One Last Dance
One Last Dance

Author: Emma Jane Holmes

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1489251030

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A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, written with all the panache, honesty and sensitivity of Rosie Waterland's The Anti-Cool Girl and Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner. Emma Jane Holmes had her dream job, working in the funeral industry, caring for those who could no longer care for themselves. But when the bills mounted after her marriage breakdown, she turned to her other dream - dancing on stage as a showgirl - and her glittering alter ego Madison was born. Emma Jane kept Madison a secret. Madison kept Emma Jane an even bigger one. But what happens when death touches the neon world of the strip club? And sex - in the form of a cute co-worker - encroaches on the funeral home? Could the answer be life, lived in the day, because that's the only day you have? Emma Jane Holmes' debut will take you into the mortuary, cemetery and crematorium - and behind the scenes in night clubs - and answer all the questions you never wanted to ask ... PRAISE 'A beautiful insight into two industries we're all curious about, full of warmth and wit' - Carly Findlay OAM, author of Say Hello 'Meet Australia's most outrageous mortician ... her stories are deadly' - news.com.au 'Emma Jane Holmes shines a beautiful light on love, death and connection' - Samantha X, author of Hooked 'We're all going to die sometime ... Emma Jane Holmes brings so much light to the subject' - Andy Dowling, Andy Social podcast

The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories

Author: B. M. Bower

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 147334624X

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This is a collection of short stories by American author B. M. Bower. Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan (1871 - 1940), more commonly known as B. M. Bower, was an American author famous for her novels, short stories, and screenplays set in the American Old West. Other notable works by this author include: "Casey Ryan", (1921), "The Long Loop" (1931), and "Chip of the Flying U" (1906). Contents include: "A History of Western Fiction", "B. M. Bower", "The Lonesome Trail", "First Aid to Cupid", "When the Cook Fell Ill", "The Lamb", "The Spirit of the Range", "The Reveler", and "The Unheavenly Twins". This volume is highly recommended for all lovers of Western literature and constitutes a must-have for fans of Bower's wonderful work. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction and biography of the author.

Elizabeth and the Old Fool, and Other Stories
Elizabeth and the Old Fool, and Other Stories

Author: Naomi P. Bastow

Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780533159710

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Stringing together pieces about food and everyday life in America, travel and food writer Naomi P. Bastow has created a new collection of short stories, articles, and essays filled with humor, insight, and truth that is sure to bring much enjoyment to readers.

Vathek and Other Stories
Vathek and Other Stories

Author: Malcolm Jack

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-04-26

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 0141960140

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Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose.

Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories

Author: Russell Charles Leong

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0295802723

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Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans. In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization — and the search for love and liberation — are persistent themes. Leong’s people are set apart, by sexuality, by war, by AIDS, by family dislocations. From this vantage point on the outskirts of conventional life, they often see clearly the accommodations we make with identity and with desire. A young teen-ager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers’ education, saves her hair trimmings to burn once a year in a temple ritual, the one part of her body that is under her own control. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS.

Let'S Go Home And Other Stories
Let'S Go Home And Other Stories

Author: Meenakshi Mukherjee

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9788125000044

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Here is the first eye-witness story of the Kashmir Operations permitted by the Government of India to be published in book form. On 22 October 1947, in a flash and without warning, war burst upon Kashmir. Indian troops were rushed to defend the state, after the request of the Ruler to accede to the Indian Union was accepted by the Government of India. The Story of Poonch , which is the central theme of the book, gives a vivid picture of the conditions under which the whole campaign was fought. This book, which is a reprint, is fully illustrated with maps and excellent photographs.

The Race and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross
The Race and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross

Author: Sinclair Ross

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0776617230

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Heralded as a prairie writer and best known for As For Me and My House and for his stories of the bleak dust bowl Prairies of the Great Depression, Sinclair Ross has also written of urban life and, briefly, of army life, as the stories in this collection demonstrate. The Race and Other Stories includes previously uncollected short stories and a chapter from Whir of Gold, here title "The Race," which stands on its own as a short story. Furthermore, "Spike," published in French in Liberté in 1969, appears here for the first time in English. Ross's taut, economical, rhythmic prose reflects the bleak, spare landscape of the prairie. The concerns of his novels are equally evident in his stories: loneliness and alienation, the sense of entrapment, the imaginative and artistic struggle. This collection of stories will be of interest to those who wish to better understand one of Canada's most respected writers and the diversity that can be found in his writings.