Strange Lands Short Stories

Download Strange Lands Short Stories full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Strange Lands Short Stories ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Strange Lands Short Stories

Author :
Publisher : Flame Tree Collections
ISBN 13 : 9781839642371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Strange Lands Short Stories by :

Download or read book Strange Lands Short Stories written by and published by Flame Tree Collections. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Marketing focus on combination of gift production and high content values, delivering a curated read to genre enthusiasts. • Spotlight on submission process for the new stories, promoted online through blogs and social media • Monthly newsletter to increase mailing list of genre special interest readers. • Major interest pushed through Instagram, with Youtube reviewers and influences. Strange lands in fiction stretch from deep below the earth, to the outer reaches of space. This incredible new collection combines the talents of a new generation of writers with classic and ancient storytellers: from H.G. Wells to Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe to Jules Verne. Find here too the Land of the Lotus Eaters from Homer’s Odyssey and the mad horrors of H.P. Lovecraft, the utopian fantasies of Samuel Butler and, from Hans Christian Andersen an early fantasy about visiting the moon. ‘Strange Lands’ is fabulous collection of enduring and brand new tales. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Rhoads Brazos, Ed Burkley, Ramsey Campbell, Victoria Dalpe, Philip Ellis, Marissa Harwood, R. Leigh Hennig, Gordon Linzner, Christian Macklam, S.R. Masters, P.L. McMillan, Hannah Onoguwe, Alex Penland, Kelly Sandoval, Sam Stark, and M. Elizabeth Ticknor. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444710230
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stranger in a Strange Land by : Robert A. Heinlein

Download or read book Stranger in a Strange Land written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original uncut edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Hugo Award winner Robert A Heinlein - one of the most beloved, celebrated science-fiction novels of all time. Epic, ambitious and entertaining, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND caused controversy and uproar when it was first published and is still topical and challenging today. Twenty-five years ago, the first manned mission to Mars was lost, and all hands presumed dead. But someone survived... Born on the doomed spaceship and raised by the Martians who saved his life, Valentine Michael Smith has never seen a human being until the day a second expedition to Mars discovers him. Upon his return to Earth, a young nurse named Jill Boardman sneaks into Smith's hospital room and shares a glass of water with him, a simple act for her but a sacred ritual on Mars. Now, connected by an incredible bond, Smith, Jill and a writer named Jubal must fight to protect a right we all take for granted: the right to love.

Wandering in Strange Lands

Author : Morgan Jerkins
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063212447
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Wandering in Strange Lands by : Morgan Jerkins

Download or read book Wandering in Strange Lands written by Morgan Jerkins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year “One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book Riot Featuring a new afterword from the author, Morgan Jerkins' powerful story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America. Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. But while this event transformed the complexion of America and provided black people with new economic opportunities, it also disconnected them from their roots, their land, and their sense of identity, argues Morgan Jerkins. In this fascinating and deeply personal exploration, she recreates her ancestors’ journeys across America, following the migratory routes they took from Georgia and South Carolina to Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California. Following in their footsteps, Jerkins seeks to understand not only her own past, but the lineage of an entire group of people who have been displaced, disenfranchised, and disrespected throughout our history. Through interviews, photos, and hundreds of pages of transcription, Jerkins braids the loose threads of her family’s oral histories, which she was able to trace back 300 years, with the insights and recollections of black people she met along the way—the tissue of black myths, customs, and blood that connect the bones of American history. Incisive and illuminating, Wandering in Strange Lands is a timely and enthralling look at America’s past and present, one family’s legacy, and a young black woman’s life, filtered through her sharp and curious eyes.

Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

Author : Sonia Nimir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1623710804
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by : Sonia Nimir

Download or read book Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands written by Sonia Nimir and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PRESIGIOUS ETISALAT AWARD AN ADVENTURE-FILLED HISTORICAL-FOLKLORIC NOVEL ABOUT A PALESTINIAN GIRL WHO DEVELOPS GREAT HEALING SKILLS AND TRAVELS AROUND THE REGION, SOMETIMES DRESSED AS A MAN Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist-fable-plus-historical-novel that tells an episodic travel narrative, like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman. The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero—Qamr—is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Qamr’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. Qamr’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamr takes her favorite book, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, and flees through Gaza, to Egypt, where she is captured, enslaved, and sold to the sister of the mad king in Egypt. After escaping, she flees to study with a polymath in Morocco. But when it’s discovered she’s a girl, she must leave again, disguising herself as a boy pirate to sail the Mediterranean. Through all her fast-paced battles, mysteries, and adventures, Qamr never finds a home, but she does manage to create a family.

