Sentences with phrase «books of short stories in»

Her other books include Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, as well as a book of short stories in aid of Oxfam entitled Ox - tales.

Not exact matches

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

And in even more dire news, the season is likely to be shorter as the Thrones producers begin to wrap up the multiple story threads as well as while fans of the original book series wait for Martin publish the sixth book in the series, The Winds of Winter.

I find it puzzling that one of the shortest books in the bible is the book of Judas, and if he really did manage the finances, shouldn't he have a larger account of transactions that took place, the voyages that they went on, the same stories the other 11 Apostles had in their recollections and experiences with Jesus?

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

I started with Anne of Green Gables, like most kids in Canada, but that initial sojourn turned into the entire series of eight (now nine, depending on who you ask) and then all of the Emily books, the one - offs and novels, the short - story collections and rare volume of poetry, the journals and the letters.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

From books like * The Sociopath Next Door * by Martha Stout, I recalled that one of the key ways a manipulator hooks people is by sharing stories that make themselves look like they've been misunderstood, bullied, attacked, suffering... in short, The Victim.

In short, if the story ends on Friday, we can close out the Book of Luke.

After all, he states in the prologue of his first anthology of short stories (1941): «It is an arduous and impoverishing whim to compose vast books, to extend for five hundred long - winded pages an idea whose perfect oral exposition lasts a few minutes.

It isn't possible for me to go into these stories in any detail in such a short time, so I thought, instead of doing that, I would like to devote my time this morning to addressing some of the main questions people have asked me repeatedly over the course of the last two years, when I was working on the book, and after the book had come out.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Englander, author of a new book of short stories called «What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,» has roots in many of these worlds.

His writing style reminds me of Southern short stories except that this book is firmly rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

The book, a collection of short stories, includes a final tale in which Diaz's alter ego, «Yunior,» details the five years of extreme despair he suffered after being caught cheating on the former associate labor commissioner.

He is editor of a collection of short stories and essays about science written by Puerto Rican scientists and is currently piloting a project engaging K - 12 students in learning and conveying, through podcasts of their own, the concepts taught in the book.

The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.

Among the 12 books DeMarco has published in his 50 - year career (including a short story collection and a novel about project management) is one called Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency.

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet, written by the Geophysical Laboratory's Bob Hazen, has been chosen from books released in 2012 as one of the five titles on the short list for the current Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, one of the three book awards given by Phi Beta Kappa annually.

This is an excellent annual book of short stories by prominent scientists and journalist on cutting edge science in the last year, this issue has a great story on the life and research of Jennifer Francis, and her atmospheric jet - stream weirding papers.

I shared all the books I've read in the last 12 months, and in case you're interested I'm currently reading this Joyce Carol Oates book (I'm a big fan of short stories).

And while the story of makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin ended much to early, in his short life he managed to give us three legendary books dedicated to his true love, and mine, makeup.

In her début book of short stories, the Canadian author makes disconcerting symbols out of everyday objects like sewing machines and canned food and offers up a powerful examination of the human (and often female) body under attack.

The short story, «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty» was included in the book «My World And Welcome To It» but was first published in The New Yorker.

Adapting a short - story collection by James Franco, Coppola preserves the episodic structure of the book, allowing her camera to move among the characters with a breezy sense of freedom: April (Emma Roberts), the intelligent yet vulnerable good - girl lured into an affair with her charismatic but creepy soccer coach, Mr. B. (played by Franco); Teddy (Jack Kilmer) who's in trouble with the law and in love with April; Fred (Nat Wolffe), Teddy's cocky, bad - influence sidekick; and Emily (Zoe Levin), the profoundly sad school slut who freely dispenses blow jobs in place of genuine connection.

Based on a book of short stories by James Franco (who co-stars in the film), the film features interconnected narratives involving a soccer player (Emma Roberts) getting...

Based on the first King novel written after the author was smeared across a Maine highway by a man who would later kill himself in a trailer, the book is a fine short story trapped in the body of a six - hundred page book.

Based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 children's book of the same name, Jumanji, the film, fleshes out the short book to include a story about Alan Parrish (Hann - Byrd, Little Man Tate), who, as a young boy struggling with isolation and abandonment in 1969, winds up finding a strange board game.

As the length of the book is given a wide latitude, especially best - sellers such as this, the authors usually have free range as far as how long they develop their stories, as short as 150 pages to over 1000 in some cases.

