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No Time for the Truth and Other Stories

Author : Frederick Mosser
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595414249
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book No Time for the Truth and Other Stories written by Frederick Mosser and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Leningrad in 1937 to present-day Washington, DC, the exciting and compelling stories in No Time for the Truth and Other Stories will keep you riveted. "An Accidental Death"-A skeptical policeman investigates the death of a former CIA director. "Just Another Saturday Morning Run"-A jogger thwarts an assassination attempt on the vice president of the United States. "Encounter on the High Seas"-A yacht captain and crew fight an attempted piracy. "Free Fall"-A flight attendant on AA Flight 11 and a CIA officer at Windows on the World encounter their fates at the World Trade Center on 9/11. "The Avengers"-A retired Marine sniper sets his sights on radical Muslims. "Boomerang"-A nuclear terrorist plot backfires. No Time for the Truth-A murder is committed to maintain a cover-up to a presidential assassination. Although each of these and other tales in No Time for the Truth is different-some are traditional while others are on the cutting edge or based on real people and actual events-all are original and engrossing.

The Truth and Other Stories

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262366657
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Truth and Other Stories written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.

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.

A Good Time for the Truth

Author : Sun Yung Shin
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 1681340038
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book A Good Time for the Truth written by Sun Yung Shin and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesota’s best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in one of the whitest states in the nation. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being’s inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships. Minnesota communities struggle with some of the nation’s worst racial disparities. As its authors confront and consider the realities that lie beneath the numbers, this book provides an important tool to those who want to be part of closing those gaps. With contributions by: Taiyon J. Coleman, Heid E. Erdrich, Venessa Fuentes, Shannon Gibney, David Grant, Carolyn Holbrook, IBé, Andrea Jenkins, Robert Karimi, JaeRan Kim, Sherry Quan Lee, David Mura, Bao Phi, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, Diane Wilson, Kao Kalia Yang

The Truth Beneath the Lies

Author : Amanda Searcy
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 1524700916
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Truth Beneath the Lies written by Amanda Searcy and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A smart, suspenseful, and unpredictable thriller that will keep readers turning pages until every last lie is revealed.”—Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying For fans of The Darkest Corners and Pretty Little Liars, Amanda Searcy’s debut novel will have readers both disturbed and entranced by one girl’s present-day horrors and another’s haunting past. Flight. All Kayla Asher wants to do is run. Run from the government housing complex she calls home. Run from her unstable mother. Run from a desperate job at No Limits Food. Run to a better, cleaner, safer life. Every day is one day closer to leaving. Fight. All Betsy Hopewell wants to do is survive. Survive the burner phone hidden under her bed. Survive her new rules. Survive a new school with new classmates. Survive being watched. Every minute grants her another moment of life. When fate brings Kayla and Betsy together, only one girl will survive.

The Truth of Right Now

Author : Kara Lee Corthron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 148145949X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Truth of Right Now written by Kara Lee Corthron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two isolated teens struggle against their complicated lives to find a true connection in this “timely and timeless” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) debut novel about first love and the wreckage of growing up. Lily is returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a harrowing end to her sophomore year and it’s not pretty. She hates chemistry and her spiteful lab partner, her friends are either not speaking to her or suffocating her with concerned glances, and nothing seems to give her joy anymore. Worst of all, she can’t escape her own thoughts about what drove her away from everyone in the first place. Enter Dari (short for Dariomauritius), the artistic and mysterious transfer student, adept at cutting class. Not that he’d rather be at home with his domineering Trinidadian father. Dari is everything that Lily needs: bright, creative, honest, and unpredictable. And in a school where no one really stands out, Dari finds Lily’s sensitivity and openness magnetic. Their attraction ignites immediately, and for the first time in what feels like forever, Lily and Dari find happiness in each other. In twenty-first-century New York City, the fact that Lily is white and Dari is black shouldn’t matter that much, but nothing’s as simple as it seems. When tragedy becomes reality, can friendship survive even if romance cannot?

