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Brought to you by Penguin. A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley...

""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...

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift...

ഇന്നത്തെ ചുറ്റുപാടിലും സാംഗത്യം നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടിട്ടില്ലാത്ത രാഷ്ട്രീയ ഹാസ്യമായ വിഡ്ഡികളുടെ സ്വർഗ്ഗം എന്ന...

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.

अव्यक्त - एक दडलेल्या आठवणींचा खजिना . कैलास परिक्रमा करतांना या खजिन्याचा कप्पा उघडतो आणि मग एक तरल प्रवास सुरु होतो. या प्रवासाचा शेवट काय असेल ? ऐका अव्यक्त .

कहानी पढ़ते हुए कई बार ऐसे विलक्षण पल आते हैं जब पाठक कोई पंक्ति पढ़कर सिर उठाने को मजबूर हो जाता है। यह वह पल होता है जब पाठक और लेखक में कोई भेद नहीं रह जाता है क्योंकि दोनों ने वही जिया होता है जो लिखा गया था। आशा है ऐसे कुछ क्षण पढ़ते हुए आपको भी प्राप्त हों और आप उत्तेजित हो कह उठें 'यू ब्लडी शिट राइटर'।

Scaling Mount UPSC portrays inspiring stories of IAS officers who conquered the world’s most challenging competitive exam through their dogged pursuit, despite multiple odds against them. From a blind girl in Sikkim and a government clerk from Kerala to a boy from a remote Kashmiri village and...

इस किताब में शामिल कहानियाँ पात्रों की अलग-अलग मनोदशा का चित्रण करती हैं। एक सरकारी कर्मचारी की बेबसी को ‘टारगेट’ में देखा जा सकता है। मासूम लड़कियों से हो रही हैवानियत ने विचलित किया तो निम्मो का किरदार पैदा हुआ जो ‘बॉडी पार्ट्स’ में नादानी से भावुकता और फिर डर से निकलकर आक्रोश और आखिर में दिलजमा (कोल्ड ब्लडेड) बनने का सफर तय करती है।

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.

Part-1 of the book contains real-life stories of patients and their relatives. Part-2 contains proses and essays on love, life, and...

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot...

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 this tale inspired by Cinderella (and for fans of The Last Airbender), Ellie is a firemage in a kingdom of water and windmages. Her worried stepmother warns her against showing off her powers, but when everyone at the king’s ball is in danger from a dragon, Ellie can no longer keep them secret. She works together with another firemage to save the entire kingdom.

These glimpses "on tour" of the behind-the-curtain lives of members of the theatrical community are told with a deft hand. Selections include: "The Halt", "A Bad Morning", "The Circus House", "The Workroom", "Matinee", "The Starveling", "Love", "The Hard Worker", "After Midnight", "Lola", "Moments of Stress", "Journey's End", "The Accompanist", "The Cashier", "Nostalgia", "Clever Dogs", "La Fenice" and "The Master".

In this short, funny, sci-fi tale, every human being on Earth suddenly receives a specific superpower. Everyone, that is, except Dale. But instead of moping around, Dale fools a world of superheroes into believing he was blessed with the power of making a perfect cappuccino. His business takes off beyond his wildest dreams—at least, until he meets Brenda, his personal supervillain, the only person on the planet with a perfect superpalate.

Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story "The Forest" and Shirley Jackson Award nominee "The Lagerstatte."

“One of Coelho’s strongest.”—Kirkus Reviews “The book casts a curiously sweet spell.”—Entertainment Weekly From the author of beloved international bestseller The Alchemist, a daring novel that explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices...

An enchanting collection of stories from the heartland of India Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity. Residents of nondescript villages...