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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories shine new light on our physical vessels set against our physical world, two landscapes irretrievably connected and altered over time. These eleven stories take us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical...
2) Stitches
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English
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"A tumor shaped like a man's face slowly moves across a woman's body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing--her face is a total blank"--
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Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A fantastic selection of dragon stories from all over the world, gorgeously illustrated by Khoa Le, and starring a wide variety of dragons. Here you will find four dragons from China who save their country, alongside a dragon whose tears cause tulips to bloom, and a reluctant dragon who refuses to fight - even when St. George comes to town.
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Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A collection of personal essays, insightful interviews and genre-bending short stories from the popular and Galaxy Award-winning science fiction writer from the People's Republic of China highlight his creative journey across three decades.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (C. Pam Zhang). A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by foxhunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as "paper children" in America find their pasts--and...
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Series
Library of America ; 377
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The 72 columns selected here by editor Dan Barry, more than half of which have not been reprinted since initial publication, reveal Breslin at his best, addressing stories of national and global importance but more often uncovering tales of ordinary New Yorkers, by turns tragic or absurd but always gripping to read. Gathered here are the highlights of his consummate deadline artistry: his celebrated interview with the man who dug the grave for John...
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Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the global Arab/Muslim world. Stories from the Center of the World gathers new writing from the Greater Middle East, a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia, through the Middle East and Turkey, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included here are either native to...
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Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Damn you, Entropy! presents 1,001 of the greatest quotations from science-fiction novels, short stories, tales published in the old Golden Age pulp magazines, films, television series, and comics. Spanning five centuries, these quotes are highlights, the supernovae of the genre, selected for their emotional and/or intellectual impact"--Introduction.
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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In the biographical note accompanying one of her books, Cristina Campo said of herself: "She has written little and would like to have written less". That little is almost all collected in this book and will impose an observation on every perceptive reader: these pages belong to the most beautiful Italian prose has been shown in the last fifty years. Cristina Campo was unforgivable, in the sense that the word has in the essay that gives the title...
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