Details of a Sunset

Details of a Sunset
Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1976
Genre: Fiction in Russian, 1917- Texts (including translations)
ISBN: 9780297771906

Oorspronkelijk in het Russisch geschreven verhalen uit de periode 1924-'35.

Woman with Horns and Other Stories

Woman with Horns and Other Stories
Author: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781953716033

WOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of a dozen stories by Philippine American writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard that weave Philippine history, culture, folklore, and myths. This 2020 edition of this anthology presents this beloved stories to a new audience as well as readers of Brainard's subsequent literary work, which include the novels WHEN THE RAINBOW WEPT, MAGDALENA, and THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW. Brainard's books, including the books she edited, GROWING UP FILIPINO: STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS and the follow-up GROWING UP FILIPINO II, are considered significant contributions to Philippine, Philippine American, as well as Asian American literature. Katipunan praised it as follows: "Beautifully written in the minimalist style yet never lacking color and clarity, Brainard's stories reach out from the deep centuries of folklore, superstition, religion, customs, geography, and history to bring them life into the present. But more than life itself, this book mirrors the unique ways in which the Filipino woman searches for meaning." World Literature Today noted, "The author, through deep woman-knowledge, makes the stories into one web, weaving events (folkloric, historical, and contemporary) and people through sensibility rather than structure, drawing the reader into the loom of history and fiction, to read all life as one unity.

Under the Sunset

Under the Sunset
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2015-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633558347

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. This Country is the Land Under the Sunset. This is the story of that Country, and what happened when evil came to abide there. It is a story all of us must hear.

Sunset on the Square

Sunset on the Square
Author: Lilac Mills
Publisher: Canelo
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 180032202X

She never thought she’d love again... In her late 50s and having lived in Tenerife for over 15 years, there’s not much on the island that can surprise widowed Elspeth. Until her hotelier friend asks her to put up a guest after they’ve overbooked – and handsome Charles is suddenly staying in very close quarters. Long buried emotions are coming back to life. Devastated by the death of her husband four years ago, Elspeth isn’t open to new romance. Yet something about Charles pulls her in, and they grow closer together. But Charles’ holiday is drawing to a close, and Elspeth needs to decide what she really wants – and how to get it. The perfect holiday romance for fans of Holly Martin, Sue Moorcroft and Mandy Baggot.

Under Maui Skies and Other Stories

Under Maui Skies and Other Stories
Author: Wayne Moniz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Hawaii
ISBN: 9780982165638

Maui's rich history and culture are the foundation of these new, original short stories by Maui's award-winning author/playwright. Under Maui Skies, and Other Stories presents seven Maui tales in different genres set in a variety of Maui locales ranging in time from pre-contact Hawai`i to the 1960s. In The Cave of Whispering Spirits, a couple and family face the wrath of the goddess of fire, Pele, in the last eruption of Haleakala. That legend is followed by The Cruel Sun, the true story of a love affair in Old Lahaina and the demons that haunt them - alcoholism and missionaries. Under Maui Skies, the title story, is a western set in 1908 Kula and Kama`ole where an ordinary ranchworker is enlisted by the local sheriff to trail and report on the activities of an opium dealer called Albert Devil. The action changes in Aloha `Oe, E Ku`uipo (Goodbye, Sweetheart) when a money-strapped Wailuku detective takes on the case of a femme fatale. A rainbow of multiracial usual suspects is under the microscope in this island style homage to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. A soldier in 1942 Pa`ia and Kihei previews, in a Twilight Zone world, the horrors of World War II at Guadalcanal in Aunty Becky's Tavern. Hawaiian culture and science fiction blend in An Island Beyond Hokule`a. A diaspora from a war-ravaged planet use the universal porthole of Haleakala in search of someone who will take a philosophy of aloha to their new home at the edge of the galaxy. The final story, Climbing Woman, a ghost story, tells the sad legend of a young woman who spirals into depression and eventually death - later sighted as the legendary White Lady who haunts `Iao Valley. Moniz's fresh voice and cadence captures the flavor of the islands and their history, using these traditional storytelling genres.

Jumping in Sunset

Jumping in Sunset
Author: Dawn Ringling
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590522273

Her comfortable life and her faith shattered when her husband of twenty years announces he is divorcing her to marry another woman, Pamela Thornton finds herself reevaluating her perspective on God and finding His love in spite of divorce.

Regression and Other Stories

Regression and Other Stories
Author: Andrew Gelman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110702398X

A practical approach to using regression and computation to solve real-world problems of estimation, prediction, and causal inference.

One More Sunset

One More Sunset
Author: Jim Connelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780970838704

Flights Against the Sunset

Flights Against the Sunset
Author: Kenn Kaufman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 061894270X

A collection of interconnecting essays from the world of birding, ranging from Alaska to Africa and from vast wilderness areas to suburban parking lots, documents one man's fascination with birds and a son's relationship with his mother.