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Book Synopsis Plastic Jesus and Other Stories by : Judith Ets-Hokin
Download or read book Plastic Jesus and Other Stories written by Judith Ets-Hokin and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLASTIC JESUS AND OTHER STORIES covers a range of genres, including fantasy, mystery, and romance in a collection of 13 stories to be consumed either straight-up or, most often, with a twist. From the title story, where the inanimate dashboard Jesus animates his surrounding characters (and himself) in unexpected ways, to the surprise in "Chance" that awaits Charles in the aftermath of his winning the prestigious National Integrity Award, the stories each deliver their own sensibility, quirkiness, and punch. A long-lost love is touchingly rekindled in "Edward and Stella," while a health nut about to receive special recognition doesn't realize what's about to hit her in "The Award," and life lessons are learned for more than just the participants in "The Affair." Can witchcraft actually play a role in drastically upsetting people's lives in "The New Neighbors," or are some things "...just terrible coincidences," as the witch Wyndsong proclaims? Then, there's "Destiny," with a female entrepreneur about to sell her successful business and move on to what's next (which comes as a devastating disclosure to her family), "The Hunt," about whether the deer belong on Deer Island or not (and who gets to decide), and "The Dowry," when young love in another culture can be fatally misunderstood. Through these varied and wonderful tales we get a vision of the wonderful world of Judith Ets-Hokin.
Download or read book Plastic Jesus written by Poppy Z. Brite and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960's brought Seth and Payton all they'd fantasized about—perfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospered and suffered in one another's arms. The two men carried each other and carried a group that created both a history and a future for rock. But at some point their music blurred with the news of their love and the world was faced with the choice to embrace its heroes or revert back to its deep-rooted prejudices.
Download or read book Plastic Jesus written by Eric Sandras and published by NavPress Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Sandras seeks to empower readers wherever they are to live life as Christ intended: with a radical sense of purpose that only He can provide.
Book Synopsis Black Jesus and Other Superheroes by : Venita Blackburn
Download or read book Black Jesus and Other Superheroes written by Venita Blackburn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los Angeles Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways. Venita Blackburn's characters hurl themselves toward the inevitable fates they might rather wish away. Their stories play with magic without the sparkle, glaring at the internal machinations of the human spirit. Fragile symbols for things such as race, sexuality, and love are lifted, decorated, and exposed to scrutiny and awe like so many ruins of our imagination. Through it all Blackburn’s characters stumble along currents of language both thoughtful and hilarious.
Download or read book Plastic Jesus written by Robert Miskimon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fire that drives creativity sometimes kills artists, as John Preston learns in his rollicking journey across America in search of his own soul. From Hells Angels to Indian uprisings to romance on the run, his journey takes him deeper into the creative process and a connection with all humanity.
Book Synopsis The Last Straw: Kids Vs. Plastics by : Susan Hood
Download or read book The Last Straw: Kids Vs. Plastics written by Susan Hood and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I encourage everyone to read this book." --Dr. Jane Goodall There's no doubt about it--plastic is in almost everything. From our phones and computers to our toys and utensils, plastic is everywhere. But the amount of plastic we throw away is hurting the health of our planet. With The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics, readers will be fascinated as they learn about the growing plastic problem and meet just a few of the young activists who are standing up and speaking out for change. You'll hear about the "Be Straw Free" campaign, started by nine-year-old Milo Cress. You'll discover how scientists are using jellyfish snot and munching, crunching caterpillars to break down plastic pollution faster. You'll meet Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz López, the eight-year-old girl turning old plastic bottles into solar heaters. And there are many more incredible kids here, not much older than our readers, who will inspire us all to change the way we think about plastic! With an introduction from Milo Cress and bright, colorful illustrations from Christiane Engel, this collection of brilliant, lyrical nonfiction poems by award-winning author Susan Hood highlights the threat of plastic and the kids who are fighting for change to save our planet. Includes extensive backmatter with a timeline, author's note, further resources, and more.
Book Synopsis Maria, Maria: & Other Stories by : Marytza K. Rubio
Download or read book Maria, Maria: & Other Stories written by Marytza K. Rubio and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut. “The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won’t always know what it is until payment is due.” This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in “Tijuca,” who promises to bury her husband’s head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in “Moksha,” who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol. But magic isn’t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in “Tunnels,” and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in “Burial.” A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in “Art Show,” including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, “Maria, Maria”—a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.
