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Book Synopsis The Family Curse and Other Stories by : Josette Weiss
Download or read book The Family Curse and Other Stories written by Josette Weiss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Family Curse and Other Stories is a collection of short stories ranging from twisted fairy tales to the paranormal. There are ghosts, vampires, and other things, which go bump in the night.
Book Synopsis The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories by : Gigi Pandian
Download or read book The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories written by Gigi Pandian and published by Gargoyle Girl Productions. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove of nine locked room mysteries from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Gigi Pandian, all set in the Jaya Jones world. Appearing here for the first time, novelette The Cambodian Curse: When an ancient and supposedly cursed Cambodian sculpture disappears from an impenetrable museum, and the carving’s owner is killed by an invisible assailant while a witness is a few feet away, historian Jaya Jones and her old nemesis Henry North team up to solve the baffling crime. Stories included: “The Cambodian Curse,” “The Hindi Houdini,” “The Haunted Room,” “The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn,” “The Curse of Cloud Castle,” “Tempest in a Teapot,” “A Dark and Stormy Light,” “The Shadow of the River,” plus bonus novella "Fool’s Gold". With an Introduction from New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King addressing why we love locked rooms, and a Foreword from impossible crime mystery historian Douglas G. Greene, teasing out the tradition of John Dickson Carr that Pandian is following. This collection is filled with ingenious stories of magic, mystery, and history.
Book Synopsis Curses, Inc. And Other Stories by : Vivian Vande Velde
Download or read book Curses, Inc. And Other Stories written by Vivian Vande Velde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spell that gets you land, money, long golden hair, or a date to the prom can’t be a curse, can it? A curse just gets you dead. Or does it?. . . In these ten stunning short stories, boys and girls learn firsthand just what magic spells, enchantments, and curses really can do. “Give this one to readers who are ready for some sophisticated tales of the supernatural.” —Booklist
Book Synopsis Sherlock Holmes - The Persian Slipper and Other Stories by : Brenda Seabrooke
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes - The Persian Slipper and Other Stories written by Brenda Seabrooke and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wonder where Sherlock Holmes found the Persian slipper he keeps his shag tobacco in? Had Holmes and Watson ever met before that day at St. Barts? Did Holmes really believe in curses when he said he did? Dr. John Watson reveals the answers to these questions in The Persian Slipper and Other Stories along with cases involving the putative Naval Man, a night spent at a gentlemen's club, Holmes' second marriage proposal, a movable tree, and a surprising wedding ending. Eight traditional pastiches with a touch of fantasy here and there were published in Holmes anthologies at Belanger Books in the US and MX Publishing in the UK. Brenda Seabrooke is the author of 22 books - mostly mysteries - for young readers and many stories in anthologies and literary journals. She has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robie Macauley Award from Emerson College and was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award at Mystery Writers of America.
Book Synopsis On the Rez and Other Stories by : Barbara Wyatt Olson
Download or read book On the Rez and Other Stories written by Barbara Wyatt Olson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen stories of quiet longing and desire, of second chances, and no chance at all. In On the Rez, when youre broken down and abandoned in Indian territory, on the dusty back roads of Kansas, there are certain to be monsters and fiends. In Ask for Anything, a family escaped into the Blue Ridge Mountains learns you do not always get what you think you want. In Florida Blues, a former lover on a prison visit must face regret, heartache, and frustration. While in California Quarter, a lady friend has not agreed to starving on the trip home.
Book Synopsis My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories by : James Selwin Tait
Download or read book My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories written by James Selwin Tait and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories" by James Selwin Tait. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Family Curse written by Bruce Lewis and published by 2 Pirates Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single act of cruelty by famous photographer-ethnologist Edward S. Curtis in 1932 created a ripple in time that cursed generations of the Byrne Family. When its latest victim, Oregon vineyard owner Colin Byrne, discovers why his father savagely beat him as a child for no apparent reason, blinding one eye, Byrne flies into a rage, intent on punishing Curtis. But how do you avenge a wrong by a man who has been dead for 80 years? When Byrne's history-defying plot goes awry, he fights for his life again while his ultimate prize—breaking the family curse—slips away. With time running out and police on his trail for a scheme that left a library rare book room guard clinging to life, Byrne has one chance to escape prison and rewrite the pages of history.
Download or read book Family Curse written by M. G. Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories by : William D. Kaufman
Download or read book The Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories written by William D. Kaufman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents’ homeland in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels. We watch the young author forced alongside "every Jewish boy on the block" to emulate Yehudi Menuhin on a ten-dollar violin with a moldy bow until the boy is spared by an innate lack of talent and his father’s judgment of his concert: "Enough is enough is more than enough." Kaufman is carefully attuned to the awkwardness of adulthood as well as to that of early adolescence. In "Interlude in Bangkok," his narrator scours the city for a synagogue while pursued by a prostitute. Later he and a friend encounter Greta Garbo in a museum café and are too frightened to approach her. Aware of their intrigue, the mysterious movie star intones, "I am not she"; Kaufman, in his own way, says that of himself in these stories through an autobiographical narrator whose memories take on resonant, literary shapes in their retelling.
