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Matt und Paige verbindet eine ungewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte, schließlich ist sie die Scheidungsanwältin des Eishockeystars. Paiges Vater, der Boss der Stormbreakers, erfährt von ihrem Verhältnis und die Situation eskaliert. Er verlangt, dass sie Schluss machen, sonst droht Matt der Rausschmiss aus dem Team. Nicht nur Matts Karriere steht auf dem Spiel, sondern auch das gegenseitige Vertrauen, das sie mühsam aufgebaut haben.

Nachdem Scheidungsanwältin Paige den Fall des charismatischen Eishockeystars Matt übernommen hat, kämpft sie nicht nur gegen eine neue Intrige seiner Ex-Frau – sondern auch gegen ihre eigenen Gefühle. Da hilft es nicht, dass sie den Captain der Stormbreakers auf seiner Tour begleiten soll, damit sie weiterhin an seinem Fall arbeiten kann.

In sixteen sparkling stories, Jan Carson introduces us to worlds and characters that feel real enough to touch. All of life is here: the thrill of growing up, the grief when youth is over; first love, mature love, parenthood and loss - all shot through with profound compassion, warm wit, and boundless imagination. In 'A Certain Degree of Ownership', a distracted couple on a beach fail to notice their baby crawl perilously towards the sea. In 'Troubling the Water', a rumor spreads at a public swimming pool and chaos ensues.

Fur, Focus & Feelings is a heartwarming collection of 100 short stories told in the first person—by service animals and emotional support animals themselves. From guide dogs guiding with quiet wisdom to shelter cats soothing panic attacks, these furry narrators share tales of loyalty, laughter, and love in life’s hardest (and funniest) moments. With equal parts emotion, humor, and education, this collection gently highlights the real differences between service animals and ESAs—and the powerful roles both play.

The characters in My Dear You find themselves facing extraordinary choices in scenarios that range from the everyday to the absurd: The U.S. government injects all citizens with a drug that makes them see everyone else as members of their own race and gender. God does away with humans in favor of something much better. A woman adopts a cat who conjures the ghosts of her ex-loves. A factory worker decides to liberate a sex doll she is tasked with selling.

Fay Roper is a divorced single mom and a globally famous actress. She’s also unlucky in love. Maybe because the last thing Fay wants in a man is yet another superfan. But somehow, every time she has a boyfriend who isn’t a stalker, he abruptly disappears from her life. With the help of her best friend and right-hand woman, Poppy, Fay decides to change the game and join an exclusive new dating app under a false identity. A subscriber named Oliver takes the bait. But Oliver likes to play games too. And only one of them can win.

This book is based on a true story. Characters and events may have changed. It's a story about a young woman and how the death of her father was the catalyst that propelled her into her destiny. She had an encounter with God's will for her life and was forever changed. She received an unexpected inheritance and a double portion along a rocky road. Spiritual Warfare, deliverance, love and much more awaits you on the inside of this book.

With a brash and stylish voice that implicates and confronts the listener, Emma Copley Eisenberg wades into the contradictions, joys, and violence of a modern world shaped by looking and watching, examining how our hungers can both hijack and crack open our lives. In the title story, a young girl looks to a group of fat women at her local pool to teach her about her changing body. In “Swiffer Girl,” a woman agrees to try for a baby with her partner, only to suddenly find herself haunted by the viral sex video that made the rounds during high school.

Al tocco eravamo col maestro davanti al Palazzo di città per veder dare la medaglia del valor civile al ragazzo che salvò il suo compagno dal Po. Sul terrazzo della facciata sventolava una grande bandiera tricolore. Entrammo nel cortile del Palazzo.

In this unnerving collection of cosmic horror, H. P. Lovecraft casts his gaze far beyond our fragile Earth, revealing a universe vast, uncaring, and filled with incomprehensible forces. These seven stories confront the listener with the terrifying notion that mankind is not alone, not significant, and not safe. From ancient aliens buried in Antarctic ice to cryptic transmissions from the void, these tales chronicle the slow unravelling of minds exposed to truths no human was meant to grasp.

Tauchen Sie ein in die unvergleichliche Atmosphäre der Toskana und erleben Sie eine literarische Reise voller Wärme, Kultur und Magie. Dieses Buch lädt Sie dazu ein, das Herz Italiens in all seiner Vielfalt zu entdecken.

C'era una volta – e c'è ancora – una ragazza in gamba, che lavora, esce con gli amici, è capace di affrontare i problemi quando arrivano, e per la maggior parte del tempo sa che le favole non esistono. In fatto di amore, invece, Elisa nelle favole ci si perde. Per fortuna di Elisa, il gatto decide di vegliare su di lei.

Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’, was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral. After a stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police, Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, ‘The Rise of the Russian Empire’, whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead.

Twenty-one tales ranging from horror to crime thriller, to science fiction, contemporary fiction to fantasy, and more. From stories a few days ago, to ones over 30 years old. All Hell Breaks Loose is the second book in a series collecting all of Armand Rosamilia's short fiction.

Una de las obras capitales del autor japonés Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, de la cual el director Akira Kurosawa tomó varios detalles a la hora de adaptar su película homónima, narra el encuentro de un sirviente humilde que acaba de ser despedido por su señor y una anciana pícara que roba el pelo de los cadáveres y vende carne de serpiente haciéndola pasar por pescado. El cuento, de final inesperado, supone una reflexión sobre los límites de la moral que sacudió a los lectores de la revista universitaria Teikoku Bungaku (Literatura imperial), donde fue publicada por primera vez.

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalized by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of "Monte Verità" promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life.

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical.

The unabridged, digital audiobook edition of "Rummins", a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale, read by the actress Jessica Hynes. In "Rummins", Roald Dahl, one of the world’s favourite authors, tells a macabre story about the darker side of human nature. Here, the men building a hay rick one summer find that the heat and rats are the least of their worries.... "Rummins" is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You.

Una antología de cuentos recuperados de la pluma de sir Terry Pratchett: uno de los autores más aclamados, premiados y queridos del mundo.

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895. It is a farce playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallivant in town.