Midnight Call and Other Stories
Author | : Jonathan Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A collection of short fiction stories in which Jonathan Thomas explores the weird, horrific, and supernatural.
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Author | : Jonathan Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A collection of short fiction stories in which Jonathan Thomas explores the weird, horrific, and supernatural.
Author | : Jode Millman |
Publisher | : Immortal Works |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781732467491 |
Who would ever suspect that their mentor, teacher, and friend is a cold-blooded killer? Attorney Jessie Martin didn't--at least not until she answers the midnight call. Late one August night, Jessie's lifelong mentor and friend--and presently a popular, charismatic, and handsome high school teacher--Terrence Butterfield calls. He utters a startling admission: he's killed someone. He pleads for Jessie's help, so out of loyalty she rushes to his aid completely unaware that she's risking her relationship, her career, and her life--and that of her unborn child--to help Terrence. Does Jessie's presence at Terrence's home implicate her in the gruesome murder of the teenage boy found in the basement? Why does Terrence betray Jessie when he has a chance to exonerate her of any charges? Has he been a monster in disguise for all these years? To reclaim her life and prove her innocence, Jessie must untangle the web of lies and reveal the shocking truths behind the homicide. This quest turns out to be the fight of her life: to preserve everything and everyone she holds dear.
Author | : Susan Howatch |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780751533125 |
From half way around the world, American Clare Sullivan obeys a desperate summons from her glamorous sister Gina and flies to Paris. But when she arrives, there s no sign of Gina. Her sister s trail leads Claire to London and to Garth Cooper, a boyfriend of Gina s, who seems to have a secret to hide. As time passes, Claire begins to understand that Gina s disappearance is not just another one of her sister s melodramatic stunts."
Author | : Robert Wicks |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0190669640 |
Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life. For those in healing and helping professions such as medicine, nursing, education, psychotherapy, social work, ministry, and the military, the potential for a meaningful way of being may even become more possible. But, compassion is not easy. At times, concern for others can be personally devastating when we don't possess the right attitude and approach. Reaching out (and reflectively within) without being pulled down requires the wisdom that only arises out of the right combination of humility and knowledge. Night Call offers the stories and principles gleaned over many years of writing and mentoring for those in the helping and healing professions. The stories are offered in ways that foster compassionate caring while encouraging initiative in those who seek to personally deepen and share their lives with others -- especially in times of significant need. With this in mind, Dr. Wicks presents information on: · being a healing presence · mining fruits of the failures all of us must experience at times · the need to enjoy the daily "crumbs of alonetime" · the importance of a spirit of "unlearning" · developing a simple realistic self-care program · valuing informal or formal mentoring · recognizing the "3 calls" to which we must respond to as we psychologically develop · honoring life's most elusive psychological virtue (humility) Purposely brief, the chapters, as well as the sections in the "personal resiliency retreat" section at the end of the book, have as their goal a reconsideration of values, signature strengths, and simple approaches to living a resilient, rewarding life. Rather than presenting new breakthroughs, Night Call is designed to dust off what most of us already know, at some level, so we can freshly view the key approaches and techniques that provide increased psychological self-awareness and a potentially healthier sense of presence to others. The themes offered may have been forgotten, or become undervalued/set aside because of some of society's dysfunctional norms or unhelpful family influences. In response, this simple, countercultural book combines the value of essential self-compassion with caring for others in ways that provide the impetus for further exploration of a fuller narrative for both the readers of this work and unforeseen opportunities as well for those who are fortunate enough to cross their paths.
Author | : Patrick Ness |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763669091 |
NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
Author | : B. Traven |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781417623440 |
A collection of stories features tales of Mexican ranch life, including the title story, "The Cattle Drive," "When the Priest is Not at Home," and "Macario"
Author | : Charlotte Armstrong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : 9781936363056 |
Charlotte Armstrong (1905-1969) introduced suspense into the commonplace, the everyday, by writing short stories and novels in which one simple action sets a series of events spiraling into motion, pulling readers along, breathless with anxiety. By creating characters that could be one's next-door-neighbors and by relocating suspense, in many cases, from its Gothic ancestral settings, to locales she knew best, Armstrong created what the mystery writer Jan Burke aptly named suburban noir. Armstrong's small town Midwestern upbringing and adult life on both East and West coasts fine tuned her. Anthony Boucher observed of her work, "The method by which she achieves her magical effects defies critical analysis."
Author | : Amos Oz |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156005579 |
A romance in Israel between No'a, a 45-year-old school teacher, and Theo, a 60-year old civil engineer. They are longtime lovers whose relationship is disintegrating--his passivity irritates her, her energy threatens him. Told from alternative points of view against the background of life in a settlement in the Negev Desert.
Author | : Chetan Bhagat |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307489086 |
Press 1 for technical support. Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience–and accent management–they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybody’s heart is on the line. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka’s domineering mother has arranged for her daughter’s upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Esha longs to be a model but discovers it’s a horizontal romp to the runway. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat. They all try to make it through their shifts–and maintain their sanity–under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything. Chetan Bhagat’s delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross-wires come together with perfect pathos, hilarity, and spice.
Author | : Edward Howard House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : |