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  • The Book of Ten
    Paul Cotterell
    A Collection of Short Stories A man at a fete is kidnapped… A demon is trapped in a washroom… A travel agency deals in time travel… A man is befriended by bees… The Book of Ten is a collection of fifty short stories, loosely linked by the theme of quirky thrillers with a twist. A man tries to give away money on a train… A cat befriends a young woman in a chemists sh...
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    11,44 €

  • TALES FROM THE FUR SIDE
    Peter Benn
    Revealed! The secret lives of cats - an entertaining collection of bite-size stories as told by the cats themselves. Mischief. Mystery. History. Heroism. Revenge and Reflection - this is life as lived on the fur side, beyond the prying eyes of humans – where wisdom, adventure and love mix abundantly with curiosity, intrigue and exotic locations. Visit Ancient Egypt, foil a cine...
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    10,25 €

  • Death of the Snake Catcher
    Ak Welsapar / Lois Kapila / Youssef Azemoun
    This book features people from one of the most closed countries of today's world, where the passage of time resembles the passage of a caravan through the waterless desert. This world has been recreated by a true-born son of that mysterious country, a Turkmen who, at the will of fate, has now  been living for a quarter of a century in snowy Scandinavia. Is that not why two ...
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    20,58 €

  • SMOKE
    Brazos Highwayman
    Brazos has frequently and consistently failed in his efforts to take life seriously.  Since resigning from his 30 year stint at Texas A&M he has completely given up on that ill-conceived objective.  Smoke is his latest effort consistent with the described failure.  These stories reflect a self-depreciating brand of humor that highlights his ability to generate or become involve...
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    17,12 €

  • Sea Pictures
    Janis Spehr
    Rebellious teenager Phillip is sent to live with Kate, who raised him as a child when his mother Venice was in thrall to heroin. Set in coastal Victoria and then in Paris, Sea Pictures charts Phillip’s coming of age as well as Kate’s life in her local community and her relationship with the glamorous and volatile Venice. ...
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    15,12 €

  • Harry Danced Divinely
    Marian D. Schwartz
    There is a myth that the 1950s were a simple time.Family life on Giffort Street was never simple.The Whittakers are stunned when their trusted nanny, Meddie, suddenly leaves without giving notice. Meddie always knows everything before everyone else. What does she know that she isn’t willing to tell them?The trouble between Stan and Adele Heussler might have started when Adele b...
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    12,66 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish e...
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    17,61 €

  • Keep Running
    Jane Carmody
    They were all running. Running away from or to something. Something as brutal as rejection, lost love or perhaps obsession.  For some it was a matter of running out of time, knowledge, faith or self-belief. But for all, the tender, the bruised, the brash, the feisty, it was the constant urgency to endure, to keep going, to squeeze in moments of reflection into tiny matchbox siz...
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    13,80 €

  • [untitled] issue seven
    Les Zigiomanis
    The short story has become an unappreciated commodity in Australian publishing. Many existing journals are compilations of nonfiction, poetry, and a smattering of literary fiction. [untitled] is an annual anthology of prose which looks at promoting and giving exposure to the work of emerging writers, and also providing an avenue for mainstream and popular fiction. Every issue...
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    16,66 €

  • Curious Connections
    Karen Sylvia Rockwell
    In this collection of flash fiction pieces Rockwell delivers us into the various ways that people both connect and disconnect in our modern world. Rockwell tackles themes of communication, love, sexuality, identity, and even survival with characters ranging in age and life experience. From cellphone conversations to shared moments with a classic song, these pieces are vignettes...
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    8,12 €

  • The Ghost of Nackawick Portage
    George Frederick Clarke
    George Frederick Clarke was a born storyteller. He was once New Brunswick’s best-known writer. His short stories contain some of his best writing, but they have been unavailable since they were published in magazines between 1908 and 1938.  The Ghost of Nackawick Portage brings Clarke’s stories together for the first time along with the original illustrations. The evocative il...
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    27,79 €

