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Book Synopsis Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories by : Joy Dettman
Download or read book Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories written by Joy Dettman and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete short stories of the bestselling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series "Pure brilliance. This is a book to keep and treasure - you'll want to read it again and again." Sun-Herald At the beginning of her writing journey, Joy Dettman's charming, irascible, melancholy, wisecracking characters appeared in over twenty unique tales, many of which have won awards, many of which have never been published. Now, for the first time, Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories is the complete collection of Joy Dettman's exquisite short stories. We meet an old coot in a rusty ute who picks up a hitchhiker, a neighbour reaches across the language divide to lend a helping hand, a grave digger might just have saved a young man's life, an exhausted farmer's wife lusts after a china cup, Granny Jordan is losing her marbles and an author is troubled by rats under the floorboards. Since Joy's first novel, Mallawindy, was published in 1998 she has attracted a growing number of readers who are entertained and shocked by her array of unforgettable characters populating the Australian landscape. "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The Age Fans of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker will love Joy Dettman.
Book Synopsis Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories by : Edward S Sorenson
Download or read book Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories written by Edward S Sorenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories" from 1908 is a short story collection from the prominent Australian writer Edward Sorenson. His topics are Australian wildlife, life in the bush, and gold mines, where Sorenson spent a considerable part of his young years. The book contains many of his famous stories as "The Man in the Mountain," "Bandy Hollow," "Under the Gum Tree," and others.
Book Synopsis The Singing Diamonds and Other Stories by : Helen McCloy
Download or read book The Singing Diamonds and Other Stories written by Helen McCloy and published by Orion. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of eight stories by one of America's most gifted writers, Helen McCloy takes the reader into a world of mystery and imagination. In the signature story - 'The Singing Diamonds' - Mathilde Verworn enlists the help of Basil Willing, a psychiatrist-sleuth, to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as collective hallucination. Six people from six different locations testify to seeing diamond-shaped objects in the sky, and four of those six have died in peculiar circumstances in the past twelve days ...
Book Synopsis The diamond lens: and other stories, collected and ed. by W. Winter by : Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien
Download or read book The diamond lens: and other stories, collected and ed. by W. Winter written by Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diamonds in the Mud by : Brian Reade
Download or read book Diamonds in the Mud written by Brian Reade and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETHING unusual happened in Britain during the spring of 2020. As the nation went into lockdown to fight a killer pandemic our view of what constituted a hero changed. Suddenly celebrity businessmen, actors, sports stars, singers, even royals seemed irrelevant. The people we were truly in awe of were the low-paid lifesavers, so much so that we stood outside our homes every Thursday to applaud them. As spring turned to summer and the Black Lives Matter movement gathered momentum, action was taken against those from past generations who had been feted, such as Bristol slave trader Edward Colston whose statue was hauled down. It felt as though the country was re-evaluating the notion of heroism. But how did we arrive at such a skewed version of it? 'Diamonds in the Mud' asks why the British have traditionally been taught to venerate kings and queens, generals and Eton-educated Prime Ministers, while, a few notable exceptions aside, those who changed history from below rarely got a look-in. It does so by telling the stories of a selection of working-class heroes the award-winning writer has met through life and journalism.
Book Synopsis Bloodlines and other Stories by : Joyce Russell
Download or read book Bloodlines and other Stories written by Joyce Russell and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does a child come wailing into this world with the patterns that define it already beating in the blood? Do daughters ever believe that mother knows best and can a father come to respect the skills of a son? This collection of stories explores the ties that bind the generations together. It dips into the quiet beauty and the horrors of keeping those bonds intact. There’s lust and loyalty, joy and exploitation, innocence and trust, but deep in the heart of each story — from daughter to father perhaps, or mother to son — there is always the spark of love.
Book Synopsis Dark Sun and other stories by : Robert Muchamore
Download or read book Dark Sun and other stories written by Robert Muchamore and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would believe that a kid at a sleepover could be a spy? CHERUB: Dark Sun is a short novel aimed at new readers to CHERUB, originally written for World Book Day and now made available in print again by popular demand! To go with it are three stories never before seen in print: The Switch, CHERUB at Christmas and Kerry's First Mission. For official purposes, these children do not exist.
