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""Almost everybody can resonate with feelings of isolation. I don't like when everything gets related to the pandemic, but I do think it increased people's feelings of loneliness as we were all very disconnected for a while, and I think some people are still feelings the impacts of that. That's...

A sportscaster and a kindergarten teacher vie for the last copy of a bestselling dessert cookbook. To prove how badly they want it, each tries to outdo the other with meme-like, dessert-inspired lines.

Dans ce premier volume des Fleurs animées, Grandville convie à un jardin où l’esprit du XIXe siècle fleurit. Sous la plume malicieuse d’Alphonse Karr, Taxile Delord et du comte Fœlix, les fleurs, quittant l’herbier des savants et la vitrine des amateurs, se font personnages, allégories et confidences. Fantaisie, satire légère et poésie s’y entremêlent pour célébrer la nature, épingler les travers du monde et réveiller une tendresse simple pour ce qui pousse et parfume.

It was the eye. The dull, sightless, vulture's eye that shredded his final nerve. But the murder was done so carefully, so perfectly, that only one thing could reveal the whereabouts of the body. B. J. Harrison gives a masterful reading of the famous murder that wouldn't keep quiet. This audiobook was the #3 best-selling audiobook in 2008 at the iTunes Music Store!

In Ghostly Japan collects 12 ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation. While some of these stories contain nightmare imagery worthy of a midnight creature feature, others are not ghostly or ghastly at all. "Bits of Poetry" offers an engaging study on verse, and "Japanese Buddhist Proverbs" explains the meaning of several aphorisms based on Japanese cultural references.

There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.

It’s going to be so much fun! All of the kids in the neighborhood are playing a super fun game - Invasion!

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.

Read by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war...

In his Locus review of Two Worlds and in Between - the first volume of The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan - Gary K. Wolfe wrote, “...it makes you wish the second volume were here now.” Well, the long wait is over. This second volume completes this ambitious undertaking, collecting the finest of Kiernan’s stories from 2004 to 2012, selected by the author herself. The book includes 25 short stories and one poem, plus the short novel Black Helicopters - more than 200,000 words of fiction, including the World Fantasy Award-winning “The Prayer of 90 Cats”.

Escape nighttime anxiety with soothing adult bedtime stories designed to quiet an overactive mind and trigger deep sleep. When racing thoughts and work stress keep you awake, these tranquil narratives offer a safe sanctuary to unwind. Drift away from the day's lingering tension and enter a state...

Wodehouse introduces us once again to the "wonder butler" Jeeves, who, as usual is able to solve any and all of Bertie Wooster's endless problems with ease and finesse. And he also introduces us to a character not dissimilar to Bertie . . . by name of Reggie. Such fun to follow Jeeves in the hijinks!

A collection of short stories by Vinayak Sharma.

A 300-year-old tree has plenty to do: repairing the damage to her bark from people who have carved their initials, drinking from her roots, and, lately, tolerating two lonely bookworms who visit separately. Playing matchmaker might solve everyone’s problems. Rebecca Sky is an award-winning writer best known for the Love Curse series with more than 20 million reads online; most recently her work can be found in the Every Body Shines body-positivity anthology with Bloomsbury.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fourth Man by Lee Child, read by Jeff Harding. THE JACK REACHER STAND-ALONE SHORT STORY THAT SEES REACHER GOING DOWN UNDER FOR THE FIRST TIME - BUT POSSIBLY NOT THE LAST. It's a short read, but perfect for a coffee break. Jack Reacher...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people...

ದಿನ ನಿತ್ಯ ಕಾಡುವ ಸಂಗತಿಗಳು ನೈತಿಕ-ಅನೈತಿಕದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ, ತಪ್ಪು-ಸರಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ, ಸ್ವಭಾವಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬರೆದೆ. ಓದುಗರ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇರದಂತೆ ಬರೆಯಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದೆ. "ನೀವು ಬರೆದದ್ದು ಸರಿ. ನಮಗೂ ಇದೆಲ್ಲ ತೋಚುತ್ತಾ ಇರುತ್ತೆ. ಆದರೆ ಬರೆಯೋಕೆ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗಲ್ಲ.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Taheen Modak, best known for The Bay and Two Weeks to Live. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcom Lyons. On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I...

This story coincides with April 30, or May Day's Eve, when it was held that witches met on the Brocken mountain and kept communion with the devil. It is named after St. Walburga, an English nun who helped convert Germans to Christianity in the eighth century. Her feast day coincides with an ancient pagan festival whose rites were intended to give protection against witchcraft. Stoker originally wrote this story to be included in his novel Dracula, but the editor struck it from the original work.

For over 50 years, Mark Tully has been one of the most celebrated observers of Indian politics and society. In this collection, he returns to the territory of his acclaimed and best-selling work of fiction, The Heart of India, to bring us stories from the end of an era - a time that preceded the economic liberalization of 1991, when India was at a crossroads; and a time that may not be as firmly in the past as we imagine.