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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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‘ Staggering and unforgettable storytelling' Mel Giedroyc In his retirement at the Vatican, emeritus pope Benedict XVI is hard at work on his magnum opus: a high-school comedy screenplay. At a grimy pub in North London, a doctoral researcher is abducted by gangsters peddling William Wordsworth' s handwritten account of drug-fuelled sex orgies.In the West African state of Benin, a politician' ...
3) Sightseeing
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One of the most widely reviewed debuts of the year, Sightseeing is a masterful story collection by an award-winning young author. Set in contemporary Thailand, these are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. Written with exceptional acuity, grace and sophistication, the stories present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes....
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Esta antología contiene Cinco cuentos al azar. Algunos son divertidos, otros son escalofriantes y la mayoría son simplemente raros:Contiene las siguientes historias.Caos NavideñoLa Amenaza EnmascaradaLa Eternidad puede esperar.La misión de Martin Puther en China.Serendípia salvó al Pirómano.
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This collection of one novella and three short stories captures the traditional, emotional spirit of Christmas and presents the spirit in contemporary settings. Holly Day's Caf, the novella, relates the story of the last day of business at a Kentucky diner. This last day happens to be Christmas Eve. It is also the day of a rare blizzard-one which strands several customers in the diner. What occurs next demonstrates the magic and wonder of the power...
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A collection of short stories by one of America's great twentieth-century writers In his introduction to this collection of sharply crafted short stories, James Jones compares novel writing to a long-term, chronic illness. Writing short stories, he says, is like a brief, intense fever: the kind that can kill or disappear in a matter of days. Although best known for epic war novels such as From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line, Jones also wrote...
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This is a collection of eleven short stories whose common theme is the heroism of our flawed lives. It explores the arduousness of people's lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity, generational change, single parenthood, domestic violence, the tragic complexity of revolution, police brutality, artistic hubris, and the limitations of rationalism. In 'The Hat', a polish Jew on the run in Eastern Europe goes down to a town in search...
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Each of the nine short stories collected here feature two types of people - the troubled and the troublemakers. In "The Guest," a homeless man gleefully takes credit for a robbery he did not commit. "In the Alley" tells the story of a terminally ill man who begrudgingly outlives his initial prognosis. And the satiric "I Look Out for Ed Wolfe" features a charismatic salesman auctioning off his life's possessions in order to determine his value in the...
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Sixteen new stories and fifteen classics by the National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of War Dances.
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades-from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning War Dances-have...
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Indelible linked stories centred around Azurée, a young Arab woman living in the echoes of her ancestors' voices.
Masterfully tracing the deep roots of the Arab immigrant experience, these interlocking stories follow an Arab family as they flee the Middle East in the nineteenth century, settle in Montreal in the twentieth, and face the collision between tradition and modernity in the twenty-first. This family includes trailblazing Lebanese freedom...
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With one exception, these short stories were written for this collection, and they tentatively look at different themes such as compassion, passivity and their opposites, which are not, of course, original themes, as none exist. The stories are told in different keys, and some characters appear in more than one story. The subject matter also shifts from the social to the political, and the tone becomes increasingly pessimistic. An Algerian immigrant...
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A dazzling collection of memorable stories displaying an award-winning author's acclaimed mastery of storytelling and voice. The haunting stories in Shacochis's second volume of stories possess a comic, sexy directness infused with an aura of history. Each of the eight tales here feature characters one could easily describe as outrageous originals who, through Shacochis's enormous storytelling gifts, especially in his marvelous ability to inhabit...
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Make you cry. Fuck off and get cancer. I hope you die. Urban tales of despair and dysfunction are Laura Hird's trademark and she does not disappoint in Hope and Other Urban Tales.
Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's slices of reality are gritty, bleak and often darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal the morally obscure darkness in 'good'...
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Everything Natalie said seemed, to herself, to have been said better by him. He was less fond of speaking, however, than he was of hitting people in the face, which seemed a more likely source of her love to those of us who knew him," begins Jason Brown's linked collection of beautifully haunted, violent, and wry stories set in the densely forested lands of northern New England. In these tales of forbidden love, runaway children, patrimony, alcohol,...
15) 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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With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated...
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As the great Mel Brooks said, " Humor is just another defense against the universe" - and in these chaotic times, an irreverent and chaotic book like When the Rains Came, will definitely help you gird your loins AND laugh your head off. This entertaining collection of flash fiction, has been mysteriously spun out of the very deep, extended, chaotic, intense, personal experiences of a unique, one-of-a-kind person....
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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),...
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Mi Estimado AlguacilUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarfer Esta es la historia de un juez de pueblo al cual le asignan algunos casos muy polémicos dentro del ámbito politico y social convulsionado por la revolución política para que dicte sentencia, dicho juez que tambien es polémico en sus sentencia cuenta con su alguacil que es su mano derecha y él cual fue comprado por los enemigos del juez para que le tendiera...
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In this collection of essays, Florence King confirms her position as one of the wittiest social critics now writing-and certainly the most uninhibited. Nothing escapes her withering gaze, from our greatest national institution ("Democrazy"), to the cult of Helpism ("Does Your Child Taste Salty?"), to the rules of historical romance writing ("Sex and the Saxon Churl"). If caring 'n' compassion are getting you down, open this book for a refreshing whiff...
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