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Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history-from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others.
This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts-written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women-documents women's literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge...
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Die Anthologie "Mia-Maries Herzenswunsch" enthält zehn traurige und nachdenklich machende Geschichten über Kinder. Das Kurzgeschichten-Projekt wurde für die an Krebs erkrankte Mia-Marie ins Leben gerufen, die einen inoperablen Gehirntumor hat. Ein Teil des Erlöses geht direkt an die 8-Jährige, damit ihr Herzenswunsch, so viele schöne Erlebnisse und damit Erinnerungen wie möglich zu sammeln, umgesetzt werden kann.
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Al igual que ocurre con otros volúmenes de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, la presente antología reúne historias de los más destacados cuentistas de Inglaterra. La cantidad de grandes escritores ingleses es vasta, de tal manera que es una tarea muy ardua seleccionar pocos cuentos entre tantos excelentes. Por otro lado, el lector puede tener la máxima certeza de que encontrará en esta obra cuentos hermosos escritos por cuentistas de talento incuestionable,...
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The American West. Just as America attracted millions to her shores by building upon a foundation of freedom, democracy, and a new start, the lands beyond the Mississippi would also attract people from all over the world with visions of opportunity and wide-open spaces and provide America with legends and myths that have yet to die.
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In the cutting-edge manner and method of Verses that Hurt and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Café, this anthology gathers recent work by many of New York City's most daring young poets. Contributors to this eclectic, exhilarating collection include Jordan Davis, Maggie Estep, Mimi Goese, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sharon Mesmer, Lee Ranaldo, Prageeta Sharma, Mac Wellman, and others.
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In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths, of...
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This unique collection is prepared for the heroines of the future:
Novels:
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables Series
Rose in Bloom
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Jane Eyre
Heidi
Emily of New Moon
Alice in Wonderland
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Peter and Wendy
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
The Princess and the Goblin
At the Back of the North Wind
A Girl of the Limberlost
Rebecca of Sunnybrook...
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Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays on what's new in the world of speculative genres. With interviews, personal essays, rants, and raves, the authors of Interstellar Flight Magazine explore the vast outreaches of nerdom.
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The first anthology of its kind in the West, Contemporary Iraqi Fiction gathers work from sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic into English. Shedding a bright light on the rich diversity Iraqi experience, Shakir Mustafa has included selections by Iraqi women, Iraqi Jews now living in Israel, and Christians and Muslims living both in Iraq and abroad.
While each voice is distinct, they are united in writing about a homeland that has suffered...
10) The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems From Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and F
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The Heartbeat of the Universe collects poems from the top writers in the science fiction and literary genres, including voices such as Jane Yolen, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, Jessy Randall, and many others. These poems, selected by editor Emily Hockaday from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact over the past decade, examine the Universe's smallest particles and largest astral phenomena. These poems travel...
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From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy caught up in a robbery to a girl desperate to save a failing greyhound, the characters who populate this short story anthology could have dropped straight from a Nick Cave song book. These 21 stories, from some of Australia's favourite creators, respond to Cave's visionary genius with...
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An exciting new anthology from the journal Time magazine called "the biggest 'little magazine' in history." To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the venerable Paris Review, Picador is proud to publish a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life. Like the work of the writers included, this book will inspire a dizzying range of thought and emotion, serving as a cumulative and breathtaking "mirror" to the world we live in.
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited mystery collection:
Edgar Wallace:
The Four Just Men
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
Victor L. Whitechurch:
The Canon in Residence
Anna Katharine Green:
The Leavenworth Case
A Strange Disappearance
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
That Affair Next Door
Lost Man's Lane
The Circular Study
G. K. Chesterton:
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Donnington Affair
Arthur Conan...
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Red. The color of blood, of war, of passion-and of a new unicorn herd. Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some stories feature physical unicorns, most do not. Some unicorns are kind, most are not. From a battlefield to a candy store, from zombie unicorns in rural America to...
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The sheep that's a good listener. The woman and the ice cream salesman. The young man who falls in love with a washing machine. That age old tale.
Funny, macabre, heart-breaking, eerie, disturbing, provocative...the 21 stories in this collection of originals are all winners of the Chipping Norton Literary Festival Short Story Competition Winners from its inception in 2016 to 2022. The stories are hugely varied in style and genre, and will appeal...
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Over the past twenty-five years, New Stories from the South has published the work of now well-known writers, including James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus, Barbara Kingsolver, John Sayles, Joshua Ferris, and Abraham Verghese and nurtured the talents of many others, including Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Brock Clarke, Lee Smith, and Daniel Wallace.
This twenty-fifth volume reachs out beyond the South to one of the most acclaimed short story writers of...
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Historically, short stories were a rich source of successful movies and significant films. Classics such as Rear Window, High Noon, Psycho, All About Eve, and Blade Runner began as short stories. Unfortunately, many of the major venues for discovering new talent-The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and Mademoiselle-are gone. Today, short stories are again becoming an important basis for major motion pictures and television, with films such as Brokeback...
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Sind Sie ein Kritiker der Corona-Maßnahmen? Ein Demo-Gänger? Ein Aluhut-Träger? Dann ist das Lesen von "Die sexuellen Phantasien der Virologen" für Sie alternativlos. Denn erst danach wissen Sie, wann die Pandemie endlich vorbei ist, was man auf eine Demo unbedingt mitnehmen sollte, woran man einen Verschwörungstheoretiker erkennt, welches die sieben unbequemsten Wahrheiten über Viren sind und was Virologen unter ihrem Kittel tragen. Falls Sie...
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Esta antología de relatos es una iniciativa de tres instituciones culturales de primer orden: el Hay Festival, el British Council y el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Conaculta) de México, que buscaron la complicidad como seleccionadores de tres escritores internacionalmente reconocidos (Juan Villoro, Guadalupe Nettel y Cristina Rivera Garza) para establecer una muestra de relatos de los autores más interesantes de la nueva literatura...
20) 50 Christan Books - Scripture, Theology, Philosophy and Spirituality (Including Christian Novels)
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique Christianity collection with carefully picked out religious works from the earliest times to modern days, showing the development of Christian religion and spirituality.
Scripture:
Bible
First Clement
Second Clement
Didache
Epistle of Barnabas
Shepherd of Hermas
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
Apocalypse of Peter
History:
History of the Christian Church (Philip Schaff)
Creeds of Christendom (Philip Schaff)
Philosophy...