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This diverse collection of short stories, written over a long period and compiled for the first time, will leave you wanting some more at the end.
What would you do if your brother is, involved in a tragic car accident? For this young man, the ultimate price was worth the sacrifice. After her mother died, a little girl found a way to communicate and talk to her, to the horror of her aunt. In a post-conflict village, a boy found an iron ball that turned...
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155 piezas conforman este rompecabezas sobre el paso del tiempo y la acechanza de la muerte. Con una prosa agradable el autor va uniendo las piezas que retratan las vidas de ancianos ricos e inmortales, los viajes por el tiempo a sitios significativos: las fincas de vacaciones de colegial, las estancias en Salgar o Barichara, una cuadra de la calle 41 de Medellín, la Universidad de Antioquia, antros de aquí y allá y el barrio Chueca de Madrid....
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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is historically recognized as the first woman to make a living through writing; her plays, novels, poems and pamphlets have met with fresh notoriety since the 20th century. Her work was particularly significant to a group of contemporary writers known as The Female Wits, as well as to later feminist writers like Virginia Woolf. Stories of comedy and intrigue, complete with masks, mistaken identities, visual deceptions, and complicated...
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Throughout his professional life, Herman Melville displayed a keen interest in the visual arts. He alluded to works of art to embellish his poems and novels and made substantial use of the technique of ekphrasis, the literary description of works of visual arts, to give body to plot and character. In carefully tracing Melville's use of the art analogy as a literary technique, Douglas Robillard shows how Melville evolved as a writer. Melville studied...
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Community Voices Volume II is a collection of writings by recent graduates of The Story Center's Storytelling Certificate Program. Offered in partnership with Metropolitan Community College and Mid-Continent Public Library, the Certificate Program helps people tell their stories, whether those stories are contemporary or historical, real or imagined. Free courses taught by practicing professionals help participants grow their stories from a spark...
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In many parts of rural India, water is so scarce that people have to walk long distances and spend many hours collecting water for drinking, cooking, and washing. But in the remote village of Saja Pahad in Chhattisgarh, a teenage boy was determined to change this unhappy situation. The story of how he accomplished this is the stuff that legends are made of.
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Partiendo del hecho de que el fenómeno de recepción ha sido ajeno a los estudios sobre la literatura fantástica mexicana del siglo XIX ya que, de acuerdo con Hans Robert Jauss, se ha tendido a narrar la Historia de la Literatura desde una "estética de la producción y la exposición", el presente trabajo se presenta como la reconstrucción del complejo fenómeno que supuso la introducción de la obra de Edgar Allan Poe en México, autor cuyo estudio...
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Weekly News from That Nerd Show for March 28 / April 4, 2021 Featured Article: Anime for Beginners, 18 Great Shows for the Anime Fan in You! Film and TV News, Gaming News, Nerd Advice, Music News, Science News, Storytellers, Cosplay: Featured Cosplayers, Ayanami Lisa and Nick of Wardco Props.
89) Odds and Ends
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Odds And Ends is a collection of stories, essays, and poems. It is the author's second published book.
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El presente libro, más que una mera recopilación de artículos, es el resultado de una cuidada selección de los textos que Quim Monzó escribió entre los años 2001 y 2004-antes y después de la guerra de Irak-que conforma un libro coherente y unitario, una crítica lúcida y despiadada de la triste, y quién sabe si irremediable, llegada al poder del imperio de la plastilina. "Esplendor y gloria de la Internacional Papanatas" es una jocosa denuncia...
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El escudo de Perseo o de la escritura en pandemia es un libro con contenido para niños y jóvenes lleno de vivencias y magia. Dos títulos componen el texto: Creación en común-unión relata, a modo de cuento corto, cómo se llegó a concebir la historia, teniendo en cuenta la incertidumbre de los autores frente a la escritura de un cuento en tiempos de pandemia.
El segundo título narra la inquietud que genera la reducción del mundo infantil al...
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The title of Ebony Tobias's book, My Path-Sentiments, was inspired by life journeys. It is a cunning way of saying "her life." Reality is a road destined to be traveled. While in the driver's seat, the twists and turns are a vital force. Decisions need to be made on when and how to switch gears, which can be difficult to steer. Sentiments are feelings that will occur while one travels the path. The intensity of life is thought-provoking. As she navigates...
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"Piece of Mind: Journal of a Healed Heart (Volume 2) is a follow-up non-fiction book to the first volume that Christine Musa has released back in 2021, focusing on her healing journey after experiencing abandonment, betrayal, and a failed marriage.
This second volume contains a collection of all-original literary pieces, short articles, quotes, and anecdotes based on Christine's personal ups and downs, spanning from year 2018 up to 2021 --- the...
95) Declive
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Cada novela de Sergio Galindo ofrece un conjunto de elementos recurrentes, mismos que conforman su universo narrativo. Entre ellos están la familia casi patriarcal, o burguesa, el alcohol, la vida provinciana, las relaciones amorosas, una estrecha y casi familiar relación con los sirvientes y Veracruz, como un poderoso imán que, así sea incidentalmente, atrae a sus criaturas.
Declive (1985) es una novela sumamente importante en el conjunto de...
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Escribir poesa: es soar, es sentir y es vivir. Y leerla: es querer soar, querer sentir, y querer vivir. El poeta debe de escribir pensando en divertir, adems de todo lo anterior. Y mnimo, en distraer amenamente al lector. El poeta debe de escribir pensando en una poesa para todos, no solo para los poetas, o para los eruditos en literatura, o doctorados en filosofa y letras. O qu: Existe acaso, la poesa abstracta? O: la poesa surrealista? -Esta es...
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The art of storytelling reveals subtle or blatant truths that can be used as teaching tools for minds young and old.
This is a unique collection of stories and poems intended for reading aloud, engaging both the reader and listener in creative imagination. Each story embeds a lesson that will hopefully plant a seed for future cultivation. These are simple enough stories for children often with a surprise ending yet poetic and dramatic enough for...
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These twenty-nine authors break rules and bend genres. Inspired by literary risk-takers like Italo Calvino, Margaret Atwood, and Junot Díaz, they are award-winning and emerging writers from around the world. They marry imagination with meaning to create fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is provocative and fresh. In these pages, you'll meet the mother of a shape-shifting kindergartener, a drug mule in communion with an ancient god, and a woman...
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