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"A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. A group of girls goes camping. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together her touchstones of music and memory, secret subversions and hidden messages"--
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El Romanticismo literario reaccionó contra la moderación y la frialdad de la Ilustración erigiendo toda una cartografía de los sentimientos humanos. Así, nos regaló algunas de las historias de amor más extraordinarias de la literatura, en las que la naturaleza desatada era indistinguible de las pasiones humanas, pues lo que primaba eran las emociones.De ahí que estas 22 sublimes historias no sean solo románticas, sino también, y sobre todo,...
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Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, an unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover? In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. The Queen of...
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This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Meeting Infinity, and other top venues,...
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"The world's oceans represent the last wild frontier on Earth. While our understanding of life in the ocean is relatively basic, our actions are putting hundreds of species in danger. In this graphic anthology, Matt Dembicki, editor and an artist of the award- winning Trickster and District Comics, explores the adventures of twelve iconic endangered sea animals: hawksbill turtle, Bluefin tuna, hammerhead shark, giant clam, manatee, blue whale, coral,...
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Agrand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius. In "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer. . . . In "The Actress," a great star's shady past becomes the plaything of a blackmailer. . . . In "The...
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Hungry Ghosts volume 1
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"An anthology of horror comics featuring food as a common theme"--
"On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge. Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei,...
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Unfaithful Together is a series of connected, steamy, romance, short stories following one couple, as they pursue their sexual desires together. They are intended to be read in order. Olivia Van der Mol is conservative, and sweet. The kind of woman to take home to meet the family. Jake Johnson is thoughtful, and kind, but with a sexually adventurous side. A chance encounter leads Olivia to believe they were destined to be together. As they grow, Jake...
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A SorcereR and Swordsman find themselves in a pitched battle for their lives… an aging protector questions his legacy… assassins in the same family try to find a common ground… a young woman finds herself in a strange world, fighting to protect her brother… a pirate captain slowly loses his boat to a mysterious fate… the power of the elements flow through a woman searching for her place in the world…An anthology of short stories by Quicksylver...
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"Existen pocas fiestas tan populares como la Navidad, cuyas tradiciones más arraigadas, como cantar villancicos o hacerse regalos, datan de la época victoriana. A la estela del famoso "Cuento de Navidad" de Charles Dickens eclosionó todo un subjénero literario, y numerosos autores de lenguas y géneros distintos, entre ellos Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Riddell, Artuhur Conan Doyle o Emilia Pardo Bazán, se inspiraron...
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The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran represents the most comprehensive volume of works of the Lebanese poet and philosopher ever published. This enriching collection of stories, prose poems, verse, parables and autobiographical essays comprising the major body of Kahlil Gibran's works have been carefully translated and edited by a noted trio of Gibran scholars ... Martin L. Wolf, Anthony R. Ferris and Andrew Dib Sherfan. Each of the ten books included...
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #20 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. This is a special All Sherlock Holmes Fiction issue! Here are:
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From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.
Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson
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Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman
Sherlock Holmes for Crown and Country, by Dan Andriacco
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The Case of the Burnt Song,...
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Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting...
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Complete Peanuts volume 10
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Collects all the "Peanuts" comic strips published from 1969 to 1970 in newspapers, including both daily and Sunday strips.
"Can there be any doubt that Peanuts is now deep into the tumultuous 1960s? Lucy declares herself a 'New Feminist, ' Peppermint Patty gets in trouble for violating her school's dress code, and Snoopy is caught in a riot at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, complete with tear gas. Not to mention the revelation that Snoopy's little bird...
20) FTL, Y'ALL!
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Six months from now, detailed schematics anonymously uploaded to the Internet will describe, in perfect detail, how to build a faster-than-light engine for $200 in easily-available parts. Space travel will become instantly?and chaotically?democratized. The entire cosmos will be within reach of all humankind. This is what happens next. In this visionary science fiction anthology, a striking array of new voices from across the field of comics tackles...
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