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Was ist Heimat? Ein Ort, ein Gefühl, ein Duft, eine Erinnerung? Oder die Familie, die Freunde, die Landschaft? Die 28 Autorinnen und Autoren nähern sich dem Thema nachdenklich, historisch, biografisch, geografisch, fantastisch und sprachkünstlerisch. In den Geschichten und Gedichten reflektieren sie Kindheitserinnerungen, verknüpfen Alltagserlebnisse mit Geschichtlichem, betrachten das Thema philosophisch oder aus einem ganz anderen, überraschenden...
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14 Kurzgeschichten zeigen die Faszination des „Schwarzen Kontinents" aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Geographisch umspannen sie den Kontinent von Nord nach Süd und von West nach Ost, von Ägypten bis Südafrika, von Guinea bis Kenia. Auf der Zeitachse reichen die Geschichten von den Anfängen der Menschheit bis in die Zukunft. Sie erinnern an dunkle Kapitel der Vergangenheit und sie beleuchten das afrikanische Alltagsleben und Probleme der...
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21 Kurzgeschichten rund um das Thema Haare, Frisur, Friseur, Haarausfall. Eine bunte Mischung, die für jeden Geschmack etwas bereithält: mal ernst, mal heiter, unterhaltsam, kritisch, sentimental, skurril, phantastisch. Liebesgeschichte, Humor, Krimi, Spannung, Alltag, Kindergeschichte, Nachdenkliches.
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Let Delaware Valley mystery authors show you around their home turf, from the Jersey and Delaware seashores inland to Philadelphia and the surrounding Pennsylvania counties, including historic areas like Germantown and Valley Forge.
You'll find traditional and not-so-traditional mysteries, psychological suspense, tales of history, the supernatural, and even glimpses into the dark secrets of the human mind.
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The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame. It demonstrates how shame structures relationships and shapes women's identities. Examining works by women authors from around the world,...
6) Mood Reader
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Containing 42 stories from authors who met on TikTok, Mood Reader is an anthology like no other. A collaborative group project, paving the way for readers who truly celebrate all genres. Within these pages you'll find, horror, sci-fi, childrens'/parenting, fantasy, romance, suspense, humor, history and a bit of spice. No matter your mood, we have a story for you.
Organized by genre and individually labeled with sub genres, the stories in Mood Reader...
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John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles compiled in one volume a century's worth of his favorite American Western fiction.
To illustrate the evolution of the genre, Jakes has included such legendary authors as Owen Wister, Louis L'Amour, and Zane Grey along side their more contemporary peers such as Loren Estleman and Elmer Kelton. While the stories...
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One City. One Movement. A World of Stories.
Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915. It's the day when tens of thousands of women marched up Fifth Avenue, demanding the right to vote in New York City. Thirteen of today's bestselling authors have taken this moment as inspiration to raise the voices of history and breathe fresh life into their struggles and triumphs.
The...
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An unprecedented collection of women's voices from the heart of Central Asia.
From the foreword by Gabriel Mcguire: "I cannot think of anything quite like ... Amanat."
A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world.... Diverse in form,...
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From Russia's Anna Karenina to Vietnam's Lady Trieu, from Cio-Cio-San to Frankenstein's second creature, suffering, madness, or death is the fate of far too many women in classic literature. Anna Karenina Isn't Dead undoes that.
In this anthology of literary women, these women live. Do they have a happily ever after? You'll see. Do they have a happy-right-now? Oh yes.
These are the reimagined tales of the famous, the infamous, the barely mentioned...
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Lose yourself in more than 1,000 pages of love, magic, adventure, and hope - all to help Ukrainian refugees affected by the recent tragedy. The Fierce Hearts charity anthology features 46 romantic fantasy novellas, novelettes, short stories, and exclusive sneak-peek chapters from more than 40 authors, including New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. Stories range from mild to scorching in heat level. Most importantly, all proceeds (100%) will be...
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Poetry reaches beyond words to touch our emotions and our imagination. Whether written on a page or put to music, poetry has a magic all its own.
In this collection, eighteen poets explore light, shadow, and what lies between. From ghoulish children to monstrous penpals to the aftermath of war, these poems cover a plethora of views on what might lie between light and shadow. Like life, these poems are both dark and light, imaginative and real....
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In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. "Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine-but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work.
Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo...
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Questo libro rappresenta il risultato di un percorso iniziato durante il mese di marzo del 2020, ovvero mentre quasi tutta l'Europa si chiudeva in quarantena. In quel momento non avevamo idea, come tutti del resto, di quello che sarebbe accaduto nei mesi a venire ma abbiamo deciso di proseguire comunque con i nostri piani editoriali.
Il primo azzardo è stato fare una "chiamata alle armi" rivolta a tutte le autrici e gli autori in cerca di un editore,...
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A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.
"Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and...
16) About Time
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"About Time: A Coming-of-Age Anthology" showcases poems from over thirty diverse and brilliantly talented writers from all over the world that explore the essence of time and all of its facets. A meshing and a melding of the past, the present, the future, let the words from these poets remind you about growing up and withering away, the natural cycle of life, healing and learning, growing yet regressing, wavering from what was to what is to what might...
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