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"Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as...
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Interstellar Flight Press
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First edition.
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English
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"From bestselling Nebula-Award winning William Ledbetter comes a groundbreaking collection of science fiction short stories that will bend your heart like a black hole. From AI to robot medics to life on Mars, Ledbetter takes real tech, blends it with hard science fact, and invents futures full of fantastic fiction. Includes 17 previously published stories and one original story." -Provided by Publisher.
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 719
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Anagrama Editorial
Edition
Primera edición.
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Español
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En uno de los cuentos reunidos en este volumen, la protagonista explica su encuentro con un albatros, ese pájaro solitario y de vuelo majestuoso al que Baudelaire dedicó un poema. Ella y su padre se topan con lo que llaman "albatros perdidos" o "albatros divagantes", aves que, debido al sobreesfuerzo por la falta de viento, enloquecen, se desorientan y acaban llegando a lugares muy alejados de su hábitat natural. Los protagonistas de estos ocho...
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Untold legends volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Edition
First edition
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English
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"14 Young Adult short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors make a splash in Mermaids Never Drown - the second collection in the Untold Legends series edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker - exploring mermaids like we've never seen them before!" -Provided by Publisher
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Feiwel & Friends
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Every athlete knows what it takes to win. But for teen female players, the stakes are so much higher. In this anthology, the voices of these athletes come alive, highlighting the ferocity of those who are often shunted to the side. From navigating rampant misogyny to forging a sisterhood through sweat or just reveling in the love of the game, the stories in Out of Our League address the phenomenal physical and emotional power of teenage athletes as...
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Random House
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers-characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,"...
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Montena
Edition
Primera edición.
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Español
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents ten new stories including one of his own about beloved heroes that sprang from the imaginations of some of the best middle grade authors working today. I hope you enjoy your trip through the multiverse mansion as much as I did. The real danger is that once you start exploring all the wonders herein, you may want to stay forever. Rick Riordan A cave monster... an abandoned demon... a ghost who wants to erase...
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Hornbeam books volume 1
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Beach Lane Books
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English
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"It's three stories in one picture book as Hornbeam the moose embarks on adventures with his friends in this first installment in the series from the creative team behind the Gooseberry Park, Motor Mouse, and the Mr. Putter & Tabby books!" -Provided by Publisher
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Riverhead Books
Edition
First United States edition.
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English
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"Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation-material, emotional, sexual-but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate. An expectant...
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Random House
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories...
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Candlewick Press
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English
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"Sixteen acclaimed authors--including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling novelist, and a beloved actress--join forces for a cross-genre YA anthology of linked short stories about the first days of college. Jilly cannot believe her parents keep showing up at all of her orientation events. (Except, yes, she can totally believe that.) Isaac wants to be known as someone other than the kid who does magic and has an emotional support...
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