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Christmas at Pebble Creek

This free short story e-romance is an exclusive bonus from The Pebble Creek Amish Series by Vannetta Chapman. Fans of the series will enjoy this chance to briefly revisit Pebble Creek, and new readers will be introduced to an Amish community that is more deeply explored in the three full novels, A Promise for Miriam, A Home for Lydia, and A Wedding for Julia. As a bonus, this free eBook also includes Amish homestyle recipes for chicken and dumplings, green beans, and fresh bread. Heavy snow blankets the southwestern Wisconsin Amish community as nineteen-year-old Grace Miller closes the schoolhouse for Christmas break. She's looking forward to having extra time to help the family prepare for the holiday, and she is hoping to get a few more drawings in of the beautiful, snowy Pebble Creek landscape. Her courtship with Adam Lapp is going on six months, and Grace can't wait to give him his present: a blue-and-brown buggy blanket she crocheted for him. Yes, this Christmas is going to be especially joyful.Yet, amid the cheer of snowshoe outings, church potlucks, and holiday festivities, Grace is given a bittersweet reminder of the Christmas story. Grief is present with celebration, and though the future is rarely certain, she is given a heartwarming glimpse that God knows our needs before we do and will provide.

Cuentos completos

Este volumen reúne cuentos de Primo Levi: Historias naturales (1966), Defecto de forma (1971), El sistema periódico (1971), Lilit y otros relatos (1975), Última Navidad de guerra (2000) y Cuentos dispersos, publicados póstumamente e inéditos en España hasta 2009. Como afirma Marco Belpoliti en su introducción, Primo Levi no encaja en ninguna categoría preestablecida. Durante mucho tiempo, la crítica ni siquiera lo consideró un verdadero narrador. Las razones de este error son varias. Era considerado el testigo por excelencia y, además, su modo de contar, sus poco comunes novelle, contradecían las taxonomías tradicionales: es un narrador híbrido, impuro, espurio, un verdadero centauro del cuento, mitad narrador realista mitad narrador fantástico. Los críticos más atentos comprendieron inmediatamente que entre los cuentos de Primo Levi, los más propiamente de ciencia ficción, entre sus «bromas» y las páginas dedicadas al Lager existía un estrecho parentesco. El propio Levi lo sabía. Ya en las primeras entrevistas advierte: «No, no son historias de ciencia ficción, si por ciencia ficción se entiende "futurismo", la fantasía futurista barata. Estas historias son más posibles que muchas otras».

Meant-to-Be Family

Meant to be a daddy? When obstetrician Oliver Evans walked away from his wife, Emily, he hoped it would allow her the chance to be a mom—something he just couldn't give her. But now Emily has crashed back into his life, and Oliver knows that this time he can never let her go! Midwife Emily has pieced together her own little family, and Oliver's return changes everything. It's clear that what they once had isn't over, but if Oliver wants her back he'll have to believe that being a dad can finally heal his heart…

Murder Freshly Baked

When delicious baked goods become lethal, a trail of poetry leads to a sweet-toothed killer. The Amish Artisan Village of Middlebury, Indiana, might be the last place you would ever expect to find a murderer. But Amber has been managing the Village for decades and there’s nothing she hasn’t seen. Or so she thought.When poetic notes begin appearing around the bakery, warning that some of the pies have been poisoned, Amber is as confused as she is concerned. Who poisons pies? And more to the point, who leaves poems of warning after they’ve done it? When Amber decides to help the police track down the sweet-toothed saboteur, she enlists Hannah Troyer for another round of Amish-style detective work.Can Amber and Hannah help the police before the Poison Poet strikes? Both women will need to draw on their faith to preserve the peaceful community they’ve built in Middlebury . . . and to protect the girls who work in the Amish Artisan Village. Sweet and cozy Amish mysteryPart of the Amish Village Mystery Series. Book 1: Murder Simply Brewed; Book 2: Murder Tightly Knit; Book 3: Murder Freshly BakedBook length: 85,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs

Punto Final, S. A. (Flash Relatos)

Un relato de zombis de la mano de un maestro del género.En «Punto Final, S. A.», Max Brooks, único heredero de George R. Romero, vuelve a utilizar a los zombis para reflexionar sobre el colapso de la civilización. Esta vez, es una entrevista traspapelada que debía haber aparecido en Guerra Mundial Z, con un terapeuta danés que, tras la plaga, «recupera» psicológicamente a quienes no se atrevieron a matar a familiares infectados.Este relato forma parte de la antología La marcha zombi.

The History of the Caliph Vathek

This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not enough for him. He seeks also forbidden knowledge, and doesn't care who he has to hurt to get it. Aided by his depraved mother Carathis, Vathek proceeds to damn himself, and those around him. Enjoy both book and spoken word audio book in this great value package

Me parlare bello un giorno

David Sedaris è una figura di riferimento fondamentale per la cultura americana contemporanea. Le generazioni più (e meno) giovani si sentono perfettamente rappresentate nelle sue storie. La comicità soave, crudele, disincantata, intelligente e terribile di questo eterno ragazzo offre la più irresistibile chiave di lettura dell'assurdità del mondo di oggi. Leggere e ridere, ridere a crepapelle e tornare a leggere: il personalissimo humour caustico di Sedaris, venato da una sensibilità a tratti addirittura commovente, rende la lettura di questi racconti un'avventura davvero gratificante e - come saggiamente consigliano diversi recensori - assolutamente da non farsi a bocca piena...

