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Anna corre solo quando piove, e correndo ragiona di lavastoviglie, soprammobili, pupazzi: tutto, pur di non affrontare direttamente ciò da cui davvero fugge. Assieme a lei, lo straripante catalogo di personaggi che animano questa raccolta di racconti include pastori laureati e portieri notturni, corridori scalzi e bambini che recitano in sardo mentre gli alleati bombardano Cagliari, terroristi, bracconieri, finanzieri, pescatori di polpi e persino piante, capaci di mettere in crisi le certezze di uomini spavaldi.

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits. . . . A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed. . . . While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she...

Pubblicato nel 1940, quando la parola "coraggio" era riservata per lo più agli uomini, questo libro fu per Anna Banti il «primo gesto di libertà»: cinque racconti, cinque storie di donne in bilico tra paura e ribellione. C'è Amina che avanza nel buio con un gruppo di donne spaventate. Il passo è incerto, la paura è un'abitudine. Ma all'improvviso la sua fragilità si spezza. Con un gesto di sfida, affronta il marito padrone che la umilia ogni sera e, sollevando un bicchiere di vino, gli dice in faccia: «Ecco la paura che mi fai: ci bevo sopra».

A Lover's Embrace 2 by Skyy: Rayne has a new attitude. After taking six months to travel, Rayne is coming back to Memphis with a new job, a new love, and a new outlook on life. But coming home means coming back to the reality that she left behind. Can she stay strong in the presence of the man who turned her world upside down? Or will she fall back into the disastrous routine that made her run away to begin with?

Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows, violent and sinister characters, whispering clocks and concealed tombs, connecting clues to solve tales of murder, mystery and intrigue.

Elles també maten no és un exercici de literatura criminal femenina, que ja existeix i rutlla molt bé. Simplement és un recull de relats que demostra que les autores catalanes escriuen allò que els surt de l’ànima, però que si cal matar, maten. Tretze escriptores han compost un relat ben negre. Fora manies i supersticions. El tretze és un bon número i entre totes han construït una antologia que enlluerna per la diversitat de les veus que la integren.

After the untimely death of their parents, Cytheria and Owen Graye must go out into the world and fend for themselves. Cytheria's journey leads her to the dark and mysterious household of Miss Aldclyffe, a capricious and eccentric woman, who steers Cytheria into a love affair with her charismatic steward, Aeneous Manston. All is not what it seems, and Cytheria finds herself entangled in a violent web of lust, murder, deception, and blackmail.

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those whose own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows. But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these women strove to be published, to show themselves as equals. The results more often than not proved that they were.

A Word Is Not A Sparrow is a diverse anthology of stories set amid Russian repression through the centuries; personal narrator testimony about the impact in America of immigrant grandparents from Ukraine and elsewhere; powerful fables and allegories that deliver universal messages about displacement, migration, and human connection; and classic Cossack folk tales that are a touchstone of Ukrainian culture. Listen as we let these words fly out around the world.

Gutta Mamis includes four novellas featuring cold-hearted women who get ahead in America's grimiest underworld: "Twisted Loyalty" by Kai, "Three the Hard Way" by C. J. Hudson, "The Face of Death" by Brandie Davis, and "Chasers" by N'Tyse.

Uma coleção de crônicas sobre a maternidade, sobre a tarefa infinita de ser mãe, que começa muito antes do parto, sobre a expectativa e os preparativos para a chegada da criança, sobre a vida com os filhos. Divertidos, espirituosos, experimentais, os textos falam do parto, dos bebês, de alergias, raivas, choros estridentes, noites em claro e outros dilemas e desafios. Como aponta o título do audiolivro, ser mãe é para sempre. Mãeternidade traz uma série de 60 textos sobre dilemas, ansiedades, descobertas, inseguranças, idas e vindas, perrengues e aprendizados infinitos.

16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love. Sixteen stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. In ‘Terminus’ a young woman hides in an...

"A Son's Rage" is one in a series of horror stories from Visual Audio. In this story, a mother pushes her son to the point of murder.

Christmas hadn't been celebrated in this old New England Puritan Church for years. Not until Nathan Stoddard arrived at work one morning, Christmas morning, to see an old man knock upon the door and have the door of the empty church flung open. Nathan rushes to a window at the rear of the church only to peer in to see the interior of the church filled with people dressed from a bygone era decorating the church. A lovely ghost story by Anna Wales Abbot.

A 25,000-copy best seller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald's portrait of his hometown, a model town designed by American industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, does for Quebec's North what William Faulkner did for the South and heralds an important new voice in world literature.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? In this volume the once forgotten literary backwaters of Scandinavia, and its hinterland, reveal the storied works of their own literature. Some names are familiar, some decidedly not. But each has literary talents and compelling narratives.

Die schönsten Sagen von Riesen und Zwergen, vom Rübezahl bis zu Heinz Hütlein. Der Volksmund weiß: Riesen leben im Gebirge, und werden sie wütend, werfen sie mit Felsbrocken. Zwerge schürfen ebenfalls dort nach Gold und Edelsteinen. Und eine besondere Art der kleinen Wesen schützt das Haus und hilft den Guten bei der Arbeit. Zumindest in Köln, wo es "vordem / mit Heinzelmännchen so bequem" war! Wie traurig, dass mit dem Glauben an sie auch all die Wunderwesen verschwunden sind.

Die schönsten deutschen Sagen von Wassermännern, Klabautern und Nixen. Der Sage nach lebten sie in oder an Quellen, Flüssen, Seen oder am Meer: Klabautermännlein, die die Schiffe beschützen, Nixen, die die Seeleute in die Tiefe locken, oder der mächtige Meermann Ekke Nekkepenn. In ihnen hat das Wissen von der lebensspendenden wie todbringenden Kraft des Wassers Gestalt angenommen.

Gruselsagen über den Höllenfürsten und seine Geisterwesen. Für die Menschen früherer Jahrhunderte ist er das personifizierte Böse: Luzifer, der Teufel. Er verführt zur Sünde und bringt Krankheit und Verderben. Doch eine Hoffnung kennen die Sagen: Man kann manchmal mit dem Teufel handeln, einen Pakt eingehen, ihn im besten Fall sogar überlisten. Ebenfalls nicht von dieser Welt sind Naturgeister, Gottheiten vorchristlichen Glaubens oder Verstorbene, die keine Ruhe finden. Sie begegnen den Menschen mal trügerisch, mal rachesuchend, mal gütig und hilfreich, immer aber geheimnisvoll.

Die schönsten deutschen Sagen über Könige, Ritter und Edelfräulein: von Kaiser Karl bis Lohengrin. Das einfache Volk hat sie bewundert und gefürchtet: Die Könige und Kaiser, die mächtigen Ritter und ihre Burgfräulein. Viele Volks- und Heldensagen erzählen bis heute von ihrem Ruhm und ihren Taten. Und von manchem Herrscher geht die Sage, dass er nicht gestorben sei, sondern nur schlafe, um eines Tages wiederzukehren und dem Volk in großer Not zu Hilfe zu kommen.