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If bedtime feels like a battle, this audiobook is your soft landing. Most nights, you climb into bed hoping to relax—but the harder you try, the more awake you feel. That’s because effort keeps you alert. This audiobook offers something different: a soothing voice that guides you into rest.

Masques Macabre is “a juicy collection of stories, with some great character development and a lot of original ideas. Recommended!” [Horror After Dark]. “This collection consists of four unique stories. Bruns handles plot, setting, and characterization exceptionally well in all four. The horror creeps slowly under your skin until you suddenly realize you’re in the midst of madness.” [Quiet Fury]. “Bruns creates realistic settings for his well-imagined, lively characters.” [Kirkus Reviews].

Erleben Sie die stillen Dramen und feinen Zwischentöne in Fontanes bekanntesten Gesellschaftsromanen: Irrungen, Wirrungen, Stine, Die Poggenpuhls und Unterm Birnbaum – Geschichten über Standesgrenzen, verborgene Wünsche und menschliche Abgründe. Ergänzt wird die Sammlung durch eine Auswahl seiner beliebtesten Balladen – darunter Klassiker wie John Maynard, Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland, Archibald Douglas und viele mehr.

Impossible de braquer un casino pour empocher plusieurs millions de dollars ? Impossible surtout de résister à l'envie de tenter le coup pour un voleur légendaire qui risque la prison à vie pour son Casse ultime. Deux gangsters racontent une histoire Véridique autour d'un petit déjeuner au diner. La star de cinéma toxico que le surfeur et détective privé Boone Daniels doit surveiller pendant sa Pause déjeuner pose problème.

Été 1919. Deux jeunes hommes, liés par un amour placé sous le signe de la musique, partent recueillir des chansons traditionnelles dans les campagnes du Maine, avant que l’un d’eux ne disparaisse brusquement. Des années plus tard, dans la maison où elle vient d’emménager, une femme retrouve les cylindres de cire enregistrés lors de ce fameux été… La première nouvelle de Ben Shattuck donne le ton de ce magnifique recueil qui explore le lien entre l’amour et la perte, et la manière dont celui-ci se métamorphose au gré du temps.

Holden James was my everything—my first love, my future, or so I thought. When he left after our high school graduation, he shattered my heart, and I promised myself I'd never look back. Now, he's returned to Lilac Harbor, acting like he can waltz back into my life as if nothing happened. He says he can explain, but I won't listen. I'm stronger now, smarter. I'm not the girl who once believed in forever with him. He broke me once, and I'll be damned if I let him do it again.

Ride along with four calls in my career. Each one is based on true events, names and specific details have been changed for legal and privacy purposes. Otherwise, these calls are what happened based on my experience. You will ride along in my deep first-person perspective. It is intense. It is adult. It is life changing. The job is intense, grueling, and requires mental, emotional, and physical resilience. Most paramedics quit within the first few years. We leave EMS because of low pay, high stress, and bad work-life balance. So why do the job? Because we love it.

Sheriff Deena Mallory’s murder investigation aboard the solar failsafe ship Agni unravels into a desperate fight against eco-terrorist sabotage threatening Earth itself. But survival comes at a heartbreaking cost.

In The Mass of Shadows, Anatole France weaves a solemn and haunting tale of love, memory, and the fragile boundary between life and death. Through the voice of a sacristan recalling his father’s stories, we enter a world where the dead return not in terror, but in reverence—souls bound by affection, regret, and unfinished devotion. Once a year, they are granted a single hour to reunite with those they loved, gathering silently in their parish church to attend a Mass said not for the living, but for memory itself.

Scarlet’s shift at The Burger Box was supposed to be like any other. But something is off about the night. A road block leaves the diner feeling eerie and desolate. The few customers are acting weird, and someone is lurking around in the shadows. Then the first body turns up. Someone is ready to place their Final Order.

A man, a woman, and a road trip through the sun-blasted highways of West Texas that descends into chaos, blood, and screams. Bleak, cinematic, and unrelenting, Scratch is a fever dream of American horror. A collision of Nick Cutter’s raw realism, Edward Lee’s extremity, and Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic poetry, Scratch delivers a quick, brutal, and bloody fix that lingers long after the final tick.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three's a crowd may be too many, except when it's a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.

Charlotte weiß genau, wie der Valentinstag für sie laufen soll: Keine Dates, keine Männer und ganz sicher keine Herzchenromantik. Doch dann steckt sie plötzlich mit ihrem Nachbarn Seth in ihrem Gebäude fest: Sie können nicht hinaus und niemand kann zu ihnen herein. Drei Tage, dann ist das Problem behoben. Er ist frisch geschieden, liebt Bäume mehr als Menschen und hat von Beziehungen erst mal genug. Zwischen geteilten Mahlzeiten, Lachen und langen Blicken beginnt es zu knistern.

A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from the “invaluable” (George Saunders) author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The Material “These stories don’t close so much as continue inside you. They tilt the world and don’t set it back, leaving you to live...

Jem and Tean: Guys Gone Wild is a collection of short stories.

Thuggiana is a collection of short stories connected to The First Quarto.

Erik Bloodsinger never wanted to live in a cruel kingdom that was desperate to shape their scarred, young king into someone ruthless. But fate is cruel sometimes. Perhaps vengeance for his fallen father is what drives the young Ever King, but there are secrets Bloodsinger and his crew keep in the shadows to survive the cruel twists of fate in the Ever Seas. Enjoy the backstory of a boy king forced to bear the burden of a crown too soon. This story reveals events from the death of King Thorvald up to the days after the earth and sea fae war.

Experience another 13 chapters of "The People Who Cam Has Encountered" in Volume 6 of the series (and my 10th book overall). This collection of rated-r short stories will probably shock you, make you laugh, and possibly trigger a gag reflex.

Maya has always gotten wet in the rain. Her father never did. As a child, she watched him step out into storms and come back completely dry, urging her to “walk between the raindrops” and promising that, when she could, she’d finally know who she was and why she was here.

В этом сборнике представлены истории, рассказывающие о тягостных и освобождающих расставаниях, о любви, о её успехах и неудачах, о доверии и предательстве, о пугающих и непреодолимых воспоминаниях, о том, как неправильная жизнь часто на самом деле может быть правильной и наоборот. Рассказы о людях на разных этапах жизни, их страхах, сложностях и надеждах.