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Each of the nine short stories collected here feature two types of people - the troubled and the troublemakers. In "The Guest," a homeless man gleefully takes credit for a robbery he did not commit. "In the Alley" tells the story of a terminally ill man who begrudgingly outlives his initial prognosis. And the satiric "I Look Out for Ed Wolfe" features a charismatic salesman auctioning off his life's possessions in order to determine his value in the...
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Everything Natalie said seemed, to herself, to have been said better by him. He was less fond of speaking, however, than he was of hitting people in the face, which seemed a more likely source of her love to those of us who knew him," begins Jason Brown's linked collection of beautifully haunted, violent, and wry stories set in the densely forested lands of northern New England. In these tales of forbidden love, runaway children, patrimony, alcohol,...
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Esta antología contiene Cinco cuentos al azar. Algunos son divertidos, otros son escalofriantes y la mayoría son simplemente raros:Contiene las siguientes historias.Caos NavideñoLa Amenaza EnmascaradaLa Eternidad puede esperar.La misión de Martin Puther en China.Serendípia salvó al Pirómano.
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Set in the temperate rain forests of Vancouver Island and the vibrant cities of the Pacific Northwest, the stories in Home Schooling uncover the hidden freight of families as they dissolve and reform. Marriages fall apart; children cope with tragedy; relationships take unexpected turns; and happiness comes from unlikely alliances. These emotionally engrossing tales reveal how the people we live with, the very world that surrounds us, can sometimes...
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This collection focuses on Sheckley's horror stories. The sixteen stories included are "A Trick Worth Two of That," "The Mind-Slaves of Manitori," "Pandora's Box-Open with Care," "The Dream of Misunderstanding," "Magic, Maples, and Maryanne," "The New Horla," "The City of the Dead," "The Quijote Robot," "Emissary from a Green and Yellow World," "The Universal Karmic Clearing House," "Deep Blue Sleep," "The Day the Aliens Came," "Dukakis and the Aliens,"...
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Une histoire d'amour émouvante et captivanteLes amours "compliquées" d'un jeune juif et d'une jeune fille chrétienne en Israël, au USA et en France dans les années 80.Leur amour survivra-t-il aux pressions de toutes sortes ?Captivating & moving Love Story A "forbidden" love between a young Jew and a Christian girl in the 80's in Israel, the US and France.
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A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil In this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers-all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters. In "Subject to Diary," a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood. In "The Year of the Green Pudding,"...
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Featuring fourteen short stories, most previously unpublished, The Life to Come spans six decades of E.M. Forster's writing, from approximately 1903 to 1958, and shows Forster at every phase of his writing career. Forster, feeling his career would suffer, never sought publication for most of the stories, hiding these away along with Maurice, his novel of homosexual love. With stories that are lively and amusing (What Does It Matter; The Obelisk),...
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Catharism, the Heresy theology of the hour, is comingIt's coming to CreateIt's coming to ChangeIt's coming to ConquerMs. Catharism Champions this Catharism, as a Heresy, may winSo when you want to Advance Heresies, you can Advance CatharismWhen you want to Advance Catharism, Kindly Choose this book 26 pages.
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When things go seriously wrong, be grateful just to get back to the place where you were. Ahead, there is light, behind – only darkness.'Waking up is hard to do'. . . be prepared for a journey . . . an adventure that might be uncomfortable, but in the end . . . we can all make it home.
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Fay Weldon journeys to the wilds of Scotland and far-off Tasmania in these twelve tales of sexual politics and marital and political warfare In "Christmas Lists-A Seasonal Story," the endless lists created by a suburban couple become a metaphor for marriage, family, and enduring love. In "Delights of France or Horrors of the Road," a woman goes to a psychiatrist to cure her sudden, inexplicable paralysis, unaware that her constant bragging about her...
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Los Genes del PsiquiatraUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarferLos genes del psiquiatra es la historia de un famoso psiquiatra graduado y reconocido por muchas universidades donde realizo diferentes estudios sobre la conducta humana; pero al tener un árbol genealógico tanto paterno como materno con varios antepasados con ciertas conductas delincuenciales que por medio de los genes fueron a parar al cuerpo del afamado...
14) What Was Left
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The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love.
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A couple's future hangs in the balance as they wait for a train in a Spanish café in this short story by a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
At a small café in rural Spain, a man and woman have a conversation while they wait for their train to Madrid. The subtle, casual nature of their talk masks a more complicated situation that could endanger the future of their relationship. First published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women,...
16) The Invitation
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"[A] gorgeous debut collection…heartbreakingly poignant…if a short story is a slice of life, then the sum of this collection shows the power of a moment, of how a whole life is ultimately comprised of its slices." - Powells.com
"In this book, the music is earned by muscular language, empathy and emotional courage. The writing alone is a rare, sweet joy. Like a drop of water from Delia's leaky faucet, each story in this brilliant collection breaks...
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Peter Chilson's fiction debut delivers a fascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered through the lens of the West. In a novella and four short stories, Chilson, who traveled to Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a freelance journalist, uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our "disturbance-loving species" thrives in the most chaotic, seemingly unlivable situations. As this remarkable collection...
18) Realty
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A short story of an encounter between a realtor and a bear, who is searching for a mountain home. Everything seems benign at first, until the bear becomes insulted and loses his temper.
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Life After Death is a deep dive into the subcultures of Los Angeles and London in the 1980s as glam turned to punk and goth. Susan Compo captures the lives of aspiring musicians, scenesters, and obsessive fans-lives in which reality is a constant threat to cherished illusions, and death, while never far away, is sometimes not the end of the story. "A dazzling time capsule that, once re-opened, brings back in vivid and lurid detail a counter-cultural...
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