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A collection of short stories that gives you a glimpse of hope in the darkness, a picture of enraged horror, a cheating husband's worst nightmare, an epic experience like no other, and a call to rise up and be a hero. Great to enjoy over a lunch break or just before bed. The stories are sure to inspire fantastical dreams or twisted nightmares. This is a chance to enjoy something fresh.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles. 'I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing,' Bowie answered. 'Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.' Mary Jo Bang's brilliant poems might be the...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin-a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch-delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already defying what the world expected of her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry-roughhousing...
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Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Danger lurks as the air grows colder and threats lie in the shadows at every turn. While the rest of their fellowship seeks safety, Bea and Cad team up with a small group of survivors to travel to the Citadel of Knowledge, pursuing answers to their world's darkest mysteries. But their journey reveals even more secrets. Until an unexpected ally shines a light in the darkness, providing a clue to a mystery from long ago...and a beacon of hope for the...
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Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Shinbi is not a particularly ghosty ghost. At night she likes making tiny bouquets of things, and gazing at the far away stars. Haunting? Not so much. Even if that's what the other ghosts like. In the daytime, in a meadow, sits a single rock, casting a single shadow, named Greem. He'd really like someone to talk to. But who? He writes one word on his lonely rock: 'Hi' and hopes someone will see it. Sure enough, in the darkness of night, Shinbi finds...
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Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an alternate version of the events told in the manga Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair. That series told the story through the eyes of Ultimate Lucky Student Nagito Komaeda; now Goodbye Despair gives you the perspective of his arch-rival in the desperate classroom murder game, Hajime Hinata!... Beautiful white sand? Check! Refreshing ocean waves? Check! Bloody body in the beach house? Check...?!...
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Publisher
Yitzchak Borowsky
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"She was liberated from hell on Earth. But will she ever be free from Auschwitz? Poland, 1943. Dark skies and barbed wire fences were all Bluma saw as she stepped down from the train onto the main platform of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After surviving the Wehrmacht's decimation of her hometown, Bluma and what remained of her family were finally put on the long, harsh train ride through inhuman conditions that seemed to last an eternity. Then the freight...