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  • The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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    The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

    The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of...
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  • From Shakespeare to Obama From Shakespeare to Obama
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    From Shakespeare to Obama

    From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on "modern slavery." Balancing close reading with context, this...
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  • James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism
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    James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism

    Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the...
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  • Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010
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    Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010

    This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how...
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  • Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative
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    Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative

    How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between...
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  • Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon
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    Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon

    The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and...
    $122.00

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  • The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction
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    The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction

    The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels,...
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  • Rethinking the Romance Genre Rethinking the Romance Genre
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    Rethinking the Romance Genre

    Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance...
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  • Irish Gothics Irish Gothics
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    Irish Gothics

    Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary...
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  • Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood
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    Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

    This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood...
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    Awakening /Vibrations revised

    The project is based on fiction with added coloration of real life stories and experiences. The concept is a story teller effort for the enjoyment of adults and SCIENCE FICTION FANS. It is a revision from the first version with added story telling...
    $63.00

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  • Nikki Magee Nikki Magee
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    Nikki Magee

    Nikki is an orphan, age 11. She's a musical prodigy, with a voice. Her story begins when she is thrown from an uncaring dark world into the morning light of her life, soon finding herself protected by a guardian in the form of a mob boss and his family...
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  • Works Of Fiction Works Of Fiction
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    Works Of Fiction

    This book is a highly curated collection of Virginia Haddad McClure's best short stories.
    $24.00

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  • The Alethean Legacy The Alethean Legacy
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    The Alethean Legacy

    SAS selection is the toughest military process in the world, and Ryan Marshall was expecting three months of gruelling hell.When John Medforth is selected as his assessor, Marshall soon realises that no amount of training could have prepared him for what...
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  • I Loathe Me. I Loathe Me.
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    I Loathe Me.

    Through a vulgar display of affection, this first person narrative takes us on a journey to enter the eyes of a suicidal adult.
    $19.00

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  • MAYBE I AM A BAD GIRL MAYBE I AM A BAD GIRL
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    MAYBE I AM A BAD GIRL

    Sometimes things aren't always what they seem and people's intentions aren't always good. Reginald Grayson is determined to take over Kennedy and Associates Entertainment business and make Chelsea Kennedy fall in love with him. What he doesn't expect is...
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  • Growing Up Can Be Crazy Growing Up Can Be Crazy
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    Growing Up Can Be Crazy

    Kaitlyn is a young girl who just can't seem to have an easy time growing up. She's convinced strange creatures are chasing her, she has to move to a new and unfamiliar school, and is having a hard time working at her new volunteer job. However with...
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  • The Rivalries The Rivalries
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    The Rivalries

    The story revolves around a region in Africa, but as subsequent plots unfold; its settings transcend to a part of the Middle East. Though fiction, the work captures the realities which individuals often encounter in their normal lives, reconciling effect...
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  • The Other Side of it All The Other Side of it All
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    The Other Side of it All

    A collection of short stories examining the lives of different people in Pakistan. Told in the form of letters, memories, and first person narrative. A broken family, a last request, a look at a friendship, and more.
    $22.00

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  • Unplanned Events Unplanned Events
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    Unplanned Events

    UNPLANNED EVENTS is both a character driven and thematically driven psychological drama. The story opens with a car crash. After the crash, Joe, the central character, is adrift. He searches for understanding and companionship, and for a grip on reality...
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  • the boston chambers the boston chambers
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    the boston chambers

    The quiet girl always listens because she doesn't want to be heard. Her thoughts may be against you and you'd never even know it. Instead she stays fair, taking the middle ground. That's me. The quiet girl, until I have something to say. Then I'll make...
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  • Black Box Conspiracy Black Box Conspiracy
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    Black Box Conspiracy

    Truckers, Congress, and a few greedy corporate CEO's equals a story that will have you turning the pages faster than a trucker grinding the gears. Black Box Conspiracy contains characters that all readers can relate to; making it a 'helluva' ride...
    $32.00

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  • The Legend of Wildcat Kitty and The Cyclone Kid The Legend of Wildcat Kitty and The Cyclone Kid
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    The Legend of Wildcat Kitty and The Cyclone Kid

    This is the fourth and final chapter in the western saga of Wildcat Kitty and The Cyclone Kid. It tells the complete story of how it all began and how all ends with the creation of a legend that lives forever.This is the story of an unlikely 'good'...
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    The Abyss Gazes Back

    The Abyss Gazes Back is the dark tale of alcoholic womanizing Columbia graduate student Bryan Debroux who slides slowly into depression and loses himself in his own mind. He is followed from a typical morning when he awakes next to a naked woman he had...
    $73.00

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  • What Ever Happened to the Boy in Blue? What Ever Happened to the Boy in Blue?
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    What Ever Happened to the Boy in Blue?

