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Twisted Visions: Volume One
ISBN: 9781440123696 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book of short stories appeals to a diverse group of readers from sophisticated to the novice reader. There is a story that meets the needs of all. This book ranges from romance, humor, to a fast-paced suspenseful thriller. One of the stories explores greed, materialism, sin, devotion, and commitment to a loving cause.
The author does a magnifi cent job in bringing to life the multi-dimensional characters with a thoughtful clever plot. "Twisted Visions" is a gripping compelling read that is hard to put down. Due to the authors abundant storytelling skills he does a masterful job... This book of short stories appeals to a diverse group of readers from sophisticated to the novice reader. There is a story that meets the needs of all...
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The Book of Wonder
ISBN: 9781604506952 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Strange Doin's in the Pine Hills: Stories of Fantasy and Mystery in East Texas
ISBN: 9781434403520 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gripping tales of fantasy, mystery, and horror set in the piney woods of East Texas.
Gripping tales of fantasy, mystery, and horror set in the piney woods of East Texas.
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63,99 |
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The Eleven
ISBN: 9781440113659 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,42 |
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The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas
ISBN: 9781434457110 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Six stories of fantasy and science fiction by a modern master, including three pieces published for the first time: "The Path of Progess," "Kalamada's Blessing," "The Shepherd's Daughter," "Shadows of the Past," "Reconstruction," and the original short fantasy novel, "The Return of the Djinn."
Six stories of fantasy and science fiction by a modern master, including three pieces published for the first time: "The Path of Progess," "Kalamada's...
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A Room for Sorrow: Five Short Stories
ISBN: 9781440153808 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her five short stories, Dorothy M. Hong celebrates life as she describes young Korean American women meeting the challenges of living a productive immigrant life that may be parallel and analogous to mainstream and provide subcultural components to American literature.
In her five short stories, Dorothy M. Hong celebrates life as she describes young Korean American women meeting the challenges of living a productive ...
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Visions: Short Fantasy & SF
ISBN: 9781934571019 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty classic and two all-new stories explore three realms in one visionary collection. For three decades, Connolly has defied category, writing across genres to create stories where dreams are reality, the future is now, and a lone madman may be the sanest person in the room.
Twenty classic and two all-new stories explore three realms in one visionary collection. For three decades, Connolly has defied category, writing acro...
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Mythangelus
ISBN: 9781904853596 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angels dark and light have inspired Storm Constantine throughout her writing life. In Mythangelus, all of her stories with an angelic theme, or inspired by angel mythos, are collected for the first time. This includes two Wraeththu stories, 'By the River of If Only' and 'Paragenesis' - as the Wraeththu novels were originally inspired by magical angelic legends. Included too are 'Fireborn', and 'The Feet, They Dance', pieces that were written while Storm was working on her Grigori trilogy, which are tales inspired by the myths of the Fallen Angels and the Nephilim. 'A Change of Season' is the...
Angels dark and light have inspired Storm Constantine throughout her writing life. In Mythangelus, all of her stories with an angelic theme, or inspir...
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Time and the Gods
ISBN: 9781434102843 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "These tales are of the things that befell gods and men in Yarnith, Averon, and Zarkandhu, and in the other countries of my dreams." No better summary can be given. The stories here are a lush tapestry of language, conjuring images of people, places, and things that cannot possibly exist yet somehow ring true. You'll read of Slid, an upstart young god; the Dawnchild, who loses her golden ball; the hideous Pestilence; Time and how it overthrew even what the gods favored; laughter and prophecies, doom and hope, gods and human beings J.R.R. Tolkien is often credited with creating the fantasy...
"These tales are of the things that befell gods and men in Yarnith, Averon, and Zarkandhu, and in the other countries of my dreams." No better summary...
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Stuck Together: Stories from a Small Town
ISBN: 9781440175916 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joe Bennett, Dixie Mae Crandall, Hattie Cooper, and Clarence Cobb are hardly exemplary citizens, but they color the pages of this book with recognizable humanity. Thornburg, Indiana, is the kind of town in which such characters are not only tolerated but accept-ed as part of the scenery. Their lives intertwine, sometimes in spite of their intentions. Often against the odds they support and help one another to greater hope and a better life. Too involved with each other's business to be objective, they nevertheless regard one another with tolerance or, at their best, with love and admiration....
Joe Bennett, Dixie Mae Crandall, Hattie Cooper, and Clarence Cobb are hardly exemplary citizens, but they color the pages of this book with recognizab...
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A Horse's Tale
ISBN: 9781438526669 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark Twain is best known for his novels and short stories. Twain uses his incredible whit to depict life in America. His books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been read by school children for generations. His life on the Mississippi River has peeked the imagination of boys to go and build a raft and sail off into unknown adventures. A Horses Tale is a novel partially told in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bills favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. The story begins, "I am Buffalo Bills horse. I have spent my life under his saddle--...
Mark Twain is best known for his novels and short stories. Twain uses his incredible whit to depict life in America. His books Tom Sawyer and Huckle...
