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Noche de cuentos... y poesía, es el resultado de las historias contadas en cada pueblo de la serranía peruana, historias que se repiten de boca en boca con los matices propios de quien las cuenta. Estos cuentos escuchados y guardados a lo largo del tiempo, hoy salen a la luz con el agregado que aporta la imaginación y estilo del autor, iniciando así una serie de cuentos cortos en complicidad con el aval del lector. Noche de Cuentos... y poesía...
43) Lena
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When Police Chief Alton Gravely and Officer Carothers escalate the feud between "Torreya's finest" and conjure woman Eulalie Jenkins by running her off the road into a north Florida swamp, the borrowed pickup truck is salvaged but Eulalie is missing and presumed dead. Her cat Lena survives. Lena could provide an accurate account of the crime, but the county sheriff is unlikely to interview a pet.
Lena doesn't think Eulalie is dead, but the conjure...
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Lovely and her dad would always take a walk in the park, but every time they would take this walk, Lovely always noticed her dad would stop in front of an enormous tree. So being the curious girl she was, she asked her dad why he would always look at that tree. Then her dad told her to look at the very top of this tree. There she saw the most beautiful and majestic thing she had ever seen. What she saw was many, many birds of all kinds on the tree....
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Zoo keeper Mr. Shirl, who looks like Little Dawnie's daddy, takes the friends on a tour of the Zoo, showing them how to play the games and the fun rides and introducing them to the Tigers, Lions, and Bears. Oh My! Dog explains to Ning and Boss that they are really at home, sound asleep! They are Sleep Walkers! They cannot be hurt on their adventures, and if they are afraid of anything or are in danger, they will wake up in their own beds! Because,...
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medeo Modigliani, embittered and unrecognized genius, dies of meningitis on a cold January day in Montparnasse in 1920. Jeanne Hébuterne, his young wife and muse, follows 48 hours later, falling backwards through a window. Now a ghost, Jeanne drifts about the studio she shared with Modigliani-for she was not only his favorite model, but also an artist whose works were later shut away from public view after her demise. Enraged, she watches as her...
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'…she cursed your farm and the church saying to all those who lived or went there they would suffer for ever more and be haunted by the devil.' Jeremiah's family farm has been cursed, and when his family members are struck one by one, he has no one to turn to but his sweetheart Victoria. However, Victoria is not who he thought, and after committing adultery, she falls pregnant. She promises the baby, on his third birthday to the Devil, and he is...
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Along the oldest river in North America, New River, Zoe and Tod take a vacation with their teenage child Diana, who is experiening a heartbreak. The beauty of Appalachia presents a new world in many ways, with intimations of past and future mixing together. When Diana is swept down river due to unknown causes, an unexpected world. opens. Laden with dangers and tests, the question arises as to whether love can be found.
49) The Cat's Job
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What is the Cat's Job?
Some say a cat's job is to be decorative. Some say it is to slay vermin. Some say a cat ought to earn his or her keep, and some think cats are mere pets. Some folks are dog people, but we don't need to talk too much about them here.
In this chapbook we look at a cat mayor at work, talk about cats as people, and share several fictional pieces dealing with the place of cats and their people in the universe at large.
The Cat's...
50) Huntress Moon
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Mia was bitten by a werewolf as a child and left for dead. But a magician called the Hunter saved her, using magic and healing arts. He smelled of smoke and cloves, and once she was healed, he left to continue hunting the werewolf who bit her. But he left some of his magic in her. Not only is Mia one of the rare female werewolves, but she grows to an enormous size and is able to wield magic. One day, she hears laughter and is drawn to a small group...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456, give or take ... Business at the Luna Café & Coffee is looking up for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The owners — elderly schoolteacher Miss Letty, and the irascible Doc Wyler have approved hiring another cook and expanding hours at the Café. Joe Vaughn, chief of the tiny Luna City Police Department, is coping with the demands of parenthood ... and both he and...
52) Sparks: Part 1
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Under normal circumstances, lifting a landmass is impossible. Under normal circumstances. But a lot can change in a year as Richard Cronin discovers. While attending the Messengers of Hope Reunion, a chance to remake the world's former greatest source of inspiration, his best friend and co-founder is killed when the event is taken hostage. Rich inherits the property and decides to turn around his life and bring purpose to it by finding ways to do...
53) Fault Lines
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A boy who wants to die. A girl who would do anything to live. A stranger with their fate in her hands.Cathie Ayala has never been to Santa María, the country of her parents' birth. Now her beloved godmother has gone missing in that South American nation's political turmoil. Risking her safety and sense of self, Cathie sets out to find the woman who raised her.Instead she stumbles on two young people facing crises of their own. Injured in a terrible...
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Carmen, una joven de escasos recursos economicos que trabaja en un consultorio medico, donde se siente atrapada entre cuatro paredes, con un sueldo que apenas alcanza para sobrevivir, recibe una oferta de empleo que le ofrece el doble de su salario y le garantiza que podra viajar por toda Colombia. Su vida cambia de estar entre cuatro paredes, sin luz solar, a conocer muchos lugares y trabajar a plena luz del sol. Su familia, su casa y su vecindario...
55) Blinded
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Water welled up in her eyes as streams of desperate tears started to fall onto her metallic-pink dress. Her face longed for affection that she had never given, A desperation that seemed to eat her slowly inside. Has the world ever pulled out your card? The card that announces a challenge from life that there is reneging from. People center themselves on a singular point, blurring out the big picture because of their individual lives and challenges....
56) Eternal
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Belief in good compels belief in evil, and evil is not just the absence of good. Evil is manifest. Created by God, evil has forged its own identity and is invested in a destiny of its own making. Unwittingly, evil is a lesson for mankind, our harshest teacher through the ages of our evolution. This is a small part of that long story. A good man is targeted for destruction. He survives and is viciously inducted into the hidden reality of shadow existence....
57) Demoniacs
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Evie Mickelson is anything but your average hostage negotiator with acute mind control powers- but she is about to discover she's the key to a battle with the demonic forces of evil.And Demoniacs (Book 1 of The Revelationary War) is anything but your average urban fantasy road trip novel with dark angels, ninja nuns and djinns. It is also a speculation on the nature of evil and terrorism. It is a commemoration of the superheroes of popular culture....
58) My Afterlife
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My Afterlife will appeal to mature readers fascinated in the beauty of subtle changes like dandelions appearing or the glee when drinking a milkshake while acutely aware of life's unpleasantries. Skeeter McGee shares this intrigue and trepidation with the reader as a small-town genius whose life is truncated minutes before he's to graduate as valedictorian.
During his brief life, curiosity leads Skeeter to identify events and decisions guiding...
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Who is Antoine of Gommiers? A prophet, seer, matchmaker, trickster, or huckster-- or does he even exist? In this satirical novel tinged with magical realism, Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot (Kannjawou) paints a richly textured portrait of life in his native country overseen by supernatural forces where the worlds of dream and reality co-exist. With alternating chapters that reveal the day to day struggles in the capital city of Port-au-Prince of...
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Vivienne realizes she is dying. All she wants to do is see her daughter Giselle one last time and apologize. But Giselle no longer exists and it is Crow, a gender-queer anarchist, who returns to a family home that is plagued by ghosts and violent memories. With the help of a shaman Ze met in a dream, Crow unravels terrifying family secrets, hoping to find closure at last. But can anyone survive the shadows that lurk behind these fairy tales?
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