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In the title story, “The Princess Who Sang Like a Frog”, a princess leaves her home after a public humiliation, certain she does not deserve happiness. Armed only with poetry and music, she ventures into the unknown to seek the mystery of her unusual identity. Other stories in this sparkling collection include “The Yellow Bird”, “The Woodcutter’s Daughter”, and “The Joyfish”. Callie Cardamon conjures all the wonder, magic, and happy endings of classic fairy tales, but with the insight and wisdom to help us navigate our modern times with strength, trust, and kindness.

Caitlyn, a mom in her late 30s, appears to be suffering from a bout of depression. When her husband’s behavior becomes suspicious, and she is not allowed to ask questions in regards to his whereabouts, she suspects that he may be having an affair. So she sets out on an obsessive mission to discover the truth. But what will she find? Could her friend be the other woman? Or is her compulsive desire for a stranger causing her to want out of her marriage? Will her search for the truth lead her down a path of darkness that could destroy her life and the lives of those around her?

Arrison and Illiana are actually traveler souls from the Andora galaxy who got caught in the seductive nature of the planet Gaia, while trying to assist when Atlantis was falling into the sea. Illiana will return to her post as a spiritual guide in the halls of eternity, and Arrison will rejoin the space force. They have the opportunity to help Gaia again as she makes her transition to a fifth-dimensional planet. If they are successful in their mission, they will be able to participate in the ascension process that is available on Gaia, while the birthing a new dimension happens.

Zephrum is a core player in uncovering the mystery of the “purple haze” that has enveloped her closest town, Haversville. Following clues to uncovering the mystery, Zephrum encounters spiritual beings, strange wind phenomena, fairies, moss folk, goblins, a leprechaun, a very wild horse ride, and the very scary man behind the chair. As she gets closer to solving the mystery of the “purple haze”, a variety of hidden talents reveal themselves to her.

Es la historia mágica y curiosa de una pequeña niña llamada Alexia, que a través de su vida, su desarrollo y su crecimiento, hasta convertirse en una jovencita, va atravesando por diversas manifestaciones milagrosas y extraordinarias que no tienen una explicación lógica. Primero es el llanto imparable que no se detiene jamás hasta alcanzar cierta edad, luego es la risa incontenible que se desborda como un río y que la mete en problemas y en situaciones jocosas, luego la tercera manifestación es la indetenible locuacidad que la lleva a cumplir grandes tareas.

Moving on from the trauma of combat in Afghanistan, former Green Beret Captain Sam Dale has just begun to settle down in his hometown of Castle Rock, Colorado. Now the owner of several small businesses, he is unaware that his world is about to be turned upside down. The call comes in at 2:30 a.m. The skies outside have opened up, unleashing a torrential rainstorm. Sam’s small towing company is being tasked with the retrieval of some kind of crashed aircraft.

En "El escondite de los sueños" hay cartas sin escribir, besos vacíos que no encontrarán mas bocas, rosas secas sin el nombre acostumbrado, voces sin respuesta, libros sin dedicatoria. Escondites llenos de sueños donde los nombres carecen de importancia y los versos te toman entre sus sonidos. En el escondite de los sueños hay rabia, amor, vacío, sueños y vida, mucha vida escrita desde las entrañas. Espacios desde donde asomarse al pasado incierto o a ese futuro cada mas cierto desde donde apurar sorbo a sorbo los versos que ahora recorren tus pensamientos.

In this fascinating fantasy novel, God becomes disappointed in his ability to bring humans into a harmonious relationship in his image. As a result, he starts over, making two planets for humans. God unleashes Satan in his new worlds, hoping for a better outcome where humans rally together under the duress the devil imposes upon them. An angel convinces God that a combat Messiah is needed to inspire the humans to fight and to teach them how to harmonize with other beings. The combat Messiah fights and unites himself and others to the angels calling.

Casey Banks is a devoutly anorexic man who discovers he can see the future by binge-eating. His new plan? Perform visions for cash while staying thin by any means necessary. Reading futures proves to be lucrative, but when he ignores a vision of his girlfriend committing a grisly murder, it sets Casey on a dangerous path toward a destiny he'll do anything to avoid.

