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Book Synopsis Pond Life and Other Stories by : Sam Kates
Download or read book Pond Life and Other Stories written by Sam Kates and published by Sam Kates. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly infatuation. Apocalypse. A haunted hotel. These are what you'll meet if you dare to venture inside. How would you react if you came across someone who claimed he caused the end of humankind? This is the question Jake must answer in The Third Coming, the story that spawned the Earth Haven trilogy. Would you dive into a pond that will alter you fundamentally? What if you are on a beach at Dunkirk, already facing near-certain death, when you look into the eyes of true evil? Try to avoid the Obsessives' Club—it's not somewhere you want to stay. Encounter a novel way of dealing with antisocial behaviour, a condemned prisoner who's convinced that she's Dorothy Gale, and a daring but brutal escape from a Siberian prison camp. Then there's a girl who claims she can fly, not to mention a ghost, maybe two. Ten stories of the macabre and the wondrous and the seemingly mundane… until you scratch beneath the surface.
Download or read book Pondlife written by Al Alvarez and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player – has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and fierce honesty – from his relentlessly nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles with the council to keep his disabled person's Blue Badge, the devastating effects of a stroke, and the salvation he finds in the three Ss – Swimming, Sex and Sleep. As Alvarez swims in the ponds he considers how it feels when you begin to miss that person you used to be – to miss yourself. Swimming is his own private form of protest against the onslaught of time; proof to others, and himself, that he's not yet beaten. By turns funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love, the importance of life's small pleasures and, above all, a lesson in not going gently in to that good night. _____________________ 'A beautiful unfolding of a story, told in deceptively simple prose but with a great power to move' Sunday Times 'The adrenalin still flows in lively extracts' The Times 'A marvellous book... it has no business to be as invigorating and absorbing – its success is against the odds' Observer
Download or read book Pond Life written by Barbara Taylor and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the variety of life found in a pond, including great diving beetles, frogs, and newts.
Book Synopsis In the Small, Small Pond by : Denise Fleming
Download or read book In the Small, Small Pond written by Denise Fleming and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Small, Small Pond is a 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.
Download or read book Pond written by Claire-Louise Bennett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments—the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator’s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known. Shimmering and unusual, Pond demands to be devoured in a single sitting that will linger long after the last page.
Download or read book Pond Life written by George K. Reid and published by Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is best viewed on a color device. This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various animals and plants live together in a community. Plus suggestions for: Where and when to look Observing and collecting specimens Making exciting discoveries
Download or read book Mr. Big written by Carol Dembicki and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pond dwellers make a plan to rid the pond of the destructive snapping turtle, but what does that mean for the delicate balance of the pond's ecosystem, especially when a new and more vicious predator is found lurking in the deep? Original.
Book Synopsis Would You Rather Be a Pollywog by : Bonnie Worth
Download or read book Would You Rather Be a Pollywog written by Bonnie Worth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cats normally don't like water, but the Cat in the Hat is no normal puss! He’s fond of ponds, and in this latest Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library book, he takes Sally and Dick on a trip to show them how ponds are fascinating places teeming with life. From algae to snails, leeches, insects, fish, frogs, newts, turtles, ducks, swans, and more, the Cat explains how all different kinds of plants and animals make their home in and around ponds, as well as examining the difference between complete and incomplete metamorphosis and the various stages of frog development. Ideal for spring and summer reading, this is a beginning reader that will inspire kids to get outside and explore!
Book Synopsis Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories by : Rummana Chowdhury
Download or read book Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories written by Rummana Chowdhury and published by Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2022 IPPY Bronze Medal for Multicultural Fiction; Finalist, International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. In Dusk in the Frog Pond, Rummana Chowdhury presents new narratives about the lived realities of Muslim women as they navigate life, be it in Bangladesh, on the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto or along the riotous waves of the Atlantic in New York. These eight powerful stories follow a series of intrepid Bangladeshi women as they confront the issues of migration, displacement, nostalgia, cultural assimilation, marriage and-above all-identity and loneliness. Despite the challenges facing them, these compelling characters seek out happiness, whether in arranged marriages, romantic relationships or in shaping their individual destinies. Each tale is a depiction of the tensions, active as well as simmering, between culture, tradition and history and the modern world. The collection is a compendium of both joy and sorrow, never forgetting the eternally burning fire of hope that lives and dies within all of us.
