Turn a page, advance a year in Grant's life...Journey through Days in the Life of Ulysses S. Grant in W. Brandon Bell's new novella. Each page provides a fictional snapshot of a different year of Grant's life, beginning with Jesse Root Grant naming his son by pulling names from a hat. From there, you will advance through Ulysses S. Grant's rowdy childhood, first stint in the military, meandering civilian life, rise to Lieutenant General, presidency, and financial fall from grace. Published 200 years after his birth in 1822, this novella provides an intimate portrayal of Grant the soldier, the president, the defeated, and the victor. See him at his most ordinary before events usher in his extraordinary rise, unexpected fall, and ultimate journey to peace.
Take the depraved hilarity of early George Saunders stories, add Lorrie Moore's biting irreverence, propel everything with swift, Carver-like prose, and the result would be akin to Heartbeat Roadshow, the debut story collection from W. Brandon Bell. What would you do to escape loneliness? Would you poach a truck for the person you love? Build a tourist trap inside an abandoned distillery? Follow strangers into hotels? These are the lengths the characters in Heartbeat Roadshow will go to make a connection. This collection jumps to life with "Brothers and Thin Skin." In this sibling rivalry story, a roller-skating construction worker arranges a violin performance for his hermitic brother (who has never played the violin before). Next up is "Occupation," a cautionary tale about the dangers of trying to revolutionize advertising in the funeral industry. In the title story, an ex-con follows a traveling propaganda machine that puts fetal heartbeats on display. Each story features one-of-a-kind characters who push against their limits, all driven by Bell's sharp storytelling. Heartbeat Roadshow draws from contemporary experiences that Bell has squeezed for every ounce of humor, fear, sadness, and joy. The result is a funny, moving, and, above all, entertaining literary experience. Preview the Fourteen Stories of Heartbeat Roadshow Brothers and Thin Skin After Jesse claims a past life as a famous violinist, his brother arranges a surprise concert. Told while wearing roller skates. Occupation Stu creates an ad campaign for two-for-one funeral deals. Disaster ensues. Omissions Sara copes with her husband's approaching death by volunteering to help a missions group, but she takes her support too far. The Hidden Castle A reformed criminal stumbles into a distillery in which squatters have constructed an immense castle. When things turn violent, he must make his escape. Typo A typo haunts a divorcee who has fled to Europe. Men of Apology Mitch's life crumbles after a newcomer joins his bowling team. The Girl in the Yard After Rye's wife and son go out of town, a girl begins sleeping naked in his yard. Mouths Unknown Rye tries to help his brother, who is unemployed and has fathered children with two different women. Heartbeat Roadshow An ex-con stumbles on a propaganda tour that plays fetal heartbeats for strangers. On impulse, the man follows the roadshow, a decision that will lead him home. After Youth Casper terrorizes the orthodontist who stole his beard. Reek An all-star trash collector's livelihood is threatened when a vindictive coworker reveals his secret. Mr. Zebra Man Repacking store-bought cakes helps a young man become a confection kingpin. The Guest Harold exercises in the men's room at work. Mark follows Harold everywhere he goes. Christy loses her hand in a factory mishap. When they come together over dinner, their lives will change forever.
Are you on the run? What kind of monster lives in these woods? Did any of this really happen? Why did you steal my story? Did you see this coming? Can you spare some bourbon (top shelf only)? Am I under arrest? Why am I sinking into the street? The first issue of Scuff Occasionally is here to answer your questions. It includes stories by Jacob Bennett, Jason Linden, Ben Heckel, and more. Get it, read it, tell your friends.
Credit Hacks 101 is an academic socket of financial wellness that provides practical and efficient information that will effectively enhance your knowledge on building good credit, providing effective measures of financial wellness, and supplying you with the strategies necessary to create generational wealth. Credit Hacks 101 also provides laws concerning credit repair and adds personal insight from the author to help encourage and bring about humor to you so you can easily navigate through the credit repair process. This book will also help motivate you to create generational wealth and get to your goal of financial wellness.
Mark Linyard regrets signing the Oedipus pact. By scribbling his name on that contract, he pledges to fight his dad. He learns the hard way from this mistake--the first of many that he makes in The Company of Ashes. These linked stories cycle through Mark's arrests, incarceration, and friendship with an urn. He experiences persistent doom that shapes his life--and comes to see angst as fuel for sparking his redemption. About the Author Born in 1979. Lifelong resident of Kentucky. Lives in Louisville with his family.
