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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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Genre-bending and tinged with myth and folklore, these haunting debut stories centre young women at significant points in Lebanese history.
A teenage girl mourns the death of her grandmother, only to feel her grandmother’s spirit possessing her in a way that seems...
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Freehand Books
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2026-05-01
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Award-winning writer Dora Dueck returns with five masterfully crafted stories about family tensions, misunderstandings, and Mennonite communities.
A fourteen-year-old girl sees her soldier father’s face for the first time. A group of “young old” women find community...
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Freehand Books
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2026-05-01
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Award-winning writer Dora Dueck returns with five masterfully crafted stories about family tensions, misunderstandings, and Mennonite communities.
A fourteen-year-old girl sees her soldier father’s face for the first time. A group of “young old” women find community...
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Freehand Books
Parution :
2026-05-01
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun is a landmark collection of modern Chinese literature that introduced critical realism and sharp social critique to early twentieth-century China. Renowned as the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun uses biting...
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Asimis Books
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2026-04-08
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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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Questi Racconti dischiudono al lettore l'officina più segreta e sorprendente di Cesare Pavese. Il volume riunisce infatti la produzione narrativa breve dell'autore piemontese, gettando luce sul laboratorio stilistico ed esistenziale che ha preparato i suoi grandi...
Editeur :
Cactus
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2026-03-02
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Plutone, sovrano degli Inferi, è stanco di ascoltare le lamentele dei dannati: tutti, o quasi, attribuiscono alla moglie la causa della loro perdizione. Per vederci chiaro, il regno infernale decide di inviare sulla terra un arcidiavolo con un preciso incarico: prendere...
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Cactus
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2026-02-25
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When the American Minister Mr. Otis moves his family into Canterville Chase, he is warned that the house is haunted. "I come from a modern country," he replies, "where we have everything that money can buy." And so the Otises refuse to believe in ghosts—even when the...
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Cactus
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2026-02-22
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In 1888, Oscar Wilde—celebrated wit and champion of "art for art's sake"—surprised the literary world with a collection of fairy tales. But these are not simple stories for children. Beneath their lyrical beauty lies the heart of a moralist.
Wilde's prose is exquisite:...
Editeur :
Cactus
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2026-02-22
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Eugene Irtenev is a young landowner with a promising future—a sensible marriage, a thriving estate, a life of respectable order. Before his wedding, he ended a brief affair with Stepanida, a beautiful peasant woman. It meant nothing. It was over. Then Stepanida returns...
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Cactus
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2026-02-17
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He trusted no one.He betrayed everyone.He never surrendered.
The year is 1851. In the rugged mountains of the Caucasus, a legendary warrior flees from both sides. Hadji Murad—feared by the Russians, hunted by his own commander—walks into the enemy camp with a desperate...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2026-02-17
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Before War and Peace, there was the war itself.
In the frozen forests of the Caucasus, a young artillery officer waits for dawn. Tomorrow, his platoon will cut timber under the shadow of enemy rifles. Tonight, he watches his men—the meek, the reckless, the quietly...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2026-02-17
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