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Book Synopsis Calamity and Other Stories by : Daphne Kalotay
Download or read book Calamity and Other Stories written by Daphne Kalotay and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay’s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.
Book Synopsis The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane by : Richard W. Etulain
Download or read book The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Book Synopsis The First Book of Calamity Leek by : Paula Lichtarowicz
Download or read book The First Book of Calamity Leek written by Paula Lichtarowicz and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly inventive and original. This debut novel tells the story of Calamity Leek: a girl who has never been allowed beyond the garden wall, until now. Lying in her hospital bed, broken, burned and scared, Calamity still believes that Aunty loved her. For as long as she can remember, Calamity, along with her sixteen sisters, lived in a Garden behind the Wall of Safekeeping. Like it said in Aunty's Appendix on the first page of the Ps: 'Everything has a purpose', and they were being trained for a very special one. In the Ns the Appendix said, 'Nosiness leads to nonsense'. As Calamity sees it, this is what led to their Garden's downfall, because when the sisters started questioning what was outside the Wall, they started questioning what was happening inside it too. But doubt is contagious. Watching your world crumble is frightening. And people who are frightened can be dangerous.
Download or read book Calamity Town written by Ellery Queen and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town’s first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city’s rising political star, an upright man who’s already boring her. And then there’s Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back—waiting for the crime to come to him.
Book Synopsis Love and Pollywogs from Camp Calamity by : Mary Hershey
Download or read book Love and Pollywogs from Camp Calamity written by Mary Hershey and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horrified when her bossy older sister becomes her summer camp counselor, Effie struggles to overcome her problems with swimming in hopes of being named Outstanding Camper of the Week.
Book Synopsis Special Topics in Calamity Physics by : Marisha Pessl
Download or read book Special Topics in Calamity Physics written by Marisha Pessl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mesmerizing bestseller that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock—A New York Times Ten Best Book of the Year Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit. At the center of the novel is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway School, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel—with visual aids drawn by the author—that has won over readers of all ages.
Book Synopsis Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman by : Alicia Z. Klepeis
Download or read book Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman written by Alicia Z. Klepeis and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wild West was home to many men and women looking for adventure and a new life. Back then, in a place of danger and intrigue, there were several characters that made their mark on the frontier. One woman was Calamity Jane. Born Martha Jane Cannary, Calamity Jane would become one of Americas best-known sharpshooters and horse riders. Her life is told in here in easy-to-read language and vivid illustrations sure to engage young readers.
Download or read book Calamity Jane written by Sara Gilbert and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and legends related to the frontierswoman known as Calamity Jane.
Download or read book Calamity Jane written by James D. McLaird and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meticulously researched account about how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine is presented in this biography of Martha Canary, the woman known as Calamity Jane.
Download or read book The Calamity written by Jennifer Millikin and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've made a mess of things again. Not that anybody is surprised. After I'm politely asked to withdraw from college for my antics, I return home to my family's cattle ranch. The sweeping views, the towering pine trees, and the whisper of the wind remind me I belong on this land. My heart is in the alpine air, my soul mixed into the soil. All I've ever wanted is to run the ranch alongside my oldest brother, but my family refuses to see me as anything but a walking disaster. If I'm going to show them what I'm capable of, I have to prove myself. Lucky for me, I'm a Hayden through and through. I'll dirty my hands in more ways than one. That includes the man who showed up in town again after all these years. Sawyer Bennett. I've heard the stories about his family, and they don't scare me. Our attraction is undeniable, and the best part? Sawyer looks at me with fresh eyes. When I'm with him, I get to be the woman I'm fighting to become. And I'm learning just how much I want to be that woman. But then I make the ultimate mistake: I utter the word perfect. I should've known better. There's nowhere to go but down after that. And down we go, until we hit rock bottom. Sawyer unearths a long-buried secret, and challenges everything my brothers and I grew up believing. Nobody is surprised I've brought disaster to our doorstep again, but it's not over. Because when it rains out on the ranch? It pours.
Download or read book The Calamity Café written by Gayle Leeson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a new cozy mystery series featuring Southern cooking that is to die for. Aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers is ready to open her own café offering old-fashioned Southern food. But her dream may go up in smoke when someone kills the competition... Tired of waiting tables at Lou’s Joint, Amy Flowers doesn’t just quit—she offers to buy the place from her bully of a boss, so she can finally open the café of her dreams. Amy can't wait to serve the kind of Southern, down-home treats and dishes that her grandmother always loved to the kooky cast of regulars at the restaurant. She knows her comfort food will be the talk of the sweet, small town of Winter Garden, Virginia. At first Lou Lou refuses to sell, but when she seems ready to make a deal, she tells Amy to come see her. Showing up at the eatery ready to negotiate, Amy is shocked to find her former employer murdered. As the prime suspect, Amy will have to clear her name by serving up the real killer—and with Lou Lou’s stack of enemies, that’s a tall order. Includes delicious Southern recipes!
Book Synopsis A Kitty Calamity by : Kate Pankhurst
Download or read book A Kitty Calamity written by Kate Pankhurst and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SIXth novel from the MacMillan Prize for Picture Book Illustration's winner Kate Pankhurst. The perfect book for 7-9 yr olds who love funny stories with quirky illustrations like DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, the DORK DIARIES and CLARICE BEAN. Mariella Mystery (That's me!) - totally amazing girl detective, aged nine and a bit. Able to solve the most mysterious mysteries and perplexing problems, even before breakfast. There's a catnapping epidemic in Puddleford! More moggies are going missing every day, and Mariella and the Mystery Girls are determined to discover what's going on. When trusty feline sidekick Watson becomes the latest pet to be lured away, the situation becomes truly desperate. Can Mariella uncover the truth... before it's too late?
Download or read book My Calamity Jane written by Cynthia Hand and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure—perfect for YA fantasy and romance readers. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou—better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there’re hunters: the one and only Calamity Jane, to be precise, along with her fellow stars of Wild Bill’s Traveling Show, Annie Oakley and Frank “the Pistol Prince” Butler. After a garou hunt goes south and Jane finds a suspicious-like bite on her arm, she turns tail for Deadwood, where there’s talk of a garou cure. But rumors can be deceiving—meaning the gang better hightail it after her before they’re a day late and a Jane short. In this next read for fans of A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton bring their signature spark to the side-splittin’, whopper-filled (but actually kind of factual?) tale of Calamity Jane.
Download or read book Aether Spark written by Nicholas Petrarch and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When alchemists from the dregs of a luckless city unlock the mysteries of the Aether, their world becomes a bit more volatile as a mechanist seeks to steal their secret for himself. It's a fight to be recognized, but at what cost?Full of discovery, desperation, and disaster, Aether Spark shows just how destructive man's ambitions can be.
Book Synopsis The Bishop and Other Stories by : Anton Chekhov
Download or read book The Bishop and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the waning weeks of his life, a renowned bishop reflects on his past and his priorities. Written during the period when Anton Chekhov was gravely ill with tuberculosis, "The Bishop" reflects the author's feelings about his own imminent death, and is considered one of his finest works.
Download or read book Calamity Jane written by Emily Dolbear and published by Child's World. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delightfully tall tale of how Martha Jane Cannary came to be known as Calamity Jane, the toughest woman in the old wild West. Additional features to aid comprehension include background information and historical context of the tale, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.
Book Synopsis The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories by : Judith Dancoff
Download or read book The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories written by Judith Dancoff and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from the female gaze, these stories explore the intersection of history, ambition, heartbreak, and desire, with the work of art at the center of each narrative.
