Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 12

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 12

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Mór Jókai:Thirteen at Table. The Celestial Slingers. The Bad Old Times. The Hostile Skulls. Love And The Little Dog. The Justice Of Soliman A Turkish Story. The Compulsory DiversionAn Old Baron's Yarn. - Andy Adams:Drifting North. Siegerman's Per Cent. "Bad Medicine". A Winter Round-Up. A College Vagabond. The Double Trail. Rangering. - B. M. Bower:The Lonesome Trail. First Aid To Cupid. When The Cook Fell Ill. The Lamb. The Spirit of the Range. The Reveler. The Unheavenly Twins - Richard Middleton:The Ghost Ship. A Drama of Youth. The New Boy. On the Brighton Road. A Tragedy in Little. Sheperd's Boy. The Passing of Edward. - Pierre Louÿs:Woman and Puppy. The New Pleasure. Byblis. Leda. Immortal Love. The Artist Triumphant. The Hill Of Horsel. - Hugh Walpole:The Whistle. The Silver Mask The Staircase. A carnation for an old man. Tarnhelm Mr. Oddy. Seashore Macabre. - Henry Handel Richardson:The End of a Childhood. The Bathe. Succedaneum. Mary Christina. "And Women Must Weep". Sister Ann. The Coat. - Gertrude Stein:Ada. Miss furr and Miss Skeen. France. Americans. Italians. A Sweet Tail. In the Grass. - E. Phillips Oppenheim:The Noxious Gift. Traske and the Bracelet. The Atruscan Silver mine. The Defeat of Rundermere. The End of John DykesBurglar. A Woman Intervenes. The Regeneration of Jacobs. - Arthur Wuiller-Couch:I Saw Three Ships. The Haunted Dragoon. A Blue Pantomime. The Two Householders. The Disenchantment of 'Lizabeth. The Laird's Luck. Captain Dick and Captain Jacka.

To Build a Fire

To Build a Fire

What happens when an over-confident prospector finds himself alone with a half-wild dog on a wintry Yukon trail?  An enhanced version of Jack London’s classic story.  Features an original biography of the author plus more.

Soul Catcher

Soul Catcher

“Deeply felt and magical . . .” a novel about the bond between a Native American and his captive is “an eloquent evocation of the old earth-life religion”(Kirkus Reviews).   Katsuk, a militant Native American student, kidnaps thirteen-year-old David Marshall—the son of the US Undersecretary of State. The two flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must survive together as teams of hunters try to track them. David begins to feel a growing respect for his captor, even as he struggles to escape. What the boy does not know, however, is that he has been chosen as an innocent from the white world for an ancient sacrifice of vengeance. And Katsuk may be divinely inspired . . . or simply insane.

Marcel Proust: Oeuvres complètes

Marcel Proust: Oeuvres complètes

Une édition originale particulièrement destinée aux lecteurs exigeants de Marcel Proust.  Ces oeuvres complètes et ses annexes ont été classées, annotées et contrôlées avec soin pour être parfaitement fidèles à l’oeuvre originale.  L'édition est composée des 40 titres... des textes, pour certains, souvent méconnus. - Les 11 poèmes en prose et nouvelles des «LES PLAISIRS ET LES JOURS»: Avant-propos dédié à mon ami Willie Heath • La mort de Baldassare Silvande, vicomte de Sylvanie • Violante ou la Mondanité • Fragments de comédie italienne • Mondanité et mélomanie de Bouvard et Pécuchet • Mélancolique villégiature de Mme de Breyves • Portraits de peintres et de musiciens • La confession d'une jeune fille • Un dîner en ville • Les regrets, rêveries couleur du temps • La fin de la jalousie - Les 7 tomes de «A LA RECHERCHE DE TEMPS PERDU»: Du côté de chez Swann • A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur • Le Côté de Guermantes • Sodome et Gomorrhe • La Prisonnière • Albertine disparue • Le Temps retrouvé - Les 5 articles ou préfaces de «PASTICHES ET MELANGES»: L’Affaire Lemoine • En Mémoire des Eglises Assassinées • La Mort des cathédrales • Sentiments filiaux d’un parricide • Journées de lecture - Les 4 «ARTICLES ET LETTRES PARUS DANS LA NOUVELLE REVUE FRANCAISE» A propos du style de Flaubert • Une agonie• Un baiser • A propos de Baudelaire - Les 5 articles des «CHRONIQUES»: Les Salons et la Vie de Paris • Pays ages et réflexions • Notes et Souvenirs • Critiques littéraires - Correspondance - Entretien avec Elie-Joseph Bois Les 2 TRADUCTIONS: - LA BIBLE D’AMIENS - SESAME ET LES LYS TITRES DES ANNEXES: Les citations les plus célèbres de Proust • Le questionnaire de Proust ou “Marcel Proust par lui-même” • Biographie détaillée de Marcel Proust • Marcel Proust par Paul Souday JEAN SANTEUIL, CONTRE SAINTE BEUVE, CHARDIN ET REMBRANDT ne figurent pas dans cette collection car ces titres sont encore soumis aux droits d’auteur. QUELQUES BONUS! - Un système de navigation intuitif et ergonomique:    Une table des matières cliquable intégrée à chaque rubrique.    Une table des matières cliquable globale. - Des mises à jour régulières. ARVENSA Editions Les éditions Arvensa sont composées d'une équipe de passionnés de la langue française ainsi que de spécialistes de l'édition numérique. Notre objectif est de vous fournir la meilleure expérience de lecture numérique. Nos titres sont ainsi relus, corrigés et mis en forme spécifiquement.www.arvensa.com "Je crois, contrairement à la mode de quelques-uns de nos contemporains, qu'on peut se faire une très haute idée de la littérature, et sourire avec bonhommie." Proust (Lettre à Gide)

