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Bread and Salt

Author : Valerie Miner
Publisher : Whitepoint Press
ISBN 13 : 1944856234
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Bread and Salt written by Valerie Miner and published by Whitepoint Press. This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling and vivid, the stories in Bread and Salt use the metaphor of salvage to consider the reclamation of the natural environment, human relationships, and material objects. The characters in these stories live and travel in Tunisia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, France, and the United States and consider their individual agency in both local and global contexts. The characters' conflicts reveal how family and friendships are enriched by differences.

Books in Bloom

Author : Valerie Bang-Jensen
Publisher : National Gardening Association, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780615936802
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Books in Bloom written by Valerie Bang-Jensen and published by National Gardening Association, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This curriculum invites children to learn about science while experiencing a great story. Each chapter features a popular children's books that's perfect for families, classrooms, after-school programs, anyone who gardens with children. PreK-5.

Chilling Effect

Author : Valerie Valdes
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062877240
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Chilling Effect written by Valerie Valdes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jam-packed with weird aliens, mysterious artifacts, and lovable characters... a tremendous good time and an impressive debut.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure. Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.

The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories

Author : Valerie Sayers
Publisher : Slant
ISBN 13 : 1725253739
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories written by Valerie Sayers and published by Slant. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity's eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other--but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a time when racial equality seemed almost possible; a teenager endures her father's abandonment as her mother's psychotic episodes pick up pace; an old couple on the lam from the Constitutional Guard of the future hides out in a garage reminiscent of our consumerist past. In an age many call post-religious, these characters want to believe in something, but they're not always sure what that something is. Set in landscapes from the small-town South to New York City, from a parched Midwest to a deserted Dublin, these stories time-travel from our Jim Crow past to an imagined future of warehouses for the aged where robots do the nursing. With what the Washington Post describes as her ""distinctive brutal elegance,"" Valerie Sayers writes playfully, powerfully, and musically. These stories form an album riffing on our age, the Age of Infidelity.

Marry or Burn

Author : Valerie Trueblood
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582435987
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Marry or Burn written by Valerie Trueblood and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Seven Loves comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature of modern marriage, the life–shattering heartbreak that often accompanies its collapse, and the fickle way in which the boundaries between us can be broken, erased, and newly defined. At her daughter's wedding, an alcoholic widow finds a new beginning when she is swept off her feet by the bride's former secret lover. A man finds himself in a position of terrible power when he discovers his ex–wife's boyfriend with another woman. A woman who killed her policeman husband in a rage struggles to reconcile feelings of emotional worthlessness and a longing for human affection after two decades in prison. A widower of twenty–three years introduces his wary daughters to his new love, a woman whom he has decided to marry one week after meeting, and who once took an axe to a bear to save her husband. Trueblood unites past and present through her characters' complex personalities as she skillfully unravels their tumultuous relationships, giving readers a glimpse into marital circumstances that, though often tragic, will surely ring familiar.

The Short Story

Author : Valerie Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872789
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Short Story written by Valerie Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.

Let's Dance!

Author : Valerie Bolling
Publisher : Thinkingdom
ISBN 13 : 1635923638
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Let's Dance! written by Valerie Bolling and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rhythmic showcase of dances from all over the world features children of diverse backgrounds and abilities tapping, spinning, and boogying away! Tap, twirl, twist, spin! With musical, rhyming text, author Valerie Bolling shines a spotlight on dances from across the globe, while energetic art from Maine Diaz shows off all the moves and the diverse people who do them. From the cha cha of Cuba to the stepping of Ireland, kids will want to leap, dip, and zip along with the dances on the page!

Samantha's Short Story Collection

Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781593691257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Samantha's Short Story Collection written by Valerie Tripp and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Samantha as she grows up in the United States in the 20th century.

Valerie

Author : Sara Stridsberg
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720614
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Valerie written by Sara Stridsberg and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie Solanas In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away. A leading feminist in Sweden and one of the most acclaimed writers in Scandinavia, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, self-making and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, she reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, reaching back in time to amplify her voice and bring her powerful, heartbreaking story into new light.

