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22622) Flashback Hotel
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"With a tender wit, Vladislavic cuts through the ordinary, the profound, and the truly perplexing to reveal absurdities and truisms alike. In these two collections from South Africa's most renowned writer, each story follows its own dream logic, each sentence constructed with an architect's precision. In the first collection, 'Missing Persons,' a man learns he can abduct dignitaries from his TV, and keeps them in a menagerie in his spare bedroom;...
22623) The blue umbrella
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As soon as Binya saw the blue umbrella, she wanted it so badly that she was willing to give up her lucky leopard's claw pendant in exchange. Non on in the village had such a fine umbrella, and everywhere Binya went, the umbrella went too. There were many who envied Binya her treasured possession, and the most envious of them all was old Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper, who decided that he must own the blue umbrella, by means fair or foul.
22624) Two of the deadliest
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Anger, jealousy, gluttony, sloth, lust, greed, pride. The seven deadly sins have been the roots of crime throughout human history. In this collection, Elizabeth George has gathered 23 tales that probe the dark heart of crime in the name of a pair of particularly wicked transgressions: lust and greed.
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"Tim is the youngest son of Irish American immigrants growing up in Chicago in the 1950's and 60's. Follow his memories of Chicago in short stories that recall the sights, sounds, vigor and tensions that were the Windy City. Share in Tim's joys, sadness, successes and failures as he navigates through life in his Chicago neighborhood. Meet the varied, interesting, and intriguing people - both good and bad - that he encounters as he grows up. Enjoy...
22630) Great American stories 2: an ESL/EFL reader : beginning-intermediate to upper-intermediate levels
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22635) Cienie Nocnego Targu
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A collection of ten short stories, some of which were previously available online, that follow Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world, searching for a relic from his past.
The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries,...
22640) Grimm's fairy tales
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Presents adaptations of ten fairy tales originally preserved by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
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