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A female-centred collection of four dramatisations celebrating Jane Austen’s classic novels - plus bonus series When I Met Jane Austen On 16 December 1775, a literary icon was born. Jane Austen’s groundbreaking novels pioneered the romantic comedy genre and put women front and centre...

Somers enters a charity bachelor’s auction without telling his boyfriend. This story takes place before The Rational Faculty.

In the warm storytelling style loved by his readers, Louisiana author Curt Iles weaves a wonderful short story of adversity, perseverance, love, and redemption. Told through the eyes of a ninety-six-year-old man, Luther Perkins, as he recalls his boyhood journey across America during the Great Depression. His story begins in the Louisiana Pineywoods, from where he leaves home and becomes part of the huge migration of young men torn from their roots and families.

Hell has many doors… and Kevin J. Kennedy just tore them all open. Ten masterfully twisted minds each offer their own chilling vision of damnation, sin, and suffering. These aren’t just stories—they’re warnings. Tales so disturbing, you’ll be praying your soul is clean. So ask yourself: Have you lived a good life? Enter, if you’re brave enough… but don’t expect to come back the same. Contains stories by Edward Lee, Gord Rollo, Bryan W. Alaspa, Bill Davidson, Jeffrey Thomas, Viggy Parr Hampton, Thomas Smith, David-Jack Fletcher, Brian Moreland & Ryan Colley. Edited by Ann Keeran

Barbara has spent her life living under her husband's control. When he pushes her too far, Barbara finally snaps...

Ten exciting and unique stories! This collection features stories by James Agee Jr., Adam Rose, Lorraine Bradner, Katie Johns, Damian Stevenson, Chris Manning, and Ted Garcia.

This is a collection of stories from the four other childhood friends. Rose, the elf maiden, and Toby, a bonded brother, tell their tales first. Leo, Diego's younger brother, then tells his tales of life at sea. This is an expansion of Bloodlines and Black Flags.

A modern take on Washington Irving's classic, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. Set three years after the Y2K panic in 1999, history teacher Ian Crane, is hunted by a ghost — a spectral demon hellbent on reaping souls on Halloween night — and behind the wheel of a midnight-black, 1969 Mustang Mach 1.

You will fall head over heels in love with this 3-audiobook series that will give you all the feels when these cowboys come home to their small town and discover some things (or people) are worth staying for this time.

A sleep story for adults — written to soften the breath, slow the heart, and invite stillness. Some letters are never lost. They wait quietly inside forgotten books, folded in silence, until the right reader finds them. On a rainy afternoon in an Oxford library, a scholar discovers an envelope with her name written in a hand from the year 1402. The seal has crumbled. The ink is warm brown. And the letter begins — not with urgency, but with care. As she follows its presence into deeper corridors and candle-lit rooms that shouldn’t exist, the past begins to unfold beside her.

This collection of twenty-one terrifying tales peels back the everyday world to reveal the nightmare underneath. From a group of friends who stumble upon a silent, ritualistic campground where the other campers are anything but human, to a photo technician who discovers a terrifying figure lurking in his customers’ snapshots, these stories prove that the greatest horror is the one you never see coming.

Two siblings, lost in the woods, are offered shelter by a peculiar host with a monstrous appetite. A visit to grandma's house comes to a grisly end. A young maiden makes a pact with a sinister imp. A boy leaves home to discover the true meaning of fear. These twisted fairytales and more await within the cursed bindings of The Grimmoire.

From the first campfire to the iPhone, the world’s greatest inventions looked very different from the floor—right beside the water bowl. In Paws of Progress, S. M. Lucky serves up 50 laugh-out-loud, heart-squeeze tales in which dogs, cats, parrots, raccoons, goldfish, and more witness (and frequently sabotage) human genius. A wolf-dog drafts the original leash manifesto. A monastery cat edits the printing press with paw-notes.

Embers Before Dreams gathers five gentle, soothing tales from the Before Your Dream series—each crafted to quiet the mind, loosen the breath, and guide you toward restful calm. These are bedtime stories for adults, written with soft pacing and warm imagery, offering companionship for quiet evenings and slow nights. Across moonlit coasts, desert dunes, ancient cities, and candlelit rooms, the collection carries you through landscapes shaped by stillness, memory, and the soft magic of places where time moves differently.

Warren is just a guardsman with a haunted past eager for a new castle to defend. All that changes when he's summoned to the edges of the kingdom, where walls protect cities against the diabolical foes of the wildlands. His mission is simple: save the Dragon Farm he just inherited, settle down as a lord, and help his new city thrive. As a soldier who normally lives by the blade, he's out of his element but up to the task... especially since tame dragons seem to like him.

Dans "Légendes inventées et histoires presque vraies", Françoise Pascals nous plonge dans l'atmosphère mystérieuse du village de Lavaltrie, où trois sorcières vivent en marge de la société, dissimulant leur véritable nature aux yeux des habitants. Alice, connue sous le pseudonyme de "Malice", incarne la séduction et le danger, utilisant son charme pour manipuler les jeunes hommes du village. Malgré les avertissements du sage Napoléon Benoit, les villageois restent aveugles aux menaces qui les entourent.

Découvrez Les Archives de Sherlock Holmes, ultime recueil de nouvelles où Arthur Conan Doyle dévoile les dernières enquêtes du célèbre détective. En version livre audio, chaque histoire prend vie grâce à une narration immersive qui met en relief l'ingéniosité de Holmes et la loyauté du docteur Watson. Ce volume réunit des enquêtes parmi les plus surprenantes du canon holmésien : disparitions improbables, mystères domestiques, manipulations retorses et crimes d'une précision redoutable. On y retrouve un Holmes plus mûr, toujours aussi incisif, dont la méthode déductive atteint son apogée.

More Davies and Montgomery mayhem: Three Ruthless Rivals novellas in one volume!

A collection of short stories from the National Book Award-winning author of Mating "Powerful and original...always convincingly authentic. The ironies keep cutting in new directions." —The New York Times Whether they are Americans, Brits, or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman...

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