Ergebnis für "Pamela" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Pamela is a newly retired teacher with time on her hands. She’s finding it hard to muster enthusiasm for what’s ahead: exhausting postdivorce dating rituals and an uneasy relationship with her emotionally stunted, live-at-home son. But for Pamela, there’s a surprise in store that could challenge the status quo and, against all expectations, make life interesting again.

A collection of Christmas stories from award-winning Australian authors about the country practices that lie at the heart of small towns. The Christmas Cake War by Stella Quinn Physiotherapist Jodie is in Clarence to help her great-aunt Carol move into an aged care home. But Jodie didn't count...

Whether married or looking for another chance at romance, love is always in the air for these couples.

This is a collection of Pamela Kelley's three sweet romances in the Quinn Valley Ranch series. This is a family saga series, set in a small Idaho town near a big lake and mountains. The books are tightly connected and feature a loving family and siblings.

A heartwarming collection of four brand-new festive stories from favourite Australian authors about finding love on the farm this Christmas. The Christmas Contract by Pamela Cook Bridie has until Christmas to convince her dad not to pull the loan he gave her to set up her organic produce farm...

Vampires Gone Wild brings together four paranormal romance novellas by Kerrelyn Sparks, Pamela Palmer, Amanda Arista, and Kim Falconer, authors and bloggers at Supernatural Underground. Kerrelyn Sparks’s demure Pamela and sexy vampire sidekick battle the Malcontents in “V is for Vampwoman...

Telling stories of ordinary lives with extraordinary skill, Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada. Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean, and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal.

This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness.

Part of the Evelyn E. Smith science fiction series published by Unforgotten Books, THE VILBAR PARTY AND OTHER STORIES contains some of the author's sharpest and wittiest works.

Really short and humorous stories about shopping at the malls and auctions in the small towns of the Midwest.

Really short, inspirational short stories about empty nesters who moved from Idaho to South Dakota.

Looking for short and inspirational stories? Listen to this audiobook all about winning and losing.

Really short, humorous stories about growing old.

Really short humorous and uplifting stories about some of God's wild creatures on the prairie of the Midwest.

When a star running back is gunned down by a cop with a questionable history, the city of L.A. is on the verge of a racial explosion. Enter a lawyer who comes to the cop's defense...but a desire for justice has nothing to do with it.

Stories navigating the commplicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy Tan The editors who brought us Unsettling America and Identity Lessons have compiled a short-story anthology that focuses on...

In her newest book, a collection of short stories, Mary Tonetti Dorra has amassed a group of characters based in part on her own real friends and relatives who interact with those which are purely fictional.

This groundbreaking anthology presents 40 narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer’s and other dementias on patients, as well as their caregivers and family. Deeply personal, recounting the wrenching course of a disease that kills a loved one twice - first they forget who they are, and then the body succumbs - these stories also show how witnessing the disease and caring for someone with it can be powerfully transformative, calling forth amazing strength and grace.

Bringing Evelyn E. Smith’s public domain works to life again, after a publication lapse of nearly three quarters of a century, has been a passion project for us. The satire and symbolism of her work is as relevant today as when these tales were written, in the latter decade of the 1950’s. Then, her stories and novellas were categorized as futuristic fantasy (or gothic romance, in some cases) for a relatively small market. One senses in her writing that Ms. Smith was creating her fiction more to amuse herself than to leave any lasting legacy — though she most certainly did so.

In an America full of unemployment, late fees, foreclosures, bankruptcy, and loss of hope…. There are consequences. This short story collection includes some of the pale misery behind faults in the American economy. Find a cab driver who lost his way, a down and out executive who stumbles onto a Voodoo curse in New Orleans, a nurse who pays the price for rescuing a man once thought loved, and a horrific, dystopian future.