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"You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
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"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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2023
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Náufragos, origami, posesión y ciencia: estos cuentos encarnan el punto de encuentro entre los horrores contemporáneos y los terrores antiguos.
Seis relatos de una belleza oscura que laten con temáticas perturbadoras: la legitimidad de la venganza, el incesto como medio de supervivencia, brujería indígena versus tradición japonesa, el cuerpo como la víctima fatal que habitamos. Los cuentos de Rivero perforan al lector
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Grove Press
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2024.
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"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this...
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Editorial Páginas de Espuma
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2021
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Todos podemos ser el demonio del otro. Todos podemos ser el sacrificio humano de ese otro. María Fernanda Ampuero, una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura latinoamericana actual, nos empuja magistralmente a un universo húmedo, podrido y hostil donde la violencia marca la narrativa de nuestras vidas. En ese mundo se yergue una bestia de muchas cabezas que aterroriza y muerde a los débiles, a los marginales, a los sacrificables en aras...
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Delos Digital
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2024
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Italiano
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Giallo - racconto lungo (33 pagine) - Un grave crimine dietro un enigmatico grido d'aiuto
Un brevissimo ed enigmatico grido d'aiuto coglie l'attenzione del detective Sherlock Holmes che insieme al suo collega, il Dottor John Watson, decide di partire per la campagna inglese per intraprendere le sue indagini. Ben presto i due scopriranno che dietro alla richiesta di soccorso si cela un grave crimine, e saranno costretti a navigare
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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2024.
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"From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring all the ways love can save us-or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, hungry yearning: the desire to be loved, and seen, and known. And the terror of those things too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long...
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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
11) The Ukraine
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Seven Stories Press
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[2024]
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"The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article "the" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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2024.
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"Equal parts fantastical - a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy - and true to life - a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter falls unexpectedly pregnant, a woman reexamines her father's legacy after his death - the stories in this collection are hopeful and heartbreaking, full of danger and full of joy. Chung is a master at capturing...
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AB Books
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2018
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Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky,...
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A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writier, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years"--Back cover.
15) Teias mortais
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HarperCollins Brasil
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2023
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Portuguese
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Crimes se dão a todo momento, sem data ou hora específica. Podem ser premeditados ou simplesmente acontecer quando a oportunidade surge.Criminosos surgem a todo momento, sem motivação específica. Pode ser um desejo de vingança, um desaforo levado para casa, talvez décadas atrás, um trauma de infância.
Crimes e criminosos não são instigantes por si só. É o contexto que os faz atraentes. Um dedo apontado, e alguém se torna o principal...
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A companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist is filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column of the same name, Maktub, meaning "it is written," invites seekers on a journey of faith, self-reflection, and transformation. As Paulo Coelho explains, " Maktub...
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GRIJALBO
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2024
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Prepárate para emprender de nuevo el vuelo de la manode Sue Zurita. La autora de El viaje de los colibríesy Aquellos días nos abre su corazón con estas historiasque parecen escritas especialmente para ti.
En este volumen se recopilan los mejores relatos de Sue Zurita, extraídos delas ediciones independientes de Los pájaros que habitan mi corazón y Buenas noches, desolación, junto con algunos cuentos que nunca habían visto la luz y que la...
19) Bestiário
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CAVALO DE FERRO
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2023
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Portuguese
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Primeiro volume de contos de Julio Cortázar e um marco da literatura moderna.
Animais invisíveis, como o tigre do conto que dá título ao volume, que se desloca a seu bel-prazer pelos quartos de uma casa, obrigando a família que ali vive a mil cuidados e precauções a fim de evitar encontros indesejados; animais imaginários, como as mancúspias que anunciam as fases da «Cefaleia»; animais que despontam do nada, como os coelhinhos da «Carta...
20) 法医秦明：白卷
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Simplified Chinese Press
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2023
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中文
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★ 法医秦明2023全新作品，以父亲的身份书写孩子的悲剧
《白卷》是法医秦明系列的作品，也是一本以亲子关系为主题的悬疑小说。
秦明在现实中不仅是一位从业26年的法医，也是一位家有青春期孩子的父亲。
尽管已经检验过上千具尸体，但每次遇到孩子的死亡事件，他都会格外心疼。接触的案子越多，他越发现，悲剧的源头，往往早就隐藏在一扇扇紧闭的家门背后。信任、隐私、情欲、占有、牺牲......爱入歧途，深不可赎，很多人都是直到失去了孩子，才意识到错过了他们最后的求救。
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