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True Stories - We Made Up

Author : Michael Johnson
Publisher : Lck Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780989082105
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book True Stories - We Made Up written by Michael Johnson and published by Lck Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "True Stories - We Made Up" is a collection of short stories based on the lives of three authors: Michael Johnson, David Brett Beebe II, and Chris Johnson. There are mention of bears, the mark of the beast, superheroes, and maybe even a few miracles. They fill in the cracks of their memories with braggadocio and folklore; essentially turning themselves into the legends they grew to be. Not only will you get to see how their young minds thought, you'll also be transported back to your own childhood while reading about experiences many of us share growing up. Plus, you'll realize how cocky Chris was as a child.

The Truth about Stories

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887846963
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Back to Moscow

Author : Guillermo Erades
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478376
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Back to Moscow written by Guillermo Erades and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Martin came to Moscow at the turn of the millennium hoping to discover the country of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and his beloved Chekhov. Instead he found a city turned on its head, where the grimmest vestiges of Soviet life exist side by side with the nonstop hedonism of the newly rich. Along with his hard-living expat friends, Martin spends less and less time on his studies, choosing to learn about the Mysterious Russian Soul from the city's unhinged nightlife scene"--

We Made Uranium!

Author : Leila Sales
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022657198X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book We Made Uranium! written by Leila Sales and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Item #176: A fire drill. No, not an exercise in which occupants of a building practice leaving the building safely. A drill which safely emits a bit of fire, the approximate shape and size of a drill bit. Item #74: Enter a lecture class in street clothes. Receive loud phone call. Shout “I NEED TO GO, THE CITY NEEDS ME!” Remove street clothes to reveal superhero apparel. Run out for the good of the land. Item #293: Hypnotizing a chicken seems easy, but if the Wikipedia article on the practice is to be believed, debate on the optimal method is heated. Do some trials on a real chicken and submit a report . . . for science of course. Item #234: A walking, working, people-powered but preferably wind-powered Strandbeest. Item #188: Fattest cat. Points per pound. The University of Chicago’s annual Scavenger Hunt (or “Scav”) is one of the most storied college traditions in America. Every year, teams of hundreds of competitors scramble over four days to complete roughly 350 challenges. The tasks range from moments of silliness to 1,000-mile road trips, and they call on participants to fully embrace the absurd. For students it is a rite of passage, and for the surrounding community it is a chance to glimpse the lighter side of a notoriously serious university. We Made Uranium! shares the stories behind Scav, told by participants and judges from the hunt’s more than thirty-year history. The twenty-three essays range from the shockingly successful (a genuine, if minuscule, nuclear reaction created in a dorm room) to the endearing failures (it’s hard to build a carwash for a train), and all the chicken hypnotisms and permanent tattoos in between. Taken together, they show how a scavenger hunt once meant for blowing off steam before finals has grown into one of the most outrageous annual traditions at any university. The tales told here are absurd, uplifting, hilarious, and thought-provoking—and they are all one hundred percent true.

True Stories

Author : Garrick Beck
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532026021
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book True Stories written by Garrick Beck and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part eyewitness history, part storytelling, this book takes you on a rollicksome ride through a generation of experiences. True Stories traces the evolution of a New World Culture from the Beatnik 1950s through the passions and protests and psychedelics of the 1960s, and onward into environmental and cross-cultural arts and political movements which today are thriving around the world. Told with humor and peppered with the authors philosophy, these stories take the reader to party with author Jack Kerouac, protest with the saintly Dorothy Day, and drop acid with Merry Prankster Ken Kesey. The history recounted here uncovers the origins of The Oregon Country Faire, the Rainbow Gatherings and the infamous Vortex Festival. The tales thread their way through the intimacies of Americas West Coast communes, caustic anti-Vietnam War protests, the beauty of creating community gardens in vacant city lots, and the untold tale of what really brought down the Soviet Union.

Epiphany

Author : Elise Ballard
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307716104
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Epiphany written by Elise Ballard and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares inspirational true stories about life-changing moments as experienced by everyday people and such nationally recognized individuals as television host Dr. Mehmet Oz, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and renowned speaker Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Is That Story True?