Property

Author : Valerie Martin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742734X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Property written by Valerie Martin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing—so prised and clean limbed—is a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved). Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.

Search Party

Author : Valerie Trueblood
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619021498
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Search Party written by Valerie Trueblood and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the epigraph to this volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us: "If a story begins with finding, it must end with searching," and so we discover each story here to follow the arc of a search, just as each also contains a rescue. What is immediately apparent is that it will be impossible to guess the form this rescue will take or even who it is who'll require it. Instead, the astonishingly talented Valerie Trueblood has imbued each story with its own depth and mystery, so rescue comes as a surprise to the reader, who is in intimate sympathy for the soul in extremity. And these are diverse characters whose fates, in lesser hands, might be thought of as hopeless: the fired cop turned security guard, the stolid, 19–year–old nurses' aide who will not be going to art school, the cynical radio producer who is dying of breast cancer and on a plane on her way to Lourdes. In these thirteen stories linked by a common transcendent human genius, the writing is confident and clear and original, and often drop–dead stunning, as if the stories are being told by the most casually eloquent among us.

Birdspell

Author : Valerie Sherrard
Publisher : DCB
ISBN 13 : 1770866140
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Birdspell written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corbin Hayes has felt alone for as long as he can remember. His mom’s illness means lost jobs, constant moves, new schools and friendships that never get to grow. There’s a gap in his life that’s been waiting to be filled. So, when a classmate offers Corbin the talking bird she can no longer keep, he’s stoked. But when things begin to spiral out of control, Corbin can no longer get his mom – or himself – through the dark period. At his lowest moment, he’s forced to do the one thing he fears the most.

Molly's Short Story Collection

Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781593691233
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Molly's Short Story Collection written by Valerie Tripp and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories tell how Molly deals with change when World War Two sends her father overseas and her mother into the Red Cross, and how she learns to be responsible, a good student, and a good friend.

Operation Oleander

Author : Valerie O. Patterson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547534213
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Operation Oleander written by Valerie O. Patterson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninth-grader Jess Westmark had the best of intentions when she started Operation Oleander to raise money for a girls’ orphanage in Kabul. She named her charity for the oleander that grows both in her Florida hometown and in Afghanistan, where her father is deployed. But on one of her father's trips to deliver supplies to the orphans, a car bomb explodes nearby and her father is gravely injured. Worse, her best friend’s mother and some of the children are killed, and people are blaming Operation Oleander for turning the orphanage into a military target for the Taliban. Is this all Jess’s fault?

The Consolation of Nature, and Other Stories

Author : Valerie Martin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Consolation of Nature, and Other Stories written by Valerie Martin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Katrin's Chronicles

Author : Valerie C. Woods
Publisher : Booksendependent
ISBN 13 : 9780988768727
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Katrin's Chronicles written by Valerie C. Woods and published by Booksendependent. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katrin's Chronicles: The Canon of Jacquelene Dyanne, expands the girl detective genre to include these smart, sister sleuths from the south side of Chicago. On the verge of entering high school, precociously eloquent 13-year-old Katrin DuBois feels it's never too soon to start an autobiography. She decides to set the record straight about the outrageous rumors concerning certain adventures that began when she was in sixth grade. That's when her elder sister, 8th grader J. Dyanne, began exhibiting extraordinary detecting powers. Set during the latter half of the historically turbulent year of 1968, these African-American tweens live in a working class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. They manage to thrive in a world of social change with multi-generational family support, creative quick-thinking and fearless inquisitiveness. The dog days of August 1968 find them prohibited by their parents from visiting the Central Library downtown because of the riots during the Democratic Convention. However, there's plenty of adventure in their own neighborhood as they become swept up in family mysteries, neighborhood political schemes and the discovery of a surprising legacy of psychic, even supernatural, talent.

Due East

Author : Valerie Sayers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810127241
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Due East written by Valerie Sayers and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Faith Rapple is smart, pretty and very pregnant. Certainly not unusual, even in the sleepy town of Due East, South Carolina. But when Mary Faith announces that it will be a virgin birth, and her father, owner of a local filling station, vows to uncover the truth, sparks begin to fly!