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2009 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0814334121 | EPUB | 1 MB
New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to prosper in the twenty-first century. Through the complex inner lives of working-class characters, Campbell illustrates the desperation of post-industrial America, where wildlife, jobs, and whole ways of life go extinct and the people have no choice but to live off what is left behind. The harsh Michigan winter is the backdrop for many of the tales, which are at turns sad, brutal, and oddly funny. One man prepares for the end of the world–scheduled for midnight December 31, 1999–in a pole barn with chickens and survival manuals. An excruciating burn causes a man to transcend his racist and sexist worldview. Another must decide what to do about his meth-addicted wife, who is shooting up on the other side of the bathroom door. A teenaged sharpshooter must devise a revenge that will make her feel whole again. Though her characters are vulnerable, confused, and sometimes angry, they are also resolute. Campbell follows them as they rebuild their lives, continue to hope and dream, and love in the face of loneliness. Fellow Michiganders, fans of short fiction, and general readers will enjoy this poignant and affecting collection of tales.

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Keep content simple: this is the key to animating engaging stories and the underlying philosophy at Novenero, a motion design studio that has worked with clients like Facebook, HP, and Tommy Hilfiger. Bring your ideas to life by transforming simple sketches into illustrations in motion and create vibrant visual metaphors that capture your audience’s attention.

In this course, learn how to direct and design an animated story in After Effects alongside Andrea and Giulio, founders of studio Novenero. They teach you the step-by-step process for compelling motion design projects, from the initial sketches to animating the final artboards and art direction for audio.

Free Download The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Dino Buzzati, edited and translated by Lawrence Venuti
English | January 7, 2025 | ISBN: 1681378671 | True EPUB | 344 pages | 0.8 MB
Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.

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English | August 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1399073303 | 184 pages | PDF | 6.91 Mb
From 1942 to WWII’s end, RAF and US bomber crews faced heavy casualties, harsh POW conditions, and forced marches as Soviet forces advanced.

Free Download Tony Cross, "Here’s to the Men of Alton: Stories of Courage and Sacrifice in the Great War"
English | ISBN: 0750960779 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
"During the Great War almost 650 men enlisted from the small market town of Alton, Hampshire. These soldiers served all over the globe, including the Western Front, India, Mesopotamia, Salonika, Turkey and Russia, and were never the same again; some choosing to tell their stories, others desperately trying to forget what they had experienced. But they were the lucky ones: around a third of those who left for distant shores were never to return and instead lie buried in cemeteries across the world. The stories these men couldn’t tell themselves are uncovered here as a monument to their bravery and sacrifice. Here’s to the Men of Alton is a collection of personal accounts of courage and hardship which provides a lasting tribute to those ordinary men who gave their lives for King and Country."-✅Publisher description.

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English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 194567606X | 234 pages | PDF | 1.39 Mb
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Free Download BadChristian, "The M Word: Real Stories from Women about Masturbation, Sex Addiction, & Porn"
English | ASIN : B00QPBY3SI | 2014 | 30 pages | EPUB | 324 KB
Onlookers will downplay the very authenticity of the Christian faith in general. No good comes out of hiding the truth about us. These women have decided not to hide. We hope that you will reflect on these stories of pornography/masturbation addiction, drug use, date rape, and self-loathing and stop hiding as well. Your story might be different but it needs to be told. This book will allow you to see that the things we’ve done or things that have been done to us do not own us. We have no shame. There is freedom. There is love for all of us. We won’t apologize for talking about sex and perversion.

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English | ASIN : B00LVAK8OG | 2014 | 195 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Bedtime stories have many advantages, for parents/adults and children alike. The fixed routine of a bedtime story before sleeping has a relaxing effect, and the soothing voice of a person telling a story allows for a calm atmosphere in which the child can fall asleep more easily. The emotional aspect creates a bond between the storyteller and the listener, often a parent and child.

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It could have been any family of six children – except that five of them were born at once. The Lawson quins were a medical miracle and a national obsession.

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English | ISBN: 0813946077 | 2021 | 178 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Road trips loom large in the American imagination, and stories from the road have been central to crafting national identities across North and South America. Tales of traversing this vast geography, with its singular landscape, have helped foster a sense of American exceptionalism. Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas―the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War―John Ochoa pursues literary travelers across landscapes and centuries. At each historical crossroads, the nations of North and South invented or reinvented themselves in the shadow of empire. Travel accounts from these periods offered master narratives that shaped the notion of America’s postimperial future.