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When teenager Hayden Smith moves from the bustling streets of the States to a quaint English town, he feels like a fish out of water in a world that seems both foreign and intimidating. With tousled brown hair and a penchant for art, Hayden is introspective and creative, searching for a place where he truly belongs. Just as he begins to settle into his new life, he meets Peter—a charismatic local with bright blue eyes and an infectious smile. Adventurous and outgoing, Peter embodies the spirit of the countryside, drawing Hayden in with his warmth and spontaneity.

The Brothers Three: Fables & Fairy Tales is not a typical fable collection. It is a rare blend of storytelling, philosophy, and moral teaching woven across three distinct yet harmonized narrative voices. What emerges is a book that feels playful and whimsical on the surface, yet thoughtful, intentional, and layered underneath. It is equally accessible to children and meaningful to adults—a difficult balance that this collection achieves with surprising grace.

Carried by a wind that never hurries and never rests, the passage begins above quiet farmland, where fields drift slowly beneath the morning sky and hedgerows trace the memory of hands long gone. What follows is not a journey in the usual sense, but a gentle movement across landscapes that reveal themselves without urgency, each one giving way to the next with a calm inevitability.

It is 1883, an ageing seanchaí (storyteller) traveling the byways of Ireland rests and regales some locals with the tale of a forgotten Iron age hero. The mighty Celtic warrior, Taran, charged with the protection of Queen Una of Inis. Taran receives a new commission, a desperate plea by Una to protect her child at all costs when she learns that her husband, King Eogan, has instructed his troops to take the child, afflicted from birth with a spine deformity, into the lair of wolves and leave him for dead.

Angeline was celebrating her 30th birthday when she found herself on the side of the road. The snow had begun to fall, and she felt drawn to it. She couldn’t figure out why the snow seemed to be calling her name, but the urge to let the cold ice crystals hit her face was all she could think about. Her life would take a turn into something she didn’t recognize after standing in that cold abyss. Ember is a witch with spider shifter in her and hiding out from the evil coven who wants to destroy her and use her for her book.

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.

Not all nightmares come from sleep. Some come from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeneva Rose. Three horror stories. A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop. You’ll recognize the setup. You won’t recognize what comes next. Never Kill the Medium A thirtieth birthday dinner turns...

Moore has done it again in this compelling third volume, Thirteen Miles North of Nelson, where both the simplicity and complexity of life in the far reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula push the listener beyond the rugged geography where extremes are more than metaphorical. In these eleven short stories, the listener is often brought to tears of triumph and waves of hilarious laughter as his characters plunge through the wilderness of emotions rarely exposed in conventional literature.

Caro Brooks stirs up gossip wherever she goes. Not intentionally, it is simply the effect of not being engaged to her childhood friend when everyone thought she would be. Three years ago, Silas Darby had left without a word to her, and the entire village has questions. Caro has spent all that time missing him and blaming herself for never telling him how she truly felt. One cannot get engaged to a childhood friend if love and matrimony are never spoken between them, no matter what the gossip says.

Whispers Before Dreams brings together 5 bedtime stories for adults, created for quiet evenings, restful listening and the gentle transition towards sleep. Each story offers a different peaceful journey, with immersive settings and enough narrative to occupy the mind without demanding that it stay awake. In The Inn at the Edge of the Dunes, a weary traveller discovers a secluded inn beside the sea, where welcoming rooms, windswept dunes and the memories of earlier guests offer a refuge from the outside world.

You Die Alone If You're Lucky brings together four nightmare-packed volumes of Elford Alley's horror—Ash and Bone, Find Us, The Last Night in the Damned House, and We Will Find a Place for You—in one massive collection of 53 tales. Haunted houses. Restless dead. Monsters in the woods. Old rituals. Twisted faith. Curses and local legends. Impossible places. Cosmic dread. Strange rules. And people who realize—usually too late—that something is very wrong.

En distintos lugares del mundo y en diferentes momentos de la historia, las protagonistas de estos relatos breves y no tan breves enfrentan miedos, violencias, mandatos y decisiones que les cambian la vida. Pero, también, descubren la fuerza de la amistad entre mujeres, la complejidad de ser mujer en este tiempo, la alegría de los pequeños gestos, la importancia de luchar por los derechos y el coraje de empezar de nuevo.

A weekend retreat with girlfriends, a midnight drive through the desert and a strange radio signal spell disaster for a young woman. When Shelly Wagoner is asked by her boss to stop by a remote radio station and interview a potential radio personality, she’s no idea the trouble she’s about to face or the alien forces at play that will forever change her life.

Две седмици. Толкова време е издържала Ан-Луиз след раздялата. Две седмици без близост, без човек, с когото да сподели леглото си, и без човек, който да накара пулса...

Sara står i bruseren, overrasket af sin mand Lennon og deres nabo Klas – begge nøgne, begge ser forventningsfuldt på hende. Lennons dårlige undskyldning om at have spillet padel narrer ingen, og Sara indser, at dette er endnu en af hans omhyggeligt planlagte overraskelser. Siden...

Nel cuore gelido di una San Pietroburgo burocratica e spietata vive Akakij Akakievič, un umile impiegato ministeriale il cui unico scopo nella vita è copiare documenti. Schernito dai colleghi e invisibile al mondo, la sua grigia esistenza viene improvvisamente scossa da un dramma imminente: il suo vecchio cappotto è ridotto a uno straccio e l'inverno russo non perdona.

Nel cuore di San Pietroburgo, lungo la celebre Prospettiva Nevskij, si incrociano destini, illusioni e apparenze che ingannano. Tra caffè affollati, strade eleganti e inquietanti contrasti sociali, la città diventa il palcoscenico di una realtà mutevole, dove ciò che appare raramente coincide con ciò che è. Con "La prospettiva Nevskij", Nikolaj Gogol' offre un ritratto brillante e tagliente della vita urbana russa: una narrazione sospesa tra ironia e disincanto, in cui la città stessa sembra trasformarsi in un organismo vivo, capace di sedurre e ingannare chi la attraversa.

Kaksi viikkoa. Niin kauan Ann-Louise on sinnitellyt eron jälkeen. Kaksi viikkoa ilman läheisyyttä, ilman ketään, jonka kanssa jakaa sänky, ja ilman ketään, joka saisi pulssin kiihtymään. Kun yksinäisyys käy lopulta liian raskaaksi, hän tekee hetken mielijohteesta päätöksen...

A chance discovery on a South Carolina island sets in motion one of the most famous treasure hunts in American literature. When William Legrand becomes obsessed with a curious golden scarab, his friend is drawn into a night expedition, a coded cipher, and the search for Captain Kidd's buried...

Six women always felt like they came up short. The monsters are determined to prove them wrong. Full to Bursting is a six-story FF monster romance anthology about envy, abundance, and the particular ache of wanting a body—and a desire—you've spent your whole life told to shrink.