Someones Story

What is that you can refer to as the greatest achievement in life when achieving something ushers the end? Love is a strong and strange expression, but is it enough when no togetherness is longed for? A generational legend and his unheard story of overcoming a phase shrouded with a cloak of despair and self-doubt. Two destinies, two dreams, two heartbreaks, two lives fighting to move forward – two strangers. Sometimes, it is OK to break the rules and be selfish, because people would know only what they are told. Ever wondered, why did the mightiest and knowledgeable of them, surrendered it all to invite his own peril? Six intriguing tales of passion, sacrifice, ambition and the unspoken perseverance needed to become a protagonist in one’s own story.

Someone Like You is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In Someone Like You, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of two wartime pilots arguing over the fickle hand of fate (and the airman) . . . Someone Like You is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War. This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

From a box of old letters and memorabilia, Miriam Moran constructs the remarkable life of her mother, an American missionary in war-torn China who died before her children could remember her. Grace Liddell Cox was a strong-minded farm girl from Iowa who early dedicated herself to the spread of the gospel in China. A civil war was underway when she arrived, and war with Japan was brewing. Yet, with a steady trust in her heavenly Father, she made the long journey to her post in Yunnan province, crisscrossing the country again in her faithful service with the China Inland Mission. Her letters home detail her experiences with the people she came to love, her interactions with fellow missionaries, her own marriage and children, her harrowing escape from the Japanese army, and her undiminished confidence in God in each new circumstance. Someone to Be with Roxie shares the fascinating life story of a young missionary who gave her life to God for service in China, and found him entirely worthy of her trust.

They're called the "grunts" - the uniformed officers of Justice Security. They don't have the cushy, highly publicized jobs held by the plainclothes members of the company - they're the people that appear in the background every day at banks, office buildings, and retail establishments, providing a secure environment for customers and workers. Gus Brazzle is one of those grunts. His assignment is a store that deals in used books, music, and movies. Gus has become quite close to the employees of the store, and thinks of them as his family. He's even been nicknamed "Sugar Bear" by the five-year-old daughter of one of the store's employees. But, when a disgruntled customer decides to take revenge for a perceived slight, things turn deadly. Gus has a choice to make...but will he make it in time? Find out in this short story inspired by the classic Elton John song, Someone Saved My Life Tonight!

This book is the writing of someone who has become aware about and would like to give testimonies about God's goodness towards her from her childhood to present. The writer who realizes that she has many failures and has fallen many times in her life as a human being who has too many weaknesses, yet God has love for her. She, who as a kid, had been saved when she was thrust into the water in a swimming pool; God has given her such a wonderful grace by extending the ages of her parents so that she could have their companions and feel their affection for many many years to come. God has given her a place in this temporary world so she may be with those who believe that God is so good. All the glory be only for the Supreme God.

A mysterious fortune teller on a train across a timescape helps simplify the mysteries of life. Green leopards, flying whales, marshmallow wars & a quirky origin story of everything from gender equality to global warming. A cynical poet & an affluent socialite spend an evening together & empty each other’s hearts of all the unused melancholy in them. An incoherent girl helps simplify the life of the most sorted boy of her class. A reluctant purchase of a jar of peanut butter leads to a serendipitous discovery of a dead author. A fiction writer’s characters rise in revolt & refuse to obey his pen. A deserted town that has only unmanned flower stalls left in it. Two men from different generations cling on to each other with their last grip on a vanishing bloodline. Two hyper-competitive professionals become friends for life under the unlikeliest of circumstances. A voyeur and an exhibitionist discover one another, each unaware of the other’s version of reality. Two star-crossed lovers whose orbits keep colliding & drifting away from each other. A man misses his regular commute & walks into an alternate existence in a strange land. A queer old man shows up & intrudes young Kafka just as he is about to propose to his girlfriend. A man falls back in love with his wife the day after their divorce. An age ends & another begins when three destinies come together during a brief intermission for one violent collision before disintegrating forever, taking all the music with them. These are only a few of the routes by which Ayon Banerjee takes you on a roller-coaster ride of plots that cut through genres & weaves together an unputdownable collection of stories which seamlessly drift from the classical to modern style of telling short stories that narrate missed journeys & accidental destinations, archived conversations & clandestine confessions, love & loss, destiny & time.

This collection of 50 stories is truly charming. These funny accounts are a very easy, comfortable read. The author relates these personal experiences in a most heartwarming way. The lessons learned shared in this book reveal wonderful insights and compassion for kids. Although they are based on actual events from working with boys in the Cub Scout and Boy Scout programs, there are life lessons to be learned by anyone that works with youth. Since Pat Gould is really just a kid at heart, he shows how learning from children has enriched his life. If you are planning on working with children in the future, it will give you some great tools. If you are currently serving children, it will give you hope. If you have helped kids in the past, it will give you joy, as you will relate to these stories. The author's passion for youth is evident as his vivid style of writing almost brings these stories to real life. This is positively an incredible collection and you will be happier for having read them.

We know the bedrock themes upon which the Christian faith stands: creation, fall, redemption, restoration. As Christians, we live within these great moments of God’s plan for humanity and all of his creation. In other words, our lives are part of Christian theology—every part of our lives, even surgery. As a part of Zondervan’s Ordinary Theology series, The Scalpel and the Cross recounts New Testament professor Gene Green’s encounter with open-heart surgery and carefully examines the many ways in which Christian doctrine spoke into the experience. The result is a short book that avoids shallow explanations and glib promises, instead guiding readers to deeper understanding and enduring hope in the face of one of modern life’s necessary traumas.

Despite being cursed with a boy's name, Kevin "Vi" Connelly is seriously female and a committed romantic. The affliction hit at the tender age of six when she was handed a basket of flower petals and ensnared by the "marry-tale." The thrill, the attention, the big white dress—it's the Best Day of Your Life, and it's seriously addictive. But at twenty-seven, with a closetful of pricey bridesmaid dresses she'll never wear again, a trunkful of embarrassing memories, and an empty bank account from paying for it all, the illusion of matrimony as the Answer to Everything begins to fray. As her friends' choices don't provide answers, and her family confuses her more, Vi faces off against her eminently untrustworthy boyfriend and the veracity of the BDOYL. Eleven weddings in eighteen months would send any sane woman either over the edge or scurrying for the altar. But as reality separates from illusion, Vi learns that letting go of someone else's story to write your own may be harder than buying the myth, but just might help her make the right choices for herself.

THE TIKTOK SENSATION Discover the enchanting, magical bestseller from the author of The Night Circus, now in a stunning new edition. We are all stardust and stories... When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a mysterious book containing details from his own life among its pages, it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Following the clues inside, he is guided to a masquerade ball, a dangerous secret club, and finally to an ancient library hidden far beneath the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians - it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. But when the library is threatened, Zachary must race through its twisting tunnels and sweetly soaked shores, searching for the end of his story. PRAISE FOR THE STARLESS SEA: 'Enchanting read... an ode to stories and storytelling itself, and the joy of reading' Guardian 'Spellbinding' Daily Mirror 'A magical mix of quests and fables...beautifully written' Heat

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