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The final book by one of America's most treasured writers. Upon his passing in January 2017, Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers, outcasts, and others who settled in this ethereal place. Points North is a full-hearted, gently-comic, and beautifully-written last gift to...
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"Reinventing a great American tradition through an absurdist, discerning eye, Joseph Scapellato uses these twenty-five stories to conjure worlds, themes, and characters who are at once unquestionably familiar and undeniably strange. Big Lonesome navigates through the American West--from the Old West to the modern-day West to the Midwest, from cowboys to mythical creatures to everything in between--exploring place, myth, masculinity, and what it means...
3) Your utopia
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"Bora Chung's inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience a variety of possible fates for humanity, from total demise via a disease whose only symptom is casual cannibalism to a world in which even dreams can be monitored and used to convict people of crimes. ...
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'Striking It Hot Bowling Alley' sits on top of a magical city where the residents are bowling pins. Most either work, or did work, at the bowling alley. They have had many adventures, from competitions to theme nights, and are eager to share them with you. Things were scary at times, but fun was always had in the end. Each story is told by a separate pin as they sit in a lounge just under the pin box. They go there to relax after a long day while...
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From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors....
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Women's lives are at the center of this stunning collection of short stories by the writer The New Yorker says "provides unexpected delights....Questions and answers alike shine with intelligence and an almost ninteenth-century concern for ideals."
Though Sara Maitland's interests are as varied as the people who inhabit her stories, there is a common theme to this work that extols risk taking over safety. Acrobats, women warriors, a girl who wants...
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Dedicated with affection to all those (and there are many) who have given their love to someone and had to contend with their illness, even though they knew that they have no chance of winning; and to those who had to coexist with a love like this. "Over twenty years ago a girl I loved like myself asked me to leave her forever because of her poor health, and not to contact her again. I agreed, with death in my heart, and intending it only as an act...
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Accidentally into the interstellar age, Lin Kexin thriller found that the world has no fairy! Combat division, auxiliary ability division is the mainstream
Accidentally into the interstellar age, Lin Kexin thriller found that the world has no fairy! Combat division, auxiliary ability division is the mainstream
11) This Is My Dog
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The first time I saw her eyes, I knew my home was going to be with her for the rest of my life.
12) What Are You?
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About the Book Brenda's mother grew up extremely poor but blessed with a loving father and nurturing home environment. Even though the relationship between Brenda's mother and her mother was rather strained, Brenda's mother describes the first eleven years of her life as that of a content child until the sudden passing of her father, which left this twelve-year-old devastated and quite traumatized. Two years after her father's death, this same little...
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This collection of stories weaves together themes of faith, humour, the rawness of life, and the depths of tragedy. Each narrative poses a thought-provoking question that lingers in the mind: Can certain mysteries ever be truly answered?
One story unfolds with two letters bearing the words, 'We can put this behind us,' leading us to ponder whether the characters truly can move past their shared history. Another tale delves into the emotional turmoil...
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Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits-a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems...
15) A Kind of Cousin
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A Kind of Cousin is a daring collection of short stories by Suenel Bruwer-Holloway that whisks readers on a journey through the raw and unapologetic facets of human experience. Like a fresh breeze, blowing irreverently through old taboos, sweeping away the cobwebs of political correctness, Holloway shatters the confines of political correctness, delving into the resilient and complex spirit that pulses through her homeland, a place of beauty, sorrow,...
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El perro de aguas español, considerada la más inteligente de las razas caninas, ha hecho acto de presencia como protagonista o compañero de andaduras en relatos literarios.
Reconocidos escritores de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX han incorporado a su obra personajes caninos de esta estupenda y actualmente poco conocida raza de origen español; entre ellos, Félix Lope de Vega Carpio, José Estremera y Cuenca, Manuel Moré, Santiago...
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Life is full of unexpected twists, but how do ordinary people like us handle these pivotal moments? This insightful book delves into the myriad choices we face: those thrust upon us, made subconsciously or where the right path is shrouded in uncertainty. It's a reflection on the signs that guide us – those we heed and those we overlook – and a meditation on the intricacies of human nature encompassing frustration, joy, growth, and the subtle progression...
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All Over the Road is a fun collection of short stories-some with a dark twist. In "James J. Burton's Wizard of Oz," Horace Richardson is enjoying his retirement when out of the blue a ghost from his past comes to confront him-and he wants answers. Things online are easy until you meet the human behind the pain. The "Human" will show you the darkest parts of humanity. And, in "A Most Unusual Stickup," what kind of man is able to convince would-be robbers...
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About the Book Short Stories for Busy Boomers is not going to solve the world's problems. It may, however make you forget them for a minute or two while reading. Maybe even make you laugh. The stories are about Boomers for Boomers and are only a couple of pages each. The author has planned it that way, so you can go back to being busy. About the Author Brian Dickens Barrabee is the author of Confessions of a Real Estate Man, Confessions of an American...
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If you find yourself as a main character in any of these stories, you are only human.If you don't, you are in denial.This intriguing and powerful collection of prose reflects on the many complex facets of the human experience. The diverse narratives, perspectives, and characters in the stories touch on a number of experiences and emotions that everyone will relate to at one point or another in their lives, which is what makes the stories so captivating....
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