Nezabíjajte vtáčika

Nezabíjajte vtáčika

Jediné, na čo na nevzťahuje pravidlo väčšiny, je ľudské svedomie. V tridsiatych rokoch dvadsiateho storočia zasiahne Spojené štáty hospodárska kríza, hoci ospalého provinčného mestečka Maycomb v Alabame sa dotkne len okrajovo. V tom období je najväčšou starosťou dvoch súrodencov Scout a Jema a ich priateľa Dilla to, ako vylákať z domu miestneho čudáka a čím si skrátiť dlhé chvíle. Keď však obvinia mladého černocha zo znásilnenia bieleho dievčaťa, udalosti naberú rýchly spád. Obhajoby sa ujme Scoutin otec Attikus Finch. Ten považuje právnickú pomoc za svoju morálnu povinnosť. Čaká ho však márny boj s predsudkami, strachom a nevraživosťou. Od obyvateľov mestečka poznačeného rasovou nenávisťou dostáva hanlivú nálepku obhajca negrov, čo sa negatívne dotkne aj jeho detí. Kultový román Nezabíjajte vtáčika nie je iba o rasizme a justičnej vražde, je to predovšetkým dojímavý príbeh o dospievaní, utváraní si vlastných názorov na svet, morálke, statočnosti a odvahe. Román je považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel americkej literatúry. V slovenčine vyšiel v roku 1968 a na nové vydanie sme museli čakať takmer 50 rokov! Z výnimočného románu, ktorý si získal obdiv a uznanie čitateľov na celom svete, bolo predaných úctyhodných 40 miliónov výtlačkov. Harper Leeová získala zaň v roku 1961 Pulitzerovu cenu a prelomila ním nejednu spoločenskú bariéru. Príbeh sa dočkal aj filmovej adaptácie s Gregorym Peckom v úlohe obhajcu Atiika Fincha.

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Bouvard et Pécuchet details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet, of the same age and nearly identical temperament. They meet one hot summer day in 1838 by the canal Saint-Martin and form an instant, symbiotic friendship. When Bouvard inherits a sizable fortune, the two decide to move to the countryside.

Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection

Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection

e-artnow presents the new halloween collection with meticulously picked titles for the lovers of classic thriler horror, mystery and the feel of goose bumbs while reading. Contents: F. Marion Crawford: The Dead Smile The Screaming Skull... Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Three Impostors The Hill of Dreams... John Kendrick Bangs: Ghosts That Have Haunted Me Devil in Iron People of the Dark Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep Eleanor M. Ingram: The Thing from the Lake The Sorrows of Satan The Headless Horseman The House of the Vampire The Lancashire Witches John R. Musick: The Witch of Salem Fred M. White: Powers of Darkness The Doom of London Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Purloined Letter Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo The Damned H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Man Who Went Too Far The Terror by Night Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Soldier-Folk Some Haunted Houses William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Carnacki Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Tom Ossington's Ghost Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas The Wyvern Mystery George W. M. Reynolds: Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Guy de Maupassant: The Horla From the Tomb Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Louisa M. Alcott: The Abbot's Ghost Lost in the Pyramid Edith Nesbit: From the Dead The Mass for the Dead…

