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Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite...

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.

―――【収録作品】「国民的未亡人」誰もが知るスター俳優であった夫を亡くした私は、一般人にして有名「未亡人」となった。

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco...

- Què es pot fer davant d'un mal pas, si tot intent de superar-lo fracassa? Fins on pot el desesper ser un estímul per a la imaginació? Alapont, un fuster humil i perfeccionista, observa amb preocupació la deriva del seu fill, Aristides, que tot just ha entrat a l'adolescència i ha estat...

Dans ce recueil de romans et contes, Théophile Gautier, poète et romancier du XIXe siècle, déploie un art singulier où l’amour frôle le désespoir et où l’élan vital se heurte à la mélancolie. Entre rêve et réalité, le fantastique affleure, faisant vaciller les certitudes; les images sont ciselées, la phrase musicale, la beauté poursuivie comme un mirage.

Un guía turístico de Chichén Itzá da una conferencia sobre la teoría maya del fin del mundo para impresionar a una mujer y de paso todo en lo que ha creído. Tras una caminata iniciática por la ciudad, una niña empieza a sospechar que su papá convive con una familia alternativa. Un hombre que se dedica a la estadística tiene un tórrido romance con una desconocida que miente cuando está excitada.

Este libro contiene siete relatos cuyos diversos estilos narrativos, tratamiento de los asuntos y construcción de los personajes, son una muestra de la fantasía del autor y de su versatilidad literaria. This book contains several stories whose differing narrative styles, treatment of subject matter and development of characters, are a sample of the author's imagination and literary versatility.

Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alix E. Harrow delivers a fantastical collection of stories old and new. Tales about tricksters and ghosts, ordinary magic and mundane spectacle, all in the tradition of Angela Carter, Anne Sexton and Carmen Maria Machado. Before I was a liar...

Accomplished critic Hannah Gold makes her fiction debut in this funny, wise, curious collection of stories exploring the glorious absurdities of life in New York City “People suffering extreme emotional states can so easily fly under the radar in this city, don’t you find?” Across the nine...

A new translation of Poor Folk, the debut novella that first brought the author of Crime and Punishment fame at the age of twenty-five, along with his other early stories, all showcasing the concern for human dignity that animated his later work. The short novel Poor Folk portrays the passionate...

We invite you, fellow horror aficionados, to take a ride on HellBound Highway – a terrifying trip into the darkest recesses of the human mind you'd care to discover, your ticket to ride provided by a bunch of the very best authors writing on the independent horror scene today.

Beautii Hamilton is a highly skilled, self-motivated, hardworking lawyer who’s employed by the most renowned law office in Groove City, California. She’s an authentic woman, well acquainted with her worth. She has raised the bar high for any man who desires to indulge in her time. Her independence, focus, and determination to be a successful black woman thrusts her into a class of her own. Success; however, comes with a hefty sacrifice that not many women have the discipline to walk out.

Um pai ausente busca o filho no internato quando ele comete um ato de violência chocante. A babá de uma família de celebridades se refugia em um rancho após um escândalo ser estampado nos tabloides. Uma jovem vende suas roupas íntimas para estranhos. Um hóspede famoso se interna em uma clínica de reabilitação no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos.

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...

Step into the fire… if you dare. From the haunted depths of England’s most cursed woods to the shadow-filled corners of the everyday world, Hell’s Collection gathers J. Gomez’s most chilling and twisted short stories into one unforgettable volume.

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The Coin is a journey about making decisions. The main character, Jason, receives a magical coin and learns a valuable life lesson.

A kingdom forged in fire. A soul consumed by silence. Fifty years ago, Saul of Benjamin was a man of the soil, a head taller than his brothers, chosen by a prophet and ignited by the Spirit of God. He was the shield that broke the Philistine tide and the voice that unified a fractured nation. But the Spirit has fled.