Showing results for "The Hero" in Short Stories

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Manuel García, an aging bullfighter freshly out of the hospital after a brutal goring, refuses to accept that his time is over. Against the advice of everyone around him – a skeptical promoter, a weary picador friend, a contemptuous critic – he...

Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empire–the Arabian city we know as Mecca...

Podemos ser héroes es la amarga y voraz supervivencia del día a día, en la decadencia e incluso en la derrota. Los personajes de estos trece cuentos, jóvenes, marginales y rebeldes, deambulan por la convulsiva Lima de los años 80 con el rock subte a viva voz. Protagonizan historias...

When I left the Army, I left behind pieces of myself. The things I did haunt me. So do the friends I lost. I thought I'd always be broken until I took a job protecting Winter Pyke. This curvy songbird touches parts of me that haven't seen the light in years. But a crazy fan has made her life a living hell. That's a feeling I'm all too familiar with. And I won't allow her to live the way I have for so long. I will save her . . . and then I'm making her mine.

Written by Anna Burns before she completed her dazzling Man Booker-winning novel Milkman, Mostly Hero is the hilarious, hell-raising descendant of Quentin Tarantino and the Brothers Grimm. Originally self-published online, it is available here in audio for the first time.

When Simon Serrailler was a rookie constable with the Met, he did something reckless in the course of a night's work which caused a man's death. But his act was praised by his colleagues, and he was called a hero. Years later, now a detective chief superintendent who has been badly injured in the course of duty, he receives a medal for bravery at Buckingham Palace while recollecting that fateful night of his early career, when chance disguised itself as bravery.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of the short story The Christmas Scorpion by Lee Child, read by Jeff Harding. Jack Reacher likes to head south for the winter, to stay warm: so just before Christmas he arrives in a small town in Southern California. But the weather there is not warm...

A volume of short stories by the bestselling author of The Broken Empire series, Mark Lawrence. This is a collection of fourteen stories of murder, mayhem, pathos, and philosophy, all set in the world of the Broken Empire. Within these pages, you will find tales of men such as Red Kent, Sir...

Polly’s fourth-grade daughter has been spending a lot of time with her classmate Sylvie—maybe too much. Sylvie’s clothes are a little…flashy…and her phone (a ten-year-old with a phone!) doesn’t seem to have any parental controls. It seems that Sylvie’s mother, with her vape pens and her too-high heels, may not be making good choices. As Polly tries to exert a positive influence, she discovers just how little anyone can tell about a family from the outside.

Charlie Kroft’s job at the crisis center means she’s often seen as a hero: she’s helped countless people climb out of the deepest pits of personal despair. But when one phone call thrusts Charlie into the spotlight, she must contend with the hidden pain that drives her…and with the mysterious stranger who knows the truth.

A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021 Business has been slow for Hounslow’s small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But desperate times lead him there – and Jay...

This collection includes both previously-published and all-new stories.