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Award-winning author Jae penned thirteen short stories that range from sweet and romantic to hot and erotic, and from humorous to heartfelt. Whatever you're in the mood for, you're sure to find it in this collection of lesbian short stories.

Tales of lore from f*ckboys and more… Myths and legends would be nothing without their shining star of a hero at the forefront … right? Heroes or Zeroes? looks at the dashingly handsome and oh-so-brave men from antiquity in a whole other light. From 'famous' Heroes, Rowdy Royals, Underdogs...

„Der Bajazzo" erzählt von einem jungen Mann, durchaus mit künstlerischem Talent begabt, welcher seine Schul- und Lehrzeit in einem träumerischen und desinteressierten Zustand hinter sich bringt und durch den Tod seiner Eltern ein Kapital erbt, das ihm ermöglicht, von dessen Zinsen ein recht gut situiertes Leben zu führen, ohne arbeiten gehen zu müssen. Er verbummelt seine Zwanzigerjahre im Ausland, spielt regelmäßig Klavier und liest gerne brandneue Romane von angesagten Autoren und beschließt schließlich, an einem finalen Standort sesshaft zu werden.

Murder and mystery lurk in the picturesque English countryside in this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her and many of her most intriguing mysteries are set on the moors and shores of Devon and...

In the collection’s first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades, while in the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped, and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in “Thank You No Thank You” a young woman who grew up in a cloistered religious community and escaped to a liberal law school grapples with the rules she learned in childhood, the rules of her new life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend.

The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels...

An uncompromising and sensually charged collection from one of the great practitioners of the short story. Squandering the Blue is Kate Braverman’s debut story collection, a fierce, hallucinatory vision of Southern California and the women who move through its heat, glamour, and wreckage. Set...

A full-frontal confrontation of the ways we perform desire and shame—from the downright bizarre to the frighteningly relatable—by the award-winning author of A Sharp Endless Need An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriend’s...

From the award-winning author of the national bestseller Idaho comes a stunning collection of stories that explore how unexpected intuitions forever alter the lives of ordinary people. Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the...

Im Moloch Paris treiben sich die seltsamsten Gestalten herum. Der prosaische Großmeister Victor Hugo nutzt diese Weltbühne, um Charaktere unterschiedlichster Couleur aufeinanderprallen zu lassen und entfesselt ein spektakuläres Realitätsbild der wahnwitzigen Gesellschaft. Sorgenlose und mutige Glücksjäger, ausgestoßene Einzelgänger, vom Teufel besessene Priester, die leidenschaftlich morden und in alchemistischer Besessenheit nach Goldformeln suchen, wunderschöne Frauen, Studenten u. a.

عندما يظن الصغير أنه يقتني حيوانًا أليفًا لتمضية الوقت، يُفاجأ بأن هذا الكائن يمتلك ذاكرة تمتد لقرون غابرة، وعقلًا يزن الأمور بميزان الفلاسفة لا بميزان الغريزة...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature, with novels from Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Adam Sims, David Rintoul, and more, this is a chance to expand your listening with some of the greatest authors of all time.

The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.

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.

Twelve short stories from the universe of Magdalene Nox, Neve Blackthorne, Vivian DeVor and all their friends . . .

MURDER IN DARK WATERS They’re hunting a killer But the bayou keeps its secrets Angelique Santori has vowed that she’ll find her mother’s murderer. When chief of police Daniel LeCroix asks her to let the police handle things, they reach an agreement: She’ll go back to her life if he gives...

Early retirement never sounded so good to Mervin and Ruthie Miller. After a lifetime in Millersburg, where Mervin worked at a furniture and shed factory and Ruthie helped out at a fabric store, they have exciting plans: They're going to become "Amish Gentlemen Farmers." That means buying a thirty-acre, ramshackle farm, and all that comes with it.

“Ahmad’s compassion, her deep care for the psychological and emotional nuances of her characters, never wavers.” – The New York Times Book Review In a searing collection by the award-winning author of The Return of Faraz Ali, characters seek to make their futures their own in a Pakistan...

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MANILA TAKES MANHATTAN Fans of Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang will adore this irresistibly engaging story of two Filipino celebrities caught between everything they want…and everything they are. How do you follow your heart when it’s in two places? Filipino musician and producer Mon...