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Dedicated with affection to all those (and there are many) who have given their love to someone and had to contend with their illness, even though they knew that they have no chance of winning; and to those who had to coexist with a love like this. "Over twenty years ago a girl I loved like myself asked me to leave her forever because of her poor health, and not to contact her again. I agreed, with death in my heart, and intending it only as an act...
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¿Qué es la fantasía y qué la realidad?
Son opuestos que a simple vista no hay que analizar mucho. La realidad es todo aquello que nos rodea y podemos comprobar que existe, ya sea mediante los sentidos o investigaciones. Mientras que la fantasía es todo lo contrario, algo que no nos rodea y no podemos comprobar su existencia.
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Accidentally into the interstellar age, Lin Kexin thriller found that the world has no fairy! Combat division, auxiliary ability division is the mainstream
Accidentally into the interstellar age, Lin Kexin thriller found that the world has no fairy! Combat division, auxiliary ability division is the mainstream
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About the Book Enter the world of David J. Sherman, a home improvement center employee who's had his share of challenging customers. His outlook on life is always positive and humorous, which is why he's able to take customer difficulties, insults, and discourtesy and turn them into a series of laugh-out-loud stories that are sure to change the way you think about top-notch customer service! About the Author David J. Sherman is a lover of rock music,...
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Paul Allen, totally paralysed after a devastating stroke, decided to use his remarkable mind to take his readers on a journey into a variety of thrilling and unforgettable situations. This book 'Still Reaching For The Stars' is a series of short stories drawn from Paul's fascinating life and fertile imagination. Each story is loosely based on incidents in Paul's life, frequently amplified by his imagination. Paul's first book, 'A Star In His Own Imagination',...
7) Humanista
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La autora vuelve a poner su mirada sobre Medellín en este nuevo libro de cuentos.
Esta vez, las diez historias aquí reunidas exploran las sombras de la cotidianidad en la que se mueven unos personajes que tienden a la ambivalencia y al desequilibrio. Entre la tragedia y la comedia, se compone así un mosaico de precariedad, nostalgia y violencia.
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Women's lives are at the center of this stunning collection of short stories by the writer The New Yorker says "provides unexpected delights....Questions and answers alike shine with intelligence and an almost ninteenth-century concern for ideals."
Though Sara Maitland's interests are as varied as the people who inhabit her stories, there is a common theme to this work that extols risk taking over safety. Acrobats, women warriors, a girl who wants...
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Recogemos aquí las geniales narraciones de Bécquer que no se consideran "leyendas", de muy diversa temática, como son: La venta de los gatos, ambientada en Sevilla, sobre un pintor que va a una taberna del barrio de San Jerónimo donde se bebía, se cantaba y se bailaba. Tres fechas, cuya narración transcurre en su vivida ciudad de Toledo,¡Es raro!, cuando el encanto se rompe en Madrid, El aderezo de esmeraldas, con aires autobiográficos donde...
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About the Book Short Stories for Busy Boomers is not going to solve the world's problems. It may, however make you forget them for a minute or two while reading. Maybe even make you laugh. The stories are about Boomers for Boomers and are only a couple of pages each. The author has planned it that way, so you can go back to being busy. About the Author Brian Dickens Barrabee is the author of Confessions of a Real Estate Man, Confessions of an American...
11) What Are You?
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About the Book Brenda's mother grew up extremely poor but blessed with a loving father and nurturing home environment. Even though the relationship between Brenda's mother and her mother was rather strained, Brenda's mother describes the first eleven years of her life as that of a content child until the sudden passing of her father, which left this twelve-year-old devastated and quite traumatized. Two years after her father's death, this same little...
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All Over the Road is a fun collection of short stories-some with a dark twist. In "James J. Burton's Wizard of Oz," Horace Richardson is enjoying his retirement when out of the blue a ghost from his past comes to confront him-and he wants answers. Things online are easy until you meet the human behind the pain. The "Human" will show you the darkest parts of humanity. And, in "A Most Unusual Stickup," what kind of man is able to convince would-be robbers...
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El perro de aguas español, considerada la más inteligente de las razas caninas, ha hecho acto de presencia como protagonista o compañero de andaduras en relatos literarios.
Reconocidos escritores de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX han incorporado a su obra personajes caninos de esta estupenda y actualmente poco conocida raza de origen español; entre ellos, Félix Lope de Vega Carpio, José Estremera y Cuenca, Manuel Moré, Santiago...
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Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits-a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems...
15) Moments
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About the Book Moments presents three pairs of people in three different types of relationships - two strangers, a mother and a father, and a sister and a brother - in highly relatable circumstances, each of the individual scenes linked by a common theme. Equally humorous and heartwarming, the play examines the human condition, how far we'd go for one another, and how a little love can change everything. Moments premiered in July 2014 at Manhattan...
16) Midnight Embers
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A collection of fantasy-themed short fiction and an excerpt from a novel. "Midnight at the Crossroads", "Moonlight on the Gallows", "A Safe Port in a Storm", "The Word Witch", "The Woman of Shadows", and an excerpt from the novel: "The Last Archer of Laummoren".
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A collection of supernatural-themed short fiction. "Handprints on the Mirror", "Midnight at the Crossroads", "Thirsty (or, The Longest Saturday)", "A Safe Port in a Storm", "The Custodian's Last Dance", "Final Presentation", "A Glimmer in the Dark", "Moonlight on the Gallows", "An Unexpected Muse", "Last Stop on the Gold Line".
18) Winter Blossoms
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A collection of short fiction with a romantic theme. "Roses on the Doorstep", "A Safe Port in a Storm", "Coffee Shop Confessional", "The Custodian's Last Dance", "Modern-Day Orpheus", "Windy City Nocturne", "Another Coffee Shop Confessional", "Cloudburst on Seventeenth Street".
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Blue is the second volume of short stories by multi-genre author, Wodke Hawkinson. Blue contains three novelettes, which in and of themselves make the book a must-read. In addition, Blue also features eleven shorter works that run the gamut from bawdy humor in "The Erotic Adventure of Dick Speed" to the contemplative surrealism of "Death Hates His Job".Wodke Hawkinson's writing includes a tasty variety of subjects which are peopled with unique and...
20) Constellations
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A collection of dramatic short fiction. "The Old Man's Briefcase", "I Finally Figured It Out", "Roses on the Doorstep", "Modern-Day Orpheus", "Coffee Shop Confessional", "Windy City Nocturne", "Another Coffee Shop Confessional", "Buzzsaw Briggs's Last Day".
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