The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The stories of Hans Christian Andersen are known all over the world. His fame rests on his fairy tales and stories, written between 1835 and 1872, among the best known of which are “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Snow Queen,” “The Nightingale,” and “The Steadfast Tin Soldier.” Andersen's fairy tales have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fairy-tales"—express themes that transcend age and nationality.

OS MELHORES CONTOS AMERICANOS

Contos compõem um fascinante gênero literário. São obras caracterizadas por um volume menor de texto, com menos personagens e maior concisão, mas que nos agarram pela emoção e nos fazem buscar ansiosamente pelo desfecho. Em Os Melhores Contos Americanos, assim como ocorre nas outras edições da Coleção Melhores Contos, você conhecerá uma parte representativa da vasta obra produzida por contistas internacionais. Este ebook é uma seleção inigualável dos melhores contos escritos por um seletíssimo grupo de geniais escritores americanos. Uma oportunidade única de conhecer, em uma só obra, sete grandes nomes da literatura. São eles: H.P. Lovecraft, F.Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Alan Poe, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne e Henry James.

Living to Tell the Horrid Tales: True Life Stories of Fomer Slaves, Historical Documents & Novels

This unique collection of "LIVING TO TELL THE HORRID TALES: True Life Stories of Fomer Slaves, Testimonies, Novels & Historical Documents" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Thirty Years a Slave Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green The Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes Harriet: The Moses of Her People Father Henson's Story of His Own Life 50 Years in Chains Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave Story of Mattie J. Jackson A Slave Girl's Story From the Darkness Cometh the Light Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy Narrative of Joanna Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley Buried Alive Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain Novels Oroonoko Uncle Tom's Cabin Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Heroic Slave Slavery's Pleasant Homes Our Nig Clotelle Marrow of Tradition Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man A Fool's Errand Bricks Without Straw Imperium in Imperio The Hindered Hand Historical Documents The History of Abolition of African Slave-Trade History of American Abolitionism Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith Who Was Executed for Burglary Report on Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Gettysburg Address XIII Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865) Civil Rights Act of 1866 XIV Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868) Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868)...

7 best short stories by Leonid Andreyev

The literary work of Leonid Andreyev is populated with unfortunate characters who inspire compassion. Andreiev never managed to get rid of the traumatizing experiences of his past, and transmitted in his texts images of tragedy and bitterness through his vanquished characters, with a revolted, impetuous and torturously personal style.In general, Andreyev's works reflect the somber and haunted life of those who have already lost all hope and illusion. Even the mood with which he tries to impregnate some texts tends to sound ironic and somber. Andreiev always tries to draw the reader's attention to the most tragic and cruel side of life, whipping up human selfishness, impiety, cowardice and brutality.Placed among the great pessimistic writers, Andreiev descends to the heart of the miseries that surround him, not hesitating even before the morbid, and exposing everything with an almost savage rawness.Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories from this author for your entertainment:LazarusOn The Day of CrucifixionThe Crushed FlowerThe Serpent's StoryJUdas IscariotThe Little AngelA Story Wich Will Never Be Finished

The Red Badge of Courage

On a cold day the fictional 304th New York Regiment awaits battle beside a river. Eighteen-year-old Private Henry Fleming, remembering his romantic reasons for enlisting as well as his mother's resulting protests, wonders whether he will remain brave in the face of fear, or turn and run. He is comforted by one of his friends from home, Jim Conklin, who admits that he would run from battle if his fellow soldiers also fled. During the regiment's first battle, Confederate soldiers charge, but are repelled. The enemy quickly regroups and attacks again, this time forcing some of the unprepared Union soldiers to flee. Fearing the battle is a lost cause, Henry deserts his regiment. It is not until after he reaches the rear of the army that he overhears a general announcing the Union's victory. Ashamed, Henry escapes into a nearby forest, where he discovers a decaying body in a peaceful clearing. In his distress, he hurriedly leaves the clearing and stumbles upon a group of injured men returning from battle. One member of the group, a "tattered soldier", asks Henry where he is wounded, but the youth dodges the question. Among the group is Jim Conklin, who has been shot in the side and is suffering delirium from blood-loss. Jim eventually dies of his injury, defiantly resisting aid from his friend, and an enraged and helpless Henry runs from the wounded soldiers. He next joins a retreating column that is in disarray. In the ensuing panic, a man hits Henry on the head with his rifle, wounding him. Exhausted, hungry, thirsty, and now wounded, Henry decides to return to his regiment regardless of his shame. When he arrives at camp, the other soldiers believe his injury resulted from a grazing bullet during battle. The other men care for the youth, dressing his wound.

