As My Sparks Fly Upward & Other stories
As My Sparks Fly Upward & Other stories

Author: Matthew St. Amand

Publisher: Waywords & Meansigns Press

Published: 2023-06-13

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1738231259

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Among the citizens of these stories you will find: The best man, secretly against his best buddy’s marriage, finds himself having to actually talk the panicking groom into going through with the ceremony. After Larry Dun’s name appears in the obituary section of the local newspaper, he goes to a bar to contemplate life as a ghost, and decide what second chances are about. Legendary rock ’n’ roller, Wolf Kearney, takes the stage and faces a tumultuous audience—a mirror reflection of his thirty years in the business—a crowd lost in the past?—finding himself more confined within the spotlight, than exalted by it. As a young man drives home one night following band practice, his car is nearly struck by something falling from a bridge overhead: an ordinary soda can-filled with ominous, though potentially profitable contents. Adam—living in Dublin, Ireland—one night sees a statue of Jesus Christ standing upon a pedestal inside a Plexiglas box. And attempts to rescue him. A rock ’n’ roll fan makes a pilgrimage to Bono’s estate in Killiney, County Dublin, where he reflects on art, fandom and hero worship.

As the Sparks Fly Upward
As the Sparks Fly Upward

Author: Gilbert Morris

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1439182744

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The trilogy The Winslow Breed serves as a prequel to the author’s highly successful House of Winslow series. As the Sparks Fly Upward is the final book in the trilogy. Young Colin Winslow grows up feeling altogether different from the rest of his family. Not bold and rough like his charismatic brother, Adam, or headstrong and spoiled like his sister, Adara, he is a gentle soul with a special love for natural things. His interest in animals, medicine, and healing brings him in contact with a strange woman who lives in the woods, Meg Caradoc. She teaches him the fine art of using a variety of herbs to quell sickness and pain. When Colin studies at Oxford, an eccentric but brilliant professor, Dr. Phineas Teague, guides the young man to a career in medicine. The formal knowledge Professor Teague imparts, combined with knowledge of Meg's herbal remedies, make Colin an insightful and successful doctor—one with the approving eye of Queen Elizabeth on him. Colin’s skill quickly earns him many patients, some highly placed in the courts of both his queen and her sister Mary Queen of Scots. This once shy and uncertain young man finds himself in the midst of court intrigue and a key player in quelling assassination plots and passing vital information to the queen’s court. When Colin faces his most difficult case—curing the wounds his brave brother suffered in battle—he must confront his attraction to Adam’s wife, his unsteady faith in God, and his command of medicine: will he abandon his noble role and succumb to temptation, or will he take his place as the new hero of the Breed of Winslow?

The Sparks Fly Upward
The Sparks Fly Upward

Author: Diana Norman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-09-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1440628696

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Few of those Philippa loves in London return her affection. Not the love of her life, who has a new bride. Not even her widowed mother, Makepeace Burke. So Philippa decides on a marriage of convenience to a prudish, if kind, man. Across the Channel in France, the Reign of Terror is causing the beheading of thousands from the French nobility. Among those in danger is Philippa's friend, the Marquis de Condorcet. Not only has Philippa the means of rescuing him from the guillotine, she's got the courage. And as fate would have it, Philippa will find love where she least expects it-while staring death in the face.

As the Sparks Fly Upward (Classic Reprint)
As the Sparks Fly Upward (Classic Reprint)

Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-20

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780483501706

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Excerpt from As the Sparks Fly Upward Also I know I shall be faulted for the sum mary disposition of one of the characters in the book. But what else could I do with her? Alas, the mental crimes f orced upon an elderly author of the vocation priestly by the stern necessities of the case! But I have warrant for my action. Shakespeare had to dispose of Mercutio in the middle of the play because he was too prone to occupy the centre of the stage to the exclusion of Romeo, to whom the place rightfully belonged. Sweet Will, I thank thee for that example! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Heart of Darkness and Other Stories
Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

Author: Joseph Conrad

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781853262401

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Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, 'Heart of Darkness' is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations.