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Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great Wall of China.
Slauerhoff's narrator is a Belfast ship's radio operator, desperate to escape the sea, who travels inland on a gun-runner's mission. He moves through extraordinary settings of opium salons, the house of a Cantonese watch-mender, the siege of...
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Nineteen-year-old Alice Tanmar is summoned to that realm of dreams and wonders known by her grandmother as Wonderland, her mother as Everland, and herself as Otherland. She is the third Alice to assist that dream realm out of difficulty. Why was she is brought to Otherland? Initially, there doesn't seem to be a clear answer to why or to what she is expected to do. Alice must make decisions, choose a side to support, justify that support, find her...
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In a world torn apart by the chaos of rebellion and war already, magic and essence began to permeate their way through society as a precursor to a series of a single future conflict with hell. As the conflicts escalated, new methods of travel were discovered to other worlds. Leading to new allies and alliances while complicating everything with old enemies.
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"In the enchanting realm of 'Echoes of a Dreamer,' fantasy intertwines with the ordinary as a small town, Serenity Falls, undergoes a transformative journey. Fueled by the dreams of an enigmatic figure known as The Dreamer, the narrative unfolds with a blend of fantastical elements-celestial anomalies, dreamscapes, and mystical gateways-interwoven with poignant drama. As the townspeople navigate challenges and confront their deepest aspirations, 'Echoes...
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Noche de cuentos... y poesía, es el resultado de las historias contadas en cada pueblo de la serranía peruana, historias que se repiten de boca en boca con los matices propios de quien las cuenta. Estos cuentos escuchados y guardados a lo largo del tiempo, hoy salen a la luz con el agregado que aporta la imaginación y estilo del autor, iniciando así una serie de cuentos cortos en complicidad con el aval del lector. Noche de Cuentos... y poesía...
86) Isla de Lobos
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Hombres de mar habitan el enclave de Isla de Lobos, al que llega un náufrago sin memoria pero con pasado. Poco más que una lengua de lava y piedras negras, un peñasco entre mares es aquel lugar, donde son personajes principales un geógrafo, un santero, un contador de olas y una señora que gobierna con mano de hierro los destinos de la ínsula, además de la mulata Esmeralda y su hija Albabella, que habla con los lobos de mar y vive en una gruta.
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88) Betty
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Un coming-of-age lírico, espiritual y feminista ambientado en el Ohio rural de los años sesenta e inspirado en la historia familiar de la autora. Soy Betty Carpenter, nací en una bañera en 1954 y crecí en el pueblo de Breathed, Ohio. De mis ocho hermanos fui la única que heredé la piel oscura de mi papá Landon, que era cheroqui. De niña creía que ser cheroqui significaba estar atado a la luna. También quería ser una princesa con un vestido...
89) Bunny and Shark
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From award-winning author Alisha Piercy comes Bunny and Shark, a middle-aged coming-of-age story-cum-shark-adventure that reveals and celebrates women's power in the trenches. Plunging into the first thirteen days after the 'bastard' pushes his ex-Playboy wife 'Bunny' over a cliff in the Caribbean, Bunny and Shark is a fable about island survival, and the perils and potentials of being exiled from one's identity.
Literally lost at sea, Bunny is fueled...
90) Victory!
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Victory! In order to avoid eternal damnation, Quila Williams has to lure another soul in exchange for her own. The catch-it has to be her best friend's.
What if you had nothing? Nothing to lose. Nothing to care about. Nothing to possibly gain. What if you were then offered another chance? A new roll of the dice and an opportunity to live your life over? You could right your wrongs. Get even. Get ahead. All it will cost you is the soul of your...
91) A Hundred Tales
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When writers create, they leave their minds on papers. What would happen when the world they create leave the papers to become their reality? Igwe, an ordinary character, finds his real world falling apart when riots break out across the country, and discovers that when his mind works with a particular pen, it produces some extraordinary effects. Writers create worlds, and Igwe has a chance to remake his own. If he doesn't take this chance, he'll...
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"Saber cuál es el camino correcto, el sendero apropiado implica tomar desafíos, internarse en las sombras más perturbadoras de nuestra mente. Observar con claridad todo aquello que nos rodea, hasta el detalle más insignificante, será la clave para comprender la verdad".
En la tranquilidad de un misterioso valle ubicado en un rincón de la cautivante Sudamérica, Kenaku, con sus largas trenzas, teje en su telar enlazando una y otra vez diversas...
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Tulio, who was committed to the sanitarium as a little boy, is now an old man and a trained diablero. He sits in his cell listening to the falling rain, and within that downpour he hears nature's voices guiding him to escape. As he accepts and follows the commands, he is taken on a physical and psychological journey with his best friend Lluvia. Soon, they both elude the sinister Padre Pasillo who wants to desperately catch and return him to the sanitarium....
94) One, Two, Three
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A journalist takes on a double professional mission: a paper on the closing of a marble factory of funeral monuments in Saint-Maurice-des-Carrières, his native village, and an article on a circus camped out in Brémondville. These reports are gradually invaded by fiction, by the illusions of childhood, dreams, entertainment, drugs, and death.Excerpt« A muffled siren, followed by a flash: Guy used his electronic flash to photograph Antoine standing...
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In these five stories, you will meet people significant to the life of Maldito and the fictional village of Agua Rocosa. Eufemia and José, each of whom is the 13th child of a 13th child, she of a line of mothers, he of a line of fathers, are Maldito's unwilling parents. José comes from a long line of fishermen and is witty, intelligent and above all, tough. Eufemia is obsessed with the ancients and can hold her own with anyone. Her sheer power of...
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Ila, the keeper of the stories for her tribe, knows the mysteries of the piñon tree. The old tree has stood watch from a hillside for a century. It has gathered knowledge of events through vibrations that tremble through the ground to its roots. That knowledge is condensed in the seeds it produces.
Always seeking more stories and more knowledge, Ila occasionally places a piñon nut beneath her tongue. What she learns is amazing. Sometimes it's troubling...
97) Forbidden Magic
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A bookworm with a dangerous new job. A mysterious new love interest. And a new reason to fight the Council.I fought for control over my life and won, working at the Warlock's College library was meant to be safe. But I never imagined the threats that would follow.I'm falling in love with the night security guard, a wolf shifter in hiding, and relationships between witches and shifters are forbidden.Especially for one of the High Warlock's heirs.For...
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The night sky is, lit up once again, by the bonfires burning bright and hot. Another witch-hunt has begun. The narrator of our story, a young mother and housewife, learns through a close friend that she has been labeled a practicing witch. Aware that the townsfolk will soon be coming for her, she and her daughter grab up their coats and run into the wilderness. Their years long odyssey has begun.
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Once in a dream I was presented with a terrible choice. Neither option was good. Both were harmful to the world. The first choice was to become a thug, a quasi-alcoholic, an abusive husband, father, and employer, an embezzler who made others go down for his crimes and got away scot-free (yet with a lingering canker of guilt ulcerating his gut)-in short a rancid stew of a person, the kind that keeps society and life grunting along on its present low,...
100) The Silvering
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Paranormal researchers visit Mrs. Thackery, a widow who lives in a house by the river. The researchers soon discover that the phenomena of The Silvering is real – spirits who want to avenge slavery and repression perpetrated by the Thackeries in the 19th century.
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