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One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Coffinsview, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Summer jobs that no kid should ever take, newspapers that print tomorrow's horrors today, graveyard tours so terrifying most visitors never make it to the end.

Jade. When my roommate and best friend set me up with a job interview, I was grateful. I’d never been a server at a club before, but I had some waitressing experience, so how hard could it be? But when I arrived at the club, I realized I’d fallen into my worst nightmare. The club owner wasn’t interested in hiring any servers, that was merely a ruse to lure innocent girls like me into a trap. Before I’d even processed what’s happening, I was center stage being auctioned off to the highest bidder in a room full of cruel, rich men.

A widow discovers her late husband's photos are vanishing, along with her memories of who he really was. A struggling writer meets a stranger who offers the perfect compliments. The price? Everything that makes him human. A family finds a stain in their rental home. It moves. It searches. And it remembers what was buried beneath.

When a tiny three week old street dog, finds himself amongst the congregation of Sunday service in a beautiful white church in Gorai, India, he sits in wonder and fascination of the sights before him. The people, the clothes, the golden goblets and the Priest's white wafers.

Cinq nouvelles emblématiques pour découvrir les grands thèmes de l’œuvre de Guy de Maupassant dans une édition audio soignée et accessible. Maître incontesté de la nouvelle, Guy de Maupassant demeure l’un des auteurs français les plus lus et étudiés. En quelques pages, il explore avec précision les émotions humaines, les illusions sociales, la peur et le fantastique.

"El pabellón número seis" es uno de los cuentos más largos y mejores de Chéjov, de un patetismo sutil pero impactante y de cuidada atmósfera. El protagonista es Andrei Yefymich, un médico de un hospital, de filosofía estoica y amante del desarrollo intelectual, que echa en falta la existencia de inquietudes en las personas y considera que la sociedad en que vive es triste y pobretona.

Burned out and working a postcollege job she hates, Allison Yang drops dead in her office—and wakes up three years in the past. Back at college. She has one chance for a redo at life: from switching majors and facing toxic friends to being fearless with her parents. And, perhaps, approaching the popular athlete she’d always loved from afar. Fingers crossed that this time will count.

On the eve of her senior year, Julia has a look so new she doesn’t even recognize herself in the mirror. It’s the only reason she feels bold enough to talk to Wyatt, the boy she’s been staring at for three years. Tonight, at the drive-in, Wyatt finally stares back. Does he see Julia? Or some new and perfect stranger?

Eric, a college freshman, joins his four dormmates for an afternoon in New York City—the first time he’s seen them outside their campus bubble. But feeling increasingly invisible among these new friends, Eric’s anxieties compound. As they roam the streets of New York, Eric begins to question if he’s even truly wanted there. Soon, though, the friends start to reveal pieces of themselves. Can Eric let go enough to show them who he really is?

LONGLISTED for the 2025 International Booker Prize A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival. "Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth...

An addictive, unpredictable, darkly hilarious collection of stories from Danny McBride—the beloved creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones and Eastbound & Down. “These McBride men more than drink their own Kool-Aid, they swig it to survive. On fever quests to save face and make their...

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer “An ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From his study window in Providence, a young writer of weird tales grows obsessed with a great black church abandoned on a far hill — its steeple shunned by every soul in the neighborhood, its doors sealed for two generations. Drawn at last to cross...

Fortune promises everything. Greed demands the rest. In The Rynard Gold Reef Company, Ltd., Sir Walter Besant delivers a sharp historical drama of mining speculation, ambition, and moral consequence. Set against the world of late nineteenth-century financial schemes and gold reef investments...

In retrospect, she should have known he wasn’t a footman. The only child of the Earl and Countess of Brewster, Lady Flora Pelham agrees to meet her mother’s collection of potential suitors, until a misunderstanding has two out of the three gentleman believing her already betrothed. Unwilling...

Антон Чехов — величайший русский новеллист, мастер недосказанности и тонкого психологизма. «О любви» — щемящая история о чувстве, на которое не хватило...

Александр Пушкин — солнце русской литературы, чья проза безупречна в своей ясности. «Выстрел» — напряжённая повесть о чести, мести и хладнокровии, об отложенной...

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.

Dotze contes extraordinaris allà on amaguem la por i els nostres monstres. El mal pot adoptar les aparences més diverses i, fins i tot, mostrar-se quotidià i familiar, de vegades, com en els contes d' Aquest serà el nostre pou, mereixedor del premi Mercè Rodoreda 2025. Una celebració...

In this captivating collection of literary tales, forgotten letters, unsent confessions, chance discoveries, and long-buried secrets weave together lives across generations. Each story begins with words on a page —but what those words carry is far more powerful than ink. A grieving widower uncovers a letter hidden inside an old book. A young woman receives correspondence addressed to someone who vanished decades before. A retired postman keeps a secret he has protected for forty years.