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Michael Chabon once said I scan the tables of contents of magazines looking for Antonya Nelsons name hoping that she has decided to bless us again And now she has blessed us again with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved Her stories are cleareyed hardedged beautifully formed In the title story Funny Once a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends In The Village a woman visits her father at a nursing home recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions In another when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing a mother worries increasingly about her teenage sons relationship with a badnews girlfriend In the novella Three Wishes siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brothers tooearly departure from the world The landscape of this book is the wide open spaces of Kansas Texas New Mexico and Colorado Throughout there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget to have sex with the wrong people to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night These characters are aging regretting actions both taken and not inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can And in Funny Once their flawed humanity is made beautiful perfectly observed by one of Americas best short story writers
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Michael Chabon once said I scan the tables of contents of magazines looking for Antonya Nelsons name hoping that she has decided to bless us again And now she has blessed us again with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved Her stories are cleareyed hardedged beautifully formed In the title story Funny Once a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends In The Village a woman visits her father at a nursing home recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions In another when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing a mother worries increasingly about her teenage sons relationship with a badnews girlfriend In the novella Three Wishes siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brothers tooearly departure from the world The landscape of this book is the wide open spaces of Kansas Texas New Mexico and Colorado Throughout there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget to have sex with the wrong people to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night These characters are aging regretting actions both taken and not inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can And in Funny Once their flawed humanity is made beautiful perfectly observed by one of Americas best short story writers
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Charlotte Bronte dedicated quotJane Eyrequot to William Makepeace Thackeray setting literary London ablaze with gossip Ayn Rand dedicated quotAtlas Shruggedquot to both her husband and her lover Sylvia Plath dedicated quotThe Bell Jarquot to her friends And F Scott Fitzgerald dedicated quotThe Great Gatsbyquot to his wife Zelda the tumultuous love of his life The dedication of a novel is the most personal and public of gestures and yet we dont often stop to consider how it came to be inspired This charming behind the scenes book traces the relationships immortalized in the dedications to fifty novels that are an intrinsic part of literary and pop culture Sometimes tragic often romantic and always engaging these are intimate glimpses into the lives of the writers we admire and the people they loved
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Graveyards tell us a great deal about our country as Nancy Millar discovered when she toured cemeteries across Canada to explore the history mysteries and stories found there Here are stories about pioneers and settlers missionaries and Native people artists and politicians and the ordinary people whose often unsung lives reveal so much about our pastMillar highlights the best graveyards in each province the most popular epitaphs the most original gravemarkers the most carefully guarded grave the most poetic graveyard in the country and much more With more than ninety photographs the book also provides interesting observations on graveyard architecture Indian burial customs and the variations in epitaphs among religions genders races and provinces So join Nancy Millar Canadas Tombstone Tourist for an engaging and unusual look at our history
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Six little girls who live by themselves without any grownups enjoy a lovely day highlighted by a picnic and a parade
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Cheevers true heir our major American short story writerWilliam HarrisonHere are stories about fathers and sons stories about men and women and stories about the relationships between men by one of our most gifted story writers The narrator of The Who the What and the Why begins breaking into his own house as a sort of therapy after his daughter dies In The Human Use of Inhuman Beings the main character realizes that his closest relationship is to an angel who appears to him only to announce the death of loved ones All Things All at Once reminds us why Lee K Abbott is to be treasured his perfect pitch for tales of hapless Southwesterners his way with sympathetic irony his eye that skillfully notes the awkward humiliationscommon heartbreak fractured familiesand records it all in lyrical affectionate language In tales new and from previous collections Abbott examines lived life and the lies we necessarily tell about it
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Terence Gargiulos breakthrough communications and storytelling are amply demonstrated with dozens of corporate examples And the best part Gargiulo shows us step by step how to create this storytelling communication magic in our own organizations The competencies assessed by the instrument represent the nine essential communication behaviors that need to be developed and cultivated in all of todays leaders and managers Modeling TellingnbspSelectingnbspIndexing Synthesizing Reflecting Eliciting Listening and Observing Once Upon a Time will show you how to develop exceptional communication skills and it will serve as an invaluable resource for helping others do the same Stories are a natural part of how we communicate Yet many of us are unaware of the different ways we use stories This book will take the intuitive aspects of communicating through stories and break it down into repeatable practices and essential competencies The storybased activities in the second half of the book will give you powerful easy to lead structured experiential exercises that can be used in a variety of settings and for lots of different purposes that go beyond training
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In this engrossing and accessible book Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history from the earliest known glaciationnearly three billion years agoto the present Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about As it explains how the great Pleistocene Ice Age has shaped the earths landscape and influenced the course of human evolution Frozen Earth also provides a fascinating look at how science is done how the excitement of discovery drives scientists to explore and investigate and how timing and chance play a part in the acceptance of new scientific ideas Macdougall describes the awesome power of cataclysmic floods that marked the melting of the glaciers of the Pleistocene Ice Age He probes the chilling evidence for Snowball Earth an episode far back in the earths past that may have seen our planet encased in ice from pole to pole He discusses the accumulating evidence from deepsea sediment cores as well as ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic that suggests fastchanging ice age climates may have directly impacted the evolution of our species and the course of human migration and civilization Frozen Earth also chronicles how the concept of the ice age has gripped the imagination of scientists for almost two centuries It offers an absorbing consideration of how current studies of Pleistocene climate may help us understand earths future climate changes including the question of when the next glacial interval will occur
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In May 1997 exSAS soldier Will Scully and his former regiment known as the Pilgrims pulled off what the American ambassador called the biggest emergency evacuation since Vietnam In Freetown Sierra Leone they were caught in a military coup their hotel under siege This is his story
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After Peter hears his mother read the Christmas story and tell him how she once went out on Christmas Eve and saw the forest in bloom and Benj the hired man tells him how he heard the animals speak on Christmas Eve he determines to go to the barn atmidnight and hear for himself
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Tells how a sevenyearold boy and his sisters started a wreathmaking business which over the course of six years grew to include other businesses marketing wholesaling and investing and netted more than 16000
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Offers humorous revisions of supposedly outmoded fairytales such as The Duckling That Was Judged on Its Personal Merit and Not on Its Physical Appearance
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In 1847 elevenyearold Clay dreams of becoming a Texas Ranger so that he can exact revenge upon the Comanche Indians who attacked his family until personal experience acquaints him with the brutal reality of Ranger activities
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A brotherhood of young men a dynamic coach and an unforgettable season filled with triumph and heartache 22 Feet is the incredible true story of the 1992 Davidson College mens soccer team Lacking athletic scholarships and competing against universities more than 20 times their size the team from a small liberal arts college in North Carolina showed the world that 22 feet acting as one team can accomplish anything
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