Short Stories PDF EBooks
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This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey
Wonderful book of flash fiction and flash essays detailing Almond's advice on writing. This book can only be bought at readings, I believe, so keep an eye out for him at your local writing conferences. He's an amazing speaker and writer, and his...
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Christmas Eve, 1914
In 1914, the war which was to have been wrapped up by Christmas had - in reality - only just begun, as all sides entrenched themselves deeper into the Great War. Christmas Eve, 1914 follows one company of British officers as they rotate forward to...
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Cold Snap
In ten new stories, Thom Jones introduces us to hard-luck fighters steeling themselves for battles they've already lost, doctors who fall in love with their illnesses, and a strung-out advertising writer who uses the hand of the devil to do the work...
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The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but...
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Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories
‘Whatever I am, I’m among the lost things—I do know that.’To enter the works of Anna Kavan is to enter a swirling, menacing reality where inexorable doom weighs heavy through each word. Each story in Julia and the Bazooka...
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Hot Pink
Adam Levin’s debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of “death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth” (Rolling Stone).Now, in...
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Alguien que anda por ahí y otros relatos
Alguien que anda por ahí (1977) reúne once cuentos en los que Cortázar vuelve a superarse a sí mismo. Se abre con la inquietante melancolía de Cambio de luces y culmina con la violencia policial de La noche de Mantequilla....
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Angel Cuffs
Angel Cuffs was a short read that packs a punch! It one of those reads that can get you primed before hubby wants some wink winky time. Not that I would ever do that. *cough cough*It was quite short, about 20 minutes but it left me wanting...
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No Turning Back
In No Turning Back, Dan Burns shares an eclectic mix of stories that push the boundaries of genre and imagination. Told with realistic and thought-provoking prose, each of the stories shine light on characters who, as a result of a particular...
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Modern Japanese Stories
This collection shows the qualities that make Japanese literature among the world's finest.Including "Under Reconstruction," considered to be the first modern Japanese short story, this book presents the short stories of Japan as among the...
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Paulo Coelho - Short Stories
Coelho stories always touch me deep in my soul. These stories are short but each of them has a very deep moral story for us. I can relate well to them, while reading I could refresh my mind and soul then reflect to myself in a process of being a...
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Maanlicht
In de laatste jaren van haar leven sprak Hella S. Haasse regelmatig over verhalen die ze had geschreven maar die ze niet meer kon vinden. Ze zocht er vergeefs naar in laden en kasten. Pas na haar overlijden op 29 september 2011 werden die verhalen...
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L Is For
A wonderful collection of short stories from some of the UK's current best-selling lesbian fiction authors takes you on a journey of tears, laughter, love and lust. With proceeds of all sales going to the charity R U Coming Out, this is one...
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How the Broken Lead the Blind
Heartbreaking in the way Bell builds an emotional scene: engaging this felt like sitting in a too-smoke-filled late night diner. Everyone sits by him or herself. It's cold outside, and the blizzard is coming. I should have been a better person. Did...
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All the Lights
A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up by chance. She imagines their future...
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Khói Trời Lộng Lẫy
Lần đầu tiếp xúc văn cô Tư, thấy mê rồi đó, con chữ cứ là nuột nà, đọc vào chảy tòn tọt vô miệng như...
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Dead Men Don't Eat Quiche
This is a perfect example of where erotic cat and mouse meets with mystery. I adored the description of the outside view near the restaurant; it made me feel as if I were really there. I could relate with the agitation of making a...
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ماه نیمروز
تقریبا جنگ و حاشیه های آن دست بردار مندنی...
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Unkempt
In the seven stories and one novella collected in Unkempt, Courtney Eldridge gives life to characters of astounding originality. Probing the darker corners of the human psyche, she shows-with a sly and unexpected sense of humor-the neurotic mind at...
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Transit of Earth
5/5* "Transit of Earth" - title story. 1st person narrative. Starts with statement of inevitable death, comparison to historical figures. Placement in time and space. Excuse for narrative (final thoughts before death). Story begins by contemplating...
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Finding Our Way
THESE STORIES TAKE the reader to meet mochos; cholos; Mr. and Mrs. Special; Manny with his mysterious phone calls; Melly, who dreams of being the first girl to take the Dive; Andy and Ruthie, who find that being "boyfriend-girlfriend" takes on new...
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Haunted Harbours
This is a collection of ghost stories from Nova Scotia- from the restless spirits of Devil's Island to the Black Dog of Antigonish Harbour. Documented and well-known stories from the provincial archives are mixed with word-of-mouth legends of...
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Best of Times, Worst of Times
Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as "The New Gilded Age," a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities...
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Mourning Doves and other stories.
