120 Great Short Stories

120 Great Short Stories

Timeless collection of the greatest short fiction stories including the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more. The stories have variety in style and subject, but all are masterpieces of world fiction with enduring quality of writing.   HANDS by Sherwood Anderson A BABY TRAMP by Ambrose Bierce THE ENCHANTED BLUFF by Willa Cather LADY WITH LAPDOG by Anton Chekhov THE BET by Anton Chekhov DESIREE'S BABY by Kate Chopin THE STORY OF AN HOUR by Kate Chopin THE LAGOON by Joseph Conrad THE BRAZILIAN CAT by Arthur Conan Doyle THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman + 110 more

The Ever After

The Ever After

“Writing with rawness and realism, Pekkanen doesn’t hold back…Fans of Liane Moriarty and Anne Tyler will appreciate the story’s depth.” —Booklist“In her signature conversational style, Pekkanen uncovers the truth behind the lies as Josie comes to grips with reality vs. the mirage of her marriage.” —Library Journal (starred review)In this intricate and enthralling domestic drama, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and The Affair, the internationally bestselling author of the “gossipy page-turner” (Glamour) The Perfect Neighbors goes deep into a marriage in crisis, peeling back layers of secrets to discover where the relationship veered off course—and whether it is worth saving.Josie and Frank Moore are happy…at least Josie thinks they are. As parents of two young girls in the Chicago suburbs, their days can be both busy and monotonous, and sometimes Josie wonders how she became a harried fortysomething mother rather than the driven career woman she once was. But Frank is a phenomenal father, he’s handsome and charismatic, and he still looks at his wife like she’s the beautiful woman he married more than a decade ago. Josie isn’t just happy—she’s lucky.Until one Saturday morning when Josie borrows her husband’s phone to make a quick call—and sees nine words that shatter her world.Now Josie feels as if she is standing at the edge of a sharp precipice. As she looks back at pivotal moments in the relationship she believed would last forever, she is also plunging ahead, surprising everyone (especially herself) with how far she will go to uncover the extent of her husband’s devastating secret.With her “conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters” (The Washington Post) bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen paints a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a marriage before and during a crisis—and of a woman who fears that the biggest secret of all may be the one she’s hiding from herself.

Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

This holiday, we are presenting to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas novels, magical tales, the legends of Christmas, the beloved carols and the unique poetry by the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As Joseph Was A-Walking The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Twelve Days of Christmas The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Christmas Angel (A. Brown) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White…

Bright Morning

Bright Morning

Vonda N. McIntyre preferred to keep her author's biography short and sweet: "Vonda N. McIntyre writes science fiction." While true, this modest claim conceals accomplishments that earned her multiple accolades and an enduring place among the most influential fantasy and science fiction writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.Even more important to the authors of this tribute anthology, McIntyre was a kind and generous supporter of other writers. In Bright Morning, eleven career writers of science fiction, fantasy, and other genres share stories of hope in her honor, along with their memories of working with McIntyre. Profits from the anthology will benefit a charity that promotes literacy for children all over the world.

50 Science Fiction Short Stories

50 Science Fiction Short Stories

Timeless collection of science fiction short stories including the works of Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, and more. The stories have variety in style and subject, but are all masterpieces of world fiction with enduring quality of writing.   A PSYCHOLOGICAL SHIPWRECK by Ambrose Bierce NO. 1 BRANCH LINE: THE SIGNAL-MAN by Charles Dickens THE TERROR OF BLUE JOHN GAP by Arthur Conan Doyle THE MUMMY'S FOOT by Theophile Gautier RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne RIP VAN WINKLE by Washington Irving THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD by Jack London MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A BOTTLE by Edgar Allan Poe THE HEDGEHOG by Saki THE MUSIC ON THE HILL by Saki + 40 more

One True Loves

One True Loves

* Now a major film! * Author of the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo *Named a Best Book of Summer by Cosmopolitan * InStyle * Redbook * Us Weekly * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Bustle * Brit+Co * Parade“No one does life and love better.” —InStyle “Earth-shaking…you will flip for this epic love story.” —Cosmopolitan “Reid's heartwrenching tale asks if it’s possible to have multiple soul mates.” —Us WeeklyFrom the author of Maybe in Another Life—named a People Magazine pick—comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life.In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure.On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness.That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves.Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.

