Showing results for "Barbara" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Do not go gentle into that good night, wrote Dylan Thomas, and Canadas notorious Ladies Killing Circle has taken his advice to heart. In Going Out with a Bang, the dangerous dames have brought together an explosive mix of authors from across the country. Whether its the boom of drums, the cacophony of a train wreck, or the thud of a body crashing down the stairs, no one goes out without a fight. Twenty authors, along with poet Joy Hewitt Mann, will chill you, entertain you or plain blow you away in this eclectic fictional brew.

Der neue Erzählband des großen Liedermachers - mit Originalaufnahmen des Autors Poetisch, komisch und wahrhaftig erzählt Wolf Biermann vom mächtigsten aller Gefühle, von der Liebe. In 18 oft hinreißend kuriosen, oft zärtlich-rabiaten Erzählungen führt uns der Poet seine Zeitgenossen vor Augen. Da ist Ruth Berlau, die tragische Geliebte Brechts, die sich ihre übermächtige Feindin Helene Weigel nicht kleinreden lassen will - und schon gar nicht kleinsingen! Biermann erzählt die wahre Geschichte von der "beißwütigen Barbara" und vom Mann, der sich für Rembrandt hält.

The fifth volume in CSA Word's massively popular complete and unabridged ‘Short Stories’ collection is bound to please. With something for everyone this collection of classic stories read by only the best-suited and most established readers will delight the ears as a vintage wine excites the gullet; The Vintage Collection is audible gold. Features eye-catching typographical series design.

Anche alla donna più cattiva del mondo può scendere una lacrima. Anche un uomo qualunque, nella sua vita qualunque, impara il senso della cura occupandosi di qualcuno di cui non si sarebbe mai interessato. Un pesce rosso diventa protagonista dell'affetto che lega un'anziana signora alla sua piccola vicina di casa.

CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality.

This collection includes three books in the Trash n’ Treasures Mystery Series: Antiques Carry On, Antiques Liquidation, and Antiques Foe.

Envie de romances où tout est bien qui finit bien. Dans cette compilation, découvrez les histoires d'amour respectives de Katrina, Julia, Elvina et Silva, entre complicité, supercheries et aventures dignes des plus grands contes de fées. Julia, haïe par sa belle-mère, fuit un mariage forcé en Écosse, chez le chef du clan McCarn alors qu'Elvira, faisant guise de chaperon pour sa peste de cousine, tombe sous le charme d'un charmant valet (mais en est-il vraiment un ?).

In Deadly Housewives, critically acclaimed mystery writer Christine Matthews has gathered 13 of the biggest names in women's mystery and suspense for an intriguing short story collection. These previously unpublished stories illuminate a different dark corner of the housewife-psyche, including sex, marriage, abandoned careers, jealousy, kids, and female friendship.

With a particular focus on obsession and the abnormal, We So Seldom Look on Love explores life at its quirky extremes, pushing past limits of convention into lives that are fantastic and heartbreakingly real. Whether writing about the dilemma of a two-headed man who attempts to expunge his own pain or the shock of a woman who discovers she has married a transsexual, Gowdy convinces us with incisive detail, only to disarm us with black humor.

“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, acclaimed author...

Cuando la vida y la libertad corren peligro la valentía es la única opción. Las emocionantes historias de esta recopilación de novelas de la extraordinaria Barbara Cartland nos invitan a recorrer el mundo entero, desde la India, pasando por Medio Oriente y hasta Inglaterra, acompañando a personajes que se enfrentan a diferentes amenazas: escapar del maquiavélico primo que planea asesinarte; huir de un matrimonio no deseado escondida en el yate privado de un marqués; o sobrevivir al harén sin sacrificar la virtud.

Known for her series of true ghost stories, Barbara Smith is back, this time with a collection of fictional ghostly tales set in real Alberta locations. So light the fire and prepare to be spooked by these delightfully eerie stories.

Barbara, a young and impetuous heiress, rejects the stern Lord Uplandtowers to elope with a poor but handsome man, Edmund Willowes. When Barbara’s parents send Edmund to Europe, they hope to change him into a more suitable match for their daughter. But after disaster strikes, Edmund returns in a way nobody could have imagined.

Barbara, a young and impetuous heiress, rejects the stern Lord Uplandtowers to elope with a poor but handsome man, Edmund Willowes. When Barbara's parents send Edmund to Europe, they hope to change him into a more suitable match for their daughter. But after disaster strikes, Edmund returns in a way nobody could have imagined.

Ya desde el título de esta nueva colección de relatos, Bárbara Aranguren nos señala la clave que recorre el libro entero: aprendemos a vivir gracias a las innumerables maneras de escapar que inventamos para poder precisamente vivir.

Joyce Carol Oates paints a haunting tapestry of American life in 22 short stories that take the listener from tempestuous inner cities to isolated rural backwaters. Obsession with loss, fear of betrayal, and sudden violence plague Oates’ characters as she examines the lives of the working poor and follies of the irresponsible rich with searing clarity. George Guidall’s and Barbara Caruso’s masterful performances make this rich collection of stories a must-listen.

Are vampires a bloodthirsty menace to mankind? Or simply misunderstood creatures struggling to survive? After hearing these seven stories, you'll be able to decide for yourself. From the horrifying to the humorous, some of today's finest authors share stories about one of mankind's oldest imagined evils, the vampire. From F. Paul Wilson's title story to Esther Friesner's comic tale of rival teens trying to best one another, these stories bring vampires to (un)life, in all their majesty and terror.

Heiligenlegenden zum Monat Dezember: Barbara, Nikolaus, Evangelist Johannes. Legenden - das sind Geschichten, die seit zweitausend Jahren erzählt und immer wieder aufgeschrieben wurden, Geschichten von Mut und Glaubensstärke, von Wundern und Visionen, von Menschen, die für das Gute einstanden, im Glauben lebten und dem Tod furchtlos ins Auge sahen.