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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...

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades, from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud awards. She has had her work collected over the years but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works.

1. ಅದೇಧ್ವನಿ - ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಯಶಸ್ವೀ ಯುವ ಸಂಗೀತಗಾರನ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಾಗೋ ವಿಪರ್ಯಾಸ 2. ಹುಲಿವೇಷ - ಮಂಗಳೂರು ದಸರೆಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ರಾಜಕೀಯದಾಟ 3. ತಕ್ಷಕನದೋಷ 4. ಬಂಗಾರದಬಳೆ 5. ನಿಹೀಸಂ 6. ಅವನುಅವಳುಮತ್ತುಕೋಣೆ 7. ಕೀರ್ತಿಟ್ರಾವಲ್ಸ್

In Preeti Shenoy’s exciting new short story, a young girl, fresh off a break-up, repeatedly finds playing cards turning up on her path. At first she is dismissive, but they keep reappearing. Do the cards mean something? What are they trying to tell her? Will she find new love?

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque "The Nose", where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative "The Overcoat", about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd.

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook Poirot Investigates Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie. First there was the mystery of the film...

From the UK best-selling author of Abbot's Keep comes a new dimension in terror. Spanning four decades, the dark history of Church Farm House is explored within four interlinking horror stories. Welcome to the nightmare... Benedict Ashforth is the author of the UK best-selling Kindle ghost story, Abbot's Keep.

In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments - caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition, and fresh experience. A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter".

Brought to you by Penguin. This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. 'Shirley Jackson's stories are...

Vetaal and Vikram is a playful retelling of one of India's most celebrated cycles of stories. The narrative of King Vikram and the Vetaal is located within the Kathasaritsagara, an 11th-century Sanskrit text. The Vetaal, who is neither living nor dead, is a consummate storyteller, and Vikram is a listener who can neither speak nor stay silent. Together they are destined to walk a labyrinth of stories in the course of a moonless night in a cremation ground.

This collection of stories by Kishore Chaudhary depicts the author’s empathy and ability to find the extraordinary in the many mundane things in life. The title story, 'Jadu Bhari Ladki', depicts how a little girl endures and triumphantly lives through the most difficult situations, which is magical in its own right.

Written initially in French, later translated by the author into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy. It was published shortly after WWII and marked a new, mature writing style, which was to dominate the remainder of his working life. Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer, Moran.

ஒருபுறம் பழங்குடியினர் இனத்தில் பிறந்து இடம் தவறி குருகுலம் செல்லும் பையன் அங்கேயே படித்து, சிவில் சர்வீஸ் முடித்து பணிக்குச் சேருகிறான். அதிகாரியானாலும் தன் இனத்தாலும் இட ஒதுக்கீட்டின் காரணத்தால் பணிக்கு வந்தமையாலும் அவன் பதவிக்கு ஏற்ற மரியாதையுடன் நடத்தப்படவில்லை. மறுபுறம் அதிகாரியின் தாய் என்பதையும் தாண்டி நகர் வாசத்தில் ஒன்ற விரும்பமில்லாத, பிச்சை எடுப்பதை தொழிலாகக் கொண்டு வாழும் அவனது பாசமிக்க பழங்குடி அம்மா. இவர்களுக்கு நடுவில் சாதாரண அரசாங்கப் பணியாளரான நடுத்தர வர்க்கத்து பெண் ஐஏஎஸ் தகுதிக்காக பழங்குடி அதிகாரியை மணமுடித்து தெருவில் பிச்சை எடுக்கும் மாமியாரின் மருமகளாகிறாள்.

5 friends catch up after 7 long years. They realise some amongst them are still the star talkers and some still dont care. The night takes an unusual turn when one gets bummed out by the other, leading to a chilling revelation...

READ BY PALLAS ERDRICH “Pulitzer winner Erdrich dives deep into the American psyche in this spectacular collection. . . . A staggering sense of empathy infuses the stories. With its range of voices and styles, this puts Erdrich’s powers on full display.” — Publishers Weekly (Starred...

Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife.

Brought to you by Penguin. Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife. In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as...

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Deception by Roald Dahl, read by Richard Griffiths, Andrew Scott, Derek Jacobi, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Stephen Mangan. 'The cruelest lies are often told in silence . . .' Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear...

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Stories included are 'The Village Teacher', 'The Time Migration', '2018-04-01', 'Fire in the Earth', 'Contraction', 'Mirror', 'Ode to Joy', 'Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming', 'Sea of Dreams', 'Cloud of Poems' and 'The Thinker'.