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  • America in the Year 2048 and Other Stories
    Shukdeb Sen
    The book America in the Year 2048 and Other Stories includes thirteen stories that range from the futuristic to the current. These stories are in terms of events that inhabit the mind, heart, and spirit of the average American. Thomas Jefferson ignited the flame of the democratic experiment in 1776 to establish a republic where all people are created equal. These people have th...
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    16,02 €

  • Tyranny of the Fey
    Terry Bartley
    A famed Elven researcher is worried about her home. When she discovers a new realm with massive magic potential, she believes she has found the answer. Will the Seasonal Fey Courts allow her to continue her research without interference, or do they have more nefarious plans?An Elven princess runs away from her arranged marriage to a parallel world. Will she be able to find the ...
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    17,71 €

  • Tall Tales of Mystic Ridge
    Shelly Gail Morris
    Mystic Ridge is a small town set deep in the mountains of Tennessee. The townsfolk go out of their way to embrace everyone with cookies, kittens, and a warm welcome. They enjoy nothing more than setting folks properly on their destined path.You’ll meet Violet and her invisible friend Everly, who lived on the open prairie in the 1800s. Although she’s just a ghost, she longs for ...
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    14,27 €

  • I Will, Through the Veil
    Johnny Townsend
    What gay man hasn’t fantasized about hot sex with those repressed Mormon missionaries in their white shirts and conservative ties? But there’s more to Mormon fantasy sex than curious young 'elders.' What about temple workers going at it in the baptismal font after hours? Group sex during a Court of Love?How about an ex-Mormon who throws a 'pity party' (or 'pity orgy') for men w...
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    15,62 €

  • Perspectives and metamorphoses
    Michael Fortescue
    The miniatures in the first part of this book all involve perspective. The perspective in all of them is in one way or another unusual: sometimes frame by frame, sometimes macroscopic, sometimes microscopic; sometimes it is the thing perceived that does the perceiving, and sometimes two or more perspectives are superimposed or blended. The metamorphoses of the second part are l...
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    23,73 €

  • Spinning-Wheel Stories
    Louisa May Alcott
    Unique ElementsAbout the Author / Historical ContextCommentaries / ReviewsA CHARMING Storybook for children by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT.Spinning-Wheel Stories by AMERICAN author LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is a book of short stories for children first published in 1884 in the UNITED STATES.'’Spinning-Wheel Stories,’ by [Miss Alcott], have all the old attraction of hearty good-fellowship with bo...
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    9,78 €

  • The Extremists / 14 Stories
    Chris Dreyfus
    The Extremists / 14 Stories Life and love as seen through the eyes of fourteen central characters on a quest for human connection. This psychologically astute and literary collection of short stories will keep you reading to the end. Darian writes a less-than-romantic letter to an ex revealing a traumatic past in The Extremists. Magic realism enters The House of Lost Men. Carl,...
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    18,66 €

  • Kwaidan
    Lafcadio Hearn
    Deriving its title from the word for 'ghost story' in Japanese Kwaidan is a compilation of supernatural tales from Japan. Hearn writes in his introduction, written only months before his death, that the majority of the stories were translated from old Japanese texts (some of which themselves were based on earlier Chinese tales), although one of the stories, 'Riki-Baka,' he decl...
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    12,31 €

  • Persistence Of Vision
    Gerry Eugene
    Gerry Eugene’s ’Persistence of Vision’ is a collection of twenty-five short stories, many of them interrelated. Set in a timespan that reaches from the stone age to the present, these stories transport readers to all quarters of the globe.Here, you will encounter tales of vengeful gods, aliens with death rays, buried treasure, bank robberies, time travel, zombies, mob wars, psy...
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    13,41 €

  • Persistence Of Vision
    Gerry Eugene
    Gerry Eugene’s ’Persistence of Vision’ is a collection of twenty-five short stories, many of them interrelated. Set in a timespan that reaches from the stone age to the present, these stories transport readers to all quarters of the globe.Here, you will encounter tales of vengeful gods, aliens with death rays, buried treasure, bank robberies, time travel, zombies, mob wars, psy...
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    25,34 €