Tom Upton's stories in this collection are very diverse. Some are more enjoyable than others, but on the whole there is something in every one of the stories that will make a reader stop and think. The version I read could definitely do with some...
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Final Vinyl Days
Another book by one of my new favorite Southern writers. See my review of Ferris Beach for details re author."Nine Fabulous New Short Stories... all of them about characters traveling off the beaten path. ..story Final Vinyl Days about a guy...
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Godforsaken Idaho
Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Named "Outstanding 2014 Collection" by The Story Prize Pushcart Prize WinnerIn this stunning debut, Shawn...
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Girl
Though I've only had about a week or two of solid class, I'm in love with my Women in Lit course. We discuss all kinds of women's issues (last names, education, etc.), and I'm always intrigued by the discussions. The caliber of books on the list...
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American mastersEdited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" ("Buffalo News"), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview...
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Flings
The acclaimed author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and The Gospel of Anarchy makes his hardcover debut with a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity"A master of the...
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Scheherazade
There I was, on vacation in Florida, when I received the email from The New Yorker with “stories to enjoy during the holiday.” Sure, as if I needed more stories to add to the ever-growing list. But the stories were right there, just a...
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All That Is Gone
Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is...
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The Shell Collector
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take readers from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human...
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The Best Australian Stories
The best of the best . . . This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject: there is drama and...
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The Complete Stories
The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into...
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The Empty Room
Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer.His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in...
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Hunting the Wild Pineapple
Leverson the narrator, at the centre of these stories calls himself a 'people freak'. Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established...
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Five Stories
This was my first Willa Cather book. I can see why hers are often selectioned for high school student required reading. Her writing is not complicated and easy to understand. Her descriptions of the land are exquisite. I read the Five Stories...
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Best of Friday Flash Volume One
The best #fridayflash fiction stories - volume one.Table of ContentsHer Migration, by Shannon EspositoIn Memory Alone, by Al Bruno IIIA Hell of a Place, by Donald ConradSnatches of Life in Colour — Editor’s Choice Award,...
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Frog City Updike
Frog City Updike (the town, not the book) is an imaginary small town (population 7,996) and the setting for most of these stories. Named for the frogs, relatively small in number and found only near a small pond in Frog City Updike Park, Frog City...
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The Lei Crime Series (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Defining Moments Book 1)
The breakup was just the beginning … When college junior Alana Adams catches her boyfriend passionately kissing another woman, she promptly dumps Nathan and turns to her best friend, Michael, for advice and emotional support. At...
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33 Ways To Kill My Husband
Fast FunI read this short story on the bus, on the way to work, and I got looks from the other passengers because I chortled several times. The story had a cinematic feel to it. Without a wasted word, the author painted each...
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Racconti
Sono settanta gioielli preziosi i racconti raccolti nel libro. Non avevo apprezzato fino ad ora la bellezza ed il valore dei racconti, penalizzandoli anche nella mia libreria, in cui sono rimasti intonsi per anni, nella stupida convinzione che il...
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The Stone Thrower
A bold voice in absurdist short fiction Intelligent clothing, superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction. Welcome to the strange and startling world of Adam Marek; a menagerie of futuristic technology,...
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My Fantoms
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature....
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Amor and Psycho
From the author of Daughters of the Revolution and The Bostons (winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for fiction) come eleven stories about sex and death, violence and desire, love and madness, set in a vast American landscape...
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The Emerald Light in the Air
Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim’s stories. As they do the things we all do—bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo—they’re confronted with their own uncooperative...
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2003
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between...
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I Am No One You Know
I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In...
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Red Rose, White Rose
There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her...
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
In the spirit of Joyce's Dubliners and Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, Daniyal Mueenuddin's collection of linked stories illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the...
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul�s poignant,...
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Christmas at Thompson Hall
Anthony Trollope's heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Christmas at Thompson Hall collects the best Christmas tales of Anthony Trollope, the enormously popular author of the...
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The Sweater
I was given a review copy of a short horror story called The Sweater by Michael Reynolds. I was excited because my absolute favorite thing to read are horror short stories. I hoped for a fun and creepy read and I wasn’t disappointed.I don’t...
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Brothers And Sisters
I really enjoyed reading this book and was disappointed at the end that there wasn't more stories.The book is about brothers and sisters and relationships - the painful parts, the intricacies and mysteries of that was felt in those...
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Gewalten
Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle an der Saale. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker before he...
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Dick Tracy
Contents:Dick Tracy and the Syndicate of Death by Henry SlesarDick Tracy Goes Hollywood by Ron GoulartThe Cereal Killer by Rex MillerAuld Acquaintance by Terry Beatty and Wendi LeeRockabilly by F. Paul WilsonThe Curse by Ed...