African Myths & Tales

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1839643102
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis African Myths & Tales by :

Download or read book African Myths & Tales written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong custom of storytelling and which often share similar elements, characters and ideas between peoples. So this collection offers a hefty selection of legends and tales – stories of the gods, creation and origins, trickster exploits, animal fables and stories which entertain and edify – from ‘Obatala Creates Mankind’, from the Yoruba people of west Africa, to ‘The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars’, from the San people of southern Africa, all collected in a gorgeous gold-foiled and embossed hardback to treasure.

When Tito Loved Clara

Author : Jon Michaud
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616200553
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis When Tito Loved Clara by : Jon Michaud

Download or read book When Tito Loved Clara written by Jon Michaud and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clara Lugo grew up in a home that would have rattled the most grounded of children. Through brains and determination, she has long since slipped the bonds of her confining Dominican neighborhood in the northern reaches of Manhattan. Now she tries to live a settled professional life with her American husband and son in the suburbs of New Jersey—often thwarted by her constellation of relatives who don’t understand her gringa ways. Her mostly happy life is disrupted, however, when Tito, a former boyfriend from fifteen years earlier, reappears. Something has impeded his passage into adulthood. His mother calls him an Unfinished Man. He still carries a torch for Clara; and she harbors a secret from their past. Their reacquaintance sets in motion an unraveling of both of their lives and reveals what the cost of assimilation—or the absence of it—has meant for each of them. This immensely entertaining novel—filled with wit and compassion—marks the debut of a fine writer.

Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales

Author :
Publisher : Flame Tree Collections
ISBN 13 : 9781839642364
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales by :

Download or read book Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales written by and published by Flame Tree Collections. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Marketing focus on combination of gift production and high content values, delivering a curated read to genre enthusiasts. • Major interest pushed through Instagram, with Youtube reviewers and influences. In the West we tend to think of witches in terms of the witch trials, when fear, ignorance and religious fervour brought the poor to heel, and fostered suspicion of those who dared to be different, or knowledgeable, or independent of mind. Witches and wizards are often associated with pre-Christian societies, Celtic in particular, (and therefore popular in tales of fantasy), but the nature of their wisdom can be found in so many fascinating cultures across the world. Ancient societies, particularly where natural religions with many gods abound, often highlight the power of an elder, or a seer, a healer or a wise friend. Tales of wizards and witches reach across traditions as folk try to explain natural phenomena and engage with the world around them. Those who understood the properties of healing in plants, or could make a prediction of weather events to rescue crops, became worshipped as elders, as keepers of knowledge. In tribal African societies, Polynesian cultures and East Asian traditions there are tales of those with great knowledge who are often described as witches or wizards. The Baba Yaga of Eastern Europe, Bokwewa, the humpback magician of the Chippewa, Merlin and Morgana la Faye of Arthurian Legend and the fox witches of Japan are but a few of the many examples. Some work for good, others with ill-intent, but all become the focus of folkloric legend, collected here in this new book of myths and tales.

Stories of strange lands; and fragments from the notes of a traveller

Author : Sarah Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stories of strange lands; and fragments from the notes of a traveller by : Sarah Lee

Download or read book Stories of strange lands; and fragments from the notes of a traveller written by Sarah Lee and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Signposts in a Strange Land

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216375
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Signposts in a Strange Land by : Walker Percy

Download or read book Signposts in a Strange Land written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: “His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening” (Library Journal). Published just after Walker Percy’s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South’s most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy’s celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.

I Will Fear No Evil

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101503084
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis I Will Fear No Evil by : Robert A. Heinlein

Download or read book I Will Fear No Evil written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-04-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant from New York Times bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein. As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's awesome masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything. Even a new life in the body of a beautiful young woman. Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delievers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction.

