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Meet Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip Witch and her crazy witch family in this ten-book cozy mystery box set.

Discover the timeless charm of Munshi Premchand's storytelling with "Mansarovar 1," a captivating collection of short stories that delve into the heart of Indian life. Each tale in this collection paints a vivid portrait of society, capturing the complexities of human emotions and social dynamics with Premchand's characteristic insight and empathy. From rural landscapes to urban challenges, these stories reflect the nuances of Indian culture and the human condition.

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Stories include "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Tuesday Siesta", "One of These Days", "There Are No Thieves in This Town", "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon", "Montiel's Widow", "One Day After Saturday", "Artificial Roses", and "Big Mama's Funeral".

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook Murder on the Links In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry for help brings...

पण त्याचा आवाज ही स्वर्गीय देणगी! अशा या गुळूला एका आजारानंतर ऐकू येणे बंद होते. ठार बहिरा असलेला हा गुळू सुरेल तान घेतो आणि चमत्कार होतो. त्याच्या समोर चॅलेंज येते ते एका माणसाचे. एक नवीन चाल, अनोळखी सुरावट आणि गाणे बसवायला केवळ तीन दिवसांचा अवधी!

Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities,"

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature, Manto published over 20 collections of short stories in a literary career spanning almost two decades. Several of these have been adapted into films and plays that have won a multitude of awards and his stories about the 1947 Partition remain some of the best accounts ever written on the catastrophic event.

One for the Trouble: Book Slam, Volume One is the first release from the UK’s premier literary event. Eighteen Book Slam alumni, from household names like Irvine Welsh and William Boyd to newcomers like Kate Tempest and Sophie Woolley, were approached to take a song title for inspiration for a new short story or poem. Some took this literally (Jon McGregor’s moving reimagining of A House’s 'Endless Art', for example); others suggestively....

இராமர் இந்து இதிகாசங்களின்படி, இந்துக் கடவுள் விஷ்ணுவின் ஏழாவது அவதாரம் மற்றும் இச்வாகு குல அயோத்தியின் அரசர் தசரதனின் நான்கு மகன்களில் மூத்தவர். மற்றவர்கள் இலக்குவன், பரதன், சத்துருகனன் ஆவர்.

The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie. Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the...

In A Few Quick Ones, P. G. Wodehouse brings together some of his oldest friends for a party. Jeeves and Wooster are there, so is Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member.

Ketu Viswanathareddy Kathalu' is a collection of short stories which won the 1993-94 Telugu University Award, 1994 Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award and 1996 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award. Ketu Viswanatha Reddy is a good writer who has shaped the various developments coming in the social life he is familiar with from the sixties with stories with a progressive perspective. Some of his stories have been translated into Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, English and Russian.

புதுமைப்பித்தனின் சிறுகதைகள் தான் அவருக்கு எழுத்துலகில் தனி இடத்தை அளித்தன.

அமரர் கல்கி சிறு கதைகள் தொகுப்பு - 1.

While spending the night in an eerie, decrepit, old bungalow in late 19th-century India, the narrator tells how he begins to hear the unmistakable sounds of a billiard game in the locked adjoining room. It's a room that was once a billiard-room where one of the sahibs is said to have died in the midst of a game... and is believed to have become a ghost.

Dans ce premier volume des Fleurs animées, Grandville convie à un jardin où l’esprit du XIXe siècle fleurit. Sous la plume malicieuse d’Alphonse Karr, Taxile Delord et du comte Fœlix, les fleurs, quittant l’herbier des savants et la vitrine des amateurs, se font personnages, allégories et confidences. Fantaisie, satire légère et poésie s’y entremêlent pour célébrer la nature, épingler les travers du monde et réveiller une tendresse simple pour ce qui pousse et parfume.

د. محفوظ .. الذي ترك لنا صندوق عجيب .. هذا الرجل مات فقيراً ولم يترك لنا إلا هذا الصندوق في قبو داره .. الصندوق يحوي مذكرات وملاحظات عن تلك القصص الغريبة التى مرت به فى حياته ذلك العجوز لم يترك إرثا لم يترك إلا هذا الصندوق العجيب دعنا نفتحه سويا لنعرف ماذا يخبئ____

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook The Mysterious Affair at Styles Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom?...

Yuri Kozlov is well known as the “Russian James Bond.” So when he defects to the United States during Putin’s war on Ukraine, suspicions arise around his loyalties. To prove he’s turned over a new leaf, he’ll have to convince his handlers—and the CIA’s rigorous debriefing and analysis—that his intentions are as honorable as he claims.

படைப்பிலக்கியத்தின் நோக்கமே மனிதநேய அடிப்படையையும், வாழ்வில் ஏற்ற இறக்கங்களையும் படிப்பவர் மனங்களில் ஏற்பட செய்வதே. திருமதி சிவசங்கரி அவர்களின் இச்சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்பு அதனை செவ்வனே நிறைவேற்றி உள்ளது.