A well-to-do Young Man, reading the Holy Book of One about the fall of the first man and first woman, asks the age-old question: Why is there so much suffering in the world? Looking out the window at the market place below, Young Man witnesses a commotion involving a shabbily dressed Old Man. His curiosity piqued, Young Man goes to investigate. What ensues is a day filled with stories that Old Man weaves together to answer Young Man's question. At the end of the day, Young Man's life is transformed. Heading home, Young Man vows to spread the wisdom of Old Man to everyone in the Land.

"El cuento más hermoso del mundo": Charlie Mears es un joven con fervientes aspiraciones literarias. Un día, conoce a un escritor experimentado con el que entabla amistad. Charlie no tiene demasiado talento literario, sus versos son mediocres y están llenos de tópicos. No obstante, el escritor descubre en él una capacidad sorprendente para explicar emocionantes historias sobre goletas griegas y barcos vikingos.

Apol·lo o Dionís? Saber erudit o veritat vital? Oblit del cos o ex-altació dels instints masculins? Mossèn Miquel, protagonista d'"Entre dues llums", prova de respondre a aquestes preguntes i es mou en una angoixa que l’abocarà a un destí peculiar. El narrador proposa una visió excèntrica del mite de l’immortal i sempre d’actualitat Èdip de Sòfocles, amb la qual el lector s’adonarà dels estralls que pot arribar a provocar un sentiment de culpa portat a l’extrem, condicionat per la figura materna i la poca alternativa que hi ha al fet d’haver nascut.

Gregor té un increïble talent per inventar qualsevol cosa que serà d’utilitat pel futur. Desafortunadament, és menys capaç de guarir els seus assumptes, potser perquè la ciència li interessa més que la seva pròpia vida. Aprofitant aquest desavantatge, d’altres científics li acaben robant tot. Per distreure’s de tot això, Gregor es quedarà amb la companyia dels llampecs i el teatre dels ocells.

Angela returns to Earth to search for and find the last two members of a group called the Ring. Together, the Ring can access crucial knowledge that the world desperately needs. Each member has unconsciously carried a piece of this knowledge over thousands of years. By reconnecting the pieces, they will help turn mankind’s negative, violent development on Earth into a positive, loving, and constructive progress. If the Ring doesn’t reunite now, it is doubtful that they will ever succeed.

Este libro entronca con ese increíble verso: «Al lugar donde has sido feliz no debieras tratar de volver». Es una de las verdades más grandes que existe y perder ese lugar jamás es triste porque siempre llegarán otros diferentes y mejores.

A.W. Trenholm’s vivid and extraordinary account of his journey to heaven far surpasses any other book in this genre. His descriptive detail of the people and places he encountered will fascinate anyone desiring to see behind the veil that shrouds our present dimension and be amazed at the incredible world that awaits us beyond.

After a soul-crushing Tinder date, a woman returns to her apartment to cook some squid and seethe. Her eye starts to itch; her memory starts to skip, and she starts to spiral. Offense is an auditory explosion and an exploration of the rash of loneliness...and what happens when the voices inside our heads start to warp.

Laura was raised to hide who she was. She'd been told repeatedly to never reveal her Cherokee heritage or the fact that she'd been attacked by her own father. And no one should ever know she had the second sight, or they might think she was crazy or possessed. Somehow, Laura built a life on her own, married a good man who adored her, and had children, all while managing to keep her secrets. She was determined to raise her children in a home filled with love and support, rather than in an atmosphere of fear and pain like the one she'd known.

When I was young, a powerful mage killed my family, and I had no way to stop him. But at fifty, having lived a safe but miserable life, I find a way to start over. To be reincarnated into my younger self's body. And to take my revenge. Using a unique training style, I will: Learn to cultivate my Ki and use it to fight. Level up my skills and keep them secret. Kill the men who ruined my life. And I'll have a little fun along the way.

At the end of a metaphysical conference, reluctant attendee Camille Dare discovers an envelope with her name on it. Filled with travel documents, a photograph, and bloody scarf material, the source of the envelope and its contents remain anonymous, but the directive is clear: Find the missing person in this unusual case. The missing person, Katherine Agurre, comes from a high-profile family. A growing obsession with the missing person case and her own quest for self-understanding compel Camille to begin a trip to meet people she never knew and locations she never expected to visit.

