The Bookworm and Other Stories

The Bookworm and Other Stories
Author: Leslie Brazier Smit
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2022-06-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1039102727

A spider and a fly. A boy and an ant. A dog and a beaver. They may seem like unlikely companions, but they’ll soon learn that they have more in common than they think. When a creature is in need, help often comes from the most unexpected places. The Bookworm and Other Stories is a collection of stories both short and long about animals, birds, and insects who come together in kindness and friendship. Kids will learn fun facts about the animal kingdom while laughing at the antics of these delightful characters. In the end, they’ll see that we can be friends with everyone, regardless of our differences.

The Last Legacy

The Last Legacy
Author: Adrienne Young
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250823730

New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with The Last Legacy, a captivating standalone about family and blood ties, reinventing yourself, and controlling your own destiny. When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family. Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must win everyone’s trust if she wants to hold any power in the delicate architecture of the family. It doesn’t take long for her to see that the Roths are entangled in shadows. Despite their growing influence in upscale Bastian, their hands are still in the kind of dirty business that got Bryn’s parents killed years ago. With a forbidden romance to contend with and dangerous work ahead, the cost of being accepted into the Roths may be more than Bryn can pay.

Public Library and Other Stories

Public Library and Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101973056

From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. Woven between the stories are conversations with writers and readers reflecting on the essential role that libraries have played in their lives. At a time when public libraries around the world face threats of cuts and closures, this collection stands as a work of literary activism—and as a wonderful read from one of our finest authors.

Jump and Other Stories

Jump and Other Stories
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408832631

In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.

Looking for Trouble

Looking for Trouble
Author: R. J. March
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Erotic stories, American
ISBN: 9781555834555

A collection of the hottest stories by R J March,who is generally acknowledged as one of the best,writers around of gay erotic fiction. Strong,characterisations and unusual plot lines raises,this work way above the standard expected of the,genre but March never fails to deliver the goods.,.

Last Stories and Other Stories

Last Stories and Other Stories
Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2015-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 014312756X

Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018 In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.

Dead Girls and Other Stories

Dead Girls and Other Stories
Author: Emily Geminder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781945814334

"Winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize"--Cover.

The Three Strangers and Other Stories Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Three Strangers and Other Stories Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194786595

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night . . . In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy . . .

Ghosts International: Troll and Other Stories - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Ghosts International: Troll and Other Stories - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Sarah Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 019463096X

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Sarah Walker. In Sweden, nobody wants a troll to come into their garden, but how do you stop them? On a lonely road at night in Oman, Abdul's car breaks down and he takes a ride with a stranger, but perhaps it is safer to walk. In England some young people play a scary game, and in Asia, a soldier returns home - at last. Every country in the world has stories about ghosts and spirits and monsters of one kind or another. Some people believe in ghosts, and some don't - but everyone enjoys a good ghost story.

The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900

The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141942614

The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/ The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon The 11 short storiesin this collection range from those with the Wessex setting familiar from Hardy's novels, to aristocratic historical fantasies set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and tragic or ironic contemporary dramas. Enormously readable in their own right, thestories can also be seen as a rich testing ground for ideas and themes that receive more sustained treatment in Hardy's most innovative and controversial novels.