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Children's Short Stories, Book 3 is a box set collection of three short stories: Run Wild, Run Free Again, Callie The Calico Kitty, and My Hound Dog. Run Wild, Run Free Again is an inspiring story about a herd of beautiful wild horses that have lived on Mustang Island by the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. Climb into the saddle with Makala and go on a wild horse ride by the sea. Callie The Calico Kitty is based on a true story. Callie narrates...
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A collection of Chekhov's short stories featuring: Talent, Anyuta, The Helpmate, Ivan Matveyitch, Polinka. These stories are rich in characterisation and represent brilliantly observed slices of life. They don't come to an end, they just peter out inconclusively leaving you to draw your own conclusions.
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A collection of Short Stories by Anton Chekhov featuring A Tragic Actor, In A Strange Land, Oh The Public, The Looking Glass, Her Husband and Overdoing It. These stories are small masterpieces. The scene is set quickly and within a few sentences the story line is underway. But all seem to contain an element of the unexpected.
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Guyanese born and UK trained Registered Nurse has published Short Stories through XLIBIS publishers in 2011. She has captured the minds of the reader by expressing how a couple bade sad farewell to their beloved pooch when his time was up The Contented, in the first chapter. The Day I Rode into Balloch Town follows a Native American womans unforgettable dreamlike encounter with a handsome young man by the name of Clint Eastwood. Shanti shared My Experience...
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In this collection of short stories, Stanislas M. Yassukovich has indulged his taste for nostalgic reverie. The tales are, inspired by the people and places the author has, encountered during a lifetime spent in cosmopolitan circles. The quirks of fate that move people from an apparently predestined course of life have provoked his imagination. Stanislas has drawn on a variety of conditions and personalities to colour his stories with the shades and...
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When an elderly gentleman is returning from a visit to his wife's graveside, he is shocked to find himself the victim of a young thug. What the thug doesn't realise is that this particular gentleman has nothing to lose and will make the young man regret ever having crossed him. (Bringing the House Down)
When a lady refuses to leave her bungalow for an easier life in a care home, nobody suspects the real reason behind her reluctance to go. (An Accident)
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Chekhov's trilogy of interlinked stories about Truth, Freedom and Love. First published in 1898 in Russian and released as separate stories. This title, based on translations by Constance Garnett with revision and adaptation by Max Bollinger follows Chekhov's original vision by bringing the three stories together once again.
11) Short Stories
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Five powerful and original stories: "Free," "The Second Choice," "Married," "Nigger Jeff," and "The Lost Phoebe."
12) Short Stories
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Short stories, written from the soul and the heart. Because sometimes, only one sentence can have a big impact.
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Rencontre entre le bien et le mal, les rêves et les cauchemars...
Il existe un monde o la réalité se mêle aux cauchemars, o le mal cohabite avec les forces du bien et o rien n'est complètement blanc ou noir. Cet univers, Barnett Chevin vous y emmène, aux travers de chemins tortueux que la raison vous pousserait à éviter. Plongez en plein cœur des Short stories, des histoires courtes o vos nerfs seront mis à rude épreuve, o vos nuits...
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This book is a collection of twenty bold, bizarre and beautiful short stories. Each one is an open door into a new perception of our world.
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The genre and style of Derryl G. Berry's "Short Stories" is quite varied. Some are straightforward, first- or third- persons POV. Some are off-the-wall perspectives and musings. Some are "circular" in that they begin and end pretty much at the same point, e.g., "Let's Act Normal." Many of Derryl's short stories began as an idea that came to him while hiking and were fleshed out later, e.g., "Five Shots," and "The Empty Hook." Others were triggered...
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4 short stories The Little Fox..... How a little fox learned to be proud of himself, and not want to be someone else. The Old Man and the Rapper...... Two people from different age groups must learn to respect, and trust each other in order to save themselves. A Snake is Always a Snake...... A tale of lying and deception. The Tai Chi Fist....... A brash young martial artist is taught a lession about the value of listening.
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Short Stories is about the children and young adult lives and the effects of them.
İf we try a little more, their lives will be better I am sure.
By holding a mirror to society, I am trying to accomplish that.
These people in the books all come from different cultures and religions. But problems are the same. So there is room for improvement.
No matter which background they come, everyone is hopeful in living their lives.
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Described by literary critic Robert Morss Lovett as "a novelist of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of culture, preoccupied with the upper ('and inner') class," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) also wrote superbly crafted works of short fiction. The seven stories in this excellent collection demonstrate the author's ability to create...
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Collection of short stories by Mike LeesOutpostScience fictionGar, an alien, at home in the distant Core of Systems at the centre of the Galaxy, has become a 'Terrorist' by necessity. Caught up within a corrupt system of power struggles and deceit, he must find his path to redemption and revenge. But when he is caught in an act of thievery, with two other complices, Gar is banished to a far Outpost. He spends his time collating information on Humans...
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This collection contains: An Honest Thief; A Novel in Nine Letters; An Unpleasant Predicament; Another Man's Wife; The Heavenly Christmas Tree; The Peasant Marey; The Crocodile; Bobok; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.
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