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  • The Insomniac Book Club
    Sky Locke
    Charity has lived her life as an insomniac, and life has been the harder for it. But Charity is older now, and lives a quiet, peaceful life with her golden retriever. Through this story, Charity reminisces about her struggles with insomnia, how she found peace in the silences and loneliness that permeated her nights, and how she found friends in unlikely places. ...
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    16,40 €

  • Infinite Zero
    Daniel Aegan
    The universe is a weird place, and it’s about to get a whole lot weirder. A warehouse worker takes an impromptu trip throughout the multiverse. A sidekick plans revenge against the supervillain that took his hero away from him. A woman falls in love with a seventy-five-foot-tall cosmic giant. You’ll find all this in Infinite Zero along with ghosts of dead presidents, eighties ...
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    18,43 €

  • UN CUENTO PARA SOÑAR, 3ªed
    José Antonio Fernández de la Orden
    Un cuento para soñar nos invita a un mundo de imaginación sin límites, introduciéndonos en una aventura capaz de transportarnos a un mundo nuevo. Este libro nos acerca al lugar donde los sueños pueden hacerse realidad dando paso a un mundo mágico. Un cuento donde el lector experimenta una fácil lectura conduciéndonos a una aventura llena de color; con lugares y seres que sin du...
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    15,00 €

  • Teddy Pooch
    Jamie T. Hines
    Are you ready to embark on a thrilling adventure filled with mystery, friendship, and a mischievous canine detective? TEDDY POOCH "The Case of the Missing Treats" is a captivating children’s book that will keep young readers on the edge of the pages! In this delightful tale, Teddy Pooch, a clever and lovable detective dog, finds himself entangled in a puzzling mystery when all ...
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    9,29 €

  • Trick of the Porch Light
    Jessica Barksdale Inclán
    In these diverse stories, readers are invited to witness the transformative power of adversity. Whether it’s a chilling encounter with the unknown or the poignant exploration of human connections, each story reveals the resilience of the human spirit and the profound growth that can emerge from facing the unexpected. Jessica Barksdale Inclán weaves themes that resonate deeply w...
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    14,68 €

  • Mother-of-Pearl Moons
    Fina Casalderrey / Jonathan Dunne
    In this collection, Fina Casalderrey regales us with five stories written in the starry firmament of night. In the title story, a woman moves with her husband to a house in the village, where she plans to give birth, and is approached by a gardener who offers to tend the garden at night. In 'Appointment in the Gardens of the South', a descendant of Galician emigrants to Argenti...
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    17,98 €

  • Echoes of Yesterday
    Wraydawn
    From the depths of her horrifying, traumatic ordeal, a 15-year-old girl emerges as a pillar of strength and courage.  Her journey through life had been one of pain, healing and justice.  Her life was like a tapestry woven with threads of resilience.  Through all her hardships, she chose to heal and grow stronger instead of letting them define her.  She is living proof that even...
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    10,62 €

  • Devious Minds
    Vineet Verma
    When you hear the word 'criminal', what comes to mind? A cold-blooded killer? A professional burglar? Perhaps someone peddling drugs? People who indulge in illegal activities everyday. But sometimes it’s just regular Joes like you and me. Men and women who do honest work, staying within the limits of the law, until one day they can’t take it anymore and they commit a crime. But...
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    12,71 €

  • THIEVES BERTH
    C. S. Stein
    This gang of good-hearted thieves steal from the morally corrupt to sell to the morally compromised and make a boodle while sailing up and down the Mississippi River in their getaway houseboat and home doing good while being bad.How to make a living as thieves while only stealing from evil people? Big problem. Plus, powerful enemies dog their steps. Staying one step ahead is th...
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    9,97 €

  • Boys Buy Me Drinks to Watch Me Fall Down
    Anna Dickson James
    'Story after story gave me the uneasy feeling that I’d been outed, my secret anxiety and exhaustion laid bare. The emotional computations of the characters are constant, a steady drone that directs them to accommodate everyone, as much as possible, all the time.'- Allison Moore, from the IntroductionBoys Buy Me Drinks to Watch Me Fall Down is the quietly opened vein that every ...
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    14,77 €

