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A headstrong, fast-driving young woman gets pulled into a dangerous bootlegging scheme in this thrilling novella set in glamorous and gritty Prohibition-era New York City, written in an exciting collaboration between bestselling and critically acclaimed authors Fiona Davis and Greg Wands. New...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PAUL MESCAL AND JOSH O’CONNOR Winner of the Story Prize Spotlight Award Shortlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain Award Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction & the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction An ALA Notable Book One of...

A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O— finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town’s citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own...

The first three books in Peter Rimmer's epic Brigandshaw Chronicles, the massive series that will have you gripped for months! In 1887, British ships continue to arrive at the bustling, growing port of Cape Town in South Africa. On board, one of them is a young man, Sebastian Brigandshaw, exiled from England by his abusive father.

The Lonely Spirit is a short story collection sprawled across the Old West. As the only half-Comanche US marshal, L.S. Quinn straddles two worlds, searching for peace in both. Quinn is one of the best marshals, well-respected for finding criminals and bringing them to justice. His adventures pit him against criminals like Florence Finnegan, the famous brothel owner and gunslinger, and Jack Mattherson, whose attack on US Senator William Quincy brings out Quinn’s desire for revenge.

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from...

Fan favorites find their happy endings in this collection of Elven Alliance short stories and novellas!

These five compelling short stories from North of Nelson, Volume 2 will captivate even the most jaded listener with frankness and audacity. Moore holds nothing back, no subject is out of bounds, and no apologies are given as he exposes stories of incest, lust, love, and hate.

No conto "Caso em que entra bugre", Mário de Andrade constrói uma narrativa intensa e crítica sobre a violência colonial no interior do Brasil. Um coronel organiza uma bandeira sob o pretexto de buscar outro líder local. No entanto, o que se desenrola é um episódio de brutalidade: o massacre de populações indígenas por meio de armas de fogo. Com linguagem direta e olhar histórico afiado, o autor questiona os mitos da civilização e revela as contradições que marcam a formação do país.

"Edición revisada y ampliada. Un ameno compendio de la Historia de España y de sus gentes de mano del gran maestro de la novela histórica, Antonio Pérez Henares" Conocía todas las pieles que rozaron la superficie de sus aguas. Una obra que conjuga lo mejor del género histórico, del relato fantástico y de la leyenda popular.

Es war um 1080, an einem stürmischen Herbstabend, als ein Pilger an die Pforten des Klosters zu Ossiach pochte und in der Zeichensprache eines Stummen um Einlass bat. Der Pförtner ließ den Gast eintreten, man reichte ihm Abendbrot und wies ihm ein Nachtlager an. Als man aber am Morgen erwartete, der Fremdling werde seinen Weg fortsetzen, flehte er mit Gebärden den Abt Teucho an, im Kloster bleiben zu dürfen. Zögernd willigte der Abt ein; aber nur zu den Diensten eines Knechtes konnte er den Stummen verwenden.

Daniel Spitzer gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten Satiriker und Humanisten Wiens. Seine Erzählungen sind humoristisch und apokryphisch, ein echter Genuss. Inhalt: Der Maulaufreißer von Wien (Juli 1865) - Die Enterprise des pompes funèbres (April 1867) - Politik und schlechtes Wetter (März 1887) - Johann Strauß und Richard Wagner (Jänner 1877) - Die Götterdämmerung (November 1879) - Die Corruption in Österreich (September 1872) - Reisebericht eines Wiener Spaziergängers (August 1872) - Ein Bad in der Renaissancezeit (Juni 1881).

In this engaging social history New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, “the most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today” (Wall Street Journal), completes his epic Last Kingdom series with this companion book featuring three exclusive short stories and...

The three Uhtred stories featured in this audio edition are also included in UHTRED’S FEAST, available to buy in hardback. Bernard Cornwell brings us three new stories of the iconic hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, showing us the man behind the shield – as a young boy, as Alfred's advisor, and as...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.' The Observer ‘A...

Thames Valley Tales is a light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of nine stories by Tim Walker. These tales are based on the author's experience of living in Thames Valley towns, and combine contemporary themes with the rich history and legends associated with an area stretching from London beyond Windsor and Oxford into the heart of rural England.

Patrick O’Brian is acclaimed as one of the greatest historical novelists of the twentieth century, celebrated throughout the world for his masterful roman fleuve, the Aubrey‒Maturin series. But he was also a prolific writer of short stories, and it is in this form that he first made his mark. Encompassing stories written in his unvarnished youth to tales told by a seasoned traveller, this is the most comprehensive collection of O’Brian’s short fiction ever published. It is a treasure chest, containing more than sixty tales, including rarities, uncollected works, and forgotten jewels.

Vi sono momenti in cui per coincidenze fortuite, per il genio o l’errore di un uomo o per l'improvviso maturare di processi in corso da tempo, si producono eventi capaci di cambiare il corso della storia. Ed ecco allora, al di là dell’ultimo picco montuoso, il luccicare di un nuovo sconosciuto oceano, l'immenso Pacifico; il crollo delle possenti mura di Bisanzio sotto i colpi dei cannoni di Maometto o il risuonare ardimentoso della Marsigliese.

Glass Stories is a collection of two short stories set in the Muranów neighborhood of Warsaw, Poland over 250 years apart. The two young protagonists—an immigrant servant woman named Paolina, who is being punished for something she didn’t do, and Moishe, a young Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto who wants to fight his Nazi oppressors—struggle against impossible odds.

A collection of short stories about the extremes we often find ourselves in—sometimes of our own making. Each story uses the adverb “so” in its title, emphasizing the extreme function of the following adjectives (tired, snowy, long, alive, dense, rude). McDowell uses fantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction, and speculative fiction genres to capture his explorations of the human experience.