Shake the Fog: Short Stories by Norwalk High School Honors English Students
ISBN: 9781440131028 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shake the Fog is a collection of original short stories by Norwalk High School students in Norwalk, CT. This unique collection symbolizes the creativity and emotional inspiration of today's younger generation. Each writer featured in this book is a top honors student in English at Norwalk High School. The themes of this collection range from teenage/family relationships to social commentaries. Each writer in this collect represents Norwalk High School's diversity in education. Mrs. Kopple is extremely proud of her students and hopes this book will inspire other young writers.
Shake the Fog is a collection of original short stories by Norwalk High School students in Norwalk, CT. This unique collection symbolizes the creativi...
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Cetus Insolitus: Sea Serpents, Giant Cephalopods, and Other Marine Monsters in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISBN: 9781930585669 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,74 zł |
Swords from the Desert
ISBN: 9780803225169 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Countless authors have swept us into the exotic east, but few based their tales there. In a time when westerners still spoke publicly about "the white man's burden," Harold Lamb was crafting action-packed stories featuring Arabs, Mongols, and Hindus as heroic, sympathetic, and believable characters: men of honor and integrity ready to lay down their lives for their countries and their comrades. Assembled in this volume are four novellas and three short stories gleaned from the work of one of the greatest pulp writers. Lamb eventually won acclaim and awards for his accurate...
Countless authors have swept us into the exotic east, but few based their tales there. In a time when westerners still spoke publicly about... |
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98,31 zł |
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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43,77 zł |
The Book of Wonder
ISBN: 9781604506952 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,90 zł |
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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73,87 zł |
The Eleven
ISBN: 9781440113659 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,97 zł |
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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70,39 zł |
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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43,77 zł |
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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73,87 zł |
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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108,35 zł |
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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70,17 zł |
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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54,15 zł |
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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63,81 zł |
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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Professor Witchey's Miracle Mood Cure
ISBN: 9780996553674 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether the characters are long-haul submarine trucking, building sailboats from volunteer trees, or fishing with alternate universe physics, they are living lives familiar to all and full of the wonderful that surrounds us every day. This fabulist, futurist, funny, and sad collection of tales from award-winning writer Eric Witchey includes two novelettes and 23 short stories that span genres. Seven of the stories in this volume are previously unpublished. For best results, take one tale before bed.
Whether the characters are long-haul submarine trucking, building sailboats from volunteer trees, or fishing with alternate universe physics, they are...
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78,97 zł |
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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98,30 zł |
Elven Magic: Cleopatra's Vision, Book 2 (Volume 2)
ISBN: 9781491233313 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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32,29 zł |
Flamechild: a Children of the Vortex anthology
ISBN: 9781492211044 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,25 zł |
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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70,17 zł |