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  • Cuentos, relatos y escritos del montón
    José Luis Béjar
    Si le preguntamos a José Luis que le impulsó a escribir este libro, seguro que no encuentra razón alguna. La explicación está en su personalidad creativa, que inconscientemente le hace buscar formas nuevas en todo lo que hace.El empleo más consistente de toda su vida labora fue en una empresa de ingeniería perteneciente a un importante grupo industrial alemán, de la que llegó a...
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    23,00 €

  • Cuentos Cortos de Sitios Lejanos
    Kevin O’FlAHERTY
    Una colección de cuatro relatos que tratan de personas en el cruce de caminos entre la lucha humana y la autodeterminación. Las decisiones que tomen los llevarán a su destino.El Jardín de la República: Un neoyorquino compulsivo, está aburrido con su vida, se apunta a una ONG en Tucumán, Argentina, para construir un centro de salud. Mientras ahí, conoce a unas personas que toman...
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    9,73 €

  • Short Stories from Faraway Places
    Kevin O’FlAHERTY
    A collection of four short stories about people at the crossroads of life. The road they take will lead them to positive or negative consequences. It’s a story of self-determination and human struggle. The Garden of the Republic: An impulsive New Yorker who is bored with his life joins a NGO and travels to Tucuman, Argentina to build a health clinic. He meets a few individuals ...
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    8,68 €

  • No Way Out
    Santana Knox
    THERE’S NO WAY OUT OF THE MAZE.There’s no way out of the maze, there is no way out of the maze. No way out of the maze. No way out.None.A teacher.A student.A scarecrow.One dangerously lusty halloween night in a small Ohio town that will never be forgotten.No Way Out is a horrific romance that is not suitable for readers under 18. Please check content warnings before proceeding,...
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    17,38 €

  • Curvy Girl for the Best Friend
    Emma Bray
    He’s in love with his best friend, and he can’t stand seeing her with anyone else... Jake has loved his best friend, Lily, for as long as he can remember. But his fear of rejection keeps him silent. He needs her in his life-even if it’s only as just a friend.All throughout high school, he watched from the sidelines as she dated other guys. He was the shoulder she cried on when ...
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    10,92 €

  • Casus
    Thomas Charles
    Originally in four volumes, Casus is a compilation of stories which will take you on an intriguing exploration of the human experience, as you witness the intricate dance choreographed by destiny and choice. The characters in these widely different tales navigate a haphazard course through the uncertainties of life. They confront poignant regrets, unexpected encounters, thwarte...
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    48,46 €

  • Tales from the Backyard
    Carolyn Gaye
    How do you measure a life? One story at a time can be used as a good yardstick; it encompasses great deeds of valor as well as little private moments. Who doesn’t like to be heard? Come to dinner and ’listen in’ on tales told by guests who have past the mid century mark and are invited, one evening at a time, to savor a memory. The listener is as important as the storyteller be...
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    19,75 €

  • Una llama prende entre nosotros
    Elsa Tablac
    Courtney Adams, una intrépida periodista del Times, está decidida a exponer los secretos ocultos de GreenOil, una poderosa compañía petrolera.Pero su camino hacia la verdad la lleva directamente a los brazos de Clint Morgan, el atractivo director de seguridad de la empresa. Mientras la atracción entre ellos crece, Courtney se debate entre su ética profesional y la pasión que si...
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    10,56 €

  • The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy. Vol. 2
    Thomas Hardy
    Thomas Hardy is renowned for his short stories, which often explore themes of rural life, fate, and social constraints. His stories typically reflect the darker, more tragic aspects of human existence, much like his famous novels. ...
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    28,76 €

  • The Heart of Denise and Other Tales
    Levett-Yeats SLevett-Yeats / S. Levett-Yeats
    This collection offers a rich tapestry of historical romance and intrigue, with the title story centering on themes of love, honor, and betrayal in Renaissance France. Levett-Yeats brings vivid characters to life, navigating courtly politics and personal passions. Each tale within the collection weaves a unique narrative, showcasing the author’s mastery of blending historical d...
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    19,66 €