7 best short stories by Ring Lardner

Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to English author Ring Lardner. Ring Lardner was an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing. In this book you will find this stories: - Haircut; - Golden Honey Moon; - My Roomy; - Horseshoes; - Harmony; - Alibi Ike; - Champion. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

L'asimmetria e la vita

Dal 1955 al 1987, anno della sua scomparsa, Primo Levi pubblicò su giornali e riviste una serie di articoli di varia natura e occasione, che sono stati raccolti per la prima volta integralmente nell'edizione delle Opere (Einaudi, 1997). Questo volume ne ripropone un'ampia scelta, che rende ragione dei molti «mestieri» leviani: quello di testimone, di scrittore, di chimico. La prima parte riunisce i testi dell'esperienza del Lager. Scritti vari: prefazioni, tra cui quella celebre scritta per l'autobiografia di Rudolf Höss, l'indignata condanna del negazionismo e l'emblematico Deportati. Anniversario (1955) dove Levi lamenta la caduta di interesse sull'argomento dei campi di sterminio, mettendo in guardia contro la perdita della memoria collettiva. Nei saggi della seconda parte si va dall'autobiografia letteraria (Lo scrittore non scrittore, Itinerario d'uno scrittore ebreo), alle recensioni, alla storia degli Ebrei italiani ed europei, fino ad approdare a scritti di esemplare rigore scientifico (L'asimmetria e la vita) e morale (L'intolleranza razziale). Nella vastità degli argomenti, nella coerenza delle riflessioni, nella chiarezza dello stile, queste pagine ci riconsegnano il Primo Levi appassionato e antiretorico che abbiamo da tempo imparato a riconoscere come un classico delle nostre lettere.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

The Napoleon of Notting Hill, like so many Chesterton novels, deftly straddles the fence between humor and philosophy. The place is London, in the far-future year of 1984. Inexplicably, not too much has changed since the turn of the century—except that the king is chosen at random. Things quickly take a turn for the worse when the people randomly select an imbecile who only cares about a good joke.With the new prankster king in place, the novel continues on with surprisingly action-packed breeziness, exploring themes of identity, patriotism, politics, and government.

Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan

Ogres

Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world. It’s always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call. Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It’s always been that way. It’s the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes. But when the headman’s son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord’s son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.

A Home for Lydia

A Home for Lydia, the second book in a new romantic series from popular author Vannetta Chapman, centers again on the Plain community of Pebble Creek and the kind, caring people there. As they face challenges to their community from the English world, they come together to reach out to their non-Amish neighbors while still preserving their cherished Plain ways.Aaron Troyer simply wants to farm like his father and grandfather before him. But instead he finds himself overseeing the family’s small group of guest cabins nestled along the banks of Pebble Creek. That also means he must work with the cabins’ housekeeper, Lydia Fisher.Lydia is the most outspoken Amish woman Aaron has ever met, and she has strong opinions about how the guest cabins are to be run. She also desperately needs this job. Though sparks fly between boss and employee at first, when the cabins are robbed, nothing is more important to Aaron than making sure Lydia is safe.Together they work to make the vacation property profitable, but can they find out the identity of the culprit before more damage is done? And is Lydia’s dream of a home of her own more than just a wish and a prayer?

Bidding on Her Boss

From a USA Today–bestselling author, when an employee wins a date with her boss, she discovers she wants much more than a business relationship with him.Florist Faith Crawford has a brilliant plan—win her company’s CEO at a bachelor auction and use their “date” to show him her designs. But her plan backfires when the focus of their meeting shifts from flowers to a floor-tilting kiss. For Dylan Hawke, it’s time for damage control. Promoting the talented Faith is a no-brainer, but fraternizing with her is strictly forbidden. Dylan must remain professional—the fate of his business rests in the balance. Too bad Dylan won’t rest until he gets another kiss . . .

Fermate gli sposi!

Sarà una luna di miele molto strana...Lottie non vede l'ora di sposarsi. Con l'uomogiusto, naturalmente: non ne può più di lungherelazioni con fidanzati che sul più bellonon se la sentono di impegnarsi davvero.E così quando anche Richard, che lei è convintastia per farle la tanto attesa proposta, ladelude, decide su due piedi che è ora di passareall'azione e accetta di convolare a nozzecon Ben, un flirt estivo conosciuto per caso suun'isola greca molti anni prima e che lei nonha mai più rivisto. Ben si è appena rifatto vivo,e basta una cena per far scoccare nuovamentela scintilla tra i due: perché perdere tempo ininutili preparativi? Presto! Ci si sposa in quattroe quattr'otto e via per un'indimenticabileluna di miele nel luogo che ha visto nascere illoro amore.Ma non tutti la pensano così: Fliss, la sorelladi Lottie, e Lorcan, il socio in affari di Ben,sono contrarissimi e preoccupatissimi. Bisognaintervenire subito. I due sabotatori partonoall'inseguimento dei neosposi che devonoessere fermati a tutti i costi, prima che avvengal'irreparabile... Le conseguenze saranno disastrosamentecomiche per tutti.Con Fermate gli sposi! Sophie Kinsella firmauna nuova, spumeggiante commedia romantica,in cui non mancano le sue proverbialitrovate condite da un pizzico di sesso e da uninsuperabile senso dell'umorismo.