Book Synopsis A Matter of Skill and Other Stories by : Beatrice Whitby
Download or read book A Matter of Skill and Other Stories written by Beatrice Whitby and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories by : John Buchan
Download or read book The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories written by John Buchan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories. In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work.
Download or read book Shadow People written by Josette Weiss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maribele has suffered from night terrors for four years. The doctors don't know what's wrong with her. As a last resort her mother, Constance visits a psychic, but her daughter can't be psychic. Now Maribele is thrust into a dangerous world of ghosts and demons.
Author :Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Publisher :Rutgers University Press ISBN 13 :9780813514017 Total Pages :276 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (14 download)
Book Synopsis The Amber Gods, and Other Stories by : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Download or read book The Amber Gods, and Other Stories written by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains ten tales -- including five that have never before appeared in book form -- by Hamet Prescott Spofford, the only woman writer to master the mode of the symbolic romance, which is often clamed to represent the mainstream of American fiction. Spofford dazzled readers in the early 1860s with a number of stories that seemed to enlarge the boundaries of romantic fiction. She established a reputation as the female heir to the literary tradition of Poe and Hawthorne with such works as the detective story "In a Cellar," the complex symbolic romance "The Amber Gods," and the frightening tale of frontier adventure. "Circumstance." These three stories provide the most important female counterpart to the works of the major male romantics and represent the final flowering of romantic fiction in New England.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Door and Other Stories by : Makuchi
Download or read book The Sacred Door and Other Stories written by Makuchi and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon. The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society’s oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora’s box, concludes with the question, “What would you have done?” Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.
Book Synopsis Freddie vs. The Family Curse by : Tracy Badua
Download or read book Freddie vs. The Family Curse written by Tracy Badua and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling and hilarious middle grade adventure, a young Filipino-American boy must team up with his ancestor to break the curse that’s haunted their family for generations . . . or be trapped in an amulet forever. Freddie Ruiz is cursed. While other people may have bad days, Freddie and his family have had bad generations: from bird poop splatting on him during picture day to the many tumbles and trips that earned him the nickname Faceplant Freddie. He’s learned to lay low and keep himself out of trouble—which means no fun, no friends, and definitely no risks. But when he discovers a family heirloom, a century-old amulet from the Philippines that’s supposed to bring good fortune, Freddie thinks his luck is finally about to change. He couldn’t be more wrong. Because the spirit of Freddie’s cranky great-granduncle Ramon is trapped in the heirloom, and the evil spirits responsible for his death have returned with a vengeance. Now, Freddie and his cousin, Sharkey, have thirteen days to break the curse, or Freddie will join Ramon for an untimely afterlife in the amulet.
Book Synopsis Room in our Hearts and Other Stories by : K L Chowdhury
Download or read book Room in our Hearts and Other Stories written by K L Chowdhury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the tales of our times, of ordinary people, their joys and sorrows, their hopes and fears, their beliefs and doubts, and their desire to get along in life in spite of multiple challenges. Of people who have been uprooted from their homes and are trying to find their moorings again, of the people they left behind, and of the unbreakable bonds that connect them in spite of the forces of disruption and discord. KL Chowdhury draws upon his experiences as a physician and a keen observer of people to present this colourful bouquet. The author's sympathetic eye and humanity shine through each of these stories. The duality of human nature-the good and bad, the indulgence and indifference, the trust and skepticism, the love and hatred-resonates in all the stories and make Room in Our Hearts a riveting read. KL Chowdhury's first two volumes of short stories-Faith and Frenzy and Why Don't You Convert?-have won much critical acclaim, and this third collection is even finer.
Book Synopsis Qingming Festival and Other Stories by : Zhang Tianyi
Download or read book Qingming Festival and Other Stories written by Zhang Tianyi and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelette Qingming Festival was written by the famous Chinese writer Zhang Tianyi. In the story, a domestic conflict between two landlords is finally ended with reconciliation by the scarring of three soldiers, revealing the ferocity and cruelty of the feudal forces. "Bao and His Son" depicts the image of Bao as an honest, nice father with a weak character who has great expectations for his son, but he ends up disappointed. The South-Yangze River Water Village serves as the background. This story was made into a 1983 film by Beijing Film Studio. "Mrs. Huawei," published in 1938, depicts the bureaucratic image of a self-contented and obstinate Kuomintang official by the use of exaggeration and satire.
