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Lyrical Musings from Irish Writers
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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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Twelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan. For the twelve narrators of Susan Minot's breathtaking collection - artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings - love in New York doesn't come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile their yearnings for romance with their needs for independence, they face resistance to emotional commitment at every turn. In intense snapshots of these women's most intimate...
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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...
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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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A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the world of Japanese literature.
Composed of the title novella and three short stories, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice sensitively explores gender, friendship, romance, love, human interaction and its absence, and how a misogynistic society limits women and men.
In the title story, Nanamori and Mugito, two university students appalled by...
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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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Tales of R.L. Culkin Vol. 1 is a group of short stories from the mind of R.L. Culkin that take the fantasies of space, death, love, fear, and the unknown and showcase them in fast-paced stories that keep you engaged and interested. Tales of R.L. Culkin. Vol. 1 is also a quick read for most and a joy not to be put down until ended. With original characters and stories please enjoy tales of R.L. Culkin Vol. 1 and read something new.
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When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from Mississippi as a uniquely original literary voice and a great American author. In her now-famous introduction to the collection, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that "there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that, splendid beginning that it is, it is only a beginning." In this collection are many of the...
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El libro está integrado por una colección de diez relatos individuales que tienen un nexo en común a todos ellos; la lluvia. La utilización de un fenómeno físico como elemento vertebrador es algo muy original y que se convierte en un personaje más junto a los propios protagonistas de los relatos. Estos hablan de personas normales en situaciones extraordinarias y como, en algunos casos, esas personas normales acaban por convertirse en personas...
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Silas Belle's wife is critically ill and awaiting a donor heart in the intensive care unit, but finding one may take too much time. A week before Christmas, Silas develops a haphazard plan for locating and retrieving a heart. But his plans turn south as he is forced to ponder essential facts about organ donors he had not previously considered.
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Excerpt: "NOT a bit like Christmas. Everybody said so to everybody else, and surely, what all agree about must be strictly true. The farmers' wives said it to each other, as they jogged to market with well-filled baskets, containing all sorts of home-fed Christmas cheer. The butcher said it to each customer in turn, as he lightly passed his keen-edged knife outside the yellow rind of his prime Christmas beef, to suggest where the actual incision should...
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Five Ordinary Men is a collection of five stories, each focusing on a different man, though the reader may think the book title is a misnomer and question whether some or all of the men are 'ordinary' at all. One man inexplicably commits a terrible crime, and relates aspects of his life trying to explain his actions both to himself and others. Another's memories of his close friend are reawakened when shown six varied photographs of their shared lives....
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Time to Choose is a collection of short stories of mystery and the supernatural. Tragedy, murder, betrayal, and revenge all haunt the pages within; a witch who uses her powers to rid herself of nuisance neighbours, a demon who terrorises a town in a race against time, a deathbed visit from the Devil himself, vengeful ghosts seeking payback from beyond the grave and the tragic ghost of an unloved, unwanted child seeking a playmate for eternity.
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14) 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...
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Having very little memory very few memories of my childhood in Iran… and less and less as time goes by… I chose to pay tribute to the Iranians… my own way… at last I have a bridge back to Iran again…Iran is often confused with a country with ill-famed people… little do people know how wrong they can be in assuming so… and those (usually self-proclaimed) specialist of Iran and Iranian life and culture are not specialist at all…Iran...
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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...
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Kang Kyeong-ae (1906-1944), one of Korea's great modern authors, wrote her stories during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Kang's work is remarkable for its rejection of colonialism, patriarchy, and ethnic nationalism during a period when such views were truly radical and dangerous. With an expert commentary by Sang-kyung Lee and beautifully translated by Anton Hur, this collection of Kang's work displays her sensitivity, defiance, class-consciousness,...
18) Confrontations
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Fred and I enjoyed wrestling around on the playground. We tried not to hurt each other, and both of us knew that. "Oh no. Here comes the teacher.""Here we go. To the office again. I don't mind. I had fun wrestling with you, Fred.""Yeah, me too. My mom and dad will not like this. I just hope the paddle does not have any holes in it."The paddle did not contain any holes. However, the next time, and every time after that, there were holes in the paddle....
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Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, and family defines identity, these are stories of men and women caught between their own needs and the demands of their society and culture. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute. Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction.
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