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Meet Laura, a pre-teen missing her grandparents and desperate for more time and fun with her distracted mom. Marnie, a woman missing a long lost first love so hard she finds herself in another time and place in order to see him one last time. Iris and Oscar, lovers from different sides of the tracks determined to be together in a far less forgiving and tolerant time.

Dall’antologia “Fior da Fiore–prose e poesie scelte per le scuole secondarie e inferiori”, curata da Giovanni Pascoli, il racconto “Ricordi di un vecchio scolaro” scritto dal poeta stesso.

Boredom sets in on the rather less exciting than expected trip across the desert to Baghdad. Captain Smethurst is dead, but there is no visible wound. At a loss the company turn to Mr. Pyne to piece together scraps of overheard conversation from back at Damascus. Marooned and nervous the company decide that the truth must out.

Повести Пушкина дышат прозрачной ясностью и скрытой глубиной. В них встречаются честь и предательство, дерзость и нежность, судьба и случай. Живые лица, лёгкий юмор и тихая грусть соединяются в ткань прозы, где каждое слово звучит по-особому.

A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls in "Why We Keep Exploding"; across the world, something is mutating adolescents into bizarre creatures in "The Turning"; a girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her in "The Long Flesh of the Law"; and in the acclaimed novella "Benny Rose, the Cannibal King", a Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world.

Something is disturbing Dennis Harkum's sleep. Is it real? Is it only in his head? Will he figure it out in time?

How does a child survive when the world looks away? Rae was only a little girl when her world began to fall apart. The people who were meant to love and protect her turned away, leaving her to face abuse, silence, and fear on her own. In search of comfort, she found only more pain. Drugs, shame, and loneliness became part of her childhood. Yet somewhere inside, a small light kept burning, refusing to go out. RAE: A Child’s Story is a survival story told with honesty and courage.

Step into the darkness with Midnight Terrors, a collection of five spine-chilling short horror stories crafted to haunt your imagination and keep you awake at night. Perfect for fans of psychological horror, supernatural thrillers, and suspenseful mysteries, this book delivers relentless terror in every tale.

Richard VanRyan can add another line to his resume—Daddy. How does he handle the new addition to his life? The Baby Clause is a short continuation of Richard and Katy’s story, containing humorous glimpses into his life as a father, and how his world has changed. A must listen for all fans of The Contract!

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Thurber el narrador de la historia nos cuenta cómo conoció al excéntrico y casi marginado de los círculos artísticos de Boston; el pintor Richard Upton Pickman quien creaba obras extremadamente realistas y extraordinariamente horribles, que parecían capturar algo más que la propia creatividad del pintor. La tensión crece por averiguar la verdadera fuente de inspiración de Pickman.

En Un lugar inadecuado, descubrirás diez relatos extraordinarios, basados en hechos reales, que transitan la delgada línea entre lo que entendemos como realidad… y lo que aún no podemos explicar. Estas historias cortas, íntimas y cautivadoras, revelan sucesos que podrían parecer fantasía o ciencia ficción, pero ocurrieron aquí, en nuestra tierra, en el corazón de una familia marcada por lo inexplicable.

Step on board for a journey. We’ll find ourselves dropping anchor in new harbours and we’ll see things we haven’t seen before. Destinations that are surprising, and ones that are often dangerous. Along the way, we’ll reconnect with a couple of travellers we might have met elsewhere, and we’ll cross paths with a lot of new faces; not all of whom will prove to be the most congenial company.

Eleven short stories focused on regular people in serious trouble, to keep you waiting for resolutions, or to make you smile, laugh, and touch your heart.

Set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Sherwood Anderson's quietly powerful masterpiece explores the hidden lives of ordinary people – most notably George Willard, a young reporter – as they struggle with loneliness, repression, and the haunting distance between inner truth and outward appearance. Beneath the town's veneer of small-town simplicity lies a world full of private anguish, failed connections and emotional isolation.

I ran. From my past. From the people who hurt me. From a system that never once protected me. I missed my court date, and now there’s a bounty on my head. I never expected a bounty hunter to track me down so fast. Or for him to be the most dangerously handsome man I’ve ever met. Cyrus is relentless, intimidating… and completely unreadable. But the moment our eyes meet, something shifts. He’s not just here to bring me in—he’s something else. Something more.

Schnee – knirscht unter den Schuhen, verwandelt Wiesen und Felder in weiße Winterlandschaften und lockt die Menschen mit den ersten rieselnden Flocken in die Natur. Dass Schnee aber durchaus auch ein geheimnisvolles und bedrohliches Element sein kann, beweist Jens Wawrczeck mit seinem Hörbuch Snowy Evening . In den drei ausgewählten Erzählungen von Conrad Aiken, Hans Christian Andersen und Alexander Puschkin ist Schnee kein bloßes Naturphänomen, er spielt Schicksal und greift in das Leben der Figuren ein.

Hier stoßen irrwitzige Weihnachtsverweigerer auf tiefe menschliche Abgründe, und plötzlich wird Weihnachten zum Schauplatz aberwitziger Zukunftsvisionen. Da rächt sich ein gutmütiger Mann nach zwanzig Jahren Qual grausam an seiner Ehefrau, Rentier Rudolf gründet eine Gewerkschaft, ein durchgeknallter US-Präsident verbietet das Christfest, und selbst die Höllenfürsten feiern ihre ganz eigene, infernalische Weihnacht.

Jede Kurzgeschichte entführt an ein realistisches europäisches Reiseziel oder auf die Straße dorthin. Die Geschichten sind kompakt, klar erzählt und voller Sinneseindrücke. Ein freundlicher Ton trägt durch kleine Alltagskonflikte auf Reisen: verpasste Abfahrten, unerwartete Umwege, Missverständnisse an der Grenze, ein verspäteter Fährgong – und immer findet sich eine Lösung, die Wärme ins Herz bringt.

When a solitary calligrapher discovers an invisible ink—one that cannot be seen, only sensed—he begins to write what the heart remembers. Each brushstroke draws out memories he never consciously chose, as if the ink knows what he cannot say aloud. The story unfolds gently, like breath in a candlelit room, where silence holds more truth than speech.

In the blood-soaked chaos of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), Klaus Vogel, a Franconian pikeman, fights not for glory or faith, but for the survival of his wife, Anna, and son, Lukas. Thrust into the brutal world of mercenary life, Klaus wields his pike through ravaged villages, musket volleys, and the horrors of sieges like Magdeburg’s infamous sack. Each battle scars his body and soul, from the fog-shrouded fields of Lützen to the desperate defense of a refugee camp, as he grapples with the cost of survival and the vow to protect his family.