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For twenty-three years, Yusuf Hasan drove strangers through the city and listened as they revealed the truths they could not tell anyone else. Then the cab was gone, the journeys stopped, and Yusuf discovered that listening had been the easy part. In The Fare, Yusuf presented his final day behind the wheel as a graceful decision to leave at the right time. But there was something he did not tell his listeners. He had been diagnosed with an irregular heart rhythm.

Bianca 2941 El acuerdo: una cita con el millonario. La consecuencia: ¡un secreto de nuevo meses! Bastaba con un fogonazo de la hipnótica sonrisa de Curtis Hamilton para que el cuerpo traidor de Jess Carr ahogase su capacidad para razonar. ¿En qué estaría pensando para acabar aceptando...

The dead don't lie. They just don't have long to talk. Vinny Deluca's gift is simple and brutal: after biological death, he has seventy-two hours to talk to the departed before they fade. As a retired Detroit homicide cop working the county coroner's office in small-town Arizona, he's learned to use those hours well. When fifteen-year-old Danny Reyes drops dead at a church cookout, the official ruling is cardiac arrest. But Danny's ghost is pressed into the corner of the exam room, shaking, terrified—and he has a name he doesn't want to say.

Ruby's Bone Meal is award winning. But what makes it quite so special? Pick up the book to find out!

Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk. Book 1 – Alien Safari: To solve a mystery with galaxy-shaking implications, Detective Ferrix Vaughn joins a wildlife safari on Hesperidia, an alien world of savage beauty. It’s supposed to be a protected planet, but evidence of a deadly breach poses troubling questions. What links a crashed ship, five murders, and precious stolen biotech? Jan, the ranger who accompanies Vaughn, warns of something even deadlier: an apex predator that roams the remote region they’re about to enter. This is its killing season.

In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle. A lonely man engages in dubious acts while pining for his rubber duckie. In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly—and fast.

A spellbinding collection of ten short stories, each with strikingly different tones and characters. Journey Through Thorns begins with "The Author," in which a protective father catches a man following his teenage daughter. But when he confronts him he realizes there is much more to the man than could be imagined. Also among these tales is "Toby," a young boy who through a horrendous childhood has gained the ability to psychically control others, exacting his own brutal take on revenge.

These stories vividly reflect the resilience and spirit of farmers in western China as they endure poverty and hardship. Through Xuemo's words, we witness Old Man Xinjiang's unwavering devotion to his first love, Ying'er and Lanlan's struggle for survival in the desert, Yue'er finding pure love despite battling syphilis, and Xueyu'er narrowly escaping death after kindly delivering wolf meat to her uncle. With profound insight into human nature, Xuemo invites listeners to ponder the essence and meaning of life.

Se i racconti giovanili di Irène Némirovsky trattavano gli stessi temi dei romanzi coevi – l'amore, la nostalgia, il disinganno, l'ambizione, l'avidità, l'ipocrisia dei legami familiari, il rimpianto per le occasioni mancate, l'impossibile assimilazione – con una leggerezza mondana, sia pur velata spesso di malinconia, quelli composti dal 1938 in poi, nell'ultima, febbrile stagione della sua scrittura, offuscata dalla minaccia della persecuzione e della guerra, hanno un tono più grave, a volte quasi cupo.

A Case of Identity: Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance.

An der rauen Nordsee, auf Sylt, an Islands schwarzem Strand und zwischen den Nebeln einer Hallig wird das Meer zum Schauplatz tödlicher Geheimnisse. In »DeichSühne« von Andreas Schmidt untersucht Kommissarin Kristin Voss zwei grausame Morde zwischen Haithabu und der Eckernförder Bucht. In »Blutiges Sylt« von Patrick Burow suchen Silja Hansen und Eike Norden nach dem Mörder einer jungen Frau, die am Strand erschossen wurde.

Oscar Wilde war ein irischer Schriftsteller, der sich nach Schulzeit und Studium in Dublin und Oxford in London niederließ. Als Lyriker, Romanautor, Dramatiker und Kritiker wurde er zu einem der bekanntesten und gleichzeitig umstrittensten Schriftsteller im viktorianischen Großbritannien.

В сборнике «Механическое вмешательство» пятнадцать рассказов и шестнадцать авторов. Потому что каждый из этих рассказов один из ведущих современных писателей создал в соавторстве с искусственным интеллектом YandexGPT. Многие из авторов работали с нейросетью впервые, а по условиям эксперимента никаких технических заданий и подсказок про характер работы с языковой моделью не было.

Eigentlich hatte Tarikh al-Sal-ka-Nar sich nach seiner Rückkehr aus Ochben-Marai endlich seinen Studien widmen wollen, doch der errungene politische Frieden ist zerbrechlich. Ein überraschendes Angebot des Herrscherpaares rückt ihn erneut ins Zentrum tödlicher Intrigen und zwingt ihn zu einer folgenschweren Entscheidung.

Mit Unordnung und frühes Leid wirft Thomas Mann einen ebenso feinsinnigen wie humorvollen Blick auf den Wandel der Zeiten. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Geschichtsprofessor Abel Cornelius, der mit seiner Familie die gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche der frühen 1920er-Jahre erlebt. Während Inflation...

Wie ein Sohn seinen berühmten Vater literarisch übertrumpfen kann und dabei ein zeitloses Werk voller menschlicher Dramatik schafft, zeigt Alexandre Dumas der Jüngere mit seinem Roman „Die Kameliendame". Das 472 v. Chr. uraufgeführte Stück „Die Perser" des griechischen Dramatikers Aischylos nimmt eine Sonderstellung in der antiken Literatur ein, da es kein mythisches Thema, sondern ein reales historisches Ereignis behandelt: die Niederlage der Perser in der Seeschlacht von Salamis.

Sara herää sängystä miehensä Lennonin ja tämän parhaan ystävän Fredin välistä. Edellinen yö murskasi kaikki rajat, joiden hän luuli olevan olemassa heidän avioliitossaan. Mutta kun humala hälvenee ja todellisuus hiipii takaisin, kysymykset alkavat kasaantua. Illan jälkeen...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Two American travellers drive across Italy in the spring of 1927. They pick up a sullen young Fascist who takes the ride as his due. They eat a bad meal in Spezia, where the waitresses have other business in mind. They are fined at a roadside checkpoint...

Get swept away in the first three novels of the Ladies and Scoundrels series! These bestselling romances of love, loss, and redemption will keep you enthralled.

An all-new edition of 11 unmissable short stories from the Number One internationall bestselling author of Me Before you and The Last Letter From Your Lover. In Paris for One, Nell is deserted by her boyfriend minutes before setting off on what was supposed to be a fantastic romantic weekend...