A casa holandesa

A casa holandesa

Romance finalista do Pulitzer emociona ao narrar o desmoronamento de uma famíliaApós a Segunda Guerra Mundial, graças à conjugação de sorte e um investimento fortuito, Cyril Conroy entra no ramo imobiliário, criando um negócio que logo se tornará um império e levará sua família da pobreza a uma vida de opulência. Uma de suas primeiras aquisições é a Casa Holandesa, uma extravagante propriedade no subúrbio da Filadélfia. Mas o que seria apenas uma adorável surpresa para a esposa acaba desencadeando o esfacelamento de toda a estrutura familiar.Quem narra essa história é o filho de Cyril, Danny, a partir do momento em que ele e a irmã mais velha — a autoconfiante e franca Maeve — são expulsos pela madrasta da casa onde cresceram. Os dois irmãos se veem jogados de volta à pobreza e logo descobrem que só podem contar um com o outro. E esse vínculo inabalável, ao mesmo tempo que os salva, é o que bloqueia seu futuro.Apesar de suas conquistas ao longo da vida, Danny e Maeve só se sentem verdadeiramente confortáveis quando estão juntos. Narrada ao longo de cinco décadas, A Casa Holandesa é uma história sobre a dificuldade de superar o passado. Com bom humor e raiva, os dois rememoram inúmeras vezes seu relato de perda e humilhação e a relação entre o irmão indulgente e a irmã superprotetora enfim será colocada à prova quando os Conroy se virem forçados a confrontar quem os abandonou.Uma saga sobre o paraíso perdido, A Casa Holandesa se debruça sobre questões de herança, amor e perdão, uma narrativa sobre como gostaríamos de ser vistos e quem de fato somos. E, embora seja um livro repleto de reviravoltas que farão o leitor devorar a história, seus personagens ficarão marcados por muito tempo na memória.

Hollantilainen talo

Hollantilainen talo

Aistivoimainen ja syvästi inhimillinen kuvaus kadotetusta paratiisista. ”Romaani joka tulvii tuskaa ja hellyyttä ja jossa Patchettin kertojankyky näkyy koko loistossaan. Syvällinen, väkevästi sisintä kouraiseva romaani perheestä.” – Sunday Times Cyril Conroy hankkii toisen maailmansodan jälkeen perheelleen linnamaisen ylellisen talon. Satumainen idylli Philadelphian eliittialueella alkaa mureta, kun Elna-äiti jättää perheen ja paha äitipuoli ottaa talossa vallan. Sisarukset Maeve ja Danny karkotetaan kodistaan.Talon ote sisaruksista ei tahdo kirvota vaan he palaavat tarkkailijoina talolle, toistensa kotoisaan seuraan. Vuosikymmeniä kattava lumoava saaga näyttää katkeransuloisesti, mitä on petos, kutsumus, anteeksianto ja mitä on menetys – ei hulppean talon, vaan niiden ihmisten jotka tekevät siitä kodin. ”Liikuttava kuvaus poikkeuksellisesta talosta ja sitä asuttavan perheen murenevasta onnesta.”– The Times Ann Patchett (s. 1963 Kaliforniassa) on arvostetuimpia ja rakastetuimpia kirjailijoita Yhdysvalloissa. Patchettin kahdeksas romaani Hollantilainen talo löysi tiensä lukijoiden sydämiin ja nousi sekä Pulitzer- että Women’s Prize 2020 -palkintoehdokkaaksi. Patchett aloitti kirjoittajanuransa julkaisemalla lehtiartikkeleita lukuisiin lehtiin, nykyisin hän paitsi kirjoittaa kirjoja, pitää myös pientä kirjamyymälää.

Daisy Jones & The Six

Daisy Jones & The Six

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is BackREESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NOW AN EMMY AWARD–NOMINATED ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY REESE WITHERSPOON  “An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin HilderbrandONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Esquire, Glamour, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, Parade, Paste, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

Żona między nami

Żona między nami

Niczego nie zakładaj. Podczas lektury pomyślisz, że to książka o zazdrosnej byłej żonie. I że ma obsesje na punkcie swojej następczyni - pięknej i młodej kobiety. Nic nie jest takie, jakie się wydaje. Czytaj między kłamstwami... Vanessa Thompson zrezygnowała ze wszystkiego – pracy i nowojorskich przyjaciół, by wieść bajkowe życie u boku „zbyt dobrego, by mógł być prawdziwy” męża Richarda, menedżera w funduszu hedgingowym. Gdy jednak ich z pozoru idealne małżeństwo się rozpada, Richard wiąże się z młodszą kobietą. Vanessa nie może się pogodzić ze stratą swojego męża… Nellie, młoda nauczycielka, spotyka mężczyznę swoich marzeń. Starszy od niej o dziewięć lat Richard jest czarujący, przystojny i zamożny. Rozpieszcza ją i traktuje niczym królową. Do czasu… NAJGŁOŚNIEJSZY THRILLER 2018 ROKU! OD STYCZNIA 2018 ROKU W ŚCISŁEJ CZOŁÓWCE LISTY BESTSELLERÓW „NEW YORK TIMESA” Wall Street Journal: „Sześć książek z początku 2018 roku trzeba przeczytać”.. Glamour Magazine: „Książki, których nie możemy się doczekać w 2018 roku”. Bustle: „Osiemnaście najlepszych powieści”. Real Simple: „Najlepsze książki w 2018 roku”. Bookbub: „Najlepsze książki sensacyjne, które się ukażą w 2018 roku”. Retail Me Not’s: „Trzydzieści pięć najlepszych książek 2018 roku”. Library Reads: „Pierwsza dziesiątka najlepszych książek”. „W Żonie między nami czytelnik znajdzie błyskotliwą fabułę opowiedzianą w wartki i trzymający w napięciu sposób, i przerażający trójkąt miłosny, w którym nie wiadomo, komu można zaufać. Wspaniała książka”. Gilly Macmillan, autorka Perfekcyjnej dziewczyny „Absorbująca, znakomicie skonstruowana powieść o małżeństwie i zdradzie. Wciągająca historia i fascynujący bohaterowie. Nie będziesz mógł się od niej oderwać, a do ostatnich stron będziesz się głowił nad zakończeniem”. Lauren Weisberger, autorka powieści Diabeł ubiera się u Prady

Harvard Classics Volume 35

Harvard Classics Volume 35

Contents: 1. Chronicles, by Jean Froissart 2. The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory 3. A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

Demon Copperhead

Demon Copperhead

Questa è la storia di un ragazzo che tutti chiamano Demon Copperhead, un eroe dei nostri tempi. Un ragazzo che può contare solo sulla bella faccia ereditata da suo padre, una criniera di capelli color rame, lo spirito aguzzo e il vizio di sopravvivere. Il suo esordio nell’universo – mamma di diciott’anni che partorisce sola con una bottiglia di gin, anfetamine e oppioidi –, in una casa mobile sperduta negli Appalachi meridionali, dà il la a ciò che verrà dopo. Demon inizia la sua corsa a perdifiato attraverso la vita, sfreccia per le selve oscure dell’affido, del lavoro minorile, delle scuole fatiscenti, fino al sogno, e poi all’ebbrezza del successo atletico, con la conseguente caduta nella dipendenza. Nel mentre, si ossessiona con gli eroi della Marvel, si disegna i suoi fumetti riempiendoli di cattivi veri, si inerpica per le vette vertiginose del grande amore e sprofonda nel dolore straziante della perdita. Attraverso tutto questo, Demon deve combattere, armato del suo caustico umorismo e poco altro, contro la propria invisibilità in un mondo dove persino i suoi amati supereroi hanno abbandonato le terre selvagge per la città. La sua voce è quella di una generazione di ragazzi perduti, nati in posti splendidi e maledetti che neanche per un istante concepiscono di abbandonare. Ma Demon è un combattente, un sopravvissuto, come era un sopravvissuto David Copperfield nella sua disgraziata Londra. Barbara Kingsolver si ispira all’opera iconica di Dickens con questo romanzo vincitore del Pulitzer, ambientato nel Sud degli Stati Uniti, per gettare luce sulle vite marginali di oggi, con la stessa rabbia, la stessa profonda compassione. La stessa fiducia nel potere di trasformazione di una bella storia. «Un David Copperfield trapiantato negli Appalachi devastati dalla povertà e dalla droga. Un romanzo sfolgorante» Times Literary Supplement «Demon è una voce che risuonerà negli anni a venire, come quella di Huck Finn e Holden Caulfield, ma ancora piú resiliente» Beth Macy, autrice di Dopesick «Ironica e toccante, questa è la storia di un ragazzo che nessuno vuole ma che i lettori adoreranno. La dimostrazione perfetta di come un romanzo possa divertire, straziare, reclamare a gran voce il cambiamento» The Washington Post «Straordinario. Come Shuggie Bain o David Copperfield, il monologo interiore di Demon, disgraziato dal cuore d’oro, è pieno di colpi di trama che si susseguono senza sosta» San Francisco Chronicle «Questo è storytelling al suo meglio» Stephen King

Guns Of The West

Guns Of The West

9 Amazing Tales Of The Wild West Bundled For You! 1. "Thunder Mountain" by Dean Wesley Smith 2. "A Full Moon Over a Desolate Plain" by Thea Hutcheson 3. "A Turning Point for Charlie Pilsen" by Harvey Stanbrough 4. "Elf Saga, Book 3: Peacemaker" by Joseph Robert Lewis 5. "Tales of Bygone Days" by Debbie Mumford 6. "The Lady and the Mountain Man" by Misty M. Beller 7. "The Slaughterers" by Robert Jeschonek 8. "No Kind'a Time" by Harvey Stanbrough 9. "The Edwards Mansion" by Dean Wesley Smith Thank you for supporting the authors in this bundle.

