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Author: Christine Perkins-Hazuka
Publisher: Karen and Michael Braziller Bo
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780892553716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a collection of short stories about significant moments which marked a turning point in the lives of young protagonists by such authors as Anne Mazer, Alan Stewart Carl, Dave Eggers, and Peter Bacho.
Author: Michael Engelhard
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781602230934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred." The selections in Cold Flashes—very short prose and black-and-white photographs—embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highly polished micro-narratives, both fiction and nonfiction, and a series of eloquent and artistic halftones that capture their sizeable subjects in a nutshell. By minimizing the exposition, the selections stimulate the imagination to reflect on the rich diversity of people and places that make up Alaska. To be savored piecemeal at coffee shops, on the bus, or while waiting in line, the images and text in Cold Flashes will resonate with both the reader and each other, fusing into something profound yet elusive.
Author: James Thomas
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1992-07-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0393308839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" ―DeWitt Henry, editor of Ploughshares
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 0385379382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Animals abound in Dr. Seuss’s Caldecott Honor–winning picture book If I Ran the Zoo. Gerald McGrew imagines the myriad of animals he’d have in his very own zoo, and the adventures he’ll have to go on in order to gather them all. Featuring everything from a lion with ten feet to a Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill, this is a classic Seussian crowd-pleaser. In fact, one of Gerald’s creatures has even become a part of the language: the Nerd!
Author: Ann Angel
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1683355970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Forty years after her death, Janis Joplin remains among the most compelling and influential figures in rock-and-roll history. Her story—told here with depth and sensitivity by author Ann Angel—is one of a girl who struggled against rules and limitations, yet worked diligently to improve as a singer. It’s the story of an outrageous rebel who wanted to be loved, and of a wild woman who wrote long, loving letters to her mom. And finally, it’s the story of one of the most iconic female musicians in American history, who died at twenty-seven. Janis Joplin includes more than sixty photographs, and an assortment of anecdotes from Janis’s friends and band mates. This thoroughly researched and well-illustrated biography is a must-have for all young artists, music lovers, and pop-culture enthusiasts.
Author: Tom Hazuka
Publisher: Blue Light Press
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781595408822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →82 humorous short stories, curated and collected by Tom Hazuka, esteemed editor of flash fiction.
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1453234128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the New York Times–bestselling author of Moonglow: “When you read these stories, it may strike you how seldom you come across really beautiful writing” (USA Today). Cherished by readers and critics alike for such extraordinary novels as The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon is at the height of his considerable powers in this striking and bittersweet collection of short stories. An anxious young misfit does nothing to protect his best friend from the scorn of their teachers and classmates. A kleptomaniac real estate agent leads an unhappy couple on a disastrous house tour. A heartbroken grifter finds his ex-girlfriend’s grandmother to be an easy mark—and an unexpected source of redemption. Throughout these stories, Chabon’s characters, suffused with yearning but crippled by broken love, often find themselves at a crossroads—and faced with sudden insight. Michael Chabon is “Updike without the condescension,” wrote James Hynes in the Washington Post Book World, “Cheever without the self-pity, a young American Nabokov who writes with a rueful joie de vivre.” In this darkly funny, achingly delicate collection, he renders the compromises of adulthood and the vivid fantasies of childhood with clarity and warmth. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Author: Phil LaMarche
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2011-09-28
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0307369811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American Youth is a controlled, essential, and powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a fatal firearms accident in his home. This tragedy earns him the unwelcome admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school and a girl associated with them. Set in a town riven by social and ideological tensions – an old rural culture in conflict with newcomers – this is a classic portrait of a young man struggling with the idea of identity and responsibility in an America ill at ease with itself.
Author: Jaren Ahlmann
Publisher: The Collective Book Studio
Published: 2022-06-01
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 1951412877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There’s a magical sound when a tooth wiggles free. . . . But what happens next? In the black, velvet night, a bright spot appears. It zips through the sky and swoops to your home. And there, in a burst of shimmering fairy dust, a magical story unfolds. Prepare to be whisked away as the Tooth Fairy shares the secrets of her mystical midnight flight. With luscious, atmospheric illustrations from award winning artist Matt Gaser, and classic rhyming text, Flight of the Tooth Fairy takes readers on an adventurous quest like none they will have read before.
Author: Dan Wells
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0765385635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dan Well's Extreme Makeover is a satirical new suspense about a health and beauty company that accidentally develops a hand lotion that can overwrite your DNA. Lyle Fontanelle is the chief scientist for NewYew, a health and beauty company experimenting with a new, anti-aging hand lotion. As more and more anomalies crop up in testing, Lyle realizes that the lotion's formula has somehow gone horribly wrong. It is actively overwriting the DNA of anyone who uses it, turning them into physical clones of someone else. Lyle wants to destroy the formula, but NewYew thinks it might be the greatest beauty product ever designed--and the world's governments think it's the greatest weapon. New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells brings us a gripping corporate satire about a health and beauty company that could destroy the world in Extreme Makeover.
