One more thing stories and other stories
"Across a range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, Novak's assured prose and expansive imagination introduce readers to people, places, and premises that are hilarious, insightful, provocative, and moving-often at the same time. In One More Thing, a boy wins a $100,000 prize...
| Main Author: | Novak, B. J., 1979- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2014.
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- The rematch
- Dark matter
- No one goes to heaven to see Dan Fogelberg
- Romance, chapter one
- Julie and the warlord
- The something by John Grisham
- The girl who gave great advice
- All you have to do
- 'Rithmetic
- The ambulance driver
- Walking on eggshells (or: when I loved Tony Robbins)
- The impatient billionaire and the mirror for Earth
- Missed connection: grocery spill at 21st and 6th 2:30 pm on Wednesday
- I never want to walk on the moon
- Sophia
- The Comedy Central roast of Nelson Mandela
- They kept driving faster and outran the rain
- The man who invented the calendar
- The ghost of Mark Twain
- The beautiful girl in the bookstore
- MONSTER: the roller coaster
- Kellogg's (or: the last wholesome fantasy of the middle-school boy)
- The man who posted pictures of everything he ate
- Closure
- Kindness among cakes
- Quantum nonlocality and the death of Elvis Presley
- If I had a nickel
- A good problem to have
- Johnny Depp, fate, and the double-decker Hollywood tour bus
- Being young was her thing
- Angel Echeverria, comediante superpopular
- The market was down
- The vague restaurant critic
- One of these days, we have to do something about Willie
- Wikipedia Brown and the case of the missing bicycle
- Regret is just perfectionism plus time
- Chris Hansen at the Justin Bieber concert
- Great writers steal
- Confucius at home
- War
- If you love something
- Just an idea
- Heyyyyy, rabbits
- The best thing in the world awards
- Bingo
- Marie's stupid boyfriend
- Pick a lane
- "Everyone was singing the same song": the Duke of Earl recalls his trip to America in June of 1962
- The pleasure of being right
- Strange news
- Never fall in love
- The world's biggest rip-off
- The walk to school on the day after Labor Day
- Kate Moss
- Welcome to Camp Fantastic for gifted teens
- There is a fine line between why and why not
- The man who told us about inflatable women
- A new Hitler
- Constructive criticism
- The bravest thing I ever did
- Rome
- The literalist's love poem
- J. C. Audetat, translator of Don Quixote
- Discussion questions.