For Bobbie, the normal difficulties of growing up are overshadowed by his unique condition. Bobbie's inability to communicate normally is misdiagnosed as autism, and masks the great part in history he is destined to play. His unique ability to create beautiful works of art is just the tip of the iceberg. Coveted by those who would use him for their own purpose, Bobbie and his mother flee their home out of desperation. In the course of their escape, the truth behind Bobbie's gift and its effects on the planet begin to reveal themselves, as the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

Humanity is being replaced by artificial intelligence. Nothing new. However, what emerges as the most prized natural resource is the creative human mind. The alien hybrids must urgently cull, digitize, and upload those remaining minds to the blockchain for marketing to AI developers before the human extinction event. The hybrids also realize that the creative mind has access to a powerful world that they want to explore and profit from. The hybrid elite meet their match with Cliff, whose creative mind is a little too creative, when he turns the tables on them.

This book follows Mike, a Brazilian man who gets thrown out of his mundane life after he gets admitted into a psychiatric unit. Over there, he ends up meeting more people who are just like him and finds out that he has superpowers. He discovers places he had never seen before, and he learns things about this world that completely changed his life. With his newfound friends, he decides to make an escape to find out the truth behind everything, but nothing is as easy.

For Shai, lost and drifting, a visit to her hometown in India’s Northeast offers the possibility of new ways of living. For Evelyn, a Cambridge student, scientific inspiration guides her to the forests of the lower Himalayas and a world she has only read about. For Johann, a German writer, travelling through Italy inspires him to develop groundbreaking ideas that will cement his place in history. And for a young Swede, an unwavering curiosity for earth’s natural wonders takes him on an expedition that will forever alter the way we understand the world around us.

You know that excitement you get when a paranormal romance suddenly turns ... supernatural? Edgy, sexy and absolutely visionary, this one-of-a-kind love story will open eyes. The Goddess is afoot and things are about to get medieval in the Fatherland.

Know this: Everything that has happened is happening, and will happen again. All that came before has drawn in the players of this vicious game. The Queen’s Dog, Akira, must overcome the darkness within to face the dangers outside. Along with his faithful companion—and occasional cat—Besil, he dives into dangerous waters to fight the tides of change, with no idea if his battle will end in victory or tears. It’s a terrible conundrum, but then again, so is Akira.

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.

Ubicada en un pequeño pueblo del norte de Chile que verá alterada su tranquilidad con la llegada de algunos personajes, "Albina y los hombres perro" relata la historia de dos mujeres, la amnésica giganta blanca Albina, cuya sensualidad transforma a los hombres en una jauría desenfrenada, y La Jaiba, mujer con bigote y joroba, unidas por un azar mágico que las relacionará con otros personajes igualmente fuera de lo común.

As the people of Annecy in the French Alps meet the Gestapo’s brutality with surprising resistance, a teen-aged girl cannot rest until she solves the mystery of a death in her family. Aurelie watches as her father places a shrouded body on the north side of the roof of the family home. It’s winter, under a Nazi-declared state of siege, and they must wait until the spring thaw for the burial. But who died? And why is no one speaking to her anymore? Aurelie cannot rest until she discovers the truth and fights to prevent the same terrible fate from happening to her best friend.

Henry is a middle-aged, happily married man in the 20th century. After suffering a sudden heart attack, Henry finds himself in the unknown realm of the afterlife. Lost, alone, and confused, he meets Croton. As they embark on their journey together, Croton opens Henry’s eyes to all the beauty of his new reality and all the exploring that awaits him. But not everything is sunshine and rainbows. Henry eventually learns who Croton really is—and that’s when their adventure truly begins.

Some souls get tangled and lost. They need to be gathered and the energy gently released back into the ether of the All. Spencer collects the souls of the dead who have not yet crossed over. That mission brought him to the cemetery tonight. Most people can’t contemplate this task, let alone do it. Yet Spencer enjoys being a soulcolist. But tonight, no souls wait for him. Unnatural and unkind, this absence of death leaves Spencer to uncover the reason why.

