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1) The Backseat
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If you consider that history is merely a collection of stories then you could imagine the tales a 50 year old car could tell.This book follows the journey of a 1959 Chevrolet from status symbol to scrap metal.An existence that started with the unremarkable creation in a Michigan factory and continued from family car to antique clunker to finding salvation in the form an accidental rebirth on the other side of the world.Through this collection of short...
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Edward O'Dwyer offers us irreverent and daring meditations on love and transformation in this masterful collection of short stories. His characters playfully inhabit the space between reality and the absurd ... O'Dwyer's sparkling gift of prose shines so brightly here. An audacious, tender, and utterly original collection. – Gillian O'Shaughnessy
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Join us on an epic journey to India! K.V. Dominic, one of India's leading contemporary English poets, takes us on a trip to India in this constellation of short stories. His love for his native country is exposed through stories that cover a range of humanistic concerns, including women's empowerment, the natural environment, government and corruption, the education system, crime, the power of compassion and the question of how much influence we have...
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L'humain, quel qu'il soit, évolue dans un monde sans pitié, o tous les coups sont permis. Il se trouve de ce fait confronté à des choix, imposés ou assumés. Puis, la vie lui enseigne que toute décision peut radicalement changer le cours de son destin. Avec beaucoup de sagesse et d'humour, Melchior Mbonimpa met en scène des personnages, expatriés pour la plupart, qui se sont laissé conduire et éconduire par la vie. En lisant Les zigzags...
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In 2009, people were introduced to stories of hit men, specters, crooks, playful spirits and empowered heroes. Now, a new batch of stories have come alive.Come to a place where mice gain the ability to speak, where super humans work middle class jobs, where a mythical man grants chances to feeble victims and where science has created murder rooms or genetically mutated monsters. Discover worm holes, the supernatural and a bit of lunacy. Encounter...
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In this eclectic compilation of short stories, Pat draws on his own life experiences, on anecdotal narratives and on events both past and contemporary. Some of the stories are based on actual historical events – ranging from the national to the international. Other stories are the fruits of childhood memories that made a significant impact on Pat's philosophical worldview. His stories encompass the factual and fictitious but all are conveyed with...
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Prepare for an incredible journey through this book's seven captivating short stories that dive into the complexities of human emotions. Inside, you'll encounter tales of love and loss, chance meetings with strangers, secrets hidden in a trunk, a real-life event, a poignant story of mixed emotions, and the haunting struggles of guilt and pain. Brace yourself for an immersive experience that will touch your heart and stay with you.
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I Dream of Kemet is a novel based on African magic realism from an African perspective. When Chawe leaves his dream job in Sweden to pursue his dreams as an artist in France, little does he know that his ambitions will lead him back to the African continent in search of and discovery of magic.
I Dream of Kemet is about the discovery of the hidden aspects of African culture which are often passed down from one generation to the next, through storytelling...
9) Sweet Faith
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Sweet Faith tells the story about Jane, a young woman raised among cousins who disliked her and by an abusive aunt she thought was her biological mother. She only learns the hard truth on her wedding day.Will she continue with the ceremony?Her aunt's emotional and physical abuse means Jane does not believe love exists. During her years at college, she had fallen in love with a man who had simply cemented those feelings as she became his sex object....
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This omnibus chronicles the search of my voice as an author. Storytellers never simply pop out of the ground fully-formed. Just as a tree needs a solid base to grow from, exploring roots in search for nutrition in all directions, so does a writer.The book is composed of four parts:The Reflection Collection (The Elemental Series + The Jane Pinkerton Chronicles)The Tales Untold CollectionThe Zoobadoo Zoo Short StoryThe Seasons Of Love Collection
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Hay momentos breves en la vida que nos definen para siempre. Esos que quedan impregnados en la memoria por su altísimo contenido emocional. Situaciones extremas, mágicas que nos sacan lágrimas sonriendo. Esas historias que solo las saben pocos pero que las entienden todos. Pequeñas piezas de un rompecabezas imposible, hecho a ciegas que construyen nuestra verdadera esencia.
13) Imprevisibles
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Español
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Los relatos que componen este libro son imprevisibles porque no buscan solo una sorpresa efecticta.Son imprevisibles porque hasta las conclusiones más lógicas son puestas en duda, son imprevisibles porque el autor consigue, incluso, sorprenderse a sí mismo. Son imprevisibles, en definitiva, porque también lo es la única vida que vale la pena ser vivida. Y el oficio y el oficio de Fernado Riera consiste en tomar la realidad más anodina y devolvernosla...
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Twenty seven strange and unsettling stories which take us from Budapest to the Grand Canyon by way of passionate affairs in Central European apartments, and a faded Hungarian film star trying to save children from being shot. Csilla Toldy fled from the Communist regime in Hungary in 1981 and now lives in Ireland where she is known as a poet and film maker. - "After reading this collection, nothing sits in quite the same place as before." (David Park,...
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The era of the Great Destruction came, more than 90% of the species on earth went extinct, but the surviving species began to evolve at a rapid pace, producing more powerful new species, this is a feast of life, but the end of the human race! Thunder beasts, magic flame horned lizards, colorful slugs, eight-eyed marching bees ...... In the face of the powerful and terrifying evolutionary creatures, when the traditional thermal weapons have lost their...
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Wang Wei, an ordinary-to-ordinary geek on Earth, suddenly found himself waking up in a wasteland, and subsequently had a strange hunter profession. Based on his experience in games and novels, he thought that he had traveled to the real world of Diablo, but then he found that he had not just traveled to this one world, because he found a door in his consciousness space, a door that could Once again, the door to other worlds - the Gate of Truth This...
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Chaos rattles our arrogance, shakes loose the dust, breaks rigor mortis. In chaos, you find out who you are-what matters, what you fear, what you love…Here is a collection of nine short stories about chaos in multiple genres: historical, speculative, stream-of-consciousness, poetic, literary, and more.Morty loves his job. Really loves it. Perhaps not so strange, except that he is an embalmer at a funeral home. What happens when someone loves their...
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