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News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage...

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.

The Perry family's new house is perfect - except for the weird behavior of the neighbors, and that odd smell coming from a dark corner in the basement. Pity no one warned the family about the house. Now it's too late. Because the darkness at the bottom of the basement stairs is rising.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young. P. G. Wodehouse leads the listener out on to another round of golf stories that always avoid the rough.

Algoze Ki Dhun Par is a collection of 10 stories written by Divya Vijay. The stories revolve around strong female characters who remain resilient in the face of adversity. Despite their struggles, they live by their own rules. These powerful and well-written stories are bound to stay with the listeners for a long time. This is Divya Vijay's first story collection and it received the best manuscript award at Lit-O-Fest 2017.

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.

Disgraced Union soldier Scott Orson has been released from Leavenworth and is now heading for Creechmore Cemetery to find a hidden treasure. The only clue is that it's under a grave marked sunrise, but beyond that, he doesn't know much. When he arrives, he finds more than just cash waiting for...

From the Bram Stoker Award–winning author, two heroes face a zombie army and more terrors in this fantasy adventure set in the world of H. P. Lovecraft.Once David Hero was an ordinary man living in the real world. Now he is trapped in the Dreamlands, cut off from the waking world. David Hero's...

El día en que el lugar de Bella aparece vacío en el salón, un estudiante comprende que algo terrible ha ocurrido. Durante mucho tiempo, ella había vivido atrapada entre el abuso, el abandono, las autolesiones y un silencio que nadie parecía dispuesto a escuchar. Él intentó protegerla...

Nadia wakes at 3:17 A.M. to dozens of cars surrounding her house.Then they disappear.Soon, strange messages, impossible keys, and disturbing dreams begin blurring the line between nightmare and memory.A black sedan.A missing past.A little boy calling her “Mom.”And one question she can’t...

Christmas Magic Lives in every home on Pemberley lands. A sleigh ride from Pemberley to Thornhill on Christmas Eve goes dangerously off track. Deep drifts, swirling winds, and freezing temperatures threaten to turn a brisk five-mile trip to the warmth of the Bingley sitting room into a struggle...

A memory for a young woman that dissapeared in Uganda in 2015...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jack Brennan is the welterweight champion of the world and he is finished. He is thirty-three, he cannot sleep, he misses his wife and his girls, and he knows that the young challenger Jimmy Walcott will take the title from him. Everyone around him...

His Brother’s Keeper by W. C. Tuttle is a gripping Western short story of law, loyalty, family, and frontier justice. Sheriff “Duty” Deming has devoted his life to enforcing the law without mercy, even when it costs him those closest to him. But when illness and fate leave him stranded in...

भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप के बंटवारे का सबसे मार्मिक कथाकार। मंटो की कहानियां इंसानियत के पतन का एक विचलित करने वाला...

BODIES OF WATER collects fourteen stories from a writer who has spent a lifetime paying attention. A woman chases her ex-lover’s car through the dark streets of Vancouver. A blind carpenter receives a cupcake from a stranger who wipes his fingers one by one. A widow negotiates with an Amish...

„Der Sterbetag" ist eine Erzählung von Rainer Maria Rilke aus dem Jahr 1896/97: Tante Babette tat noch einen tiefen Atemzug. Die Morgensonne lugte wie ein übermütiges Enkelkind durch die schimmerweißen Tüllvorhänge, nahm den längsten Strahl und fuhr damit wie mit goldener Feder erst über die weiße Nachthaube, dann über die feuchte Stirn der alten Frau und zitterte und zuckte dann ohne Rast um Augen, Mund und Nase, bis die Tante obigen tiefen Atemzug tat und mit scheuen roten Augen ins Fenster staunt. Ah! Sie reckte sich zu einem wohligen Gähnen.

Man saß beim Tee bei Frau von S. Auf dem blendend weißen Tischtuch stand der mächtige russische ›Samowar‹ und begleitete mit melodischem Summen die Gespräche. Die Ereignisse des Tages waren nach allen Seiten gewendet und gedreht worden, die Kunstausstellungen und Theater boten keinen allzu reichen Stoff im Frühherbst.

„Und doch in den Tod" ist eine Erzählung von Rainer Maria Rilke aus dem Jahr 1896: Ein Augustmorgen ging goldsohlig an mir vorbei in den Wald. - Ich lag da im krausen, glitzernden Moose und schaute ihm nach. Ich sah, wie er lichtgrüne Reflexe auf den silberweißen Kies schleuderte, als streute er Malachitkristalle um sich her.

Seasoned Tales is a collection of seven short stories for every mood, for every season, for every genre from fantasy to romance to ghost story to something quietly, unexpectedly moving, and one for every kind of reader you have ever been. In spring, young Margaret learns about fun from a...