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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.

Сборник рассказов Людмилы Улицкой, объединённый одной и очень важной линией и, конечно, Женей—альтер эго самой Людмилы Евгеньевны

Este libro narra la historia de Lily, una mujer que creció pensando que la felicidad llegaría al encontrar a la persona "ideal". Durante mucho tiempo creyó que su bienestar dependía de tener una pareja, construir una vida juntos y cumplir con las expectativas sociales. Sin embargo, tras varias desilusiones, promesas rotas y momentos de dudas, descubrió algo que transformó su visión: la felicidad no siempre se parece a lo que nos enseñaron. A veces, está en la paz de estar sola, en alejarse de lo que lastima y en reconectar con uno mismo. Esta es una historia de transformación.

One town. Four volumes. Endless nightmares. The complete Haunted Hollow collection—creepy small-town horror at its most chilling. Old houses unsettled by strange noises, nursing homes where old people terrify those who care for them, quests for Sasquatch that take horrifying turns. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your next night in Haunted Hollow?

L'audiolibro, che presenta sette racconti brevi narrati da altrettanti valenti attori veneti, si apre proprio con la voce dello scrittore estratta da una vecchia intervista in cui spiegava cosa rappresentassero per lui i libri. L'audiolibro a lui dedicato, ideato e promosso da Stefania Carlesso e da Alessandro Zaltron, è un omaggio allo scrittore che aveva dato il suo entusiastico appoggio all'iniziativa prima della sua scomparsa.

30 unglaubliche Kurzgeschichten. Eine rasante Achterbahnfahrt durch die Höhen und Tiefen menschlicher Existenzen. Pechschwarzer Humor. Gnadenlos absurd. Unterhaltsam. Lustig. Seltsam. Abgründig. Skurril.

This collection of short, business-themed stories is designed to help you improve your professional German through learning in context — one of the most effective approaches to German language learning for the workplace. Whether you need to communicate confidently in German business meetings, write professional emails, or simply hold your own in day-to-day office German, this course gives you the tools to get there.

La memoria de Shakespeare es el último libro de relatos de Borges, y sin duda una de sus obras más acabadas y exquisitas.

Mit feinem Humor, liebevoller Beobachtungsgabe und einer unverkennbaren regionalen Stimme erzählt Peter Maibach von Begegnungen, die berühren, schmunzeln lassen und manchmal leise nachdenklich stimmen. Die Erzählungen kreisen um Menschen, wie man ihnen in der Stadt, im Quartier oder im eigenen Leben begegnet: eigenwillig, herzlich, manchmal verschroben – immer aber zutiefst menschlich.

The instant Sunday Times besteller 'The work of a writer who has once again demonstrated complete command of his craft' - The Irish Times 'Short stories to astonish and delight' Financial Times 'Tales of quiet power' The Guardian In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories...

James Joyce’s Araby, one of the most celebrated stories from Dubliners, captures a fleeting moment of youth — when imagination, longing, and the promise of romance collide with the reality of the world. Set along the dim winter streets of North Richmond Street, the story follows a boy whose thoughts become consumed by Mangan’s sister, a girl who unknowingly becomes the center of his dreams. When she speaks to him of the mysterious bazaar called Araby, the boy seizes upon the chance to visit it, hoping to bring her a gift and prove the depth of his devotion.

A quiet coastal inn waits at the edge of the dunes—its corridors warmed by lamplight, its rooms shaped by sea breeze and memory. In this gentle, atmospheric tale from the Before Your Dream series, a traveller steps into a sanctuary woven from soft textures, amber light, and the distant hush of the tide. Here, time moves slowly, and every object—an open ledger, a vase of daisies, a row of hanging keys—carries the whisper of lives passing quietly through.

High in the mountains, where dawn arrives as a whispered blessing and silence moves through stone corridors like breath, stands the Ninth Temple — a place shaped by ritual, patience, and the quiet grace of handmade work.

Young Dominic DeMarcus finds himself a pivotal character at the prestigious Granyel University, where he is first-year representative on the student council. He becomes enmeshed in such matters as the student revolution-a dramatic attempt by the students to combat their draconian image-and becomes the target of a hostile student president. At the same time, he must thread the thorny field of friends and romantic interests, and the blurry lines in between.

An autobiographical short story about finding one’s place inside a Kyoto geisha house. After meeting a geisha she admires, a young woman enters a world shaped by hierarchy and unspoken rules. Quiet and minimalist, the story unfolds through small, everyday moments. She sits on the tatami floor. She serves her maiko and geiko seniors. She waits before touching her chopsticks, and is repeatedly corrected on something that seems small: greeting. Over time, she begins to understand what greeting asks of her.

What About the Milk? is a raw and deeply personal collection of short stories exploring abandonment, memory, and the fragile threads that bind people to the past. Each story in this haunting anthology captures a different shade of longing: whether it’s the hope that someone will return, the ache of something left unsaid, or the small, strange miracles that linger after loss. Set in familiar towns and ghosted corners of childhood, the characters are patchworks of memory and silence.

Mind the moon when you leave the theater! Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers returns, and Vol. 8 definitely goes Splatterbump in the night! It’s a monstrous mosh of fallen angels, prepubescent prescience, tempestuous incest, intergalactic blues, a Gulliverian massacre, cynophile racists, murderous rodents, a prehistoric Devil Head, the return of Bram Stoker’s forgotten hero, and so much more...

Decades after starring in the film adaptation, Wil Wheaton narrates an all-new recording of the story that shaped a generation! 'A heartfelt classic, well delivered' KIRKUS The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally...

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories. It was as though I was chosen-marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I...

Inspector Nitesh is utterly baffled with the murders that are taking place, one after another, in the city. So far, all he has been to able to make out is, the murderer is a woman who is targeting young men. Who is she? Will Inspector Nitesh be able to solve this puzzle?...