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When the White Rabbit appears with a cryptic warning, Pinocchio learns a shocking truth: he was carved from a tree unlike any other. A mystical Juniper tree brimming with ancient, raw magic called the Deantohr Draiocka. Now, the most sinister villains from every corner of the fairytale realm are hunting him, desperate to tear him apart and forge him into selfish weapons, relics… or a fate far worse.

Estas historias, concebidas para invitar a la reflexión, transportan al lector a un universo de metáforas y enseñanzas profundas. A través de personajes inesperados y situaciones simbólicas, cada una desafía la percepción de la realidad y despierta preguntas sobre la vida, la naturaleza y la condición humana. Un libro que removerá cielo y tierra en la mente del lector, impulsándolo a mirar más allá de lo evidente.

Ob Maya im Wolkenpalast lernt, Illusionen loszulassen, oder Amir am Fluss des Lebens die Kunst des Losgelöstseins entdeckt – jede Episode spiegelt ein zentrales Prinzip buddhistischer Lehre und endet mit einem prägnanten Impuls, der den Transfer in den eigenen Alltag erleichtert. Statt trockener Ratgeber-Formeln bietet das Buch poetische Schlüssel, die Türen zu tiefer Selbsterkenntnis öffnen.

Bandits & Rebels is an anthology of some of Jules Verne’s earliest work, including the first appearance of a submarine in his fiction. As well as his interest in science, it illustrates his geographical and historical range, with San Carlos, a story about smugglers in Spain; a story about the siege of Rome in 1848; and Martin Paz, about an indigenous uprising in Peru in the 1830s. The audiobook includes a detailed introduction by Sorbonne professor and Verne expert Daniel Compére.

TREY: A shot straight to the heart. That's what I felt when I saw a drunken video of the beautiful, charismatic Gemma Fairchild with her author friends. They've created a book boyfriend builder business. I'm a famous baseball player and don't need help finding a woman but sign me up. Anything to...

The citizenry of America struggles for survival in a dangerous, twisted future. In this critically acclaimed collection of stores, noir legend Walter Mosley takes his unique vision of American society into the future. As the nation descends into chaos, its citizens wonder, is the world ending...

From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...

A chilling Edgar Allan Poe tale of hypnotism, mortality, and the unknown, Mesmeric Revelation explores the eerie boundary between life, death, and consciousness in Poe’s signature gothic style.

Quattro avventure investigative con al centro Saverio Lamanna e Peppe Piccionello, i due improbabili investigatori isolani immaginati da Gaetano Savatteri sempre dentro situazioni strane e incontri un po' paradossali. Storie che si leggono come un unico romanzo in cui si ride senza sosta, ci si commuove talvolta, e sempre sotto il velo comico va in scena mascherata la miseria umana.

Your kitchen is not as emotionally stable as it appears. Behind the cabinet doors, tensions have been building for years. These are not the polite utensils you think you know. They are jealous. They are ambitious. They remember everything. Kitchen Stories You Shouldn’t Read Sober is a funny and strangely emotional collection of adult satirical tales that reveal the secret lives of ordinary kitchen objects.

On the campus of Brackenford University, Christmas cheer is about to be violently, messily and hilariously shredded. Dr. Percival Archibald Blenkinsop is a brilliant chemist, catastrophic klutz, and sworn enemy of festive baked goods. And he has finally created the crowning glory of all of his limited achievements... He’s concocted a serum designed to render every mince pie on Earth completely inedible. Unfortunately for humanity, his experiment doesn’t ruin a mince pie… it mutates one.

Il quintetto di racconti che compone L'undicesima ora ci offre una caleidoscopica quanto affascinante esplorazione della vita, della morte e di ciò che viene messo a fuoco quando ci si trova alle prese con l'atto finale della nostra vicenda umana. Nel sud narra di una coppia di anziani litigiosi, Junior e Senior, e della loro personalissima tragedia privata che si consuma nel bel mezzo di un momento di calamità nazionale.

Drei unterschiedliche Formen des Sterbens werden hier zu einer stillen Meditation über Natur, Menschlichkeit und Vergänglichkeit. In klaren, oft parabelhaften Bildern erzählt Tolstoi von Gerechtigkeit, Demut, Liebe und dem Sinn menschlicher Existenz. Mit der Novelle Die Kreutzersonate zeigt sich Tolstoi als radikaler Kritiker von Leidenschaft, Besitzdenken und gesellschaftlicher Moral.

Maupassants Geschichten sind Momentaufnahmen des 19. Jahrhunderts – angesiedelt zwischen Paris und der Normandie, zwischen Salon und Schenke, zwischen Krieg, Liebe, Geld und Einsamkeit. In frühen realistischen Erzählungen wie Fettklößchen oder Vater Milon verarbeitet er seine Erfahrungen aus dem Deutsch-Französischen Krieg und entlarvt Patriotismus, Moral und gesellschaftliche Heuchelei mit bitterer Ironie. In späteren Erzählungen wie Der Horla verdichtet sich Maupassants zunehmende psychische Zerrissenheit zu unheimlichen, fast visionären Texten.

The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells is a compelling and philosophical short story about a mountaineer named Nunez who stumbles into a secluded valley cut off from the rest of the world, where every inhabitant has been blind for generations. Expecting to rule easily in a land without sight, he quickly discovers that the society has adapted so completely to blindness that his ability to see is considered strange, even delusional.

The title comes from "The Atomic Man," the seventh story in the collection, where a teenager named Calvin Reece understands what he has become. He has become light: the loneliest thing in the universe, touching everything, holding nothing. But the phrase describes all twelve protagonists. Each one reaches the world in some remarkable way and finds that the reach itself prevents the grasp. They affect everything around them and possess nothing of what they most need: ordinary human closeness, the unremarkable warmth of being known without being studied, feared, worshipped, or fled from.

5 gay romance short stories stuffed tight in 1 BIG bundle! This steamy collection delivers MM summer romance, straight to gay awakenings, and friends to lovers fun.

Paths Intertwined is a heartwarming and delicate collection of short stories that explore the many facets of human connections—friendships, family ties, fleeting encounters, and unexpected relationships. Told through the innocent yet perceptive eyes of a thirteen-year-old, these stories reveal how closeness, rivalries, relationships, and chance meetings leave lasting marks on our hearts and shape who we are.

Descend into one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most gripping sea tales, where terror, survival, and the overwhelming power of nature collide in a haunting classic of suspense and imagination.

When Clara’s phone rings, it is only a brief call. A father who is worried. A daughter who cannot be reached. A conversation that should mean nothing – and yet shifts everything. Clara stays after a loss that is not her own. Not because she is asked to. But because an opening appears. In a stranger’s apartment, in a daily life thrown off balance, she begins to take a place that is not empty – but missing.