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  • The Library Beneath the Streets
    Daniel Hale
    There are stories that matter. There are stories that shape the world. There are writers who long to tell them. And there is a place where some, disillusioned and bereft, go to write them.But the Library Beneath the Streets will not allow just anyone to enter its doors, and those who do so unauthorized or with plagiarism in mind may find more than they expect. Come in, Reader, ...
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    11,80 €

  • Code of the West
    Sahar Mustafah
    Short story collection by Sahar Mustafah, David Friedman Award for Best Fiction. 2016 Grand Prize Winner for Prose, Willow Books Literature Awards. “The native and immigrant Palestinians in Sahar Mustafah’s Code of the West live in a world where the threat of violence is part of their existence. Some of these characters exist within their own ethnic enclave, while others travel...
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    15,33 €

  • Anywhere But Here
    Jordon Greene
    Have you ever woken in the middle of a dream only to find it isn't over?For Taren Evans, it's reality. He’s stricken with an unnerving disorder that forces him wide awake in the middle of his dreams, in the middle of his nightmares.Unable to move or speak, Taren can only lie in bed, helpless, while the cruel dream world melds with the real world around him. A place wher...
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    5,50 €

  • Something You Once Told Me
    Barry Stewart Hunter
    Ten highly original and deeply human stories from a writer who knows what it means to love and lose. Intelligent, brave and funny, this stylish collection has got classic written all over it. ...
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    12,86 €

  • These Shoes
    Erik Moton
    Thought provoking, These Shoes, is a collection of poems, short stories and pondering that challenges the different views of the world and makes the reader question if they'll really judge a situation a certain way if the shoes were on their feet.They say, 'one size fits all,' however, you'll think twice before stepping into These Shoes. ...
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    18,84 €

  • Collateral Damage and Stories
    Bob Mustin
    The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant h...
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    20,91 €

  • When it All Went to Hell
    Phill Pappas
    Full of disorientation and disillusion, revelation and redemption, loneliness and hope, When It All Went To Hell is a collection that will take you from the smallest of small town America to the far reaches of Africa and back again. These tales are inhabited by unpredictably real and absurdly honest characters that explore the complexities and simplicities of love and relations...
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    11,37 €

  • The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories
    Laura Marello
    In the phosphorescent title novella of Laura Marello's collection, an enigmatic drifter pursues her circuitous path through the intricate cultural terrain of Sweetwater County, California, a patchwork of communities where "everyone speaks the wrong language." Through subtle, disciplined prose inflected with the deep colors and clear lines of ancient Mykonos and the northern...
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    15,29 €

  • The End of Summer
    J. Tonzelli / JTonzelli
    The world’s oldest celebration comes to life in The End of Summer: Thirteen Tales of Halloween, an anthology that honors the darkest and strangest night of the year. Each story is designed to be intrinsically and intimately about Halloween-its traditions, its myths, and its effects-and they run the gamut from horrifying to heartbreaking. Halloween night is the tapestry through ...
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    21,21 €

  • Tornado Days
    Christine Todd
    Whether she's writing about an unscrupulous dentist, a courageous albino woman, a butcher with dark edges, or a grief-stricken couple, Christine Todd's stories contain unexpected twists, and surprising 'aha' moments. Like the bereaved couple in her title story, her characters live through their own 'Tornado Days,' their lives changed forever, in an instant. ...
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    9,53 €

  • AFTERSHOCK & OTHERS
    F. PAUL WILSON / FPaul Wilson
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    22,57 €

  • White Ash
    Michael Aloisi
    This collection of short stories from the author of Fifty Handfuls, range from the emotional title story, White Ash, to the satirical, A Modern Day Romance. With twenty original stories, including several unpublished pieces, this collection has something for every reader. The book also contains a unique section entitled, Inspirations, where the author explains where he got the ...
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    18,53 €

  • Soul Proprietorship
    Dianalee Velie
    In Soul Proprietorship: Women in Search of Their Souls, Dianalee Velie seeks - and finds proprietorship of the soul - through a wonderful collection of character-driven short stories, with an accent on magical realism.  Sensations Magazine initially published five of the 24 stories in this new collection, over a period of several years.  It's always a pleasure to see work that ...
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    12,01 €

  • Frozen Shadows
    Gene O'Neill
    Hitch a ride with the master of setting as he blends and bends genres with science-rich, thought-provoking short stories. “Buy the ticket, take the ride.” “A maestro of the field, Gene O'Neill's stories are consistently well-executed. He writes with authority, depth, and loads of worldly and writerly experience, and delivers fascinating stuff.” – Darren Speegle, author...
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    13,81 €

  • HORROR STORIES FOR CHILDREN
    Robert Rahula
    Despite the title, this is a book definitely NOT for children.  Here are 21 adult short stories from one of Spain’s most accomplished and brilliant writers.  Robert Rahula delivers a dazzling collection of contemporary “portilla” short stories – that writing style that interweaves graphic sexual detail, existential philosophy, wry political commentary, and intricate dreamlike p...
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    12,02 €

  • The Beginning of the End
    J.K. Norry
    Hope dwindles as the world dies…Prologue Prequel is a memory from the mind of a certain general that first encountered zombies years ago. When a top secret experiment goes horribly wrong, only he stands between the world and outbreak.John’s Stones are his last chance at redeeming himself. Caught between the world of humans and the mind of the monster, John might be able to make...
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    9,51 €

