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The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic ghost stories, read by three Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Washington Irving.

In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolutionary stock" families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this society, "being things" is better than "doing things" and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers.

Imagine a world where a man's life force is the battery for a woman's magic. Anointed by Blood is a twisted love story about teenage witch Neave, cursed—like all her kind—to suck the life from her true love, Lachlan. He will live, but their Bind is a cancer, depriving him of the life only women can enjoy. Oppressed, broken, bitter—Lachlan’s on the lowest rung of the Order of Witches and he’s going to burn it all down. The price of revolution: his heart, his sanity, and Neave’s life. He’s prepared to pay it.

Katie discovers that the valley behind her grandmother’s garden is more mysterious than it seems. After tumbling into 10th-century England and encountering Saint Edith of Wilton along with her wild animal menagerie, she is helped home, wondering whether her adventure was truly real. But after Katie, her cousins, and a neighborhood friend are drawn back in time once again, she realizes her grandmother’s garden gate is a portal into faraway worlds, where patron saints are real people making real-life decisions.

Freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg, August 1580: Häscher, Heiler, Henker... nur einen dieser Berufe hat sich Frantz Schmidt selbst ausgesucht, und doch muss er allen dreien nachkommen. Als Nachrichter von Nürnberg ist Meister Frantz ein Unehrlicher, trotzdem kommen die Bürger im Geheimen zu ihm, um ihre Zipperlein von ihm behandeln zu lassen, denn seinen Händen wird Zauberkraft nachgesagt. Auch die Witwe Christina Zahlmeisterin gehört zu jenen, die seine Dienste in Anspruch nehmen. Als die halb lahme Frau erschlagen aufgefunden wird, gerät ihre Magd Kathi in Verdacht und wird verhaftet.

Newland Archer, that paragon of Gilded Age New York, seems bound for a life of privilege with an ideal companion, May Welland. Then a childhood friend, the free-thinking, passionate Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe. In charged encounters between these three and a large cast of unforgettable characters, Edith Wharton elaborates on a timeless theme, the clash between the need to belong and the urge to leap beyond oneself. An American by birth and an expatriate by choice, the author probes her own youthful origins in this winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in Literature.

Endlos viele Sonnenstunden treffen auf azurblaues Wasser und sagenhafte Sandstrände: eine Kombination, die jedes Touristenherz höherschlagen lässt. Bemerkenswerte Architektur, Spaziergänge unter bezaubernden Olivenbäumen und kulinarische Köstlichkeiten machen jede Griechenland-Reise zu einer unvergesslichen Erfahrung. Doch inmitten dieser traumhaften Kulisse spielen sich alptraumhafte Szenen ab.

Et si nos véritables prisons étaient nos pensées et nos croyances limitantes ? Et si les clés pour s'en libérer se trouvaient en nous ? C'est le secret que nous révèle Edith Eger. Rescapée des camps et de la déportation, l'auteure est une survivante qui a dédié sa vie à se reconstruire puis à aider les autres à dépasser leurs traumatismes. Basé sur plus de 40 ans d’analyse des mécanismes psychologiques de la souffrance dans ses aspects les plus extrêmes, ce livre apporte des outils concrets, universels et puissants de résilience et de guérison.

Having been born into a life of wealth and privilege, Edith Wharton was part of the small clique of aristocratic families that held sway over New York City's social and cultural life at the turn of the nineteenth century. In The Age of Innocence, Wharton looks back fondly on the life that was enjoyed by the privileged class of the East Coast before the many changes wrought by World War I.

Vier spannende Kurzgeschichten von Agatha Christie. Eine Schneiderpuppe, die ein Eigenleben zu führen scheint, und die Schneiderin vor Angst zittern lässt. Ein junger Mann macht sich auf die Suche nach dem verlorenen Smaragd des Radschas und ein Mann mit einer Autopanne kommt in ein fremdes Haus in eine Abendgesellschaft und sieht sofort, dass dort eine Person Hilfe benötigt. Enthält: "Der Smaragd des Radschas", "SOS", "Die Puppe der Schneiderin", "Die Schauspielerin".

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Anton Checov a Kipling, molti grandi scrittori hanno celebrato gli animali domestici che da più tempo vivono insieme a noi. Intelligenti, curiosi, coraggiosi, fedeli, romantici, ma anche permalosi e pasticcioni, i cani e i gatti sono protagonisti di pagine memorabili. Questa antologia spazia tra i generi più diversi e provoca in chi legge una gamma di emozioni sorprendentemente vasta perché una cosa è certa: i nostri amici a quattro zampe non ci deludono mai tantomeno in letteratura.

'Matías y las Nubes' pertenece a una serie de cuentos cortos para pequeñitos que escribí para mi pequeño hijo en diciembre de 2014.

Cavando en un hoyo de grava en un caluroso día de verano, cinco niños descubren «eso» : una criatura gruñona con ojos como de caracol, orejas como de murciélago y un cuerpo rechoncho cubierto de pelo por entero. Es un Psammead, una antigua hada de arena que tiene el poder de conceder a los niños un deseo por día. «¡ Eso es un sueño hecho realidad !», pensaron los niños. Pero deberán tener mucho cuidado con lo que desean : ya sea teniendo alas, tesoros o belleza, las cosas pueden no ir tan bien como uno quisiera….

El maravilloso paisaje de una finca de verano en West Country, al suroeste de Inglaterra, sorprende a tres hermanos, Gerald, James y Kathleen, que pasan sus vacaciones allí. Mientras juegan a explorar en las inmediaciones realizan una gran hallazgo que parece mágico: un castillo encantado rodeado por un lago, arboledas, estatuas de mármol, enormes torres. En ese lugar, más propio de los cuentos de hadas, hallan a una princesa durmiente en un laberinto. Pero jugando con la magia del anillo los niños descubrirán que no todo es fruto de su imaginación….

A groundbreaking approach to healing from trauma and experiencing posttraumatic growth from a leading psychologist, featuring a powerful, five-stage framework to help readers not just recover, but thrive and transform. Trauma has always been part of the human experience, and traumatic...

Break Room Talk is a the space for two besties to share their thoughts and perspectives on a variety of topics from astrology, self-love, spiritual talks, mental health development, manifestation, social expectations, and many more random topics. The goal is to have fun and just explore our thoughts as we go and share nothing but positivity and laughs to our listeners. Our goal is to make listeners feel that they are not the only ones who have weird and random thoughts about life, the universe, and how to deal with the daily pressure of living life according social norms. Please show your love...

E Nesbit is widely regarded as the first modern children's writer. Her ground-breaking novels have influenced authors from Oscar Wilde to Jacqueline Wilson, and over 100 years after their first publication, they remain perennially popular. This wide-ranging collection comprises some of her very best children's fiction, commencing with her timeless tale The Railway Children.

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"Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?" An older gentleman invites a group of friends over for dinner and to discuss the supernatural. Afterwards, when only two guests remain, he tells them a story about The Eyes, about a man who is repeatedly haunted at night by a pair of grotesque eyes floating over the foot of his bed. 'The Eyes' is a short, sharp read that slowly enters your psyche and leaves you with a paragraph that may haunt you forever, because it's not about ghosts at all...

"I tell you there's nothing the public likes as much as convictions - they'll always follow a man who believes in his own ideas. And this book is just on the line of popular interest." Professor Linyard is a man of science. And when he writes a book to great acclaim in which he takes the side of religion, he fully expects the satire to be understood. But when it's taken at face value, he goes along with it to better provide for his family.