  • Persistence Of Vision
    Gerry Eugene
    Gerry Eugene’s ’Persistence of Vision’ is a collection of twenty-five short stories, many of them interrelated. Set in a timespan that reaches from the stone age to the present, these stories transport readers to all quarters of the globe.Here, you will encounter tales of vengeful gods, aliens with death rays, buried treasure, bank robberies, time travel, zombies, mob wars, psy...
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    15,27 €

  • Persistence Of Vision
    Gerry Eugene
    Gerry Eugene’s ’Persistence of Vision’ is a collection of twenty-five short stories, many of them interrelated. Set in a timespan that reaches from the stone age to the present, these stories transport readers to all quarters of the globe.Here, you will encounter tales of vengeful gods, aliens with death rays, buried treasure, bank robberies, time travel, zombies, mob wars, psy...
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    23,72 €

  • Persistence Of Vision
    Gerry Eugene
    Gerry Eugene’s ’Persistence of Vision’ is a collection of twenty-five short stories, many of them interrelated. Set in a timespan that reaches from the stone age to the present, these stories transport readers to all quarters of the globe.Here, you will encounter tales of vengeful gods, aliens with death rays, buried treasure, bank robberies, time travel, zombies, mob wars, psy...
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    16,98 €

  • Fables, Allegories and Tales
    Feridon Rashidi
    This collection contains diverse fables, allegories and tales. Through the fables animals, representing people, tell relate cultural characteristics, the ways of thinking and ways of communication among the Iranians with black sense of humour. What happens when a jackass is asked to judge which of two birds sing better. What happens when two hungry wolves try to explain the mea...
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    18,76 €

  • Dolphin & The Shark in Gujarati (ઘ ડોલ્ફિન એન્ડ ઘ શાર્ક)
    Namita Thapar
    ’નમિતાએ પ્રેરક અને સંમોહક વાર્તાઓની એક પુસ્તક તૈયાર કરી છે, જે વિદ્યાર્થીઓ, વ્યાવસાયિકો, કામકાજી ધંધાર્થીઓ અથવા પ્રેરણાની શોધ કરતાં કોઈપણ વ્યક્તિની મદદ કરશે’સંજીવ બિખચંદાની, સહ-સંસ્થાપક, ઇંફો ઍજધ ડૉલ્ફિન એન્ડ ધ શાર્કનો જન્મ નમિતા થાપરના ’શાર્ક ટેક ઇંડિયા’માં એક જજ હોવાનું અને ફાર્મા કંપની ઍમક્યોરની સાથે-સાથે પોતાની ઉદ્યમિતા અકાદમીના ભારતના વ્યવસાયને ચલાવવાના અનુભવોમાંથી થયો છે....
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    29,02 €

  • Dolphin & The Shark in Marathi (द डॉल्फिन अँड द शार्क)
    Namita Thapar
    नमिताने प्रेरक आणि संमोहक कथांचे एक पुस्तक लिहिले आहे जे विद्यार्थी, उद्योजक, व्यापारी किंवा प्रेरणेच्या प्रतिक्षेत असणाऱ्या प्रत्येकाला उपयोगी पडणारे असे आहे.संजीव बिखचंदानी, सह-संस्थापक, इंफो एजडॉल्फिन आणि शार्कचा जन्म नमिता थापरचे शार्क टँक इंडियामध्ये एक जज असणे आणि फार्मा कंपनी एमक्योरसोबत त्यांनी उद्योजक अकादमीच्या भारत व्यावसायाला संचलित केले त्याच्या अनुभवातून झाला आहे....
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    29,09 €

  • Family and Other Ailments
    M.E. Proctor
    Blood ties. The family we’ve been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The twenty-six stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery or even the possibility of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they’re all love stories. The collection opens with 'Spy Head,' a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In '...
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    18,82 €

  • Flatlanders
    Kathryn Holzman
    With an intimacy that comes from close observation, Kathryn Holzman presents the stark realities of life in rural Vermont. We see lives held in the balance of simple good or bad luck, intimacy grounded in necessity and poor decisions, all presented against the backdrop of what makes the natural environment both a challenge and, for the few, a reward.Yvonne Daley, Author Going u...
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    8,68 €

  • Sour Grapes
    Zakaria Tamer / Alessandro Columbu / Mireia Costa Capallera
    Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Tamer captures their everyday lives, weaving the attendant cruelties and ironies of living under an oppressive regime with the residents’ irreverence and small acts of defiance. Inspir...
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    25,53 €