We all desire to become wealthy, independent, and potentially a member of the million-dollar club before retirement. Stock market investing can be the difference between a comfortable or stressful retirement experience.The objective of this book is to outline the simple steps we all can take, at any point in our lives, to become a successful investor. It is not always about the secret strategies used by legendary investors such as, Warren Buffett or Carl Icahn, it is purely about developing the right skills to build the best possible investment portfolio for yourself.
A very special book, featuring in a single volume (under two beautiful covers), two spectacular short novels: "On a world without women, who are the New People?" The New People by Alex Jeffers, set on the watery planet Rahab in the distant future, presents a society where no females have been born for generations and where science has made it possible for men to continue in a single-sex world. But most males there are still born heterosexually oriented. The biological and existential conundrum inherent in this situation eventually answers the question of who the "New People" are and what their agenda is. But in the process of unfolding for the reader the nature of Rahab's society, Jeffers creates beautifully rendered characters and a deeply moving story that will surprise the reader throughout and leave a lasting impression. "A stunning act of betrayal on a deadly world " Brandon H. Bell's Elegant Threat...On the Demise of Captain Fantomas Patton-Guerrero and Loss of La Amenaza Elegente is a lovely, stirring, startling story focused on a group of far future humans making their living by wrangling the strange fauna of a deadly oceanic moon while facing impending conflict with their Post-Singularity cousins and sectarian strife within their own ranks. Though Bell foreshadows his story's conclusion from the very beginning, he has crafted such engaging characters that one cannot help but hold out hope that somehow disaster will be averted. Together, the two stories form a remarkable duo, the first M-Brane SF Double.
Can a human heart overcome a demon soul? When soul-eating demons overrun his world, Kaelis, a young seraph warrior, uses the Queen's ring to open a portal in space and flee with the infant heir to the throne, landing on earth. Unbeknownst to him, the demon leader, Nsark, follows through the portal, determined to devour the soul of every last seraph, especially the Queen's heir. After Kaelis hides the baby, Nsark creates the ultimate weapon by fathering a half-human, half-demon: a soul-stealer's child. Sixteen years later, James struggles to fit in with his peers. In a last-ditch effort, he joins the school play, where he meets Lucy. Something deep draws them together, and their friendship reveals their hidden pasts: one is an angel, one is half-demon. Lucy and James find themselves pulled into an age-old war between their peoples. Hunted by relentless enemies, and grappling with deep-seated instincts and strange new powers, they must fight for their lives, their souls, and each other. Can they overcome who they were born to be, or will one of them have to make the ultimate sacrifice for the other to survive?
BRAIN STEM: Brilliance, Resilience and Achievement IN STEM is designed to provide students with experiences to develop an ability to persevere through challenges and realize academic opportunities in STEM. BRAIN STEM fosters team-oriented collaboration to work on academically enriching, motivating, and engaging tasks.
History of Belgium, And Information Tourism. Early history and Culture. The population of Belgium is divided into three linguistic communities. In the north the Flemings, who constitute more than half of Belgium's population, speak Flemish, which is equivalent to Dutch (sometimes called Netherlandic). In the south the French-speaking Walloons make up about one-third of the country's population. About one-tenth of the people are completely bilingual, but a majority have some knowledge of both French and Flemish. The German-language region in eastern Liège province, containing a small fraction of the Belgian population, consists of several communes around Eupen and Saint-Vith (Sankt-Vith). The city of Brussels comprises a number of officially bilingual communes, although the metropolitan area extends far into the surrounding Flemish and Walloon communes. The French-speaking population is by far the larger in the capital region. Bruxellois, a regionally distinct dialect influenced by both French and Flemish is also spoken by a small segment of the city's inhabitants. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Belgium's managerial, professional, and administrative ranks were filled almost entirely by the French-speaking segment of the population, even in Flanders. The Flemings long protested what they felt was the exclusion of the average nonbilingual Fleming from effective participation in everyday dealings concerning law, medicine, government administration, and industrial employment. The Flemings, after gradually gaining greater numerical and political strength, eventually forced reforms that established Flanders as a unilingual Flemish-speaking area, provided Flemings with access to political and economic power, and established a degree of regional autonomy. Many disputes and much rancour remain between Flemish- and French-speaking Belgians, however
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