and children will love. A long, long time ago - so long that it's hard to imagine - God promised a new King. He wasn't any ordinary king, like the ones we see on TV or in books. He would be different. He would be a new King; a rescuing King; a forever King This book helps pre-school children discover exactly how God kept His Christmas Promise.

Author : Sam Quinones
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826322964

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True Tales from Another Mexico by Sam Quinones Pdf

Merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in the search for an authentic modern Mexico, finding it in part with emigrants.

Author : Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780375812569

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The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong Pdf

American history comes alive in these 100 true stories that define our country. This magnificent treasury tells the story of America through 100 true tales. Some are tales of triumph—the midnight ride of Paul Revere, the Wright brothers taking to the air, Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. Some are tales of tragedy—the fate of the Donner Party, the great fire in Chicago, the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. There are stories of inventors and athletes and abolitionists and artists. Stories about struggling for freedom—again and again, in so many ways. With full-color illustrations on nearly every page and short, exciting stories, this book is perfect for browsing by the entire family. Notes at the end of each story direct readers to related stories. And a guide to thematic story arcs offers readers (and teachers) an easy way to follow their particular interests throughout the book. A treasure trove of a book that belongs in every home! “This lively and engaging collection of stories recounting American history is a wonderful gift not only to the children of this country but also their parents. I can’t wait to share it with my grandchildren.” —Tom Brokaw

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : C. H. Augur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433082248430

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Half-true Tales by C. H. Augur Pdf

Author : Sir Samuel White Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Children
ISBN : UCAL:$B248197

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True Tales for My Grandsons by Sir Samuel White Baker Pdf

Author : Colleen Adair Fliedner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493063246

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Fascinating True Tales from Old California by Colleen Adair Fliedner Pdf

For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy. In Fascinating True Tales from Old California, author Colleen Adair Fliedner mines the history of the Golden State to collect more than fifty tales of famous Californians and their escapades from 1542 through 1940. For many, like James Lick, Leland Stanford, and John Downey, California was a place to strike it rich. Others sought freedom and a new beginning, including Chinese immigrants and African Americans, like philanthropist and freed slave, Biddy Mason. And still some characters just wanted to live their lives outside of society’s rules, like swindler James Reavis or the cross-dressing stagecoach driver, Charley Parkhurst. Readers will be entertained and enlightened as they take a trip through California’s colorful past.

Author : Allan Zullo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545312127

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10 True Tales: World War II Heroes by Allan Zullo Pdf

Ten true stories of real-life heroes from World War II! Pfc. Jack Lucas -- just a teenager -- is on patrol on Iwo Jima when two grenades land at his feet. Can he save his comrades' lives? Lt. Col. James Rudder and his Rangers are climbing a 100-foot-high cliff on a secret D-Day mission. Can they survive the Nazis' devastating firepower? Sgt. Forrest Vosler is blinded and wounded from an attack by German fighter planes on his crippled bomber. Can he make it home?The world was saved by these and many more real-life heroes. You will never forget their incredible true stories.

Author : James Macaulay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : UCAL:$B559821

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True Tales of Travel and Adventure, Valour and Virtue by James Macaulay Pdf

Author : Mc Shapiro
Publisher : Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626012202

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Norman Reedus: True Tales of The Walking Dead’s Zombie Hunter by Mc Shapiro Pdf

Where does reality stop and fantasy begin? In the case of The Walking Dead superstar Norman Reedus, the question is still very much up in the air. His Daryl Dixon is a very flawed, psychologically scarred character in a zombie-infested world. And there is much in his portrayal that is informed by a real life that is equally flawed and equally scarred. In Norman Reedus: An Unauthorized Biography: True Tales of the Walking Dead’s Zombie Hunter, the first detailed look at Norman Reedus’ life and times, you will get it all. The good, the bad and the ugly. This book chronicles his days as a defiant young man in a fractured but ultimately liberating family life, allegations of physical abuse from Reedus himself, to his struggles in the Los Angeles art underground, alcohol problems that saw him in AA and, for a time, homeless, his breakthrough in acting, modeling and the slow, steady and never boring journey through love, fatherhood and his often truly odd professional choices. You’ll discover why Reedus said thanks but no thanks to an offer to play opposite a reigning superstar, how he became Daryl Dixon and how The Walking Dead changed his life. Oh yes, there is that penchant for roadkill. New York Times Bestselling author Marc Shapiro has dug deep, tracking down people who knew him way back when as well as in the here and now for original interviews. They were willing to talk and they revealed stories about Reedus that even the most fanatic fans won’t know. The author’s research was relentless, digging into deep, dark and obscure corners. Norman Reedus’ world is about real life wrapped around a world of fantasy. Norman Reedus: The Unauthorized Biography: True Tales of the Walking Dead’s Zombie Hunter pulls no punches, tells only the truth and leaves the rest up to the reader. Which ultimately is the way Norman Reedus would want it.

Author : John Hafnor
Publisher : John Hafnor
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0964817500

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Black Hills Believables: Strange-But-True Tales of the Old West by John Hafnor Pdf

The original weird history book of the Black Hills, this tourist favorite contains over fifty zany but true tales of the Old West.