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Stories full of Christmas warmth, mystery and magic to read by the fire as the nights draw in. Enjoy the perfect festive book in this collection of crime, adventure and fantasy short stories from Kate Rohan. They include a bizarre puzzle in Rathbone's Christmas Emporium, a man with a very serious gift problem in Collapse of the Cake Vector, a folklorist's desperate attempt to protect Christmas in The Search for Santa, a novel kind of crime-fighting...
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Colum McCann's Everything in This Country Must, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children.
In the title story, a teenage girl must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratitude to the British soldiers who have saved the family's horse. The young hero of Hunger...
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Catharism, the Heresy theology of the hour, is comingIt's coming to CreateIt's coming to ChangeIt's coming to ConquerMs. Catharism Champions this Catharism, as a Heresy, may winSo when you want to Advance Heresies, you can Advance CatharismWhen you want to Advance Catharism, Kindly Choose this book 26 pages.
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In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed, and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In "Cannibal Kings," a disillusioned young man accompanies a troubled boy on a tour of prep schools through the Pacific Northwest, only to realize that he has lost his way in life. And in "Come Live With Me And Be My Love," a middle-aged gentleman looks back at his mannered early life as a Ivy Leaguer,...
25) Big Ass Spider
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In this tender quiet horror short story a big ass spider is on the loose. People go missing. Pets dissappear. Unfortunately, little Timmy is the only one who sees it. Will Timmy be able to convice his parents the giant spider is for real and is out for blood?
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A heartfelt, vital collection; the debut of an exciting new talent already hailed as one of George Saunders' "favorite young American writers"
In Patrick Dacey's stunning debut, we meet longtime neighbors and friends--citizens of working-class Wequaquet--right when the ground beneath their feet has shifted in ways they don't yet understand. Here, after more than a decade of boom and bust, love and pride are closely twinned and dangerously deployed:...
27) Smut: Stories
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One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories.
In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students, and renting out her spare room. Quiet, middle-class, and middle-aged, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover...
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Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, a collection of tales of the American West from renowned, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton
Each of Elmer Kelton's superb stories of the West showcase the strength and power western spirit. They are filled with marvelous characters-from a rodeo clown who seeks redemption via romance, to an outlaw who comes to the aid of ranchers with no other recourse to justice. Powerful...
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Compiled for the first time in book form, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's short story collection, Wild West.
From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton's take on the human condition shows us life in Texas as it was back then: simpler, but harder, with danger always present. Readers will meet several unforgettable characters, including a young veteran who overcomes his PTSD to fight a fire ravaging...
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Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction.
First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era...
31) All About Women
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You're in for an unforgettable experience when America's master storyteller turns his enormous narrative gifts to the passionate, haunting subject of the American woman, searching for--and often finding--love and faith... in Andrew M. Greeley's All About Women.
There's teenaged Rosemarie, coming to grips with the evil of the twentieth century--or is it the evil in the human heart?
Peggy, whose widowhood plunges her into the cold of loneliness.
Rita,...
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New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta's first book is "more powerful than any coming-of-age novel" -The Washington Post
Bad Haircut explores the themes that have fascinated Perrotta throughout his career: suburban rituals and mores; sports and religion; the cheerful cheesiness of American consumer life; public tests of manliness; and the moral dilemmas faced by ordinary people, parents, and teenagers alike. Perrotta has continued to explore...
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From the fertile mind of Brian Lumley: Weird heroes and weirder worlds!
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!
Vampires. Elder Gods. Nightmares. Mysterious elixirs. Wines capable of transporting the drinker-literally-to another world. Fossils that dream of rending flesh between their teeth. These wonders, and many more, spring from the fertile imagination of Brian Lumley.
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! collects eight long...
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A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro
In The Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang of his neighborhood dialect to capture the texture of life in the slums, where every day...
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Forced to extremes in order to escape women's accepted societal roles, the protagonists in this short story collection-the women of one midwestern river town family-overcome hardship and heartbreak, pain and pressure, in order to burst the bonds that hold them and bring forth a better future for their daughters and sons. Their struggles comprise a panorama of women's issues that span the twentieth century: social injustice, sexism, discrimination,...
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Don't you know about Orchha in India? Orchha is a very bewitching dinky town near Jhansi, Madhya Pradesh. It has a flawless serene, vintage feeling and vibrant icy-cold wind in winter where you can experience a vintage fort, abandoned peaceful sanctuary, emerald green gardens, slow-witted peace, religious eminent temples, and, exceptionally significant, a sacred expeditious Betwa River. And indeed, the town is only expanded in an area of 2KMs and...
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What does it mean to be human in a universe of shifting, sometimes terrifying realities? Eighteen stories from Jack Skillingstead's second decade of publishing feature intense and surprising explorations of who we are, who we wish to be, and who we can't be.In "The Whole Mess" a genius math professor solves a multiverse equation only to find himself pursued by ancient Masters across the many iterations of his could-have-been lives. "Straconia" gives...
38) Save Me
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Note from the Author: This story was formerly part of the Beautiful Minds Domestic Abuse and Mental Health Anthology. Please be aware that the story has content that could be a trigger. It touches on the topics of physical, mental and sexual abuse and self harm. This book contains situations and content that I experienced growing up. I am a survivor of child abuse. "No daddy, please stop." I'd beg him.He never stopped hurting me.I upset mummy. Bad...
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Can the magic of Christmas overcome all?Christmas is Sarah Walker's favourite holiday, and a white Christmas has been on her bucket list for years. When her world comes crashing down around her just months before the holidays, she figures what better time than the present. Heading for her brother's ranch in Colorado to lick her wounds and mend her broken heart, romance was the last thing she was looking for.Jesse Colter has a soft spot for the ladies....
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Greyson Wolfe, co-owner and head chef of The Castle, has exacting standards and an attitude that makes Gordon Ramsay look like a pussycat. His ex is a model, and an uber witch-with-a-B. After a minor injury makes him surlier than usual, his best friend and business partner hires the only woman in the city who seems capable of standing up to this beast. Linda Vasquez is the new front-of-house management hire. Her patience and no nonsense attitude,...
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