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1) The Pilgrims
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In the title story, a knight living alone in his isolated mountain fortress shows hospitality toward two pilgrims who appear from the mountains seeking shelter. Entreated to tell them of his sorrow, the knight unburdens himself and relates a tragic tale of love and loss. Resigned to the bitter fate that life has dealt him, the knight is unaware of the true nature of the two young people' s pilgrimage, until a revelation transforms his...
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Having very little memory very few memories of my childhood in Iran… and less and less as time goes by… I chose to pay tribute to the Iranians… my own way… at last I have a bridge back to Iran again…Iran is often confused with a country with ill-famed people… little do people know how wrong they can be in assuming so… and those (usually self-proclaimed) specialist of Iran and Iranian life and culture are not specialist at all…Iran...
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Fred and I enjoyed wrestling around on the playground. We tried not to hurt each other, and both of us knew that. "Oh no. Here comes the teacher.""Here we go. To the office again. I don't mind. I had fun wrestling with you, Fred.""Yeah, me too. My mom and dad will not like this. I just hope the paddle does not have any holes in it."The paddle did not contain any holes. However, the next time, and every time after that, there were holes in the paddle....
5) About Face
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About Face is an illustrated children's book about a dream in which ears, eyes, nose and mouth become detached from the narrator's face, taking on lives of their own.
The facial characters, free from all restrictions, delve into mischief including party music, trying to bake a pie without burning down the kitchen, eating and even dancing!
About Face is a hilarious children's story illustrated with remarkable 3D effects and fantasic visual innovation...
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A collection of short stories plus one not so short. Featuring Thai characters and/or Thai settings. A young girl wants revenge for her father's death. He was a drummer but not respected by other musicians. She steals the show with her drumsticks. She does more with blades on the Phuket's beach. A package is delivered, and an ear falls out. Then there is a tap at the door. Thailand's version of a vampire was locked in an underground room. The new...
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En esta segunda parte de Los cuatro mundos, el protagonista junto al Rymperión deberán frenar la llegada del Hombre Prisma, un ser que representa la oscuridad que todos los seres llevan dentro.
Sin embargo, no será tarea fácil, pues su influencia no ataca a nivel físico, sino de un modo mucho más atroz y despiadado. La Kingdom of Darkness es su dimensión, donde si te atrapase sufrirías la tortura eterna de un mundo de desilusión.
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Big brother said that when I was born in the shadow, I was born to deal with the dead. I was born with Yin and Yang eyes, and I have learned a few mystical skills, and I can handle ordinary children. But one day, I met a thing that I don't know whether it is a person or a ghost, this thing is handsome and extraordinary, but it insisted on pegging me to marry him
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This is a collection of eleven short stories whose common theme is the heroism of our flawed lives. It explores the arduousness of people's lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity, generational change, single parenthood, domestic violence, the tragic complexity of revolution, police brutality, artistic hubris, and the limitations of rationalism. In 'The Hat', a polish Jew on the run in Eastern Europe goes down to a town in search...
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In the title story of this collection, Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad Neighbours', Trudy, Alysson, the owner of the property, and most of the street, are victimised, any hour of the...
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A sequence of scattered frames on this Planet, of stories at first glance disconnected and dragged along by the rush of contemporary society, turns into a fine balance of chance and necessity.What may seem like an ordinary day in our existence is reduced to twenty-four simultaneous stories contained within the span of a single hour.A turn of the clock that punctuates Time, the true master of today's Odyssey in which we are immersed, transcending history...
12) Life Is a Story
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In Life is a Story, D.A. Bennett takes readers on a captivating journey through a collection of short stories that explore the universal themes of adolescence, adulthood, and the complexities of human relationships.Set in southern Louisiana during the mediators, the initial stories follow hard-working rural families as they navigate life's challenges and opportunities. From there, the book ventures into the scandalous and confusing world of 21st century...
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This book has been split into three separate parts. You can read each part as a separate book. They can also be read in any order.
These parts share characters and events, so after reading one part, you will find additional insights and perspectives in the other parts. The order you choose to read the parts will produce slightly different results regarding how you will feel about the events that unfold.
The book is designed to be an easy entertaining...
14) Rule Number Four
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Tanis Foster has a list of 61 people. He also has four rules to follow.There is now one person and one rule left. Will he finish what he set out to do?
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Charlie Peach's Pumpkins and other stories' is Jenny Sanders' second collection of six humorous tales. Once again, she treats her readers to quirky characters and another abundance of welcome nonsense. This time, you'll be taken from a disastrous garden experiment which finds success from an unlikely source, to the new ambassador's attempts to solve an international crisis in Carletia, and to a crumbling castle which threatens to wipe out the fortunes...
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he line between sin and faith can be very narrow indeed. Then there is the perennial question: Why are we here? The answer may be a surprise. Also surprising is the real story behind Area 51. The human need for companionship can show up in strange places, while a 2,000-year-old dead bird can cost a school teacher her job. Plus, will a community go so far as to resort to human sacrifice to stop an unwelcome commercial development? How about the advantages...
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En el multiverso de una exitosa estrella de reggaetón hay muchos perdedores
A través de relatos trepidantes e ingeniosos, este libro nos presenta las perspectivas de la derrota y la degradación humana, propias del postexistencialismo psicótico tropical: es decir, el remix del remix de la sensación que experimenta quien se encuentra siempre a la sombra de las oportunidades.
Atrapados en un Transmilenio, acompañamos esta reflexión sobre la misoginia,...
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Indelible linked stories centred around Azurée, 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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"Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?"
Everyone knows the words. Many people know that the Australian poet 'Banjo' Paterson wrote them. But how may people know the origin of the tune? In 1895 a young woman named Christina Macpherson sat down and played a marching tune she'd heard. 'Banjo' Paterson, who was visiting Christina's brother, liked it and wrote the words of a song to it. That song was 'Waltzing...
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Mientras el mundo cambia es una compilación de relatos escritos con una precisión exquisita. J. M. Aguilera perfila cada una de los personajes protagonistas de estas historias con un cincel diestro, con el que ilumina las complejas aristas psicológicas de todo ser humano ubicándolos en situaciones comprometidas, inquietantes o meramente desapacibles mientras el mundo alrededor sigue su curso, «mientras el mundo cambia».
Entre otros, conoceremos...
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