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Author : David Bohm
Publisher : Centrala
ISBN 13 : 9781912278060
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Silence of the Hippo Black Folktales written by David Bohm and published by Centrala. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales as reimagined by children from Central African Republic.
Author : Elwin Cotman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668018853
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Weird Black Girls written by Elwin Cotman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover’s memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman’s ability to reveal truths about the human experience—about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. Elegiac in tone, imaginative and humorous in their execution, the character-driven stories in Weird Black Girls challenge, incite, and entertain.
Author : Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Stories of the Saints for Children. The Black Letter Saints written by Mrs. Molesworth and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Lewis
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 139861775X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (986 download)
Download or read book The Silent Rebellion written by Chris Lewis and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders ask questions. Rebellious leaderships is about asking the right ones, such as 'who needs to act' and 'what needs to be done to make this better'. In the aftermath of the global pandemic, everything has changed, and the fault lines of leadership were exposed. No area remains untouched. Government, education, health care social media, public, private and third sectors have all shifted. The failures of leadership demand a reimagining of how we will move ahead. Yet, it's not all doom and gloom. There is a way forward. Leadership expert, Chris Lewis, and business coach, Inez Robinson-Odom, address the challenges facing leaders today. This is not just theory. The lessons they teach come from working together in a commercially successful global enterprise, specializing in campaigns for commercial and community causes. The Silent Rebellion highlights the leaders of those communities and how they make a difference as modern leaders. The Silent Rebellion shows you how to be a different sort of leader. It considers the lessons of history and how they inform the future. Taking inspiration from unexpected places and unique figures such as Pauli Murray, Thomas Aquinas, George Washington Carver and Rene Descartes, you'll learn what it means to be a modern leader. The book also uses QR codes to link videos and examples of related content to bring the material to life.
Author : Sarah Gailey
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250176433
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book American Hippo written by Sarah Gailey and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.
Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815610335
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories written by David Shrayer-Petrov and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.
Author : Bruce A. Rosenberg
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870496813
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Folklore and Literature written by Bruce A. Rosenberg and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature's dependence on a few folktale plots is a cliche, and the significance of structuralist theory cannot have escaped many scholars, so Rosenberg's insistence on the interrelation of folklore and literature is nothing new. He surveys the foundational work of Aarne, Thompson, and Propp and the oral-formulaic theories of Parry and Lord, but the references are too elliptical to be clear to nonspecialists, while explanations of methodology will be redundant to folklorists. Bits of good material, of interest to medievalists and other literary scholars (especially on Beo wulf and on Chaucerian narrative), are buried in this disjointed collection of chapters. Serious editorial lapses include the complete absence of footnotes, forcing inappropriate supplementary matter into the body of the text and further blurring its weak structure. The parity of literary and narrative-folklore studies is the author's underlying theme, but his preoccupation with status in the academic hierarchy does nothing to make his arguments on the symbiosis of the two disciplines more convincing. - Patricia Dooley, Univ. of Washington Lib. Sch., Seattle Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Publisher : Philip van Wulven
ISBN 13 : 0986647705
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (866 download)
Download or read book In the Valley stories written by and published by Philip van Wulven. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : True stories
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book True stories from the history of the Church written by True stories and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Devron Green
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787190781
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Tattooed Tails: short & even shorter global stories written by Tim Devron Green and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim has spent much of his life travelling on behalf of multinationals, and these short stories are inspired by his global journeys and adventures. They are gripping tales with dark twists, wicked humour, warmth and intrigue. Don't start reading this fascinating collection until you have a few hours spare, as you simply won't be able to put it down. Not surprisingly, Tim's short stories have already featured in critically acclaimed anthologies. Published reviews of Tim Devron Green's recent novel Drowning "e;It's hard for me to imagine an audience to which Drowning would not appeal."e; "e;Absolutely brilliant."e; "e;This a compellingly dark novel which, once past page 13, is impossible to put down."e; "e;This is a page turner with an interesting plot which twists and turns - just the thing for a long flight."e;
Author : Lisa Grainger
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1432306197
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Stories Gogo Told Me written by Lisa Grainger and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a storyteller in almost every village in Africa. Telling stories is not her offi cial job. By day she may be a Gogo, a teacher, a farmer or a seamstress. But at night, round the fi re, she will sit surrounded by young children, old friends, neighbours and travellers. She will tell of how it was in the olden days, when the earth was young, when man was a hunter-gatherer, and when the animals roamed wild throughout the continent. The author spent several months hiking around the villages, towns, farms and deserts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa, asking people who can’t read or write to tell her their favourite stories. The result is this children’s treasury of legends and fables, of witchdoctors and kingdoms of strange creatures and talking animals, which celebrates Africa and its ancient storytelling culture.
