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El arte y la ciencia de contar historias es un libro práctico que te enseñará a contar mejores historias en conversaciones, reuniones de negocios, en puestos de liderazgo y para la creación de marcas. La Era de la Información ha terminado y ha comenzado la Era de la Narración. Adéntrate en la nueva era con la máxima confianza.
En este libro aprenderás:
• Los fundamentos de la narración.
• Cómo construir personajes cercanos...
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A pile of sensational bizarre blood cases, a cold silent body, what kind of crimes and secrets are hidden? A calm and wise female forensic doctor, an experienced criminal investigation captain, in the face of a paper forensic identification, one by one, the blood, violence and terror behind the dissection of the body, everything seems to have no trace, but in the bizarre doomed to the curse of the murderer
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#QuedateEnCasa surgió porque precisamente nos quedamos en casa. Es el resultado final de un juego en equipo donde todos ganamos; un juego que nos mantuvo divertidos, unidos -más cerca que nunca- durante buena parte del aislamiento social, preventivo y obligatorio. Nueve amigos, vinculados desde hace tiempo con la tarea de escribir, nos propusimos hacerlo periódicamente y comprobamos una vez más que el arte verdaderamente "salva". Escribir pone...
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Así me tiemble la voz relata la historia de una pérdida doble padecida por Laura, protagonista y narradora central: la inicial de su madre biológica, cuando aún era muy niña y carecía de herramientas para entenderla y aceptarla, y la de la Tierra, proyección no por simbólica de la primera, menos real y dolorosa, puesto que ya en su vida adulta de profesional de la ciencia, Laura sabe inevitable tal muerte. De las dos se siente culpable. ...
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A small book of short stories written by Abdulla Qadiri
This book contains two short stories:
• The Party of Demons
• In The Ulak
In the first story, O'sar tells his family about the party of demons he saw at night.
In the next one, Toorghon tells the story of the game of Ulak which he went to.
Ulak - is one of the traditional, national games of Central Asian peoples. The judges throw the goat (a goat or calf with its head, legs, and...
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Rabbit lived with his parents in a city called Joyland. He was the only child in the family. He liked to play with his parents at home with his toys. Mummy Rabbit started to look for a nursery for Rabbit and can be happy when he plays with other children. On Rabbit's first day at nursery, he did not want to leave his mummy as nursery was new for him. It was circle time and a story to follow. The rabbit was asked to hand out snacks to his class…...
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Rory loved listening to stories and he always remembered the ones that Daddy read to him at bedtime.
He wanted to know where stories came from. And he told Daddy that one day he would like to write stories.
And that was why he couldn't wait to start reading himself.
Rory didn't think that he would ever get tired of stories!
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A moving and heart-warming short story from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written by 14-year-old competition winner and illustrated by one of Ireland's best loved and award-winning book creators. Ruka is different from all the other ten-year-olds in the village, lacking the magical powers needed to begin training as, a young sorcerer. Lonely and insecure, she runs away into the forest in despair. But, escaping the familiar presents new challenges...
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La Biblioteca Rocío Vélez de Piedrahíta se nutre este año con dos obras que aparecieron publicadas por primera vez en 1960 y 1962: El hombre, la mujer y la vaca y El pacto de las dos Rosas, un díptico que la autora definió en su momento bajo una sentencia que nos inquieta: "Cuentos desagradables". Los dos relatos tienen los componentes clásicos de su obra y en el centro está la mirada de una escritora que analiza con agudeza el mundo que...
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A dramatic short story taken from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written by a number-one bestselling author When Fleece, one of the foot soldiers of the valiant Hibernian Army, is sent to battle the demons of the Fomorian Empire, he becomes the accidental Hero of Drumree. Much to his surprise. Derek Landy's action-packed tale is perfectly complemented by Alan Clarke's brilliantly dramatic artwork. Look out for the other eleven stories - also available...
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Linette, c'est moi ! Je suis une petite fille bien sage et un petit peu coquine. Comme mon papa, je porte des lunettes ! Mais voilà, je cherche depuis des heures mes lunettes dans toute la maison. Ça te dit de m'aider ? Sans elles, je suis complètement perdue… Je compte sur toi pour les retrouver ! Suis mes aventures, tu découvriras la petite fille pétillante que je suis. Tu ne le regretteras pas ! Et qui sait, peut-être serons-nous amis?...
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"Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness: desire, desperation, hunger, fear, sadness, shame, longing. In these stories, a young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium-though...
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‘ Staggering and unforgettable storytelling' Mel Giedroyc In his retirement at the Vatican, emeritus pope Benedict XVI is hard at work on his magnum opus: a high-school comedy screenplay. At a grimy pub in North London, a doctoral researcher is abducted by gangsters peddling William Wordsworth' s handwritten account of drug-fuelled sex orgies.In the West African state of Benin, a politician' ...
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A collection of short stories that capture events and experiences that span the years between the 1960s and 2021. Guyanese folklore, history, practices, and lifestyles are weaved together to create fictional scenarios that mirror the times. Places, faces, and times leave their mark on our memories like indelible footprints. These footprints can often become visible in the choices we make, the lives we live, and the heritage we pass on. This collection...
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In the title story of this collection, Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad Neighbours', Trudy, Alysson, the owner of the property, and most of the street, are victimised, any hour of the...
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A collection of short stories by one of America's great twentieth-century writers In his introduction to this collection of sharply crafted short stories, James Jones compares novel writing to a long-term, chronic illness. Writing short stories, he says, is like a brief, intense fever: the kind that can kill or disappear in a matter of days. Although best known for epic war novels such as From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line, Jones also wrote...
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Big brother said that when I was born in the shadow, I was born to deal with the dead. I was born with Yin and Yang eyes, and I have learned a few mystical skills, and I can handle ordinary children. But one day, I met a thing that I don't know whether it is a person or a ghost, this thing is handsome and extraordinary, but it insisted on pegging me to marry him
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