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The Mason Family Series is a heartwarming series featuring strong alpha males and the heroines that bring them to their knees. With both heart and heat, the Mason family enjoys fan-favorite tropes such as office romance, enemies to lovers, second chance, millionaire heroes, and more.

The Mason Family Series is a heartwarming series featuring strong alpha males and the heroines that bring them to their knees. With both heart and heat, the Mason family enjoys fan-favorite tropes such as office romance, enemies to lovers, second chance, millionaire heroes, and more.

Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler.

In this gentle anthology from the Before Your Dream series, five quiet, luminous tales invite listeners into realms where memory drifts like water, stories grow from moss and stone, and peace settles over the heart like evening light. Crafted for slow nights and soft minds, these stories offer a sanctuary of calm—each one a small lantern carried into the hush before sleep.

Books included in this collection: BOOK 4—DEATH’S KISS, BOOK 5—DEATH’S TASTE, and BOOK 6—DEATH’S ANGEL.

A community where the mortgage is paid with blood. A man with an unhealthy devotion to his couch. A death machine that kills whoever its owner wants. A woman escapes one nightmare to find herself in another living hell. A boy learns more about his father than he ever wanted to know. Bone Chimes, the first collection from Kristopher Rufty, features nine demented tales, including The Night Everything Changed, the prelude to The Lurkers.

The vicar of St Saviour’s is preparing for Christmas. Four Sundays, four services, four advent candles to light. Richard loves Christmas. And he loves the ritual of the advent candles. Only this year is different. Memories and regrets threaten to spoil his favourite season.

A young woman returns to the forest of her childhood, where every step is filled with memory and every leaf seems to whisper her name.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A thief, a candlemaker, an ex-mercenary, and a pig farmer walk into a trap…and what happens is no joke. When Riyria is hired to retrieve a jester’s treasure, Royce and Hadrian must match wits with a dwarf who proves to be anything but a fool. Difficult choices will need to be made, and in the end those who laugh last do so because they are the only ones to survive.

The Bell-Tower appeared in 1855 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 32 (August). In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.

Two strangers meet on a train and share a conversation that changes them both. He’s running from the numbness of a life he no longer recognizes. She’s running from a grief that refuses to fade. What follows is a brief, incandescent connection — one that lingers long after the train stops.

"The Lightning-Rod Man" appeared in 1854, in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 20 (August). What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of spear-points, on my low shingled roof. I suppose, though, that the mountains hereabouts break and churn up the thunder, so that it is far more glorious here than on the plain. Hark! - some one at the door.

Erleben Sie über 14 Stunden spannende Unterhaltung mit Geistern, Dunkelmännern, Untoten, Betrügern, Dieben, Narzissten, Hexenmeistern, zwielichtigen Zauberkünstlern und bösartigen Schurken. Alle diese Werke haben immer wieder die Phantasie und das Interesse an Schauergeschichten bei den Zuhörern neu entfacht. Um euch so richtig das Gruseln zu lehren, haben wir diese besonderen Geschichten ausgewählt und in dieser Hörbuch-Playlist versammelt.

"The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas.

Франк Ведекинд – был загадкой не только для своих современников. Литературоведы и сегодня пытаются разгадать феномен этого крупнейшего представителя немецкого экспрессионизма. Стиль его произведений характеризуется безжалостным анализом человеческой психики и общества, при этом Ведекинд часто обращается к таким табуированным темам, как сексуальность, идентичность и социальные нормы.

A wife waiting for her husband to come home ... in vain. A young woman searching for a new apartment ... and finding a trap. A scientist and his servant exploring a mountain that holds a magical secret. Two escaping prisoners discovering a gruesome truth. Stories that make you shudder, shed a tear, and may never let you go.

تحتوي على 53 إصدار، تتميز بغزارة المعلومات الجغرافية والطبية عن القارة السمراء، قارة أفريقيا. وحدة (سافاري) التي سنقابلها ها هنا كانت تصطاد المرض في القارة السوداء، ووسط اضطرابات سياسية لا تنتهي، وبيئة مُعادية، وأهال متشككين. بطلنا الذي سنُقابله دومًا، ونألفه، ونتعلم أن نحبه هو د.

You’d think I was already there, but when three alphas pulled me from a brothel, they sealed my fate in hell. Fighting for re-entry into the elite Echelon secret society, they need a noble omega to survive the Trial’s five deadly tests. Instead, they get me. I’ve never manifested and–as far as they know–don’t have a drop of noble blood. As we're trapped together in the clutches of the dark and dangerous Echeloln, my very presence is an insult. One they never hesitate to remind me of. Even when I manifest as the omega they need, their hatred only grows stronger. But so does mine.

‘Sinful MILFs Mega-Bundle’ features audiobooks 1-24 of the Sinful MILFs series. Listen as sultry women take their virginal counterparts in desperate fashion, dominating them with their sexual experience. Juices get spilled everywhere as these older women get exactly what they want and sometimes a little more! Featuring innocent virgin men, seasoned women and sinful sex–you’ll love it!

Anna corre solo quando piove, e correndo ragiona di lavastoviglie, soprammobili, pupazzi: tutto, pur di non affrontare direttamente ciò da cui davvero fugge. Assieme a lei, lo straripante catalogo di personaggi che animano questa raccolta di racconti include pastori laureati e portieri notturni, corridori scalzi e bambini che recitano in sardo mentre gli alleati bombardano Cagliari, terroristi, bracconieri, finanzieri, pescatori di polpi e persino piante, capaci di mettere in crisi le certezze di uomini spavaldi.