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Kale has invaded our culture as the go-to food for healthy living, appearing everywhere on restaurant menus, in grocery stores and in beauty products like soaps and scrubs. It's in salads and sandwiches, on pizzas, in soups and stews, and even salted as chips. For many, it shouts, "Eat me. I'm good for you." For others, the vitamin load and beneficial fiber cannot outweigh the bitterness and texture of this member of the cabbage family. For those...
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An exciting new anthology from the journal Time magazine called "the biggest 'little magazine' in history." To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the venerable Paris Review, Picador is proud to publish a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life. Like the work of the writers included, this book will inspire a dizzying range of thought and emotion, serving as a cumulative and breathtaking "mirror" to the world we live in.
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Life Is Short Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course's worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence. 1. We are mortal beings. 2. There is no god. 3. We live in a digital culture. 4. Art is...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited mystery collection:
Edgar Wallace:
The Four Just Men
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
Victor L. Whitechurch:
The Canon in Residence
Anna Katharine Green:
The Leavenworth Case
A Strange Disappearance
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
That Affair Next Door
Lost Man's Lane
The Circular Study
G. K. Chesterton:
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Donnington Affair
Arthur Conan...
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Ghosts. Pirates. Put the two together and you've got a winning combination of the most exciting stories ever written. It's enough to make anyone say, "Shiver me timbers"--with delight.
The spirits of Davy Jones's locker have a long and colorful history among sailors and lovers of literature. From Daniel Defoe's "The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts" to Thomas Smollet's "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" to Washington Irving's "Adventures...
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Red. The color of blood, of war, of passion-and of a new unicorn herd. Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some stories feature physical unicorns, most do not. Some unicorns are kind, most are not. From a battlefield to a candy store, from zombie unicorns in rural America to...
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This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to think of the poem as having sprung spontaneously, Athena-like, from the writer's head. By exposing readers to the...
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Edited by Harvey Stanbrough. This is an eclectic collection of twelve short stories that combine to form a pleasing if occasionally troubling mixture. Here you will find professional and amateur detectives, strung-out criminals and a kindly neighborhood grandmother, a moonlighting real estate agent, absurdity, quiet terror and a great deal more. There are twists galore. You'll visit past-Earth, a country preacher, a parish priest, a space station...
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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by James Branch Cabell: The Certain Hour, Chivalry, The Cords of Vanity, Domnei, The Eagle's Shadow, Figures of Earth, Gallantry, The Jewel Merchants, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice, The Line of Love, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, and Taboo.
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Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability. Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than...
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MANIFESTATIONS OF LOVE
- an obvious embodiment
Love! Something we experience most often.
Hey readers,
Have confusions? Puzzled about how humans react?
Do doubts arise on your partner?
Wanna know the different manifestations?
Don't worry! Your biased mood on love will come to an end, after reading this book.
NOT a big novel. NOT filled with the same theme. NOT a difficult wording.
INTERESTING short genres clubbed together!!!
The book gives relaxation...
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Welcome to the third volume (and first bookazine) of our ongoing experiment with illustrated prose at Penny. One year ago, we chose 'The Other' as the theme for this collection. Trump had won the election and we grappled with an urgent question: How could we support marginalized communities with our limited personal resources?
Thinking that a greater understanding of 'otherness' would foster empathy across borders small and large, we began by calling...
93) En Venecia
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George Sand, Charles Edmond Chojecki, Eugénie Foa, Jean Lorrain y Henri de Régnier nos sumergen en la Venecia mítica con unos personajes que rezuman magia y encanto: una mujer enmascarada, un viejo coleccionista armenio, la familia de los Tintoretto en el siglo XVI, el enamorado de una princesa, un interno del manicomio de San Servolo y un joven pintor.
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Pretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it might be the most popular subject in poetry. Yet, until now, no anthology has gathered the best and most famous of these verses in one place. This collection ranges dramatically. With more than 320 poems, it goes across all of history, from the ancients straight through to today. Across countries and languages, across schools of poetry. You'll find a plethora...
95) Fae Dreams
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This book consists of a string of poems influenced by different aspects of real-life events that occurred. Behind every poem lies a relatable connection that we are human and sometimes things happen to us. It's through general conversations with close friends, family, strangers, and colleagues about life, death, politics, love, and spirituality among others that prompted the penning down of this book. Although I found the experience and journey of...
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There's just something magical about cats.Fierce hunters content to rest upon our sofas. Sweet friends but stubbornly independent. Fluffy little murder balls with jellybean toes and razor-sharp claws. It's easier to answer what cats aren't than what they are.In this purr-fect collection, awesome authors pounce upon the challenge of the mysterious cat like the elusive little red dot it is. Curl up with sixteen stories all featuring our furry, frisky,...
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Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles. Along with him went Laura, his childhood sweetheart and soulmate. In L.A., Laura becomes enamoured with the dark side of rock and roll life, leaving Taylor lost, distraught and deeply damaged. Taylor realizes he has to go back home to Nickerson Harbour, to confront Laura's...
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The sheep that's a good listener. The woman and the ice cream salesman. The young man who falls in love with a washing machine. That age old tale.
Funny, macabre, heart-breaking, eerie, disturbing, provocative...the 21 stories in this collection of originals are all winners of the Chipping Norton Literary Festival Short Story Competition Winners from its inception in 2016 to 2022. The stories are hugely varied in style and genre, and will appeal...
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INSIGNIA Vol.3 includes 7 Southeast Asian fantasy stories with a mix of literary, contemporary, myth-based, and historical fantasy pieces. Countries included are Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.PART I: Adventure / Folktales'Horse Feet' by Celestine Trinidad'The Third Eye' by Sheenah Freitas'Interlude' by Eve Shi'The Island' by Melvin YongPART II: Adult / Literary Tales'Running from Shadows' by Joyce Chng'Never Seen' by Kelly Matsuura'Spirit...
100) The Blackboard
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What does your mind get striked with, when you think of,THE BLACKBOARD?•He passed by her classroom everyday just to catch a glimpse of her. However, she never knew about the secret admirer. •I was bread and she was my jam. We were the best pair to be thought….Yet, I was toasted And she often went stolen from the jar. Millions of disappearing visitors, Deforming the lives through white scribbles. Letters may fade but knowledge will never. Where...
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