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Brought to you by Penguin. Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive...

Tara Selter's world is expanding. 'A literary phenomenon nearly 40 years in the making.' The Cut 'A classic in the making.' Chetna Maroo 'Startling.' New Yorker 'Absolutely wonderful.' Lauren...

Small Bones in a Fist is composed of stories drawn from Blindboy's first two published books: The Gospel According to Blindboy and Boulevard Wren and Other Stories. Curated, narrated and scored by the author, Small Bones in a Fist is a surreal, provocative and darkly funny introduction to one of the most original voices in Irish literature.

Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature. Part I sets out Faust’s despair, his pact with Mephistopheles, and his love for Gretchen. Part II deals with Faust’s life at court, the wooing and winning of Helen of Troy, and his purification and redemption.

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring.... But something must be stirring. Something hidden in the shadows. Something which kills the servants of an old Edwardian mansion in the most brutal and macabre manner possible. Exactly on the chiming of the hour, every hour, as the grandfather clock ticks on towards midnight. Trapped and afraid, the Doctor and Charley are forced to play detective to murders with no motive, where even the victims don't stay dead.

This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me. Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his...

Longfellow's great narrative poem has been unjustly neglected in recent years though it gives a sympathetic portrait especially of Hiawatha, reared by Nokomis, daughter of the Moon, and his bride Minehaha.

Meet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life’s boxes. She’s married to a successful surgeon and has just taken an indefinite career break to raise her adorable toddler. A picture-perfect life. Meet Winnie: Ava’s old college roommate. Once awkward, quiet and apparently academically challenged, she left Stanford in a shroud of scandal. But now, she is charismatic, wealthy and has returned to town dripping in designer accessories. An actual perfect life. When the two women bump into one another at a local coffee shop, it seems like fate has intervened.

Peter Tinniswood was best known for his popular TV series The Home Front and I Didn't Know You Cared and award-winning novel A Touch of Daniel. But he was also a prolific writer for radio, where he created a host of wonderful characters - often funny, sometimes poignant and always totally believable. This compilation brings together six of his finest monologues, as well as his comic play The Governor's Consort.

An Irish Country Family is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved internationally bestselling Irish Country series. Before Doctor Barry Laverty joined Doctor Fingal O’Reilly's practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was an intern, working long hours, practicing new...

A brand new, unabridged recording of Baroness Orczy's classic tale of adventure, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine. Trapped in the capital, they have no way of escape. But rumours abound of a...

Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervor and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne’s ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare.

Two happy couples. One dead body. A whole load of secrets. Married life wasn't meant to start like this. On honeymoon in Bali, you hit it off with another newlywed couple and celebrate your last night at a fancy cliff-side restaurant. No one predicted the evening would end with a dead body. But...

Brought to you Penguin. 'Maudie, why are all the best characters men?' Maudie closes the book with a clllump. 'We haven't read all the books yet, Miss Cristabel. I can't believe that every story is the same' Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the story of a Native American community told through the generations, from the author of the New York Times bestseller There There Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of...

Надежда Тэффи — несравненная королева русского юмора, чьими рассказами зачитывалась вся Россия начала XX века. В этом сборнике — самые смешные и остроумные её...

Надежда Тэффи — королева русской иронической прозы, любимица читателей начала XX века. В этой аудиокниге — её ранние рассказы: тонкие, остроумные и пронзительно...

Contos Sombrios para Noites Frias – Volume 1: A Última Noite no LabirintoToda cidade tem histórias que prefere esquecer. Em Hallows Creek, existe uma tradição que acontece apenas uma vez por ano. Na noite de Halloween, depois que a famosa casa assombrada fecha suas portas, os funcionários permanecem para uma última celebração: uma partida de esconde-esconde que atravessa corredores escuros, salas abandonadas e um enorme labirinto de milho perdido na escuridão. Para Luiza, Rihan, Thata, Giulia, Luke, Thygo e os demais, deveria ser apenas mais uma noite divertida antes do fim da temporada.

Entdecken Sie eine neue Dimension der Entspannung mit „Meer Seelenreisen – Entspannungsgeschichten zum Träumen“ von Marion Neunzig. Die Fortsetzung des beliebten Buches „Seelenreisen – Entspannung und Resilienz mit Fantasiereisen“ nimmt Sie mit auf tiefgehende Fantasiereisen, die innere Ruhe und Resilienz fördern. Lassen Sie sich von Marion Neunzig auf traumhafte Reisen entführen, die Sie an exotische Orte bringen – von den eisigen Gewässern des Nordkaps bis zu den warmen Stränden des Indischen Ozeans.

A new haunted house novella by the new master of horror, Stephen Graham Jones, in which a mysterious girl in lavender footie pajamas will do anything to keep her house from being sold. Mr. Morning Gun, the hapless narrator of this first-person novella, is a disgraced history teacher who is now...