  • Losing Found Things
    Brett Garcia Rose
    'We're all broken, and the scars we trade are all that remain of our fragile, once complex lives.' Losing Found Things is the raw, unforgettable debut collection of fifteen short stories from award-winning writer and novelist Brett Garcia Rose, who takes readers past what lies on the surface and into the darkest corners of human experience. A young man boards a cruise ship pl...
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    7,09 €

  • Stories to Tell Children
    Sara Cone Bryant
    This little book came into being at the instance of my teaching friends. Their requests for more stories of the kind which were given in How to TellStories to Children, and especially their urging that the stories they liked, in my telling, should be set down in print, seemed to justify the hope that the collection would be genuinely useful to them. That it may be, is the earne...
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    13,28 €

  • Descubriendo (nos)
    ASACO Asociación de Afectados por Cáncer de Ovari
    Por segundo año tenemos el orgullo de presentaros este segundo libro de relatos, todos ellos escritos en la 2ª Edición de la Escuela de Escritura ASACO.En este pequeño libro podréis leer el alma de las participantes, su fuerza y su valentía al dejar traslucir sus sentimientos más íntimos en cada palabra escrita. Todas ellas han vivido experiencias duras y únicas, como pacientes...
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    12,00 €

  • Pequeñas historias de grandes momentos
    Marisa Pinta García
    Los hechos suceden y se suceden marcando las épocas y al narrarlos a menudo nos olvidamos de que en el corazón de cada acontecimiento hay, hubo y habrá personas involucradas de forma tan directa que pueden contar el suceso desde un punto de vista muy diferente al que ofrecen las noticias desde dentro. Esto es lo que Marisa Pinta nos ofrece: una visión de cada ola desde su núcle...
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    15,00 €

  • Corazones de mármol
    Jesús Román Martínez Álvare
    Un buen relato es sabido que tiene que ser certero como un disparo. No caben en él florituras ni páginas perdidas y, por el contrario, tiene que llegar directamente al corazón del que lee.Corazones de mármol es un título robado a Cervantes quien, por boca de Sancho, se quejaba de aquellos que no hacen honor a sus amigos. En esta época, en la que el desdén y la falta de empatía ...
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    14,00 €

  • Our Boys
    Various
    'Our Boys: Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors' is a captivating collection of short stories that showcases the talent of various well-known writers. Each story within the book offers a unique and engaging narrative, providing readers with a diverse range of plots, characters, and settings to enjoy. The compilation aims to entertain and captivate its audience through a blen...
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    15,19 €

  • Echoes of the Arcane
    Cody D. Campbell
    Echoes of the Arcane is a collection of short science fiction and fantasy stories from Pacific Northwestern author Cody D. Campbell. The places and times range from ancient worlds of magic to distant dystopian futures. They have different perspectives and voices, different magic systems, and scientific frameworks, but many of them revolve around a common theme - loss.It feature...
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    11,98 €

  • Ajustando Sentidos: Maneras de encajar en tierra ajena
    Escritores Wórale
    ¿Hasta cuándo es ajena una tierra? De esa interrogante parece partir este magnífico y singular tejido de escrituras en torno a las formas de concebir la propia extranjería hasta hacer de ella una nueva identidad. Aquí, Houston no es solo el paisaje o la cultura en la que suceden estos devenires, sino todo un personaje, uno que encarna la otredad, el misterio, la posibilidad abi...
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    17,62 €

  • Relatos tenebrosos y otros cuentos imposibles
    José Antonio Rodríguez Valcárcel
    Colección de relatos en los que se halla tanto lo misterioso como lo maligno, lo fantástico y lo perturbador, pero cuyo denominador común son las tinieblas oscuras que rodean las circunstancias en las que se ven envueltos sus protagonistas, ya sea en apartados lugares de la ancestral Galicia, en las antiguas tumbas de Egipto o en las profundidades insondables del universo.Fanta...
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    19,00 €

