Author: Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Author: Daniel Keyes
Author: David RogersAlgernon, Charlie, and I
Author: Daniel KeyesPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547564082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The author of Flowers for Algernon discusses the highs & lows of the writing life, as well as his methods for creating fiction. In his bestselling novel Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo—a laboratory mouse and a man—who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. For the first time, readers, writers, teachers, and students can glimpse the creative life behind this cherished novel. Includes the original novelette version of Flowers for Algernon
Lullaby
Author: Chuck PalahniukPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400075572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. "A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.
A Study Guide for Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410335828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
A Study Guide for Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
A Dirty Job
Author: Christopher MoorePublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061801828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.
For Such a Journey
Author: Joyce Elaine JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780976655909
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thaddeus' life as a slave in South Carolina in the late 1840s is bleak. At age eight, he is taken from the mother he loves and sold to another plantation. When injured by an overseer's whip, he is treated by Spider, an amazing old man who helps him in ways he could not have imagined.
Pavane
Author: Keith RobertsPublisher: OLD EARTH BOOKS
ISBN: 9781882968398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of linked short stories set in a twentieth century where The Roman Catholic Church controls the western world, the Protestant Reformation never happened, the Inquisition thrives, and a tyrannical Rome maintains its power in a Dark Age by limiting knowledge, outlawing electricity, and curbing technology.
The Jasper Forest
Author: Julia GrayPublisher: Orbit
ISBN: 9781841490571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
THE JASPER FOREST is the second book in the Guardian Cycle, a sweeping fantasy epic from one of the best new storytellers in the genre. Exiled from Vadanis, the homeland he risked his life to save, Terrel finds himself adrift on the ocean. Delirious with hunger and exhaustion, he is on the point of giving up when he realises that he has found land. Rescued from the perilous waters by two fishermen, Terrel is nursed back to health. His situation seems desperate, but at least he is not alone. The ghosts of his friends - both dead and alive - are still with him. For the time being, events on Vadanis are beyond his control. His new home, however, faces difficulties of its own, and Terrel may be in a unique position to overcome them. Leaving behind the villagers, he embarks on a remarkable quest to discover the truth - about the world and himself. For in Terrel's past is the key to his destiny. Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
