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Author: Pat Donlon
Publisher: Irish American Book Company
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780862781354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection includes folktales & modern adventure stories from Jonathan Swift, Frank O'Connor, & Sean O'Faolain.
Author: Val Brandt
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-11-08
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis refreshing novel by playwright/librettist/copywriter Val Brandt is an unpredictable mix of humour, misinformation and suspense. It begins in the winter of 1949 as the Kohler family deals with younger daughter Posy's 'bad patch' brought on by their move to a fixer-upper hotel in Flatte Butte, Saskatchewan, a town Posy insists is full of stealers, toy breakers and bad boys. Her luck begins to pick up as free access to the movie hall turns into a six-shows-a-week habit. When the hotel sells, the family heads for the bright lights of Edmonton, Alberta, and Posy gets her hands on a booklet promising international fame in Six Easy Steps. She proceeds to unwittingly upend every life she bustles into on her single-minded quest for Hollywood stardom. A Bag of Lucky Teeth is facetious, disarming and sneak-up-on-you exciting, while giving an exuberant account of post-World War II prairie life. To dignify the book with a premise you might say 'Naïve self-confidence leads to blind luck'.
Author: George Reichart
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781567922783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRusty, an old prospector, and Lo Fat and Lee, a Chinese father and son living in the small mining town of Rhyolite, Nevada, become friends and share the excitement of finding gold in the Amargosa Desert.
Author: Robert McLellan
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 184767545X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduced by J.K. Annand. Best known as the playwright of Jamie the Saxt and Jeddart Justice, Robert McLellan has been called the finest writer of Scots prose in our time. His ‘Linmill’ stories were broadcast by the BBC, one of which, ‘The Donegals’ was made into a film. But for the most part McLellan’s prose work has appeared in magazines or anthologies without being fully collected in book form. Their popularity has endured and now all twenty-four of his tales are available in one volume. Based on the author’s youthful memories of his grandparents’ fruit farm near Lanark, these finely observed stories give us a priceless insight into a generation now lost to us, and a timeless evocation of the world seen through the eyes of a young boy. There is honesty, compassion, harshness and humour in these stories, and McLellan’s quiet voice adds a unique wit and an unsentimental authenticity to the telling. ‘This must rank [among] the finest prose-poetry of Scottish childhood that we have.’ Douglas Gifford ‘It is possible to find light and depth in each of these stories, yet their common engine is neither plot nor character, but McLellan’s use of language. It is hard not to agree with J.K. Annand’s final assessment that Robert McLellan is “the greatest writer of Scots prose in the twentieth century”.’ Books in Scotland
Author: Abigail Strong
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-07-21
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 1445715813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story book for children aged about4-8 yrs old. Interesting and instructive.
Author: Alice Sebold
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1529014646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an introduction by the author of Circe and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller In Lucky Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten inside a tunnel near her campus. In this same tunnel, a girl had been raped and dismembered. By comparison, Alice was told by police, she was lucky. Though Alice’s friends and family try their best to offer understanding and support, in the end it is Alice’s formidable spirit which resonates most in these pages. In a narrative both painful and inspiring, Alice Sebold shines a light on the true experience of violent trauma. Sebold’s redemption turns out to be as hard-won as it is real.
