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Listeners will love this selection of three contemporary and three historical romance novellas.

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: All Regency Collection. Listeners will love this collection of six regency romance novellas.

Der Blick durch die rosa Brille auf der Lieblingsinsel. Verregnete Tage in Dunkelgrau. Zufällige Begegnungen auf dem Weg zur Arbeit. Annette Pehnts Geschichten handeln von kleinen und großen Glücksmomenten im Alltag ebenso wie von Momenten des Scheiterns. Von Achtsamkeit und dem Nachdenken über sich selbst und den Sinn des Lebens. Ein Buch zum In-die-Tasche-Stecken und Zwischendurch-Lesen im Café, auf einer Bank in der Sonne oder in der Mittagspause. Kurze psychologisch-literarische Geschichten, erzählt von der vielfach preisgekrönten Schriftstellerin.

Patrick Hamilton is renowned for his gritty, slice-of-life tales chronicling the hopes, dreams and obsessions of London's working class in the inter-war years. This collection brings together his key pieces, together with some lesser-known classics and a bonus 2004 documentary exploring his achievements and legacy.

Join three bestselling regency romance authors, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, and Michele Paige Holmes, for three new regency romance novellas in A Midwinter Ball.

Six award-winning authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Summer Wedding Collection. Listeners will love this collection of six sweet contemporary romance novellas, centered on a summer wedding, all with one thing in common: Romance.

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Spring Vacation Collection. Readers will love this collection of six sweet contemporary romance novellas, centered on a Spring Vacation, all with one thing in common: Romance.

Featuring New York Times bestselling author Victorine E. Lieske. Readers will love this collection of six novellas - three contemporary and three historical - all with one thing in common: Romance.

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Autumn Collection. In Heather Horrocks' charming story, A Hound Dog Named Elvis, interior designer, Kaitlin Hartley returns to her hometown of Aspen Grove, California, to the job of her dreams after a year of specialized training in New York. During the town's Autumn Festival, she enters her dachshund, Elvis, into the Running of the Hallowieners race.

Six new contemporary romance novellas from bestselling authors.

In USA Today bestselling author Janette Rallison's delightful novella, Job Hazards, Lydia Robinson is posing as a prostitute. Undercover of course. Lydia's job as a police officer hasn't reeled in her prince charming yet. That is, until Harrison Aldridge, old high school flame, pulls up to the corner to rescue the fallen damsel.

Unter einem "Schildbürgerstreich" verstehen wir eine Torheit, die so ungeheuerlich, zugleich aber so komisch ist, dass man sie kaum reiner Dummheit oder Gedankenlosigkeit zuschreiben kann. Es muss mehr dahinterstecken: eine ganz ausgefuchste, augenzwinkernde Lebensweisheit, die unser vertrautes Weltbild, nicht ohne hintergründige Absicht, auf die drolligste Weise durcheinanderpurzeln lässt.

Zehn Meisternovellen der Weltliteratur sind hier versammelt: "Die Judenbuche" (Droste-Hülshoff), "Brief an den Vater" (Kafka), "Rat Krespel" (Hoffmann), "Die Geschichte des blauen Karfunkels" (Doyle), "Nutzlose Schönheit" (Maupassant), "Menage à trois" (Boccaccio), "Die beiden Greise" (Tolstoi), "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen" (Tschechow), "Viola Tricolor" (Storm), "Der Schimmelreiter" (Storm). Wunderbare Erzählungen aus Meisterhand.

Malthus predicted a grim future with geometrical population growth, versus food production that increases only arithmetically. He claimed that this would result in famine and starvation unless births were controlled. It is called the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease.

Slices of 19th-century London life from the pen of Charles Dickens. Here are 10 gloriously comic stories from Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens's earliest collection of short pieces in which he honed his literary genius. Each tale is dramatised with a full cast. Cast and credits: written by Charles Dickens. Directed by Sally Avens. Starring Nicholas Farrell as Boz.

Warten aufs Christkind mal ganz anders - ein Mordsspaß in 24 Geschichten. Killende Weihnachtsmänner bringen in der Adventszeit 24 Leute um die Ecke: Tote werden mit Lichterketten erdrosselt, Leichen in Schneemännern versteckt, Glühwein, Gans und Knödel vergiftet. Und mittendrin Hobbydetektiv Alfons Friedrichsberg - hochintelligent, trinkt gern, isst noch lieber und hat immer das letzte Wort-, der dem mörderischen weihnachtlichen Treiben auf die Spur kommen will. Es hilft alles nichts: Um diesen Fall zu lösen, muss er ins Weihnachtskostüm springen.