The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (February 2022)
The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (February 2022)

Author: Julie Ann Dawson

Publisher: Bards and Sages Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13:

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Each issue of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents… is a celebration of long-form fiction. These novelettes and novellas will entertain and surprise fans of the form. In this issue: Theodore Singer, Christian Riley, Christine Grant, Franco Aversa, Nicole Tanquary, Jay Lowrey, J. S. Dewey. Stories in this issue include: The successor to King Arthur becomes embroiled in a terrible war with the sons of Mordred in King Constantine. A soldier restored to life after being turned to wood receives help from a young woman unlocking her own magical powers, but their efforts attract the attention of the sorcerer that cursed the soldier in The Soldier, the Girl, and the Demon Bones. When a white family moves into a predominated black neighborhood, they find themselves confronting ghosts of the past…and actual ghosts…in The Haunting of Halls Hill.

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (February 2022)
The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (February 2022)

Author: Theodore Singer

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2022-01-28

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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Each issue of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... is a celebration of long-form fiction. These novelettes and novellas will entertain and surprise fans of the form. In this issue: Theodore Singer, Christian Riley, Christine Grant, Franco Aversa, Nicole Tanquary, Jay Lowrey, J. S. Dewey. Stories in this issue include: The successor to King Arthur becomes embroiled in a terrible war with the sons of Mordred in King Constantine. A soldier restored to life after being turned to wood receives help from a young woman unlocking her own magical powers, but their efforts attract the attention of the sorcerer that cursed the soldier in The Soldier, the Girl, and the Demon Bones. When a white family moves into a predominated black neighborhood, they find themselves confronting ghosts of the past...and actual ghosts...in The Haunting of Halls Hill.

The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Kaiju Preservation Society

Author: John Scalzi

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0765389134

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The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm, human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble. It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society who have found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Being Twice Exceptional
Being Twice Exceptional

Author: Melanie Hayes

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2022-02-21

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1787759636

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Twice exceptionality (2e) is not well understood. While many parents, educators, and professionals are working to bridge the knowledge gap and help 2e children, there is still a great deal we do not know about how life turns out for those children once they grow up. How do 2e adults deal with the complex aspects of being an adult? What are your prospects if you are brilliant, but can't get into college? What if you fail at work because you don't know how to fit in socially? This book provides first-hand stories about the experiences of 2e adults, offering compassionate coping strategies for overcoming and rethinking the tough parts. It champions radical acceptance of 2e people and celebrates their unique outlook on the world.

The Society of Misfit Stories
The Society of Misfit Stories

Author: Julie Ann Dawson

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9781733082211

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The Society of Misfit Stories is a home for those wonderful stories that are too long for most magazines but too short for print as stand-alone books. Whether you call them short stories, novelettes, or novellas, these stories are all of a length that often struggles to find publication traditionally. Volume Three represents all of the stories that were published in 2018. The Society of Misfit Stories originally began as ebook-only bi-weekly releases that were compiled into an annual publication for print. In 2019, the program transitioned to a literary journal published three times a year. This book represents the final volume of the original project. The stories in this collect range from the silly to the terrifying, from the whimsical to the philosophical, from traditional high fantasy to experimental magical realism. The one common denominator is that they are all written in the novelette/novella format. At five-hundred print pages, The Society of Misfit Stories features an amazing collection of new and established authors creating in the speculative genres. Bards and Sages Publishing is proud to have provided a home for such wonderful works.

American Nerd
American Nerd

Author: Benjamin Nugent

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0743288017

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An engaging study of the nerd in American popular culture and throughout history discussed in such contexts as the rise of online gaming, the science fiction club, ethnicity, Asperger's syndrome, autism, and high school and college debating.

Sula
Sula

Author: Toni Morrison

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2002-04-05

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0375415351

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From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.

Tin
Tin

Author: Pádraig Kenny

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 133827757X

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In this gripping, imaginative, and hilarious adventure -- comprised of an unforgettable crew of misfits -- a boy and his mechanical friends discover the truth about his past. "Robots never seemed so human. One of a kind and utterly fantastic." -- Eoin ColferIn an alternative England of the 1930s where the laws of mechanics govern even the most talented engineers, a mismatched group of mechanicals want nothing more than to feel human. Under the guardianship of the devious and unlicensed Gregory Absalom, an engineer who creates mechanical children, they have no choice but to help him in his unlawful practice. But through his unethical work, Absalom winds up creating a loyal and lively group of friends who will go to the ends of the Earth for one another. When the story's protagonist, Christopher, discovers a devastating secret about himself and the friends are torn apart, it's up to his friends to find him. What they'll discover is the secret about the dark experiment that ended in disaster many years before... Tin is an adventure story about friendship, courage, and loyalty, and what it means to be human.

Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair
Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair

Author: June Gervais

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0593298810

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“I adored this novel. It’s a story about being an awkward, misfit girl with big dreams in a man’s world. It made me laugh out loud, and it made me really, really want a tattoo.” —Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project An uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own terms Introvert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her conventional Long Island town. But this is 1985, when tattooing is still a gritty, male-dominated fringe culture, and Gina’s whimsical style is far from the norm. Luck is on her side: Gina’s older brother Dominic owns a tattoo shop, and he reluctantly grants her one year to prove herself. Gina devotes herself to perfecting her craft, but her world is turned upside down when a mysterious psychic and his striking assistant, Anna, arrive on the scene. Anna’s friendship opens Gina’s eyes to thrilling possibilities: finally stepping out of her brother’s shadow and embracing her own quirky self, both in her art and beyond. The tattoo shop is rocked by a crisis just as Gina finds herself falling in love with Anna. When Dominic gives Gina an ultimatum, she’s faced with an impossible choice: Is this newfound independence and a shot at romance worth sacrificing her dreams? Or can she find a way to have it all?

The House of Closed Doors
The House of Closed Doors

Author: Jane Steen

Publisher: Aspidistra Press

Published: 2012-10-08

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0985715014

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Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced. Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth" Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted. Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out. Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby she may have no safe place to run to.