Author : Bill Wheatley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462814727
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Crow Stories written by Bill Wheatley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CROW STORIES tell the adventures of two unusual corvine beings. Hykso, who lives in the time of the pharaohs, leaves his home to search through the Course of Human Events for something to do worthy of his corvine intelligence. Dmitri, from Russia, is trying to solve the mystery of human endeavor--what are the ingenious bipeds doing so obsessively? Their journeys entwine the two crows along with the humans they are trying to understand.
Author : Sarah Gailey
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250176425
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book American Hippo written by Sarah Gailey and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017 Sarah Gailey made her debut with River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, two action-packed novellas that introduced readers to an alternate America in which hippos rule the colossal swamp that was once the Mississippi River. Now readers have the chance to own both novellas in American Hippo, a single, beautiful volume. Years ago, in an America that never was, the United States government introduced herds of hippos to the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This plan failed to take into account some key facts about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. By the 1890s, the vast bayou that was once America's greatest waterway belongs to feral hippos, and Winslow Houndstooth has been contracted to take it back. To do so, he will gather a crew of the damnedest cons, outlaws, and assassins to ever ride a hippo. American Hippo is the story of their fortunes, their failures, and his revenge. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : L. Frank Baum
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494404635
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Laughing Hippopotamus (Masterpiece Collection) written by L. Frank Baum and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On one of the upper branches of the Congo river lived an ancient and aristocratic family of hippopotamuses, which boasted a pedigree dating back beyond the days of Noah-beyond the existence of mankind-far into the dim ages when the world was new. They had always lived upon the banks of this same river, so that every curve and sweep of its waters, every pit and shallow of its bed, every rock and stump and wallow upon its bank was as familiar to them as their own mothers. And they are living there yet, I suppose. Not long ago the queen of this tribe of hippopotamuses had a child which she named Keo, because it was so fat and round. Still, that you may not be misled, I will say that in the hippopotamus language "Keo," properly translated, means "fat and lazy" instead of fat and round. However, no one called the queen's attention to this error, because her tusks were monstrous long and sharp, and she thought Keo the sweetest baby in the world. He was, indeed, all right for a hippopotamus. He rolled and played in the soft mud of the river bank, and waddled inland to nibble the leaves of the wild cabbage that grew there, and was happy and contented from morning till night. And he was the jolliest hippopotamus that ancient family had ever known. His little red eyes were forever twinkling with fun, and he laughed his merry laugh on all occasions, whether there was anything to laugh at or not.
Author : Matt Ritson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848767315
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)
Download or read book The Hippo-Chronos written by Matt Ritson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alex, his enigmatic dog Boris and his best mate Conna meet up with the new girls in school, Maddie and Bex, they witness a bizarre explosion at his reclusive neighbour Tom’s house. They are first on the scene and discover him lying hurt beside a strange mechanical sculpture, The Hippo-Chronos. Urgently, the dazed old Greek confronts Alex with a fantastic story which shocks the normally level-headed boy to the core: his father is not only alive and well, but trapped in Alexandria – in 48 BC!Over a period of days, the four listen while Tom tries to convince them of how the design and development of an ancient time-machine was entirely possible in the Great Library of Alexandria, just before it mysteriously burned to the ground. Is Tom going senile? Is there another more logical explanation to Alex’s dad’s disappearance? Or, could the whole intriguing tale somehow, just possibly be true after all? The Hippo-Chronos is a 2,000 year old mystery adventure which opens up a whole ancient, yet rational world for readers aged 14 and over. It is not a stuffy history lecture, but a bittersweet tale and very human adventure story of both modern and ancient youth. The story will be concluded in The Hippo-Tempus AKA The Alexandria Key.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Select Index to South African Literature in English written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hathaway Capstick
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466803924
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Death in the Long Grass written by Peter Hathaway Capstick and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1978-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer. Based on Capstick’s own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grassportrays the great killers of the African bush—not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world—underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.