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In an Uncharted Country
The award-winning stories that make up this linked collection showcase ordinary men and women in and around Rugglesville, Virginia, as they struggle to find places and identities in their families and the community. They experience natural...
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Welcome to the Goat Rodeo
In the tradition of Hitchcock, each of Barlow’s stories takes you on a tour of the unexplored areas of human existence and makes you ask …How long could you … hold your breath while you worm your way over, under, and through...
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Texas 5X5
This volume consists of twenty-five stories, five each by five Texas writers. Except for the five points of the Texas Lone Star, there’s nothing particularly Texan about the number five—nor the number twenty-five—yet the stories whole-heartedly...
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Wakefield
Parti un soir de chez lui en prétextant un voyage, monsieur Wakefield ne revint que vingt ans plus tard. Et ce, comme s'il était parti la veille. À partir de ce fait divers véridique, Nathaniel Hawthorne tente de décrypter...
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The Progress of Love
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a...
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A Tranquil Star
These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new...
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Unpossible and Other Stories
The short stories in this first collection by Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes...
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Astoria to Zion
In his introduction to "The Best American Short Stories 2008," Salman Rushdie called Ecotone one of a handful of journals on which "the health of the American short story depends." Now at the close of an award-winning first decade, the magazine has...
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Joyce Carol Oates’s prize-winning story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers...
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The Girl and the Ghost-Grey Mare
From Rachael Treasure, one of Australia's favourite rural storytellers, comes this charming collection of short stories.You’ll laugh and smile your way through this collection, which includes the favourite tales, 'The Girl...
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Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers
Edited by Louise DeSalvo, Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy, and Katherine Hogan Includes stories by Julia O'Faolain, Clare Boylan, Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Binchy, and Mary Beckett.
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Contos do Nascer da Terra
Um pequeno flash deste novo livro de Mia Couto para deliciar os leitores: «Era uma vez uma menina que pediu ao pai que fosse apanhar a lua para ela. O pai meteu-se num barco e remou para longe. Quando chegou à dobra do horizonte pôs-se em...
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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories
"The ghosts of fiction were not killed off by the advent of the electric light, the invention of the telephone, the coming of the motor car, or even by the once unthinkable horrors of technological warfare. Instead they took over the trappings,...
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Blood Knot
Stories from the heart about the bridge that fishing builds to bring people closer together.
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A Humble Romance and Other Stories
He caught hold of the girl by her slender shoulders and faced her round towards him. She turned pale, and gave a smothered scream. "Thar! thar! don't you go to being afeard of me," said the peddler. "I wouldn't hurt you for the whole...
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
For eighty-four years, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers and showcased the most compelling stories of each year. Editor John Updike has chosen selections from these volumes that have endured the...
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On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover, and Other Stories
I'm very excited by the title of this collection. And by the snazzy Pop Art cover of my edition from 1962. (The book was originally published in 1935.) I think I'm going to really really like this. I found it today at the New Dominion Bookshop in...
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Southern Haunts
From the fiery abyss of the underworld comes 20 hellish tales from the south and southwest. Within these charred pages are stories that will introduce you to the many demons that stay hidden but are always nearby…20 authors provide stories...
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Horses and Men
men and women in transition, young men and women but not necessarily young in years - primordially young men and women, young in spirit, but also ancient, searching, groping, moving from a moving point of flux through landscapes in flux, the outer...
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Honey to Soothe the Itch
LIMITED EDITION. HONEY TO SOOTHE THE ITCH IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AS A SINGLE TITLE AND IS NOW AVAILABLE AS PART OF ITCH: NINE TALES OF FANTASTIC WORLDS.Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover...
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In Your Atmosphere
Everybody knows the lure of what’s new and exciting, but sometimes it’s really the passion that lasts and builds in intimacy that captures the imagination. In Your Atmosphere celebrates the sexy side of romance and commitment in six sizzling stories...
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The Judges Of Hades And Other Simon Ark Stories
Edward D. Hoch is one of the most honored mystery writers of all time.* 1968 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Mystery Writers of America): "The Oblong Room", The Saint Mystery Magazine, July 1967* 1998 Anthony Award (Bouchercon World Mystery...
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Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain
Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo’s story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them and are surprised when the world comes roaring back.An addict trapped in a country house...
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The Sunny Side
From the beloved creator of Winnie-the-Pooh comes an irresistible collection of short stories guaranteed to delight readers of all ages.Drawing from a collection of stories originally published in 1921 and...
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants, gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and...
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Telling Stories
Drawing on syllabi for Joyce Carol Oates s own writing seminar at Princeton University, Telling Stories gathers over one hundred works of narrative art "miniature" narratives, dramatic monologues, early stories by well-known writers, prose pieces...