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The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens
ISBN: 9781438527581 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE METAL PENS OF 1823.--In a badly-constructed and unsanitary manufactory (Mr. James Collins's), at the back of 119 Suffolk Street, (Birm.), I witnessed the process of making silver and steel pens. As both metals were manufactured in the same manner, one description will serve. It will be remembered by a few that at that time there was a patent silver pencil case somewhat extensively manufactured, which in addition to the pencil, had a penknife, pen and toothpick provided.
THE METAL PENS OF 1823.--In a badly-constructed and unsanitary manufactory (Mr. James Collins's), at the back of 119 Suffolk Street, (Birm.), I witnes...
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Surreal South '09
ISBN: 9780982576014 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sublimity, as we choose to define it, is that quality a story possesses when it is, in its entirety, completely unpredictable as well as completely inevitable and authentic.... A story-a real story, of the type that weve gathered here; not the mock-stories, the painless, bloodless vignettes that make up so much of todays "literary" fiction-involves apocalypse. Apocalypse means a revelation (the literal meaning of the word apocalypse is a "lifting of the veil"), and a very specific type of revelation: the destruction of an old order, followed by a time of disorder and chaos, and the...
"Sublimity, as we choose to define it, is that quality a story possesses when it is, in its entirety, completely unpredictable as well as completely i...
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Tales for the Yuletide: A Collection of Christmas Stories
ISBN: 9781440184413 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Tales For The Yuletide" The collection of seven stories in this book are all about gift-giving. But the gifts are of the medaphorical type, not extravigant trinkets wrapped with pretty ribbons and paid for with a credit card. Instead, they are of the kind which can only come from the human heart.
Set in different locations and in various periods in time, and regardless of the characters' ages or sex, the stories were all inspired by the purest meaning of Christmas; the exchanging of that which is priceless. So grab a box of tissue, get comfortable, and fall in love with Christmas all over... "Tales For The Yuletide" The collection of seven stories in this book are all about gift-giving. But the gifts are of the medaphorical type, not extra...
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Beyond the Black Stump: A Collection of Short, Fictional Stories - And Two Poems
ISBN: 9781440179617 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author's unusual experiences in places as different as England and Thailand, Australia and Indonesia, prompted her to share them with those who may be interested in foreign places but who may not have had the opportunity to travel to some of these locations.
Linda was brought up in Australia where the expressions, "Beyond the black stump" or "The other side of the black stump" were common. Wikipedia states that, "The Australian expression 'black stump' is the name for an imaginary point beyond which the country is considered remote or uncivilised, an abstract marker of the limits of... The author's unusual experiences in places as different as England and Thailand, Australia and Indonesia, prompted her to share them with those who ma...
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Seemingly Matterless Tales
ISBN: 9781448656349 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Byron blends the ordinary with the unusual to give you four intriguing tales that promise to take you to realms you only thought you knew. A man, dying of incurable cancer finds himself on an unexpected adventure that proves that things as he knew them are never what they seem. We revisit that fateful night when Frankenstein was born in the mind of Mary Shelley. Or... Did she leave a little something out? A man travels back in time and enlists the aid of a younger self and his now dead wife to stop the one event that begins the horror of World War III. What could possibly go wrong? Is...
John Byron blends the ordinary with the unusual to give you four intriguing tales that promise to take you to realms you only thought you knew. A man,...
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Poetry, Songs and Stygian Stories
ISBN: 9781440195303 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the title suggests, this book is a collection of short stories, poetry and songs written by Lucas McPherson and visually interpreted by illustrator Cyan Jenkins. McPherson's stories, etc., though fictional, often tell the truth of the human heart revealed in both supernatural and natural settings. McPherson's short story, included within, titled "What Really Happened in the Labyrinth" has also appeared in both "Psychic Times International" (http: //www.voicesfrombeyond7.com/PsychicTimesWelcome.html) and in "The Witches Digest" (http: //www.witchesdigest.co.uk). More of Jenkin's artwork can...
As the title suggests, this book is a collection of short stories, poetry and songs written by Lucas McPherson and visually interpreted by illustrator...
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The Blood Of Cain
ISBN: 9781440433177 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Blood of Cain is a different type of Christmas story that takes place in a Bosnia Concentration Camp in December of 1993. A cruel and heartless Commadante runs the camp. He shows no mercy in his desire to exterminate the undesirables of the world. He exterminates his enemies with disturbing glee. Then a young elusive girl enters his life wanting to free her father. Although she stands before him he cannot reach her and she comes and goes at will tormenting the tormentor. Not understanding who this child is she slowly wields a major influence upon him turning him from his evil ways. Then,...
The Blood of Cain is a different type of Christmas story that takes place in a Bosnia Concentration Camp in December of 1993. A cruel and heartless Co...
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The Color of New York
ISBN: 9781440194788 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,36 |
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Our Rainmaker
ISBN: 9781450206082 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lanre Alayande holds advanced degrees in communication and marketing. Following the completion of his Ph.D., Lanre will begin work as the executive director of knowledge Impact; an educational marketing company in South Africa as he is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lanre has worked in the publishing industry for the last ten years, he has provided consulting services to large corporations in Western Europe, Asia and provisional government, particularly, Gauteng government of South Africa. Lanre Alayande holds advanced degrees in communication and marketing. Following the completion of his Ph.D., Lanre will begin work as the executive di...
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56,98 |
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