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Twelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan. For the twelve narrators of Susan Minot's breathtaking collection - artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings - love in New York doesn't come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile their yearnings for romance with their needs for independence, they face resistance to emotional commitment at every turn. In intense snapshots of these women's most intimate...
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First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...
3) Life's Touch
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This book is a collection of short stories, where each story unveils a unique tapestry of global celebrations. Experience the mythical allure of the world's cultural richness and joyous revelry within the pages of this anthology. From the cherished traditions of well-known festivals to the hidden gems of lesser-known commemorations, each narrative paints a vivid portrait of the cultural significance and human experience that define these occasions....
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The nine stories in this collection are told by and about teenagers, mid-lifers, and elders. They are about settled lives and drastically disordered ones, working people, dying people. They are about people you have never met and others you see every day; sometimes, they are people you know very well, people you work and live with. You may find they are about you. Like all of us, the characters are finding their way forward in the face of loss. They...
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Lose yourself in fifty chilling tales of horror and suspense from USA Today bestselling author Darcy Coates.Push past the curtains of your rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience. This is the realm of monsters and shifting shadows, where a single wrong step can plunge you into a terrifying fight for your life, where…- Something mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods.- A...
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A collection of short stories that capture events and experiences that span the years between the 1960s and 2021. Guyanese folklore, history, practices, and lifestyles are weaved together to create fictional scenarios that mirror the times. Places, faces, and times leave their mark on our memories like indelible footprints. These footprints can often become visible in the choices we make, the lives we live, and the heritage we pass on. This collection...
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100 days to the invasion of the supernatural Realm. In order to save the world, countless players entered the war world and embarked on the extraordinary road. ... Tang Xing came here and got the feature shop. Adding the Fireball feature "Blast", the fireball thrown becomes a fire bomb! Adding the trait "magnification" to the summoning ability, all summoning beasts are ten times larger. By adding features to the quest to "do more with less", the quest...
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From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer-"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)
Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into...
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Reality and fantasy are two opposing concepts. In contrast, fantasy is something that cannot be verified and does not exist in our surroundings. Reality is everything that surrounds us and can be verified through our senses or research.
Although fantasy is the opposite of reality, we cannot prove its existence even when we search for it on Google. However, when we read a story, we must accept the fantastic as real and reality as fantasy. By paying...
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In the last column of a job application, there's that tricky question: reason for leaving? John Manderino has apparently had to puzzle over that one often and long. His answers are collected here in this hilarious novel-in-stories tracing the history of a guy trying to grow up job by job. Delivery boy, altar boy, busboy, teacher, cotton picker, umpire, Zen monk-Manderino's protagonist tries on one hat after another, from Chicago to Arizona to a South...
12) Super castle
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In front of the Lanxu Group building, a long red banner was pulled in the hands of thirty to forty people, facing the crowds of people coming and going, occupying almost the entire square.
At this time when the noon hour, people come and go, such a large banner is extremely conspicuous, causing many people to stop and look, pointing.
Eleventh floor of the building, inside the office.
Chen Yuan silently packed up the items...
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Ken Dahlgren watched the economy tumble. He knows the end is near. He and his wife plan for an economic cataclysm and stock their lake home with necessities. What Ken lacks are the guns to protect himself and Patty from the unknown. The search costs him dearly. The second story is about the rich Peterson clan, the moment after they realize they stayed in the city too long. Death is at their door.
14) Righter
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Righter is a collection of stories about people putting their world right… in their own way… They can't escape reality but they can certainly bend it to suit them… because reality is always and only our own reality and is rarely suited to most…Who can ever find Alana Love again ?Where is the Astronaut travelling to ?A Woman In Disappearing's world in coming to her endFedelma – A tale of hope and success for a woman who just wouldn't give...
15) Square Pegs
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You are invited on a journey through the unconventional with Square Pegs. Celebrating two decades of powerful storytelling, Square Pegs is an eclectic assortment of genre defying tales which explore the complexities of human nature and the beauty found in embracing individuality.
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This is a collection of stories, anecdotes, and reminiscences written, collected, and compiled over a long professional life.
They amuse or provoke serious thought, aiming to make the reader laugh for a few moments and think for much longer.
Most are in short essay form, some with a discursive introductory beginning leading to a serious or amusing ending, the real thrust of the story.
Most are based on personal experience. The stories about bees...
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From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointment
Shirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems.
In the title piece, a young widow is surprised and ashamed by her lack of grief for her husband.
In "A Place in the Country,"...
18) 13
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Un gato que explota y un hombre obsesionado con el fin del mundo, un búnker que esconde un secreto mortal, juguetes asesinos, venganzas inesperadas, demonios y esqueletos y ¡hasta Roger Moore visitando un bar de Buenos Aires!
Con una profusa imaginación y una escritura clara y directa que no se desvía por nada hasta alcanzar el objetivo de la sorpresa final, el autor busca revitalizar el terror más clásico adaptándolo a los nuevos tiempos mediante...
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Tony Stark: Lin is my brother! Flash: OK, OK, I admit to being the fastest man in the world... One of them. Hermione: Professor Lin, I can't do this magic very well. Bella: Edward, please stay away from me. Lin will be angry! Elena: Lin, who are those two women up there.
20) Rule Number Four
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Tanis Foster has a list of 61 people. He also has four rules to follow.There is now one person and one rule left. Will he finish what he set out to do?
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