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LONGLISTED for the 2025 International Booker Prize A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival. "Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth...

An addictive, unpredictable, darkly hilarious collection of stories from Danny McBride—the beloved creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones and Eastbound & Down. “These McBride men more than drink their own Kool-Aid, they swig it to survive. On fever quests to save face and make their...

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer “An ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire...

Binge the complete collection of the best selling viral TikTok hockey romance series, My Hockey Romance, with all titles in duet! When you get screwed over, make it a double or even a triple! Because Karma is two hockey boyfriends and sometimes three!

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From his study window in Providence, a young writer of weird tales grows obsessed with a great black church abandoned on a far hill — its steeple shunned by every soul in the neighborhood, its doors sealed for two generations. Drawn at last to cross...

Fortune promises everything. Greed demands the rest. In The Rynard Gold Reef Company, Ltd., Sir Walter Besant delivers a sharp historical drama of mining speculation, ambition, and moral consequence. Set against the world of late nineteenth-century financial schemes and gold reef investments...

In retrospect, she should have known he wasn’t a footman. The only child of the Earl and Countess of Brewster, Lady Flora Pelham agrees to meet her mother’s collection of potential suitors, until a misunderstanding has two out of the three gentleman believing her already betrothed. Unwilling...

Антон Чехов — величайший русский новеллист, мастер недосказанности и тонкого психологизма. «О любви» — щемящая история о чувстве, на которое не хватило...

Александр Пушкин — солнце русской литературы, чья проза безупречна в своей ясности. «Выстрел» — напряжённая повесть о чести, мести и хладнокровии, об отложенной...

The Complete Katherine Mansfield Collection contains the five volumes of short stories written by Mansfield between 1911 and 1924 which established her as one of the best short story writers of her generation, as-well as the only novel she ever penned: The Aloe. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a New Zealand-born English writer, famous for her expertly observed short stories. She had a great influence on the development of the short story as a form of literature.

Dotze contes extraordinaris allà on amaguem la por i els nostres monstres. El mal pot adoptar les aparences més diverses i, fins i tot, mostrar-se quotidià i familiar, de vegades, com en els contes d' Aquest serà el nostre pou, mereixedor del premi Mercè Rodoreda 2025. Una celebració...

The characters who inhabit Sarah Layden's short story collection are on the verge of change —if only they could see themselves and their situations with greater clarity. Caught in the midst of crises, they stumble toward the future without fully understanding their past. Layden’s deft, spare prose sketches worlds and lives with telling details, juggling disparate strands of identity and often revealing the deeper truths in unexpected moments of epiphany. A bride-to-be puts on her detective hat when her groom goes missing.

Winter, 1971. Grief drives teenager Michael Tedesco into exile—straight into the arms of a grandfather he barely knows, hidden deep within the sun-bleached isolation of the Florida Keys. At first glance, the island feels like paradise. But paradise has a memory. The locals watch too closely. Speak too little. And when they do speak, it's only in hushed warnings—stories of Naia Tomes, a witch who once stalked the island… a woman said to have fed on human flesh before the newcomers put her down. Buried. Forgotten.

Retirement has left me adrift. Basketball was my everything, besides Ava and Alana. But now, as I prepare to become an aunt, my world is turned on its head. Alana's pregnancy fills me with joy for my best friends, but it also stirs a deep longing in me for a family of my own. I throw myself into work as a sports commentator, but when I see Dana for the first time, a primal urge takes hold of me.

Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws are forensic geologists who investigate crimes threatening lives and the land—a job that always leads to trouble.

Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws are forensic geologists who investigate crimes threatening lives and the land—a job that always leads to trouble.

Ria Tuenter's verhalenbundel Kwijt biedt een intieme blik in de wereld van een moeder met dementie, met zowel ontroerende als humoristische verhalen over troost en liefde.

Ги де Мопассан — непревзойдённый мастер французской новеллы, виртуоз неожиданной развязки. «Драгоценности» — ироничная и горькая история о супружестве...

Эмиль Золя — глава литературного натурализма, мастер беспощадно правдивой и пронзительной прозы. В сборник вошли три рассказа, в которых за обыденными сюжетами...

Una presencia inquietante comienza a aparecer en medio de la noche… y nadie sabe si se trata de una visión, de la locura… o de algo sobrenatural. En “El monje negro”, Antón Chéjov construye una historia hipnótica donde la genialidad y la obsesión se confunden peligrosamente. Andréi Kovrin, un brillante intelectual agotado física y mentalmente, busca descanso en una antigua finca rodeada de jardines y tranquilidad. Pero allí comienza a experimentar extrañas apariciones: un misterioso monje vestido de negro que parece conocer los secretos más profundos de su mente.