    Have you ever wondered what happens to someone who enters the public's consciousness on a day of horror? How do they deal with the lingering effects after the crowds have dispersed and after the cameras have gone? "What Ever Happened to the Boy in...
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  • The Universe Next Door The Universe Next Door
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    The Universe Next Door

    The Universe Next Door is a collection of short stories that addresses issues such as alienation, alternate universes, spirits and questionable realities.
    $31.00

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  • Subtle, Flowing Changes Subtle, Flowing Changes
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    Subtle, Flowing Changes

    Cera Brandenburg is just your normal eccentric in junior year, though if there's one thing she can't stand more than annoying people or imbeciles, it's change! And lately, thee have been lots of changes! Like the move to the odd house nestled in the city...
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  • A Hole in the Sky A Hole in the Sky
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    A Hole in the Sky

    When an un identified object smashes a violent hole through the roof of a pot growing shed owned by two happy-go-lucky twenty something's, one finds himself on the run from the law, and the other on the run from a shadowy figure connected to the most...
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  • Os Pensionados Os Pensionados
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    Os Pensionados

    Os Pensionados beschrijft de non-avonturen van een losse vriendengroep in Lissabon, die hoewel iedereen uit die groep nog lang niet gepensioneerd is, zij wel de keuze hebben gemaakt om navenant te leven, in een heden dat van anekdotes die lustig aan...
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  • REVIO TSARA SORATRA REVIO TSARA SORATRA
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    REVIO TSARA SORATRA

    Ny Revio Tsara Soratra dia Ambatonamelankafatra mirakitra sy mampiranty asa soratra voakaly sy mateza vakiana, na sombin-tantara na tantara noforonina na tononkalo na lahatsoratra fanadihadiana hafa. Ny Revio Tsara Soratra koa dia Ambohipihaonana ho...
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  • The Ship-Wives The Ship-Wives
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    The Ship-Wives

    A follow-on to The Ship-Master: the summer of Var, lady of Walea and Lisceardr, as she battles strange and unexpected upheavals
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  • Nickels & Dimes and other stories Nickels & Dimes and other stories
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    Nickels & Dimes and other stories

    What do you get when you throw a coffin maker, some cocaine, a dominatrix, some walking flashlights, an antique bicycle horn and the Eternal Jellyfish into a box and shake it around for six years? Well, the answer's just up around the bend of the page...
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  • THE CHISWICK VILLAIN A NOVEL THE CHISWICK VILLAIN A NOVEL
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    THE CHISWICK VILLAIN A NOVEL

    The Chiswick Villain is a novel based on the story of James Ashley a Victorian criminal. It is based on factual evidence from criminal reports at The Old Bailey, London. This is an old fashioned Bonnie and Clyde style story set in the East End of London...
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  • The Old Flame and Other Stories The Old Flame and Other Stories
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    The Old Flame and Other Stories

    This selection of short stories centres primarily on the reactions of mostly ordinary people to their experiences when interacting with other human beings. The relationship between individuals can cover a wide range of feelings and behaviour and...
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  • Tribal Gathering Tribal Gathering
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    Tribal Gathering

    Tribal Gathering is a collection of stories set in an imaginary West African state shortly after gaining its independence from the British in 1962. Struggling to come to terms with the tribalism, nepotism, corruption and greed that flourishes at all...
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  • Bindweed Magazine Issue 1 Bindweed Magazine Issue 1
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    Bindweed Magazine Issue 1

    Bindweed Magazine publishes quality poetry and fiction showcasing each poet and writer for 4 days on the Ezine homepage, and in a quarterly print anthology.www.bindweedmagazine.wordpress.com
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  • Luca ha due papà Luca ha due papà
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    Luca ha due papà

    Dall'autore del blog "Luca ha due papà" cinque racconti brevi che indagano sul tema dell'omogenitorialità e, più in generale, sul rapporto padre/figlio.L'intero ricavato finanzia il progetto contro il bullismo nelle scuole "Bye Bye Bulli".
    $11.00

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  • Secrets of Eden - Adam's Chalice Secrets of Eden - Adam's Chalice
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    Secrets of Eden - Adam's Chalice

    When rebels in the Sinai desert hijack her archaeologist mother's dig, surly teenager Sudi Tarik takes twelve-year-old Eden Luck to safety.The rebels are in the employ of fanatical industrialist Karl Klein who is searching for a prophetic scroll, which...
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  • Posillipo 1799 Posillipo 1799
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    Posillipo 1799

    Tre gentiluomini trovano rifugio sulla collina di Posillipo nell'anno dell'invasione francese e della repubblica partenopea.Una bimba derelitta ritroverà suo padre ed una misteriosa fanciulla intreccerà amore e passione sensuale con un giovane...
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  • Gebakken luchtbel Gebakken luchtbel
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    Gebakken luchtbel

    Zandsculpturenbouwer, windsurfer en inval-ober Alex leert op Fuerteventura de Nederlandse toeriste Iris kennen. Ze trekken een paar dagen met elkaar op, maar is Iris wel eerlijk over de werkelijke reden van haar komst naar het eiland?
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  • Il Giogo Leggero Il Giogo Leggero
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    Il Giogo Leggero

    Un avvincente romanzo d'avventura che inizia nel primo secolo d.C. e si svolge lungo le rotte commerciali tra l'Egitto romano e l'India.
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  • Storie interrotte Storie interrotte
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    Storie interrotte

    Nel testo, si descrivono situazioni che un operatore della Polizia di Stato, vive quotidianamente, le storie, per quanto romanzate, rispecchiano fatti realmente accaduti e vissuti in prima persona dall'autore. L'ambientazione nella meravigliosa città di...
    $22.00

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