Book Synopsis The New Observer's Book of Pond Life by : John Clegg
Download or read book The New Observer's Book of Pond Life written by John Clegg and published by Frederick Warne Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pond Life written by Hiller Goodspeed and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Still Life and Other Stories by : Junzo Shono
Download or read book Still Life and Other Stories written by Junzo Shono and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13 stories in this collection by Japanese writer Junzo Shono are linked by the daily life of a husband and wife and their children. The stories are like the back of a tapestry where threads seem to cross randomly. Births, weddings, school activities, a suicide attempt - all occur out of view. Readers understand crucial events through ordinary days. But these quiet tales have a cumulative power. Toys, birds, and playing cards relate to human lives as portents, parallels, parodies. The mother, with her secret sorrows, and the puzzled, bemused father savor reveries and survive unexplained misfortunes. Shono's vivid snapshot technique, the layering of images, events, and conversations, creates an effect Western readers may find more akin to an Ozu film crossed with haiku than to traditional short stories.
Book Synopsis Marvels of Pond-Life by : Henry J. Slack
Download or read book Marvels of Pond-Life written by Henry J. Slack and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Book Synopsis GRANDAD’S EYE: and other stories by : Al James
Download or read book GRANDAD’S EYE: and other stories written by Al James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance encounters and life changing events are at the heart of these 19 stories. Paul believes he will never recover from the death of his wife until he meets one of her former friends. Despite his daughters' anxieties, a relationship begins to develop. The grandfather in the title story reluctantly tells his grandson how he lost an eye in the battle of the Somme. A soldier involved in the D. Day landings makes a promise to his friend. Grace, living in a residential home, struggles to separate present from past experience. All the stories in this collection draw you into the lives and emotions of those involved and make you want to keep reading. "That eye, boy . . . it tells a story." "It's staring up at me from the bottom of the glass. Through the water. I look up at him, at the empty socket the eye occupies every day. Like part of the right hand side of his head has been scooped out. t doesn't scare me. I've never known him any different."
Download or read book Moths written by Sam Kates and published by Sam Kates. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three dark novellas that delve into the nature of memory, madness and the afterlife. The Goldfish Syndrome: a mystery takes a sinister turn—some secrets are best left undiscovered… Moths: when the line between reality and fantasy grows blurred, tragedy beckons. Returned: a soul dragged from the afterlife, an ancient secret and a race against time to thwart evil.
Book Synopsis Oburoni and Other Stories by : Andrew Rees
Download or read book Oburoni and Other Stories written by Andrew Rees and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oburoni symbolises the sense of individuality, of being different, and yet warmly accepted. So it is for John in a land far away from home. This sense of change pervades Brian and Pats new home, Trishs search for a job, and Toms purchase, while Johns reflections on his life are echoed by Sonia on her long journey and the students first assignment. Life involves family, whether watching a favourite TV program, welcoming long-lost relatives, or seeking a beloved son. All of which form the ingredients of these tales, with their different themes and backgrounds, peaking in the joy of New Year celebrations.
Book Synopsis The Cleansing (Earth Haven: Book 1) by : Sam Kates
Download or read book The Cleansing (Earth Haven: Book 1) written by Sam Kates and published by Sam Kates. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypse unleashed. Swift and deadly. Merciless. Seven billion people inhabit this planet in blissful ignorance of imminent annihilation. Destruction comes, not from meteors or nuclear holocaust, but from a source no one even knows exists. The architects of doom have long moved among us, hidden in plain sight, waiting for the signal to trigger our extinction. A handful of survivors, traumatised and bewildered, must come to terms with the new reality. And quickly. For the Cleansing is only the beginning…
