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Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story.
For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction.
Now,...
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"In this delicious new collection of five short stories and one novella, [Leslie Budewitz] takes us further into the heart of Jewel Bay--from the playhouse to the Merc, from funerals to food festivals--with equal parts humor, suspense, and compassion, and no shortage of murder to spice up the menu"--Provided by publisher.
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In the title story of this collection, Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad Neighbours', Trudy, Alysson, the owner of the property, and most of the street, are victimised, any hour of the...
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Across the wounds of the past, standing before his arch-enemy, he silently drew his already overloaded blade and drew a break in his destiny. Defeat and glory are but a mutual cycle of suffering. In the end, it is found that each other is receiving the judgment of the other. ...... In this era of the first opening of Myth, they were the pioneers of the martial arts, and under the leadership of the commander-in-chief, they crossed the grasslands, crossed...
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All That I'm Allowed by Ellen Harper, with beautiful drawings by Marguerite Millard, is a storybook for grownups about learning to live with children and dogs. In this regard most grown people set out to do what's best for them, to be good examples, trusted companions to dog and child. But often times the lessons we think we are getting across are interpreted very differently by the receivers. All That I'm Allowed is not only a make-believe romp through...
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Acclaimed short-story master George Singleton follows the lives and schemes of the citizens of fictitious Gruel, South Carolina, in search of glory, seclusion, money, revenge, and a meaningful existence. In these nineteen tales, young Gruelites learn lessons when confronted with neighbors who might not be as blind as they appear, dermatologists intent on eradicating birthmarks, and fathers prone to driving on half-inflated tires in order to flirt...
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Society needs to Build HeresiesMs. Basildeanism thus assumes responsibility for that At a cafe she frequented, someone left behind a printout of Rikipedia's list of HeresiesThis list of Heresies and its Basildeanism section changed Ms. Basildeanism's lifeSo she has dedicated the rest of her life to Building Basildeanism When you want to join Ms. Basildeanism's Basildeanism Building,Kindly choose this book. 26 pages.
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In this collection of essays, Florence King confirms her position as one of the wittiest social critics now writing-and certainly the most uninhibited. Nothing escapes her withering gaze, from our greatest national institution ("Democrazy"), to the cult of Helpism ("Does Your Child Taste Salty?"), to the rules of historical romance writing ("Sex and the Saxon Churl"). If caring 'n' compassion are getting you down, open this book for a refreshing whiff...
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In this collection of eighteen humorous absurdist stories, Melo weaves together postmodernism, postcolonial realities and Angolan history, through an intrusive narrator and author. Angola is Wherever I plant My field will make the readers laugh as they reflect on life and society through stories set in Luanda, Haifa, America, and North-Korea.
11) The Text
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Four friends were just looking for a night of fun but walked into a nightmare. A short horror storyTRIGGER WARNING!
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With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated...
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La oscuridad del sombrero
Los relatos de Bethsabé Huamán Andía son juegos de prestidigitación: la angustia existencial, el abandono del deseo, la negación del ser se insinúa apenas para, en su pluma, exponerse desde la más pura cotidianidad. Está en el encuentro y reflexión del lector, la magia, la reinvención, tanto de la ficción como de la realidad, si es que esta existe.
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Un Instinto muy HumanoUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarfer Esta es la historia de un psicópata que tiene una familia muy ejemplar ante los demás a la cual defiende con su extravagante moral y criminal justicia, y cuando piensa y siente que los demás seres humanos atacan o invaden su entorno inmediatamente activa su instinto animal y comete una serie de asesinatos en contra de mujeres, choferes, mesoneras, homosexuales,...
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The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, in the United States, and in the emigration in-between. Love, marriage, infidelity, disillusionment, intimacy and the lack of it, rootlessness are subjects that move from an improbable reality...
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Un conmovedor viaje que te hará suspirar en esta historia de amor a primera vista que demuestra que el verdadero amor se puede encontrar en los lugares más inesperados. Sigue a la curvilínea Lila y a Shane mientras navegan desde un encuentro fortuito en una lavandería hasta un amor que desafía todas las probabilidades.Sus vidas rutinarias se transforman en esta historia que destaca el poder de la ley de la atracción y el camino hacia un 'felices...
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Sometimes there is no escaping the past. Hannah Jones is a relatively happy woman doing a job she loves, counseling high school students, owning her own place and working with her best friend. She seems to have everything she ever wanted. The only problem is she still wants the one who got away. Adam Cooper. The love of Hannah's life and the man who broke her heart. She hasn't heard from him in fifteen years and suddenly there he is asking her to...
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Heather Browne's short fiction collection questions our ways of knowing. Each story's protagonist finds affinity in unexpected places: a moose in a kitchen helps old friends communicate; a skull saves a child from drowning. Browne's stories risk the intervention of the uncanny, and immersion in the elements. "…seductive, slippery, and sometimes a little shifty-eyed" – Diane Schoemperlen, author of This is Not My Life
19) Love Breaks
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Take a break for romance with these 10 short stories...Midnight Sentry ~ Someone is stalking her and will go to any lengths to get her attention-even kill. Is the new man in her life-her midnight sentry-a murderer?Blue Christmas ~ His job is to protect her. But can she protect him from another blue Christmas?Christmas Sham ~ Reluctantly, she agrees to pose as her sexy, curmudgeony boss's date at Christmas. She soon learns that, sometimes, things…and...
20) The Veteran
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Frederick Forsyth, The Master Storyteller, Presents Five Brilliantly Ingenious Tales of Murder, Justice, Intrigue and Revenge
A miracle in war-torn Siena that begins with the persecution of a young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century and culminates in the bitter German retreat from Italy; a drug-smuggling heist on an international flight where the knock are only one step ahead of the smugglers; a ruthless urban murder, where a brilliant...
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