  • Dead Serious Too
    Stewart Perkins
    Would Stan’s eccentric, fun-loving disposition continue to be subdued by low self-esteem and personal insecurities? A timid child who had grown into a slightly less troubled young man, Stan was approaching his nineteenth birthday with a pledge to continue the plan he had embarked upon nine years earlier. Signs of success were emerging. Happily, Stan believed his recent experien...
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    15,48 €

  • A Bigot’s Guide to Salvation
    Max Michael Wightwick
    Which would you deem the most contemptible sinner: a gluttonous guzzler, a lusty lecher, or maybe a hubristic artist? As the reader, the judgment lies with you alone. Stride forth and unravel the timeless riddle of humanity’s repetitive transgressions in this collection of moral fables for modern times. The tales traverse the ages, yet remain ceaseless in their relevance. None ...
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    11,71 €

  • Six Sherds
    John Lawson
    The six ’sherds’ contained here - whether fragments of a novel, or short stories, or what you will - cover a good deal of ground, from a highly apocryphal tale of an errant young Jesus to a tattooist’s caper in Polynesia, stopping off in Renaissance Venice and England at the time of Queen Elizabeth I (with the Royal personage herself making a revealing appearance). These dispar...
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    17,68 €

  • The Bookkeeper
    Robert Raff
    The Bookkeeper presents a gripping trilogy of short stories, each emerging from the shadows to serve as a stark warning for the intrepid reader.In ’The Exchange,’ we delve into the life of a hitman longing to leave his lethal career behind. Yet, as he teeters on the brink of retirement, his path crosses with an aspiring investigative journalist-a young college student who inadv...
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    7,92 €

  • Building 8
    Anthony C. Mazzella
    In the heart of a dystopian metropolis, Building 8 stands as a silent witness to the lives and struggles of its inhabitants. Anthony C. Mazzella’s gripping narrative plunges readers into a world where reality bends and the ordinary collides with the surreal. As the central business district is besieged by chaotic flying machines and destruction reigns, the top floor of Building...
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    11,72 €

  • 13 STORIE BREVI
    Cathy McGough
    Entra in una raccolta dell’autrice canadese Cathy McGough, dove ogni racconto ti porta nel mondo di nuovi personaggi e generi:Il primo racconto, 'Dandelion Wine', è stato finalista del premio Readers’ Favourite 2019 nel genere Short Story/Novela ed è stato premiato con CINQUE STELLE da Readers Favourite. Si tratta di un flashback del 1967, che racconta di una bambina 'con uno s...
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    31,24 €

  • Everything Happens to Me
    Peter Cherches
    WINNER of the 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor/ComedyThis episodic novel chronicles the trials and tribulations of Peter Cherches, an obscure Brooklyn writer who suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous tormentors, most notably his next-door neighbor. Cherches’s world is overrun with doppelgängers, doppelgängers’ doppelgängers, malevolent technology, masks, do...
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    17,62 €

  • Haunting
    Hayley Briana
    Every year on Halloween people go missing from the best haunted house in town.Dark secrets lurk in the shadows and eyes watch through the horror filled maze.Would anyone survive this gruesome ride?Note:Haunting is a collection of the books 'My Dark Haunting,' 'My Dark Terror,' 'My Dark Dolly,' & 'My Dark Ending.'This book contains explicit content and dark themes that may be co...
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    12,01 €

  • De val van Henk
    Digim@ri
    **De Val van Henk** In het Amsterdam van de jaren ’50 worden Felix, Emma, Jan en Paul onbedoeld verstrikt in een gevaarlijk web van smokkel en verraad. Wanneer ze ontdekken dat de mysterieuze Henk achter een reeks illegale operaties zit, besluiten ze samen in actie te komen om hem ten val te brengen. Maar hun missie blijkt gevaarlijker dan gedacht, met dodelijke confrontaties e...
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    10,59 €

  • Fresh Nutrients
    Stefanie Barnfather
    Ben Brown wants to get rid of the hedges at his new house. A woman is taught to play pretend when she’s in distress. And a young boy asks a sand dollar for closure after the death of his father. But what do these people really need? Help.These surrealist summertime short stories challenge readers assumptions about monsters - and the human forms they take. ...
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    8,14 €