Home to Wickham Falls

Home to Wickham Falls

There's No Place Like Home… Nothing could draw Sawyer Middleton back permanently to the town he left behind years before. Or so he thinks, before he meets his sister's best friend. As soon as he matches wits with gorgeous, gregarious teacher Jessica Calhoun, Sawyer realizes he's got a lot to learn about friendship…and love.  Smart, savvy Jessica wants to grow old in Wickham Falls. Software engineer Sawyer has made it to the big city—and away from small-town life. And just like his ailing father, Sawyer's used to calling the shots. But can losing his heart make Sawyer realize that home is where the heart is…and that his heart is with Jessica for good?

Ne lâche pas ma main

Ne lâche pas ma main

Une dispute... Tout cela lui paraît si futile aujourd'hui... C'était avant le point de non-retour. Martial écrase le mégot contre la fenêtre. Il a tellement pris l'habitude de mentir. A Aloé, dans une autre vie. A Liane cette semaine. Aux flics depuis trois jours. A sa fille maintenant. Se cacher. Mentir. Fuir. Tuer.Un couple amoureux dans les eaux turquoise de l'île de La Réunion. Farniente, palmiers, soleil. Un cocktail parfait. Pourtant le rêve tourne au cauchemar. Quand Liane disparaît de l'hôtel, son mari, Martial Bellion, devient le suspect n° 1. D'autant qu'il prend la fuite avec leur fille de six ans. Barrages, hélicoptères... Une course-poursuite est lancée au cœur de la population la plus métissée de la planète. Et si cette chasse à l'homme, ponctuée de cadavres, dissimulait la plus redoutable des manipulations ?Un thriller qui cogne comme un verre de punch. A déguster vite, fort et frais.

L'agenda ritrovata

L'agenda ritrovata

Sette affermati autori, ciascuno con la propria storia e la propria voce, ci portano con altrettanti racconti nel cuore delle ragioni dell’impegno di Paolo Borsellino e degli interrogativi ancora aperti a venticinque anni dalla strage di via D’Amelio – la verità negata, la sottrazione indebita, il mancato ritrovamento, la resistenza della politica ecc. E lo fanno senza il bisogno di raccontare la cronaca dei fatti; lo fanno, come è proprio degli scrittori, inventando storie, anche minime, ma di potente forza evocativa, perché come ricordano Marco Balzano e Gianni Biondillo “il dovere di uno scrittore, anche quando vuole farsi testimone, quando vuole incarnare il suo diritto di cittadinanza, è scrivere bene. Fare al meglio il suo mestiere, insomma”. L’angenda ritrovata è una raccolta di racconti inediti, pensati e scritti appositamente per l’occasione, ciascuno legato all’altro, come un cameo, un filo tenace, da un’agenda rossa – in ricordo di quella appartenuta a Paolo Borsellino, che conteneva appunti, nomi e forse rivelazioni sulla strage di Capaci, scomparsa immediatamente dopo l’attentato mafioso del 19 luglio 1992 e mai più riapparsa. In apertura e chiusura della raccolta una prefazione e una postfazione per mano dei due curatori. Pagine che ci consentono di inscrivere, fra l’altro, la collettanea all’interno di un progetto omonimo più ampio: una ciclostaffetta che, partendo a giugno da Milano, arriverà il 19 luglio a Palermo. A sostegno del progetto, nato in seno all’associazione culturale L’Orablù, Salvatore Borsellino, che per questo significativo anniversario si impegna a seguire esclusivamente tale iniziativa, e il Movimento delle agende rosse da lui fondato. Si contano inoltre per il momento (ma moltissime nuove adesioni sono in corso) l’appoggio della Fiab – Federazione amici della bicicletta – e il sostegno di diversi sponsor, fra cui Coop Emilia-Romagna. Radio Popolare è infine media partner dell’iniziativa e con il suo network si impegna a seguire per un mese, dal 25 giugno al 19 luglio, la staffetta a pedali lungo lo Stivale. A ogni tappa, eventi culturali per promuovere una riflessione sui temi della legalità, della giustizia, della lotta alla mafia: eventi di cui la presentazione di questo volume sarà il fulcro. Gli autori dell’Agenda ritrovata appartengono infatti alle sette regioni che vedranno il passaggio delle biciclette e si impegnano, in una ideale staffetta letteraria, come testimonial delle rispettive tappe: Helena Janeczek (Lombardia), Carlo Lucarelli (Emilia), Vanni Santoni (Toscana), Alessandro Leogrande (Lazio), Diego De Silva (Campania), Gioacchino Criaco (Calabria) ed Eventina Santangelo (Sicilia). All’arrivo della staffetta a Palermo, il volume verrà consegnato nelle mani di Salvatore Borsellino.