  • In the Cut
    Michael Lockett
    Life in Appalachia is like a kid standing in the center of a seesaw. It’s a fragile balance, somewhere between the old world and the new, flat-broke or getting by, rooted in place or getting out. Sometimes, folks here lose footing, lean too far one way or another. If one end of the seesaw comes down hard, it knocks them right off. These are stories of hard-scrapped, everyday Ap...
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    12,14 €

  • Chimerascope
    Douglas Smith
    Sunburst Award Finalist | Aurora Award Finalist | CBC Bookies Award FinalistChimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp]-a story of many parts... A young artist hungers to draw you.A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish.A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew.The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge.A mysterious dancer lead...
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    19,81 €

  • Turn On the Light
    Sangini Agarwal
    A collection of diverse flash fiction centred around the theme of renewed hope; each story features a myriad of new, wildly different characters and plotlines that readers get to unearth. In ’#CaffeineSpeakeasy,’ a coffee obsessed family who take drastic measures when coffee is outlawed by the government. ’Death of the Sun’ depicts a supernatural, dystopian world ravaged by dem...
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    11,87 €

  • Ten More Things About Us
    Nancy Welch
    Spring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner'There’s no such thing as society,' Margaret Thatcher famously-and cruelly-proclaimed. 'There are individual men and women and there are families.' Through three stories in Ten More Things About Us, Nancy Welch illuminates the consequences of this philosophy-writ-policy in the very particular lives of women who labor to care fo...
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    10,49 €

  • Ravings of an Unsettled Mind
    J.A. Barrios
    This first collection from storyteller J.A. Barrios takes themes that haunt us in everyday life - grief, loneliness, desire, addiction - and twists them into horrific nightmares.We’ve all faced the challenge of accepting our own fate and releasing fear, but could you make the ultimate Acceptance? Nathan is a desperate child who makes an innocent wish to finally find a friend i...
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    13,17 €

  • Casey Masterson’s Revelations of the Raven Master Volume One
    Casey Masterson
    Legend has it that if the six resident ravens leave the Tower of London, the Kingdom, and the tower itself will fall. It is the Raven Master’s calling to protect those regal but, at times, evil birds. However, the Raven Master holds more secrets in the world’s darkest, dankest dungeon, for he is the master storyteller, older than time itself. Each tale of the macabre and deprav...
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    21,32 €

  • Toasting The Yogi
    Gautam Nadkarni
    This is an extraordinary, light-hearted book written by Gautam Nadkarni. Filled with a series of short stories -- or haibun as the genre is known in Japanese --set in India to make you laugh and smile. This book was created for those who enjoy a boost in the soul and makes you feel good after reading every chapter. Each of the wonderful drawings within, executed by the author h...
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    16,39 €

  • Unredeemable and other stories
    Glen Heefner
    Sixteen short literary stories, each told in a different voice and place. Recipient of the Kirkus Star. The Book Commentary awarded this collection five stars.IN THE NAMESAKE STORYAn institution that has brought people together is now pushing them apart.IN THE OTHER STORIESA mother persistently refuses to turn against her self-absorbed son. A lonely man on borrowed time reconst...
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    12,41 €

  • Time Lines
    Karen J Mossman
    Time travel can be a useful resource, but what if something unexpected goes wrong?In the year 3236, the government uses time travel to document the mistakes of the past. It’s a way to gain power in the present by learning from history.During a leap back to WWII, Astro-archeologist Julie finds her safe projection hasn’t gone as planned. Instead of the ethereal presence she’s sup...
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    15,07 €

  • The Resurrection
    Carlos B. Camacho
    Written in first person, ’The Resurrection’ is about the strange story of the author, who is a foreigner, and the unearthly way he learned to speak and write English fluently. This piece of high-quality literature is gripping and full of suspense, with twists. It’s worth reading it till the very end. Down below, extracts from the story:When I woke up again, it was already late ...
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    14,49 €