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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
As much fun as Roald Dahl's children's books are, I think his talents as a writer are best showcased in his short fiction for adults. To me he's the master of scope. His stories are always exactly the right length for their subject matter. A book of...
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Penguin Book of Summer Stories
Selected and Introduced by Alberto Manguel Summer is the season for reading. Whether lying on the beach or curled up in a chair on the veranda, on a plane to faraway places or taking in the view from a hotel balcony, reading is the most decadent of...
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Os Últimos Quartetos de Beethoven e Outros Contos
Amor, sexo, relacionamentos, obsessões, violência, morte, tem de tudo em Os últimos quartetos de Beethoven: de histórias ligeiras, como a do passageiro com fobia por avião, a mais densas, como a do ex-militante assombrado...
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Faith
Quindici storie per quindici donne: che fanno cose che non dovrebbero, che amano gli uomini sbagliati, che sono troppo grasse, che volano nel cielo. Dopo il successo del romanzo Mi chiedo quando ti mancherò (che D-La Repubblica...
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Noen som elsker hverandre
Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of...
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Casebook of Sexton Blake
Welcome to the breathtaking adventures of Sexton Blake!For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their seats. Together with his faithful sidekick, the...
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Words From A Glass Bubble
This passionate new book gathers together for the first time many of Vanessa Gebbie's award-winning stories. Described by Maggie Gee as 'a prodigiously gifted new writer', this is a natural storyteller; her narratives unfold with a deceptively light...
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Hellbox
This book is a collection of twenty-six stories featuring a broad range of typical O'Hara characters: the big shots, the lovelies, the brassy wits, the clucks, the operators, the sharp, the weary, and the disillusioned. These characters are rendered...
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Don't Ever Change
Don’t Ever Change is a stand alone short story. High school was a time of fond memories for Lori. Twenty three years later, she’s back in town for her mother’s funeral. Not wanting to deal with family right away after a long drive, she roams...
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Collected Stories
Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most gifted and original writers'...
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Tales from the Wasteland
Collection of short horror, science fiction and fantasy stories for 12 to 15 year olds. Topics include a sinister pharmacist, a sword-wielding apparition, vanishing ink and mind control. Another Rumour from the Wasteland – Gary...
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The Long Meanwhile
An anthology of poignant short stories about change. A broad range of authors such as Alice McDermott, Lydia Davis, Alice Fulton, David Shields, Rikki Ducornet, Meredith Steinbach, Reginald Gibbons, Alexander Theroux, Shelley Jackson, Wayne...
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Caring For Lily
Rachel Elizabeth Cole writes a mix of genres, from heartfelt literary and women’s fiction, to laugh-out-loud chick-lit, to quirky contemporary middle grade fiction. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines both online and in print,...
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Late Chrysanthemum
Don't tell Yukio Mishima, but the more I read the more I fall in love with Osamu Dazai. How about this for an opening:"The more I say, the less people...
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You Know When the Men Are Gone
Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of intercollected short stories. In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls... You learn too much. And...
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The Breaking Point
"The appeal of romance and the clash of highly-charged emotions." --New York Herald-TribuneIn this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier...
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Black Margins
Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Sambrala in Punjab's Ludhiana District. In a writing career spanning over two decades he produced twenty-two collections of...
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Volt
A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voiceOne man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer...
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The Best American Short Stories 2004
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between...
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Normal People Don't Live Like This
At the center of this startling fiction debut is Leah Levinson, a teen at sea in the anonymous ordeals of a middle-class upbringing on the Upper West Side in the 1970s. In ten installments, written from varying perspectives, we witness her uneasy...
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The Complete Short Stories
Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary...
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Great Short Stories Of Detection, Mystery And Horror
"But the detective story proper and the pure tales of horror are very ancient in origin. All native folk-lore has its ghost tales, while the first four detective-stories in this book hail respectively from the Jewish Apocrypha, Herodotus, and the...
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Antiquities and Tangibles and Other Stories
The third collection by Hugo Award-winning author Tim Pratt -- whose previous collection Hart & Boot and Other Stories was a World Fantasy Award finalist -- gathers 23 of his best recent works of SF and Fantasy. Stories include Theodore Sturgeon...
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Goldie (story #5 from Fairy Tale Flirts!)
"Goldie" a modern take on Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. A short story of 12,000 words.Goldie Lockston isn’t exactly homeless; she’s just a struggling artist who crashes with friends. When her pal asks her to take over vacation...
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Pleased to Meet You
These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively readable stories that plumb the complexities of the human...
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Storm Warning
Storm Warning is the latest collection from award-winning writer Vanessa Gebbie, described as 'prodigiously gifted' by novelist Maggie Gee. It explores the echoes of human conflict in a series of powerful stories inspired by life with the author's...
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Dalda Duran Kuşlar
The late Jean Rhys remains my favourite writer ever and this selection of her work shines as only her words can. There was no one like her before, nor has there been anyone since. Her wry, brutally honest, self-deprecating voice is so beautifully...
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Never Never Stories
Spaceships which pass through the sky like endless clouds. A woman whose skin reveals the names of sailors fated to die at sea. A virus which causes people who touch each other to turn into crystalline trees. From Nebula Award nominated author Jason...
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A Talisman in the Darkness
"This is a gem of a collection of Olga Orozco stories, beautifully rendered into English. This wise selection of stories reveals Orozco's lyrical, as well as mysterious, prose. The translators provide an excellent introduction to Orozco's haunting...
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Wir sind Utopia.
În faţa lui Dumnezeu nu există nici măcar o diversificare a religiilor - diversificare de care noi, oamenii, avem, după cum se pare, nevoie din multiple motive. Un singur lucru este incontestabil: Dumnezeu este iubirea, iar...
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Wenn du geredet hättest, Desdemona
I often find it extremly difficult to review a favourite book (I tend to find it a trifle hard to be critical when reviewing favourites, but I often find it even more of a challenge to write an enthusiastic review, as it sometimes feels as though my...
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Summer Gothic
Welcome to Summer Gothic: twenty-two summertime ghost stories from a variety of talented Alabama authors, including Suzanne Johnson, Margaret Fenton, Larry Williamson, Jessica Penot, and many more!For a storyteller, ghosts are a gold mine....
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Once Upon a Time
Ten of the top writers of fantasy present their views of the ways and byways of fairyland:ISAAC ASIMOV -- A most unusual knight meets an even more unusual dragon.TERRY BROOKS -- A boy and an elf discover courage conquers more than...
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Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful...
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Fantastic Women
Fantastic Women comprises eighteen stories by some of the most exciting contemporary women writers in the United States. The daughters of Franz Kafka and Mary Shelley, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter, these inventive, insightful...
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The Teacher's Tales of Terror
Having read and enjoyed Chris Priestley's full-length ghost story The Dead of Winter, I was inspired to look into his other...
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Losing it
A collection of fiction short stories by leading teen writers about losing your virginityIncluding Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, and Mary Hooper, some of today's...
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The Complete Butcher's Tales
In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in...
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Ignite (The Core, #1)
The Core - the new series of short, erotic stories by Nola Sarina & Emily Faith - is secretly more than a rave-style nightclub. Everyone's there to connect... In every way they want. But you can't get in without an invite....
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Finding a Girl in America
Finding a Girl in America: A Novella and Ten Short Stories Subtle and haunting, Dubus concentrates his Chekhovian - and utterly American - attention on the residual anguish and momentary elation's of deep attachments. Nothing in current...
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Granta 43
A collection of short pieces by (mostly) prominent British authors (circa 1993).Editors included Salman Rushdie and A.S. Byatt.However, the problem with this concept is that great novelists don't tend to be great short-story writers. Many of...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Laine (librarianscanreadtoo.blogspot.com) Review:Meet Walter Mitty.He's a Husband.He's a Captain of a Navy shipHe's a toughest man on the trialHe's the man who can a woman from distress and is a hero to all...
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Read All about It!
A treasury of fifty sensational read-aloud pieces for young adults.From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to Maniac Magee, sci-fi to op-ed, “Casey at the Bat” to a moving true story about...
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The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer
This collection of thirty-three stories written over four decades is frustratingly uneven. The writing is almost always absent-minded, difficult to follow, especially on the longer stories. Thematically, it's all very interesting, the problem is how...
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Selected Short Stories
The fifty stories that Balzac wrote during his working life display all the qualities of his novels, and many of them feature the charaters that throng theComedie Humaine. Nevertheless, while they do offer an interesting counterpoint to...
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Love Is Power, or Something Like That
Vivid, powerful stories of contemporary Nigeria, from a talented young author* One of the Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2013 *When it comes to love, things are not always what they seem. In...
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Estórias Abensonhadas
Depois de Terra Sonâmbula estas estórias fazem regressar o imaginário moçambicano pela mão de Mia Couto. Se o romance deste autor moçambicano nos transportou para o universo trágico da guerra, estas breves...
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Blueprints for Building Better Girls
Elissa Schappell's Use Me introduced us to a writer of extraordinary talent, whose "sharp, beautiful, and off-kilter debut" (Jennifer Egan) garnered critical acclaim and captivated readers. In Blueprints for Building Better Girls,...
