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Buried Treasure. Big dogs. A Gang of Cats. A kidnapping. And tangles with Maintenance Man. Maxitude in every tale.Trouble has a way of finding Max, but when he teams up with young schoolgirl, Tammy, it's double trouble. Max and Tammy find adventures galore in The Park.Across The Universe - A treasure hunt with a surprise.Hold On To Your Dreams - A visit to a horse is just the beginning of the pals' adventures when Tammy falls and they spend a long,...
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Step into a world of unexpected emotions in "Jhalmuri: Embracing Life's Unpredictable Flavours." Are you ready to savor life's unforeseeable twists and turns, much like a bite of Jhalmuri? Life is a rollercoaster of emotions - full of joys and sorrows, pleasures and disappointments. In his recent collection Jhalmuri: Embracing Life's Unpredictable Flavours, Gaurab Dasgupta captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life's surprises and challenges through...
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Decía Daniel Sada que la verdadera potencia de la literatura fantástica procede de los intersticios de la realidad, de esas bisagras por las que la imaginación se filtra como posibilidad cotidiana. En este libro, Omar Nieto muestra que los polos de lo real y lo imaginario pueden invertirse, y que los monstruos literarios de John Polidori, Monk Lewis, Lord Byron y Mary Shelley pueden tramar el asesinato de sus creadores, que un joven convaleciente...
4) Beginnings
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Prequel and introduction to the Music City Heat series plus bonus feature.
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Laugh-out-loud stories packed with gags, groans and great fun characters.From the downright slapstick to the deliciously droll, this latest instalment in the Quintessentially Quirky Tales series is guaranteed to make you chuckle.With sharp-edged satire, silly send-ups and rib-tickling pastiches, this feast of fun from internationally-acclaimed humorist Iain Pattison will whisk you to a land where vampire supermodels rub shoulders with Atlantis searching...
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Secret Identities is a free online webcomic that was completed after two seasons. This book contains a collection of seven short stories about the characters of Secret Identities set during and after season 2. You'll be able to read about Dani coming to terms with her lack of superpowers pre-series, Carl attempting revenge on the villain who harmed Jason in Season 2, Sarah subtly using her superpower to save the world throughout her life, Kai's lies...
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Edward O'Dwyer offers us irreverent and daring meditations on love and transformation in this masterful collection of short stories. His characters playfully inhabit the space between reality and the absurd ... O'Dwyer's sparkling gift of prose shines so brightly here. An audacious, tender, and utterly original collection. – Gillian O'Shaughnessy
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L'humain, quel qu'il soit, évolue dans un monde sans pitié, o tous les coups sont permis. Il se trouve de ce fait confronté à des choix, imposés ou assumés. Puis, la vie lui enseigne que toute décision peut radicalement changer le cours de son destin. Avec beaucoup de sagesse et d'humour, Melchior Mbonimpa met en scène des personnages, expatriés pour la plupart, qui se sont laissé conduire et éconduire par la vie. En lisant Les zigzags...
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Award-winning, critically acclaimed comedy writer Paul Richards proudly presents this collection of 23 delightful short stories. Fast, sometimes chaotic, very British, a series of well-meaning individuals find themselves in awkward or unexpected situations. Told with warmth and humour, with a pace that matches the author's caffeine intake... Contains a little sweating, only in emphasis, you understand.
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3,300 words of quick, steamy romance. Female point of view. Second book of the The Inheritance Series.Christine never had time for a social life and now she was dating Dylan. She wasn't sure how she was going to stay a perfectionist with Dylan in her life. Dylan had plans to show her a whole new way of living."You're such a perfectionist. I can't wait to loosen you up.""I'm loose enough, I don't need to get any looser."He sighed."You know what you...
12) The Truth
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4,200 words of quick, steamy romance. Female point of view. Third book of the The Inheritance Series.Christine had found out the truth about Dylan, but was it the whole truth? Christine had put him to the test about what he had to do to prove himself. What would surprise her is what he would do next.He handed me the piece of paper."You do the honors."That would be far from the only surprise Dylan had in store. He was committed to take Christine to...
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"It would be so much easier if there were a law in which love was reciprocated ... Would not it be?" asks Jeff. All he wants in life is Joyce's love, however, she does not love him, on the contrary, she despises him. Everything changes when Jeff uses the "perfume of love". What was contempt, becomes a stifling love... Then Jeff will discover that love and happiness are not always synonymous.
14) Shoebox
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Schofield is about to be taught a valuable lesson.He is about to learn that sometimes, the things that look like the answers only pose more questions. When those around you want what you have, some men will go to any lengths to stop them. A dark, psychological horror thriller from the bestselling author of Whisper, The island, and Funhouse, Shoebox is a story which follows Schofield on a spiralling journey into paranoia, madness, and insanity. Nobody...
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Set largely among the Jewish community of inter-war New York City, this is a beautifully-told collection of scenes from Morgenstern's life. The tricky ground of writing the advice column for a provincial Yiddish daily; successes during, and hard times after, the Depression; a position at the top of his craft as a labour specialist in the New York City Yiddish press - these and many more form a portrait of "a fundamentally decent man in morally perplexing...
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Amara Evans is an outgoing social butterfly, but no one ever really gets close enough to know the real her-no one but her best friend Lyric that is.Lyric Graham is the opposite of Amara in almost every way. He's shy, and because of his speech impediment, he doesn't like to talk much.Good thing Amara has no trouble speaking for both of them.After an innocent game of spin the bottle with friends turns into a sinful night of pleasure in a winter cabin,...
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Yes, traveler, you've discovered The Grey Forest.You've arrived at a crosspoint: a collection of short stories from a parallel terrain of shadow and light, of illusion and truth, of mystery and revelation. In The Grey Forest's landscape of twists, turns, and tales, things are not what they may seem, it is for you to travel, for you to decide.There is much for you to experience: irony, satire, intuition, darkness, light, and even moments of grace....
18) Twelfth Moon
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Elsie's a small town with a lot of heart. Isn't that how most small town romance stories begin? But this isn't any love story. These five stories cross paths and connections, age, gender, sexuality, and different kinds of relationships. Stories like that of Harriet, the owner of Twelfth Moon perfumery and adopted mother to her nephew, Nu. Harriet always figured she'd be single for the rest of her life, but Dela Atwater appearing in her shop one blustery...
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A quest for a title. An encounter with a stranger. Will she choose love? Miss Miranda de Courtenay has only one goal in life: to find a rich husband who can change her status from Missto My Lady. But when a handsome stranger crosses her path at a Valentine's Day ball, her obsession with titles dims. Might love be enough? Captain Jasper Rousseau has no plans to become infatuated during a chance encounter at a ball. He has a new ship to run, passengers...
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