Títulos em Antologias e Contos

When Clara’s phone rings, it is only a brief call. A father who is worried. A daughter who cannot be reached. A conversation that should mean nothing – and yet shifts everything. Clara stays after a loss that is not her own. Not because she is asked to. But because an opening appears. In a stranger’s apartment, in a daily life thrown off balance, she begins to take a place that is not empty – but missing.

Este libro narra la historia de Lily, una mujer que creció pensando que la felicidad llegaría al encontrar a la persona "ideal". Durante mucho tiempo creyó que su bienestar dependía de tener una pareja, construir una vida juntos y cumplir con las expectativas sociales. Sin embargo, tras varias desilusiones, promesas rotas y momentos de dudas, descubrió algo que transformó su visión: la felicidad no siempre se parece a lo que nos enseñaron. A veces, está en la paz de estar sola, en alejarse de lo que lastima y en reconectar con uno mismo. Esta es una historia de transformación.

One town. Four volumes. Endless nightmares. The complete Haunted Hollow collection—creepy small-town horror at its most chilling. Old houses unsettled by strange noises, nursing homes where old people terrify those who care for them, quests for Sasquatch that take horrifying turns. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your next night in Haunted Hollow?

Réunies sous le titre Les Crimes de l’amour, ces nouvelles héroïques et tragiques sondent jusqu’au vertige les ténèbres du cœur humain. Dans l’enchaînement implacable des passions, la vertu chancelle et l’amour se mue en faute, puis en crime. Ironie cruelle, fatalité et lucidité morale se croisent dans des récits d’une rigueur classique, où la société se reflète dans ses ombres.

La memoria de Shakespeare es el último libro de relatos de Borges, y sin duda una de sus obras más acabadas y exquisitas.

An unsuspecting couple is treated to a luxury vacation by their deceased neighbor. After begrudgingly agreeing to volunteer at a nursing home, a middle school girl gambles over games of bridge with elderly residents. A single mother struggles to understand the unique bond between her autistic son and his dying grandmother. Four friends experience decades of highs and lows as pawns in The Game of Life. A professional gynecology patient runs into a high school flame while at work, undressed, on the job.

Zwölf unwiderstehliche Liebesromane. Zwölf Milliardäre mit dunklen Geheimnissen. Und Frauen, die niemals geplant hatten, ihr Herz zu riskieren. Was als Geschäft beginnt – eine Scheinehe, ein bezahltes Date, ein Sommerdeal, ein unmoralisches Angebot oder eine Nacht ohne Zukunft – wird zu einer emotionalen Achterbahnfahrt voller Leidenschaft, Drama und Entscheidungen, die alles verändern. Denn wenn Milliardäre lieben, lieben sie kompromisslos … und mit Folgen.

This collection of short, business-themed stories is designed to help you improve your professional German through learning in context — one of the most effective approaches to German language learning for the workplace. Whether you need to communicate confidently in German business meetings, write professional emails, or simply hold your own in day-to-day office German, this course gives you the tools to get there.

Recueil de vingt-cinq nouvelles publié en 1917, Le bonheur à cinq sous dévoile, en courts tableaux, une diversité de destins et de situations, du fugace au mémorable. La première nouvelle donne son titre à l’ensemble et ouvre la voie à une suite de récits concis qui surprennent, émeuvent et interrogent. À travers ces histoires, René Boylesve offre une immersion dans un monde fait de détails et de nuances, où chaque épisode capte une vérité, un éclair d’émotion, une inflexion du réel. Une écoute idéale pour picorer ou se laisser porter, nouvelle après nouvelle.

What About the Milk? is a raw and deeply personal collection of short stories exploring abandonment, memory, and the fragile threads that bind people to the past. Each story in this haunting anthology captures a different shade of longing: whether it’s the hope that someone will return, the ache of something left unsaid, or the small, strange miracles that linger after loss. Set in familiar towns and ghosted corners of childhood, the characters are patchworks of memory and silence.

Mit feinem Humor, liebevoller Beobachtungsgabe und einer unverkennbaren regionalen Stimme erzählt Peter Maibach von Begegnungen, die berühren, schmunzeln lassen und manchmal leise nachdenklich stimmen. Die Erzählungen kreisen um Menschen, wie man ihnen in der Stadt, im Quartier oder im eigenen Leben begegnet: eigenwillig, herzlich, manchmal verschroben – immer aber zutiefst menschlich.

Young Dominic DeMarcus finds himself a pivotal character at the prestigious Granyel University, where he is first-year representative on the student council. He becomes enmeshed in such matters as the student revolution-a dramatic attempt by the students to combat their draconian image-and becomes the target of a hostile student president. At the same time, he must thread the thorny field of friends and romantic interests, and the blurry lines in between.

An autobiographical short story about finding one’s place inside a Kyoto geisha house. After meeting a geisha she admires, a young woman enters a world shaped by hierarchy and unspoken rules. Quiet and minimalist, the story unfolds through small, everyday moments. She sits on the tatami floor. She serves her maiko and geiko seniors. She waits before touching her chopsticks, and is repeatedly corrected on something that seems small: greeting. Over time, she begins to understand what greeting asks of her.

Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey’s science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. “Glitch” asks what happens when a battle bot refuses to fight.

A quiet coastal inn waits at the edge of the dunes—its corridors warmed by lamplight, its rooms shaped by sea breeze and memory. In this gentle, atmospheric tale from the Before Your Dream series, a traveller steps into a sanctuary woven from soft textures, amber light, and the distant hush of the tide. Here, time moves slowly, and every object—an open ledger, a vase of daisies, a row of hanging keys—carries the whisper of lives passing quietly through.

Mind the moon when you leave the theater! Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers returns, and Vol. 8 definitely goes Splatterbump in the night! It’s a monstrous mosh of fallen angels, prepubescent prescience, tempestuous incest, intergalactic blues, a Gulliverian massacre, cynophile racists, murderous rodents, a prehistoric Devil Head, the return of Bram Stoker’s forgotten hero, and so much more...

High in the mountains, where dawn arrives as a whispered blessing and silence moves through stone corridors like breath, stands the Ninth Temple — a place shaped by ritual, patience, and the quiet grace of handmade work.

In the final installment of the Raven Astray trilogy, the fragile balance of interstellar power collapses as the Horub Empire consolidates control through propaganda, military force, and the strategic manipulation of emerging technologies. Admiral Jen Walker and her fractured fleet struggle to preserve the possibility of democratic reform while navigating a rapidly hardening authoritarian regime.

These threesome sex stories feature age gap dynamics where younger women get pleasured by older men; where mature women show younger men how it’s done; where husbands and wives invite a third party to join them in cuckold and cuckquean dynamics; where younger friends join more experienced men and women to be shown a thing or two.

These threesome sex stories feature age gap dynamics where younger women get pleasured by older men; where mature women show younger men how it’s done; where husbands and wives invite a third party to join them in cuckold and cuckquean dynamics; where younger friends join more experienced men and women to be shown a thing or two.