  • Letting Paddy Fly
    David King
    Set in times ranging from the mediaeval to present day and in places as far apart as Australia, Europe and North America, these eighteen short stories reveal life in its bewildering, sometimes funny, and at times achingly sad moments. All is witnessed through the eyes of diverse, often flawed characters: a professional cyclist who must choose between his wife and his career, a ...
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    18,48 €

  • There's Nothing Romantic About Washing the Dishes
    Katrina Joyner
    Collection of short stories inspired by real life. Most represent a mundane side from science fiction and fantasy writer, Katrina Joyner, that people don't get to see often. Silver - Redemption can come in many ways, depending on how you find it and where you look. Over It - Sometimes when faced with your evil stepmother, leaving bread crumbs on the trail is not enough. ...
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    10,43 €

  • The Book of Ten
    Paul Cotterell
    A Collection of Short Stories A man at a fete is kidnapped… A demon is trapped in a washroom… A travel agency deals in time travel… A man is befriended by bees… The Book of Ten is a collection of fifty short stories, loosely linked by the theme of quirky thrillers with a twist. A man tries to give away money on a train… A cat befriends a young woman in a chemists sh...
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    11,44 €

  • TALES FROM THE FUR SIDE
    Peter Benn
    Revealed! The secret lives of cats - an entertaining collection of bite-size stories as told by the cats themselves. Mischief. Mystery. History. Heroism. Revenge and Reflection - this is life as lived on the fur side, beyond the prying eyes of humans – where wisdom, adventure and love mix abundantly with curiosity, intrigue and exotic locations. Visit Ancient Egypt, foil a cine...
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    10,25 €

  • Death of the Snake Catcher
    Ak Welsapar / Lois Kapila / Youssef Azemoun
    This book features people from one of the most closed countries of today's world, where the passage of time resembles the passage of a caravan through the waterless desert. This world has been recreated by a true-born son of that mysterious country, a Turkmen who, at the will of fate, has now  been living for a quarter of a century in snowy Scandinavia. Is that not why two ...
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    20,58 €

  • Sea Pictures
    Janis Spehr
    Rebellious teenager Phillip is sent to live with Kate, who raised him as a child when his mother Venice was in thrall to heroin. Set in coastal Victoria and then in Paris, Sea Pictures charts Phillip’s coming of age as well as Kate’s life in her local community and her relationship with the glamorous and volatile Venice. ...
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    15,12 €

  • AMERICAN INNOVATIONS
    RIVKA GALCHEN
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    15,90 €

  • Harry Danced Divinely
    Marian D. Schwartz
    There is a myth that the 1950s were a simple time.Family life on Giffort Street was never simple.The Whittakers are stunned when their trusted nanny, Meddie, suddenly leaves without giving notice. Meddie always knows everything before everyone else. What does she know that she isn’t willing to tell them?The trouble between Stan and Adele Heussler might have started when Adele b...
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    12,66 €

  • Keep Running
    Jane Carmody
    They were all running. Running away from or to something. Something as brutal as rejection, lost love or perhaps obsession.  For some it was a matter of running out of time, knowledge, faith or self-belief. But for all, the tender, the bruised, the brash, the feisty, it was the constant urgency to endure, to keep going, to squeeze in moments of reflection into tiny matchbox siz...
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    13,80 €

  • [untitled] issue seven
    Les Zigiomanis
    The short story has become an unappreciated commodity in Australian publishing. Many existing journals are compilations of nonfiction, poetry, and a smattering of literary fiction. [untitled] is an annual anthology of prose which looks at promoting and giving exposure to the work of emerging writers, and also providing an avenue for mainstream and popular fiction. Every issue...
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    16,66 €

  • The Ghost of Nackawick Portage
    George Frederick Clarke
    George Frederick Clarke was a born storyteller. He was once New Brunswick’s best-known writer. His short stories contain some of his best writing, but they have been unavailable since they were published in magazines between 1908 and 1938.  The Ghost of Nackawick Portage brings Clarke’s stories together for the first time along with the original illustrations. The evocative il...
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    27,79 €

  • Cuentos y leyendas de la tierrita y algo más
    Neftalí Gómez Suárez
    Entre montañas boyacenses y noches de luna, Neftalí Gómez Suárez recoge la voz de la tierrita en una colección entrañable de cuentos, leyendas y memorias. Desde las romerías y promesas a la Virgen de Chiquinquirá hasta los pasos sigilosos de “la barbacoa” y el rastro del mítico “Atravesao”, estas páginas celebran la tradición oral, el humor campesino y la sabiduría que se cocin...
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    17,68 €

  • Mi historia entre el volcán Chimborazo
    Alejandro Javier Celi Sandoya / Alejandro Javier Celi Sandoya
    En las faldas del majestuoso volcán Chimborazo, un joven llamado Roland inicia un viaje que trasciende lo físico y se convierte en una exploración interior. Lo que comienza como un paseo familiar se transforma en un despertar profundo tras presenciar una enigmática erupción y recibir, de manos de un misterioso hombre, un trozo de hielo que “origina su propia medicina”.De vuelta...
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    16,12 €

  • Universos imposibles
    Diego Muñoz Valenzuela
    En este libro gozamos de brevedades textuales en donde vemos que la aparente distancia entre el microrrelato y la ciencia puede ser transitada. El entrelazamiento entre ciencia y ficción se produce aquí de diversas maneras: a partir de las palabras utilizadas desde el subtítulo, por la presencia de contenido científico explícito y referencias claras a un área de la ciencia dete...
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    11,44 €


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