Results for "Miles" in Anthologies & Short Stories

El sultán Shahriar descubre que su esposa lo engaña y la decapita. Todavía lleno de rencor, cada día desposa a una mujer a la que luego ordena matar por la mañana. Inesperadamente, Sherezade, la hija del visir, se ofrece voluntaria para casarse con el sultán. Durante la noche de bodas, la muchacha inicia un relato que deja fascinado a su marido, pero que interrumpe justo antes del amanecer.

His secret could get him killed… After she testified against notorious killers, search and rescue volunteer Zach Gregory thought his sister had been killed years ago. But when she’s found murdered, FBI agent Shelby Dryden reveals Camille was in the witness protection programme. Shelby is...

El sultán Shahriar descubre que su esposa lo engaña y la decapita. Todavía lleno de rencor, cada día desposa a una mujer a la que luego ordena matar por la mañana. Inesperadamente, Sherezade, la hija del visir, se ofrece voluntaria para casarse con el sultán. Durante la noche de bodas, la muchacha inicia un relato que deja fascinado a su marido, pero que interrumpe justo antes del amanecer.

El sultán Shahriar descubre que su esposa lo engaña y la decapita. Todavía lleno de rencor, cada día desposa a una mujer a la que luego ordena matar por la mañana. Inesperadamente, Sherezade, la hija del visir, se ofrece voluntaria para casarse con el sultán. Durante la noche de bodas, la muchacha inicia un relato que deja fascinado a su marido, pero que interrumpe justo antes del amanecer.

AUDIOLLIBRE EN CATALÀ Mil cretins és el nou llibre de relats de Quim Monzó després d’El millor dels mons. En un pas endavant, Monzó passa comptes amb el dolor, la vellesa, la mort i l’amor. Valent i sense...

Moore has done it again in this compelling third volume, Thirteen Miles North of Nelson, where both the simplicity and complexity of life in the far reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula push the listener beyond the rugged geography where extremes are more than metaphorical. In these eleven short stories, the listener is often brought to tears of triumph and waves of hilarious laughter as his characters plunge through the wilderness of emotions rarely exposed in conventional literature.

This is a collection of short stories that cover some different times and places and the different views. It will take you around the world (Soviet Union, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the US, Germany, Poland, and more) and show places you probably have not seen before.

Miles of Thoughts is a collection of short stories and humorous, sometimes political, essays. Yes, it will make you smile, and often, it is not politically correct. The author was trying to express his opinion on many issues without offending anyone. Did it work? You have to judge for yourselves.

Caratacus is one of Britain’s greatest kings. Not only did this Iron Age war leader single-handedly direct armed resistance against the Roman legions for eight years across southern England and Wales, but his name, deeds and exploits later resonated down through history. In the first detailed...

SOMETHING UGLY’S WAITIN’ FOR YOU - Honey’s working weekends down at the Six Mile, trying to figure her life out. Her boyfriend’s about to leave the country, her college advisor hates her guts, her momma ain’t listening, and she’s got this cop breathing down her neck just about all the time. She finds a friend in her new colleague Lisa, but when one of their regular customers turns up dead, everything goes sideways faster than a greased hog at the county fair . . .

Fronteras del infinito es una recopilación de tres relatos en los que se exploran temas de gran interés social: los prejuicios sociales y sus consecuencias, el antirracismo nacido en torno a la manipulación genética y una conjunción de religión, supervivencia y estrategia militar.

Sybylla Melvyn is well known to the tens of thousands who have read her first work, MY BRILLIANT CAREER. In this sequel, however, the REAL Sybylla emerges - a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity to overnight fame. The publication of her novel has been a success, fashionable Sydney society lionises her and innumerable suitors pay court. Once again Sybylla recounts her experiences with spirit, sensitivity and forthrightness, emerging as an irrepressible, undaunted young woman, and a most exceptional Australian heroine.

Ten stories. Ten roads. And after traveling them, you may never look at a highway the same way again. Some roads take you home. Others hide stories that were never meant to be discovered. A wrong turn. A passenger who knows too much. A bridge with a decades-old secret. A route that seems impossible to escape. In Cursed Roads, the ordinary can become inexplicable with the next turn.

Vigilante War is a collection of action-packed cyberpunk short stories. Each volume is short, violent, and ends with a bang. With a daring approach to storytelling, the series will take listeners on a journey through the dark side of technology.

Sherezade decide contar la verdadera historia de Simbad el marino, confesando que la narrada en las 1001 noches anteriores no era la auténtica... Simbad conoce muchos futuros descubrimientos científicos a lo largo de sus viajes, y Sherezade describe lo que el marino observa: comarcas extraordinarias, plantas de propiedades extrañas, animales parásitos, trenes, incubadoras, autómatas, la máquina de Babbage, el electrotipo, las pilas, experimentos de física, etc.

“This stunning collection from one of the great writers on Black culture covers the gamut: aging, love, poverty, trauma and plenty of lightness in between.”—People From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale comes a remarkable...

Provocations of the spirit world leave us no alternative but to welcome the modern Western prose of David Randall Shorey, and his story about the legendary anti-hero known as Mojave Miles. This tale tells us that the only war worth fighting is for the protection of wayward ladies and no-good horses! Never officially ordained as a vigilante, his vengeance on the Amargosa was accepted as having been handed down by sage angels.

Rachel Kramer Bussel's newest collection brings to life the popular fantasy of having sex on an airplane, from commercial jets to private planes and even aboard Air Force One. Couples and strangers alike manage to find ways to surreptitiously get each other off as they fly the friendly skies, spicing up their sex lives with a dash of exhibitionism, excitement, and danger. In these steamy stories, readers encounter seductions by strangers, naughty flight attendants and perverted pilots, a female flying instructor who takes two male students under her wing, and a couple who take advantage of the latest in in-flight technology.

April Jensen doesn't believe in romance - and she certainly doesn't believe in marriage. However, when she finds out her best friend is getting hitched in Las Vegas, she gives in and hops aboard a plane for a long flight to Sin City for the weekend.

Per la ballerina Anya, la danza è tutto. Il suo corpo è il suo strumento, sul quale ha padronanza assoluta; non perde mai il controllo di se stessa né del suo corpo. Almeno fino a un'estate rovente, quando conosce un maestro di danza da New York che sconvolge del tutto il suo equilibrio... Questo racconto è pubblicato in collaborazione con la produttrice cinematografica svedese Erika Lust. Il suo scopo è quello di raffigurare la natura umana e la diversità attraverso storie di passione, intimità, lussuria e amore, in una fusione di trame avvincenti ed erotismo.