[PDF] Umbrella And Other Stories eBook

Author : Cyrus Colter
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Colter illuminates familiar things and people -- 63rd street and Martin Luther King Highway, wives and common-law mates, a teenager hooked on drugs and retired old men subsisting on pensions ...

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101636300

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How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth over a million dollars? You will discover that just about anything is possible in a Roald Dahl story, and here are eleven of his very best.

Author : Suphasiri Supunpaysaj
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 1996-04
Category :
ISBN : 9789747047370

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These short pieces, written in English, offer segments of Thai life, focusing on elements of class, family and fidelity.

Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408841215

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"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."--James Joyce, "Ulysses" 1918 Audrey Death--feminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal--falls ill with encephalitis lethargica as the epidemic rages across Europe, killing a third of its victims and condemning a further third to living death. 1971 Under the curious eyes of psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner, assumed mental patient Audrey Death lies supine in bed above a spring grotto that she has made every one of the forty-nine years she has resided in Friern Mental Hospital. 2010 Now retired, Dr. Busner travels waywardly across North London in search of the truth about that tumultuous summer when he awoke the post-encephalitic patients under his care using a new and powerful drug. Weaving together a dense tapestry of consciousness and lived life across an entire century, in his latest and most ambitious novel, Will Self takes up the challenge of Modernism and reveals how it--and it alone--can unravel new and unsettling truths about our world and how it came to be.

Author : Elena Arevalo Melville
Publisher : Scallywag Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1915252393

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Clara finds an umbrella on the ground at the park and does a good deed by putting it on a bench. The umbrella says "thank you" and invites Clara to make a wish. So unfolds a magical chain of events featuring a new friend, an elephant, musical butterflies, and a naughty fox who learns his lesson. The artwork in this quirky piece of magical realism is packed with humor and character, and the surprising ending is both heart-warming and uplifting.

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Bounty Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2015-03-25
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ISBN : 9780753729410

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Tip-Tap the naughty pixie is very lazy, but he gets his comeuppance one day when he borrows Dame Trip's umbrella without asking, and all sorts of funny things happen! This lovely story collection also tells of a very surprising Easter egg, a rabbit that didn't grow up and the story of Sly-One and his ice cream. Other stories in this volume: Blackberry Pie The Old Boot The Enchanted Mirror It's Going to Rain! The Frightened Teddy Bear The Singing Shell and many more...

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101636289

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Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about the landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? These compelling tales are a perfect introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius.

Author : Amy June Bates
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 153440659X

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“A subtle, deceptively simple book about inclusion, hospitality, and welcoming the ‘other.’” —Kirkus Reviews “A boundlessly inclusive spirit...This open-ended picture book creates a natural springboard for discussion.” —Booklist “This sweet extended metaphor uses an umbrella to demonstrate how kindness and inclusion work...A lovely addition to any library collection, for classroom use or for sharing at home.” —School Library Journal In the tradition of Alison McGhee’s Someday, beloved illustrator Amy June Bates makes her authorial debut alongside her eleven-year-old daughter with this timely and timeless picture book about acceptance. By the door there is an umbrella. It is big. It is so big that when it starts to rain there is room for everyone underneath. It doesn’t matter if you are tall. Or plaid. Or hairy. It doesn’t matter how many legs you have. Don’t worry that there won’t be enough room under the umbrella. Because there will always be room. Lush illustrations and simple, lyrical text subtly address themes of inclusion and tolerance in this sweet story that accomplished illustrator Amy June Bates cowrote with her daughter, Juniper, while walking to school together in the rain.

Author : Jan Brett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399255400

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Jan Brett's New York Times bestselling picture book The Umbrella has all the rollicking fun of the woodland animals that crowd into a mitten in the snow in The Mitten. Only this time it's in a lush cloud forest as one by one, tree frog, toucan, kinkajou, baby tapir, quetzal, monkey, and jaguar crowd into an open, upside down banana umbrella until a tiny hummingbird lands and they all fall out. A shortened text for toddlers and simple Spanish phrases like "Hola!" add to the fun of reading aloud this lively board book.