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Everyone has a storyEveryone has secrets A cancer patient's stream of consciousnessA teenager's coming of age with a mysterious girlA veteran's Korean War reminiscences A baseball scout's encounter with a legendary creature in 1940's AlabamaAn Alzheimer's patient's last days of clarity
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From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointment
Shirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems.
In the title piece, a young widow is surprised and ashamed by her lack of grief for her husband.
In "A Place in the Country,"...
3) Super castle
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In front of the Lanxu Group building, a long red banner was pulled in the hands of thirty to forty people, facing the crowds of people coming and going, occupying almost the entire square.
At this time when the noon hour, people come and go, such a large banner is extremely conspicuous, causing many people to stop and look, pointing.
Eleventh floor of the building, inside the office.
Chen Yuan silently packed up the items...
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Star Yu dream of the shadow, thought familiar with the plot of his, must be able to play around the world. But after an accident, he found that the world is not so simple!
In the chaos of the battlefield, Naruto took a deep breath, and the golden nine-tail chuck ra condensed into a huge fist, carrying a great momentum, and suddenly blasted out in front!
And at the same time, Luffy roared, directly opened the third gear, the fist became more than...
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Duanmuxuan crossed, crossed to the legendary death of the first grader, the world of detective Conan. In this world of highly intelligent criminals as many as dogs, Duanmuxuan just want to quietly do a big, with a winner in life attitude insight into everything. Yeah, boy, that's a nice touch. It took me two minutes to figure it out. It's worth encouraging. Yo, man, that's a pretty good alibi for you. I'm -- thank you! Hey, this is not a small ai,...
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Hay muchas maneras de decir adiós, hay instantes únicos en los que la ficción y la memoria se hibridan y enraízan en una misma página para exhibir la red de una despedida. De este umbral doloroso germinan las historias encadenadas con las que Clara Obligado nos acerca a tres mujeres y sus profundas pérdidas, a los diversos espacios y tiempos en que les tocó vivir. Una obra que encierra una honda reflexión sobre escribir y escribirse, que milita...
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"Since Heaven has given me life again, I will kill this sick world in this life!"
Mysterious recovery, demons and monsters, a sea of corpses and wailing.
The only light in this diseased world is the Divinist.
If you have a body pattern, you have a chance to become a master.
Someone with leukemia, white winged angels, sanctions everywhere.
Someone has eczema, becomes the Lord of the river, eats.
Someone tattooed shoulder black dragon, arm dragon...
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This collection of nine short stories and one novella covers a wealth of topics and styles. Dorm life, O. Henry twists, psychological quirks, doomed relationships, and even high fantasy with dragons and Dark Lords.Never mind the self-deprecating title, this anthology has a lot to like.
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Liao Long in front of the mirror in front of the mapping is their own body naked luo, was inserted full of infusion tube appearance, two feet of the soles of the feet, calves, and above the knee, chest arm, neck and even temples all inserted transparent infusion tube, and they are lying in a full metal operating table, surrounded by the walls of a snow-white reflecting the light there is not a single person, bizarre ~ extremely bizarre scene.
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10) immortality
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More than twenty years had passed since the Nine Countries War in 7878, and the remaining five countries, namely Qingfeng, Baymoon, Hantang, Wushuang and Xinming, had recovered greatly after years of recuperation. The continent has been revitalized with a prosperous scene of song and dance.
The Valley of Eternal Life was located within the Han Tang Empire, and the valley was always lush and full of life throughout the year.
Here is an ancient...
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"We lean closer and closer, eager to catch every last word." said The New York Times Book Review. "Bigger, richer, funnier, and more complex than any description of them can convey," said the San Francisco Chronicle. "Some of the funniest and saddest stories ever to cozy up together," said the Los Angeles Times. Welcome to the short stories of Ron Carlson, where strange beach towels turn up in your living room; where the ordinary son of a family...
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People like him from hell, not worthy of family, love, friendship, he left only good memories and unrealistic fantasies.
The devil is the devil after all, and his arrival has brought more grief to the world.
He is a star from the dark night who brings dark sorrow to the world.
He was a demon from hell who longed for the light and feared it.Angels drunk for him, demons shed tears for him. He came with darkness, from darkness, darkness is his eternal...
13) Dragon rat
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In his previous life, he was mediocre and miserable. Now, reborn as a rat, he is willing to risk his life and hold his head high to be a human being!
Against the heavenly road, treading songs, only respect good and evil a thought!
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From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer-"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)
Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into...
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Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do-bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo-they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen,...
16) Base shelter
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Cheng picked up from the cultivation tank, got a good news and a bad news. The good news is, he's about to become head of a genetic asylum. The bad news is, the shelter is out of control! ... He must gather enough resources to repair and operate this huge facility, recapture the escaped shelter, replenish the empty gene pool, faced with this astronomical task, Cheng is deep in thought. perhaps You can trick someone into doing a tough job. So he shouted...
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Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original
From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South.
In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era.
Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba...
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What are you doing to Advance Febronianism today?Ms. Febronianism is doing everything to Advance Febronianism. We will probably never reach Ms. Febronianism's level of greatness,Yet we can aspire closer to itSo let's Advance Febronianism today The best way to Advance Febronianism?Choosing this book!So kindly choose this book, when you have a chance. 27 pages.
19) Taking the Dare
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Are you brave enough to take the dare?When Alex Peterson touches people, he gets flashes of the terrible things they've done. When he admits this in a game of Truth or Dare, his friends dare him to touch the creepy neighbor, who may be a murderer.This short story was originally published in Nightmares Unhinged.
20) Life With Cats
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An absolutely purrfect book for cat lovers everywhere. A heart-warming collection of stories featuring our favorite feline companions. Meet a ginger kitty who comforts those who've experienced a loss, a fairy cat battling to save the person she's destined to be with, and an abandoned kitten brought in from the cold by a lonely widow. Get to know a regal feline as she battles diminutive mouse riders intent on recapturing their queen. And follow along...
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