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Get ready to immerse yourself in a realm of energy. Stories that ignite the human spirit and touch the soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908: This popular classic work by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery is unabridged. If you enjoy the works of L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery then we highly recommend this audiobook.

The Seed of McCoy written by Jack London: The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe. As his eyes came level with the rail, so that he could see inboard, it seemed to him that he saw a dim, almost indiscernible haze. It was more like an illusion, like a blurring film that had spread abruptly over his eyes.

Ein Betrunkener wird vom Nebel verschluckt. Ein Jüngling, der den Ansprüchen des Vaters nicht genügt, sucht umsonst Trost auf einer wilden Party. Ein 50-Jähriger wird durch den Tod seines ehemaligen Lehrers aus der Bahn geworfen. Ein gelangweilter Sohn aus reichem Hause meldet sich zum Kriegsdienst. Zwei Brüder haben nur noch sich und ihre Fracks, in denen sie von einer Feier zur nächsten geraten. Und ein Künstler muss in seinem Atelier erst intensiv gesucht und dann samt seiner absonderlichen Theorien ertragen werden.

These Small Adventures Vol. 2 is the awaited sequel to These Small Adventures. With eleven new stories that bring forth new adventures, you will always be surprised by what comes next.

A pilot of a airmail flight battles a horrific snow storm in order to keep himself and a passenger alive.

In dieser Novelle kulminiert die deutsche Romantik als Antwort auf den Konservativismus des Biedermeier. Die der Musik, Malerei und Dichtung frönenden Protagonisten verlachen mit ihrer hemmungslosen Fröhlichkeit und Naturverbundenheit die sauertöpfische Sittenstrenge des rechthaberischen Spießertums. "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" ist ein unvergängliches Memorandum für alle Jungen und Junggebliebenen. "Das Marmorbild" ist ein romantischer Fantasy-Roman. "Das Schloss Dürande" ist ein Liebesdrama mit Irrungen und Wirrungen vor dem Hintergrund der französischen Revolution.

The storm arrives, unbidden yet unstoppable, sculpting the world in reckless white. The north wind, a faceless mason, works without plan or patience—bastions rise, wreaths drape, roads vanish. No symmetry, no restraint, only the wild hand of winter shaping chaos into fleeting grandeur. By dawn, the architect is gone. What remains is a frozen wonder, a masterpiece of whim and force, too perfect to last, too wild to be remade.

Lucas Mead-Slayer has seen it all. Or at least that's what he thought after over a decade of wandering the wilderness of his homeland and embracing everything it had to throw at him. He's fought terrible monsters, plundered ancient catacombs, and caught the eye of many unique and interesting adventuresses. After arguably the most harrowing situation of his life, Lucas has decided to seek out a friend in her home forest, maybe take a vacation, get away from all the craziness. Only it doesn't work out that way.

The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select group of modern authors, inspired by classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and other novels and stories by the 19th-century master of “Extraordinary Voyages,” Jules Verne.

When a master thief's quest for vengeance collides with his former lover's transformed life, will the ghosts and doubts of the past overshadow their rekindled passion? Or will love find a way to ignite once more?

A series of fast-paced escapades which lead some kids into changing their traditional playground of gangs into something positive. These stories follow their adventures from negative situations to a positive outcome.

After the loss of her beloved sister and both of her parents, overworked talk show assistant Olivia Banks sets off on a Paris adventure to fulfill the dreams she and her sister once had as little girls. Olivia only has one day to devote to the City of Light before she must return to her demanding job back in Manhattan. But when she steps out of the cab onto the cobblestoned streets of Montmartre and meets a sexy boulanger who wants to help her make all of those dreams come true, Olivia realizes that Paris may have more in store for her than she ever could have imagined.

The challenge ahead for Ryan Jordan is to rise above the tragic memories that still haunt him. He sets out on a long uphill climb of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro with a group camping their way through East Africa. It will be three days and nights up into ever-thinning air and cold, forcing himself to go slow to acclimate and ensure success.

The story features a mind altered smog concocted by an evil villain who calls himself, the Phantom King. But Prince Animus is a holy man! As is his team. A beautiful sorceress who commands fire, a peaceful ninja with excellent karma, Alberstein the alchemist who is sardonic and grumpy, and finally my personal favorite, Carbo Brusto!

"മാധവികുട്ടി രചിച്ച കടൽ മയൂരം, രാത്രിയുടെ പദവിന്യാസം, ആട്ടുകട്ടിൽ എന്നീ കഥകൾ അടങ്ങുന്ന സമാഹാരമാണ് ഇത്.

Der kleine Drache Grünschuppe ist verwirrt: Von einem Tag auf den anderen ist die Welt unter einer weißen Decke verschwunden. Ob das der Schnee ist, von dem immer alle erzählen? Vorsichtig wagt Grünschuppe sich aus seiner Höhle, doch der Schnee schmilzt, sobald der Drache ihn berührt. Dabei würde er so gern in ihm toben, wie die anderen Tiere es machen. Ein Plan muss her! Eine drachenstarke Vorlesegeschichte mit 15 Illustrationen von Tabea Meinecke.

"Jackals and Arabs" is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude. A European traveler from the North, accompanied by Arab guides, is camped in the desert. When night falls, and the Arabs are at a distance, the traveler is accosted by talking jackals. The jackals speak of an age-old hatred for Arabs, whom they associate with uncleanliness. They relate a belief passed down from their ancestors, that a man such as the protagonist would be the one to "end the quarrel which divides the world in two".

The wind has mysteriously stopped in the township of Shinvik; a remote settlement located in the far-off Western Isles. A young explorer, Elara, is tasked with investigating the strange meteorological phenomenon. Instructed by the town’s authorities, Elara uses her nature magik to traverse a perilous mountain pass. It is a passage no one has ever returned from.

هذا الجزء من رواية "روكامبول"، يظهر فيه الكثير من أنواع العذاب والشقاء البشري، الذي يتجسد خلف قضبان السجن، كما تتعدد فيه طرق التفريق بين الغني والفقير، حتى وراء...