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From novelette to flash fiction, snippets of three novels to a final essay, from voices old and young, mixing the ethereal and actual in tales of misadventure, guilt, murder, bigotry, the thrill and angst of a one-night stand, poignant as the breath of evil or memory in ache to breathe, where...

In a game of destiny and death, mortal fates hold little importance. Ambjorn and his wife Jofrid face death eye to eye when the peace of their home village is shattered. Thrown into a game where every move carries high consequence, every choice could be their last. But is it possible to win when playing against forces beyond your own comprehension?

Some places hold more than memories. With every step, familiar paths bring moments from a life well lived back into focus childhood adventures, a proposal, family, love and the quiet changes that come with growing older. A short, heartfelt story about the places we return to, the memories we...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Life is a hideous thing, and the story of the Jermyn family proves it. For generations they were a line of English baronets known for their brilliance, their strange looks, and their madness. It began in the eighteenth century, when Sir Wade Jermyn...

Trenta crimini da risolvere. Delitti d'amore, d'interesse, di mafia, frutto di ambizione, di esaltazione, di esplosivo furore o di logorante quotidianità. Trenta indagini alla ricerca di una giustizia che il commissario Montalbano si sforza di perseguire nel cuore della Sicilia. Un uomo con un'esistenza ordinaria, da funzionario integerrimo, con un'eterna fidanzata lontana, in Liguria, e tre grandi passioni: il buon cibo, il buon vino e la letteratura.

On the night of the May Day riots of 1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald crosses the velvet ropes of a Fifth Avenue ball with the raw streets below. Gordon Sterrett, a spent veteran turned starving artist, begs a favor from his glittering Yale friend Philip Dean—and tumbles into a night of drink, bad...

Precedents in Piperock by W. C. Tuttle is a hilarious classic Western short story packed with cowboy humor, outrageous pranks, and small-town chaos. When Sheriff Magpie Simpkins attempts to organize a peaceful Fourth of July celebration, a runaway balloon, a disastrous baseball game, and the...

What if Boazthe beloved husband of Ruthwas also Ibzan, one of Israels forgotten judges?The Book of Judges gives Ibzan only three verses. He ruled Israel for seven years, had thirty sons and thirty daughters, and arranged sixty marriages beyond his own family. Jewish tradition preserves one...

Bloomsbury presents No Sweetness Here by Ama Ata Aidoo, read by Denise Lupando Lapwoch Onen. This collection of short stories sees Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Africa’s leading feminist and postcolonial writers, exercise the powerful effect of oral storytelling in her moving tales of shifting...

In a few words… these stories will pour out a vibrancy of ideas and perspectives that contradict and complement one another. You'll spot a weirdo in the school of thoughts too. Deep dive and relish an experience desired yet not lived by you so far.

בין אירלנד לאנגליה לארצות-הברית, בין חווֹת נידחות לרחובות העיר, בין הפשוט ביותר למתוחכם למדי, בין הילדי לבוגר, בין פמיניזם גאה למיזוגיניה מבחילה, בין רווחה לעוני –...

From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

過剰な刺激を手放して深い安らぎへと沈んでいく、極上の睡眠導入体験とプロットレスな癒しの時間をあなたに。思考が冴えきって眠れない夜や、心身の緊張がなかなか解けない就寝前のひとときに、波風の立たない静寂...

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. The eight masterly stories in this new...

The iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Body in the Library. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now...

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.

Real English-speaking people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken English in the process.

“White Nights” tells the story of a lonely man who wanders the streets of St. Petersburg over the course of four nights, searching for an escape from his isolation...