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If you're just starting to learn Mandarin Chinese and want a fun, natural way to pick up the language, this audiobook is the perfect companion. Instead of dry grammar drills or memorizing lists, it immerses you in everyday situations through short stories, interactive games, and practical conversations—just like how you learned your first language as a child. Picture yourself navigating a busy subway, bargaining at a lively market, or sharing tea with family—all while effortlessly absorbing vocabulary and phrases.

Prepárate para adentrarte en un mundo donde el ingenio es la única arma contra el crimen. En este fascinante audiolibro de Baroness Orczy, te encontrarás con "El Abogado Milagro", un detective sin igual cuya mente aguda desentraña los misterios más complejos. A lo largo de trece apasionantes relatos, cada historia teje una red de suspense que te atrapará desde la primera palabra. Con cada nuevo enigma, El Abogado Milagro te invita a seguir sus pasos mientras desentraña verdades ocultas y se enfrenta a las mentes más astutas.

Ready for the perfect Valentine's treat? Summer has always had a thing for her boss. Well, not always... Just the last 3 years she's been working with him. During a particularly frustrating day in the office, surrounded by Valentine's Day cheer from her co-workers, Summer finds herself wishing that she could be a part of it, too... With Jude Hart. Jude makes his presence known throughout the day and flirts with her openly. Confused is an understatement for the sudden change, but she revels in it all the same.

Bordering on extreme horror, Deacon offers a full helping of blood and gore, with a side of psychological and metaphysical elements added for flavor. From a ravaged landscape where the dead roam the Earth to the tortured mind of a man walking a tightrope between insanity and what he believes to be reality, Deacon will leave you guessing until the very end ... and long after.

Spook will do that. Five spooky tales that transcend the barrier between reality and fantasy! Wrap up warm as you'll shiver!

Diese liebevoll erzählten Gute-Nacht-Geschichten nehmen Kinder ab 5 Jahren mit auf eine Reise voller Magie, Mut und Mitgefühl. Ob ein Stern sein Licht sucht, ein Kenku seinen Platz in der Welt findet, ein Mädchen den Zauberwald rettet oder ein Drache in einer dunklen Höhle Trost findet – jede Geschichte erzählt von innerer Stärke, Freundschaft und dem Mut, über sich hinauszuwachsen.

From the dog who interviews potential owners to the cat who writes Yelp reviews about her human, this hilarious and heartwarming flash fiction collection celebrates the glorious mess of life with adopted pets. Whether it’s a puppy submitting a resume ("Skills: Professional Cuddler, Amateur Sock Thief") or a shelter cat staging a protest for better treats, these 100 bite-sized stories are packed with love, laughter, and heart-tugging surprises—plus one powerful truth: adopting a pet might just be the best decision you ever make (even if they chew the evidence).

A neighborhood snowball fight erupts into a thing as close to war as an 11-year-old American boy is likely to face.

Dans cette toute première œuvre de Stefan Zweig, empreinte de délicatesse, l’auteur capture avec justesse la mélancolie des souvenirs et la douceur des rêves évanouis. Sous le soleil éclatant d’une villa en bord de mer, une femme et un homme se retrouvent après de longues années d’éloignement. Leur conversation, d’abord empreinte de légèreté, ravive bientôt les échos d’une jeunesse lointaine, d’un amour effacé par le temps mais jamais complètement éteint.

A collection of twenty short stories inspired by and featuring medieval engravings. Although the pictures are all medieval, some stories occur in the present or future. Aside from other things, I had Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space on my mind. Let yourself be abducted into a world of terraformed androids, organ-based dialogs, unclean revivals, psilocybin-induced travels into the demonlands, and much more.

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.

First published in the early 1950s, the story follows beings from across the universe—especially Morran and Lingman—as they seek out the enigmatic Answerer, a near-omniscient entity designed to reveal the answers to any question. But as the seekers discover, the quality of the answer depends entirely on the quality of the question.

In The Incredible Slingshot Bombs, Robert Moore Williams delivers a suspenseful and darkly imaginative tale from the Golden Age of science fiction. Set in a rural town during the 1940s, the story follows Tommy Sonofagun—a simple, wide-eyed boy who unknowingly wields a weapon of unfathomable power: radioactive pellets flung from a slingshot. When a string of explosions rocks the countryside, suspicion grows, and fear spreads faster than facts.

In a time when the undead bloodsuckers of legend have become a shadow of their former selves thanks to novels like Twilight and the Stackhouse series, horror author C. Dennis Moore returns the icons to their former glory with his collection of six short stories, Bloodletting (previously published as Icons to Ashes). Featuring three previously published stories plus three all-new tales, Bloodletting doesn't shy away for one moment from the bloodshed and ferocity of these killing machines.

Life, Death, and the In-between: A heartbreaking supernatural horror dealing with themes of suicide, grief and the after-life. I guess I wanted to write this given my own personal struggles with thoughts of suicide. Every day I deal with some degree of pain where some days are better than others. When the pain is at its worst, my thoughts often drift to ending my own life.

Leo the Primus Pilus of the Third Britannorum Cohort under Stillicho receives his retirement papers and land grant to a small farm in Ad Fines Pannonia. He gets more than he bargained for and has to establish himself amid conflicts with the church, Roman officials and warring tribes in a fragmenting Empire in the borderlands between East and West.

Climate disaster–induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently displaced millionaires, men who hear trees, and women who lose their wives on environmental refugee resettlement trips. In these dispatches from a weirding world, the absurd and fantastic are increasingly indistinguishable from reality. Exploring this liminal moment, Ashley Shelby's collection of climate fictions imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange.

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.

Author Henry Elder came to Alta Novis to learn more about the fabled battle lord and his lady. But rather than re-tell the tales of their already well-known exploits, he wants to hear about the couple from the people who really know them. The people who live, love, interact, and fight alongside with them. He wants to hear those personal anecdotes in order to discover a side of Yulen and Atty that few people know.

Somewhere on the edge of a small Texas town, Daddy stands in his red, silk underwear, pistol in hand, insulting the school superintendent, dancing through the night, and making another batch of moonshine in the garage. Peacocks get drunk; trees get stolen out of the ground, and naked neighbors appear from the darkness, even as an artificial star is hoisted to the heavens.