As cinco pessoas que você encontra no céu conta a história de Eddie, mecânico de um parque de diversões, que morre no dia de seu aniversário de 83 anos. Imerso numa rotina de trabalho e solidão, ele passou a vida se considerando um fracassado. Ao acordar no céu, encontra cinco pessoas que lhe mostram o verdadeiro valor de sua existência. Esse livro foi escrito para cada um de nós, pois frequentemente nos sentimos frustrados e inúteis – assim como Eddie – por não termos realizado nossos sonhos.

ಡಾ. ಕೆ. ಎನ್ ಗಣೇಶಯ್ಯ ಅವರ 'ನೇಹಲ' ಕಥಾ ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಟ್ಟು 8 ಕತೆಗಳಿದ್ದು, ಇತಿಹಾಸ, ಸ್ಕೈ-ಫೈ, ಮನೋವಿಜ್ಞಾನ, ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಕಳಕಳಿ ಹೀಗೆ ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ವಿಭಾಗಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದವಾಗಿವೆ.

Un taxidermista recibe un encargo que representa uno de los tabúes de su profesión: el montaje de un caballo de paso propiedad de un hacendado, al tiempo que se propone completar un diorama de aves exóticas inspirado en los museos de historia natural. Pero el descubrimiento de una sombra sospechosa en uno de sus pulmones cambiará todos los planes y lo llevará a cuestionarse las relaciones entre el arte, la vida y la muerte, tan propias de su quehacer.

Way back in the 1980s, there was a quote in the Readers' Digest magazine which conveyed that “there is no essential difference between Truth and Spirituality; one is words following the facts, and the other is facts following the words”. Like cause and effect, truth and spirituality are intertwined. A quest for spirituality is the same as that for truth; just their start and finish lines are interchanged.

Maura Quarrels doesn't realize she's dead until her first college roommate (deceased) shows up and invites her to join the Dead Mothers' Club. Maura is excited - what better way to maintain control over her teenagers and husband! Unfortunately, it's not that simple. The DMC has strict rules and they don't suit Maura. Will she obey or risk banishment to hell? And where is her own mother, who died when Maura was young? Doesn't she care enough to be here to see her only daughter?

Josh is a young man just starting out in life. But when he is taken from this world, to the other side, and back, evil follows. A special person on the other side gives Josh an obligation to find and destroy that evil. Helped from the other side in ways he never thought possible, Josh can see auras, and finds two very special friends to help him in his task. Cassie is Josh's age and from this world, while Ezekiel, known as Zeke, is a different story.

Creation came to a pause. The Scribe watched as the vibration of chaos morphed into an etheric black hole in the Core of Creation. This etheric black hole began pulling everything into its expanding event horizon, undoing Creation by tearing Creation apart, ether by ether. The Scribe’s grin broadened as his most beautiful simulation yet unfolded within his perception, syncing perfectly with the Cosmic Spark.

This is the story of Leo, a Divitian 30-something man at an emotional dead end who is desperate for a way out. When tragedy strikes from every direction, the signs that show him where he should go become clear. Now, he must obey. On his journey, he finds romance, mystery and redemption in the guardian of the mountain who shows him the real reason for his suffering. For the first time, he knows exactly what he must do. The story of Leo’s discovery teaches us about ourselves, learning to trust the unseen, and, above all, the power of letting go.

Book one of Veronica Christopher’s short story selection series is The Rabbit Hole. The Rabbit Hole is a collection of four short stories dealing with life’s tests, madness, and the unknown. In “Three-Leaf Clover”, 14-year-old Eve has lots of secrets to bear...but can she handle it? Next, go to 1950 Korea during the war, where Ah-seong and her little brother, Jae-hyun, take refuge under a bridge and bid “Goodbye from Nogunri". Then see RJ’s battle as he wanders his afterlife “Via Tranquilla” while confronting the pinnacle moments of his life that have shaped him.

How do you stop a God? Monty and Simon don’t know, but they better find out, and fast....The NYTF Command Hub has been destroyed, the Director is in critical condition, and a cryptic message has been left for the Montague and Strong Detective Agency - in blood....When Monty and Simon discover Mahnes, a Soul Renderer and Dark Mage, is behind the attack, they realize they are outclassed, and outgunned. Something or someone is controlling Mahnes, and they need help. Now, Monty and Simon must face an ancient god, one they thought they had defeated, and banished. They were wrong.