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A stellar group of romance authors lights up the holidays with six festive novels to put you in the Christmas spirit. Charming and dashing, sexy and funny, these six Christmas stories bring couples together around the holidays. From romance stalwarts like Raine Cantrell, Sherrill Bodine, Tiffany White, Katherine Kingsley, and Anita Mills, these gorgeous tales cross time and place to get to the human heart at the center of the season, reminding every...
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"Short Stories For Long Discussions…" Get ready to dive into the most thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating discussions of the year with "After Dinner Conversation - Best Of 2023." This must-have collection features the most compelling philosophy, ethics and social issues as short story fiction from one of the year's top-rated monthly literary magazines. With a diverse range of genres, from science-fiction to historical fiction, and with...
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"Stirring action, appealing character growth, and shocking, vivid violence. . . . Series readers will be pleased with this return to the Secret World." -Publishers Weekly
In the late 1930s something fell from the sky and landed in an area of the Atlantic not yet known as the Bermuda Triangle. After that event, part of the world irrevocably changed . . . and the mysteries began. Something else would change as well-seemingly ordinary men and women...
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collage of Life is a meticulously selectedand thoughtfully curated collection of literary works, each one chosen to showcase the unique experiences, perspectives, and diverse backgrounds of every author. The pieces within this book have been carefully arranged to create a captivating and inspiring collage of life, designed to take readers on a journey through a wide range of emotions and experiences.
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The Write Path 2023 contains all of the winning entries from the 2023 National Association of Writers and Groups members-only competitions, along with all of the judges' comments, and the Open Poetry and Short Story competitions, along with the winners of our festival flash competitions. Contributors include: Gordon Aindow, Charlie Kitching, Taria Karillion, Don Hogle, Jan Huntley, Margaret Morey, Karen Evans, Jean Eaton, Robert Crockett, Mary Lowther,...
6) Sidekicks
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This unique special edition includes a bonus story not available in any other edition.Sidekicks are used to being hidden from the spotlight shining on the hero they support. They work behind the scenes, doing their best to support their more famous companion.There are times when the sidekick becomes the hero, when they have to step up and save not only their hero, but sometimes the entire world. This anthology is about sidekicks who humbly take those...
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"Influence of Days/நாட்களின் தாக்கங்கள்" is an anthology authored by skilled writers. This anthology speaks about the "Influences of the day in past and present towards society "in each writer's perspective.In this anthology, The writers have given their perspective of good old days and developed today.The anthology has been written in various genre like articles, short stories and stories in both Tamil and English...
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A collection of short stories written by Words Matter Publishing authors.
The Hermit and the Dog: Hermit walking for days through the forest stumbles upon a snarling frightened enormous wolf like creature. What happens next needs to be seen to be believed, as the old man and this strange creature dance though fear to love?
The Last Ship: Phineas and Sarah Branch have been abandoned to die on a dying plant, Alpha Three. Can the last ship save them?
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Stories by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, Booker Prize winner Su Tong, and more.
Includes contributions by Shi Tiesheng, Hong Ying, Su Tong, Wang Meng, Li Rui, Duo Duo, Chen Ran, Li Xiao, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Ai Bei, Cao Naiqian, Can Xue, Bi Feiyu, Yang Zhengguang, Ge Fei, Chen Cun, Chi Li, Kong Jiesheng, Wang Xiangfu
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The world's first UNESCO city of literature, Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter. It is the home of the Writer's Museum, where quotes from writers of the past pave the steps leading up to it. A city whose beauty is matched only by the intrigue of its past, and where Robert Louis Stevenson said, 'there are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh's street-lamps'....
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#SalíDeCasa es la continuación nacida, casi sin planearlo, de #QuedateEnCasa, el primer volumen de cuentos surgido de un juego-torneo literario entre amigos durante la pandemia de covid-19 que estalló en 2020. Poco imaginábamos entonces que doce meses más tarde seguiríamos abocados a los nuevos rituales impuestos por un virus no deseado pero bien instalado, que las discusiones en torno al lavado de manos se trasladarían a la ardua cuestión...
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The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon.
Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and...
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Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.
Memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart - the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's eighth year.
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• The Conch Shell - Elizabeth Raphael
• The Excursionist of JCPenney - Chris Panatier
• Arborify - Cadence Mandybura
• Pain Eater - Danny Menter
• She...
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Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever-to illuminate what it...
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Ghosts, Inc. – where the paranormal is normal!For the first time, the second set of six "Ghosts, Inc. Ghostly Shorts," which are short stories meant to enhance the GI novels, are available in a single, comprehensive collection for your reading enjoyment. Designed to expand the rich world of "Ghosts, Inc.," these short stories can be read and enjoyed independently of the novels.This collection of short stories takes place in the time between the...
16) Forever Sweet
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One Northshore PrincessOne Male StripperA Rooftop Hook-upA Murder?They may both hate the situation initially, but as their time lingers, so do their feelings and they have to figure out if they'll be a sweet nothing or stay Forever Sweet.
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About the Book: The essence of The Seven Deadly Sins (Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth and Wrath) are captured in this anthology of flash fiction (fiction of extreme brevity) stories! Written by four amazing writers, their flurry of words and polished sentences reveal each of the 'sins' in a manner unique to each author. Some stories reveal the entrapment in a single scene, others exposed the characters' fall from grace over a longer period...
19) Already Perfect
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Ruby needs to make a fresh start. She's twenty-six years old, living at home and picking up temporary work when she can. Things need to change. So when Ruby gets a job offer she jumps at it, only thing is, it means a move four hundred kilometres from home and from her friends. Allenby looks like a nice country town, somewhere to settle in and make some new friends, maybe even meet a man, eventually. Lord knows it's been a long time between drinks...
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This disparate gathering of books and stories has as little in common as the varied contents of a 'sampler platter' of appetizers at a restaurant and serves the same purpose: if you don't know what exactly you are hungry for, at least in a literary sense, why not try a little of everything?Within you will find a book of fairy tales and verse (Over the Hills and Far Away), two short and humorous tales (The Foibles), two volumes of longer tales (The...
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