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A seriously entertaining collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your face written especially by 10 best-selling novelists. From a hilarious race against time to a moment of unexpected eavesdropping, from righting wrongs in rural India to finding joy in unlikely places, these stories are all rich in wit and humour, guaranteed to lift your spirits and warm your heart.

Nesta nova coletânea, Stephen King conduz o leitor por doze histórias inesquecíveis, cinco delas nunca antes publicadas—incluindo "Cascavéis", a sequência inédita do aclamado romance Cujo.

A Storytel tem o orgulho de publicar exclusivamente em áudio a primeira temporada de A vida como ela é, do célebre autor Nelson Rodrigues. Inicialmente publicada como uma coluna diária no Jornal Última Hora, os contos de A vida como ela é se tornaram parte do imaginário suburbano, usando a ficção como espelho de um cenário doméstico do Rio de Janeiro e seus personagens crus, completamente emocionais e, sobretudo, falhos. A coluna tornou Nelson Rodrigues um marco da crônica brasileira e sustentou uma grande audiência, tornando as histórias parte do imaginário popular carioca.

Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House on Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For Esperanza, Mango Street is a desolate landscape of concrete and run-down tenements where she discovers the hard realities of life - the fetters of class and gender, the spectre of racial enmity and the mysteries of sexuality. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, Esperanza is able to rise above hopelessness and create for herself "a house all of my own quiet as snow, a space for myself to go."

"He travels fastest who travels alone...but not after the frost has dropped below zero 50 degrees or more." (Yukon Code) Jack London’s best short story.

The bad news arrives in the form of a paper, which Tig carries up the stairs to Nell who is wallowing in bed. A year from now, they won’t remember the details, but for now, the bad news sits between the aging couple as they prepare their breakfast together, and Nell imagines them in Southern France as the barbarians invade Rome on what is a beautiful day, safe and quiet, for now, from the bad news coming their way.

In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.

Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect.

In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences—the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. With settings ranging from Toronto, northern Quebec, and rural Ontario, the stories begin in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. Then the narrative goes back in time to the forties and moves chronologically forward toward the present.

Com a estreia de Geovani Martins, a literatura brasileira encontra a voz de seu novo realismo. Nos treze contos de O sol na cabeça, deparamos com a infância e a adolescência de moradores de favelas – o prazer dos banhos de mar, das brincadeiras de rua, das paqueras e dos baseados –, moduladas pela violência e pela discriminação racial.

Real English-speaking people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken English in the process.

This collection of short stories follows a woman at different points in her life, from the loneliness of childhood, the ardour and confusion of young adulthood, and the mortality we must all eventually face up to. Moral Disorder is Margaret Atwood at her very finest.

From Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, comes a dazzling collection of fifteen stories. These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords.

A duologia completa em um único volume.

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.

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Today’s fans of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to hear about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.

Ânsia eterna é uma coletânea de contos publicada por Júlia Lopes de Almeida em 1903. Compõe-se de 30 estórias dos mais variados temas, num estilo que vai expondo, com certa crueza, o drama humano. Nos anos de 1930, Ânsia eterna é reeditada por Júlia Lopes, que suprime alguns contos e acrescenta outros. Esse audiolivro baseia-se na primeira coletânea publicada pela autora.

Semilouca é uma exploração profunda das complexidades da emoção humana. Nas páginas deste livro, somos guiados por um turbilhão de experiências que nos levam às fronteiras daquilo que chamamos de "semiloucura". Aqui, o objetivo é compartilhar histórias de vida, algumas baseadas em fatos reais, outras plausíveis, todas repletas de conflitos e potenciais soluções. Este livro, também, lança luz sobre o mundo dos sonhos, mostrando como a interpretação desses enigmas do subconsciente pode revelar situações anteriormente reprimidas e abrir portas para novos caminhos.

Os contos presentes em Coelho maldito, livro finalista do International Booker Prize, transitam entre realismo mágico, folclore, horror, ficção científica e fantasia, partindo de elementos insólitos para narrar histórias assombrosas que tocam em temas profundamente reais. Em uma família cujos negócios consistem em criar objetos de maldição, o avô relembra um episódio envolvendo um amigo de infância e um abajur amaldiçoado em formato de coelho.