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From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories.It was as though I was chosen-marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes...
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Corsair
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2026-03-24
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From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel brutality of childhood in 'The Robin', man then comes face to face with himself as a boy in 'A Moment of Green Laurel': both stories combining the nostalgia and fear that haunt us all in old age. Meanwhile, in...
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Abacus
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2026-03-05
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'A terrific debut: fresh, original, and surprising' GEORGE SAUNDERS'Rende's sparky stories are graced with comic timing' DAILY MAIL'Outstanding... shot through with a crystalline wit and mordant surprise' MEGAN KAMALEI KAKIMOTO'Rende's funny, sweet, stinging voice is...
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Fleet
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2026-01-13
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The Vicar’s Conversion by A. E. W. Mason is a thoughtful and engaging short story that explores themes of morality, personal change, and quiet transformation within a small English community.The story centers on a respected village clergyman whose beliefs and attitudes...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-03-21
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C'era una volta, nella verde campagna inglese, un antico castello abitato da un fantasma. Un fantasma terribile, con tanto di catene arrugginite, macchie di sangue che ricompaiono e lugubri lamenti nella notte. Un fantasma, insomma, perfettamente conforme alle più...
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Cactus
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2026-03-13
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Maestro assoluto del Verismo europeo, Giovanni Verga ha consegnato alla letteratura italiana uno dei suoi lasciti più alti e duraturi: l'arte di raccontare storie. Questa edizione raccoglie l'intera produzione novellistica dell'autore siciliano, un corpus monumentale...
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Cactus
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2026-03-12
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Cosa fareste se, dopo aver dissipato un'intera fortuna al gioco, decideste di frodare una compagnia di assicurazioni e scopriste che l'impresa più difficile non è architettare l'inganno, ma... riuscire a morire? E se, per un capriccio del destino, vi ritrovaste re per...
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Cactus
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2026-03-10
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Cosa accadrebbe se una semplice lettera dell'alfabeto potesse scatenare l'ossessione e la follia? E se un uomo portasse con sé, inconsapevolmente, una scia di sventura capace di annientare chiunque gli si avvicini? E se il confine tra sogno e realtà, tra vita e morte,...
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Cactus
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2026-03-10
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Napoli, 1884. Un'epidemia di colera devasta la città e il governo italiano, guidato da Depretis, annuncia un drastico piano di "sventramento" dei quartieri più poveri. Matilde Serao, giornalista e scrittrice, risponde con la sua arma più affilata: la penna.
Nato da una...
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Cactus
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2026-03-09
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Siamo nell'autunno del 1830, e Aleksandr Puškin, chiuso nella tenuta di Boldino da un'epidemia di colera, scrive in tre mesi il suo capolavoro in prosa. Ma invece di firmarlo, inventa un autore: un bonario possidente di provincia, morto e dimenticato, che a sua volta...
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Cactus
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2026-03-06
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What if life were lived in reverse?
In this landmark, fantastical short story that inspired the major motion picture, F. Scott Fitzgerald unleashes his imagination on one of literature’s most enchanting and curious "what ifs."
Benjamin Button is born an old...
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Cactus
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2026-01-27
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Donkeys don't talk - but they're wonderful listeners.
But what if they did start talking?
In this book, the long-eared ones finally get their say - served with a generous pinch of humor!
Embark on a delightful journey for readers young and old, where donkeys show us...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2026-03-25
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8 short stories about the effects of good and evil deeds. Actually, we all wish for something like "retributive justice" in this world.
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2026-02-20
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From one of the bestselling science fiction and fantasy authors and most beloved storytellers of all time comes a truly unmissable and beautifully illustrated collection of rediscovered short storiesINCLUDES A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN NEW SHORT STORYWith a foreword by Neil...
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Transworld Digital
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2023-10-10
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'James's tales can be traps and ruses; they can also be complex self-descriptions in which his own fears and desires have full reign'Frances Wilson, from her Preface to The Beast in the Jungle & Other TalesThis collection is made up of the later works in Henry James's...
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Riverrun
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2025-11-06
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riverrun editions
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'This selection forms a biography of sorts. Submerged beneath the surface of his melodramas are the unspoken fears that Henry hoped, by living in Europe, to leave behind' Frances Wilson, from her preface to Madame de Mauves & Other TalesThe stories in this selection are...
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Riverrun
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2025-11-06
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riverrun editions
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'Both the fictional and autobiographical versions of 'The Middle Years' are concerned with authors, acolytes, and endings rather than the middle of things. Or rather they are about, as are all the tales of James's middle years, the recognition of one's own extreme...
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Riverrun
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2025-11-06
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riverrun editions
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Something creepy hides in the cracks... It's watching you, waiting to crawl outIn this unsettling anthology of psychological and supernatural horror, the line between the living and the demonic blurs, boundaries between nightmare and reality collapse, and sanity is only...
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Hachette India
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2025-10-15
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DISCOVER DU MAURIER AT HER DARKESTA stunning collection of thirteen chilling stories from the Godmother of Fear, introduced by international bestseller Stephen King. ***'Her talent is a bright light that will guide you. These remarkable stories await' STEPHEN KING'A...
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Virago
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2025-09-30
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FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE 'McBride at his brave and joyous best'New York Times Book Review'A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places'San Francisco ChronicleAn antiques dealer discovers that...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-08-07
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