Calamity and Other Stories
Calamity and Other Stories

Author: Daphne Kalotay

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0307425142

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Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay’s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.

The First Book of Calamity Leek
The First Book of Calamity Leek

Author: Paula Lichtarowicz

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-02-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1448134951

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Brilliantly inventive and original. This debut novel tells the story of Calamity Leek: a girl who has never been allowed beyond the garden wall, until now. Lying in her hospital bed, broken, burned and scared, Calamity still believes that Aunty loved her. For as long as she can remember, Calamity, along with her sixteen sisters, lived in a Garden behind the Wall of Safekeeping. Like it said in Aunty's Appendix on the first page of the Ps: 'Everything has a purpose', and they were being trained for a very special one. In the Ns the Appendix said, 'Nosiness leads to nonsense'. As Calamity sees it, this is what led to their Garden's downfall, because when the sisters started questioning what was outside the Wall, they started questioning what was happening inside it too. But doubt is contagious. Watching your world crumble is frightening. And people who are frightened can be dangerous.

Love and Pollywogs from Camp Calamity
Love and Pollywogs from Camp Calamity

Author: Mary Hershey

Publisher: Random House LLC

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0385737440

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Horrified when her bossy older sister becomes her summer camp counselor, Effie struggles to overcome her problems with swimming in hopes of being named Outstanding Camper of the Week.

The Calamity Café
The Calamity Café

Author: Gayle Leeson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1101990791

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First in a new cozy mystery series featuring Southern cooking that is to die for. Aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers is ready to open her own café offering old-fashioned Southern food. But her dream may go up in smoke when someone kills the competition... Tired of waiting tables at Lou’s Joint, Amy Flowers doesn’t just quit—she offers to buy the place from her bully of a boss, so she can finally open the café of her dreams. Amy can't wait to serve the kind of Southern, down-home treats and dishes that her grandmother always loved to the kooky cast of regulars at the restaurant. She knows her comfort food will be the talk of the sweet, small town of Winter Garden, Virginia. At first Lou Lou refuses to sell, but when she seems ready to make a deal, she tells Amy to come see her. Showing up at the eatery ready to negotiate, Amy is shocked to find her former employer murdered. As the prime suspect, Amy will have to clear her name by serving up the real killer—and with Lou Lou’s stack of enemies, that’s a tall order. Includes delicious Southern recipes!

A Girl Named Calamity
A Girl Named Calamity

Author: Danielle Lori

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781535422680

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I was a simple farm girl living in the magical land, Alyria, where men ruled and women only existed. Call me sheltered. Call me naive. I was probably both. I never expected to be the key to Alyria's destruction. The journey I was on wasn't only one to save me. But one where I had a lot of learning to do. With men. With magic. And with myself. But I wasn't alone. I had an escort. One I wasn't so sure about. But one I couldn't afford to lose and one I wasn't so sure I could even leave. I had many hopes. But the most important one was that my name wouldn't become my fate.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Author: Marisha Pessl

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-08-03

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 1101218800

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The mesmerizing bestseller that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock—A New York Times Ten Best Book of the Year Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit. At the center of the novel is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway School, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel—with visual aids drawn by the author—that has won over readers of all ages.

Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane

Author: James D. McLaird

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780806135915

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A meticulously researched account about how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine is presented in this biography of Martha Canary, the woman known as Calamity Jane.

Death and Oil
Death and Oil

Author: Bradford Matsen

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0307378810

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Documents the events of the 1988 oil rig disaster on the North Sea, drawing on interviews with survivors and family members, the Occidental Petroleum Corp., and rescue workers to trace the gas leak that triggered the explosion and the devastation it continues to inflict.

Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman
Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman

Author: Alicia Z. Klepeis

Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 150262205X

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The Wild West was home to many men and women looking for adventure and a new life. Back then, in a place of danger and intrigue, there were several characters that made their mark on the frontier. One woman was Calamity Jane. Born Martha Jane Cannary, Calamity Jane would become one of America’s best-known sharpshooters and horse riders. Her life is told in here in easy-to-read language and vivid illustrations sure to engage young readers.

Aether Spark
Aether Spark

Author: Nicholas Petrarch

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-14

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9781732064225

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When alchemists from the dregs of a luckless city unlock the mysteries of the Aether, their world becomes a bit more volatile as a mechanist seeks to steal their secret for himself. It's a fight to be recognized, but at what cost?Full of discovery, desperation, and disaster, Aether Spark shows just how destructive man's ambitions can be.