Lonely on the Mountain

Lonely on the Mountain

In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L’Amour’s solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together—to save one of their own.The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett’s every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies. Tell Sackett has never abandoned another Sackett in need. He will bring aid to Logan—or die trying.

Veil of Secrets

Veil of Secrets

The Veil of Secrets will entertain you with seven charming short stories by five emerging writers hailing from the United Kingdom, Italy, and America. These stories are a fictional peek inside the walls of a Sultan’s harem. From a Sultan’s foolish pursuit of fairies for his personal pleasure, to a young girls arrival in a strange culture, even the emergence of a concubine spy ring, each tale is engaging.

7 best short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

7 best short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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 the russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.<br /> <br /> Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as multiple of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.<br /> <br /> Works selected for this book: <br /> - White Nights; <br /> - An Honest Thief; <br /> - The Christmas Tree and the Wedding; <br /> - Notes From Underground; <br /> - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man; <br /> - A Little Hero; <br /> - Mr. Prohartchin.<br /> <br /> If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Ordinary Heroes

Ordinary Heroes

From bestselling author Scott Turow's Ordinary Heroes comes a breathtaking story of courage, betrayal, passion, and the mystery of a father's hidden warStewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancée, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd always refused to talk about his war.As he pieces together his father's past through military archives, letters, and, finally, notes from a memoir his father wrote while in prison, secretly preserved by the officer who defended him, Stewart starts to assemble a dramatic and baffling chain of events. He learns how Dubin, a JAG lawyer attached to Patton's Third Army and desperate for combat experience, got more than he bargained for when he was ordered to arrest Robert Martin, a wayward OSS officer who, despite his spectacular bravery with the French Resistance, appeared to be acting on orders other than his commanders'. In pursuit of Martin, Dubin and his sergeant are parachuted into Bastogne just as the Battle of the Bulge reaches its apex. Pressed into the leadership of a desperately depleted rifle company, the men are forced to abandon their quest for Martin and his fiery, maddeningly elusive comrade, Gita, as they fight for their lives through carnage and chaos the likes of which Dubin could never have imagined.In reconstructing the terrible events and agonizing choices his father faced on the battlefield, in the courtroom, and in love, Stewart gains a closer understanding of his past, of his father's character, and of the brutal nature of war itself.

Coup d'Etat

Coup d'Etat

In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels—and so does a different World War II.   In Harry Turtledove’s mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin’s terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction.   England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole?   Meanwhile, in America, a woman who has met Hitler face-to-face urges her countrymen to wake up to his evil. For the time being, the United States is fighting only Japan—and the war is not going as well as Washington would like. Can Roosevelt keep his grip on the country’s imagination?   Coup d’Etat captures how war makes for the strangest of bedfellows. A freethinking Frenchman fights side by side with racist Nazis. A Czech finds himself on the dusty front lines of the Spanish Civil War, gunning for Germany’s Nationalist allies. A German bomber pilot courts a half-Polish, half-Jewish beauty in Bialystock. And the Jews in Germany, though trapped under Hitler’s fist, are as yet protected by his fear of looking bad before the world—and by an outspoken Catholic bishop.   With his spectacular command of character, coincidence, and military and political strategies, Harry Turtledove continues a passionate, unmatched saga of a World War II composed of different enemies, different allies—and hurtling toward a horrific moment. For a diabolical new weapon is about to be unleashed, not by the United States, but by Japan, in a tactic that will shock the world.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Harry Turtledove's The War That Came Early: Two Fronts.Praise for Coup d’Etat   “Turtledove’s masterful presentation of an alternate WWII reaches its fourth volume with its quality undiminished. . . . A tribute to [his] commanding skills.”—Booklist (starred review)   “For lovers of alternative history, and particularly the very popular Turtledove with his appealing weaponry, battle tactics, and setting details, this story will satisfy. It sets out to entertain . . . and that it does.”—Historical Novels Review   “The book’s grand scope and Turtledove’s impressive historical knowledge are admirable.”—Kirkus Reviews

