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What if the life you've been looking for was never lost — just waiting for you to be ready to find it? The Second Chance Collection brings together the complete Nathan Cole trilogy — Starting Over, Unexpected Gifts, and The Long Way Home — in one definitive volume. Thirty-six stories about the three essential forms of the second chance: the one you choose, the one that finds you, and the one you discover you've been living all along. These are not stories about dramatic reversals or lucky breaks.

In Bunburry sollen schon bald die Hochzeitsglocken läuten! Mit der Unterstützung der renommierten Hochzeitsplanerin Elizabeth Ravensdale bereiten Alfie und Emma ihren großen Tag vor. Doch dann erschüttert ein grausamer Fund die Idylle: Eine Leiche wird entdeckt. Während die Polizei glaubt, den Täter gefunden zu haben, sind Alfie, Liz und Marge überzeugt, dass mehr hinter der Sache steckt – und nehmen die Ermittlungen selbst in die Hand.

Nathalie erbt überraschend ein Cottage – von einem Mann, den sie zuvor nie getroffen hat. Ihre verstorbene Tante Henrietta hingegen kannte Lewis Brownsfield sehr wohl. Und sie war bis zuletzt fest davon überzeugt, dass er ein dunkles Geheimnis hütete. Allerdings sieht sein Cottage für Nathalie und Louise denkbar harmlos aus. Doch dann finden die beiden heraus, dass der unscheinbare Mann tatsächlich etwas zu verbergen hatte – und dass noch andere diesem Rätsel auf die Spur kommen wollen, koste es, was es wolle ...

Hauptkommissar Scharrmann muss sich verstecken – vor der Polizei! Denn jemand im Kommissariat will ihm einen Mord anhängen. Auf seiner Flucht bleibt ihm nur eine Verbündete: Sarah Teufel glaubt keine Sekunde an Scharrmanns Schuld und bietet ihm Unterschlupf in einer Autowerkstatt. Doch dadurch gerät sie selbst ins Visier der Polizei.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Kayla thought turning 18 would mean cake, presents, and a normal family party. She had no idea it would end with her virgin pussy getting brutally stretched and filled by her step-brother and step-father... in front of the entire family. On her 18th...

În „Omul necinstit”, Sherlock Holmes investighează un caz în care reputația, șantajul și trădarea se împletesc într-o intrigă plină de suspans. Pornind de la indicii aparent lipsite de importanță, celebrul detectiv descoperă adevărul ascuns în spatele unei dispariții și al...

SWAT shooter Arwen is about to eliminate a hostage-taker when she starts reliving the same dangerous moments over and over again.

What if the wrong road was never wrong — just the long way to where you were always supposed to be? The Long Way Home is a collection of twelve powerful stories about the people who finally arrive — a teacher who spent fifteen years in the wrong career and discovered that every one of those years was building the specific intelligence that made the right career genuinely extraordinary, a man who lived in three cities before the fourth one was his, a woman who waited eleven years for the marriage that had always been the marriage.

Die STELLARIS ist ein Frachter der Minerva-Klasse, eines von vielen Millionen Raumschiffen, die zwischen den Welten der Milchstraße verkehren. Mit ihrem Rumpfdurchmesser von 200 Metern und einem Volumen von annähernd fünf Millionen Kubikmetern ist die STELLARIS eine Welt für sich. Im Paket enthalten sind folgende Kurzgeschichten: Folge 61: »Der Schlüssel zur Versöhnung« von Roman Schleifer, gelesen von Stefan Krombach Folge 62: »Die peinlichste Stunde des Konsul Gruner« von Thomas Frick, gelesen von Stefan Krombach Folge 63: »Zirome« von Michael G.

Moving from a London theatre to a Pacific nightmare, and finally to a garden at the end of human history, these novellas explore what those famous silences contained. They do not rewrite the originals; they stand alongside them, asking: What did you see, and why could you not say it? An immersive listening experience for fans of literary fiction and psychological depth, these testimonies give a final, defiant voice to the witnesses who have been waiting over a century to be heard.

In the fictional Northern California city of San Andreas de Pacifico, the ground is unstable. In these twelve unexpected love stories, so are many of the people. A woman hears the elephants speak, but only before earthquakes. A long-married couple scales a cemetery wall to regain their passion. A young mother dreams of planting a poison garden. An old man, losing himself to dementia, finds an abandoned baby. Strangers meet on an overnight bus and alter each other’s lives. A struggling writer gains freedom in her effort to rescue a beached whale.

Una mujer recuerda con nostalgia su infancia en la casa de campo familiar, junto a sus hermanas y Sabina, la vieja criada, cómplice de sus juegos y aventuras.

Prepare to lose yourself in a monumental archive of the senses. A Century of Forbidden Erotica is not a historical retrospective, but a massive, powerhouse collection of 100 distinct stories designed to push the limits of your imagination. This is a "century" in the truest sense of the word: a...

Riley Fletcher’s morning run should have been ordinary—muscle memory, fresh air, home by breakfast. Instead, she wakes bound and bleeding in a lakeside cabin, her captor a ghost from her past: Dawson Miller, a former coworker with nothing left to lose. Escape seems simple until her injuries leave her dependent on the very man who took her. As he tends her wounds with unsettling care, Riley realizes this isn’t random violence. Dawson has a plan—one that’s been carefully constructed, methodically prepared. And somehow, she’s essential to it.

The brilliant mind behind Vibrant Imaginistics's success with its fortified concoctications has come up against an unprecedentified conundrum, and all might be lost with the imbibment of a single specially prepared and expensive expressionistic!

"The Necklace" is a short story about Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class woman who dreams of a luxurious life. She borrows a diamond necklace from her wealthy friend, Madame Forestier, to wear to a ball, where she feels glamorous. However, after losing the necklace, Mathilde and her husband spend ten years in poverty to repay the debt incurred to replace it.

Es muy posible que Hugo Schatzman, el vecino de la casa 8, tenga cáncer. Y todos en el condominio reaccionan unidos frente a esta noticia. Sarcástico relato de Jaime Collyer, que deja de manifiesto los vaivenes del comportamiento humano.

Dos acaudalados empresarios mineros copiapinos apuestan sus más preciados bienes en un juego de cartas que impactará a toda una ciudad. Relato inspirado en un hecho histórico ocurrido en Chile en el siglo XIX.

Due racconti, due ritratti dell'animo umano, un'unica, inconfondibile voce: quella di Fëdor Dostoevskij. In "Un piccolo eroe", lo scrittore russo esplora con sorprendente delicatezza il passaggio dall'infanzia alla maturità. Attraverso lo sguardo di un giovane protagonista, il racconto mette in scena il risveglio dei sentimenti, l'orgoglio, l'umiliazione e il primo confronto con il dolore morale.

Paul has always lived with intrusive thoughts - those fleeting, irrational urges everyone gets and everyone ignores. Everyone, that is, except Paul. Cruising the high seas, alone in the cabin bathroom miles from shore, he gives in to one reckless thought he cannot shake.