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I Am Holding Your Hand
“I want to compare the experience of reading these stories to looking at art; you see a glimpse of the artist’s world, and add your personal experiences to come away with an impression of the work as a whole.” – Ann Kingman,
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Eleven
From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters, each driven by strange unspoken urges, whose cumulative effect is at least as unsettling as any of Highsmith's previous novels.Contains:-The...
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The Matter Is Life
J. California Cooper first found acclaim as a playwright. The author of seventeen plays, she was named Black Playwright of the Year in 1978. It was through her work in the theater that she caught the attention of acclaimed poet and novelist Alice...
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Eleven Short Stories
I knew very little about Luigi Pirandello prior to reading Undici Novelle, other than my girlfriend's assertion that if I wanted to read a great Italian writer I should start with either him or Italo Svevo. When I went looking for something...
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Leaning, Leaning Over Water
I loved both Deafening and Remembering the Bones. This is an earlier work by Itani and I thought it was a collection of short stories but was pleased to discover that it is in fact a novel told in short story format. I can say that this author has...
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The Consolation of Nature and Other Stories
Death, unnatural creatures, household pets and the conflicts of the natural world with the rules of society are elements in this striking collection of 10 stories by the author of A Recent Martyr, Alexandra and Set in Motion. Martin's characters are...
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The Virago Book of Ghost Stories
Gathering together deliciously chilling tales from the three highly-acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories, this collection features stories by A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Charlotte Brontë, Antonia Fraser,...
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Guadalajara
#x201c;A gifted writer.#x201d;#x2014;New York Timesbr/br/All the heroes of this story collection#x2014;the boy who refuses to follow the family tradition of having his ring finger cut off; the man who cannot escape his house, no matter what he...
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In Strange Gardens and Other Stories
With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life.They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees. They live in New York City or somewhere in Switzerland, they work in...
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Granta 111
We're all seduced by the idea of going back. But can we ever trust our memories? We return (or attempt to return) to places, friends, lovers, missed opportunities, and versions of ourselves that no longer exist. Or we're haunted and shaped by the...
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The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology
To celebrate Mysterious Press's 25th anniversary, its editors invited its most sleuthful authors to compose stories that incorporate an anniversary into the story. The contributors, who include Ed McBain, Peter Lovesey, Jerome Charyn, Donald E....
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Das große Wilhelm Busch Hausbuch
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts.After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf,...
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If Ever
I have a few mixed feelings for this free story. The writing was good. The concept was good, but the execution… was lacking. After Lacey lost sixty pounds she feels like she is born again. She becomes more comfortable in her skin and wants...
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One Final Night
I read this story so many months ago and had not gotten around to reviewing it. I just finished reading it for the second time so my thoughts of this poignant story would be fresh. I feel I can write a book on my impressions but will reserve those...
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The Bound Man, And Other Stories
Then they must have laid him down carefully, just as a mother lays her baby behind a bush when she goes to work in the fields. - The Bound ManThe sun's glare intimidates this man back to sleep's already went. The flies vulturing you...
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Tales from Djakarta
Tales from Djakarta is a collection of thirteen short stories written between 1948 and 1956 - a period of bitter transition from the revolutionary era to the beginnings of military rule in Indonesia. These stories not only give us a taste of...
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Modern Classics Flappers and Philosophers
I loooo-oooove Fitzgerald. It's fair to say that this collection would look somewhat like a bell curve - his best short stories, including my favourite, "Winter Dreams", are somewhere amidst the starter-panic and the flat, weariness Fitzgerald wore...
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The Catbird Seat
Short story first published in The New Yorker, Nov. 14, 1942.Mr. Martin, a man of exemplary habits, planned to murder Mrs. Barrows, the special adviser to the president of his firm. The woman had disrupted the system; caused people to be...
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Turtleface and Beyond
Darkly funny stories by the man David Sedaris calls “the most outlandish and energetic writer I can think of” Paddling down a remote, meandering river, Georgie’s friend Otto decides to do something both spectacular and...
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سه قطره خون
دوبار کتاب رو خوندم.بار سوم هم زیر و روش...
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Varieties of Disturbance
Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short...
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Pretty Monsters
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing, and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple...
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Ojos de perro azul
Estos relatos tempranos de Gabriel García Márquez fueron escritos y publicados entre 1947 y 1955, aunque, como libro, Ojos de perro azul no aparecería hasta 1974 cuando el escritor ya había publicado otros dos libros de relatos y...
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The Heir; A Love Story
As his elderly relative lay dying, insurance salesman Mr. Chase stands in the wings, waiting to inherit the manor of the soon to be deceased. Yet once in possession, Chase deems the home entirely impractical and a burden whose only useful purpose is...
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The Collected Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions
Oliver Onions was born in Bradford in 1873. Although he legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, he always published under the name Oliver Onions. Onions originally worked as a commercial artist before turning to writing, and the dust...
