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Mist Upon the Pond

Author : Sandra McBride
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598580809
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Mist Upon the Pond written by Sandra McBride and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mist Upon the Pond is a collection of the author's favorite poems, some published, many unpublished, but all aimed squarely at the heartstrings, the bootstraps or the funny bone. As the author says, ". . . the form ever-changing, like the mist upon the pond . . ." A variety of poetic forms and styles, from humorous haiku to heart-wrenching historical narratives, is in this collection. The author's love of the natural world and her passion for history perme-ate many of the offerings, as does her deep, abiding faith in God and love of family. There are light-hearted children's poems and tongue-in-cheek glimpses of sports. Mist Upon the Pond is a collection of eighty-five poems written by the author over the last six years. They are presented here to enter-tain, encourage, amuse, inspire, give comfort and provoke thought. A lifelong resident of Mechanicville, New York, Sandra E. McBride is the mother of six grown children and grandmother of sixteen. She and her hus-band, Tom, reside on the farm that has been in the McBride family for nearly a century. Her childhood dream of becoming a creative writer was put on hold while she reared her fam-ily. Then, at age 55, she enrolled in a writing course at the Institute of Children's Literature and began to pursue that dream in earnest. "You're never too old to chase the dream," she says. Her poetry has appeared in five June Cotner anthologies, in Once Upon a Time, NEWN, Mail Call Journal and online at historyonline.net and Magic Lark Journal. She has published several short stories, and has won numerous awards for her writing. In April 2004, she was honored by her hometown library as their featured poet for National Poetry Month.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984856049
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain written by George Saunders and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

The Magic Pond

Author : Hélène Schweiger
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1642375128
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Pond written by Hélène Schweiger and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale is about courage, adventure, the magic of friendship. From children to adults, all readers will find what they need in this magical book. As we all go through difficult experiences, changes in our lives, the message in this story helps see the strength we have in ourselves to become who we truly are.

Too Far to Go

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645950
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Too Far to Go written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Maples stories trace the decline and fall of a marriage,” writes the author in his Foreword, a marriage that is threatened early on by the temptations of infidelity (“Snowing in Greenwich Village”) and that ends in a midlife divorce (“Here Come the Maples”). “They also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments shared.” That all blessings are mixed and fleeting does not make them less real, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. “A tribe segregated in a valley develops an accent, then a dialect, and then a language all its own; so does a couple. Let this collection preserve one particular dead tongue, no easier to parse than Latin.”

The Spectator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Research and Development Progress Report

Author : United States. Office of Saline Water
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Research and Development Progress Report written by United States. Office of Saline Water and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In My Lifetime

Author : William S. Hart
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145687764X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book In My Lifetime written by William S. Hart and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bill Hart recounts his memories of life on the Godard family farm in North Granby, Connecticut during the1920s and 1930s, his teen years in West Hartford and his service in the Army Air Corps during WWII. His memories became fodder for a Granby Drummer column, "Memory Lane," from 2001 to July of 2009. He also authors articles describing historic events, places and people in Connecticut's Farmington River Valley and the lower Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, which are also published in Southwoods Magazine."--

Ghostspeaker Chronicles Complete series

Author : Patty Jansen
Publisher : Patty Jansen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghostspeaker Chronicles Complete series written by Patty Jansen and published by Patty Jansen. This book was released on with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harper's Young People

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harper's Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Stories

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307417026
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Early Stories written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story. “Contemplating John Updike’s monumental achievement in the short story, one is moved to think of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and perhaps William Faulkner—writers whose reputations would be as considerable, or nearly, if short stories had been all that they had written. From [his] remarkable early short story collections . . . through his beautifully nuanced stories of family life [and] the bittersweet humors of middle age and beyond . . . John Updike has created a body of work in the notoriously difficult form of the short story to set beside those of these distinguished American predecessors. Congratulations and heartfelt thanks are due to John Updike for having brought such pleasure and such illumination to so many readers for so many years.”

A Year in Thoreau's Journal

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101173874
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Year in Thoreau's Journal written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Discovering Ataraxia

Author : Nancy Gravatt
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1636983170
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Ataraxia written by Nancy Gravatt and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discovering Ataraxia, Allie and her brother, S.J. - who has Autism Spectrum Disorder – are ushered into an alternate world, where they find two kingdoms on the brink of battle: the peace-loving Ataraxia and the hostile Malvelnia led by wily King Wendigo. Insights gained in this alt-universe will come in handy as Allie and S.J. face their own struggles in their new hometown of Lakeshores, North Carolina, where they come face to face with bullies, cliques, and adjustment pains every kid can relate to. As Allie and her brother get to know their new classmates, some become friends while others display hurtful behavior that is typical for tweens and teens who are figuring out how to express themselves and perceive others. These age groups are grappling with asserting their unique personalities, but insecurities often provoke ugly behavior that at its worst can be quite harmful to others. Discovering Ataraxia tells an entertaining story that teaches tweens and teens to see the importance of their choices. Current surveys of this age group reveal that the issues of bullying, body shaming, and thoughts of suicide are prevalent. This story seeks to highlight avenues of hope and light in a world often steeped in darkness, while inspiring young people to be strong and courageous individuals.

A Wider View of the Universe

Author : Robert Kuhn McGregor
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668973
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book A Wider View of the Universe written by Robert Kuhn McGregor and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau in his early career did not consider nature a worthy subject for his pen. Beginning with only a superficial knowledge of nature--even while living at Walden Pond--he later began to study the subject more intensely in 1849. Over the next dozen years, he applied himself especially to botany and ornithology, seeking to integrate knowledge into the larger patterns of life. Independently deriving what today would be considered an ecological worldview, Thoreau devoted the last years of his writing career to nature studies, written in his own distinctive voice. In this revised edition of a standard study of Thoreau and nature, the author traces the origins and development of Thoreau's shift in viewpoint and his painstaking efforts thereafter.

Maurice

Author : Frédéric Bećhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maurice written by Frédéric Bećhard and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poets on Paintings

Author : Robert D. Denham
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456582
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Poets on Paintings written by Robert D. Denham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.

The Maples Stories

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307593347
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Maples Stories written by John Updike and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen classic short stories that form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, “Grandparenting,” which returns us to the Maples’s lives long after their wrenching divorce.

A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547525567
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster written by Richard Brautigan and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cult classic from the author of Trout Fishing in America “reads like a spaghetti Western crossed with Frankenstein, viewed through an opium haze” (The Sunday Times). The celebrated poet, novelist, and guru of the 1960s San Francisco literary scene, Richard Brautigan brings his highly original Gonzo style to this surreal parody Western. The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. In the ice caves underneath Professor Hawkline’s house, a deadly monster lurks. It’s already turned the professor into an elephant foot umbrella stand, and now his two beautiful daughters have hired a pair of gunslingers to put a stop to the mayhem. But Hawkline Manor is full of curiosities and secrets, like the professor’s underground laboratory where his work on The Chemicals remains unfinished. And as the gunslingers pursue their peculiar quarry, they encounter monstrous mischief, amorous advances, and evil that is all too human. “Bursting with colour, humour and imagery, Brautigan’s virtuoso prose is rooted in his rural past.” —The Guardian