Showing results for "Bender" in Literature & Fiction

September 1940. As Nazi forces sweep across Europe, the wealth of nations vanishes into the desert. The gold reserves of France, Belgium, and Poland—a treasure so vast it could determine the outcome of World War II—have been hidden in the badlands of French West Africa.

We are being watched. That this statement no longer shocks is itself shocking. Post-Snowden, we know that the government - everywhere - has been reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and watching whatever we do on the Internet. The only thing concealed is the nature of our watchers. In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live.

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s...

The summer of 1942 finds the Allies desperate for a foothold in Hitler's Europe. Operation Jubilee is born in the smoke-filled rooms of the War Office—a daring raid that will test not just military might, but the moral fabric of those who command from safe distances. Arthur Cutter, a haunted SOE operative barely out of Oxford, is forced back behind enemy lines for one final mission: infiltrate Dieppe's defenses to gather intelligence critical for the raid.

Depending on your point of view, Fender Benders is either a skewed look at the country music industry or a clear-eyed view of a damn screwy business. It's a Grand Old Opera complete with murder, treachery, greed, drugs, twangy music, a love triangle, and the best fried swimps you'll ever put in your mouth.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.

Leigh Wiodonski’s life as a blackjack dealer been turned upside down. Now, she is trying to escape her frightening past. She fears more alarming happenings if she doesn’t leave Winnemucca. Can the mysterious stalker find her at a remote mountain cabin in Montana? In this fast-paced thriller, she changes her identity in the mountains where gossip is juicy at the Stitchers N’ Bitchers and she falls in love. The ways of living in the West become especially challenging when she stumbles into the nest of a dangerous redneck family.

The end of Earth's immunity period draws ever closer. The game board of grand space politics is set; pieces are down, lines are drawn. Native Earth factions now stand to defend their shared homeworld, and with them shoulder to shoulder are Humans from other worlds, the Miyelonians, the Geckho, the Jarg, the Cleopians, the Cyanids, the Esthetes, and the Crystallids—all those Kung Gnat was able to persuade. But the enemy is also extremely powerful.

Gnat is on his voyage with the Shiamiru, all the while trying to find backup for humanity among the great spacefaring races. After all, based on what he's already seen, he knows not to count on the good sense of his own kind. Even facing an external threat, the people of our Earth cannot see past their internal squabbles and come together to fight as one. Gnat does not expect gratitude from his leaders for taking such matters into his own hands, but when have laws and rules ever stopped our intrepid hero before?

The aggressive invaders from another galaxy cannot be stopped. The Composite keeps capturing system after system wiping out everything in its path, and there is no sign of a force capable of standing up to it. In the search for allies, Gnat embarks on a long journey aimed at uniting the various branches of the human race. And though the potential for alliance is there, how can he convince them to set off to fight a suicidal war with such a disastrous balance of forces?

Hennes Bender ist der "Kurier des Bizarren". Midlifecrisis oder Peter-Pan-Syndrom? Es ist ja nicht so, dass Hennes Bender nicht erwachsen werden will. Er KANN es einfach nicht.

Merav, Vavi para os mais próximos, tem essa agudeza de espírito, esse olhar perspicaz, que caracteriza todo artista e, principalmente, o escritor. Embora fale português há pouco mais de uma década, ela consegue se expressar em um tom marcante, contundente, que prende a atenção do ouvinte.

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 1000+ audiobooks, all ad free!Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales which he later published in this book. Bender indicates the cultural tradition of each storyteller, with most of the stories coming from the Kwe people of southwest Cameroon. Many of the stories are animal fables, including several stories about the trickster turtle.

Electric Literature Aloud! is a compendium of 10 short stories from the anthology series. The editors select stories with a strong voice that capture readers and listeners and lead them somewhere exciting, unexpected, and meaningful.

Der kleine Komiker aus dem Pott macht da weiter, wo er gar nicht richtig aufgehört hat. Er zetert, er stänkert, er regt sich auf. Zum Beispiel darüber, dass früher auch alles scheiße war.

The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.

"Die Wahrheit über Deutschland" ist ein jährlich erscheinender Sampler des Kölner Kabarettlabels WortArt, der einen Querschnitt der letztjährigen Neuerscheinungen des Labels repräsentiert.

Der nun seit 1997 in regelmäßigen Abständen erscheinende Sampler von WortArt. Ein Querschnitt der letztjährigen Neuveröffentlichungen aus dem Genre Kabarett und Comedy. Eine Auswahl der besten Programmausschnitte diverser Künstler.

Gisela liebt Sprüche. Ihr Lieblingsspruch lautet: Es gibt mehr Leute, die kapitulieren, als solche, die scheitern. Als Hausverwalterin hat Gisela mehr als einen Kampf ausgefochten – und dabei manches erreicht. Doch nun ist sie alt, ihr Mann ist tot, die Familie streitet um das Erbe. Nur auf ihren Stiefsohn Andreas kann sie sich immer verlassen. Doch auch der hat es nicht einfach. Von seiner Frau lebt er getrennt, der gemeinsame Sohn chillt, und geschäftlich läuft ebenfalls nicht alles nach Wunsch.