Cancellazione

Cancellazione

Affermare che la carriera da scrittore di Thelonious “Monk” Ellison sia arrivata a un punto fermo, è un eufemismo: il suo nuovo romanzo è stato rifiutato da diciassette editori, nonostante la critica abbia acclamato i libri precedenti. Ai margini del mondo letterario, ferito nell’orgoglio, assiste al successo clamoroso di una giovane autrice venuta dal nulla, il cui best seller Vita nel ghetto è in testa alle classifiche e in tutte le trasmissioni televisive, ammirato come il nuovo grande romanzo afroamericano. La colpa di Monk? La sua estrazione borghese – una famiglia di medici da generazioni – impedisce a lui, nero, di poter raccontare in modo credibile la vita reale dei neri d’America. Come può, lo si accusa, uno scrittore che non ha mai conosciuto la povertà e la miseria raccontarle nei suoi romanzi? Se il lavoro è un disastro, la vita privata non va meglio: per assistere la madre malata di Alzheimer si trasferisce da Los Angeles a Washington, nella casa in cui è cresciuto. Qui deve rimettere insieme i pezzi della sua vita: l’infanzia, il rapporto coi fratelli, l’eredità del padre, morto suicida sette anni prima. Per distrarsi dai ricordi e dalle delusioni della scrittura, Monk compone di getto una feroce parodia di Vita nel ghetto e di tutta la peggiore narrativa di genere. Il libro, scritto con uno pseudonimo, dovrebbe rimanere uno sfogo da tenere nel cassetto, ma quando il suo agente lo invia alle case editrici, il mondo dell’editoria impazzisce per il nuovo fenomeno letterario: al suo alter ego vengono offerti soldi, fama, successo. E ora Monk ha un altro, inatteso, problema da affrontare. “Una delle opere più sorprendenti di un gigante della letteratura americana.” NPR “Tra ironia e commozione, Cancellazione affronta in modo originale la questione razziale in America.” The New York Times Book Review “Un capolavoro. Un talento incredibile illuminato da una satira brillante.” Publishers Weekly “I libri di Everett sono immancabilmente intelligenti, divertenti, audaci e intellettualmente ambiziosi.” LA Weekly"

The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf

A classic tale of adventure at sea, tells the story of the naïve young Humphrey van Weyden, whose ship is wrecked in a terrible storm.

Um modelo para a morte  Os suburbanos  O paraíso dos crentes

Um modelo para a morte Os suburbanos O paraíso dos crentes

Tudo começou com um panfleto para uma fábrica de iogurte. Para atender família Casares. Para atender a encomenda, os amigos se reuniram em uma casa de campo para escrever e começaram uma parceria que deu origem não apenas a livros, mas a dois autores. A Biblioteca Azul publica novas edições dos três volumes escritos por Borges e Bioy em uma colaboração tão íntima que heterônimos,com a peculiaridade de serem “heterônimos de dois”. "Um modelo para a morte" é o único texto assinado por B. Suárez Lynch, discípulo literário de Bustos Domecq. O conto é uma sátira às novelas policiais, misturando investigação rigorosa, exageros racionais e comentários aleatórios. Os roteiros de cinema "Os suburbanos" e "O paraíso dos crentes" são assinados pela dupla Borges e Bioy. O primeiro narra uma história de Julio Morales, que em sua jornada à procura de um homem de coragem busca a si mesmo. "O paraíso dos crentes" faz uma incursão pelo lado obscuro de Buenos Aires enquanto parodia filmes de gângster. O escritor argentino Alan Pauls afirma que "amparados por um pseudônimo Borges e Bioy lançaram mão de elementos que não poderiam nunca figurar em suas obras individuais", como "o uso brutal da cultura popular, atrevimento e paixão rasteiras".

Her Christmas Baby Bump

Her Christmas Baby Bump

One Christmas night with consequences! Talented midwife Hope Sanders's dream of holding a baby of her own is finally coming true! She's just weeks away from beginning her fertility treatment—and then meeting gorgeous hotshot fertility doc Aaron Cartwright throws a holly sprig in her plans… Aaron's mistletoe kisses might be dazzling, but after they spend one magical Christmas night together, Hope never expects to end up pregnant! Now she's faced with telling Aaron her surprise baby news…but has she finally found the man of her dreams, too? Midwives On-Call at Christmas