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In einer Welt, die von uralten Göttern und vergessenen Mächten zerrissen wurde, gerät der junge Soldat Casias nach einem blutigen Massaker in den Besitz einer Bastardklinge – eines der sechs legendären Schwerter, die das Schicksal von Nakhan für immer verändern könnten. Doch er ist nicht allein: Khara, die Tochter einer Hexenkönigin, Suta, eine Frau mit mysteriöser Verbindung zu einem uralten Wesen, Tune, eine gläubige Dienerin eines undurchschaubaren Gottes, Tororthran, ein Gelehrter der Naturkräfte, und Gales, ein Krieger mit einer tragischen Vergangenheit, schließen sich ihm an.

A duet box set of the best selling and beloved Love and Hockey romance series from number one New York Times best selling author Lauren Blakely! This is the ONLY collection that includes novels from her spicy hockey romance series, all in duet!

Be prepared to immerse yourself into eleven stories of youth, travel and trouble from Karl G. Trautman in The Appocalypse and Other Stories. The author of Deacon Blues writes of compelling tales of pain, hope, regret, love and wanderlust. There are also stories of technology gone crazy, as inanimate objects come alive and plan necessary acts of nefariousness. "Crying in the Basement" is the story of an emotional wound passed down from father to son in Depression-era St. Louis.

Kelsier, condenado a morir excavando los Pozos de Hathsin después de intentar robar en el palacio del Lord Legislador, se alzó como un poderoso Nacido de la Bruma e inspiró la revolución que sacudiría los cimientos del Imperio Final. Su nombre y sus actos pasaron a la leyenda. Pero ¿de veras fue ese el final de su historia? Unas insinuaciones susurradas a aquellos a quienes llamaba amigos sugerían que había mucho más sucediendo entre bambalinas.

She thought it was just another drill. He let her believe that for one more hour. Her father's paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left. The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead mother's money on bunkers and guns. Charlie called it a prison and broke out at sixteen.

The New England Masterworks Collection gathers ten works connected with New England life, literature, history, reform, and imagination.

The Novella Masterworks Collection gathers seventeen classic short novels and novellas from world literature.

The Classic Oral Tradition Mega Collection gathers ancient epics, mythological works, fairy tales, folk traditions, and Native American stories from across cultures.

Whimsical and zany but edged with darkness, evocatively lyrical with goosebump-eliciting endings, Gretchen Astro Turner's 13 short stories in But I Digretch are for the romantic in all of us-but also the cynic. This fiction collection is for the surrealist and the dreamer.

On Christmas Eve, a reformed criminal is pulled into one last job by his cousin, and finds that his past will always haunt him. GIVING FROM THE BOTTOM is one of ten stories in Kristopher Triana's short story collection GROWING DARK.

As two police officers search for survivors in a town flooded by black rain, they discover strange creatures lurking beneath the water. FROM THE STORMS, A DAUGHTER is one of ten stories in Kristopher Triana's short story collection GROWING DARK.

One second, Beth Green is saving lives. The next, the world flatlines.A strange surge wipes out the grid and turns her hospital into a war zone. Her husband and daughter are miles away, unreachable and alone. To get back to them, Beth will have to cross a city that’s learning how fast civilization can die.

Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai’s legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English. Beginning with “Memories” (which tells a tale of teenage love, based on the autobiographical events that inspired Dazai’s famed No Longer Human), and ending with “Good-Bye” (the chapters of a comic romance that the author left unfinished when he took his own life), the short works here show the range and breadth of an author best known for his meditations on squalor and despair.

Warm brown eyes that melted my unsuspecting heart. His touch—raw electricity. I never saw Harbor Westcott coming. I had big city dreams and more ambition than money to my name. He had everything—money, privilege, and the world at his feet. Opposites in every way, but we were lightning in a bottle, and everything felt possible when we were together. Life was perfect. Or so I thought . . .

Cast out by their town. Trapped by the storm. Judged by the choices they make when survival becomes impossible. Poker Flat has decided to cleanse itself of every person its respectable citizens consider undesirable. Gambler John Oakhurst, the Duchess, Mother Shipton, and the drunken Uncle Billy...

Welcome to Coffinsview, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Cars with a taste for women and a hatred for men, love triangles that drag their victims straight into a coffin, and things far worse than darkness emerging from the shadows. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once.

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) who identifies as SYDNEE meets a man and decides that she wants to be a human woman. SYDNEE plans for a future with the man she believes she is in love with. With a questionable set of morals, SYDNEE moves forward with her plan to become a human woman, regardless of the cost.

Short Stories for Seniors: 30 Inspiring and Interesting True Stories of Ordinary People in History Whose Inventions Made Everyday Life Better (Includes Surprising Trivia)

Shai es una falsificadora, una extranjera capaz de copiar y recrear cualquier objeto a la perfección utilizando una ingeniosa magia para reescribir su historia. Aunque está condenada a muerte por intentar robar el cetro del emperador, se le concede una oportunidad de salvarse.

Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre.