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Paige will als Anwältin für die Seattle Stormbreakers durchstarten und sich endlich beweisen – auch ihrem Vater gegenüber, dem Besitzer des Eishockeyteams. Matts Karriere läuft bestens, bis ihn seine Frau verlässt und eine Abfindung fordert, die ihn kalt erwischt. Und dann setzt sein Boss ihm ausgerechnet seine Tochter als Scheidungsanwältin vor die Nase? Als erschütternde Geheimnisse ans Licht kommen, müssen sie sich entscheiden: Folgen sie ihrer Karriere – oder einer Liebe, die so heiß ist, dass sie das Eis zum Schmelzen bringt?

From the void come twisted tales to regale you with horror and intrigue. Ten stories from the creepypasta author Cesly1987 have been gathered into this collection. A deputy must confront a supernatural demon during a raining flood, a soldier and his men must battle abominations of a bloodthirsty god for the sake of mankind’s survival, an actress must uncover why there is a video game about her brutal murder, a hunted woman must survive the night against a pack of werewolves, and a new tenant will discover why her cat has been acting so strange at her new apartment. All of this and more!

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.

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.

The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman.

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.

Follow the greatest of the greatest detective in the world in Agatha Christie’s short-story collection Poirot Investigates. Featuring 11 adventures around the world, this collection show’s Christie’s famous character Hercule Poirot at his best as he travels and unravels mysteries of all sorts.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

恋の悩みや迷いを抱えたり、プレゼントに困った若い男女たちが、ふと見かけた小さなアンティークショップ。 何故か気になる。 ふらっと立ち寄り導かれたこのお店から、心揺らぐ物語が巻

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

"Non c'è posto al mondo che io ami di più della cucina". Così comincia il romanzo di Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen. Le cucine, nuovissime e luccicanti o vecchie e vissute, riempiono i sogni della protagonista Mikage, rimasta sola al mondo dopo la morte della nonna, e rappresentano il calore di una famiglia sempre desiderata. Ma la famiglia si può non solo scegliere, ma anche inventare. Così il padre del giovane amico Yuichi può diventare o rivelarsi madre e Mikage può eleggerli come propria famiglia, in un crescendo tragicomico di ambiguità.

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories which focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice and faith which were near and dear to his heart.

What made Sherlock Holmes a household name and cultural icon? This very first collection of stories featuring the astute sleuth and his loyal assistant, Dr. Watson. In these twelve ingenious mysteries, Holmes is embroiled in betrayal, abduction, thievery, deception, and murder. Relying on logic, driven by instinct, and employing his uncanny powers of observation, Holmes cracks the cases that elude Scotland Yard. This Baker Street dozen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is all the evidence listeners will need to understand why Sherlock Holmes is an enduring legend in detective fiction.

Shusaku Endo (1923-1996), widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is known for his historical novels, which masterfully probe the encounters between the cultures and religions of East and West from a Japanese Catholic perspective. A salient and curious theme in his work is the unique image of a maternal God, and a concomitant sense of loss and longing for maternal love.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Taste, a short, sharp, disturbing story from Roald Dahl, read by the inimitable Richard E. Grant. In Taste, Roald Dahl, one of the world’s favourite authors, tells a dark and curious story about the twisted side of human nature. Here, two men make an unusual and chilling wager over the provenance of a bottle of wine.

The 1925 New York edition of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time trails readers through the years before, during, and after World War I. The collection’s first two stories, “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” introduce Hemingway’s semiautobiographical character Nick Adams as a child. In total, seven stories portray the young man’s coming of age. All fourteen, including interspersed vignettes, embody the themes that Hemingway would return to throughout his career: alienation, grief, loss, and separation, as well as the regenerative powers of nature.