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A collection of the earliest complete works of Daniel J. Lyons, four first-person short stories:
"A Visit to the Licensing Department" - a science fiction story about what life might be like if human lives were cheapened to the point where they could be taken legally as long as you get the correct permit.
"The Busiest Workday" - a speculative fiction story told by a mid-level angel that attempts to answer the question will bureaucracy ever end?...
10023) Twisted: A Cinderella Story
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What happens when its not a glassed slipper that gets left behind? Raya St. Thomas is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life - until an unexpected encounter with the prince throws her into the royal spotlight. Summoned against her will to audition for queen, Raya is determined to reject the offer, but can she resist the pull of a forbidden love? Will sabotage and jealousy get in the way of their happily ever after?
10024) Sacré désir
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"Sacré désir" est une collection de nouvelles qui explore les méandres du désir à travers différents personnages, leurs amours, leurs désillusions, leurs joies, leurs peines, leurs passions, leurs luttes, leurs incertitudes et leurs triomphes. Un voyage à la fois intime et universel qui repousse les limites de la découverte de soi.
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Entrepreneure le jour et auteure la nuit, Rosa Bellei dévoile son premier...
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Twisted Tales from the Desert - an anthology of short stories with twisted views and endings. In this collection you will find humor, murder, a love story involving a ghost, an inhabited ghost town, a Fairy Godmother tale unlike anything you would expect, and more. This book contains adult content and is not recommended for readers under the age of 18.
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Dans un style explosif teinté d'un comique rageur, un premier recueil de nouvelles o réalité et fantasmes se rejoignent.
Que faire lorsque Dieu lui-même monte une machination contre vous? Quel événement prodigieux s'est-il produit le jeudi 13 avril? Pourquoi Charles Bronson se trouve-t-il invoqué à Notre-Dame de Paris?
Les amateurs de l'humour féroce des Monthy Python vont se régaler!
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Il y a trois semaines. Un jeudi matin, pour...
10027) Remarkable
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Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people, landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character-neither protagonist nor antagonist-but instead the weird next-door-neighbor you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one-you or Oklahoma?...
10028) Recapture
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The Utah Canyons WildMall gives tourists exactly what they want. An archivist preserves a rare map of a vanished Lake Tahoe. The Grand Canyon can only be visited in replica form. These stories - lyrical, deadpan, surreal - blur the line between the natural world and the world we make.
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A Trader. Alien Cargo. A Strange Situation.
Traders transport aliens in the far future.
Trader Kierison loves space. He transports deadly alien cargo. Kierison realises an enemy hunt them.
But how far will Kierison go to protect his crew?
An exciting, enthralling, imaginative scifi adventure throwing readers into a rich scifi world they'll love.
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10031) A vau-l'eau
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Extrait : "Le garçon mit sa main gauche sur la hanche, appuya sa main droite sur le dos d'une chaise et il se balança sur un seul pied, en pinçant les lèvres. - Dame, ça dépend des goûts, dit-il ; moi, à la place de Monsieur, je demanderais du Roquefort. - Eh bien, donnez-moi un Roquefort."
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Visit an enchanted bookstore in a town full of magicChris Ramsey grew up visiting the Odds and Endings Bookstore in Lightning Gap, Virginia.Wandering the shelves. Finding endless adventures in the pages.Wishing he helped create the magic.Years later, Chris gets his chance.What would you do for the opportunity of a lifetime?An excerpt from Odds and Endings:A Special Odds and Endings Welcome to Our Newest Writer-in-Residence: EllaJane Cole!Chris had...
10033) The Anton Chekov Omnibus
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The Serapis Classics edition of "The Anton Chekov Omnibus" contains over 150 stories penned by the Russian master!
A few months before he died, Chekhov told the writer Ivan Bunin that he thought people might go on reading his writings for seven years. "Why seven?" asked Bunin. "Well, seven and a half," Chekhov replied. "That's not bad. I've got six years to live."
10034) Irrational Numbers
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The death of a pet fish signals an ominous threat of wordwide tragedy... Delta Company "plays" out a war light years away... A running back for the Cleveland Browns gives his all to relive a night from his past… In IRRATIONAL NUMBERS, as with much of his work, author George Alec Effinger straddles the line between allegorical fantasy and science fiction. It's a vein Effinger mines for a deep, meaningful understanding of human nature. Challenging...
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Born in 1814, the son of an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, Le Fanu single-handedly created a new kind of fictional ghost story. Gone are the sheeted spooks rattling rusty chains and the peripatetic headless ladies that infest Gothic fiction. In their place Le Fanu created formidably real supernatural presences that emerge from within, as well as invade from without.
Le Fanu was the first writer to explore seriously the psychological dimensions...
10036) Red Ink
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Down on her luck, Anthalia takes a proper job to stay out of jail and keep flying. Red Ink is a short science fiction story, complete with a snarky main character and a devoted AI. Pick up Red Ink and take a deep plunge into the darker reaches of space today!
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Extrait : "Lorsque Boabdil, dernier roi de Grenade, fut obligé d'abandonner le royaume de ses pères, il s'arrêta au sommet du mont Padul. De ce lieu élevé on découvrait la mer o l'infortuné monarque allait s'embarquer pour l'Afrique ; on apercevait aussi Grenade, la Véga et le Xénil, au bord duquel s'élevaient les tentes de Ferdinand et d'Isabelle."
10038) A Mingled Yarn
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Sasha and Connelly are entering the home stretch ... Sasha's 39+ weeks pregnant and just a tiny bit cranky. Connelly's just a tiny bit panicked.
The couple's excitement at their impending arrival is mixed with a dash of nerves, a touch of chaos, and a hint of danger. And too many surprises to count.
10039) Alaskan
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Written over the course of a quarter century by one of Alaska's best living writers, these two dozen stories embody the spirit of Alaska--its colliding cultures, magnificent beauty and dangerously unforgiving environment.
10040) Le Père Amable: Nouvelle
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Extrait : "Le ciel humide et gris semblait peser sur la vaste plaine brune. L'odeur de l'automne, odeur triste des terres nues et mouillées, des feuilles tombées, de l'herbe morte, rendait plus épais et plus lourd l'air stagnant du soir.
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