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6441) Airstream
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A woman who cannot leave her house loses everything, her only companion a garrulous radio talk show host; a house fire sets into motion the end of a marriage; a teenage girl cannot extract herself from a doomed relationship with a heroin addict. Innocence, and the loss thereof, are handled with humour, compassion, and heartbreaking honesty.
6442) Play of Shadows
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Kathryn Purnell was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1911. She travelled to Australia as a young woman, later living also in Paris, Cairo and Jakarta.
Kathryn embodied the soul and spirit of a creative writer. She maintained an intense interest in both the natural and spiritual worlds, the everyday and the eternal, diverse countries and their cultures, as well as the human condition (of which she had an uncanny understanding). A gifted educator, she was...
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One-hundred years too late. Not bad for a creature who lives thousands of years. At least, Wayne Reese keeps telling himself that while driving through a blizzard to wake up a vampire. On the spring equinox, Wayne gets more than he bargained for. If you enjoy non-traditional female vampires, be sure to read Kate Madison, Late Sleeper-the first short story in the Kate Madison series.
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The Royal Marines come from a long and proud tradition dating back to 1664. However, the first incarnation of the service, the Marine Regiments, was plagued by structural and operational difficulties. The formation of the British Marine Corps at the onset of the Seven Years War in 1755 was a defining moment, for this was the first time the government gave operational priority to the Navy. Following many trials and tribulations, in 1802 the British...
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Tagore's treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth century India and all are, interwoven with Tagore's perceptive eye for detail, strong sense of humanity and deep affinity for the natural world. Tagore's stories continue to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.
This collection contains some of the best stories of Tagore who put India on...
6446) Best New Horror
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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this short story-from Joe Hill's award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make...
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Kayla Murray is trapped in a prison from which there is no escape. Ever since she was little, she's been plagued by the shadow monsters that live under her bed… Moving house doesn't help. Sleeping on the couch doesn't help. The monsters are attracted to her and will lurk in the shadows no matter where she is; until the lights go out and she falls into the eternal realms between wakefulness and slumber. But Kayla is not a little girl anymore, and...
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Previously published in the anthology Santa's On His Way
This holiday season, warm your heart with the gift of unexpected love...
When Meg O'Neill's longtime boyfriend lets her down, again, on Christmas no less, she braves an Oregon blizzard to get to her best friend Noah's comforting arms. But, this time Noah's not telling her what she wants to hear...
Noah's always known the right thing to say to soothe Meg's wounded pride and help her pick up...
6449) Interceptions
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Internet dating seemed like a fine idea to environmental designer, and closeted Regency romance fanatic, Melissa Moreau, until she found herself in an obnoxious sports bar with a no-show for a date. A date who looked great in his online profile, but then he couldn't bother himself to arrive on time to a crappy bar he chose for a first date. In Regency romance novels, the heroes always showed up, dressed impeccably, had charming manners, and lived...
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A Lightning Gap StoryKay's Café specializes in comfort. From the greetings to the decor, and especially the food.
Kay prides herself on knowing exactly what everybody needs.
But some folks need comforting in a different way. One Kay struggles to recreate.
Can she figure out how to bring the taste of love itself back to life? Also available in the collection Stepping Out of Reality An excerpt from A Taste Just Like a Hug:That Taste You Never Quite...
6451) Nuit de Noël
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Extrait : « Le réveillon ! le réveillon ! Ah ! mais non, je ne réveillonnerai pas. Le gros Henri Templier disait cela d'une voix furieuse, comme si on lui eût proposé une infamie. Les autres, riant, s'écrièrent : "Pourquoi te mets-tu en colère?" Il répondit : Parce que le réveillon m'a joué le plus sale tour du monde, et que j'ai gardé une insurmontable horreur pour cette nuit stupide de gaieté imbécile...»
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How do you highlight just one comical story from the Emergency Room? You don't. Take for example, our patient in "I've got a Rumble in my Tummy". So there we all were, standing around at the nurse's station looking at the x-ray of an abdomen and pelvis, on the screen, and seeing what appeared to be two walnut-sized objects near the bottom of the patient's x-ray. Several of us wondered aloud as to how those objects got up there in the first place,...
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Windsor Park Boys Reminisce is a nostalgic collection of stories based on the lives of Henry and Larry as they reminisce about fun times growing up with the Windsor Park Boys during the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Get to know Henry and Larry and the Windsor Park Boys through their comical coming-of-age stories-from grade school to dating girls and all the antics in between.
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'Since she was valorous, she said she was a man, and since Mahishan was speaking of love, he was feminine... If she was a combination of feminine and masculine qualities, why could he too not be a combination of the masculine and feminine?'
Setting the stage with the Asura Mahishan's doomed love for the beautiful Devi, Ambai deftly combines myth and tradition with contemporary situations. In the title story, the woman who is mother, daughter, solver...
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First published in 1969, Ray Smith's Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada remains as refreshing, innovative and important today as it has in every previous incarnation. Sophisticated, playful, crafted, sly, self-referential and extremely funny, it marks the beginning of a long and important, if unfortunately underappreciated, career by one of Canada's best humorists and innovative story-tellers.
6457) Cryptids
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National Endowment for the Humanities awardee and designated Keeper of the Hibernaculum of Imaginary Hedgehogs KJ Hannah Greenberg presents Cryptids, the third installment of her short story series. If you like your literary fiction sprinkled with friendly insanity, or if you prefer your contemporary fantasy to resonate with profound realism, or if you simply enjoy reading about anthropomorphic critters and everyday people in unusual situations both...
6458) Struck By The Sea
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The emotional story of two identical and orphaned twins whose lives were suddenly disrupted by the Tsunami of 2004. During her desperate and relentless search for her sister, Nilanthi met her future adoptive parents, who brought her back to the United States with them shortly after the natural disaster. Near Boston, she was given a home, an education and all the love she had ever hoped for. While her parents continued to search for Amandeep, her...
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dark horse/ˈdärk ˈˌhrs/noun1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds."a dark-horse candidate"Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion--whatever it is, if it's weird, it's here. So grab a seat before...
6460) boYs
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What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know. What are they thinking when they warn women against adventure, gulp ale in moonlit truck wrecks, steal their fingers down their nurses' thighs, tell their little girls fairy tales? What are insane boys the most exquisite, and where have the musical geniuses flown without our love? What is Jerome Hepditch doing in...
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