Book Synopsis The Middleman by : Bharati Mukherjee
Download or read book The Middleman written by Bharati Mukherjee and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World). Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle. Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (The New York Times Book Review).
Book Synopsis Mecha-Jesus and Other Stories by : Derwin Mak
Download or read book Mecha-Jesus and Other Stories written by Derwin Mak and published by Brain Lag. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From distant stars to a Cocoa Beach Hooters, Derwin Mak's short fiction takes readers through tales of mystery, wonder, and horror. Ethnic traditions meld with fantastic visions in these twelve stories about memory fabric, eldritch gods during the Salem witch trials, and of course, Mecha-Jesus, Japan's very own android kami.
Book Synopsis The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories by : Ilan Stavans
Download or read book The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories written by Ilan Stavans and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The One-Handed Pianist was published to acclaim in the early 1990’s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992. Its tales look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic world—a world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy. Stavans constructs fables that raise questions about ethnicity and community; even Stavans’ person raises questions about ethnicity and community: what does it mean that a Jew of Eastern European lineage can call himself Latino and speak for that group?
Book Synopsis God Owns My Business by : Stanley Tam
Download or read book God Owns My Business written by Stanley Tam and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Owns My Business is more than a book about a successful businessman. It is the chronicle of how an average man can, with God's guidance and a willing heart, succeed in any endeavor. They said it couldn’t be done, but formally and legally, business owner Stanley Tam made God the owner of his business. To say that his business has met with success thanks to this decision would be a significant understatement—Stanley Tam's businesses are large and profitable, giving well over a million dollars annually. Learn what happens when a man gives his business—literally—to God, and be inspired to steward your whole life for God's honor.
Book Synopsis Little Talks with Jesus by : Nancy Beck Irland
Download or read book Little Talks with Jesus written by Nancy Beck Irland and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of anecdotes that illustrate the meaning of various passages from the Bible.
Book Synopsis La Posada and Other Stories by : Robert Miskimon
Download or read book La Posada and Other Stories written by Robert Miskimon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-03-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories that includes the novella-length La Posada, the story of a group of Mexican-American farmworkers in the Salinas Valley of California who defy their corporate bosses to form a union and create their own farming cooperative. Other stories deal with the pain of adolescent love, rural eccentrics of the South and the death of a loved one.
Book Synopsis We Follow Jesus by : Christine Way Skinner
Download or read book We Follow Jesus written by Christine Way Skinner and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic Kid's Library
Book Synopsis pshew! short stories about this, that, and the other by : curtis shalo
Download or read book pshew! short stories about this, that, and the other written by curtis shalo and published by curtis shalo. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories that are totally unrelated! some are fiction, some not. Some are from the past, some from the present, and some from the future. there's a children's story, an advice column, and even lyrics to a rap musical.
Download or read book Benjamin's Box written by Melody Carlson and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for the perfect Easter picture book and a way to engage your children with the biblical story of Holy Week in a way they’ll remember? Learn about Jesus along with Benjamin as he follows Jesus through Jerusalem to find out who this man really is. When Jesus comes to Jerusalem, Benjamin first thinks he is a teacher, then a king. But as he follows Jesus throughout the week, filling his wooden box with special treasures along the way, he finally learns the REAL good news—Jesus is all about love. Benjamin’s Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs is: For ages 4–8 Beautifully illustrated, making this a book something to treasure Perfect for small group or individual reading experiences Ideal to use alongside Family Life’s Resurrection Eggs® or alone as a meaningful look at Jesus’ ministry and sacrifice Benjamin’s Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs brings the story of Jesus’ time in Jerusalem, his death, and resurrection to life for readers young and old.
Download or read book Wokelore written by Hardeep Matharu and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the story wherever it goes can take you to some unexpected places Wokelore is a thought-provoking collection of more than fifty articles, essays and stories you won’t find anywhere else. The first book from the independent and fearless newspaper Byline Times, it transports you from 1970s Europe to Putin’s Russia, from the days of empire in Kenya to Brexit Britain, shedding light on America’s political crisis and exposing the UK’s disastrous handling of COVID-19. The work collected here – from an impressive range of writers including Anthony Barnett, Otto English, Misha Glenny, Bonnie Greer, Salena Godden, Peter Oborne and Musa Okwonga – explores race, identity, disinformation, populism, the state of journalism, threats to our democracy and more, each piece offering a fresh take and new ideas.
