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Ezra and Other Stories Kindle Edition

by Barbara A. Whittington (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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Enjoy the romance, suspense, and humor in this collection of short stories. In award winning “Mabel and the Garage Sale,” Mabel’s house rests in the path of a proposed highway. As Mabel sorts her things to move, she recalls the colorful characters who’ve passed through her life.
The story, “Delphine and Rainelle,” poses the question, is a marriage worth saving at all costs?
In “Joy Ruth and Minnie Hendrix” the ladies find more than arrangements for a funeral over at Miller’s Funeral home.
Newlyweds, “Wally and Bun,” are set for life as they fly off in a hot air balloon, leaving their friend, Murphy, to figure out where he stands with the girl he left behind many years ago.
“Eve and Marcus Welby” finds Eve searching for love in college classes given to her by her mother. But, is Eve somehow destined to have only her cats to love?
It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you’re working with turkeys, Stevie writes with his label maker, as he tries to win Macon over as they work together. And, can only the young find the kind of love that makes your pulse race and your palms sweat? “Ezra” offers hope for those who feel they may have missed the love boat.
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Barbara A. Whittington, an award winning author, native of Putnam County, West Virginia, currently lives in a small rural town in Ohio. Ezra and Other Stories is Barbara's second published work. Vada Faith, a novel, was her first. Dear Anne: Love Letters from Nam, a short story, is available on Amazon. Her essays have appeared in The Plain Dealer, Charleston Gazette, Christian Science Monitor, and Women's World. Her short story, Mabel and the Garage Sale, was dramatized for National Public Radio by British Broadcasting Corp. and aired world wide. Her short story, Joy Ruth and Minnie Hendrix, appeared in the United Kingdom's Writer Magazine #4.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009NWLAY6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 8, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 8, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 247 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 113 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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Barbara Whittington, award winning author and native of Putnam County, West Virginia, currently lives in a small rural town in Ohio. Her work has appeared in many publications. Her books, Vada Faith, Ezra and Other Stories, Dear Anne: Love Letters from Nam, Missing: Sweet Baby James and A Girl from Hometown, West Virginia Essays and Poems is available on Amazon and at select book stores.

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Thomas A. Donlon, III
5.0 out of 5 stars Ezra and Other Stories
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2012
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Accolades again to Barbara Whittington for her ability to create stories from the small-town ordinary lives of people. Between these Ezra stories and Vada Faith, she has put Putnam County, WV on the global map.

Again, as in Vada Faith, her attention to detail pervades (and adds humor) and can be seen in some of the small-town anchors: McDonald's Big Macs, K-Mart, and the jobs people get at them after high school. The reader also observes much of the brokenness people must live with (marriages ended, parents leaving kids behind, marriages brought about by odd circumstances--like marrying to cover a potential pregnancy). I never thought a funeral parlor man would be found sexy.

Three powerful stories are the opening one ("Mabel") with the historical investigation of a life through belongings, "Delphine and Rainelle," and "Ezra." The author may have positioned them in that order for emphasis. All of the stories are good. They all take the plain people and show the complexity, the value of each. Rainelle doesn't know how to--or refuses to--come in from the rain.

In all of these stories, the reader is left wanting to bless the unfortunate, the ill, the person who has not realized goals in life. After reading "Ezra," the reader is left to ponder his or her own destiny and to wonder about those last moments of life when the heart of a loved one gives out. The reader longs to be reunited with loved ones and to hope for heaven, despite the occasional evangelist who may have us in his pocket.
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Elizabeth
5.0 out of 5 stars An intimate look at the lives of ordinary people
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2012
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The stories in Barbara Whittington's "Ezra and and Other Stories" are intimate portraits of the "down home" people she grew up with. They are filled with rich details that make you feel you've met her characters at the local J.C. Penney. In "Hoot and Marla," the couple doesn't just spend time together in her apartment, they watch television in her place "on Main Street over the top of Charlie's U-Call We-Haul Trucking Company in the few hours she isn't working the McDonald's drive-thru." Or there's "Mabel's Garage Sale," where Mabel sells her "china plates trimmed in pink roses" and a lifetime of memories when the state's plans for I-64 run through her living room, "right where the gold velvet love seat rests now." My only complaint is that these aren't novels where I can see how their lives turn out. A great read for a quiet afternoon.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Review of Ezra and Other Stories
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2013
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The latest book from Barbara Whittington was a fun read! I enjoyed the stories about people and life in small towns in West Virginia. Some of the stories were pleasant reminders of simpler times....things that anyone could relate to his/her own family. Some stories were funny, some serious, and some you didn't want to see end. I would be very happy to see Ms. Whittington expand some of these stories, in fact. Sometimes, short stories can expand to novels, if the author is so inclined! I would encourage this author to explore the possibility of doing just that!! I would love to continue looking in on the lives of some of these characters...where did their lives end up taking them, and what was the road like to get there? I encourage everyone to take a look at the simpler life and enjoy reading Ezra and Other Stories! Ezra and Other Stories
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Athene Five
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple stories about simple lives
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2013
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Ezra and Other Stories, by Barbara Whittington.

Sometimes when you download a Kindle free book, you get so much more than just a book to read. Whittington has taken a big magnifying glass to the little, overlooked things in life and made them just as important to the tale as the human drama churning around in her characters' lives. The way an egg was cooked, the color of nail polish, how someone folds the bills in their wallet, how the light in a room looks- all these little hints and clues add up to make the people in her stories somehow bigger and more interesting than their small town lives would have promised. The reader might wish they knew these folks, or that at least some of them might have longer stories.
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Jill Sanders
5.0 out of 5 stars Endearing slice of life stories
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2012
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Ezra and Other Stories embraces slice of life situations that challenge us in our everyday lives. It is set in the Appalachain culture of West Virginia. The characters seem like everyday life people who are beset with some of life's quirky challenges. The stories are touching and call us to examine some of our own thoughts about everyday life. The stories are just the right length to involve yourself in a tale without having to commit yourself to a full blown novel.
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yaya
5.0 out of 5 stars The ordinary turn to extraordinary!
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2013
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The characters in Ezra and other stories seem simple and down home but in reality are complex, fun, sad, intelligent, innocent, and humorous. I think everyone has a story to tell in their lives and Barbara Whittington has captured the personality of everyday folks and made them so interesting. I kept wishing the stories were longer and I could sit and enjoy these simple folk longer! A really enjoyable read.
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Pamela Gary
5.0 out of 5 stars From the Heart
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2013
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This is a wonderful collection of stories that pulls at one's heart strings. It's a lot about everyday folks who are trying hard to figure out what it takes to be happy.

B. Whittington is a talented writer with characters most of us can relate to, especially when it comes to matters of the heart.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Quirky characters brought to life
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2017
Writers have unique minds and from that comes the same diversity in writing. In "Ezra and Other Stories" Barbara Whittington brings quirky characters to life in her short stories. Her imagination, along with real life happenings, motivated her to write the stories to bring a smile to reader's faces. Even if we can't really relate to the character's lives, we get a glimpse into windows of how other people might react and think. Consider that you learn a highway is going to be built and will run right through what is now your living room? Read her book and find out how one person reacted.
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