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First Flight
First published stories by SF masters including: including: ''The Isolinguals'' by L. Sprague de Camp; ''The Faithful' by Lester del Rey; ''Black Destroyer'' by A. E. van Vogt; ''Life-Line'' by Robert A. Heinlein; ''Ether-Breather'' by Theodore...
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أرني الله
موزع البريد!إذا كان البريد هو الحظ،...
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Benji
Now that his father was gone, and Benji was the only remaining male in the family, and having been bequeathed such an expansive estate, he’d do well to find himself a good woman, to marry her and take advantage of the family wealth, Mrs. Anyaogu...
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Contagion and Other Stories
Mapping a literary space uniquely his own, Evenson's CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES pursues to a new level the crepescular and delirious exploration begun in his acclaimed and controversial ALTMANN'S TONGUE. In the O'Henry Award winning "Two...
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New Order
A choice selection of stylishly wild and wicked GLBT stories, from Jess C Scott's bestseller 4:PLAY.SUMMARY: The following stories include: a suave concert pianist...a bisexual succubus...two young ladies reliving and exploring their school...
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Five-Minute Mysteries
Thirty-seven cases of murder and mayhem you can solve in under five minutes!
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Down to a Sunless Sea
"Down to a Sunless Sea" plunges the reader into uncomfortable situations and into the minds of troubled characters. Each selection is a different reading experience-poetic, journalistic, nostalgic, wryly humorous, and even macabre. An award-winning...
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Bloodlust & Redemption
WARNING: THIS BOOK IS AN EROTIC ROMANCE! YOU MUST BE OVER 18 TO READ!Blurb:Conflicted by his ideas of fate and morality, David Ardington IV, who had been a rake in life, sees his eternal life as a vampire as a penance for shirking his...
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Flash Fiction for the Cocktail Hour
It is hard to write good flash fiction. The space constraints prohibit any kind of real plot or character development. That being said, Flash Fiction for the Cocktail Hour does it fairly well. This is a short collection of roughly a dozen stories...
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Selected Shorts
Four stories written by the great American fiction writer Edith Wharton and read by terrific actors, including Maria Tucci and Kathleen Chalfant, make up this two-CD set, recorded live at The Mount, Wharton's house and gardens which she designed and...
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly zine of eclectic fiction, poetry, comics, etc. No. 23 features stories from Kirsten Allio, Nick Wolven, Angela Slatter, Mark Rich, Jodi Lynn Villers, and others. Ted Chiang contributes an...
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Pee on Water
As well as the excellent review in ‘The Short Review’ the charming cover looked Beatle-ish (from the Magical Mystery tour era; although it is in fact the author’s own work/design and based on Caravaggio’s ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas’) and there...
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The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman
Sewn hardback, printed and bound by Antony Rowe. Jacket by Steven Stapleton.Co-produced with Durtro. 500 copies printed.(Out of print).Contents: -a quote from Stenbock-Robert Aickman: An Appreciation, by David Tibet-An...
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زنی كه مردش را گم كرد
صبح زود در ايستگاه قلهك آژان قد كوتاه صورت...
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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories
Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables (1908). In 1893, following the...
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By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain
Little Gail London and her friend Joel Quarrel are out on a cold and lonely morning at the end of summer, when they make the find of the century: a dead plesiosaur, the size of a two-ton truck, washed up on the sand. With the fog swirling about...
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Would you remember Me
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents and teenagers. In this short story, the writer is fifteen years old, contemplating suicide. In her darkest hour she writes a letter. "I am so unimaginably sorry for doing...
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The Brandon Book of Irish Short Stories
Contents:Twenty-nine Palms by Mary O'DonnellA Drive by Philip MacCannThe Lip by Roddy DoyleSigns by Ursula de BrunThe Girl in the Yellow Dress by Patrick QuigleyTo Prevent Rust, Weeping and Bleeding by Sara...
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How Shall I Know You?
"She looked up and smiled. She had a face of feral sweetness, its color yellow; her eyes were long and dark, her mouth a taut bow, her nostrils upturned as if she were scenting the wind."In "How Shall I Know You?," a melancholic and ailing...
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Strange Things in Close-up
Omnibus containing contents of the collections *Howard Who?* (1980) and *All about Strange Monsters of the Recent Past* (1987).Contents:The Ugly Chickens (1980)Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen (1976)Ike at the Mike...
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Herfra blir du bare eldre
En samling kortere og lengre tekster om mennesker som har mistet evnen til å kommunisere, som er i ferd med å forsvinne for seg selv og verden rundt dem.Et gammelt polaroidfoto. En videotape inneholdende drapet på John F....
