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  • Siguiendo las estaciones
    Manuel J. Núñez Fernández
    La historia de Siguiendo las estaciones surge a partir de un encuentro entre dos personas. Para la mayoría de la gente sólo sería un suceso fortuito. Brancardier no piensa lo mismo, intuye la existencia de algo por descubrir. El protagonista del relato es un médico gallego con apellido francés que ejerce de dietrólogo, piensa que lo acaecido a su alrededor no es casualidad. Es ...
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    15,96 €

  • Velature notturne
    Luna Shelley
    Nel cuore pulsante della notte, dove i segreti si adagiano nell’ombra e le verità sussurrano tra le luci morenti, 'Velature Notturne' ci conduce attraverso il velo sottile che separa desiderio e realtà. ...
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    42,59 €

  • Velature notturne
    Luna Shelley
    Nel cuore pulsante della notte, dove i segreti si adagiano nell’ombra e le verità sussurrano tra le luci morenti, 'Velature Notturne' ci conduce attraverso il velo sottile che separa desiderio e realtà. ...
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    53,35 €

  • Feed The Crocodiles
    Catherine Davis
    VIVIAN HUNT travels to 1960s Uganda to reunite with her husband. An unexpected letter in her mail box leads to her involvement in a series of events which will have unexpected consequences.Unbeknown to everyone involved times are changing and while the ebb and flow of daily life continues to seem the same, a new normal is just around the corner. This is a story of humanity’s bl...
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    22,43 €

  • The Doors’ Fire
    Dyva Gibss
    Before 'Light My Fire' ignited the world, The Doors were just a flicker in the Los Angeles twilight. 'The Doors’ Fire' plunges you into the pre-fame years of these iconic musicians, tracing their journey from dimly lit jazz clubs to sun-drenched Venice Beach jams.Witness Jim Morrison’s raw poetry ignite on smoky stages, Ray Manzarek’s keyboards weave hypnotic spells, John Densm...
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    15,68 €

  • Dreamtime
    Ben Twomey
    Dreamtime is a collection of 3 short stories to inspire young and old imaginations alike. With a mixture of different characters and stories. So why not step out of reality as we dive into 3 adventures. ...
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    80,60 €

  • Manual para cobardes
    Julia Montejo
    MANUAL PARA COBARDES narra la extraordinaria historia de un niño vasco en la posguerra que se convertirá en un prestigioso abogado en el Madrid de los años 70.¿Por qué llegó tarde Franco a su encuentro con Hitler en Hendaya? ¿Conocía la CIA los planes de ETA para asesinar a Carrero Blanco? Y, si así era, ¿por qué no advirtió del atentado al gobierno español?Las respuestas a est...
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    20,00 €

  • XXII Certamen literario de relatos cortos
    Colegio Luisa De Marillac
    XXII Certamen de Relatos Cortos Memorial Sor Mª Aguilar.En memoria de Sor María Aguilar Aguilar, Hija de la Caridad de San Vicente de Paúl, una mujer que, merecidamente, en el año 2000 fue reconocida como Hija Adoptiva de nuestra ciudad -de forma unánime por todas las fuerzas políticas que formaban parte de la Corporación municipal- en reconocimiento a su labor en favor de los ...
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    13,00 €

  • Felt Sledge
    Wetdryvac
    A collection of soft strikes, often cat related, often cottage horror, and often problematic. ...
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    43,71 €

  • Felt Sledge
    Wetdryvac
    A collection of soft strikes, often cat related, often cottage horror, and often problematic. ...
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    26,61 €

  • Titan’s Tirade
    Tarik Murrell
    This is my first movement.The first fission that begins the chain reaction.I am here. I have begun, I am beginning.This is Birth.20 Pieces of me. ...
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    11,06 €

  • Afterlight
    Jaap Robben / David Doherty
    "With its tight sentences and a fast pace, Afterlight moves like detective fiction. It’s a poignant novel in which a single pregnant woman is mistreated in her conservative society; she remains resilient and determined to honor her baby’s memory." -Foreword ReviewsThe young free-spirited florist Frieda grew up in a strictly Catholic environment in the 1960s. When she steps onto...
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    15,48 €

