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  • Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots.One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that runs between Vladivostok and Moscow and that twice carries him ... Leer más

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  • Ebisu Bridge: A Tale of Modern Japan

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Homeless and disabled, Motoshima Saburo, 58, sells The Big Issue on Osaka's colorful Ebisu Bridge, a short pedestrian thoroughfare filled with tourists, lovers, artists and hustlers of every stripe. Constantly struggling with both destitution and loneliness, which he compares to a jail where one is both prisoner and warden, Saburo falls into a moral battle with Ken, an aging toy boy and "dating ... Leer más

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  • The Cyber Dust Stories: Lost Internet Short Stories and Essays Centering on Japan

    de Alex Shishin ...
    This is collection of Japan-oriented essays and fiction that once were published on the Internet between 1998 and 2004 and vanished with the demise of online journals and webpages. The essays are "In the Shadow of His Ancestors" [Review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. By Herbert P. Bix.], "Is There Depleted Uranium in Japan's Future?" [with Jens Wilkinson], "Slapstick on the Precipice: ... Leer más

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  • Fidelity: Episodes from Three Lives in Japan

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Set in the Osaka-Kobe area, the interconnected erotic stories of Fidelity: Three Interconnected Lives in Japan concern the unpredictable and labyrinthine symbiotic relationship between American expatriates Hank Hashimoto and Aurora Tanabe and the eccentric Erina Wada, nicknamed "Booger Eater" by Aurora. Both women love and leave Hank, only to return and leave and return to him again. ... Leer más

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  • The Fishmonger’s Daughter

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Set in the maritime Japanese city of Akashi, "The Fishmonger's Daughter" concerns a superficially westernized arts supply shopkeeper who lives in the vicinity of the famous Uonotana Fish Market. He is having a prolonged love affair with a rich and eccentric married woman from Osaka. After she breaks off their relationship, he finds himself drawn to the fish market's Japanese authenticity and a ... Leer más

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  • Slimming Down

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Mel, a master teacher at prestigious high school on Long Island, envies Philip, an underpaid adjunct college language teacher, because he lusts for his beautiful wife, Chiharu, a business woman working in Manhattan. Mel deserts his "fat" wife, Janice, and their children for an English teaching job in Japan. Janice suffers a dark night of the soul because she is convinced she in fat. She recalls ... Leer más

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  • Nippon 2357: A Utopian Ecological Tale

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Thomas Redburn, American expatriate living in Japan, falls down drunk off his bicycle one night and wakes up onboard a time machine flying to 24th century Japan. His benign abductors take him to a nearly perfect ecosocialist world. War, poverty, inequality and all forms of discrimination no longer exist. The ecological crisis that brought down the old order has been reversed. In this classless and ... Leer más

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  • The Bridge of Dreams and Predators: Two Short Novels

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Two cities, Paris and Osaka and two short novels about desperate lives.Predators: A Tale of ParisResiding in Passy, Paris, Greek-American journalist Rick and African-French Martiniquean Yolanda, author and ex-model, lead a socially active and domestically quiet life. Unexpectedly they are asked by the wealthy and powerful Ogawa family, through Rick's old editor in Tokyo, to let their daughter, ... Leer más

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  • Among Predators: A Tale of Paris

    de Alex Shishin ...
    Residing in Passy, Paris, Greek-American journalist Rick and African-French Martiniquean Yolanda, author and ex-model, lead a socially active and domestically quiet life. Unexpectedly they are asked by the wealthy and powerful Ogawa family, through Rick's old editor in Tokyo, to let their daughter, Masami, homestay with them. This changes their lives. Their acne-ravaged and troubled Japanese guest ... Leer más

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  • Box of Darkness

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    From the dark and twisted imagination of author William Todd Rose comes twofree e-books guaranteed to thrill and delight. In each volume lies a mini-collection of stories which gives the reader a unique peek into the mind of the writer The Google+ Insider's Guide named as one of their top 32 authors to follow.Open the Box of Darkness to delve into a nightmare world of the macabre. Within these ... Leer más

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  • A Tale of Three Lions

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    What starts out as an enjoyable father-son outing turns into something entirely different in this thrilling tale from action-adventure master H. Rider Haggard. When famed explorer Allan Quatermain tries to teach his son a few life lessons on safari, he gets much more than he bargained for. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp ... Leer más

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    A Post Apocalyptic Detective Novel

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    Death Comes To Us AllIt is sixty years since a great war made the Earth uninhabitable. The few survivors took shelter within towered cities. They, and now their descendants, have only one goal: to construct colony ships so that they can leave the ruined planet in the hope of establishing a settlement on Mars.The first of those ships is nearing completion. If the species is to survive, then nothing ... Leer más

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