  • Compassion Fatigue
    Humberto da Silva
    A father comforts his young son, hoping against hope their last little island of the Azorean archipelago won’t be strip mined by the Singularity.A couple choose a cheap upload for the consciousness of their young daughter who is dying from a disease they can’t afford to cure.A tourist doing yoga on a Canary Island beach watches the distance diminish between himself and the Afri...
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    21,79 €

  • A Lighter Shade of Night
    K.A. Bachus
    Why don’t you kill the guards and let us fight our way out? They grew up together and are distantly related. But can three such different personalities form an effective fighting team? When a car bomb leaves Misha orphaned at nineteen, his life changes its trajectory. The possibilities of a privileged youth fade to a dismal choice between a brutal death or a violent life. He wi...
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    16,57 €

  • Тайна Книги
    Angelo Grassia / Ekaterina Spirina
    Встреча с Сабриной, красивой девушкой, с которой Паки случайно познакомился в Гаэте одним жарким августовским днем, перевернула всю его жизнь. Благодаря ей, Паки отправился на 'блошиный рынок', где он встретил старьевщика, который, проникшись к Паки симпатией, подарил ему рукопись.Сначала Паки отказался от этого подарка, но под воздействием настойчивости старьевщика, принял под...
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    7,53 €

  • Dancescritos: Recuerdos y fantasías textuales
    Daniela Ceballos Escudero
    Libélula Editores, 2023.Este libro es para quienes desean soñar, elevar su imaginación y saborear de nuevo el sabor de la infancia, con la misma dulce ingenuidad con la que transcurrieron esos dichosos días en los que la realidad era un sueño y cada sueño se hacía realidad con sólo imaginarlo.A través de su imaginación y sus recuerdos, Daniela Ceballos nos trae una obra su prim...
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    9,69 €

  • Cuentos de Ulises mudos, sirenas varadas y otros mares
    Carolina Saavedra
    Cuentos de Ulises mudo, sirenas varadas y otros mares es una recopilación de cuentos donde conviven el amor y la desolación, la soledad en compañía y la ilusión con el desaliento. Un libro dividido en tres estancias, en cada una de ellas se reúnen los relatos que se encuentran más confortables entre sí.Su lectura puede empezar desde cualquier página, son relatos cortos con en??...
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    16,00 €

  • Still Time
    Brian Bourner
    Entertaining short stories, short enough to read in a coffee-break, often set in Edinburgh, these tales cover a wide variety of subjects, scenarios, emotions, and social behaviours. ...
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    16,04 €

  • PRECIOUS & PERVERSE
    Will Wright
    The narratives in this book span a broad range of human behavior, including ignorance, greed, revenge, death, murder, deceit, adultery, erotica, fantasy, innocence, serendipity, humor, love, and possibly a bit of the absurd.Will Wright lives, works, and plays in the Green Mountains of Vermont. ...
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    15,40 €

  • The Raft and the Speedboat
    John A King
    If life is a journey and not a destination, why are we not happy just wandering aimlessly?If life is a destination at the end of a journey, why are we not content when we arrive at wherever ’there’ is?I think there is one more component, maybe two that are missing in the matrix of living a satisfied life.So grab a beverage, maybe a cigar and sit for a minute; I want to tell you...
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    10,42 €

  • Children’s Short Stories
    Koos Verkaik
    We suggest this fascinating children’s story book by author Koos Verkaik to people who are spending time at home and seeking a cozy adventure or bedtime tale. Lessons of friendship, courage, honesty, good, evil, deceit, hard work, and integrity are taught through the amazing stories in the book, which open doors to delight, information, engagement, and empathy. These simple fab...
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    16,78 €

  • The Long, the Short and the Tall
    E.P. Rose
    The long, the short and the tall, we all have them, stories accumulated over our lives. Elizabeth, an English transplant, recorded the fifty-two in this collection over the forty years she has spent in America. Some shocking, some sad, some to set you laughing, and others purely fantastical, each story triggered by a true event or impression, will give you a topic to think or l...
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    33,31 €


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