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Bedtime Story for Adults | Sleep Story for AdultsStep aboard a quiet northern cruise where the sea moves beneath drifting aurora and the long winter night unfolds in calm, unhurried stillness.Cruising Beneath the Aurora is a peaceful bedtime story for adults designed to help listeners relax...

Parker Pyne har efter 35 år fået nok af at arbejde på et sølle offentligt kontor. Nu skal der ske noget nyt, og inden længe dumper det ene mysterium efter det andet ned i skødet på ham. ”Parker Pyne, mesterdetektiv” indeholder: Den midaldrende hustru Den utilfredse soldat Den...

Jørn Riels 10 skrønesamlinger fra Nordøstgrønland – og en enkelt fra Sydøstgrønland – har vundet ham mange trofaste læsere. Og med god grund. En mere elskelig samling af barokke og (u)troværdige særlinge, som befolkningen på fangstationerne udgør, er svær at finde. Den danske...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sometimes, what we need most is someone who remembers our name, a place where we belong, or an hour that is truly our own. The Quiet Things We Need brings together five warm, quietly humorous stories about ordinary people rediscovering connection, rest...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Crawford Tillinghast was once a warm and ordinary man. Months of obsessive work in the attic of his empty house have left him gaunt, yellow-skinned and feverishly triumphant, and now he summons his oldest friend to witness what he has built. The machine...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jacob Settle is the loneliest man in the village: a quiet labourer who lives alone in a hut on the edge of the moor, who flinches from company and never smiles. The narrator, who has befriended him, finds him one night shaking from a dream he will not...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A prosperous London merchant takes his family north for the summer to a quiet house on the Aberdeenshire coast. Delighted with Scotland, he commissions a full Highland outfit from a costumier, kilt, sporran, dirk and all, and parades about the village...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a dream, a man who has lost everything walks again through the streets of a city he first saw as a boy: Celephaïs, in the Valley of Ooth-Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills, where the sky is turquoise, the bronze gates gleam, and nobody grows any older...

The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She...

A Pineta, il paese sul litorale pisano nato dalla fantasia di Marco Malvaldi, i Vecchietti del BarLume sono ormai un’istituzione. Nell’arco di una vita intera, hanno maturato un notevole capitale di arguzia e di intelligenza, e tra risate beffarde, motteggi graffianti e intuizioni investigative sopraffine, sono diventati rappresentazione fantastica di una vera antropologia. Una rappresentazione innestata su una struttura gialla e con un andamento comico, che nei racconti – genere in cui prevalgono i dialoghi, la vitalità della scena e la singolarità della situazione – trova il suo distillato.

Five of Neil Plakcy’s best MM romances, collected in one volume. From the sweet to the sexy, in settings from Miami’s South Beach to Paris to the Philadelphia suburbs, men meet, fall in love and overcome the obstacles in their way. Includes GayLife.com, Mi Amor, In His Kiss, The Russian Boy...

Blichers noveller og fortællinger med især jyske motiver hører til hans betydeligste litterære indsats. Dette udvalgt medtager "Hosekræmmeren", "Kejltringliv", "De tre helligaftener", "Røverstuen", "Sildig opvågnen", "Ak! hvor forandret" og "E bindstouw". Stoffet til historierne er taget...

What happens when you buy a home listed 'As Is '? A newly married couple finds out that sometimes saving money isn't always worth it. When a young man listens to a call-in radio show, he hears someone phone the program who sounds just like his dead father. Do you know what 'Wall Offerings' are?...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Night Train Home is a gentle, second-person sleep story for grown-ups. You arrive at a quiet platform at dusk. A dark-green night train pulls in, steam drifting low along the boards. Conductor Hollis punches your blank ticket and shows you to a...

Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. Playful, frightening, even shocking– the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality, between darkness and...

The Christmas Tape Nobody Meant to MakeThe portable cassette recorder arrived at the Bellamy house three days before Christmas, in a box showing a serious man recording a bird.Perry Bellamy had bought it for his wife, Linnea, because she often said the children were growing up too quickly.“Now...

Предисловие к новелле И над Крещатиком есть небо. Прошли, нет пролетели 80 е годы прошлого столетия. Что они оставили в наших душах кроме воспоминаний. Людей?...

Предисловие к новелле Отъезд. Казалось бы, прошли годы, изменились времена, города, не стало тех дорог и людей которых я знала. Но я сегодня читаю эти новеллы и...

Pull up a chair. Stoke the fire. Grandpa has seven stories to tell, and every one of them is true in the way that matters because out past the firelight, the world keeps its own rules, and the people who live to tell about it are the ones who learned those rules in time.These are grown-up...

The lawyer wants an inventory. The realtor wants two hundred words of history. All she has to do is walk through her late parents Oregon coast bar, write a tidy listing, and put a number on the place. But every photograph, carved boat, and pencil mark on the doorframe pulls her back to a British...