Author : Laura Alary
Publisher : Copperhouse
ISBN 13 : 9781551455693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Is That Story True? written by Laura Alary and published by Copperhouse. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Maggie listens to a story about a little girl who grew up on the prairies, about a ruler who cut a knot in two, about a shepherd who went looking for a lost sheep, about a king who made a foolish wish, and finally, about a giant who lived in a beautiful garden, she discovers that some stories are true because they actually happened. Other stories are true because they tell us something true about a real person, place, or event, even if what they describe did not happen. And some stories are true - even if they are completely made up - because they tell us something true about our own experiences.

Not So True Stories and Unreasonable Rhymes

Author : Carin Berger
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811837736
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Not So True Stories and Unreasonable Rhymes written by Carin Berger and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awards and honors for "Not So True Stories and Unreasonable Rhymes: Bank Street College, Best Books of the Year.

Money

Author : Jacob Goldstein
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316417181
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Money written by Jacob Goldstein and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs. Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin. One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad. Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.

Postcards

Author : Jason Rodriguez
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 030749733X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Postcards written by Jason Rodriguez and published by Villard. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps.” –Frank Warren, author of PostSecret You’ve seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage postcards inscribed with handwritten notes, evocative messages that capture a thought, an expression, a concern, a snapshot of someone’s life once upon a time. Jason Rodriguez, acclaimed editor of Elk’s Run, collected a remarkable array of these correspondences, dispersed them among thirty-three of comics’ greatest creators, and asked each to craft a story about the person who sent it. The result is a vividly imagined, gorgeously rendered graphic anthology illustrating tales of romance, adventure, hardship, and mystery. In Postcards, these gifted artists share some of the richest and most inventive work of their careers.

True Stories

Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230052
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book True Stories written by Francis Spufford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination? Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on.

The Stories We Are

Author : William Randall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442617675
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Stories We Are written by William Randall and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of “story” our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole. In The Stories We Are, William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling styles through which people compose their lives. In doing so, he draws on a variety of fields, including psychology, psychotherapy, theology, philosophy, feminist theory, and literary theory. Using categories like plot, character, point of view, and style, Randall plays with the possibility that we each make sense of the events of our lives to the extent that we weave them into our own unfolding novel, as simultaneously its author, narrator, main character, and reader. In the process, he offers us a unique perspective on features of our day-to-day world such as secrecy, self-deception, gossip, prejudice, intimacy, maturity, and the proverbial “art of living.” First published in 1995, this second edition of The Stories We Are includes a new preface and afterword by the author that offer insight into his argument and evolution as a scholar, as well as an illuminating foreword by Ruthellen Josselson.

The Idea

Author : Erik Bork
Publisher : Overfall Presss
ISBN 13 : 9781732753013
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Idea written by Erik Bork and published by Overfall Presss. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Erik Bork (HBO's BAND OF BROTHERS) presents the seven fundamental characteristics of a great story in any medium. Writers tend to jump into the writing too quickly, without knowing they have a flawed central idea. This book is all about ensuring that doesn't happen!

I Am with You Always

Author : Gregory Scott Sparrow
Publisher : Christian Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9780802727039
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book I Am with You Always written by Gregory Scott Sparrow and published by Christian Large Print. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing the stories of people from all walks of life, a collection of case histories details the experiences of individuals who believe that their lives have been changed by encounters with Jesus Christ. (Religion)

True Stories 5

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book True Stories 5 written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Stories Behind the Stories

Author : Danielle Blenken
Publisher : BUSHEL PECK
ISBN 13 : 9781638190417
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Stories Behind the Stories written by Danielle Blenken and published by BUSHEL PECK. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that J.K. Rowling came up with Harry Potter while waiting for a delayed train? Or that Winnie the Pooh was inspired by a real bear who lived in the London Zoo? Or that Dav Pilkey's teacher once ripped up his drawings as a kid and told him he'd never make a living making silly comics? (Maybe we should introduce her to Captain Underpants.) In The Stories Behind the Stories, you'll hear all these incredible stories about your favorite kid's books and authors and much more! Includes full-color illustrations plus other fascinating facts and tidbits to satisfy even the most curious reader.

Information is Beautiful

Author : David McCandless
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007294662
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Information is Beautiful written by David McCandless and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miscellaneous facts and ideas are interconnected and represented in a visual format, a "visual miscellaneum," which represents "a series of experiments in making information approachable and beautiful" -- from p.007