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Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller of strange and wonderfully macabre tales. "Kwaidan"...
11163) Kink: Stories
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Simon & Schuster
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2021
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A New York Times Notable Book
Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.
A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire...
Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.
A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire...
11164) Honorine
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Une édition de référence de Honorine d'Honoré de Balzac, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Mon père avait une pupille, riche, belle et âgée de seize ans, au moment o je revins du collège dans ce vieil htel. Élevée par ma mère, Honorine s'éveillait alors à la vie. Pleine de grâces et d'enfantillage, elle rêvait le bonheur comme elle eût rêvé d'une parure, et peut-être le bonheur était-il pour...
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This eBook presents a collection of all-major works of Rabindranath Tagore, including poems, novels, short stories, dramas, and essays. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Tagore's literary reputation is disproportionately, influenced very much by regard for his poetry; however, he also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among...
11166) Jekyll the Jester
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Book one: So there's this guy named Michael Looper who is experiencing stage fright during his first amateur show in front of a packed audience, and he's freaking out. He's doing this improv comedy act involving some crazy stunts and getting the audience involved. Still, his nerves are getting the best of him. But then, out of nowhere, his teacher and stage director gets mugged at the event! Michael decides to catch the culprit himself, so he sets...
11167) Even So
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Donald Hastings followed the sea. Holiest, impetuous, young, as were so many of those, sea captains in that golden era of the early nineteenth-century, he left, but one shadow on his memory, perhaps not altogether a shadow. Therein lies the story.
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Wandering Spirits is a collection of whimsical tales that feed the soul, tug the heart, and spark the mind.
Inspired by classic books like The Little Prince, these delightfully illustrated fables follow a variety of charming animal characters as they embark on fantastical yet profoundly relatable quests. In this book, you'll meet
• a fox who wakes up to find he has many talking tails
• a wolf who tries to fit in with a pack of dogs
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11169) Stories of the Color Line
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Chesnutt's stories were more complex than those of many of his contemporaries. He wrote about characters dealing with difficult issues of mixed race, "passing", illegitimacy, racial identities and social place throughout his career. The issues were especially pressing during the social volatility of Reconstruction and late 19th-century southern society.
11171) Aladdin
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Read along with Disney! When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.
11174) Chase The Dream
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Every day is the same for Ella. She's told by her boss, who also is her step-mother, to work late, repair the junk or else. Every day, Ella obeys her step-mother...
However, one evening her routine is disrupted by the cleaner, Max, who subsequently helps her to discover some secrets that her step-mother hides from Ella.
A few rollercoaster nights later, and she's head over heels in love, plotting revenge, and discovering that sometimes fairy tales...
11175) A Handful of Stars
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Renowned Baptist preacher Frank W. Boreham was known for his unusual ability to spin moving religious lessons from the stuff of everyday life. In the unique collection A Handful of Stars, Boreham takes this approach a step further. Drawing on excerpts from famous novels and nonfiction works, the author summarizes each work's theme and then relates it to a Christian concept or parable. Frank W. Boreham (3 March 1871 — 18 May 1959) was a Baptist preacher...
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Baseball and the people who live and breathe it will seem closer and more vivid than ever.
Painting the Corners Again is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories. It goes directly to the core of what America's pastime does for us when we watch it being played on the field. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and its villains, and that they can reach into a person's life and remain a part of us for the rest of our...
11177) Hungry Hearts
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Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. The stories were adapted into a film of the same name.
11178) A Thin Ghost and Others
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Are you the type who loves nothing more than curling up with a book of ghost stories? If so, be sure to add A Thin Ghost and Others to your must-read list. A gem from the golden age of Gothic horror, these spine-tingling tales will satisfy your craving for ghoulishly top-notch fiction. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the...
11179) The Fiend's Delight
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A collection of essays, stories, poems and reflections, previously printed in American journals. Bierce has created a snapshot of journalism in the United States that is full of wit, gloom and everything in between.
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Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features highly acclaimed short stories by Tolstoy who is regarded as one of the greatest writers in history.
Among Russian writers, Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime, Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works...
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