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Little Sinners, and Other Stories

Author : Karen Brown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803244681
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Little Sinners, and Other Stories written by Karen Brown and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown’s Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit—and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters’ own: an expectant mother in an isolated cottage on Long Island Sound uncovers an unsettling secret in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by a teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious circumstances; a woman and her lover swim the pools of their neighborhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles with mortality and the abandonments in her past. These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise—a world where women’s roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the characters fashion, recklessly and passionately, their own methods of escape.

Sinners and the Sea

Author : Rebecca Kanner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451695233
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Sinners and the Sea written by Rebecca Kanner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the fate of the world rested on Noah's shoulders, the survival of the human race rested on hers.

Sourdough and Other Stories

Author : Angela Slatter
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Sourdough and Other Stories written by Angela Slatter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales. In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other. Love, loss and life are elegantly dissected in Slatter's earthy yet poetic prose. As Rob Shearman says in his Introduction: 'Sourdough and Other Stories manages to be grand and ambitious and worldbuilding-but also as intimate and focused as all good short fiction should be . . . The joy of Angela Slatter's book is that she's given us a set of fairy tales that are at once both new and fresh, and yet feel as old as storytelling itself.' Contains: 'Introduction' by Robert Shearman, 'The Shadow Tree', 'Gallowberries', 'Little Radish', 'Dibblespin', 'The Navigator', 'The Angel Wood', 'Ash', 'The Story of Ink', 'Lost Things', 'A Good Husband', 'A Porcelain Soul', 'The Bones Remember Everything', 'Sourdough', 'Sister, Sister', 'Lavender and Lychgates', 'Under the Mountain, 'Afterword' by Jeff VanderMeer.

Gentle and Lowly

Author : Dane C. Ortlund
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433566168
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Gentle and Lowly written by Dane C. Ortlund and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians know that God loves them, but can easily feel that he is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them. As a result, they focus a lot—and rightly so—on what Jesus has done to appease God’s wrath for sin. But how does Jesus Christ actually feel about his people amid all their sins and failures? This book draws us to Matthew 11, where Jesus describes himself as “gentle and lowly in heart,” longing for his people to find rest in him. The gospel flows from God’s deepest heart for his people, a heart of tender love for the sinful and suffering. These chapters take readers into the depths of Christ’s very heart for sinners, diving deep into Bible passages that speak of who Christ is and encouraging readers with the affections of Christ for his people. His longing heart for sinners comforts and sustains readers in their up-and-down lives.

Combustible Sinners and Other Stories

Author : Myra Infante
Publisher : Vao Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780615556703
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Combustible Sinners and Other Stories written by Myra Infante and published by Vao Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lissi Linares is a pastor's daughter whose love for others contrasts with her fear of eternal damnation. Little Jasmine "Jazzy Moon" Luna is determined to save Jesus from being crucified. Naida Cervantes hides a brutal secret behind shapeless, florid dresses. Hermana Gracie tries to set her son up with a good Christian girlfriend, only to make a surprising discovery. Zeke wants a new guitar and Ben wants a cool girlfriend, but what they find as migrant workers in Arkansas changes their desires. These individuals and others try to negotiate the often rocky intersection of faith and culture in seven independent but intertwining tales that explore life in an evangelical Christian, Mexican-American community. Frank, funny and heart-breakingly real, this volume explores themes of identity, culture, religion and sexuality in the context of a little-known subset of Hispanic culture.

Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories

Author : Xhenet Aliu
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803271832
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories written by Xhenet Aliu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just down the highway from Connecticut’s Gold Coast is the state’s rusty underbelly, the wretched, used-up sort of place where you might find Xhenet Aliu’s Domesticated Wild Things: the reluctant mothers, delinquent dads, and not-quite-feral children, yet dreamers all. These are the children of immigrants who found boarded-up brass mills instead of the gilded streets of America; they’re the teenaged girls raised in the fluorescent glow of Greek diners, the middle-aged men with pump trucks and teratomas. These are people who have fled, or who should have. And if they are indeed familiar, it is because Aliu writes what is real, whether we ourselves, her readers, have seen it up close or not. And her stories make sense in a way that matters. A young mother buys into a real-estate investment seminar offered on an infomercial, only to be put back into her place by a bully in foreclosure. A closeted wrestler befriends a latchkey seven-year-old neighbor who harbors secrets of her own. A YMCA counselor tries to reclaim shoes stolen by a troubled young camper. What they share is a biting humor, an eye for the absurd, and fumbling attempts at human connection, all rendered irresistible—and as moving as they are amusing—by a writer whose work is at once edgy and endearing and prize winning for reasons any reader can appreciate.

Saints and Sinners

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316175501
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Sinners written by Edna O'Brien and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity. In Send My Roots Rain, Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of "The Shovel Kings" have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland-exiles in both places. "Green Georgette" is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; "Old Wounds" illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O'Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives.

