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Extrait : "Tout le monde connaît la célèbre phrase de Pascal sur le gain de sable qui changea les destinées de l'univers en arrêtant la fortune de Cromwell. Ainsi, dans ce grand hasard des évènements qui gouverne les hommes et le monde, un fait bien petit, le geste désespéré d'une femme, décida le sort de l'Europe en sauvant la vie du jeune Napoléon Bonaparte, celui qui fut le grand Napoléon. C'est une page d'histoire inconnue (car tout...
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According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits." Hitting the Charts, a nineteen story Best-Of compilation, offers stories as free from constraint as a Monk solo, and as disquieting and resonant as a southern Baptist preacher at a big-tent revival. Dancing is not forbidden.
6343) Highland Shorts
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Praise for the Highland Books series:
"I absolutely adore your writing style which just pulls me into the story and keeps me hooked. Love it…"
"I rrreally enjoyed this book. Rrreading was so much fun!!"
"Love it! The plot, the characters: I love Stewart! :D"
"It was a beautiful book. Different from the cliches where everything moves so fast.. This one took its time and I loved you for exploring their characters in detail. Amazing job."
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6344) Pesadillas
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Pesadillas es una antología de 9 cuentos de terror mexicanos. Cada historia mezcla los temores contemporáneos con figuras del folklore; ya sean fantasmas aztecas, momias de Guanajuato, el Chupacabras o incluso el Día de muertos. Los temores de la sociedad se verán encarnados en estas "Pesadillas
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H. F. Heard explores the place where science fiction ends and bone-chilling horror begins in this classic collection of strange tales. It starts with common mildew-mold appearing where it has never grown before. A strange kind of mold, it spreads across the entire globe in a matter of months. Although it's harmless, it's an indication of something much more terrifying. Without our noticing, the Earth's climate has changed. But as the world's greatest...
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"Lesley Castle" is a novella by Jane Austen, unfinished at the time of her death. Presented as a series of letters, it follows the conversations and musings of Miss Margaret Lesley and Miss Charlotte Lutterell. As they discuss such subjects as adultery, elopement, divorce, and remarriage, it soon becomes clear that that they are shallow, trivial women, and easy targets for Jane Austen's sharp wit and social satire. Penned when she was just 14 years...
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It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you. Teddy Cruz has always pursued the capital 'T' Truth regardless of the cost that knowledge came with. After discovering a crucial clue in the failed assassination attempt of conspiracy theorist, Samuel Tamez. Teddy finds himself thrust further into a world of conspiracies and half-truths where no one is to be trusted and everything he has ever known is a lie. Stalked by mysterious men in black and...
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51 récits drles et émouvants d'une vie à hauteur d'homme...
Ces 51 « nouvelles du front » constituent un objet littéraire non identifié. Pierre Debauche y pratique le grand écart entre constat de l'absurde folie des hommes et exercice de la joie de vivre. Il se livre dans un cheminement narratif fulgurant qui nous conduit, des anecdotes de l'enfance, d'une vie d'homme sans regrets, à l'universalité de la condition humaine.
L'homme fuit...
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Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time. He is best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924).
He subsequently worked on the city staff of The New York American and as a copy writer for J. Walter Thompson. Connell served in France with the US Army during World War I. While in the army, he was the editor of his camp's newspaper. After the war, he turned to writing short stories, and eventually...
6351) Gayrabian Nights
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Gayrabian Nights is a twist on the well-known classic, 1001 Arabian Nights, in which Scheherazade, under the threat of death if she ceases to captivate King Shahryar's attention, enchants him through a series of mysterious, adventurous, and romantic tales.
In this variation, a male escort, invited to the hotel room of a closeted, homophobic Mormon Republican senator, learns that the man is poised to vote on a piece of anti-gay legislation the...
6352) Becalm This Mighty Sea
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An intimate portrait of grief, redemption, and the secrets we keep from those we cherish most.Former detective, Jack, boards a ship toward the seastead, Sea Hope – the mysterious and autonomous sovereign society where his late daughter, Lucy, lived for many years before her death.As he arrives, he confronts his own life and shortcomings, as well as the relationship he built with Lucy – first as a child, and then later as an adult within this odd...
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A flower shop open only from dusk to dawn.
A cult compound modified for post-apocalyptic survival.
A refuge where the sun never rises.
An alien adjusting to her new life on Earth.
A free-spirited witch who teams up with a straight-laced detective.
A thief whose quest for survival will alter the world.
Find all this and more in fifteen speculative-fiction stories about finding beauty in chaos, strength in community, and humanity in...
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Le ciel commence au bout du regard. N'est-il pas l'image de ce que nous cherchons... la pérennité?
Quel est ce rire dépité qui a oublié le dépit et n'a de joie que celle d'un moment d'esprit?
L'écho de la beauté ne dit rien sur la beauté. On n'entend que le son de celui qui la rencontre.
La raison domine la routine et l'on n'a pas le temps de s'appesantir sur l'absurdité des choses mal faites, sur la bêtise des autres et...
6355) Amusia
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A woman who cannot recognize melodies is stalked by a killer who signals his presence with ominous songs.A flash fiction thriller from Genie Music.
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Set among the glittering clubs and grimy side streets of 1920s Berlin (with detours to Italy and Paris), these charming, witty, and erotic tales capture the trials and triumphs of early twentieth-century gay life without apology or shame. Granand, the pen name for theater director and author Erich Ritter von Busse, lost his battle against bigoted censors but won a shining place in literary history with this pathbreaking volume. Instead of hewing to...
6357) Notre coeur
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Extrait : "Un jour, Massival, le musicien, le célèbre auteur de Rebecca, celui que, depuis quinze ans déjà, on appelait le jeune et illustre maître, dit à André Mariolle, son ami : - Pourquoi ne t'es-tu jamais fait présenter à Mme Michèle de Burne ? Je t'assure que c'est une des femmes les plus intéressantes du nouveau Paris. - Parce que je ne me sens pas du tout mis au monde pour son milieu."
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6358) Un Hombre Afortunado
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El graduado más famoso de una escuela regresa a la reunión del vigésimo quinto aniversario de la generación, pero una mujer perturbada lo espera con un plan de veganza. Una historia corta que tiene la duración exacta para leerse durante la comida, 6200 palabras. Todo le ha salido bien a Brett Mann, hasta ahora. Un hombre afortunado es la historia del chico más popular de la escuela que regresa al sitio de sus glorias estudiantiles para la reunión...
6359) Strange Wine
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From Harlan Ellison, whom the Washington Post regards as a "lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, and purveyor of pure horror and black comedy," comes Strange Wine. Discover among these tales the spirits of executed Nazi war criminals who walk Manhattan streets; the damned soul of a murderess escaped from hell; gremlins writing the fantasies of a gone-dry writer; and the exquisite Dr. D'arque Angel, who deals her patients...
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