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2381) The Holy Babble
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The Holy Babble is a sumptuous feast for the imagination. In this Hieronymus Bosch style drive-through, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny steal the Christ myth. Panty thieves, monkeys chained to word processors, and rebellious talking ants inhabit decrepit fringes of the city of Moralpanik. In fact, Moralpanik is all fringes, and no exits. No one can leave this world, not even the reader, nor will you want to. Kirwan stitches this aberrant crew of...
2383) Creatures of Habit
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Jill McCorkle's new collection of twelve short stories is peopled with characters brilliantly like us-flawed, clueless, endearing. These stories are also animaled with all manner of mammal, bird, fish, reptile-also flawed and endearing. She asks, what don't humans share with the so-called lesser species? Looking for the answer, she takes us back to her fictional home town of Fulton, North Carolina, to meet a broad range of characters facing up to...
2384) Her First Palestinian
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Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.
Saeed Teebi's intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks...
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Along a five-mile stretch of creek that runs through East Sheridan Community lives a proud band of misfits who just want to fit into society. Brought to life in a collection of twelve short stories, the scrappy Creekers work hard to put food on their tables. But even as they face a harsh reality, the Creekers occasionally dare to dream of another life. Reverend Jones, a pillar of peace and harmony that unites East Sheridan Community, is competing...
2386) Rule Number Four
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Tanis Foster has a list of 61 people. He also has four rules to follow.There is now one person and one rule left. Will he finish what he set out to do?
2387) Casus, Volume Two
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Four contrasting perspectives on the unassailable uncertainty of life. This second volume in the Casus series continues to explore the interplay between choice and destiny.
'Pont Neuf' follows Nick Wiseby's quest for personal autonomy. How could he know his relationship with Elizabeth would change everything?
'Frances' takes us inside Harold's mind, which is failing to cope with the disintegration of old age.
'The Gift' asks another kind...
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Cuentos de un ciudadano del mundo
La narrativa de Jeremías Lawson se parece a la de un documentalista. Va con su cámara colgada al cuello y captura pequeños momentos que luego desarrollará como relatos. Los que se encuentran aquí reunidos dan cuenta de un observador inquieto que se sienta en los cafés a escuchar las historias de la gente, que se acurruca junto a los arbustos para alcanzar a ver más de cerca lo que pasa en la casa de...
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In these stories, Dianne Nelson illuminates that vast territory of pleasure and pain created within modern families. Whether it is a father trying to kidnap his young son from his estranged ex-wife or a woman celebrating her ability to produce babies without any help from men, Nelson's characters reveal the dark, haunting and sometimes comic dilemmas of kinship.
In the title story, seventeen-year-old April is an involuntary witness to the seemingly...
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Autumn Leaves is a short story about an elderly gentleman who has had to give up his home and independence and what that means for him. It follows his ramblings from memories of days gone by to the difficulties he faces on a day to day basis and addresses the treatment he suffers from those around him.
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These short stories from the author of Last Flight and Ashen Skies of Vietnam are works of fiction, although some involve real events and some take place in real places. Names and characters are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental; however, there was a truly fine dog named Billy.
Several stories take place in foreign countries; others in the author's native New Hampshire or...
2392) Le dernier anniversaire
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Créant une atmosphère presque étrange tant du point de vue de sa conception que par rapport à ses personnages et au paysage presque inquiétant dans lequel ils évoluent, ce recueil de nouvelles évoque le passage encore inachevé de l'Albanie de son passé d'isolement à son présent européen souvent décevant. Ecrites à la première personne, ces nouvelles constituent un récit autobiographique dans lequel la fiction se mêle à des histoires...
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As the song says: I come from a land Down-Under.
However, my short stories and opinion pieces are truly international and you are sure to be enthralled as I plunder the possibilities, probabilities and potential of all things relating to politics, entertainment, sport and travel; all the issues that you care about.
Share my bizarre lifestyle and amazing world wide adventures. Nothing will prepare you for this.
Discover what my crazy friends and...
2394) Pricksongs and Descants
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Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods,...
2395) New Life
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This story is about the women who have suffered from a divorce after ten years of lost marriage, she is about to move from France to Sicily to start a New Life ...
2397) The Joy of Funerals
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From the very first page, readers are drawn into the strange, often humorous world where nine women grapple with sex, power, love, and death. Meet a widow who lusts...a daughter who aches...a lover who obsesses...a shopaholic who hungers... a daredevil who desires...a single woman who longs...an outsider who hopes...an artist who craves...and a funeral-junkie who needs. These are the women who inhabit the eerily honest, often heartbreaking world Alix...
2398) El Camino Del Bienestar
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Este cuento trae pensamientos llamativos diseñados para inspirarle a tener una vida más sana y gratificante. Encuentre su potencial y los medios de lograr esto.
2399) The Home Jar: Stories
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Nancy Zafris is a critically acclaimed writer because of the highly distinctive, piercing intelligence that underlies her works. Her gifts accumulate in a vision that somehow combines just the right amount of irony, subtle humor, and compassion for characters you won't see anywhere else in contemporary fiction. Those characters are emotionally all over the map too: resolute, sympathetic, and indelible-their stories can be laugh-out-loud funny one...
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Dark Music showcases Mike Trial's range of imagination in five short stories, all with the common thread of music: Pan, the deposed god of the world, was also the god of music. When he played his syrinx the nymphs danced for the pure joy of being alive. But Pan was a moody god and would sometimes lead the unwary down paths to their own destruction. Pan is gone now. Or is he? Perhaps he still exists. Music can soothe, but it can also seduce and destroy....
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