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12321) The Tiled House
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Born in 1814, the son of an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, Le Fanu single-handedly created a new kind of fictional ghost story. Gone are the sheeted spooks rattling rusty chains and the peripatetic headless ladies that infest Gothic fiction. In their place Le Fanu created formidably real supernatural presences that emerge from within, as well as invade from without.
Le Fanu was the first writer to explore seriously the psychological dimensions...
12322) M.E. Shorts, Volume II
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M.E. Champey introduces five new short-stories with five new heroes in this jam packed adventure collection. There's a vampire slayer with his stuffed-bunny side kick, a surfing Christmas bunny, a young dragon seeker, a rookie police officer, and a battle ork waiting for you to read about their heroic adventures. So come get your shorts on and read M.E. Shorts: Volume II today!
12324) Imago: Nouvelles
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Imago est un recueil composé de trois nouvelles reliées par un même fil directeur: la recherche d'une tranquillité de l'esprit. Au fil des pages, Hannah, Sïdus et Weng font face à leurs doutes et leurs angoisses. Peut-être sortirez-vous grandi de leurs aventures?
12325) Le Livre des joyeusetés
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Extrait : "C'était un samedi, le grand jour matrimonial pour les petites gens qui "guaignent cahin-caha leur paouvre et chétive vie", comme dit Rabelais. Le lendemain, les ateliers sont fermés et l'on peut rester plus tard au lit. Ce n'est pas raffiné de sentiment ; mais à Scheweling, en Hollande, les pêcheurs ne se marient qu'en hiver, parce que, m'a dit naïvement l'un deux, les nuits sont plus longues."
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Demons roar from the mouths of lions and the devil lives on an alien planet in this collection of three adult fantasy/paranormal novellas set on Earth, Hell, and Heaven, and in the nether somewhere in between. Passion for Poe spins from Calgary to Denmark in a crescendo of dysfunction. Demons slop from the trunk of a car bought by Astria Brin, and lions gaze from a bridge in the center of Calgary and follow them home, as mysterious dreams, murder...
12327) Tomorrow and Beyond
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Tomorrow can be just as strange or fantastical as the far-off future, but no less exciting.Collecting a variety of stories, both those published previously and new originals, Gwen Tolios's awaited solo anthology is full of tales bursting with rich characters planning and facing the future, regardless of the situation or consequence. A girl determines that being the sole girl in the league isn't going to stop her from playing for her high school hockey...
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Extrait: "Rue Ordener, à La Chapelle, la nuit a été chaude dans le logement du mécanicien Pradié, du chemin de fer du Nord. Il a mal dormi, et dès quatre heures et demie, il s'est levé, a ouvert sa fenêtre, et a rapidement regardé le ciel clair, sans nuage. Il pressent une lourde journée, une trentaine de degrés, comme la veille."
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Gillian Roberts has been recognized and presented with multiple awards for her Amanda Pepper mystery series. Now, collected here for the first time, are 14 short stories by this bestselling mystery author. From cats to marriages and dogs to dentists, these stories cover a wide range of themes and all are infused with Roberts' well-known sense of humor. Pulled from out-of-print anthologies and recovered from magazines, these stories represent 25 amazing...
12330) The Requisite Courage
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As Europe draws toward war, an extraordinary woman steps into the arena.In Edwardian England, Lady Adelaide Azalea Margaret de Morville, Mrs. Hugh Becket, lately of the Cape Colony, was born the daughter of an Earl, but is now the widow of a commoner. She straddles two worlds, speaks fluent German, and can ride, hunt and shoot. Her talents draws the eye of spymaster William Melville, who recruits her to help him fight a shadow game with German agents...
12331) Sweat - A Short Story: Including the Introductory Essay 'A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance'
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'Sweat' is an early feminist short story by Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston. This pocket-sized tale presents the contrasting lives of a married couple: the sweat and toil of Delia and the leisure and privilege of her husband, Sykes.
Delia works incredibly long hours as a washerwoman, making sure that she earns enough to pay rent for her and her husband's home, while also ensuring the house is clean and there is food on the table....
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"When Man goes to the stars, he'll bring a ball with him."Hit the court, tee off, and play ball in these five short stories about future sports.• Going into the baseball season's final game, he could be the first player in a century to hit .400. Thanks to his genetically engineered eyes.• The basketball coach needs to turn underachieving stars into a winning team. The franchise's new owner, a big pharma tycoon, gives him a new invention...
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Dawna Shepherd loves her family, working as an FBI Special Agent, and playing basketball.
She's celebrating Christmas in her home town when a bounty hunter pursues her college student brother home from Lubbock. Certain that Fugitive Team Leader Tommy O'Brien is chasing the wrong quarry, Dawna stops him cold at the Shepherd front door. But she knows O'Brien won't give up. And all her crime-fighter instincts are screaming that the bounty hunter is...
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Three days before Christmas, 2000, and FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's in Warsaw, bodyguarding a key female witness in the trial of ruthless but runty crime boss Mike the Midget.
The Polish gangster wants his ex-girlfriend Basia dead before she can testify and ruin his holiday. Dawna has to stay one step ahead of the local mafioski.
Dawna puts the six-foot-five inch two-hundred-and-thirty-pound woman in Kevlar and size seventeen hightops and fakes...
12335) The Good Trip: A Story
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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Good Trip" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
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In this collection of short stories Nova and Fiz race to save their city, as well as a brave young lady, from the destruction of a sound ripple bomb. Jusker Royal solves a mystery including a dead man, stolen coins and a bottle of Elven elixer. Leaflow must delve into the very depths of a man's mind...and return alive.These adventures, and four others, await in a book of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery; Illusions of Steel and Sunset.
12338) Deux amis
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Extrait : "Paris était bloqué, affamé et râlant. Les moineaux se faisaient bien rares sur les toits, et les égouts se dépeuplaient. On mangeait n'importe quoi. Comme il se promenait tristement par un clair matin de janvier le long du boulevard extérieur, les mains dans les poches de sa culotte d'uniforme et le ventre vide, M. Morissot, horloger de son état et pantouflard par occasion, s'arrêta net devant un confrère qu'il reconnut pour un...
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The line between science fiction and fantasy is a thin razorblade, more closely-related than you might think. STRONGER THAN SWORDS is a collection of short scifi and fantasy fiction by author Costa Koutsoutis, looking at worlds that could have existed, and worlds that are coming faster than we think. In "No Grave But the Fields," two children raised by a sword-weilding warrior find different ways to express violence and mercy, only to be struck by...
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In this stunning departure from her mystery writing, Penny Mickelbury's collection of stories God's Will and Other Lies, attends to the lives of Black women, mostly aging and elderly, all determined to face life with strength and grace.
A nearly blind woman is determined to venture out into the world alone, and must face the consequences of her travels. A woman estranged from her community ponders the meaning of hearsay and its devastating consequences....
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