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Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1250070155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRick Scroogeman hates Christmas and he hates being called Scrooge, but everything starts to change when three ghosts visit him, and he realizes this nightmare might be real.
Author: Jacob Wells
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2022-02-04
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wild night with Santa along with some other diabolical Christmas legends explores the real meaning of the holiday.
Author: Al Ridenour
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 162731041X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Krampus, a folkloric devil associated with St. Nicholas in Alpine Austria and Germany, has been embraced by the American counterculture and is lately skewing mainstream. The new Christmas he seems to embody is ironically closer to an ancient understanding of the holiday as a perilous, haunted season. In the Krampus' world, witches rule Christmas, and saints can sometimes kill.
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2009-05-06
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0547416261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Whitbread Prize–winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that “transports us to something like the future of our own planet” (The Washington Post Book World). On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and habitable, like our own was sixty-five million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they’re assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike’s flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past—“Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was.” What will happen when their story combines with the world’s story? Will they—and we—ever find a safe landing place? Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny, The Stone Gods will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love, and about stories themselves. “Scary, beautiful, witty and wistful by turns, dipping into the known past as it explores potential futures.” —The New York Times Book Review “[A book] that you don’t so much read as drink in, refuse to put down, cast inside of like a hunting dog, seeking against all odds the insight that will illuminate everything, a true answer to the fix we’re in.” —Los Angeles Times “A vivid, cautionary tale—or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling author of Changing Planes
Author: David G. McCullough
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781606418314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the Christmas following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the White House.
Author: Jean Shepherd
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 0307768732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-10-28
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 0385392761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
Author: John Masefield
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis autographed edition ... is limited to two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered 66.
Author: C. D. Watson
Publisher: Bone Diggers Press
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1943465339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour dark tales of the holiday spirit. "Christmas Eve Gift" by C.D. Watson. Old Bill sets out on her annual Christmas Eve journey to her niece's house, and discovers an unexpected darkness along the way. "A Dark Christmas" by V.R. Cumming. (A World of the Vampyr short story.) Alice, a dark daughter of the vampire Elizabet, turns the table on a family of hunters, with unexpected consequences. "On the 7th Day of Christmas" by Celia Roman. (A Sunshine Walkingstick short story.) Sunny finally gets to throw a party with her friend David Eckstrom, only a monster shows up and twists a small kink into her New Year's Eve festivities. "Twelfth Night" by Lucy Varna. (A Daughters of the People short story.) A thirteen-year-old Lukas Alexiou encounters the Woman with No Face for the first time, and must decide between seizing his destiny, or allowing his father to control him forever.
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1250038847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor years, fans have been clamoring for an all-in-one collection of #1 bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon's novellas. At their enthusiastic behest, we have delivered this brand-new short story collection, Dark Bites, including stories previously exclusive to Sherrilyn's website, as well as an all-new, never-before seen Dark-Hunter story! Sherrilyn Kenyon takes readers from the Dark-Hunters to the demigods, from Dream-Hunters to demons, and everything in between. Dangerous and exciting, each story is one thrill ride after the next, proving time and again how Sherrilyn has captivated millions of readers worldwide Now, readers are invited to go deep into Kenyon's rich and imaginative world and experience the heart-racing moments that never stop coming! CONTENTS House of the Rising Sun Phantom Lover Winter Born A Dark-Hunter Christmas Until Death We Do Part A Hard Day's Night Searcher Shadow of the Moon Fear the Darkness Where Angels Fear to Tread Love Bytes Santa Wears Spurs Redemption: A Bonus Scene from The Guardian