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Graham
This was one was the type of short story that I think would have benefitted from a slightly longer format. The idea behind it is cool (alien lord grows up on Earth with no knowledge of his people and gives up his crappy life to travel to his home...
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Ballet Stories
Had this when I was quite young, chanced upon a copy when on holiday and bought it quite impulsively for a reread - this is still a pretty good anthology, with sublime selections nestled amongst the more mundane (which are in themselves a kind of...
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Paris Stories
Magnificent. I read this collection of short stories over the course of several months in the manner suggested by the author herself: "Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after the another, as if they were meant to follow...
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A Knowing Look and Other Stories
When I first started to read, I used to avoid reading short stories because I used to feel that the ending came a bit too soon. It is only in the recent times that I have started to appreciate how difficult it must be for an author to tell a story...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010
An eclectic volume introduced by David Sedaris and compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, who don’t leave a stone unturned in their search for nonrequired gems. Cover art by art by Maurice Sendak.
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A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
Personalmente non amo molto i racconti, mi infastidisce il passare da una storia ad un'altra, da un numero di personaggi ad un altro senza adeguato approfondimento – in realtà, il mio ideale di libro sarebbero i tomi intorno alle 800-1000...
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a...
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Liars in Love
The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love...
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The Laughing Man
Main idea: a person living in this world, compares it to the fictional world, experiencing all of the events as a "two worlds", evaluating and reviewing all the emotions, actions and deeds again.What a story: the narrator recounts the events of...
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Shelby's Journal (Fallen Shorts, #3.1)
what i wanna know, is when shelby got all incense and bad vibes and stuff. in all the other shorts shes just a kid with a bad past. and suddenly, and in the book too, shes all like my sage leaves FINALLY came. like wtf is that about?also i...
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The Big Trip up Yonder/2BR02B
Kurt Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government.The Big Trip Up Yonder is the story of...
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A Season Of Ghosts
It is said that if the smell of the Himalayas creeps into a man's blood, he will return to the hills again and again, and will strive to live amongst them always. Ruskin Bond, master storyteller and connoisseur of the mysterious and macabre, shows...
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A Day in the Life
This collection of stories from the now octogenarian author deals with the quotidian of aging. In these pieces, the protagonists are bumbling worriers, often on the way to speak to their GPs, or finding themselves baffled by ticket machines, trains,...
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The Etruscan Vase and Other Stories
A unique edition for fans of the supernatural, combining one of Mérimée’s most celebrated stories with some lesser-known piecesWhen the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the...
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The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing
Written between 1957 and 1966, these short stories are remarkably different from what one might expect from William Maxwell. Maxwell's novels, often focusing on the emotional lives of young men, are highly realistic, internal investigations wherein...
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Circus Bulgaria
A boxer-turned-hitman faces an impossible mission to kill his brother; an old lady sets up a gang of her own teenage vigilantes after being mugged; a retired geography teacher dreams of places he's never been; a clown on the make talks an...
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Seducing Sunshine
Life is hard when you're a boy named Sunshine.His roommate, Trevor, has stolen his underwear, forcing him to wear the PRINCESS panties left in their stead. Trevor is always doing things like this, torturing poor Sunshine for no apparent...
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Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
Sewn hardback printed and bound by Antony Rowe in yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper,with yellow and black head and tailband and yellow silk ribbon marker. 350 numbered copies. Out of print. Contents: A Christmas Story/ Capra/...
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23
Some very intriguing, interesting, entertaining and question-posing stories populate this anthology, although I did find a few to be lacking. It is my belief, even though I enjoy fantasy writing quite immensely, that the stories in the "Writers of...
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The Good Life
Erin McGraw's fiction has been hailed as "graceful . . . gratifyingly substantial" (New York Times Book Review) and "brilliant... [she's] a writer to watch" (Los Angeles Times). Wry but poignant, her new collection brims with priceless insights and...
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Addicted 2 U
Penulis-penulis beken dari jadul sampai sekarang ngumpul lagi nih. Cerita-ceritanya? Pokoknya kamu banget deh! Kisah seru cowok nguber-nguber cewek, dari jaman dengkul masih kelihatan, sampai kuliah. Kisah seru cowok dan cewek blind date, dapet...
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Best Women's Erotica 2002
"Best Women's Erotica 2002" brings together 25 of the most talented authors in the genre today--writers whose works have appeared in publications such as "Playgirl, Penthouse Variations, Playboy, Libido, " and "Herotica."
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Reapers, Inc.
Being a Grim Reaper isn't the job Hadley Burns thought it would be. It's actually more fun and less gruesome. Hell, it's a job that has its benefits.He was minding his own business when death's messenger entered his life and offered him a...
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New Orleans Sketches
In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry ("The Marble Faun"), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the...
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