  • Bruce Corbett’s Speculative Short Stories
    Bruce Corbett
    My short stories enclosed within are a lifetime collection. They cover time travel to space opera, shootouts on alien planets to alien invaders of Earth.  Some have been published previously, while others are seeing the light of day for the first time.  ...
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    13,09 €

  • Tatters from a Royal Yellow Robe - Tales of the King in Yellow
    R.C. Mulhare
    A book with a curse. A play rumored to affect audience and actors alike.An office worker’s quiet routine turns upside down after she reads a book left behind by a client.A VHS tape of an amateur theatrical haunts anyone who views it.A game opens a portal onto a warped realmA college theatre troupe finds their performance haunted by a previous production.The King in Yellow has h...
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    6,14 €

  • 52 Stories In 2023 - Volume Two
    Michael Kingswood
    The grand adventure continues! This collection of ten short stories completes the second step in Michael Kingswood’s quest to create fifty-two new works of fiction in the year 2023. With stories ranging from military science fiction to portal fantasy to modern day crime, this collection has something for everyone.Action, adventure, mystery, and magic await, so step aboard for a...
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    11,89 €

  • Violent Solutions to Popular Problems
    M.J. Nicholls
    Extracted from the maw of a resting shrew, these ten cankers reek of huff and qualm. A librarian teams up with a weeping bus-dweller to suppress a talentless writer. A man attempts a perfect equilibrium of pain and pleasure to forge a life of matchless keel. A triumvirate of Dans spiral into oblivion with operatic panache. Two sub-people struggle for ascension to the normal rea...
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    20,16 €

  • And Dogs to Chase Them
    Ray Trotter
    Welcome to the world of Ray Trotter, where ordinary humans are pushed to do things in out-of-the-ordinary ways. Trotter has conjured a world of Southern hyper-reality in And Dogs to Chase Them, his first book of short stories: a good Christian woman who has had enough and so pushes a man down the staircase, 'as final as flushing the commode;' a concrete deliveryman who really o...
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    16,19 €

  • Finding Faith
    S. H. Miah
    The latest short story collection from S. H. Miah. A collection of dazzling stories that are certain to inspire. The Finding Faith collection includes:Lost at SeaAt The Very EndTo Live ForOld CrutchesSavingPath of a ProphetIf you want to better your faith, these aren’t stories you want to miss. Prepare to be dazzled by S. H. Miah’s latest literary pursuit, a short story collect...
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    13,11 €

  • Book of Fear
    Black Rose Reads / Mary Black Rose
    In the 1990s, middle school was a treacherous time for young Susan, where her lifelong friendship with Maddie is put to the test. Determined to win back her friend from the clutches of the school bully, she is willing to do anything. When she stumbles upon a chilling discovery in the woods - the enigmatic 'Book of Fear,' she is torn by the sinister promise of one wish granted i...
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    10,86 €

  • Goddamn Electric Nights
    William III Pauley
    When electricity hangs in the air so thick the moon and stars fizzle and drown in a sea of light, the people living within it, breathing it in, can never be 'normal.' From disfigured mutants accidentally murdering god to a man falling madly in love with a blood-thirsty VCR, we promise you’ve never read anything as bizarre as this!In these six tales, Pauley explores the lives of...
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    15,59 €

  • Past, Present, Future
    Robin Craig
    Embark on a captivating journey through time, genres, and the intricacies of the human experience. Past, Present, Future is a collection of over twenty-five short stories that will transport you into realms of mystery, historical re-imaginings, science fiction, and the ordinary yet extraordinary moments of everyday life.Within these pages, discover meticulously crafted tales th...
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    17,59 €

  • The Short Stories of a PNA
    Valerie R.B. Powell
    In the day-to-day life of a loving and caring family woman, what started out as a job, ended up being a labor of care for a Practical Nursing Assistant career to those left without a listening ear... regardless of clarity of thought. She was that caretaker and health worker in her nine to five job and these are her stories! ...
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    19,71 €

  • The Short Stories of a PNA
    Valerie R.B. Powell
    In the day-to-day life of a loving and caring family woman, what started out as a job, ended up being a labor of care for a Practical Nursing Assistant career to those left without a listening ear... regardless of clarity of thought. She was that caretaker and health worker in her nine to five job and these are her stories! ...
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    10,67 €