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"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Bl̲l...
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"The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women--immigrants or the descendants of immigrants--who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one story, a woman and her husband impulsively leave San Francisco and move to Florida with wild dreams of American reinvention only to...
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"Indelible linked stories centred around Azure, a young Arab woman living in the echoes of her ancestors' voices. Masterfully tracing the deep roots of the Arab immigrant experience, these interlocking stories follow an Arab family as they flee the Middle East in the nineteenth century, settle in Montreal in the twentieth, and face the collision between tradition and modernity in the twenty-first. This family includes trailblazing Lebanese freedom...
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"Through encounters in retail and fast food chains, on highways and dating apps, the characters in this collection wander through the non-places of our modern lives. The stories connect readers to the spaces that ultimately make them feel lost--zones for reconsideration. Delving into the confusion and boredom of everyday life, Graves's fiction documents the emotional experiences and disillusionment of middle-class millennials seeking a meaningful...
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
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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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This morning, I, little Lithou, am not in a good mood because Mommy has lost my pigtails. So it would be great if you could help me find them! I am not happy at all! If it goes on like this, I'm going to pout at my little mommy. I really want to find my pigtails! I don't know why, but they've magically disappeared!
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Most parents start reading books to the children around two years of age, for the most part, the characters in the books are imaginary or fanciful to encourage good behavior such as sharing and tolerance. As I have seen in my grandchildren with improvement in reading skill, there is a tendency to move on to more advanced complicated fiction readings, supernatural mystical and space stories, less attention given to writing about our environment and...
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One of four titles aimed at 6 to 8 year old girls on the theme of bridesmaids - a role that every little girl longs to play!
The Posh Bridesmaid.
When Morag is invited to be a bridesmaid, she is asked to dress in a 'Little Bo Peep' outfit - complete with shepherd's crook, basket and bonnet. The wedding is in a castle in Scotland, with a marquee in the garden for the reception. But the idyllic day, turns to near ruin as a flock of sheep rampage through...
11) Flying High
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The Ian St James Awards enabled new writers from every walk of life to break into print. 1993's collection introduced more new writers than ever before, with six short stories and ten longer pieces.
Entertaining, thought provoking, original, each of these stories is a winner, selected from thousands of entries from all over the world.
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A third title about the little dragon with the big ideas! Although he's the littlest, he has the biggest and funniest ideas for getting his own way. Two more stories about the Littlest Dragon who is the tenth child in the Dragon family. With nine older brothers, No 10 has to be ever more resourceful to get what he wants. In the first story, it's Littlest Dragon's birthday. But he never gets to play with any of his birthday presents because his big...
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This book contains five beautiful and heartwarming children's stories. These stories are pure magic and wonderful for kids of all ages. Get ready, for a great adventure with such stories as, The Legend of the Ghost Bells, The Milagro at Christmas, The Frog who would be King, The Mystery of Cachucha Negra, and The Big Yellow Spaceship. by author Frank Solis. The book is now available at your favorite bookstore.
14) Annie's Pram
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Little Jane has a doll called Annie. She desperately wants a pram for Annie but cannot afford one. One day, while playing in the park Jane finds a man's wallet lying on the pathway. She takes it to her mother who takes her and the wallet to a policeman. How can finding the wallet help Jane get a pram for Annie? A fun read written in reverse chronology and with a simple message.
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Ce matin, moi, la petite Lithou, je ne suis pas du tout contente parce que Maman a perdu mes couettes. Alors ce serait chouette que vous m'aidiez à les retrouver ! Je ne suis pas du tout contente ! Si ça continue comme ça, je vais faire la moue à ma petite maman. Ce que je veux, c'est retrouver mes couettes ! Je ne sais pas pourquoi, elles ont disparu par magie !
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Discover the fantastical world of fairy tales in this captivating collection of 28 short stories. From a living man made entirely of wax to a secret cave of gnomes brewing magical beer, to a prince facing a ferocious giant wolf and a joust fought on the backs of donkeys and pigs.
Each story is filled with laughter, tears, magic, and morality, featuring daring knights, bold seafarers, and the occasional monster. Perfect for bedtime reading, this enchanting...
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A sixth title in the popular Bridesmaids series aimed at 6 - 8 year old girls, but not excluding the boys!
Milly's brother is getting married to a girl in England and Milly is coming over with him to be bridesmaid. When she sees her outfit - red velvet and furry accessories, she thinks she's in some kind of a time warp! After all, she's a trendy little Australian miss! But when the snow starts to fall, the roads are blocked and she has to get to...
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An eighth title in the popular Bridesmaids series aimed at 6 - 8-year-old girls, but not excluding the boys!
Buffy is always playing tricks on her friends and trying to make them jump. She has a wicked streak in her. She's been asked to be a bridemaid at a wedding where the bride and groom have an equally weird sense of humour - they dress in gothic style, so Buffy has to too! However, for a girl who loves scaring other people Buffy is easily scared...
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Neen, dubbed Little Elf because of her small stature, had worked all year on one of Santa's assembly lines, wrapping dolls for delivery on Christmas Eve, and she was proud of what she had accomplished. But something puzzled her. Why, she wondered, did Santa's elves work so long and so hard, without complaint, just to make the world's children happy on one day of the year? It didn't make any sense to her. What is so special about that day? She'd asked...
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Este libro habla de mi mismo, no concibo un libro en que el autor no se describa a sí mismo o comparta algo de su mundo interior, finalmente todo lo que somos y hacemos es lo que conforma la manera en que vemos el mundo y somos vistos. Así que este libro es mi visión acerca del color de las notas musicales, y mi audición acerca de los sonidos de cada color. Este libro es un paisaje sonoro de una mente que respira, piensa y sueña con la música...
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