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Ilona Andrews, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Daniels series, invites you to a fresh start for Kate, Curran and Conlan, in a long novella and a short novel. The places and faces may be different, but they’ve brought some familiar friends and all the special brand of chaos they create!

In A Haunted House, Virginia Woolf delivers a mesmerizing ghost story unlike any other—quiet, lyrical, and deeply haunting. This short work of literary fiction blends supernatural elements with psychological depth, inviting listeners into a dreamlike haunted house where spirits wander not in fear, but in search of something precious left behind.

At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events. An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.… When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she...

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Includes: "By Courier", "Jimmie Hayes and Muriel", "School and Schools", "Roads of Destiny", "A Blackjack Bargainer"," A Cosmopolite in a Café", "Christmas by Injunction", "Mammon and the Archer", "A Bird of Bagdad", "After 20 Years", "From The Cabby’s Seat", "Lost on Dress Parade", "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", "Tobin’s Palm", "Transients in Arcadia", "The Trimmed Lamp", and more.

Horror and the supernatural are the background of Bierce's short stories. His style is marked by vivid description, grim situations, and sardonic twists of fate. In terms of technique, he was far ahead of his time and his short stories are among the very best in American literature.

O. Henry, the pseudonym of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), is best known for writing stories full of wit, wordplay, and warm characterizations, and particularly for their clever twist endings. This volume contains 20 of O. Henry's best and best-loved stories. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humor that have made O. Henry's stories popular for the last century.

In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser’s imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that’s given up its chronicling of history. Characterized by “phenomenal clarity and rapacious movement” each story “focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire and ambition.” ( Publishers Weekly)

I built my bakery from nothing. My business. My rules. My life. I don't need help. I don't need Alphas. And I sure as hell don't need them. Julian—the arrogant billionaire trying to buy out my town. Noah—my best friend, who's been waiting for me to finally see him. Elias—the gruff outsider with a past as dangerous as his touch. I was wrong.

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the legendary great detective Sherlock Holmes and penned by ten of the most acclaimed authors writing today. In 1887 A Study in Scarlet was published by a then little-known author called Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had almost given up on writing...

Thuggiana is a collection of short stories connected to The First Quarto.

Darin steht zu Beginn der harmlose Italienurlaub einer kleinen Familie (Ehepaar + 2 Kinder), welcher sich aufgrund der Hochsaison für die Ferienreisenden als eine Aneinanderreihung von Ärgernissen, Peinlichkeiten und skurrilen Erfahrungen entpuppt. Um sich etwas zu entspannen, besucht die Familie eine lokale Veranstaltung in Form einer angekündigten Zaubershow.

Sechs neue Kriminalnovellen vom Meister amerikanischer Kriminalliteratur Der millionenschwere Kasinoraub ist schlicht nicht machbar. Und genau das macht ihn unwiderstehlich für einen Räuber, der für seinen Final Score den Rest seines Lebens im Gefängnis verbringen muss. Ein ehrgeiziger Collegejunge hat einen Nebenjob, bei dem er illegalen Schnaps an The Sunday List liefert, bis ein korrupter Cop, ein verführerischer Kunde und ein falscher Guru seine Träume zu beenden drohen. Zwei Klugscheißer erzählen sich beim Frühstück in einem Diner eine True Story .

Der Mann stieß vorsichtig und vollkommen lautlos das Fenster auf und glitt dann wie ein körperloser Schatten in die finstere Leichenhalle. Dann holte er ein langes, blitzendes Messer aus seiner Tasche und bewegte sich zu den Füßen des Leichnams vor ihm und begann sein grausiges Werk...

Sedici anni prima, l'allora adolescente Will Sterling ha visto – o meglio, ha sentito – la ragazza dei suoi sogni: in attesa sotto il balcone di un condominio, ha avuto un momento perfetto con un'adorabile sconosciuta dalla voce calda. Ora l'arrivo di un'eredità inaspettata lo riporta a quello stesso indirizzo, dove intende liberarsi della nuova proprietà per tornare alla sua frenetica vita da medico. Invece, due balconi più in alto, incontra una donna dall'aria stranamente familiare. Ma sotto la superficie della loro faida si nasconde un legame profondo.

Published at the end of Flaubert’s career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In "A Simple Heart", a saint-like servant girl begins to experience religious visions of her pet parrot after enduring the loss of loved ones. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller" presents the origin story of Julian the Hospitaller, who renounces the violence of his past and cares for the indigent. "Herodias", the final story, retells the beheading of St. John the Baptist, and the seduction of Herod by Salome.

The women in this erotic collection want it pulsing deep inside them, so they can feel the throb as their hunky men moan and groan into their ears. Listen to women demanding it unleashed inside them, in passionate, forbidden romance stories that'll leave you gasping.

Dans une petite ville de province, la maison close de Madame Tellier est un monde à part: un lieu de passages et de confidences, où se mêlent rires, routines et pudeurs. Maupassant y observe, avec une précision tour à tour tendre et cruelle, la comédie des convenances et les fragilités cachées. Derrière les portes closes, l’humanité se dévoile: solitude, désir, charité, orgueil. Nouvelle brève et incisive, La Maison Tellier trace le portrait d’un établissement et de ses habitantes, ainsi que du regard que la ville pose sur elles.

In Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding by Katherine Mansfield we have the theme of gender roles, domination, submission, control, struggle, identity and tradition. Taken from her In a German Pension collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Mansfield may be exploring the theme of control. Throughout the story Frau Brechenmacher is at the beck and call of her husband.

This collection of Buk's grimmest diaries gives an insight into the noir and brutal Los Angeles that Bukowski observed and lived so well. He was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender, vicious...never the same. These are exceptional stories that came pounding out of his violent and depraved life - horrible and holy. You cannot listen to them and come away the same again.

Baron Dent grew up thinking his father was crazy, a mad scientist who believed in worlds beyond Earth. Turns out his father was not only sane, but a genius. When Baron went riding on a US military helicopter in the Indian Ocean, the last thing he expected to find was a waygate to another realm. Soon after, he discovers he’s not originally from Earth but from Agartha. What follows is a whirlwind of beautiful goddesses, past lives, and elemental magic.