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Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love – and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man. But in the Advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care.

We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world—a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves.

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young and set forth to create a beautiful world. They alight on Villa America: their coastal oasis of artistic genius, debauched parties, impeccable style, and flamboyant imagination.

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a las personas, aborda los vínculos familiares y sus códigos secretos, las relaciones de poder, el afecto, los silencios, la solidaridad, el abuso... Es decir, todos los horrores y maravillas que se encierran entre las cuatro paredes de una casa: el espanto y la gloria de nuestras vidas cotidianas.

In the fight for independence, one young woman seeks freedom for herself. Born an orphan with an unlucky blemish under her eye, Big Mole is stuck running an ornamental fish shop with her roguish boyfriend Hong. When their friend is killed in cold blood on his first day as a secret society gangster, Hong forms a band of brothers and swears ruthless revenge. Big Mole finds herself reeled into a brutal mass murder and dangerous affection for ex-spider boy Kwang, with the colonial police and local investigators hot on their heels.

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life.

The exciting conclusion to the story of the Curran siblings, their family, and their friends. Recommended to fans of witchcraft, epic fantasy, or something a little different. No Artificial Intelligence technologies were utilized in the creating of this work.

Enjoy these winning short stories and poetry from the Riversong Short Story Contest, 2024. Unique, quirky, thought-provoking stories in various contemporary genres. "Story Without End" by Khalil Kubiak "Slouching Towards Oblivion" by Samuel Offerman "1972" by Derek O'Gorman "shapes that don't belong" by Adelaide Prentiss "The World Growsw Wild" by Red Semiakina "Between the Line" by T.J. Thompson "Zapatos" by Sylvia G. Vega The contest and volume was managed and edited by Neela Tudurí- Kłepfisch, editor and writer at Sulis International Press. A panel of six publishers, editors, authors, ...

Cuando el amor se mezcla con la dominación, cuando el amor no es otra cosa que obsesión, cuando el amor humilla, lastima, esclaviza, ¿se trata todavía de amor? Las cuatro nouvelles que componen Tan cerca en todo momento siempre son un viaje al corazón de esa pasión, de la mano de una maestra de la literatura contemporánea: Joyce Carol Oates. En estas cuatro nouvelles Oates desarma la ficción del amor romántico, el enamoramiento adolescente y el amor familiar, y ofrece una visión lúcida de las relaciones amorosas en toda su violenta complejidad.

In the heart of a languid July, eleven-year-old John Reddy Heart drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself.

Is Luke a long-lost son or a baseborn swindler? The Blackwelds are a tight-knit family who own the largest cattle ranch in the Arizona Territory. In November 1877, a young, blond cowboy arrives, alleging he is the child stolen from them when he was only three years old. Elizabeth Blackweld accepts his birthright without question, but her son Jack believes his mother’s mind is clouded by her yearning to regain the lost boy. Jack Blackweld, who still carries guilt for losing his little brother, firmly doubts the claim’s veracity and is vocal about his desire to expose and drive away the ...

We are witnessing our own gradual disappearance. Not through violence or proclamation, but through the quiet optimization of human experience. "Don't Snow Here No more" traces this vanishing through the lens of a small American town, where reality itself becomes negotiable under the guise of progress. The terror lies not in jackboots but in software updates. Each digital upgrade erases another fragment of human irregularity, smoothing the rough edges of existence into algorithmic perfection. We see this already - our memories externalized to clouds, our relationships mediated by screens, ...

Zaubertrankmeister, Hauslehrer von Slytherin und Doppelagent im Kampf gegen Voldemort – kaum eine Figur aus dem Harry-Potter-Universum ist so schwer zu durchschauen und zugleich faszinierend wie Severus Snape. Einst selbst Zauberschüler fällt er als Lehrer in Hogwarts durch seine Abneigung gegenüber Harry auf.

Haruki Murakami’s highly anticipated first novel in six years follows the narrator as his enduring memory of his formative teenage relationship leads him to the mysterious City, and a disruption to the barriers between the real and shadow worlds.

Anything that lives devours or is devoured itself. The fractured factions seek strength in the face of rising global instability while the gluttonous Chaos Dungeon begins its conquest of the Elemental Battlefield. With a veritable buffet of advancement for the taking, Ace strives to hit Platinum before a mysterious threat reaches his Core. Witness the struggles of those left standing after the jaws of death snap shut in Chaos Devouring.

Raul é um bancário dedicado, um cidadão de bem levando uma vida tranquila em junho de 1970: destina todas as suas energias ao trabalho e a política não lhe interessa. Até que um dia, em meio ao clima de euforia patriótica às vésperas da final da Copa do Mundo, ele é confundido com um militante, preso e atirado em uma cela para confessar algo que não sabe. A partir daí, o jogo vira, e ele passa a viver o que de mais terrível aconteceu no Brasil nos anos de chumbo.

تقوم الرواية على ثنائية الحب والموت، اللذان يشكلان قطبي المعادلة القصصية في كافة نصوص مارغريت ويتنازعان دائماً. وفي هذه الرواية نرى الكثير من الشخصيات التي تعيش داخل أسوارها الذاتية مكرسة لحبٍ مستحيل، يعمل على إخراجها من هذه الأسوار. ولعل عبارة الحب المستحيل هي أكثر توافقاً مع عالم دوراس الملموس والمحسوس والعاطفي المتدفق. في هذا العمل نرى الحب، ونرى الموت أيضاً في صورة صيّادٍ يجري وراء ضحاياه. وتحتوي الرواية على خليطٍ من المشاعر والفلسفة والأفكار، والكثير من الألم والمعاناة والخوف متجسدةً في هذا العمل المتقن.

يتناوب راويان على سرد هذه الرواية, الأول هو روائي يعجز عن انهاء روايته التي يكتبها, بعدما أخفق في دفع بطلته الى الانتحار. والثاني شاب مثقف وقارئ نهم, مصاب بمرض الاكتئاب, يسرد ايامه في السجن الذي رمى فيه بعد اتهامه بجريمة قتل هو برئ منها.

بين زمنين تتحرك رواية الهجران، زمن الأب الذي سُجن وقُتل بسبب معارضته، وزمن اللاذقية الجديدة، لاذقية جيل جديد عاش عنفاً مختلفاً يحاول أن يخرج منه عن طريق الحب.

This is a touching and heartwarming fictional Christmas story about two actual characters from history—the acclaimed American photographer, Robert Cornelius, and the visiting British writer and most famous man in the world, Charles Dickens. Cornelius is credited with shooting the first photograph in history of a human face, in Philadelphia in 1839—one of photography’s greatest milestones. Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has yet to be published.