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IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 12
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury,...
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In these twenty stories, Mark Helprin offers a series of meditations on some of humanity's most enduring and universal questions. At the hour of his death, an American priest in Rome must choose between his church and his God. A young man finds love in a hot, dirty typewriter-ribbon factory in the Bronx. A Dutch child in a Canadian orphanage carries the pain of war and her love for her family in her heart. An Israeli scout risks the safety and respect...
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APPEARANCES is a collection of twelve short stories revealing how fragile and elusive reality is. It is full of playful and powerful images that exist all around us. Funhouse mirrors of life. Or maybe the other way round. Raw images of a reality normally photoshopped and made to look gorgeous in the beauty parlors of everyday society, now shown for what they are, revealing their true nature. The mirror theme helps reflect on this reality. Stories...
5) Les Xipéhuz
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2016
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Français
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Extrait : "C'était mille ans avant le massement civilisateur d'où surgirent plus tard Ninive, Babylone, Ecbatane. La tribu nomade de Pjehou, avec ses ânes, ses chevaux, son bétail, traversait la forêt farouche de Kzour, vers le crépuscule du soir, dans l'océan de la mer oblique."
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6) t zero
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A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination.
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For ages, people have been asking themselves these questions: "Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the sense of our existence? Do we have an immortal soul?" And… "Is there a God?"
If you also seek these answers, but find the religious books too heavy and the infamous answer "42" too cryptic, then this short story is just right for you. It may not reveal you "the absolute truth", but it will undoubtedly inspire you to your further...
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Winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing's People's Choice Award 2016During heart surgery on a woman, the doctor discovers her sister tucked inside. She doesn't want to come out. A woman traverses boundaries, even walls. By turns surreal, mournful, and droll, this collection of short stories investigates our conflicting urge for intimacy and transcendence.Enter this cabinet of wonders to find your mind and spirit expand. While the concerns and...
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Postmodern Stories for Readers with Literary Tastes
Sliver Medal Winner for Best Adult Fiction Anthology, 2021, Readers Favorite Book Awards
IndieBrag Gold Medallion Selection for Literary Short Fiction
Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished...
10) El Cantinero
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Español
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Harry vive una existencia solitaria, es cantinero en un bar porque le permite interactuar con las personas, sin verse involucrado con ellas. Su vida no es normal, después de todo.
Cuando una mujer vestida de manera impecable toma asiento en las sombras y pide una botella de vino, algo de ella lo atraía. El respondió a sus instintos y eso lo cambio todo, pues tienen algo extraordinario en común.
Sus sueños, no serán los mismos nunca...
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Español
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Siete relatos ambientados en las últimas décadas del pasado milenio: en «Polvo para construir montañas» seguimos a un joven aprendiz de empresario, heredero -o presunto heredero- de una empresa de producción de juguetes y productos de modelismo en la Italia del boom económico de principios de los 60. Se enfrenta a prejuicios y vilezas, a falsas apariencias y a la megalomanía ajena. En «La verdad y la verosimilitud» nos encontramos con las...
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El amor duele cual espina cuando los labios rojos dan el último beso un día lluvioso en la isla de la felicidad. De la vida, el amor y la muerte es una colección de cuentos cortos sobre romance, crimen, terror y comedia. De la vida, el amor y la muerte es una colección de cuentos extravagantes que muestran en lado más oscuro del romance. Género: ficción/cuentos cortos. Género secundario: ficción/visionario y metafísico Idioma: español Palabras...
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These stories about girls and women display a range of storytelling. Stylistically the stories vary with their emotional impact but throughout them, all is the steady, careful pulse of Whitson's prose often characterized by first person narration and well-researched local colour. Although a straight-ahead storyteller, her use of first-person creates an intimacy that has the reader leaning in to hear the narrators' secrets and to bear witness to their...
14) Le Barman
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Harry mène une existence solitaire. Il travaille comme barman, ce qui lui permet d'interagir avec les gens sans s'investir. Sa vie n'est pas normale, après tout.
Quand une femme parfaitement habillée et maquillée s'installe dans un coin sombre au comptoir et commande du vin, quelque chose en elle attire Harry. Il répond à cet appel et tout change, car ils ont quelque chose d'extraordinaire en commun.
Leurs rêves ne seront plus jamais les...
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Español
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Viajar es una manera de irse. Hay un cierto componente de desaparición, de abandono, de ruptura que cada día percibo con mayor claridad, sobre todo cuando los viajes se piensan sin fecha de vuelta, o al menos sin el deseo de volver. Un viaje es el no estar, el diluirse. Un viaje es lo evanescente y lo efímero. La decisión voluntaria de ser otro en otro lugar, porque en el mismo lugar resulta mucho más difícil. Un viaje implica buscar aires menos...
17) Summer Solstice
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That child! Where did he disappear to now?Anne Le Clair has a bad case of cabin fever and talks Grandmother Elizabeth into celebrating summer solstice in Glastonbury. It's the perfect time for a ritual on top of the Tor, sacred to Pagans and Christians alike. Glastonbury was Avalon, home of the nine priestesses of the Goddess. But it is also the home of the faeries, and little Arthur decides to pay a visit to another king. Will they find him before...
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Amazing Short Stories for Inspiration and Spiritual Growth
This book is written for those who are looking for an easy and entertaining way to master the art of manifestation and mindfulness. Enjoy a daily dose of spiritual motivation by reading 100 thought-provoking short stories meant to warm the heart and inspire the soul.
Read about the man who found faith while lost in the desert. The preacher who learned the meaning of a sin through his near-death...
19) A Star, a Star
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Morning Star, O cheering sight! 'Ere thou cam'st, how dark earth's night!A brilliant, new star appears at Christmas in 2020. What does it foretell?
20) Under the Sea
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Under the Sea is Mark Leidner's debut story collection published by Tyrant Books in 2018 and named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Spinoff, and The New Statesman.
In the gripping opener "Bad-Asses," a naive drug dealer's stash is stolen, leading her to unleash her inner bad-ass as she tries to recover it. In the bizarre and hilarious "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," each breakup is more absurd than the last: lovers get side-swiped by speeding busses,...
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