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Author | : Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2011-08-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 146342230X |
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We Smoked Our Sister: Stories from a childhood carries the reader back to the wonderful days of the 1960’s; a time of excitement in the growth of America. The life of a rural family in Chunchula, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile County is portrayed between these pages. Though it was a time of financial hardships, the family was held together by a loving mother and father, who worked hard and raised their children to be disciplined/focused, productive, motivated, and successful as werll as creating a love for learning and the importance of family and heritage taught through stories passed down from family ancestry, as well as stories created by the Seymour children who lived these stories. Family life was like a work of art. Also, this book looks at a part of family life and the methods used to discipline children in the south. A picture of a rich life comes through to the reader, which could describe the simple everyday lives of any family in the south. The south has such rich undiscovered family history. The reader will not be able to put it down; it totally involves you in the life of the Seymour family and the siblings with their wonderfully hilarious antics. The reader will be able to picture a time in America when life was totally different. We long for those days again, where there was peace, harmony and caring among the citizens. So take a journey though the sixties and relive the days that are so precious to many southern families. This book contains stories that are timeless in beauty and wonderfully intriguing.
Author | : Tara Westover |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 039959051X |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. “Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • Book Riot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library
Author | : Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Qādir Māzinī |
Publisher | : American Univ in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789774249471 |
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Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature. Like an Egyptian James Thurber, he captured the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some of al-Mazini's best short fiction, including two novellas: Midu and His Accomplices and Ten Again. Midu is an engaging, well-liked army officer who--assisted by almost every other character in the story--arranges a faux heist from his uncle's library in order to allow young love to run its course. In Ten Again, a man awakes to find that he has returned to childhood, on the day of his tenth birthday: his wife, who is being wooed by a most obnoxious suitor, is now his mother, and his two sons torment him mercilessly at his birthday party. In al-Mazini's skillful hands, the short stories included here illuminate a lively fictional world: from a drunken encounter with a parrot to an undertaker's attempt to provide a cadaver with a believer's contented smile. An unmarried woman dreams of her unborn daughter, who is impatient to be born; and a reclusive author who has chosen to disappear from Cairo's literary scene is tracked down--to his obvious disgust--by an intrepid researcher. Rich in insight, imagination, and humor, these stories are a splendid introduction to a major figure in the early generation of Egyptian writers.
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Publisher | : New Internationalist |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1906523142 |
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Short stories from the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize - awarded to an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection includes the five shortlisted stories along with 12 stories written by the Caine Prize Writers' workshop. The Caine Prize is patronised by the four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soynika, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and J.M. Coetzee.
Author | : Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1985-09-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 014190755X |
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'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife. The story caused a sensation when it first appeared and Tolstoy's wife was appalled that he had drawn on their own experiences together to create a scathing indictment of marriage. 'The Devil', centring on a young man torn between his passion for a peasant girl and his respectable life with his loving wife, also illustrates the impossibility of pure love. 'The Forged Coupon' shows how an act of corruption can spiral out of control, and 'After the Ball' examines the abuse of power. Written during a time of spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, these late stories reflect a world of moral uncertainties.
Author | : William Henry Giles Kingston |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2019-12-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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'The Ferryman of Brill, and Other Stories' is a novel written by William Henry Giles Kingston. The story takes place in the town of Brill in the province of Flanders, which is ruled by the harsh Duke of Alva who resides in Brussels. The Duke is trying to convert the population to the Church of Rome, with little success. The protagonist, Diedrich Meghem, is a young merchant and a Protestant who falls in love with Gretchen Hopper, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Duke Alva becomes aware of Hopper's wealth and plans to take it for himself. Hopper is a known follower of the reformed principles and can easily be accused of heresy.
Author | : Alex M. Castillo |
Publisher | : Ukiyoto Publishing |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 936494674X |
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This is a work of fiction based on my childhood memories growing up in a farming village in Capul Island in Northern Samar, Philippines. Most of the stories are based on my own experiences and of the people I grew up with. So if the reader could identify themselves in these pages, I may have been inspired by them. I have long wanted to document the colourful traditions of my hometown as I have written them in my journals. I believe I have written a collective experience of my people in these stories that took me several years to print.
Author | : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : L. Maria Child |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2015-12-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1329752090 |
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Lydia Maria Francis Child, born Lydia Maria Francis (February 11, 1802 - October 20, 1880), was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s. At times she shocked her audience as she tried to take on issues of both male dominance and white supremacy in some of her stories. Despite these challenges, Child may be most remembered for her poem "Over the River and Through the Wood".
Author | : Rabindranath Tagore |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2022-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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The Hungry Stones is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the Mughal times and a beautiful Indian woman.