Cigarette Angel Other Stories

Cigarette Angel includes three short stories by Blake Pitcher. Cold, as I am A loner in a strange city overthinks an innocuous question. Cigarette Angel Teacher said smoking kills, so Cindy hides her daddy's cigarettes everyday. When Daddy finally quits, Cindy realizes more people must be saved. Now she's known village-wide as the cigarette angel--until a big tobacco executive attempts to correct a sales anomaly. Ice Cream for Smitty When Smitty is terrorized by two young boys, a tiny thought inspires meaningful action.

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the complex bonds between lovers are unravelled to the point of breaking, and the often strange and touching ways we define ourselves and our relationships in a fluctuating world.

A remarkable collection of short expressionist stories by Russian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who was considered to be the father of Expressionism in Russian literature. Traces of compassion, beauty, and sympathetic insight are encountered on every page side by side with barbarity and crudeness, the reason being that Andreyev portrays life without hiding, without neglecting any part of it. The Little Angel, and other stories (1916) was of one of his collections that were extensively translated into book form. The plots in these stories are straightforward, the characters are isolated, and the endings are harsh and profound in their sadness. Because of the cumulative descriptions of the strange and the dreadful, Andreyev has been called the Russian Edgar Allan Poe. During the 1914-1929 period, America was eager for anything similar to Edgar Allan Poe. As Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. This collection contains the following short stories: The Little Angel At the Roadside Station Snapper The Lie An Original Petka at the Bungalow Silence Laughter The Friend In the Basement The City The Marseillaise The Tocsin Bargamot and Garaska Stepping-stones The Spy

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred

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A collection of separate stories, some longer than others by the celebrated Russian writer, Andreyev. The first story is about a boy, from a very dysfunctional family, whose behaviour has, as a result, become very bad. There is an air of melancholy in the story as it describes the boy and his mother and father and the freezing cold weather they endure.

Self-crashing cars; a rabbit that transcends reality; the inexorable passion of artificial intelligence-- Autonomy is a collection of stories dealing with reality, strangeness, and the space between. Includes the novella The Young Hyenas. PLUS… “SWITCH” An outing with grandma turns into a nightmarish joyride. “Robot Butler” Dymotron’s Robot Butler is the best help a man can buy, but at what cost? “GOBi & the Jo-Bird” Google’s “Online Being” runs rampant and… falls in love. “Autonomous” A detour in a self-driving car turns deadly. “Horse Mode” For Marshall, life is full of choices. But who is actually making them? “Cold, As I Am” A loner in a strange city overthinks an innocuous question. Aeneatha, in the Sky A woman follows a rabbit out of an alien world. “Ice Cream for Smitty” When Smitty is terrorized by two young boys, a tiny thought inspires meaningful action. “Elisha Rabbit” A magical rabbit transcends death and reality. And, Eclectic-noir Flash Fiction: Big Sky A Week Along the Coast Cooley’s Cabin Ga! Self-crashing cars; a rabbit that transcends reality; the inexorable passion of artificial intelligence-- Autonomy is a collection of stories dealing with reality, strangeness, and the space between. Includes the novella The Young Hyenas. PLUS… “SWITCH” An outing with grandma turns into a nightmarish joyride. “Robot Butler” Dymotron’s Robot Butler is the best help a man can buy, but at what cost? “GOBi & the Jo-Bird” Google’s “Online Being” runs rampant and… falls in love. “Autonomous” A detour in a self-driving car turns deadly. “Horse Mode” For Marshall, life is full of choices. But who is actually making them? “Cold, As I Am” A loner in a strange city overthinks an innocuous question. Aeneatha, in the Sky A woman follows a rabbit out of an alien world. “Ice Cream for Smitty” When Smitty is terrorized by two young boys, a tiny thought inspires meaningful action. “Elisha Rabbit” A magical rabbit transcends death and reality. And, Eclectic-noir Flash Fiction: Big Sky A Week Along the Coast Cooley’s Cabin Ga!

Dubbed the "Bard of America's Bird-Watchers" by the Wall Street Journal, Pete Dunne knows birders and birding—instinctively and completely. He understands the compulsion that drives other birders to go out at first light, whatever the weather, for a chance to maybe, just maybe, glimpse that rare migrant that someone might have spotted in a patch of woods the day before yesterday. And yet, he also knows how . . . well . . . strange the birding obsession becomes when viewed through the eyes of a nonbirder. His dual perspective—totally engrossed in birding, yet still aware of the "odd birdness" of some birders—makes reading his essays a pure pleasure whether you pursue "the feather quest" or not. This book collects forty-one of Dunne's recent essays, drawn from his columns in Living Bird, Wild Bird News, the New Jersey Sunday section of the New York Times, Birder's World, and other publications. Written with his signature wit and insight, they cover everything from a moment of awed communion with a Wandering Albatross ("the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen") to Dunne's imagined "perfect bird" ("The Perfect Bird is the size of a turkey, has the wingspan of an eagle, the legs of a crane, the feet of a moorhen, and the talons of a great horned owl. It eats kudzu, surplus zucchini, feral cats, and has been known to predate upon homeowners who fire up their lawn mowers before 7:00 A.M. on the weekend."). The title essay pays whimsical, yet heartfelt tribute to Dunne's mentor, the late birding legend Roger Tory Peterson.