  • Poesía matancera
    Astrolabio Editores / Luca Cáceres
    Poesía Matancera es una recopilación de poemás del autorargentino Luca Cáceres. No somos pobres. No soy villero. Los pibes piensan que soy careta. A los chetos les gustamos. Estos son algunos de los títulos de los poemas que pueden encontrarse en este libro, que es un viaje por la pobreza desde el yo, desde la familia, el barrio, los niños, los pares de dentro y de fuera. Explo...
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    10,40 €

  • Once Removed
    David Mann
    'The stories comprising Once Removed are consistently excellent... I have not been this compelled by a collection of short fiction in a considerable time.' - Dr Michael Titlestad The stories in Once Removed traverse the theatres, artist studios and archives that characterise the world of contemporary art and performance. But they also zero in on the homes, private lives, daily ...
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    24,70 €

  • The Folly of Eustace & Other Satires and Stories
    Robert Hichens
    The Folly of Eustace: Eustace Lane decided at any early age to don the mask of the clown. People began to take notice, calling him a whimsical, irresponsible creature. He reveled in surprise parties and practical jokes, in being silly in unexpected way. Then he fell in love with Winifred Ames, and she with him. But was she in love with the mask... or the man underneath?The Last...
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    12,49 €

  • Don’t Be Afraid
    Dennis Corcoran
    Synopsis: Inspired by my four Grandsons, 'Don’t Be Afraid' includes twelve scary stories for children who are old enough to listen, and young enough to have their imagination stirred. Are they made up stories from Pop-Pop, or could they be real? ...
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    14,61 €

  • Tea with Mr. Rochester and Other Stories
    Frances Towers
    When Frances Towers’ first - and only - book was published posthumously in 1949, it was an immediate hit, quickly going through several printings and earning rave reviews from critics, who praised her masterful abilities as a short story writer while at the same time lamenting that she would never write any more. Several of these stories are in a macabre or supernatural vein, s...
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    22,83 €

  • Tale Spins
    Will Richan
    A guided tour of America from coast to coast, with many stops along the way. For example, you look in on a man trying to live up to his father’s heroic image, only to find it’s based on an illusion. And meet a teacher bringing out the best in a student who has been written off by other teachers. You suddenly find yourself in the middle of a racial brouhaha and have to come to t...
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    35,28 €

  • Retablo de Ajofrín y otros cuentos
    Rogelio Sánchez Molero
    En Retablo de Ajofrín y otros cuentos, Rogelio Sánchez Molero nos presenta diversos escenarios, con sus personajes y sus historias. Propone el autor un viaje por el tiempo y los sentimientos que mueven a esos personajes y que nos mueven a todos. Es una ventana abierta al amor y al desamor; a la bondad y a la maldad; al misterio, al olvido y la nostalgia. E incluso, al humor.Es ...
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    22,00 €

  • Not Down in Any Map
    P.A. Callaro
    'In these beautifully written stories, P.A. Callaro shows us a wide variety of people grappling with the fundamental problem of how to maintain vitality, creativity, kindness, and hope in a world that presents so many impediments to the flourishing of these crucial human virtues. Not Down in Any Map is a thoughtful, nuanced, soulful debut.' -Matthew Sharpe, author of The Sleepi...
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    18,83 €

  • Spectre of the Brocken
    Ran Kime / Randy Kime
    Ran Kime presents a captivating literary journey in 'Spectre of the Brocken: A Halo for the Observer,' a two-part exploration that tears into the intricacies of the human experience. This thought-provoking collection seamlessly weaves together short stories and stream of thought poems, offering readers a unique blend of narrative styles that reflect on a vast spectrum of emotio...
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    17,41 €

  • Judi’s Folktales
    Judi Lifton
    A beautiful volume of 18 folktales and 8 fables written by award-winning Judi Lifton with 160 charming illustrations by Peg Asensio. ***The treasure trove of stories in this delightful anthology will tickle your funny bone, surprise you, and introduce you to a cast of unforgettable characters like Corny Portinga, Mr. Gizzard, Raspberry Rice, and Sassy Spudnut. A mix of adventur...
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    18,53 €


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