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12381) Red Planet Refugees
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Blue lightning, red clouds, searing heat and a dwindling water supply: just a typical day on Spiral. Jessa watches the monitors daily, waiting for the return of the ice ship. Her family died in the last water rationing crisis-and she longs for good news to share with the colony this time. The ice ship's mission lasts six more months. But of course, Jessa looks anyway-just in case. The stand-alone sequel to Brooks' short story Seventy, for everyone...
12382) The Masters: 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 Masters" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
12383) Heritage
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Which force is stronger…
… obligation or instinct?
Heritage is an orange cat with a heavy heart. He yearns for a life of adventure, but his parents are relying on him to take his aging father's place on the local cat chorus.
He doesn't want to fail his parents, but he also does not want to be trapped in a life he despises.
When Heritage ends up embarrassing his family in front of a competing cat chorus, his father takes it upon himself to...
12384) Stolen by the Space Pirate
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A few days ago, in a galaxy right here...
The earth faces total annihilation and one young woman signs up for a mission to rescue humanity. Only she ends up getting rescued herself, by a gorgeous space pirate. And the sex is out of this world!
After a brief, but magical interlude with a couple of stunningly gorgeous space pirates, Ruby is back with the slavers, and her mission is on target. Now all she has to do is stay out of trouble, be a good...
12385) A Remembered Kind of Dream
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In an unkind world, Ark wanders the land looking for...what? Can't recall. Holes in the land, holes in their memory, a scar from a hole in their hand?
A dust cloud kicks up. Another rat-tag group of fools lost in the dust. They approach one another. Another cliched exchange. Only this time, something's different.
Ark remembers things...
If Ark joins their numbers, where will the journey take them? What hidden truths will they find? What kind of...
12386) Special Relativity in Space
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Travelling can be detrimental to your health...Humans have spread across the universe. Super-sized cargo ships ply the space lanes.On board, Space Mariner third class Kumahl Levi detects a biohazard. A human female to be precise.Morag Clementine is grateful to be quarantined and not spaced as a separatist.But can Kumahl get her safely back home?
12387) The Long Way Home
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Gary has lived on the streets for three months. It's not his choice - his Gran is in hospital and the streets are safer than living with Mum and his creep of a stepfather.Then one day Gary finds a bunch of silk flowers in a skip bin. Those flowers, and what he chooses to do with them, will change his life.Utopia Bay is a small town on the east coast of Australia. This is one of its stories.
12388) A Mother's Ambition
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Our decisions define us and our life is full of them. In this short story, Lata goes to a village fair with her husband, Ramesh, and has to decide - whether to buy old cheap bangles or try some new and costly ones- whether to drink juice or eat popular food items- whether to buy cheapest vermillion available in the village fair or notand lastly, - whether to buy the toy car which his son, Bannu, has asked last year. She has to take decision keeping...
12389) Eight Pieces on Prostitution
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The stories in Eight Pieces on Prostitution span the whole of Dorothy Johnston's writing life and includes her first published story, The Man Who Liked to Come with the News, which Frank Moorhouse chose for his 1983 anthology, The State of the Art.
Dorothy Johnston's first novel, Tunnel Vision, was set in a Melbourne massage parlour, and the theme of prostitution runs through several of her works, notably in The House at Number 10 and now in this...
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"CHILLING HISTORICAL HORROR"
"Wildly imaginative"
Three early American gothic tales, including America's last witch trial in 1730, the birth of the Jersey Devil in 1735, and the true origin of the Headless Horseman in 1776.
In 1730 Ben Franklin published a story about a witch trial in Mount Holly, in The Pennsylvania Gazette. But did he tell the complete story, or was it a coverup of more sinister and frightening events? Emmet, an aspiring reporter,...
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The collected Donner & Bulkowkovich stories, including the previously unpublished novella Gategate. The broadsheet hacks with the tabloid hearts solve mysteries, hang out with aliens and demons and generally irritate and confuse a lot of people, including themselves, but really all they want from life is to find a decent cup of coffee.
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"The Magical World of Children's Stories: Tales of Adventure, Friendship, and Fun" is a captivating collection of stories that will transport children to enchanting worlds filled with wonder and excitement. These timeless tales feature courageous heroes and heroines, adorable animal characters, and friendship, kindness, and perseverance themes.Within the pages of this book, readers will embark on thrilling adventures, from exploring hidden forests...
12393) Sea Among Stars
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From the farthest reaches of space to the mysterious depths of the ocean comes a collection of stories inspired by the skies and seas.
Perfect for fans of fantasy and science fiction, this anthology features the work of:
Erelah Emerson
Anna Augustine
Catherine Kopf
K. Weikel
Nathaniel Luscombe
Cheyenne van Langevelde
Anna Ford
Sarah Calaway
Anne J. Hill
Shawn P.B. Robinson
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¡HOY TE LLEVAMOS UN ENORME REGALO!¿QUIERES QUE TU HIJO APRENDA VALORES O QUIERES FORTALECER SU HÁBITO DE LECTURA? , si la respuesta es ¡SÍ! , ESTE LIBRO ES PARA ELLOS , se ha demostrado que la LECTURA Y EL EJERCICIO MENTAL ayuda a desarrollar la concentración, la percepción y estimula la empatía en los niños, todo nuestro equipo produjo un contenido atractivo para la mente de su hijo y efectivo a la hora de DESARROLLAR EL PENSAMIENTO CRÍTICO...
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Three interconnected stories feature women whose lives have been interrupted by forces beyond their control. Exile, serious illness, or the imprisonment of one's beloved are each met with versions of strength and daring, while there is no undoing what fate has wrought. These atmospheric, introspective tales culminate in an experimental, multi-voiced novella, whose "stone building" is a metaphor for the various oppressive institutions-prisons, police...
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Pour faire revivre Barbe Noire, le célèbre pirate qui fait l'objet de sa biographie, un homme juge nécessaire de se familiariser avec l'univers de son personnage. Aussi décide-t-il de métamorphoser le plafond du salon en un ciel étoilé et le mur gauche en une porte ouverte avec vue sur la mer des Caraïbes. Sur les conseils de sa femme de ménage, il décide alors de revisiter l'histoire du célèbre pirate…
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12397) The Meagre Tarmac
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An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, The Meagre Tarmac explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force. It begins with Vivek Waldekar, who refused to attend his father's funeral because he was "trying to please an American girl who thought starting a fire in his father's body too gross a sacrilege to contemplate." It ends with Pranab Dasgupta, the Rockefeller of India, who can only describe himself as "'a...
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We all have our memories; the guitar still sang..." This collection of twenty-nine science fiction vignettes are at turns touching, humorous, and thought-provoking. Each begin cradled in the comfort of the familiar, but take readers along a winding path to the unexpected. Serving as poignant reminders of the ephemeral nature of life and death, these stories encapsulate what it means to be human; to be captivated by music, love, and life itself. Written...
12399) Relatos Ocultos
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Hidden Stories is a collection of short stories written by Mel Matos from the early age of 15, including some of the stories submitted for literary contests in countries like Venezuela, Argentina and Spain. Hidden Stories was published for the first time as part of the book "Vladimiro on his Pedestal and Hidden Stories" in Argentina, in 2011.
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) a quarante-six ans quand, en mars 1668, Barbin, éditeur prestigieux de Boileau et de Racine, fait paraître les six premiers livres des Fables choisies et mises en vers par M. de La Fontaine.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre...
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