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    Bray seafront meets a garden of white roses. A migrant driver cleans his bus windows and a castaway lover follows new stars. Three sisters covet a tea-set and a stowaway rabbit escapes on the motorway. Fresh baked bread hugs a regretful holiday embrace and a cargo manifest reveals carefully boxed units of love and rage.This is what is washed to shore when eight writers and five photographers ... Read more

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    Ten thrilling tales of action and adventure with humans and non-humans donning rocket and jetpacks to take on the future, the past, and alternate universes to defeat evil in all its forms.These exciting stories reignite a genre of science fiction taking readers on a journey of imagination where they will meet citizens of Atlantis struggling for dominance, a jousting tournament in the 42nd century, ... Read more

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  • Tales from Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania. The groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey called “a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization.” Now you can revisit USA Today Bestselling Author Michael Bunker’s unique world in this anthology of original short stories—authored by ten of his fellow master storytellers and including a new Pennsylvania story by the creator of the Pennsylvania World himself.In Tales from ... Read more

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  • Fragments of a World

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    by Lesley Smith ...
    The first modern biography of medieval French scholar and bishop William of Auvergne.Today, William of Auvergne (1180?–1249) is remembered for his scholarship about the afterlife as well as the so-called Trial of the Talmud. But the medieval bishop of Paris also left behind nearly 600 sermons delivered to all manner of people—from the royal court to the poorest in his care. In Fragments of a World ... Read more

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  • Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400

    Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser

    Edited by Lesley Smith, Conrad Leyser ...
    Series series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
    Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying ... ? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The wealthy can do so ... but philosophers lead a very different life ... So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family and ... Read more

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    A short story about the colonisation of Mars and one woman's adventure getting there. ... Read more

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  • Sci-Fi Stories - More Future Earth

    More stories for our future - with less tech, probably, but still life on our planet. Post-apocalypse, dystopia, last men and women usually struggling to survive. Bookstores as treasure troves or abandoned places, factories and cities in various states of disrepair, locations from North America to Europe to Japan, all over our beautiful planet.The Book Store by Jason A. AdamsThe Last Books of Nara ... Read more

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  • The Golden Door

    Tales of mistreatment of “the other” abound in historical or religious writings from around the world and through all time. But there are also plenty of examples of people helping each other, caring for one another, learning about each other. Sometimes in big ways, sometimes in small—but they all add up.The Golden Door is a collection of stories showing the impact on people when they’re treated as ... Read more

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    Developing rich, vibrant, realistic and multidimensional characters is the aim of all budding writers. This brief guide offers 123 useful character questions for authors. Questions span a range of topics from biographical questions to questions on family, relationships, money and spiritual beliefs.This is the first book in a 123 series that offers ideas on a given topic. ... Read more

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  • The Murder of William of Norwich

    The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

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    In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity. The outline of William's tale eventually gained currency far beyond Norwich, and the idea that Jews ... Read more

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  • Last Son of Tomorrow

    A Tor.Com Original

    Series series A Tor.Com Original
    What is there to do, when you have the power to do anything? John can fly, he can see through solid objects, he can take over the world and give it back again, but what he's looking for is something else…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ... Read more

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