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Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds....

The brilliant new collection of short stories from Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes. The stories in Julian Barnes’ long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings.

From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life–as it is and never will be again–when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend.

Born to a noble Breed lineage steeped in exotic ritual and familial duty, vampire warrior Jehan walked away from the luxurious trappings of his upbringing in Morocco to join the Order's command center in Rome. But when a generations-old obligation calls Jehan home, the reluctant desert prince finds himself thrust into an unwanted handfasting with Seraphina, an unwilling beauty who's as determined as he is to resist the antiquated pact between their families.

There is something of both the absolutely spectacular and positively disgraceful about Tehran. But most writers around the world are inclined to think that their own sprawling metropolis is the capital of every imaginable vice and crime, of impossible love and tenderness and cruelty and malice in measures that seldom exist anywhere else. For me, Tehran's case is no different - except that there really is a difference here. The city may be a hothouse of decadence, a den of inequity, all that. But it still exists under the watchful eye of a very unique entity, the Islamic Republic.

You meet Malini, the young woman who has it all! She is the hard-partying rich woman who enjoys the luxuries that her high finances afford her. With her overwhelming beauty in a life of leisure, she delves into each opportunity to fulfil herself. She plans big private parties that promise to be extra wild, where a very select audience is invited. Then one day, Shanaya gets the invitation to this party. An invitation that could spice up her experiences and turn things around for her or be too much for her to handle. Will Shanaya join the mysterious party?

Uma coleção de crônicas sobre a maternidade, sobre a tarefa infinita de ser mãe, que começa muito antes do parto, sobre a expectativa e os preparativos para a chegada da criança, sobre a vida com os filhos. Divertidos, espirituosos, experimentais, os textos falam do parto, dos bebês, de alergias, raivas, choros estridentes, noites em claro e outros dilemas e desafios. Como aponta o título do audiolivro, ser mãe é para sempre. Mãeternidade traz uma série de 60 textos sobre dilemas, ansiedades, descobertas, inseguranças, idas e vindas, perrengues e aprendizados infinitos.

A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Is the perfect murder ever possible? Find out in this collection of stories where plenty of mysterious and strange crimes occur. Featuring some of the best writers of this genre, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins to Edgar Allen Poe and Ruskin Bond, these stories will keep the listener hooked as they try to guess the motives, alibis and identity of the murderer. Baffling and exciting, this book is for those who enjoy pitting brains against some of the most accomplished writers of mystery stories.

Uniquely disturbing and deeply erotic, this collection confirms Sarah Hall as one of the greatest writers of her generation. From the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to the speed and heat of summer London, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish wilderness, Sarah Hall evokes landscapes with extraordinary precision and grace.

The only thing Benji lacks more than ambition is luck. And his new job has to be the lowest of the low. But something is stirring in the zero-footprint economy of New St. Louis. And Benji’s about to find himself chin deep in the muck! This story was originally published in the Hugo Award-nominated METAtropolis.

Higgens has the best job in the galaxy. Except for the fact that he’s technically a janitor on a galactic mining vessel. When he discovers an unknown alien species, his world gets turned upside down. He will have to find unlikely allies if he is going to save his new friend and help her build a new home. The Mimic and the Space Engineer boxed set contains the first three books in the Space Shifter Chronicles. If you like fast-paced space adventures with engaging, and quirky, characters, you will love Higgens, Mimic, and their adventures in space.

How bad do you want to be bound, gagged, spanked, or slapped? How bad to you want to have your hair pulled, your nipples clamped, your body strung up? How bad do you want to pant, gasp, scream, and squirm? How bad do you want to turn over some part of yourself to a man just dying to strip you bare and take you somewhere you've never been? Here you'll find all sorts of women for whom their own personal "Sir"s (or Masters or Daddies) hold the reins to their erotic pleasure. For them, saying yes (or a bratty, defiant "no" for which they'll be duly punished) is as powerful as a good, hard smack on the ass.

The Cottage on the Hill is a horror story, but it’s a J. Robert Lennon horror story, in which the characters’ loneliness - their disconnectedness, their inability, at times, even to speak or listen to one another - is more chilling than any of the supernatural elements.

Un hombre muere de forma misteriosa; la persona que lo ve agonizar, adquiere, al momento, un nuevo virus sumamente agresivo que ataca su sistema nervioso y le provoca dolores inconcebibles. El enfermo, desesperado y con el anhelo de encontrar una cura, trata de descifrar quien era aquel hombre y qué terribles secretos guardaba. Esta es una historia breve, intensa, ágil, se oye con rapidez; a cualquiera nos puede ocurrir, está basada en hechos reales, con un tema central: el sufrimiento humano y cómo enfrentarlo.

Sarah Carpenter lives in an isolated farmhouse in North Yorkshire, and for the first time after the death of her husband some years ago and her children, Louis and Kitty, leaving for university, she's living alone. But she doesn't consider herself lonely. She has two dogs, a wide network of friends and the support of her best friend, Sophie. When an old acquaintance, Aiden Beck, needs somewhere to stay for a while, Sarah's cottage seems ideal, and renewing her relationship with Aiden gives her a reason to smile again.

I was poised to become partner at my law firm even before I became secretly engaged to my boss. After being humiliated by him on my wedding day, I can’t face working for him any longer. So I quit, waving my middle finger on my way out. Now the only things I’m poised for are unemployment and loneliness. When an opportunity with Cole Security arises, it seems like the perfect way to run, all the way to Virginia Beach. I wasn’t expecting my childhood sweetheart to be there.

A month ago, I risked everything. One hot night in the Louisiana bayou. Two werewolf Alphas in my bed and in my heart. It should have been the start of our happily ever after, but instead things are more complicated than ever.

Donne che appaiono all'improvviso e all'improvviso scompaiono. Uomini alla ricerca di qualcosa che ignorano e che li spinge oltre i confini del prevedibile. Situazioni consuete che d'un tratto virano nei territori dell'inquietudine. Interviste impossibili. Storie d'amore che nascono nei luoghi più inattesi, in bilico fra sogno e realtà. "Un sorriso lieve le si dipinse sulle labbra a quel ricordo. Sembrava parlasse di una storia d'amore, di un primo bacio, non dell'inseguimento di uno scippatore". Non esiste saggezza è un affresco commovente fatto di domande profonde e illuminazioni repentine.

In three beautifully crafted, dramatic acts, James's little-known novel unravels the painfully complicated emotional bonds which exist within a group of friends and lovers connected by two neighboring homes as they fight publicly for preferment, reciprocation, and successful marriage....