Short Takes

Short Takes

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  • Author: Judith Kitchen
  • Publisher: National Geographic Books
  • ISBN: 0393326004
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Invigorating creative nonfiction—short, but never slight—gathered by the co-editor of In Short and In Brief. In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss—and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well-known writers—Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, and Terry Tempest Williams—along with Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, Jane Brox, and others whose literary stars are clearly rising. Each short—whether a few paragraphs or reaching 2,000 words, and reflecting almost every way nonfiction can be written—invites us to experience the power of the small to move, persuade, and change us.


Short Takes

Short Takes

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  • Author: Charles R. Smith (Jr.)
  • Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
  • ISBN: 9780525464549
  • Category : American poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In Smith's third volume in an award-winning homage to street-court basketball, 12 poems are delivered in short, quick lines that twist and streak and dribble their way downcourt, finally slam dunking their verses with amazing dexterity. Full-color photos.


Short Takes

Short Takes

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  • Author: Elizabeth Penfield
  • Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9780321207791
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 372

"This lively collection of fifty-six short, readable essays on diverse and timely topics provides valuable models of the rhetorical modes."--Back cover.


Condor: The Short Takes

Condor: The Short Takes

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  • Author: James Grady
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • ISBN: 1504056493
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

The legendary CIA spy is back—in a “superb” collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor (Publishers Weekly, starred review). James Grady, “king of the modern espionage thriller” (George Pelecanos, award-winning writer/producer of The Wire), first introduced his clandestine CIA operative—codename: Condor—in a debut novel that became Three Days of the Condor, one of the key films of the paranoid era of the 1970s, and is now the basis for the hit AT&T original series, Condor, starring Max Irons and William Hurt. In this explosive collection featuring a new introduction on the writing and publication history of Condor, a never-before-published original novella, and short fiction collected for the first time, Grady brings his covert agent into the twenty-first century. From the chaos of 9/11 to the unprecedented Russian cyber threats, Condor is back. In condor.net, the intelligence analyst chases an unfathomable conspiracy that begins in Afghanistan and leads to the secrets of his own superiors. In Caged Daze of the Condor, Jasmine Daze of the Condor, and Next Day of the Condor, the paranoia of National Security’s sworn soldier reaches a screaming pitch when he’s locked behind the walls of the CIA’s private insane asylum. Classified documents in the basement of the Library of Congress draw Condor into a murderous subterranean world where no one can be trusted in Condor in the Stacks. And in Russian Roulette of the Condor, the striking new novella shot through with the biggest spy scandal since the Cold War, the underground patriot faces a dictator determined to turn American politics into an insidious spy game. Brace yourself for six shots of the iconic Condor from James Grady, who has been called a “master of intrigue” by John Grisham, and whose prose was compared to George Orwell and Bob Dylan by the Washington Post.


Not Dead Yet

Not Dead Yet

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  • Author: Barbara Ballinger
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1538148501
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

Not Dead Yet is the mantra of the current boomer population of 73 million who still think of themselves as young. This cohort is facing challenges as they age but are not content to throw in the towel on a full and rewarding life. The authors help readers face what comes their way as they age with humor, optimism, energy, and honesty.


Short Takes

Short Takes

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  • Author: Austin P. Torney
  • Publisher: Austin Patrick Torney
  • ISBN: 1434837440
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 482

Original Comedy/Jokes, Glorious Nostalgia, Astounding Science, Thought provoking Satire/Take-offs, Gripping Short Stories, Deep Mystical musings, Self-Help, and even a novel about saving of the universe and the fall of an Empire. Plus, the Theory of Everything deeply explored.


Short Takes

Short Takes

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  • Author: Donald J. Young
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 1479726281
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 91


walk in reflections - short takes

walk in reflections - short takes

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  • Author: patrick longe
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 1499006179
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 460

the history can't escape lives in philosophy drop in anywhere between the Big Whoever and Theory of Relativity what the circle chain to each his own


True Lies and Short Takes

True Lies and Short Takes

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  • Author: Eugene L. Stelzig
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 0761873279
  • Category : Austrian Americans
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 221

These essays focus on different periods of the author's life and hybrid identity: his Austrian childhood, his teenage years in France, his coming to the U.S. as a young adult and attending college, studying in England, and then settling in the U.S. into an academic career.


Poems, Lyrics and Short Takes

Poems, Lyrics and Short Takes

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  • Author: Fred R Kuester
  • Publisher: FriesenPress
  • ISBN: 1525544209
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 59

Here is a fascinating blend of prose, lyrics and poetry that probes a range of human expression from reverent to somewhat less than fully reverent This is a presentation of so many topics that it can be described as a morph of almost any conceivable blend of genres. Some lyrics have already been set to music. Feel free to hum, whistle and sing as you enjoy this book of glad to sad and back again to glad Enjoy