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10361) Return to the Palladium
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The Gorgoneion is a weapon of terrible occult power. Fate sometimes offers men a chance at greatness – be they doctors, scholars, warriors, poets or even ordinary folk. But the laurels of glory often come at a price – as the young goatherd Epimenides finds out the hard way...
10362) A Knife in the Back
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You are about to enter a world of terror and pain! In "Beta," a monster terrorizes an isolated village in the mountains of Eastern Europe, draining the blood of its victims, leaving them frozen in the snow. The villagers hunt wolves, decapitate "vampires," but the murders continue. As each new body is found, the residents grow more and more paranoid. Then the cobbler's son decides to investigate, discovering a terror that puts him in mortal danger....
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Sans artifice, l'auteure emprunte la forme poétique du haïku pour décrire avec justesse et humour le mal qui l'assaille.
Le corps et la souffrance accueillis dans l'envolée de la vie. Les poèmes, écrits dans le style japonais du haïku, présentent la chaleur vivifiante du corps, des pensées, des émotions et du sens dans toute leur intensité. Amusantes parfois, suscitant la sympathie, souvent, ces 68 pages rebondissantes fascinent dans leur...
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Celebrated author Richard Wagamese artfully crafts these thrilling, yet vulnerable stories of two young men trying to find their place in the world.
The volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing, with a foreword from author Waubgeshig Rice. Both stories follow the lives of young men who have dreams for a better future. In their search for fame and fortune, Cree Thunderboy and...
10365) Arguing With Mary
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The house party was his idea. Falling in love was not. Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam's name was not on the guest list for the house party. There was no need to put his name on it. After all, he was already there, he had come up with the idea, and, most importantly, he was not looking for a wife. Of course, one does not have to be looking for love to find it. Mary Bennet scowls at Richard incessantly, argues with him at every turn, and would rather that...
10366) The Stars Our Destination
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Ten optimistic and forward-looking space stories that show how we journey to the stars!This is the third volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:The Scales of the Space WhaleThe most dangerous creatures in the universe will kill you before they know you exist!In the BeginningParadise is not what-or where-it seems.(After Dinner Conversation, August 2020)From the Ice IncarnateThey say that going into cryo is the closest thing...
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Death, anxiety, masculinity, family and children, social good and rocks. All things that touch the life of a middle-aged man. In these stories, written over the past two years, Miki Lentin goes in search of a rock with his child in Ireland, travels to Istanbul with his wife while sleep-deprived, recounts memories of working and growing up in Dublin and explores what it means to do good in society today. All told with Lentin's minimalist tone, Inner...
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Éclatement familial, amours contrariés, coups du sort, exils lointains et vie sans logis en Afrique de l'Ouest au milieu des années 70 composent pêle-mêle ce recueil. L'auteur y exprime ses chagrins, ses peines, sa solitude, puis la joie et le bonheur retrouvés grâce à un éveil spirituel. Imaginaire ou connexions réelles à d'autres plans ? Peu importe, cet ouvrage chante avec délicatesse le soleil et la pluie de cette formidable saison...
10369) Escobas para Reinas Tristes
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Siguiendo las migas de pan del bosque encantado, con brujas, pócimas, escobas y telarañas neolíticas, observando las espigas en oro puro del trigo en las cosechas del tiempo y el palpitar del alambique liberando el olor metafísico del licor maduro de la lujuria, escuché el canto dimensional de las águilas en las alturas y el latir colosal de todo un planeta hecho madre. Allí, junto al fuego, amasada con el barro creador y bendito, bajo el agua...
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Los placeres de la juventud pueden esconder abrumadores secretos: en la cima del monte Olimpo reside el gran Zeus Polimorfo, el dios cambiante. El amo de los cielos usa y abusa de sus artificios para lograr sus fines: capturar bellas mortales y efebos de piel cobriza ¡para satisfacer su sed libertina!
10371) En una encrucijada
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¿Con que todavía no conoce a las Keres?, Abominables criaturas ávidas de sangre y de carne humana…Entonces eche un ojo a esta novela, y si después de esta lectura todavía toma malas decisiones en la vida… ¡No se queje si su alma es enviada a morar las profundidades del Hades!
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Dictyma de la ciudad de Aptera de Patrice Martinez Creta, cuna del señor Zeus y campo de juego del Minotauro. Pero la isla proporciona también sus pastos a la cabra Amaltea, la que ofreció sus ubres al futuro amo del Olimpo. Y la joven cabrera Dictima puede hablarle de su rebaño, al que aprecia tanto: sobre el carácter gruñón de una cabra o la ternura de otra… Pero el señor del Olimpo cuyos designios son misteriosos para el simple mortal,...
10373) Polymorphic Zeus
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The pleasures of youth may hide heavy secrets: On top of Mount Olympus lives great Polymorphic Zeus, the changing Divinity. The lord of heavens, who uses and abuses of tricks of his invention, in order to achieve his goals: to capture beautiful feminine mortals and ephebes of pearly skin, to help him quench his libertine thirst!
10374) Un nuevo Prometeo
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Descubre el barrio artesanal El Cerámico de Átenas... ¿Te interesan las artes plásticas? ¿Te gusta sumergir los dedos en la arcilla? Entonces sigue de cerca el aprendizaje del joven Ofelos; te mostrará el barrio artesanal El Cerámico de Átenas...
10375) Regreso al Paladión
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¡El gorgoneion es una armadura que posee terribles poderes ocultos! En ocasiones el destino nos ofrece la notoriedad: a médicos, a investigadores, a militares, a poetas o simplemente al común de los mortales. Pero los laureles de la gloria a menudo traen consigo un alto precio... ¡El joven pastor Epiménides así lo ha constatado con amargura!
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Cuando Érix y su compañero Boentos llegan a Masalia, ambos ladrones deciden desvalijar el santuario de Artemisa. Para su desesperación, el proyecto fracasa: sorprendidos por los guardias de la ciudad focense, deben partir precipitadamente del Lacidón, el puerto de Masalia, a bordo de una frágil embarcación. Pero lo que ninguno de los dos sabe es que su peripecia acabará llevándolos más allá de las columnas de Heracles, hasta la isla de Eriteia....
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From New York City to the former East Germany, from rural Virginia to affluent suburbia, the characters in these short stories grapple with love, loss, greed, perversion, and other awful truths as they try to transcend their limitations with occasional humor and dignity. In "History on a Personal Note," Lorraine, a Southerner, wonders if her German paramour will find the inspiration to leave his wife amidst the destruction of the Berlin Wall. In "Viewing...
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Enter the luminous realm guided by Durga, the Goddess of Radiance, as she illuminates the path to bliss. In the cosmic tapestry of Hindu mythology, Durga emerges as a beacon of strength and grace, wielding her divine radiance to dispel darkness. Follow her empowering journey, where courage and compassion intertwine, paving the way for triumph over adversity. As Durga's brilliance illuminates the shadows within and without, her story becomes a transcendent...
10379) Agni: Rituals Ablaze
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"Join on a journey to Jwalapuram, a fictional village where ancient rituals and the worship of Agni, the god of fire, weave a community together. 'Agni Rituals Ablaze' invites you into a vividly imagined world teetering on the edge of darkness, where faith and unity ignite a battle for survival.
10380) The woman in white
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In this "sensation novel", the mysterious appearance of a woman dressed in all white leads to the discovery of a complicated plot involving a stolen inheritance.
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