A Good Old-Fashioned Future

Author : Bruce Sterling
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0307796809
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Good Old-Fashioned Future by : Bruce Sterling

Download or read book A Good Old-Fashioned Future written by Bruce Sterling and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty--the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers. They live as strangers in strange lands. In worlds that have fallen--or should have. They wage battles in wars already lost and become heroes--and sometimes martyrs--in their last-ditch efforts to preserve the dignity and individuality of humanity. A hack Indian filmmaker takes the pulse of a wounded and declining civilization--21st-century Britain. A pair of swashbuckling Silicon Valley entrepreneurs join forces to make a commercial killing--in organic underground slime and computer-generated jellyfish. A man in a Japanese city takes orders from a talking cat while pursuing a drama of danger and adventure that has become the very essence of his life. From "The Littlest Jackal", a darkly hilarious thriller of mercs and gunrunners set in Finland, to a stark vision of a post-atomic netherworld in his haunting tale "Taklamakan", Bruce Sterling once again breaks boundaries, breaks icons, and breaks rules to unleash the most dangerously provocative and intelligent science fiction being written today.

Love Is an Ex-Country

Author : Randa Jarrar
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646221222
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Love Is an Ex-Country by : Randa Jarrar

Download or read book Love Is an Ex-Country written by Randa Jarrar and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review). Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer's journey across the United States in the 1940s, she sets off from her home in California to her parents' in Connecticut. Coloring this road trip are journeys abroad and recollections of a life lived with daring. Reclaiming her autonomy after a life of survival--domestic assault as a child, and later, as a wife; threats and doxxing after her viral tweet about Barbara Bush--Jarrar offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body. On the way, she schools a rest-stop racist, destroys Confederate flags in the desert, and visits the Chicago neighborhood where her immigrant parents first lived. Hailed as "one of the finest writers of her generation" (Laila Lalami), Jarrar delivers a euphoric and critical, funny and profound memoir that will speak to anyone who has felt erased, asserting: I am here. I am joyful.

Chinese Myths & Tales

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1787552640
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Chinese Myths & Tales by :

Download or read book Chinese Myths & Tales written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated new Myths and Tales. Great floods and river Gods, snake spirits, and Immortals, China's unique set of mythological tales are derived from its vast expanse, diverse culture and the endless wars between tribes and dynasties. The result is a rich landscape of humanity, gods and spirits introduced here in this comprehensive book of folk tales and legendary exploits. The latest title in Flame Tree's beautiful, comprehensive series of Gothic Fantasy titles, concentrates on the ancient, epic origins of modern fantasy.

Native in a Strange Land

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574230222
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Native in a Strange Land by : Wanda Coleman

Download or read book Native in a Strange Land written by Wanda Coleman and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory".

Heroes & Heroines Myths & Tales

Author :
Publisher : Flame Tree Collections
ISBN 13 : 9781839641664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Heroes & Heroines Myths & Tales by :

Download or read book Heroes & Heroines Myths & Tales written by and published by Flame Tree Collections. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our worldwide storytelling heritage is vast and varied and yet contains common threads, themes and motifs running throughout the many legends, whether they hail from the dusty plains of Africa or the cherry-blossom-blanketed hills of Japan. This astonishing anthology, in Flame Tree’s covetable series of myths and tales, gathers together the most iconic and entertaining tales of adventure and daring from around the world. From Perseus the Gorgon-Slayer of Greek myhology, and the exploits of Frithiof the Bold of Norse saga fame, to the tragic tale of Irish heroine Deirdre, these exciting stories vibrate with the heart and soul of age-old narrative. An extended introduction is followed by four main sections, with mythic stories from Mexico, Egypt, India and more: Tales of Warriors, Travel & Adventure; Heroes & Heroines in Literature & Poetry; Legends of the Gods, Demigods & Culture Heroes; Leading Ladies & Affairs of the Heart.

Strangers in Their Own Land

Author : Arlie Russell Hochschild
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973987
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Strangers in Their Own Land by : Arlie Russell Hochschild

Download or read book Strangers in Their Own Land written by Arlie Russell Hochschild and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.

In the Orbit of Sirens

Author : T. A. Bruno
Publisher : Song of Kamaria
ISBN 13 : 9781734647006
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis In the Orbit of Sirens by : T. A. Bruno

Download or read book In the Orbit of Sirens written by T. A. Bruno and published by Song of Kamaria. This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmarish machines have driven humanity into the depths of space. The survivors are forced to adapt to a planet filled with monsters.