Dialogues

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542935
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Dialogues written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues, a book "conceived under the spell of cybernetics," as he wrote in the preface to the second edition. Mimicking the form of Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Lem's original dialogue was an attempt to unravel the then-novel field of cybernetics. It was a testimony, Lem wrote later, to "the almost limitless cognitive optimism" he felt upon his discovery of cybernetics. This is the first English translation of Lem's Dialogues, including the text of the first edition and the later essays added to the second edition in 1971. For the second edition, Lem chose not to revise the original. Recognizing the naivete of his hopes for cybernetics, he constructed a supplement to the first dialogue, which consists of two critical essays, the first a summary of the evolution of cybernetics, the second a contribution to the cybernetic theory of the "sociopathology of governing," amending the first edition's discussion of the pathology of social regulation; and two previously published articles on related topics. From the vantage point of 1971, Lem observes that original book, begun as a search for methods "that would increase our understanding of both the human and nonhuman worlds," was in the end "an expression of the cognitive curiosity and anxiety of modern thought."

The Truth and Other Stories

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262545063
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Truth and Other Stories written by Stanislaw Lem and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.

The Dog Who Unleashed The Truth... And Other Stories

Author : Suresh Nair
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book The Dog Who Unleashed The Truth... And Other Stories written by Suresh Nair and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dog sets out on an unlikely path of revenge against the family who left him to die -- by publishing his tell-all memoirs! An elderly man is at his wit’s end trying to figure how to deal with his wife’s inexplicable decision to divorce him. A “girl” in her 40s learns on a dating site that there are no free lunches and free iPhones in this world. A failed writer sets out to commit suicide and finds himself catapulted into a future where he is successful – and dead under suspicious circumstances. A hypochondriac steps out of his comfort zone to do one brave act during the Covid lockdown… Here’s a novelette and a collection of short stories to put a smile on your face. Filled with characters and situations ranging from silly and mundane to quirky and absurd, this is a breezy rollercoaster ride.

No Time for the Truth

Author : Nathaniel R. Helms
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628726865
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book No Time for the Truth written by Nathaniel R. Helms and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unflinching Look at a Black Chapter in Our War in Iraq and America’s Failure to Serve Justice In the waning days of 2005, twelve Marines were ambushed by Sunni Muslim insurgents on Route Chestnut, an ancient Mesopotamian road at the south edge of Haditha, Iraq, when an IED detonated under one of four Humvees they occupied, killing or wounding a quarter of their number. The surviving Marines quickly counterattacked. Their merciless response killed twenty-four Iraqi citizens, including an old man and ten women and children. This horrific encounter was quickly dubbed the Haditha Massacre and compared to My Lai, and its echoes still resonate today. Prompted by international condemnation, the Pentagon and Marine Corps initiated court-martial proceedings against the Marines involved. No Time for the Truth is the first book to show how the subsequent seven-year investigation and trial—which resulted in only a single minor conviction—was no more than theater meant to appease an outraged public and salvage US-Iraq relations. Authors Nathaniel Helms and Haytham Faraj, who served as defense counsel, reveal how the Pentagon pressured prosecutors to protect the integrity of the Marine Corps by hiding the fully gruesome nature of killings perpetrated by “battle-rattled” soldiers, with the intention of laying blame at the feet of a single staff sergeant. This is a stunning account of one of the darkest moments in the war in Iraq, a critical examination of whether justice was even sought after, and a powerful statement that in war, “truth is the first casualty.” Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history—books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Truth is

Author : NoNieqa Ramos
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
ISBN 13 : 1541528778
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Truth is written by NoNieqa Ramos and published by Carolrhoda Lab& 8482. This book was released on 2019 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closed off and grieving her best friend, fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad faces prejudices at school and from her traditional mother, her father's distance since his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate.

These Precious Days

Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063092808
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book These Precious Days written by Ann Patchett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070044
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here he [the author] looks in detail at a dozen rampant and long-lived examples of this vigorous category of contemporary folklore, tracing their historyies, variations, sources, and meanings."--Jacket.

