The Problem of Susan and Other Stories

The Problem of Susan and Other Stories
Author :
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages : 84
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781630089733
ISBN-13 : 1630089737
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Problem of Susan and Other Stories by : Neil Gaiman

From Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (The Sandman, The Giver), Scott Hampton (American Gods), and Paul Chadwick (Concrete) comes a graphic novel adaptations of the short stories and poems : The Problem of Susan, October in the Chair, Locks, and The Day the Saucers Came. Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell and experience. Where the incarnations of the months of the year sit around a campfire sharing stories, where an older college professor recounts a Narnian childhood, where the apocalypse unfolds, and where the importance of generational storytelling is seen through the Goldilocks fairytale. These four comic adaptations have something for everyone and are a must for Gaiman fans!

The Problem of Susan and Other Stories

The Problem of Susan and Other Stories
Author :
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages : 84
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781506705118
ISBN-13 : 1506705111
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Problem of Susan and Other Stories by : Neil Gaiman

From Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (The Sandman, The Giver), Scott Hampton (American Gods), and Paul Chadwick (Concrete) comes a graphic novel adaptations of the short stories and poems : The Problem of Susan, October in the Chair, Locks, and The Day the Saucers Came. Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell and experience. Where the incarnations of the months of the year sit around a campfire sharing stories, where an older college professor recounts a Narnian childhood, where the apocalypse unfolds, and where the importance of generational storytelling is seen through the Goldilocks fairytale. These four comic adaptations have something for everyone and are a must for Gaiman fans!

Lust

Lust
Author :
Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 105
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781453202982
ISBN-13 : 1453202986
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Lust by : Susan Minot

DIV DIVDIVTwelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan/divDIV /div/divDIVFor the twelve narrators of Susan Minot’s breathtaking collection—artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings—love in New York doesn’t come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile their yearnings for romance with their needs for independence, they face resistance to emotional commitment at every turn. /divDIV /divDIVIn intense snapshots of these women’s most intimate moments, Minot brings to life their dreams and disappointments, hopes and heartbreaks, and highlights the emotional fissures that divide women and men./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of Susan Minot, including artwork by the author and rare documents and photos from her personal collection./div /div

Between Heaven and Here

Between Heaven and Here
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Publisher : McSweeney's
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781936365753
ISBN-13 : 1936365758
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Between Heaven and Here by : Susan Straight

In August in Rio Seco, California, the ground is too hard to bury a body. But Glorette Picard is dead, and across the canal, out in the orange groves, they’ll gather shovels and pickaxes and soak the dirt until they can lay her coffin down. First, someone needs to find her son Victor, who memorizes SAT words to avoid the guys selling rock, and someone needs to tell her uncle Enrique, who will be the one to hunt down her killer, and someone needs to brush out her perfect crown of hair and paint her cracked toenails. As the residents of this dry-creek town prepare to bury their own, it becomes clear that Glorette’s life and death are deeply entangled with the dark history of the city and the untouchable beauty that, finally, killed her.

I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird

I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 175
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780820357386
ISBN-13 : 0820357383
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by : Susan Cerulean

Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.

Spectacle

Spectacle
Author :
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Total Pages : 152
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781555970642
ISBN-13 : 1555970648
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Spectacle by : Susan Steinberg

An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly

Overwhelming Odds

Overwhelming Odds
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Publisher : IFP Enterprises, LLC
Total Pages : 160
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1594574448
ISBN-13 : 9781594574443
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Overwhelming Odds by : Susan O'Leary

Susan O'Leary recounts the miraculous and triumphant fight of her then 9-year-old son to survive and recover from a devastating burn covering 98% of his body. The book unveils a truth of universal importance, namely, by helping others in need we canbecome their miracles.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Total Pages : 101
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by : C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Ghost Hawk

Ghost Hawk
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 336
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781442481411
ISBN-13 : 1442481412
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghost Hawk by : Susan Cooper

At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.

Only His

Only His
Author :
Publisher : HQN Books
Total Pages : 345
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780373776016
ISBN-13 : 0373776012
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Only His by : Susan Mallery

When she lands her dream job only to discover that her new boss is the man who broke her heart, Nevada Hendrix, despite the attraction that still lingers between them, refuses to mix business with pleasure.