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This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Meeting Infinity, and other top venues,...
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Poetry can lift our spirits and inspire our daily lives. William Blake's "The Tyger," Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers," William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," and John Keats's "A Thing of Beauty" (from Endymion) are among the classic poems collected in this pocket-sized edition. Now you can readily spend a few moments each day with these timeless verses because Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems fits easily into any size...
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Nous livrons des bruits récoltés en passant au tamis la clameur du monde. Bruits de l'enfance, bruits de la vie,
bruits de la mort, bruits des pas, bruits des rêves, bruits des langues, bruits du désir, bruits du silence, bruits du soleil... Voix fragiles, peuplées de rivières, de vies cheminant dans les mêmes sentiers, les mêmes résonnances. Peu importe si l'on vient d'Amérique, d'Europe, d'Asie,
d'Océanie ou d'Afrique. Nous mêlons les...
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This is a book for people who really want to understand the reality and the real aim of life. 'The Directives of Life' is all about the measurements and parameters for life which I have included by compiling various teachings from authentic sources. Since it is an Elective Choice given for people to select by using their 'Free Will' and progress accordingly. The book describes the Dharma for the age of Kali-Yuga and ways for the progression of the...
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Beth and Jean and three other girls at No. 16 Chestnut Terrace are spending a cheery Christmas together opening presents that came in the mail, since none could go home this year. Beth remarks that Miss Allen, an older woman resident of the boarding house, is apparently alone this year. Though Miss Allen is not widely liked by the girls, they agree that no one should have to spend Christmas alone. Thus, a Christmas Inspiration is born.
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Welcome to the cool side of the 1950s, where the fast cars and revved-up movie monsters peel out in the night. Where outlaw vixens and jukebox tramps square off with razorblades and lead pipes. Where rockers rock, cool cats strut, and hot rods roar. Where you howl to the moon as the tiki drums pound and the electric guitar shrieks and that spit-and-holler jamboree ain't gonna stop for a long, long time...maybe never.
This is the '50s where ghost shows...
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Indie authors have once again allowed their creative minds to open up and expand the Universe in which they live with short stories that capture one's emotions through the everlasting medium of storytelling. This second volume of award-winning short stories by indie authors from across the country takes readers on a personal ride of growth and understanding, then a jaunt through history both factual and fictional, then a trip of magic, suspense, and...
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The +Horror Library+ anthologies are internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories-relevant to the moment and stunning in impact-from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative. Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as...
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Change is natural-it's beautiful, it's cathartic, it's necessary. But change is also painful, and ugly, and destructive. It's one of life's only constants. You can either embrace it or struggle against it but it's unlikely you could ever stop it.
Inside this anthology we are confronted with many different forms of transformation. Some lift the spirit, some crush the soul, and some show the pathway to the future.
It's difficult to capture...
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Spacefaring researchers disturb an ancient horror. An enchanted object curses a grieving widow. A haunted reel torments a film student. A murder trial hinges on a chilling testimony.
In Howls From Hell, sixteen emerging horror writers pave the way for the future of the genre. Fans of dark and macabre fiction will savor this exhibition of all-original tales born from one of the fastest-growing horror communities in the world: HOWL Society.
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Red. The color of blood, of war, of passion-and of a new unicorn herd. Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some stories feature physical unicorns, most do not. Some unicorns are kind, most are not. From a battlefield to a candy store, from zombie unicorns in rural America to...
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Ghosts. Pirates. Put the two together and you've got a winning combination of the most exciting stories ever written. It's enough to make anyone say, "Shiver me timbers"--with delight.
The spirits of Davy Jones's locker have a long and colorful history among sailors and lovers of literature. From Daniel Defoe's "The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts" to Thomas Smollet's "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" to Washington Irving's "Adventures...
13) Misfits
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Four inspirational tales of Essex resilience intertwine to make an unmissable world premiere by the region's most exciting playwrights.
The Essex Princess by Anne Odeke
It's 1908 and Joanna's planning to provoke the attention of Southend and the whole of the nation, by becoming the first black woman to compete in a beauty pageant.
Fiza by Guleraana Mir
Fiza's moved home with her parents. Under dire circumstances...At nearly 40. Will she pick herself...
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Here are five classic Christmas stories in a special holiday collection. Adapted from the audiobook of the same name, this ebook contains:
'Twas The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore;
Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy;
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus by Francis P. Church;
Merry Christmas by Stephen Leacock;
Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
15) Tangled Words
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It is an initiative anthology which is providing platform to the writers whose inks are efforting toexplore, by publishing their write-ups. All are going to experience the words written down by the writers because all knows that writings are not only a writing it has words which flashes life.
Let yourself be taken as a journey of magical words and poems into realism written by different writers ,feel inspired by the full spectrum of emotions. You...
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A beautifully illustrated anthology of poetry celebrating babies, children and childhood—from the magical times and memories of childhood, through to the unconditional love a parent has for a child.
Some of our best-loved poets are featured, such as William Blake, John Betjeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Adrian Mitchell and W. H. Auden.
The poems begin in infanthood, with the joys that babies and toddlers bring as they learn to move and speak, and...
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Revisit the beloved Chicago Fire trilogy in these three sweeping, romantic tales from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs.
THE HOSTAGE
Deborah Sinclair is a beautiful, accomplished young heiress with a staggering dowry, but her fortune does her no good when, one horrible night, Chicago is engulfed in flames. Tom Silver will walk through fire to avenge a terrible injustice-and he may have to. Yet when he makes Deborah a pawn in his revenge,...
19) Manmuradein
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It is an initiative anthology which is providing platform to the writers whose inks are efforting to explore, by publishing their write-ups. All are going to experience the words written down by the writers because all knows that writings are not only a writing it has words which flashes life. Let yourself be taken as a journey of magical words and poems into realism written by different writers, feel inspired by the full spectrum of emotions. You...
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¿Qué será de ti? / Como vai você? recoge piezas significativas de veintiséis poetas brasileños y nos presenta un reflejo del concierto polifónico que supone la poesía del gigante de Sudamérica.
La presente antología de poesía joven de Brasil asume la apuesta de no buscar el canon sino el riesgo, no el pasado sino el futuro de la poesía brasileña. El resultado de esta pesquisa es una muestra cuyas voces marcarán el devenir inmediato de...
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