  • City Swimmers & Other Stories
    Steve Clark
    In these ten stories, Steve Clark guides us through an urban terrain of relationships--marital and filial, romantic and bitter--exploring loss and longing in a timeless but modern cityscape. A man leaves his wife in bed with the flu and takes a walk through his past, encountering the dead and living, the real and surreal, on his last day alive in Paris.A couple, who’ve married ...
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    13,85 €

  • Practice Makes Perfect
    Linda Wagner
    Adult Content: Not Canon. Revised. This story may contain triggers for sensitive individuals. In this story, Fitzwilliam Darcy is a twenty-six-year-old gentleman accustomed to control and command who views the world through a lens of entitlement. He sees Miss Elizabeth Bennet as his ideal match and removes any obstacle blocking his marriage plans. Elizabeth, a sheltered eig...
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    13,08 €

  • Replacement Parts
    Marc Dickinson
    In Dexton, Iowa, every man, woman, and child grapples with the challenges of small-town life, each seeking redemption-or escape-from a land to which they’re deeply rooted.The local sheriff searches for a missing girl while trying to reconcile with his estranged daughter. A returning soldier, haunted by violent visions, finds his hometown no longer feels like home. When a girl l...
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    14,37 €

  • Robot Hearts
    Donna Maree Hanson
    Nine science fiction stories about robots!Feminist twists, sentimental journeys, nostalgia and an Australian icon feature in this collection of short stories. These tales draw from an imagined past, with ’Be Still My Beating Clockwork Heart’. They delve into Australian icons with Clancy of the Overflow recast in space with robot sheep in ’Clancy’. These stories dabble in the li...
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    14,33 €

  • Words Worth Reading
    Diane Wordsworth
    A collection of short stories, serials and serialisations rounded up for the month of October. In this issue: Short Story: Paper RosesShort Story: The Kite FestivalShort Story: Take Your PickShort Story: Harvey’s FestivalShort Story (Series): The Ace of Cups - a short Tarot taleShort Story: The City of GlasgowNovel Excerpt: Night Crawler - Part 2 of 4From the Archives: One Bor...
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    10,89 €

  • The Collapse of Ordinary
    Steve L Clark
    What happens when horror and madness collide with reality?For most of us, life is a routine of the same chores and responsibilities. We are ordinary people doing ordinary things, unaware of the chaos closing in.A hotel auditor gets more than he bargained for from a scary story podcastA trip to the casino turns sinister with more on the line than moneyA graveside funeral service...
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    10,44 €

  • Temptation
    Sadie King
    An instalove retelling of Hansel and Gretel where the witch is a damaged hero and the house of candy is a cabin in the woods that holds a secret... She stumbled into my cabin lost and pursued and needing shelter. I took her in, but one look at Greta and I can’t let her leave.She’s mine and I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her. Even if it means trapping her in my cabin.Greta se...
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    11,00 €

  • Marhoom Yaad
    Mahender Nath
    Mahender Nath is one of the active fiction writer and novelists of the progressive age of Urdu, whose ten fiction collections and fourteen (14) novels are a significant part of Urdu literature. His second biggest introduction is that he is the younger brother of popular and well-known Urdu writer Krishan Chander. Mahender Nath’s fictions show the process by which the man of the...
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    21,49 €

  • Santa Fe’s Partner
    Thomas A. Janvier / Thomas AJanvier
    Set in the rugged landscape of the American Southwest, this Western novel follows the adventures of an unlikely duo-Santa Fe, a resourceful cowboy, and his loyal partner, an enigmatic character known simply as 'The Partner.' Together, they navigate the challenges of frontier life, including encounters with outlaws, land disputes, and the harsh environment. Janvier’s vivid descr...
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    17,41 €

  • The Mystery of Choice
    Robert W. Chambers / Robert WChambers
    This collection of short stories blends supernatural elements with psychological depth, featuring tales set in eerie, atmospheric locations. Chambers explores themes of fate, choice, and the unknown, often infusing his stories with a sense of unease and mystery. These stories, rich in Gothic and weird fiction influences, showcase Chambers’ talent for blending the ordinary with ...
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    19,56 €