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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners...

This is Volume 2 of Dharma Audiobooks’ ground-breaking overview of Principal Texts of the Khuddaka Nikaya, the fifth section of the Sutta Pitaka in the Theravada Pali Canon. Far less known than the first four (Digha Nikaya, Majjhima Nikaya, Sa?yutta Nikaya, A?guttara Nikaya) perhaps because of...

The beautiful Sheherazade, threatened with death, manages to postpone the fatal day by telling one marvellous story every night. The stories themselves are folk tales, fairy tales and poems collected over many centuries, from ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Egyptian folklore and literature. This makes The Arabian Nights a priceless treasure, as it takes us to the very roots of our culture in a delightful and passionate way...

Finalist for an Audie Award in Memoir One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles—and that we can, against all odds, get...

The brutally brilliant prequel to Diary of an Oxygen Thief. Shame is an acquired taste. Nobody knows this better than the young anonymous narrator subjected to repeated instances of sexual abuse, parental beatings and gleefully administered psychological cruelty. After some formative missteps in...

The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades. Hitmen commit heinous crimes virtually every day of the week and, in most instances, we don't even realise. I've been a killer for hire for more than twenty years now, but life as a fulltime professional...

What is this tiny audiobook? Who is this Koons Crooks? With its privately-printed, anonymously-produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world. From Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people were puzzled and enthralled by the story of Koons Crooks, a...

“In the fairy tales about father–daughter incest—‘The Girl Without Hands,’ ‘Thousand Furs,’ the original ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Donkey Skin,’ and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors—the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by...

An ancient king's friendship, loss, and search for immortality unfold across the twelve tablets of one of the world's earliest surviving epics. This unabridged listener edition is based on the 1928 English translation by R. Campbell Thompson and excludes scholarly notes and apparatus...

The New Testament Apocrypha Collection brings together four important early Christian and apocryphal texts. These works are not part of the New Testament canon, but they played an important role in Christian history, devotion, legend, controversy, and the study of early religious literature.

The Shepherd of Hermas is one of the most important early Christian writings outside the New Testament. Written in the form of visions, commandments, and parables, it follows Hermas as he receives instruction from heavenly figures concerning repentance, purity, discipline, faith, and the Church.

Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach) represents the largest literary text surviving from 12th-century Ireland, the most comprehensive early collection of Fenian stories and poetry. Three parallel worlds interact: the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes, clerics, occasional angels, and souls rescued from Hell; the earlier pagan world of the ancient, giant Fenians and an array of Irish kings; and the timeless Otherworld, peopled by ever-young shape-shifting fairies.

Sadece bir din âlimi ya da mütercim değil, felsefe konuları ile de yakından ilgilenen ve felsefi çeviriler de yapan bir düşünür; Elmalılı Muhammed Hamdi Yazır... Bugün de ‘en güvenilir Türkçe meal’ kabul edilen çalışma için TBMM tarafından Diyanet İşleri Reisliği görevlendirildi ve halk arasında itibar görecek bir tercümenin hazırlanması kararlaştırıldı. Atatürk’ün de yakından takip ettiği çalışmaya 1926'da başlayan Elmalılı, ‘Hak Dini Kur'an Dili’ adını verdiği eserini 1938'de tamamladı.

Обладатель самой крупной и дорогой коллекции китайского фарфора в России лишается значительной ее части - часть экспонатов крадут прямо у него из дома. Старший следователь Следственного комитета Орест Волин берется за расследование этого преступления. Он выясняет, что все украденные вещи объединяет не старина или ценность, а небольшой размер. Единственное исключение — фарфоровый китайский болванчик, изображающий будду Милэ. Он является не только самым крупным из украденных предметов, но и самым ординарным, дешевым.

Наши дни. У крупного предпринимателя Анисима Московкина сгорает квартира. Пострадавший считает, что квартиру подожгли из хулиганских побуждений: из нее ничего не пропало, но в нее подбросили сделанный из фарфора кукиш. Следователь Орест Волин, которому поручили это дело, рассказывает о случившемся своему покровителю —генералу КГБ в отставке Воронцову. Он предлагает Волину прочитать следующую порцию расшифрованных дневников Нестора Загорского, в которых также фигурирует дом на Сретенском бульваре, где сейчас живет Московкин. Возможно это каким-то образом сможет помочь в расследовании.

One day a poor fisherman finds a large and heavy chest. Caliph Harun al-Rashid buys the chest, thinking that it encloses a treasure. Instead, he finds out that it contains a woman’s corpse sliced into pieces. Following this discovery, the caliph orders his vizier Ja’far, to find the murderer within three years, otherwise he will be executed. Unfortunately, due to the lack of evidence, the vizier is not able to make a proper investigation and the fatal day looms closer.

Ali Baba and Cassim are two Persian brothers. Ali Baba barely manages to put food on the table for his family, while his brother lives an easy life thanks to his rich wife. One day, while chopping wood in the forest, Ali Baba sees a band of thieves laden with treasures approaching. They stop in front of a rock and the captain shouts "Open Sesame!". What happens next is pure magic. The giant rock moves to the sides and opens a portal which the thieves enter.

Aladdin is a boy, who lives in poverty with his mother. One day, while he is playing outside, an African magician approaches him and claims that he is Aladdin’s uncle. The mysterious man tricks the boy to work for him by promising him wealthy rewards. Aladdin agrees after having gotten his mother's permission. The African man instructs the boy to enter a dark cave and fetch him an oil lamp and Aladdin jumps into the cave to finds it. However, the boy refuses to pass it to the magician before he is helped out of the cave and back into daylight.

After their father’s death, the two brothers, Nur al-Din and Shams al-Din, agree to marry two sisters on the same day. The main idea is that Nur wants to have a son, while Shams wants to have a daughter. And so it happens. Shams al-Din has a daughter and Nur al-Din has a son - Badr al-Din. Right before he dies, Nur tells his young boy about his uncle Shams, who is still in Cairo. After the death of his father, Badr al-Din loses the approval of the sultan and must flee away.

A unique and unbelievable first-hand account of how one man fought his way to the top of the criminal underworld... and what he needed to do to stay there. As you read this, someone somewhere is buying drugs. Across the globe, millions of people are involved in the brutal, cold-blooded world of...