  • The Usefulness of Hippopotamus
    Vincent J. Tomeo
    I am staring at a blank piece of paper, wondering what to write. Where do I begin? My mind begins to wander-pleasant thoughts of Disney’s Fantasia dance in my head. The dancing hippopotamus comes to mind, and this made me laugh. The result: I penned a poem on the hippopotamus from which a chapbook was born: The Usefulness of Hippopotamus: A Humorous Chapbook for Trying Times.On...
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    11,91 €

  • For The 1000th Time
    Jen-Lea Mercy
    Years ago, Abi left Vancouver heartbroken. Now she’s back - older, wiser, and sexier. Tess won’t know what hit her.Abi Young is well acquainted with unrequited love and the void it leaves behind. While she had hoped moving to a different city would extinguish any residual feelings for her best friend’s older sister, it turns out absence really does make the heart grow fonder.As...
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    27,21 €

  • 星體a朝向星體b加速隕落的時候(二)
    Mujokotoba
    書<星體A朝向星體B加速隕落的時候>、寫名字叫做瑪莉安星星船、九人小巴逃難的事情。此為第二集。這個、軟軟的、呆呆的、喜歡玩溜溜球、不知道是鹿還是樹、還是影子的小東西、叫做Mujo。這裡記錄他的日常和閒扯蛋。他知道的小故事。散步的風景、他的回憶和世界觀。無常言葉集系列作:<和貓一起><渡邊與鴨嘴的春日遊記><街道、豆子、月亮><星體A朝向星體B加速隕落的時候>。Lazy, cozy, like to play yo-yo, do not know whether this little black creature is a deer or a tree, or a small shadow, called Mujo. Here are records of Mujo’s daily and small talks. The stories he kn...
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    10,55 €

  • 星體a朝向星體b加速隕落的時候(三)
    Mujokotoba
    書<星體A朝向星體B加速隕落的時候>、寫名字叫做瑪莉安星星船、九人小巴逃難的事情。此為第三集。這個、軟軟的、呆呆的、喜歡玩溜溜球、不知道是鹿還是樹、還是影子的小東西、叫做Mujo。這裡記錄他的日常和閒扯蛋。他知道的小故事。散步的風景、他的回憶和世界觀。無常言葉集系列作:<和貓一起><渡邊與鴨嘴的春日遊記><街道、豆子、月亮><星體A朝向星體B加速隕落的時候>。Lazy, cozy, like to play yo-yo, do not know whether this little black creature is a deer or a tree, or a small shadow, called Mujo. Here are records of Mujo’s daily and small talks. The stories he kn...
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    10,55 €

  • The Cured (Book One)
    Valerie Wagner
    The year is 3043, ten centuries after the Korean-American War. The world had been devastated with only a few surviving families left unscathed. These families regenerated the human race, creating Emperia which stands where America fell those years ago. As memories live on, the past pushing influence into the future, the new generations of the human race are ready to take care o...
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    26,14 €

  • To pictures of artists
    Anastasia Volnaya
    Anastasia Volnaya is a modern poet and prose writer. A bright representative of poetry, in whose works the free and accent style prevails, great importance is given to images and sensations.The book consists of the chosen works, turned to pictures of artists, anyway pleasant to Anastasia Volnaya. Here you will find also modern artists and also classical authors.Poems and the es...
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    7,05 €

  • Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
    Sir George Douglas
    Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales is a timeless collection of Scottish folklore, legends, and tales which will appeal to readers of all ages. Here you will find stories of the fantastic, the supernatural, the cunning, the hilarious, and the gifted-all finely representative of the Scottish people in all their mannerisms. Divided into seven sections: Nursery Stories; Stories of Anima...
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    42,37 €

  • The Mabinogion
    Lady Charlotte Guest
    The complete collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. Drawing on pre-Christian Celtic mythology-with some of the themes having been dated back to the early Iron Age-this marvelous compendium of tales contains some of the oldest European folklore in existence.The source material-the Red Book of Hergest, or Llyfr Goch Hergest, first appeared ar...
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    26,33 €

