Night Sounds and Other Stories

Night Sounds and Other Stories
Author: Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2002-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802360459

A woman recalls the freedom and power of childhood games; a surprise anniversary party goes awry when the husband is hospitalized and the fault lines and strengths of a family are laid bare; a teacher rediscovers her calling amidst unthinkable tragedy; a lonely woman recognizes her responsibility to her sister's troubled life-in this collection of stories the prose and passion of life are brought together in ways that show both the complexity and the simplicity of living. Told against a Midwest background, they focus mainly on women's experiences, yet nonetheless reflect universal conditions. This is what makes Karen Gettert Shoemaker's style so affecting and her stories so appealing. These stories show the importance of knowing the preciousness of this life, whatever form it takes. These are simple stories, told with a grace and elegance that belies their joyful art and craft. "Crafted with care and grace. This book establishes Shoemaker as a talented chronicler of rural life and domestic gestures, with an eye for what's funny in grief, and what's sad in humor."-Publishers Weekly "Short stories at their finest can be the ultimate in fiction: compressed gems that in a few words can create memorable people and emotions out of thin air. Shoemaker's first collection contains such, and readers will laugh and cry at her spare portrayals of loss and friendship... . This is a powerful and valuable collection."-Library Journal

Hear and There Book: Night Sounds

Hear and There Book: Night Sounds
Author: Frank Gallo
Publisher: Innovative Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781584760658

Each double-page spread includes clues, a tab to pull to uncover a picture of the correct animal making the sound, and a flap to lift to uncover more facts about that animal.

Night Sounds

Night Sounds
Author: Sam Taplin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781805318170

Discover the magic of the night in this enchanting sound book. Little children will love listening to sleeping cats purring, owls twit-twooing and bats squeaking when they press the sound buttons on the pages of this beautifully illustrated book. There's a simple story to read aloud, holes to peek through and fingertrails to explore, too.

Night Sounds, Morning Colors

Night Sounds, Morning Colors
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Dial
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1994
Genre: Seasons
ISBN: 9780803713017

A child explores the senses by reflecting on experiences associated with the seasons.

A Guide to Night Sounds

A Guide to Night Sounds
Author: Lang Elliott
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2004
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780811731645

An exciting collection of field recordings that provides unparalleled soundprints of the distinctive calls of night-dwellers.

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062242075

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...

Sounds of a Summer Night

Sounds of a Summer Night
Author: May Garelick
Publisher: Mondo Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Nature stories
ISBN: 9781572557451

The sounds of a summer night filled with nature include the drumming of bullfrogs, the singing of crickets, and the calling of katydids.

We Smoked Our Sister and other Stories from a Childhood

We Smoked Our Sister and other Stories from a Childhood
Author: Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2011-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146342230X

We Smoked Our Sister: Stories from a childhood carries the reader back to the wonderful days of the 1960’s; a time of excitement in the growth of America. The life of a rural family in Chunchula, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile County is portrayed between these pages. Though it was a time of financial hardships, the family was held together by a loving mother and father, who worked hard and raised their children to be disciplined/focused, productive, motivated, and successful as werll as creating a love for learning and the importance of family and heritage taught through stories passed down from family ancestry, as well as stories created by the Seymour children who lived these stories. Family life was like a work of art. Also, this book looks at a part of family life and the methods used to discipline children in the south. A picture of a rich life comes through to the reader, which could describe the simple everyday lives of any family in the south. The south has such rich undiscovered family history. The reader will not be able to put it down; it totally involves you in the life of the Seymour family and the siblings with their wonderfully hilarious antics. The reader will be able to picture a time in America when life was totally different. We long for those days again, where there was peace, harmony and caring among the citizens. So take a journey though the sixties and relive the days that are so precious to many southern families. This book contains stories that are timeless in beauty and wonderfully intriguing.

Sound Sleep, Sound Mind

Sound Sleep, Sound Mind
Author: Barry Krakow
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012-07-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1620459868

Sound Sleep, Sound Mind is the first book of its kind to focus on all the causes--mental, emotional, and physical--that contribute to insomnia and poor sleep. Based on cutting-edge knowledge and research, this book explains why sleep problems are almost always a mind and body issue. It then guides you through the seven steps of Sleep Dynamic Therapy to identify and treat the specific problems that are at the root of your sleeplessness. You'll discover that the Sleep Dynamic Therapy program not only improves your sleep quality, but also enhances many other aspects of your mental and physical well-being. Whether you currently take over-the-counter or prescription sleeping pills, suffer from chronic or occasional insomnia, or awaken without feeling refreshed and energized, Sound Sleep, Sound Mind will help you get the sleep you deserve.

The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories

The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
Author: Nina Berberova
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811214735

The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists range from housekeepers and waiters to shabby-genteel aristocrats and intellectualsbut all are united in a haunting displacement from their pasts, and all share a troubling uncertainty about the future.