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The nine stories in this collection are told by and about teenagers, mid-lifers, and elders. They are about settled lives and drastically disordered ones, working people, dying people. They are about people you have never met and others you see every day; sometimes, they are people you know very well, people you work and live with. You may find they are about you. Like all of us, the characters are finding their way forward in the face of loss. They...
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Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits-a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems...
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About the Book Brenda's mother grew up extremely poor but blessed with a loving father and nurturing home environment. Even though the relationship between Brenda's mother and her mother was rather strained, Brenda's mother describes the first eleven years of her life as that of a content child until the sudden passing of her father, which left this twelve-year-old devastated and quite traumatized. Two years after her father's death, this same little...
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All Over the Road is a fun collection of short stories-some with a dark twist. In "James J. Burton's Wizard of Oz," Horace Richardson is enjoying his retirement when out of the blue a ghost from his past comes to confront him-and he wants answers. Things online are easy until you meet the human behind the pain. The "Human" will show you the darkest parts of humanity. And, in "A Most Unusual Stickup," what kind of man is able to convince would-be robbers...
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El perro de aguas español, considerada la más inteligente de las razas caninas, ha hecho acto de presencia como protagonista o compañero de andaduras en relatos literarios.
Reconocidos escritores de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX han incorporado a su obra personajes caninos de esta estupenda y actualmente poco conocida raza de origen español; entre ellos, Félix Lope de Vega Carpio, José Estremera y Cuenca, Manuel Moré, Santiago...
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About the Book Enter the world of David J. Sherman, a home improvement center employee who's had his share of challenging customers. His outlook on life is always positive and humorous, which is why he's able to take customer difficulties, insults, and discourtesy and turn them into a series of laugh-out-loud stories that are sure to change the way you think about top-notch customer service! About the Author David J. Sherman is a lover of rock music,...
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About the Book Short Stories for Busy Boomers is not going to solve the world's problems. It may, however make you forget them for a minute or two while reading. Maybe even make you laugh. The stories are about Boomers for Boomers and are only a couple of pages each. The author has planned it that way, so you can go back to being busy. About the Author Brian Dickens Barrabee is the author of Confessions of a Real Estate Man, Confessions of an American...
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Dedicated with affection to all those (and there are many) who have given their love to someone and had to contend with their illness, even though they knew that they have no chance of winning; and to those who had to coexist with a love like this. "Over twenty years ago a girl I loved like myself asked me to leave her forever because of her poor health, and not to contact her again. I agreed, with death in my heart, and intending it only as an act...
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¿Qué es la fantasía y qué la realidad?
Son opuestos que a simple vista no hay que analizar mucho. La realidad es todo aquello que nos rodea y podemos comprobar que existe, ya sea mediante los sentidos o investigaciones. Mientras que la fantasía es todo lo contrario, algo que no nos rodea y no podemos comprobar su existencia.
10) This Is My Dog
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The first time I saw her eyes, I knew my home was going to be with her for the rest of my life.
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Women's lives are at the center of this stunning collection of short stories by the writer The New Yorker says "provides unexpected delights....Questions and answers alike shine with intelligence and an almost ninteenth-century concern for ideals."
Though Sara Maitland's interests are as varied as the people who inhabit her stories, there is a common theme to this work that extols risk taking over safety. Acrobats, women warriors, a girl who wants...
12) Humanista
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La autora vuelve a poner su mirada sobre Medellín en este nuevo libro de cuentos.
Esta vez, las diez historias aquí reunidas exploran las sombras de la cotidianidad en la que se mueven unos personajes que tienden a la ambivalencia y al desequilibrio. Entre la tragedia y la comedia, se compone así un mosaico de precariedad, nostalgia y violencia.
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From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors....
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Paul Allen, totally paralysed after a devastating stroke, decided to use his remarkable mind to take his readers on a journey into a variety of thrilling and unforgettable situations. This book 'Still Reaching For The Stars' is a series of short stories drawn from Paul's fascinating life and fertile imagination. Each story is loosely based on incidents in Paul's life, frequently amplified by his imagination. Paul's first book, 'A Star In His Own Imagination',...
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Accidentally into the interstellar age, Lin Kexin thriller found that the world has no fairy! Combat division, auxiliary ability division is the mainstream
Accidentally into the interstellar age, Lin Kexin thriller found that the world has no fairy! Combat division, auxiliary ability division is the mainstream
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In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience.
Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice-wondrous, despairing, moving-examining passionate subjects that...
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Recogemos aquí las geniales narraciones de Bécquer que no se consideran "leyendas", de muy diversa temática, como son: La venta de los gatos, ambientada en Sevilla, sobre un pintor que va a una taberna del barrio de San Jerónimo donde se bebía, se cantaba y se bailaba. Tres fechas, cuya narración transcurre en su vivida ciudad de Toledo,¡Es raro!, cuando el encanto se rompe en Madrid, El aderezo de esmeraldas, con aires autobiográficos donde...
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The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement.
There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the Irishwoman who journeys through America in search of silence and solitude. But what is found in these stories, and discovered by these characters, is the astonishing...
19) 11 palabras
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¿Cómo se afronta una enfermedad desde la literatura? Desde una amalgama de estilos y temas, 11 palabras desencadenan una profunda reflexión que da forma a cuentos, narrativas y textos con aire poético, que Julia Wong Kcomt teje con la versatilidad que caracteriza su obra.
La segunda parte del libro es una respuesta a estas palabras una exploración inspirada en "Las metamorfosis" de Ovidio. Aquí, Julia compone ficciones, reflexiones y otros textos...
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About the Book Reginae has been in a relationship with Jeff for two years. Everything was going well until a tragedy struck that took a huge toll on their relationship. After this loss, things between the couple have been rocky as Jeff refuses to step up though he continually promises he will. After Reginae runs into an old friend, Jeff is confronted with the mistakes of his past and has to decide how best to handle it. Jeff tried so hard to protect...
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