Book Synopsis Oh the Glory of It All by : Sean Wilsey
Download or read book Oh the Glory of It All written by Sean Wilsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess.” With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. Sean's mother is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade and lectures his son on proper hygiene in public restrooms. When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean's life blows apart. His mother has a "vision" of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Follow Sean as he candidly recounts his life growing up in a wealthy family all while discovering who he is amongst San Francisco's social elite.
Book Synopsis The Depression Kid and Other Stories by : H. Dean Yearns
Download or read book The Depression Kid and Other Stories written by H. Dean Yearns and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. Dean Yearns writes charming vignettes of his boyhood growing up in poor rural Missouri during the Great Depression, from a neighborhood gathering to listen to a Joe Lewis fight on the radio, to encounters with bumblebees, making a coonskin cap, and cooling off in the windmill tank in the heat of summer. His is an original and nostalgic American voice from the Greatest Generation.
Book Synopsis Smuts and Diamonds: with Other Stories by : Selina Gaye
Download or read book Smuts and Diamonds: with Other Stories written by Selina Gaye and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children Are Diamonds by : Edward Hoagland
Download or read book Children Are Diamonds written by Edward Hoagland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not the Africa of Isak Dinesen, nor the Africa of Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord’s Resistance Army recruits child-soldiers after forcing them to kill their parents and eat their hearts. The aid workers who voluntarily subject themselves to life here are a breed of their own. Meet Hickey, an American school teacher in his late thirties, an American school teacher who burns his bridges with the school board and goes to Africa as an aid worker. Working for an agency in Nairobi, one of his jobs is to drive food and medical supplies to Southern Sudan to an aid station run by Ruth, a middle-aged woman, who acts as nurse, doctor, hospice worker, feeder of starving children, and witness. Ruth is gruff but efficient, and Hickey, who is usually drawn to youth and beauty, is struck by her devotion. Returning to Nairobi, he can’t forget what he has seen. When the violence and chaos in the region increase to a fever pitch and aid workers are being slaughtered or evacuated, Hickey is asked to save Ruth overland by Jeep. What happens to them and the children that have joined their journey is the searing climax of this novel. Hoagland paints an unflinching portrait of a living hell at its worst, and yet amid that suffering there is hope in the form of humility, sacrifice, and life-affirming friendship.
Book Synopsis Father Goriot, Ursule Mirouët, and other stories by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book Father Goriot, Ursule Mirouët, and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Woman of Thirty : and Other Stories by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book A Woman of Thirty : and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A daughter of Eve. A woman of thirty, and other stories by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book A daughter of Eve. A woman of thirty, and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Golden Girl and Other Stories by : Jack Vance
Download or read book Golden Girl and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diamonds and Pearl written by K'wan and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl. They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big Stone. Although the flashy, fast-paced nature of the streets calls to Pearl, she’s been brought up to look but not touch. But when a young hustler named Diamonds crawls up from the swamps of Louisiana and sets up shop in New York City, everything Pearl was taught flies out the window. Raised in the wild and schooled on the mean streets of New Orleans, Diamonds is no stranger to hard times and is willing to do whatever it takes to stay above the poverty line, including kill. When a robbery turned mass murder goes wrong, Diamonds is forced to flee New Orleans and lands in New York where he meets Pearl, and for the first time finds something he craves more than wealth and power...love. As the stakes get higher, Diamonds has to push away his past if he’s to grab hold of his future—but by doing so, will he show Pearl that all that glitters isn’t gold?
Book Synopsis Twisted Tales from Hamburg and Other Stories - Volume 1 by : Peter Franklin
Download or read book Twisted Tales from Hamburg and Other Stories - Volume 1 written by Peter Franklin and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The room was spinning. Thoughts were pulsing from one vein to the next'. Twisted Tales takes us through scenes of familiar human conditions. From complete inebriation through a marriage without love via a gambling addiction ruining lives past the sometimes mean streets of Hamburg then onto to the sunshine of Thailand. Characters in each story must battle with their own minds and outside influences in order for them to make the right decision which is all too seldom in what we call modern life and in some cases Part 1 is only the beginning of their journey….