  • The Story of Saint Christopher and The Story of Saint Cuthbert
    Mary MacGregor
    Two beautifully-written retellings of the legend of St. Christopher-which is largely allegorical-and of the real-life story of St. Cuthbert, one of the most important early Medieval Christian religious figures of northern England, by master storyteller Mary MacGregor.The legend of St. Christopher first appeared in western Europe during the ninth century, and told the story of a...
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    19,36 €

  • Stories from the Odyssey Told to the Children
    Jeanie Lang
    A masterful retelling of The Odyssey, written especially for younger readers. This book provides a perfect introduction to the storyline contained in the famous classic work, starting from the end of the Trojan War when the hero Odysseus sets off for home after having spent ten years at war.All of the great events and adventures are recounted in this easy-to-read version-the la...
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    18,50 €

  • Stories from the Faerie Queen Told to the Children
    Jeanie Lang
    A masterful retelling of the major stories contained in Edmund Spenser’s classic English epic poem, The Faerie Queen. This work is based on the original 1590 book which is one of the longest poems in the English language.The stories were collected by Spenser and rearranged in an allegorical work which represented much of Elizabethan society, focusing on the virtues of several k...
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    18,53 €

  • Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
    Sir George Douglas
    Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales is a timeless collection of Scottish folklore, legends, and tales which will appeal to readers of all ages. Here you will find stories of the fantastic, the supernatural, the cunning, the hilarious, and the gifted-all finely representative of the Scottish people in all their mannerisms.Divided into seven sections: Nursery Stories; Stories of Animal...
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    25,27 €

  • Old Peter’s Russian Tales
    Arthur Ransome
    Illustrated by Dmitri Mitrokhin. Famous British author Arthur Ransome’s unique and wonderful collection of fairy tales from the steppes and forests of Russia, first published in 1916, remains the authoritative English-language introduction to this nearly-lost world of traditional folklore.After moving to St. Petersburg, Russia, in May 1913, Ransome learned Russian and discovere...
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    23,26 €

  • Croatian Tales of Long Ago
    Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić
    Translated by F. S. Copeland. Illustrated by Vladimir Kirin. Croatian Tales of Long Ago is a collection of six short stories, based on the author’s extensive knowledge of ancient Slavic mythology of Croatia.Mixing fairy stories with events, motifs, and legends dating back nearly a millennium, this work was one of the author’s most famous writings, and although aimed at younger ...
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    21,27 €

  • Killing the Devil and Other Excellent Tricks
    Parnell Thill
    Essays, short stories, a few bad poems. Real life subject matter. A significant portion of the book has been published, in PG-13 form, in other places, including the Pine Journal and other regional newspapers, magazines, etc. Readers will recognize themselves. ...
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    13,48 €

  • Inessa, Etna, Paternò, Misteri e Esoterismo
    Carmine Rapisarda
    Il libro tratta dell’antica Inessa divenuta poi Aetna e attualmente Paternò. Vi sono riferimenti a iside, S Barbara, S Filippo di Agira le Mdonne nere, ecc. Un viaggio nella storia tra esoterismo e miti. ...
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    13,52 €

  • Stories from the Greek Tragedians
    Alfred J. Church / Alfred JChurch
    A masterful retelling in modern English of thirteen of the best-known classical Greek tragedies from the genre’s most famous authors: Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles. From the inspiring love story of Alcestis to the fiery vengeance of Medea, from the trials of Hercules to the death of Agamemnon, the vengeance of Electra to the Battle of Salamis, this book provides all the c...
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    38,28 €

  • Stories from the Greek Tragedians
    Alfred J. Church / Alfred JChurch
    Color edition. A masterful retelling in modern English of thirteen of the best-known classical Greek tragedies from the genre’s most famous authors: Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles. From the inspiring love story of Alcestis to the fiery vengeance of Medea, from the trials of Hercules to the death of Agamemnon, the vengeance of Electra to the Battle of Salamis, this book pro...
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    33,96 €