In 2016, the short - lived comic book series World of Wakanda — written by Roxane Gay, Yona Harvey, and Ta - Nehisi Coates with art by Alitha E. Martinez and Afua Richardson — examined the story of Ayo and Aneka, which takes place before Coates's version of Black Panther, which also debuted in 201In 2016, the short - lived comic book series World of Wakanda — written by Roxane Gay, Yona Harvey, and Ta - Nehisi Coates with art by Alitha E. Martinez and Afua Richardson — examined the story of Ayo and Aneka, which takes place before Coates's version of Black Panther, which also debuted in 201in 2016.

Bizarrely enough, Franco was in the middle of promoting the Gia Coppola — directed film Palo Alto, based on his own book of short stories.

The film is based on a book of short stories by James Franco, who c0 - stars in the film alongside young breakouts Jack Kilmer, Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff, and Zoe Levin.

Gia Coppola's directorial debut adapting a book of James Franco short stories has no end of pedigree behind it, and while it features established actors like Franco and Val Kilmer in roles, they share the screen with quite a few up - and - comers, the best of whom is Nat Wolff's Fred.

The rest of the DVD is filled with junk like «Lady in the Water: A Bedtime Story» (a five - minute plug for Shyamalan's children's book), a short audition mix tape, a very unfunny gag reel, and about five minutes worth of worthless deleted scenes.

(as above) Short 3: First impressions of the book (as above) Short 4: Vocabulary and interesting techniques found in the book (as above) Short 5: Character biography of Santiago (as above) All of these exercises can be found on the ppts Handout 1: What have you learned about the protagonist of the story?

If your school does not yet own a copy of Julia Donaldson's brilliant book or the animated short film in French, I've attached links to the three clips available online, a copy of my HIgh - Interest - Easy - Vocabulary adaptation of the story in script format and a link to a site that sells the award - winning dvd based on Ms. Donaldson's classic.

As I say in my new book, Writing Behind Every Door: Teaching Common Core Writing in the Subject Areas (due out in April), a valuable way the students show me their research is by providing at least 10 hyperlinks throughout their essays, regardless of whether they are writing short stories or argumentation essays.

Topics could include an explanation of a concept they learned in class, a short story, their favorite comment or idea that a classmate had, a reflection on a book they are reading, or a reflection on a political stance or social studies theme.

According to our research and work in schools, these statistics can be changed dramatically with the correct use of specially recorded, high - interest short stories and books in grades K - 12.

The student who forgets to do her book report or math problems as homework may get absorbed in a learning project that involves interviewing a grandparent for social studies (interpersonal), taking pictures of animals in the neighborhood for an ecology unit (spatial - naturalist), or writing a song on an electronic keyboard about a character in a short story (musical).

Michael Scarlett sat in what might have been his hero's seat / From Mille Miglia Winner To Club Contender — Anthony Pritchard tells the story of OM, the short - lived but effective manufacturer from Brescia / Morgan Miscellany — Douglas Blain up - dates us on his exploits at the wheel of a Plus Four and reviews the latest book on the Malvern wonders / By Slow Boat To Salzburg — Malcolm Robertson has owned his Australian - bodied MG two litre, the Airy Coupé, for more than 30 years.

I am going to take a bit of time away from the short stories, however, in order to finish up Dagger of Elanna (Sword of the Gods, Book 2) and star the final edits on Victory from Ashes (Honor and Duty, Book 4).

Chanticleer Book Reviews hosts several competitions each year in a variety of genres (see graphic below), as well as short story awards and a nifty NaNoWriMo Raw competition.

Roald Dahl was a master of short stories — I reckon that if he'd never written a children's book in his life, his short stories would have a much higher profile.

For a writer who kept control of their property and was indie published, if a book is selling at the level of about 3 per month, the writer would push it some, or write more in the series, or write some short stories to boost it, or do a Bookbub, or who knows what....

We Need Diverse Books Short Story Contest is open to emerging diverse writers from all diverse backgrounds (including, but not limited to, LGBTQIA, people of colour, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural and religious minorities) who have not been published in a traditional print fiction book format, including self - published, independents, small and medium publishing houses, in all genres whether for the children's or adult market.

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Fiction writer Danielle Lazarin discusses five journals that have published her short stories, some of which appear in her debut collection, Back Talk, forthcoming from Penguin Books in February.

In addition to letting Amazon Prime members pick one of the selected books for free (to keep), Prime members can now purchase the hardcover edition of these books for $ 9.99 or less and there are free Short Stories and -LSB-...]

Books that are written in or include uses of uncommon formats (uses of letters, screenplay, photos, poetry, or collection of short stories or essays) is another unique quality she looks for.