[PDF] The Alternate Ending eBook

Author : Lindsey Drager
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945814822

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Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth's visits by Halley's Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold. In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg's sister uses the tale as a surrogate for sharing a family secret only her brother believes. In 1835, The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm revise the tale to bury a truth about Jacob even he can't come to face. In 1986, a folklore scholar and her brother come to find the record is wrong about the figurative witch in the woods, while in 2211, twin space probes aiming to find earth's sister planet disseminate the narrative in binary code. Breadcrumbing back in time from 2365 to 1378, siblings reimagine, reinvent, and recycle the narrative of Hansel and Gretel to articulate personal, regional, and ultimately cosmic experiences of tragedy. Through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores sibling love in the face of trauma over the course of a millennium, in the vein of Richard McGuire's Here and Lars von Trier's Melancholia.

Author : Emily Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593336127

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION! "Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling."--Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Author : Shel Silverstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061965103

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As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!

Author : Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765378809

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"Originally published as Hex in 2013 by Luitingh-Sijthoff in Amsterdam"--Colophon.

Author : Kate Avelynn
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1620612364

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Sarah O'Brien is alive because of the pact she and her brother made twelve years ago — James will protect her from their violent father if she promises to never leave him. For years, she's watched James destroy his life to save hers. If all he asks for in return is her affection, she'll give it freely.Until, with a tiny kiss and a broken mind, he asks for more than she can give.Sam Donavon has been James' best friend — and the boy Sarah's had a crush on — for as long as she can remember. As their forbidden relationship deepens, Sarah knows she's in trouble. Quiet, serious Sam has decided he's going to save her. Neither of them realize James is far more unstable than her father ever was, or that he's not about to let Sarah forget her half of the pact . . .

Author : Marcus Pfister
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1558580093

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Summary: The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

Author : Robert N. Munsch
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780920668375

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A young woman holds her newborn son And looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be." So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of copies in Spanish and French). Firefly Books is proud to offer this sentimental favorite in a variety of editions and sizes: We offer a trade paper and laminated hardcover edition in a 8" x 8" size. In gift editions we carry: a slipcased edition (8 1/2" x 8 1/4"), with a laminated box and a cloth binding on the book and a 10" x 10" laminated hardcover with jacket. And a Big Book Edition, 16" x 16" with a trade paper binding.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476764522

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An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.

Author : Nick Abadzis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1596433027

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Laika is an abandoned puppy destined to be a space traveler aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.