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Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday life It's one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales of Women and Children First, Francine Prose shows us an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, and a French literature professor who's...
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Un hombre llamado Marcelo Cohen, nativo de Onzena –una de las tantas islas que conforman el Delta Panorámico–, decide compartir con los lectores algunas de las películas que más lo han impactado. Lo hace por amor al cine, por supuesto, esa "escuela práctica de la vida", pero también para darse el gusto de narrar por narrar.
Y es tal su don que puede contar cualquier historia que se proponga, como el descubrimiento de la pasión por una parejita...
43) Forgotten Fears
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Eleven tales of terror from the bestselling author of Whisper, Funhouse, TheIsland and Meat.Forgotten Fears is a collection of stories, many of which have either never been released before and others which were kindle exclusive titles. Most of these tales come from the Dark Corners and Funhouse writing sessions, whilst others were a part of the previously kindle only Taste of Fear series.
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Dubus's second collection of short fiction: a compassionate portrayal of man's journey from childhood to maturity. For the adolescents in Part One of Andre Dubus's Adultery & Other Choices, youth is characterized by humiliation, alienation, and disappointment: A son struggles to connect with his distant father, and later he must overcome a schoolyard bully. Then, for the soldiers that inhabit Part Two, service is synonymous with sacrifice, as marriages...
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Daniel Stern's sparkling reinventions of six great literary works Twice Told Tales is a new take on some of literature's greatest stories. In a bravura performance, acclaimed novelist Daniel Stern channels the particular styles and spirits of six classic pieces-even the writings of Sigmund Freud-into unexpected new settings. E. M. Forster, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway are updated in brilliantly drawn portraits, at once affectionate and satirical....
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In The Thing In the Corner, a daredevil paranormal hunter soon realizes that his supernatural passion doesn't always stay where he leaves it. Stalked by a mysterious and looming presence, he is plagued with terror from the dark corners of his own bedroom. What is it? Or even more frightening a question, what does it want?
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A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil In this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers-all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters. In "Subject to Diary," a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood. In "The Year of the Green Pudding,"...
48) The Adept
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For hundreds of years generations of alchemists looked for a substance that would turn any metal into gold - the Philosopher's Stone. But what if, all those years, they were looking for the wrong thing? Alios, a young adept at the Alchemist Academy, just had a revelation…A short story of 3,700 words.
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Featuring fourteen short stories, most previously unpublished, The Life to Come spans six decades of E.M. Forster's writing, from approximately 1903 to 1958, and shows Forster at every phase of his writing career. Forster, feeling his career would suffer, never sought publication for most of the stories, hiding these away along with Maurice, his novel of homosexual love. With stories that are lively and amusing (What Does It Matter; The Obelisk),...
50) Draw Straight
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This collection of six exciting Western stories from early in Louis L'Amour's career begins with "Fork Your Own Broncs," in which Mac Marcy, who had saved for seven years to run his own small cattle ranch, sees his dream come true, only to have it threatened by Jingle Bob Kenyon.
In "Keep Travelin', Rider," Tack Gentry returns to Sunbonnet and his uncle's G Bar Ranch only to find that his uncle, a Quaker, has been killed in a gunfight. A faction...
51) The Lost Boy
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Merry Watson is a fifty-something retired teacher who embarks on a grand adventure: driving across America by herself! She changes lives and leaves an impact on every town or city she visits.This first in this series of short stories takes our heroine to Boston - one of Merry's favourite cities and the first stop on her grand adventure. When she and her intriguing new friend Jake visit the Paul Revere House together, they're not prepared for the unexpected...
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"A magnificent portrayal of every facet of the Cuban exile experience. Haunting short stories convey the pain, loss, longing, and courage of the exiles." -Dan Wakefield, author of Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer
Castro's communist regime gained control of Cuba in 1959, sparking a surge of immigration to the United States, particularly Miami, as refugees sought a better life. But for many, Cuba will always be home. The island's stories pass...
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To the moon and back, here are 10 tales with a twist. The unlikely characters have one thing in common - they're ready and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. As the old saying goes, "You have to watch out for the quiet ones."
From a quirky inventor, humored by his neighbors, to two old men out to dinner, to a more-than-meets-the-eye beverage maker, the stories will take you into the minds of the overlooked and unseen. Ignore...
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Signature David Evanier-a story collection so wickedly funny and painfully honest you won't know whether to laugh, cry, or curl up in a ball and moan with delight New York writer Bruce Orav is crumbling. Every time his father speaks-"I thought there was a chance you'd have a bestseller sometime. I guess that's dead, huh?"-Bruce loses another piece of himself. The same thing happens at the Jewish philanthropic organization where he earns a steady,...
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Seven stories and novellas by a master of twentieth-century fiction For fans of the novel Under the Volcano, this collection of storiesmany of them published for the first time posthumouslyprovides great insight into the author's genius. The stories range from heartfelt tragedy to exuberant triumph. In the novella Through the Panama," a burned-out, alcoholic writer tries to make sense of the literature that has kept him afloat while the pulse of his...
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In this collection of fourteen stories-mostly set among working folks in the Hudson River Valley of New York-music, food, philosophy, and magic weave through tales that are by turns gritty, aching, and comical. Characters grapple with unfulfilled dreams in a dizzying, often alien culture. Meet a Bronx Italian Zen master with a baby and an ex-football-star partner…a young curator assigned to coddle an infamous avant-garde artist whose assistant threatens...
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When things go seriously wrong, be grateful just to get back to the place where you were. Ahead, there is light, behind – only darkness.'Waking up is hard to do'. . . be prepared for a journey . . . an adventure that might be uncomfortable, but in the end . . . we can all make it home.
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Fay Weldon journeys to the wilds of Scotland and far-off Tasmania in these twelve tales of sexual politics and marital and political warfare In "Christmas Lists-A Seasonal Story," the endless lists created by a suburban couple become a metaphor for marriage, family, and enduring love. In "Delights of France or Horrors of the Road," a woman goes to a psychiatrist to cure her sudden, inexplicable paralysis, unaware that her constant bragging about her...
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Christmas is a lonely time for Kelly Lane. In her thirty's and single, she has given up the dream she'd always had.Mac Brentwell is only going through the motions. Living the high profile life people believe lawyers have, he's a playboy, a different woman on his arm every night. What people don't know is that most nights he goes home alone. And he's lonely, dreaming of the day he might get that Christmas wish he had so long ago.Kelly is the shy one,...
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Los Genes del PsiquiatraUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarferLos genes del psiquiatra es la historia de un famoso psiquiatra graduado y reconocido por muchas universidades donde realizo diferentes estudios sobre la conducta humana; pero al tener un árbol genealógico tanto paterno como materno con varios antepasados con ciertas conductas delincuenciales que por medio de los genes fueron a parar al cuerpo del afamado...
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