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A discovery and unexplained habitat of two very unique Stingrays found in a backyard lake of a new Lakefront Homeowner established a lucrative disbursement.
From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost offthe islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an agingrancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil andgood, obscurity and light. Following men and boys bewildered by their circumstances and swayed by desire, surprisedby love and by their capacity for both tenderness and violence, and featuring a novella about a young woman whorejects the laws of her cloistered Mennonite community, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winner David Bergen’s latest deftlyrenders complex moral ambiguities and asks what it means to be lost—and how we might be found.Show book
Rio, a place of beauty, excitement, and wonder. A place where you are free to dance until your feet ache and sing until you can no more. In this short story, a woman and her mother experience this and more during their visit to Brazil's most famous city. Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, Perfected by Girls, Pinned, and Over the End Line, and the stage play Waiting for a Friend. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, NJ, and graduated from Millburn High School. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City. ©2017 Alfred C. Martino (P)2017 Alfred C. MartinoShow book
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. This century of literature reveals bold strides in the art of story telling. Characters and narratives begin a wonderful journey that express themselves on a wider canvas, a more global landscape. The people and the societies they represent are easily recognisable in our more modern times. 01 - The Top 10 - The 18th Century - An Introduction 2 - Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift 3 - Jeannot and Colin by Voltaire 4 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 5 - The New Paris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6 - The Female Husband by Henry Fielding 7 - The White Pigeon by Maria Edgeworth 8 - The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller 9 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 10 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More 11 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood 12 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza HaywoodShow book
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In these Isles of Imperial Empire the English language is now the lingua franca of the globe. But between the Home nations tensions remain, they rise and fall, all is not well. Authors born abroad and returning have new views, unique, a little off-kilter and literature feeds well on this fuel. Together the men of these islands produce literature of quite sumptuous quality. 1 - The Top 10 - The British & Irish Men - The 19th Century - An Introduction 2 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 3 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 4 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 5 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 6 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 7 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 8 - The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins 9 - The Story of B24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 10 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 11 - Lost Hearts by M R James 12 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad 13 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph ConradShow book
New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and her frivolous new friend Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises . . . including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide whether she's ready for love.Show book
Bayard Taylor (1825 - 1878) was an American writer and poet, best known for his translations of German literature, including his acclaimed Faust.Who Was She? is a romantic mystery. The narrator is on vacation and discovers what he takes to be a secluded glen unknown to anyone else. But one day, he finds a wilted bunch of flowers and a book on the flat rock where he always sits. The book contains sketches and musings, clearly by an unmarried woman. The narrator finds a way to return the book, with his own message and an unlikely and mysterious correspondence begins, from which it becomes clear that this is the start of a strange unknown quest. But one with no map, no certain destination and few clues. The only important (and multi-layered) question is "who was she?"Show book
