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Moments of Being was written by Virginia Woolf at various periods of her life and with various personal intentions, which explore Woolf's relationship with her past.

An old man wakes inside his comatose, completely nonresponsive body. According to his insurance company, in order to return to his life and family, he must pass a test. As if coming out of a coma weren’t enough of a challenge, our patient must also pass the Turing test, i.e., prove he’s human to an AI resuscitation machine. This satirical but heartfelt tale reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut and Ted Chiang asks the question: Can a person articulate the deepest truths he knows to be real?

Recipe? Two parts evil, one part dark, fill the rest with fear. Add a dash of sarcasm and serve it with a beer! A collection of horror stories from the author of Demon and Other Inconveniences. Not a cook book.

Magical creatures known as beings emerged from hiding amid the destruction of the First World War. Since then they've lived on the margins of the human world as misunderstood objects of fear and desire. Some are beautiful, others fearsome and powerful. Yet for all their magic and strength, they are as vulnerable as anyone when it comes to matters of the heart.

Twenty-three stories of horror, violence, blood, and evil to keep you up all night! Light a candle, and get comfortable as you are chased by maniacs, eaten by ghouls, and even buried alive....

Determined to take the time before the tour slow and easy with friends and family on a routine camping trip, Nyx is not ready for the surprise that waits for her and Declan at the campsite, a surprise that will change their lives together in the shortest amount of time possible.

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895. It is a farce playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallivant in town.

Forty-nine microfiction stories and poems that explore the human existence across the spectrum of love, self-discovery, conflict, and loss. Every scene invites you into your own memories, even as you experience stories of friends, families, mothers, and lovers.

Earning money, paying bills, finding your Prince Charming, discovering your happiness - it looked so easy when you were young. You thought you had it all figured out. Little did you know life throws you curveballs. And you thought grown-ups had it easy! So did these ladies. Follow their journeys while getting lost in the grown-up world.

A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality. One romantic hopeful had greeted...

These stories were carefully chosen to reflect what life was once like for women—before the fight for rights was won. Let these stories reveal to this new generation, how it felt to live with oppression and fear, with no hope of real freedom. Take a journey from 1892 to 1921 through fictional stories, to understand the need for constant vigilance in striving for equal rights for all. Through the voices of Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield, Susan Glaspell, Charlotte P. Gilman, and Kate Chopin, let us never forget from whence we came.

The continued adventures of the team's adventures on Wonder World.

Digital forensics is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of the modern day information security field. Digital Forensic Diaries allows you to follow a digital forensics investigator through the half-scientific, half-artistic process that leads to cracking cases without any physical evidence. Based on the author's real world experiences, the diaries tell fictionalized versions of security incidents and subsequent investigations. A must-listen for anyone interested in computer security or the digital forensics field.