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On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors—including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin! If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New...

Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. In the Depression era, Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers' "Most Spectacular Show on Earth". There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world: Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus' animal trainer); and Rosie, the seemingly untrainable elephant Jacob cares for.

This audio program takes listeners on a worldwide journey to show how great achievers use creativity, innovation, and technology to start businesses that thrive in a hypercompetitive world. Some of the greatest innovators of our time, like Srikumar Rao, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Sonja Lubomirsky, Robin Sharma, and Dr. Shabbir Amanullah, discuss emotional intelligence and personal mastery.

Selection of finest wild animal stories for...

रत्नाकर मतकरी लिखित रहस्याने वेढलेली मराठी कादंबरी 'चूक भूल द्यावी घ्यावी...

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.

Selection of finest stories from Ramayan for...

ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಅವರು ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ-ಪೌರಾಣಿಕ ಕತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಆಧರಿಸಿ ನಾಟಕ ಬರೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ ಎಂಬ ಆರೋಪ ಸರ್ವೇಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ. ಕಾರ್ನಾಡರ...

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a night watchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's...

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined...

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book Award Forty-two...

स्त्री आणि पुरूष या दोघांचीही सध्याच्या समाजव्यवस्थेत निर्माण होणारी कुचंबणा दाखवणे हा कमला या नाटकाचा होतू...

ಬ್ರಿಟಿಷರಿಗೆ ಸಿಂಹಸ್ವಪ್ನವಾಗಿದ್ದ ಟಿಪೂ ಕನಸುಗಾರ ದೊರೆ. ಅವನು ತಾನು ಕಂಡ ಕನಸುಗಳನ್ನು ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ ರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ...

Martin Dean spent his entire life analyzing absolutely everything - from the benefits of suicide to the virtues of strip clubs - and passing on his self-taught knowledge to his son, Jasper. But now that his father's dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the man who raised him in intellectual captivity, and the irony is this: theirs was a great adventure. From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent.

ಮಂಟೇಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಕಥಾ ಪ್ರಸಂಗ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಮೌಖಿಕ ಮಹಾಕಾವ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದಾಗಿದೆ. ಮಂಟೇಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಹದಿನೈದನೆಯ ಶತಮಾನದಲ್ಲಿ...

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times bestselling book biography series about heroes. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live...

The exceptional talents behind some of the nation’s best-loved books - from The Gruffalo to The BFG, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to the Charlie and Lola series - the Children’s Laureates are the perfect ambassadors for children’s literature. It’s been 20 wonderful years of the Laureateship and now all 10 former honourees have banded together to celebrate the only way they know how: through stories and poems.