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Unfaithful Together is a series of connected, steamy, romance, short stories following one couple, as they pursue their sexual desires together. They are intended to be read in order. Olivia Van der Mol is conservative, and sweet. The kind of woman to take home to meet the family. Jake Johnson is thoughtful, and kind, but with a sexually adventurous side. A chance encounter leads Olivia to believe they were destined to be together. As they grow, Jake...
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Welcome to Creelyville: Slick Rick was on the run. Police were on the hunt for him after a failed robbery attempt. After racing through Pidgeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he needed to get off the main road and followed an old, half-hidden road that led, to his surprise, to a town like nothing he had ever seen before. He might just wish that he hadn't seen this one.
The Failure: Carl Watkins was always a wannabe who never was. A...
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This is a story about two ways of thinking that tie us down, and prevent us from living the lives we desire. However, we all also have been inspired to let go by someone else who has walked the path before us, leading the way to freedom. In this story, our Handsome Bull Frog is tied down by who he has always been and the admiration that it gains him from others. Through the example of his new friend, The Midnight Leaper, he learns how to let go and...
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Mit Hilfe eines experimentellen Ansatzes werden in diesem siebenten und letzten Band der Buchreihe verschiedene Variationen eines Fortbewegungsthemas im Hinblick auf Primzahlen teilweise synthetisch entwickelt. Der Hauptakteur der Erzählungen wird hierbei insbesondere anhand seiner Fortbewegungsarten charakterisiert. Es handelt sich bei dem Hauptakteur um Kriminalhauptkommissar Paul Sommerwind, der in fast existenzialistischer Art unbeirrt einem...
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First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...
6) La clave
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Clave. Emilia Pardo Bazán
Fragmento de la obra
El famoso compositor y profesor de canto y música Alejandro Redlitz se entretenía en leer sin instrumento una de las últimas páginas de su amigo Ricardo Wagner, a tiempo que el criado le anunció que estaban allí una señora y una señorita muy linda, las dos pobremente vestidas, que pedían audiencia, insistiendo en conseguirla sin tardanza.
Atusóse Redlitz las lacias greñas amarillas con...
7) Avalanche
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"Things used to be easier, but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all agree. So we can all have the same standard applied across the board. So there is no special treatment, which no one should receive. This is why we need the rules."
The stories in Avalanche combine humour with an earnest examination and indictment of white entitlement, guilt, shame, and disorientation in the wake of...
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Immerse yourself in the sinister imagination of author Joan De La Haye as she unleashes a captivating collection of 13 dark and twisted tales in her second collection. Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride of suspense as each story explores the depths of human nature and the supernatural. Uncover the harrowing tale of a hunter turned hunted, where the line between predator and prey becomes blurred. Witness a diabolical wedding as the Devil himself...
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"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll...
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A workaholic splits his time between home and hotel rooms until an anonymous cryptic message arrives, setting off a wrinkle in the time continuum and slowly shredding his sanity. Elsewhere, a woman's jealousy over her spouse's connection with their only child boils over, leading her to see monsters everywhere except the mirror. University fraternity brothers discover that a cruel prank has dire consequences but the full extent of their punishment...
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David Brelsford is a shameless dog lover as is evident in many of his short stories. He is currently the joint owner (with his wife) of a gentle springer spaniel but has fantasies of one day owning a Bernese mountain dog. He has undertaken charity runs to raise funds for motor neurone disease, but at 81 his running days are over. He now contents himself with being a mad keen square dancer. He has three sons and four lovely grandchildren. He also loves...
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"Empty Jars" is an artfully constructed collection of short stories that explores the vast landscape of human emotion and experience. This book navigates through joy, tragedy, hope, and a blend of the strange and terrifying, embodying an eloquent synthesis of science fiction, supernatural horror, and tales of love and grief. Each story is a unique vessel, inviting readers into a diverse world of imagination and profound insight.
The book offers...
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The tall tale!
The exaggerated, often allegorical and definitely adventurous form of storytelling that has been around since the time of ancient Greece in the west and the Shang dynasty in the east. Classic writers such as: Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Roald Dahl have all dabbled with the entertaining classic tale. And many contemporary writers such as: Stephen King, Michael Faber, and H.P. Lovecraft have taken the genre a step further with their...
15) Miedos
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¿Aún crees en monstruos bajo la cama? ¿Te aterroriza la oscuridad? ¿Hasta dónde estarías dispuesto a llegar para no caer en el olvido? ¿Qué harías si te hubiese tocado crecer en la Ruanda de 1994? ¿Y si la desidia se hubiese apoderado de tu vida? ¿Tienes miedo a estar solo? ¿O a sentirte solo?
Miedos no es un libro de terror. Estos veintisiete relatos no pretenden que nos escondamos asustados bajo la almohada, sino más bien que nos enfrentemos...
16) Barnacle Love
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"Immense emotional and truthful power."- Colm Tóibín, author of Nora Webster
Anthony De Sa makes his fiction debut with this stunning collection of interlinked stories that explore the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience. Hailed as "tender and raw, morbid and surprisingly gentle" by the Vancouver Sun, Barnacle Love was a finalist for Canada's highly prestigious Giller Prize.
Moving from a small Portuguese...
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These thirteen tales are populated by an assortment of fictional as well as real characters, all of them vividly sketched and true-to-life: the botanist Linnaeus, the composer Offenbach, the poet Hart Crane, the visionary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, a southern sheriff, a dealer in rare books, a country singer, an old maid (and her suitor), and a mathematician. Whether these stories are deemed disquieting, comic, prophetic, or tall in the telling,...
18) El conjuro
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Escritora y periodista española, Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851- 1921), es considerada como una de las novelistas clave en el realismo y el naturalismo español del siglo XIX y principios del XX. No solo fue un referente literario, sino que su defensa de los derechos de la mujer la convirtió en una de las primeras feministas españolas.
Fue la lectura de Emile Zola uno de los impulsos decisivos para que Pardo Bazán desarrollase una fecundísima carrera...
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Amores patológicos fue el primer libro de Nuria Barrios, que ahora ha vuelto a intervenir en él para celebrar los veinticinco años de su publicación. Su escritura suscitó en su momento tantos elogios como reacciones escandalizadas ante aquel mundo apasionado y excesivo, atento a la exploración del cuerpo como lenguaje del eros. Es asombroso comprobar cómo el poder perturbador de las voces de las mujeres cuando hablan de su deseo sigue hoy intacto....
20) About Face
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About Face is an illustrated children's book about a dream in which ears, eyes, nose and mouth become detached from the narrator's face, taking on lives of their own.
The facial characters, free from all restrictions, delve into mischief including party music, trying to bake a pie without burning down the kitchen, eating and even dancing!
About Face is a hilarious children's story illustrated with remarkable 3D effects and fantasic visual innovation...
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