The Truth about Alicia and Other Stories

Author : Ana Consuelo Matiella
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521630
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Alicia and Other Stories written by Ana Consuelo Matiella and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The truth about Alicia was that she wasnÕt that stable to begin with. So when she did what she did, no one was very surprised. Still it was shocking, the way she followed them from the hardware store to the woman's house, the way she broke the sliding glass door with the tire jack, the way she found them in bed. It was more than she could take, her being seven months pregnant and all. It only took two shots. . . . " Alicia is not the only woman with problems. In these stories about contemporary and traditional Latinas, Ana Consuelo Matiella uses sensitivity and wit to address issues faced by women of color and women everywhereÑissues largely having to do with love: between men and women, mothers and daughters, women and friends. In engaging stories about family myths, gossip, and lies, comadres converse over afternoon cafŽ con leche. "I'm sure that I was the only wife whose husband was teaching their daughter to do Cheech Marin imitations," remarks one of Matiella's characters. Another sings the praises of the chocolate milkshake diet: "ThatÕs one advantage of living on the border. You get to try all the latest gringo inventions as soon as they hit the streets." Through encounters with angels, conversations with dogs, and relationships with men overly concerned with the dimensions of their manhood, Matiella offers a new exploration of the human conditionÑone showing us that if we cannot laugh at life, no matter how tragic the circumstances, we are surely doomed. With humor and insight that come only through close observation of her fellow human beings, this gifted writer brings new twists to familiar scenes. The Truth about Alicia and Other Stories is an authentic portrayal of the world of contemporary Chicanas that will delight everyone who enters it.

A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories

Author : Mary Hallock Foote
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories written by Mary Hallock Foote and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories" by Mary Hallock Foote Mary Hallock Foote was an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. This volume contains the tales: A Touch Of Sun, The Maid's Progress, Pilgrims To Mecca, and The Harshaw Bride which all spotlight small and close-knit communities.

The Diary of Doctor X: The Truth About Sustainability & Other Stories

Author : Shayala Knight
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387904914
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Doctor X: The Truth About Sustainability & Other Stories written by Shayala Knight and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary of Doctor X is a book about survival. About survival when living in poverty, about survival when suffering from clinical depression and alcohol dependence, and, most importantly, about our collective, human survival on the planet Earth...The goal of The Diary...is to create a new language in which to discuss the realities of the modern era, and the post-modern era which must succeed it...this is "David Suzuki on steroids." From the preface, by editor and publisher: Dr. Roy. C. Dudgeon

Sometimes We Tell the Truth

Author : Kim Zarins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481465015
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Sometimes We Tell the Truth written by Kim Zarins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this contemporary retelling of The Canterbury Tales, a group of teens on a bus ride to Washington, DC, each tell a story—some fantastical, some realistic, some downright scandalous—in pursuit of the ultimate prize: a perfect score. Jeff boards the bus for the Civics class trip to Washington, DC, with a few things on his mind: -Six hours trapped with his classmates sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. -He somehow ended up sitting next to his ex-best friend, who he hasn’t spoken to in years. -He still feels guilty for the major part he played in pranking his teacher, and the trip’s chaperone, Mr. Bailey. -And his best friend Cannon, never one to be trusted and banned from the trip, has something “big” planned for DC. But Mr. Bailey has an idea to keep everyone in line: each person on the bus is going to have the chance to tell a story. It can be fact or fiction, realistic or fantastical, dark or funny or sad. It doesn’t matter. Each person gets a story, and whoever tells the best one will get an automatic A in the class. But in the middle of all the storytelling, with secrets and confessions coming out, Jeff only has one thing on his mind—can he live up to the super successful story published in the school newspaper weeks ago that convinced everyone that he was someone smart, someone special, and someone with something to say. In her debut novel, Kim Zarins breathes new life into Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in a fresh and contemporary retelling that explores the dark realities of high school, and the ordinary moments that bring us all together.