A Hoop Fable

A Hoop Fable
Author: Harvey A. Kaplan
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 166571770X

Larry’s parents had never seen him so preoccupied and possessed. For hours each day, he’d play basketball—and after he finished playing, he’d spend hours reading various basketball books. Posters of players were plastered all over his room. “We need to get some handle on this,” his mother told her husband, Dave. While he wasn’t as concerned, he agreed he would talk to the school psychologist. That meeting, however, did not resolve much, and Dave was left wondering if maybe he was the one with a problem. He had never gotten passionately involved in sports. Maybe he was just envious of his son? Maybe he had been too passive as a child and should have had stronger interests? He remembered that he was on the debating team, but never possessed the drive to win over the other team. Okay, he thought to himself, you’d better tolerate your son’s intensity and be patient and see where it leads. A Hoop Fable reveals how basketball provided Larry with a passion for life and gave him a foundation to move toward a successful career—and the lessons the game provided his family along the way.

Fables

Fables
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1843
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Fables

Fables
Author: John Gay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1813
Genre: Fables, English
ISBN:

Fables

Fables
Author: Edward Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1800
Genre:
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THE GREATEST RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES & FABLES (With Original Illustrations)

THE GREATEST RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES & FABLES (With Original Illustrations)
Author: Valery Carrick
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 802720139X

This beautifully illustrated collection of the greatest russian fairytales & fables has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Russians very well know how to weave intriguing stories that keep readers hooked till the end. This ebook represents a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated collection of some of the finest Russian fairy and folk tales for people of all ages: Picture Fables for the Little Ones: The Cock and the Bean The Goat and the Ram The Hungry Wolf The Peasant and the Bear The Dog and the Cock King Frost The Bear's Paw The Bear and the Old Man's Daughters The Straw Ox The Fox and the Blackbird Fairy Tales: Snegorotchka Fire Bird Winged Wolf Self-Playing Harp Seven Brothers Ivan Story of the Golden Mountain Robber Nightingale Renowned Hero Mild Man Duck with Golden Eggs Bulat the Brave Tsarevich and Ivashka with White Smock Knight Yaroslav and Princess Anastasia The Golden Mountain Morozko Flying Ship Muzhichek-As-Big-As-Your-Thumb Tsarevich Ivan Tale of Little Fool Ivan Little Feather of Fenist Peasant Demyan Enchanted Ring Brave Labourer Sage Damsel Prophetic Dream Two Out of the Knapsack Marko and Vasily Muscovite Folk Tales: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister Emilian the Fool Witch Girl Headless Princess Soldier's Midnight Watch Warlock Fox-Physician Fiddler in Hell Ride on the Gravestone Two Friends Shroud Coffin-Lid Two Corpses Dog and the Corpse Soldier and the Vampire Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas Priest with the Greedy Eyes Hasty Word.....

Rustbelt Fables

Rustbelt Fables
Author: Isaac Hallenberg
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2008-08-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1436346347

This is the author's third book, the first being a memoir of sorts and the second was in the genre of erotic fiction. It is a collection of thirteen short stories, all based on or inspired by the fables of Aesop. Although it would be impossible to either add to or detract from Aesop's, the fables were starting points for stories mostly based in the mythical town of Rustbelt City. Apparently, as much wisdom is required for life in the American Midwest as in ancient Greece. And, just as in our own lives, there is a moral hidden somewhere in each of the stories. Unlike in the compilers of Aesop's stories where the morals are handily given to us, we'll have to ferret out the meaning for ourselves. Instead of anthills and agoras, the scenes shift from pagan Greece to pool halls and Fitzpatrick's tavern. Not so cleverly disguised are locales once dear to my heart in a grimy, industrial city that now exists only in my imagination.