A Good Marriage

A Good Marriage

Now a major motion picture, Stephen King's brilliant and terrifying story of a marriage with truly deadly secrets.Darcy Anderson’s husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his routine business trips when the unsuspecting Darcy looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a hidden box under a worktable and in it she discovers a trove of horrific evidence that her husband is two men—one, the benign father of her children, the other, a raging rapist and murderer. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends “A Good Marriage.”This story was originally published in Stephen King’s acclaimed collection, Full Dark, No Stars.

La casa olandese

La casa olandese

Alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, grazie a un colpo di fortuna e a un unico, perspicace investimento, Cyril Conroy crea dal nulla un impero immobiliare che porterà la sua famiglia dalla povertà a un’immensa ricchezza. Per fare sfoggio del suo nuovo status, acquista la casa olandese, una sfarzosa proprietà nei sobborghi di Filadelfia. Comprata per fare una sorpresa alla moglie, la villa dà il via a una serie di avvenimenti che finiranno per danneggiare le persone a lui più care. A raccontare la vicenda è il figlio di Cyril, Danny, che insieme alla sorella maggiore Maeve è stato esiliato da casa dalla seconda moglie del padre. Per tutta la vita i due ragazzi non fanno che tornare, fra l’ironia e la rabbia, alla vecchia questione di ciò che hanno perduto. Questo loro legame indissolubile, se da una parte salverà loro la vita, dall’altra ne comprometterà il futuro. Ambientato nel corso di cinque decenni, La casa olandese è un’esplorazione acuta e profondamente umana delle nostre ossessioni e della capacità di perdonare, di quello che nella vita accumuliamo, conserviamo, perdiamo o regaliamo. E di ciò che ci lasciamo alle spalle.

The Greatest Christmas Novels, Tales & Poems (Illustrated)

The Greatest Christmas Novels, Tales & Poems (Illustrated)

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Christmas Novels, Tales & Poems (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: A Christmas Inspiration and Other Stories (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Old Father Christmas (Juliana Horatia Ewing) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Twelve Days of Christmas Silent Night Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Birds' Christmas Carol (Kate Douglas Wiggin) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)…

Mile 81

Mile 81

Mile 81 is Stand by Me meets Christine—the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid.At Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike is a boarded up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who’s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play “paratroopers over the side.” Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn’t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says “closed, no services.” The driver’s door opens but nobody gets out. Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls “the ultimate insurance manual,” but it isn’t going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton’s cracked cell phone near the wagon door – and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids – Rachel and Blake Lussier – and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.

10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature

10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature

The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods.This carefully selected collection contains:The OdysseyThe Works and DaysTheogonyThe Complete Poems of SapphoMedeaAntigoneAgamemnonThe ChoephoriEumenidesThe Odes of Anacreon

Daisy Jones and The Six

Daisy Jones and The Six

LIVRO QUE INSPIROU A SÉRIE DO PRIME VIDEO. Embalado pelo melhor do rock'n'roll, um romance inesquecível sobre uma banda dos anos 1970, sua apaixonante vocalista e o amor à música. Da autora de Em outra vida, talvez?.Todo mundo conhece Daisy Jones & The Six. Nos anos setenta, dominavam as paradas de sucesso, faziam shows para plateias lotadas e conquistavam milhões de fãs. Eram a voz de uma geração, e Daisy, a inspiração de toda garota descolada. Mas no dia 12 de julho de 1979, no último show da turnê Aurora, eles se separaram. E ninguém nunca soube por quê. Até agora.Esta é história de uma menina de Los Angeles que sonhava em ser uma estrela do rock e de uma banda que também almejava seu lugar ao sol. E de tudo o que aconteceu — o sexo, as drogas, os conflitos e os dramas — quando um produtor apostou (certo!) que juntos poderiam se tornar lendas da música.Neste romance inesquecível narrado a partir de entrevistas, Taylor Jenkins Reid reconstitui a trajetória de uma banda fictícia com a intensidade presente nos melhores backstages do rock'n'roll."Devorei o livro em um dia e me apaixonei por Daisy e pela banda." — Reese Witherspoon

The Great Short Stories

The Great Short Stories

Timeless collection of 70 selected short stories by genre. The stories have variety in style and subject, but are all masterpieces with enduring quality of writing. Finding time for reading can often be a difficult task for many people with hectic and busy schedules. Committing oneself to a novel often involves a major investment of time and daily distractions, and tasks interfere with the ability to complete a novel in a timely fashion. Short stories are designed to be read in one sitting. As such, short stories can be easily read on the morning commute, on a lunch break or in the evening. Reading short stories helps to establish a reading schedule or routine. Short stories provide ample opportunities to increase your knowledge about different cultures and different lifestyles. THIS BOOK INCLUDES FULL TEXT & AUDIO.