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Five siblings. Five obligations. Five chances at sizzling, unexpected love.

The characters in My Dear You find themselves facing extraordinary choices in scenarios that range from the everyday to the absurd: The U.S. government injects all citizens with a drug that makes them see everyone else as members of their own race and gender. God does away with humans in favor of something much better. A woman adopts a cat who conjures the ghosts of her ex-loves. A factory worker decides to liberate a sex doll she is tasked with selling.

Fay Roper is a divorced single mom and a globally famous actress. She’s also unlucky in love. Maybe because the last thing Fay wants in a man is yet another superfan. But somehow, every time she has a boyfriend who isn’t a stalker, he abruptly disappears from her life. With the help of her best friend and right-hand woman, Poppy, Fay decides to change the game and join an exclusive new dating app under a false identity. A subscriber named Oliver takes the bait. But Oliver likes to play games too. And only one of them can win.

With a brash and stylish voice that implicates and confronts the listener, Emma Copley Eisenberg wades into the contradictions, joys, and violence of a modern world shaped by looking and watching, examining how our hungers can both hijack and crack open our lives. In the title story, a young girl looks to a group of fat women at her local pool to teach her about her changing body. In “Swiffer Girl,” a woman agrees to try for a baby with her partner, only to suddenly find herself haunted by the viral sex video that made the rounds during high school.

"«Басни Эзопа» - это сокровищница мудрости и вечных истин. Это классическая коллекция коротких историй, наполненных умными сюжетами и глубокими моральными уроками. Эта книга остается одним из самых популярных произведений мировой литературы. Басни рассказывают о жизни, дружбе, справедливости, и о многом другом, заставляя нас задуматься над важными ценностями. Эти истории оставляют неизгладимый след в сердцах слушателей, вдохновляя нас на поступки добра и сострадания.

The Celestial Rulers need human women to prevent the destruction of their alien civilization. Their human agents, working nonstop to recruit suitable mates, will stop at nothing to accomplish their purpose. That purpose is simple. Pair beautiful, fertile women with multiple extraterrestrial men.

Steve Capone, Jr. shares three of his previously unpublished works from the last half decade or so. They are a bit odd. Wonder what it might have been like to see Jesus push a kid off a roof? Why an upstanding young woman might be breaking into a thrift shop after hours? Or what a man earning his million-miler recognition might have sacrificed to earn such high esteem? Three shorts answer these questions, at least in the mind of their author.

Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, first published in the June 1936 edition of Astounding Stories, follows Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, who suffers a sudden mental collapse in 1908, losing his memory for five years. During this period, his body is controlled by an unknown intelligence while his own consciousness experiences life in a vast prehistoric era, housed within the body of a member of the Great Race of Yith—an ancient, time-traveling alien species that exchanges minds with beings across time to gather knowledge.

Set seven years after the events of The Weapon Takers Saga and six years before Heirs of War, this interquel short story links the two epic fantasy series together. Since the Isharite Wars, Jesper has earned a living and seen the world, working as a mercenary. Along with the grizzled warrior, Herin, and the enigmatic sorcerer, Rimmon, they've done some shady work. But they've never been asked to kill anyone before. And this job comes from a king.

This macabre anthology gathers seven of H. P. Lovecraft’s most chilling tales of revenants, reanimation, and spectral horrors. From lonely crypts to decaying ancestral mansions, each story unearths a world where the dead do not rest—and where the curious may find themselves entombed alongside ancient secrets. With gothic elegance and mounting dread, Lovecraft explores the boundary between life and death, and the madness that lies in attempting to cross it.

In this unnerving collection of cosmic horror, H. P. Lovecraft casts his gaze far beyond our fragile Earth, revealing a universe vast, uncaring, and filled with incomprehensible forces. These seven stories confront the listener with the terrifying notion that mankind is not alone, not significant, and not safe. From ancient aliens buried in Antarctic ice to cryptic transmissions from the void, these tales chronicle the slow unravelling of minds exposed to truths no human was meant to grasp.

Tauchen Sie ein in die unvergleichliche Atmosphäre der Toskana und erleben Sie eine literarische Reise voller Wärme, Kultur und Magie. Dieses Buch lädt Sie dazu ein, das Herz Italiens in all seiner Vielfalt zu entdecken.

זוכה פרס ספיר 2003 ספרו של אמיר גוטפרוינד – מחבר הרומן עטור השבחים שואה שלנו – נע בין אחוזות כפריות בצרפת לבין עליות גג בתל אביב; בין נַפָּח המתגלה כגאון קולינרי...

בספר הנוכחי "כמו פרידות" מתגוונים נופיו של אלפי, והוא כובש בלשונו, ההולכת ומתחדדת, מחוזות פיוטיים חדשים. אכן ה"אני" נותר ביסוד שירתו, אך אין בה בעצמיות זו משום חטטנות...

"הבה נבהיר מראש: בלי דמעות. אף דמעה לא תישפך פה. אמנם ילדים יעלו כאן לפניכם, או אם נדייק - בעיקר ילדות. ילדות שנעלמו, אבדו כמו זוג כפפות ועוד כפפה אחת. אבל אנשים הולכים...

I’m placing my life at serious risk by writing this… Once again, Connor Phillips delivers terror in this collection of interconnected short stories. The mystery surrounding the Vatican Secret Archives spans centuries. So, when America’s leading exorcism historian receives an opportunity to steal a laptop with access to The Vatican Secret Archives during a research trip, he takes it. The laptop contains shocking secrets about demonic possession and exorcism, heaven and hell, the occult and the paranormal. And the Church is willing to kill to keep its secrets.

Today was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t walk down the aisle and marry the wrong man. So I ditch my own wedding and board a plane. I’m probably crazy for showing up in North Haven, Alaska unannounced. It’s been ten years since I last saw Jordan Harris. Considering I was the one who broke his heart, I doubt he’ll want to see me. But I have to know if what we once had is possible to have again. I’ve never stopped loving him.

Contains all three books in the Iconoclasts trilogy, plus a prequel novella and a short story!

„Das letzte Problem" ist eine Sherlock-Holmes-Kurzgeschichte von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle und schildert den (vorerst) letzten, großen Fall - die Konfrontation mit dem berüchtigten Widersacher Holmes': Prof. Moriarty! Der gemeinfreie Text wurde von StanArts für diese Aufnahme überarbeitet.

En los cuentos de Julio Cortázar, el juego es cosa seria: está en la estructura de los relatos, en el fino tejido de los diversos planos narrativos e incluso en las reglas que se imponen los propios personajes a riesgo de pagar con la vida. Acaso ello explique el gusto cortazariano por la transgresión, esa tendencia a disolver el orden establecido.