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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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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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julio de 2023.
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140 pages : black and white illustrations, 23 cm
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Desde una mujer mayor que adopta a un alien̕gena, una esposa traicionada que recurre a la magia vud︢ como pr̀ctica terap̌utica, una anciana solitaria que juega con la ouija, hasta una vampiresa cuyas v̕ctimas son hombres violentos y acosadores, los ocho cuentos reunidos en este libro tienen como protagonistas a individuos comunes que se encuentran con lo fant̀stico, personas con pretensiones convencionales y aspiraciones leg̕timas que, sin...
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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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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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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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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 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.
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The new reader's guide edition of Shauna Singh Baldwin's literary debut features the fifteen stories from the original collection, an interview with the author, an original afterword, and her suggested reading list. When Shauna Singh Baldwin's debut collection was first published in 1996, it took readers by storm. Reviewers discovered a new voice; listeners tuned in to the stories on CBC Radio. Since then, Baldwin has written two award-winning novels...
12) 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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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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In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and '60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life. Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing for the unspoiled rural world of his imagination. Much to the continuing puzzlement of his wife, his...
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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
16) 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...
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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...
18) Marrakesh
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A short story taking place in the immediate aftermath of HOWL AT THE MOON (World of the Jezebel Files, #1). No Woody, no Gideon, but one very unwelcome surprise. Will Raisa make it out unharmed?Dive in now!
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From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. "When the night falls, the fear comes to the light." In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, "What's true and not true?" We live in a world of secrets, and everyone walks on it in complete fear....
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"The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer" offers a comprehensive collection of the esteemed poet's literary legacy, comprising 20 books that span his illustrious career. Illustrated to enhance the reader's experience, this anthology showcases Chaucer's mastery of language, storytelling, and poetic form.
At the heart of the collection is "The Canterbury Tales," Chaucer's magnum opus, which follows a diverse group of pilgrims as they journey to the...
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