White Tie Tales

White Tie Tales
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1981
Genre: English wit and humor
ISBN: 9780561003146

Cat in a White Tie and Tails

Cat in a White Tie and Tails
Author: Carole Nelson Douglas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765365934

Chaperoning Temple Barr's visit to Chicago to meet fiancé Matt Devine's family, hard-boiled feline sleuth Midnight Louie is unexpectedly catnapped by an abductor with ties to an unsolved string of murders in Vegas and Temple's ex, the amnesiac magician Max Kinsella.

Twelve Tales

Twelve Tales
Author: Grant Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1899
Genre: Short stories
ISBN:

Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales

Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales
Author: Kiersten White
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545945860

Kiersten White, the author of the NYT bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, is ready to make her middle grade debut! Once upon a time, a girl skipped into the forest and became a zombie.Wait, no, that's not how this story is supposed to go. Let's try again.Once upon a time, a boy did a horrible job as a sheep-sitter and burned his tongue on stolen pie.No, children in these stories are always good and virtuous. From the top.Once upon a time, a king and queen tried to find a princess for their son to marry, and he wound up fleeing from a group of very hairy vampires.Hmmm...What about, once upon a time, a bunch of fairy tales got twisted around to be completely hilarious, a tiny bit icky, and delightfully spooky scarytales... in other words, exactly what fairy tales were meant to be. Grab some flaming torches, maybe don't accept that bowl of pease porridge, and get ready for a wickedly fun ride with acclaimed author Kiersten White and fairy tales like you've never heard them before.

Japanese Tales

Japanese Tales
Author: Royall Tyler
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307784061

Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan—tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese civilization. They ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, offering a window into a long-vanished culture. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Promises and Other Tales of White Lies

Promises and Other Tales of White Lies
Author: Thom Bennett
Publisher: Dark Porch Publishing
Total Pages: 173
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1999470699

Featuring the coming of age novella PROMISES, this eclectic and often surprising collection of short stories will take readers on a trip from the rock and roll 50s through to the end of the century. Romantic, often humorous and sometimes mysterious, PROMISES and Other Tales of White Lies is sure to please readers of every taste. Promises is a poignant tale of young love in the late rock ‘n roll ’50s. It’s romantic, a bit bittersweet, but often tinged with timely humor. Halloween Fog is a nostalgic tale about four young trick-or-treaters who head into a fog-filled night with dreams of goodies in their hearts! When spooky events happen, only Mother can save them. Or will she? A Few Beers and a Few Laughs: It’s Friday night in the ’60s, so join three college students in this madcap comedy of selfish innocence. It’s the final days of their playtime—before graduation and a life of work begins. Eternal Beloved (Original title: The Christmas Reunion): This is no ordinary tale of lost love; it is a mystery that goes beyond the bounds of time and space. It is a tale of love eternal. This story was so popular in Thom’s Christmas collection, he just had to bring it back for his new readers who love romance and mystery. The Wingding Kid: Growing up, The Wingding Kid ran with a gang that included a future mobster named Frank and a future Broadway producer named Charlie. The Kid’s specialty was lying. Years later, The Kid is back in town and lying about the mobster! “If you see The Kid,” Frank says to Charlie, “tell him to stop lying about me, or he’ll be swimming in the Hudson River, wearing cement shoes!” A crooked comedy! Too Many Love Letters: Say hello to gentleman detective Cass Gentry, star of the mystery novels The Death Merchants and The Man With Hemingway’s Face. In this case, he and his girlfriend, Eleanor, are out to discover why a theater employee is getting numerous love letters from men who dislike her. A romantic mystery!

Key West Tales

Key West Tales
Author: John Hersey
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593080750

Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories.

The Girl in the Window and Other True Tales

The Girl in the Window and Other True Tales
Author: Lane DeGregory
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2023-04-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0226825388

Part anthology and part craft guide, this collection of pieces from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist offers something for readers and writers alike. Lane DeGregory loves true stories, intimate details, and big ideas. In her three-decade career as a journalist, she has published more than 3,000 stories and won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Her acclaimed work in the Tampa Bay Times often takes her to the edges of society, where she paints empathetic portraits of real-life characters like a 99-year-old man who still works cleaning a seafood warehouse, a young couple on a bus escaping winter, and a child in the midst of adoption. In “The Girl in the Window” and Other True Tales, DeGregory not only offers up the first collection of her most unforgettable newspaper features—she pulls back the curtain on how to write narrative nonfiction. This book—part anthology, part craft guide—provides a forensic reading of twenty-four of DeGregory’s singular stories, illustrating her tips for writers alongside pieces that put those elements under the microscope. Each of the pieces gathered here—including the Pulitzer Prize–winning title story—is accompanied by notes on how she built the story, plus tips on how nonfiction writers at all levels can do the same. Featuring a foreword by Beth Macy, author of the acclaimed Dopesick, this book is sure to delight fans of DeGregory’s writing, as well as introduce her to readers and writers who have not yet discovered her inspiring body of work.

Living to Tell the Horrid Tales: True Life Stories of Fomer Slaves, Historical Documents & Novels

Living to Tell the Horrid Tales: True Life Stories of Fomer Slaves, Historical Documents & Novels
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 6416
Release: 2023-11-26
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

This unique collection of "LIVING TO TELL THE HORRID TALES: True Life Stories of Fomer Slaves, Testimonies, Novels & Historical Documents" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Thirty Years a Slave Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green The Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes Harriet: The Moses of Her People Father Henson's Story of His Own Life 50 Years in Chains Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave Story of Mattie J. Jackson A Slave Girl's Story From the Darkness Cometh the Light Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy Narrative of Joanna Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley Buried Alive Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain Novels Oroonoko Uncle Tom's Cabin Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Heroic Slave Slavery's Pleasant Homes Our Nig Clotelle Marrow of Tradition Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man A Fool's Errand Bricks Without Straw Imperium in Imperio The Hindered Hand Historical Documents The History of Abolition of African Slave-Trade History of American Abolitionism Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith Who Was Executed for Burglary Report on Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Gettysburg Address XIII Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865) Civil Rights Act of 1866 XIV Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868) Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868)...