We Sinners

Author : Hanna Pylväinen
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805095349
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book We Sinners written by Hanna Pylväinen and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning debut novel—drawn from the author's own life experience—tells the moving story of a family of eleven in the American Midwest, bound together and torn apart by their faith The Rovaniemis and their nine children belong to a deeply traditional church (no drinking, no dancing, no TV) in modern-day Michigan. A normal family in many ways, the Rovaniemis struggle with sibling rivalry, parental expectations, and forming their own unique identities in such a large family. But when two of the children venture from the faith, the family fragments and a haunting question emerges: Do we believe for ourselves, or for each other? Each chapter is told from the distinctive point of view of a different Rovaniemi, drawing a nuanced, kaleidoscopic portrait of this unconventional family. The children who reject the church learn that freedom comes at the almost unbearable price of their close family ties, and those who stay struggle daily with the challenges of resisting the temptations of modern culture. With precision and potent detail, We Sinners follows each character on their journey of doubt, self-knowledge, acceptance, and, ultimately, survival.

The Longings of Wayward Girls

Author : Karen Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476724911
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Longings of Wayward Girls written by Karen Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unsolved mysteries precipitated by a harmless prank resurface twenty years later when a boy from Sadie's old neighborhood returns to town.

Churchboys & Other Sinners

Author : Preston L. Allen
Publisher : Blair
ISBN 13 : 9780932112446
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Churchboys & Other Sinners written by Preston L. Allen and published by Blair. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preston Allen's stories explore the boundary between boy and man, church and smut shack in spare, deadpan prose.

Sinner

Author : Sierra Simone
Publisher : Sierra Simone
ISBN 13 : 1732172250
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Sinner written by Sierra Simone and published by Sierra Simone. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance of 2018! I'm not a good man, and I've never pretended to be. I don't believe in goodness or God or any happy ending that isn't paid for in advance. In fact, I've got my own personal holy trinity: in the name of money, sex, and Macallan 18, amen. So when the gorgeous, brilliant Zenny Iverson asks me to teach her about sex, I want to say yes, I really do. Unfortunately, there are several reasons to say no--reasons that even a very bad man like myself can't ignore. 1. She's my best friend's little sister. 2. She's too young for me. Like way too young. 3. She's a nun. Or about to be anyway. But I want her. I want her even with my best friend and God in the way, I want to teach her and touch her and love her, and I know that makes me something much worse than a very bad man. It makes me a sinner. And it's those very sins that are about to save me... ***Sinner is a standalone companion to Priest about Father Bell's brother Sean. You do not have to read Priest or Midnight Mass to read Sinner***

Vanished

Author : Karin Lin-Greenberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233778
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Vanished written by Karin Lin-Greenberg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Extinction Events

Author : Liz Breazeale
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218302
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Extinction Events written by Liz Breazeale and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who struggle to define themselves amid their own personal cataclysms and those igniting the world around them. They are a mother watching the islands of the world disappear one by one, a new bride using alien abduction to get closer to her estranged parent, a daughter searching for her mother among the lost cities of the world, a sister trying and failing to protect her mythical continent-obsessed brother. Here extinction events come in all sizes and shapes: as volcanic eruptions and devastating plagues and meteor impacts, as estrangements and betrayals and losses. Dark, angry, and apocalyptic, Extinction Events is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.

The Bow-legged Ghost, and Other Stories

Author : Leon Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bow-legged Ghost, and Other Stories written by Leon Mead and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secondhand Sinners

Author : Genevieve Lynne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680586305
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Secondhand Sinners written by Genevieve Lynne and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bokchito, Oklahoma, you know everyone and trust no one... Emily Matthews swore she'd never expose her son Jack to her dysfunctional family that sent her running from Bokchito at only seventeen. The sins of her past still haunt her, but when her brother lands in jail, she has no choice but to go back and face her old demons. Miller Anderson has never forgotten about the girl who ran out of his life thirteen years ago... And with the secret he's keeping from Emily, he knows he most likely never will. But when his daughter Abby plays matchmaker to set him up with his lost love, he can't resist the resurgence of emotion that has them reliving their high school glory days. Evil has a way of waiting for what it wants... Just when Emily and Miller discover their old flame hasn't died, they learn another fire has been smoldering in Bokchito. Her family's long line of sins, kindled with a generation-old grudge, ignites when Emily discovers the truth about Miller's daughter and is forced to choose between protecting Miller's secret and the one thing she can't afford to lose...her son Jack. Caught up in a game of lies and dirt road scandal, Emily must risk everything to save her son and preserve Miller's good name, or let her family's darkest secret ruin them both.

Better Times

Author : Sara Batkie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496211952
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Better Times written by Sara Batkie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women's lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for "troubled women" imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times. Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here--with characters stymied by loneliness, motherhood, illness, even cataclysmic climate change--interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women.

Now We Will Be Happy

Author : Amina Gautier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080325539X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Now We Will Be Happy written by Amina Gautier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines their identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles. Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.