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Dian cang jing dian volume 102
Pub. Date
2017.
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中文(繁體)
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The author gathers 23 short stories addressing different kinds of emotions among people. It has foot notes to aid readers with native Beijing Dialect.
越是難產,才越見文藝的良心; 在這兒,我明白了什麼叫作真純,什麼叫作熱烈 ──老舍的23則短篇故事,悲、欣、交、集等著你 如果你認識醫生作家魯迅, 那麼你更要認識, 廿世紀華文創作,真正的「大藝術家」──老舍...
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The Third Volume in the Acclaimed Series!
Volume 3 features dragons, fairies, cats, and more. Oh, so much more, including a talking oak tree named Fred. Rusch and Smith called this volume "Creatures," but the twenty acclaimed stories in this book go far beyond even that.
For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional fantasy short stories that won awards...
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From the prolific Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, 'Spunk' and 'Sweat' are thought-provoking short stories set in the heart of African-American communities following the civil war.
'Spunk', first published in 1925, is set in an all-Black community in rural America and poses the question of whether moral strength is more powerful than physical strength. Spunk Banks is described as a 'giant'. He is unafraid of anything or anyone, but...
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Writers of the future volume 39
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English
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25 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators
Brilliant new worlds
Captivating new ideas
Powerful new stories of action, adventure, and fantasy
Just imagine…
• It's game on, the fate of the universe is on the line-and you're about to go all in.
• Saving the mammoths is in your hands-can you conjure the magic to make it happen?
• You've got a monster BFF-whom you're hiding from your own monster-hunting family.
• You're part of...
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Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away -- to anywhere -- before. Traveling abroad isn't really her thing. But when Nell's boyfriend fails to show up for their mini-vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone -- including herself -- wrong. Alone in Paris, Nell finds a version of herself she never knew existed: independent and intrepid. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend...
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2015.
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English
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An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells, written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
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2017.
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English
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"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball...
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When I left the small hotel in the Montparnase section of Paris to enter the taxi Id booked with the desk clerk the night before to take me to the Charles DeGaulle airport north of the city, I paused on the sidewalk and considered: Do I have all of my luggage? Yes. And my ticket and passport? Yes. Am I doing the right thing? Will this man be the right one . . . or perhaps Im making another wrong turn on my road through life? But my last question went...
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The Yellow kite is an amusing and warm-hearted collection of memoirs based on the author’s experiences of growing up in the early 1960's. From the trials of flying a professional kite to the cringeworthy school concert.
Each story is told with a rich vein of subtle humour plus a keenly observed insight into the tensions that run through most families. Awkward situations flow throughout highlighting both peer pressure and aspects of teenage angst.
To...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences. Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, Prepare to Board, 2nd edition presents the methods and techniques of animation master, Nancy Beiman, with a focus on pre-production, story development and character design. As one of the only storyboard titles on the market that explores the intersection...
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For Christmas and the rest of the year!
The title story of this collection begins just before Christmas, when an unexpected visitor arrives, claiming to be the fiancée of the son of the house. But he knows nothing about it and wishes to marry someone else. This muddle has to be sorted out, or it's not only Christmas that will be ruined.
Then there are are four other Regency stories to make you smile. A widow finds love when an unusual new neighbour...
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Short stories to entice, boggle and thrill:
Future experiments. A one-of-a-kind travel agency. Space-marine trauma. And a decades-long war.
And many more, including:
Two Men In A BoatBoredom EscapesVoices In The MirrorThe Antarctican Land-Grab OffensiveDisobeyedDeath In The Time Of ParadiseShining StarThe Mortician's AlibiDeath Of A CEOPanic On The Streets Of LungerthraxDog's DayeFuture PrisonsAnd He Sadly DiedPopulated Entirely By Concrete Slabs...
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From Washington Irving (1783—1859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it.
Irving's culture-defining tales of American life-"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"-offer a turn of events that both surprises and chills the reader. In "Bartleby," Herman Melville introduces us to a lawyer whose easy way of life is upended by...
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The Witches in Love Collection Part 1 & 2: 8 Fantasy Fiction Romance Short Stories.Please note that each of these short stories can all be bought as a standalone single story, as well as in parts 1 and 2.Total word count 44,829. A Witch's TouchEthan is left on his sick bed with fatal battle wounds. Now all he awaits is for death to claim him. Instead, he is visited by a mystery woman who comes to his room each night to care for and nurse him back...
96) Redeployment
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2014.
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English
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"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn...
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The line between science fiction and fantasy is a thin razorblade, more closely-related than you might think. STRONGER THAN SWORDS is a collection of short scifi and fantasy fiction by author Costa Koutsoutis, looking at worlds that could have existed, and worlds that are coming faster than we think. In "No Grave But the Fields," two children raised by a sword-weilding warrior find different ways to express violence and mercy, only to be struck by...
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Pure Romance Collection Part 1 & 2
8 Sweet Romance Short Stories.
To Love a Difficult Man
Natalie works as a personal assistant for Sam Stewart, a famous and successful artist. Sam has always been difficult to work and live with, but Natalie is grateful to him for giving her the job, which has provided her with valuable work experience and an opportunity, to travel the world.
The Persistent Billionaire
Joshua Fisher is a billionaire, businessman...
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English
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Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited collection of Russian classics. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content:
Introduction:
The History of the Russian Empire
Novels & Novellas:
Dead Souls
A Hero of Our Time
Oblomov
Fathers and Sons
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov
Leo Tolstoy:
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The...
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For the first time ever ...
If you love the Holloway Pack, you are going to love this collection of short stories and bonus scenes, all gathered together in a singular publication
for the very first time.
Followers of Jem & Sean's journey in Called get to enjoy much-loved scenes from Sean's POV.
Fans of Ethan Holloway get to celebrate his (heated) birthday alongside him, as well as discover just who he was as a young pup and the stirrings of how...
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