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On the 20th anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international best seller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or–winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, "the Romeo and Juliet of the South".

La literatura dominicana ha explotado, y para bien, con una generación diversa y sin ataduras que escribe de adentro hacia afuera y de afuera hacia adentro. Esta selección de Rita Indiana lo demuestra incuestionablemente, al congregar autores diaspóricos y nacionales, y revelar la diversidad creativa de una mirada caribeña, cosmopolita y, a la vez, no convencional. Se trata de una literatura que —como apunta Lorgia García Pena en el prólogo de este libro— corona "la dominicanidad como una vaina que se lleva en el cuerpo más allá de las fronteras nacionales y políticas de la isla".

Depuis quarante jours, il marchait, cherchant partout du travail. Il avait quitté son pays, Ville-Avaray, dans la Manche, parce que l'ouvrage manquait. Compagnon charpentier, âgé de vingt-sept ans, bon sujet, vaillant, il était resté pendant deux mois à la charge de sa famille, lui, fils aîné, n'ayant plus qu'à croiser ses bras vigoureux, dans le chômage général. Le pain devint rare dans la maison ; les deux sœurs allaient en journée, mais gagnaient peu.

Diese etwas anderen Weihnachtsgeschichten zeigen auf erstaunliche Weise, was die aktuellste KI bereits zu leisten im Stande ist. Die Kurzgeschichten nicht nur den Stand der aktuellen Leistungsfähigkeit künstlicher Intelligenzen abbilden, sondern gleichzeitig auch noch lustig und leicht verständlich geschrieben sind. Auch für die Erstellung des Hörbuchs nutzte der Verlag eine künstliche Intelligenz. Die sogenannte TTS-Produktion dieses Titels zeigt die atemberaubende Entwicklung der letzten Jahre im Bereich der Audioproduktion mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz.

This book is a diverse collection of short stories based on both fantasy and embellished facts. Although they are short stories, the plots and happenings will stick in your mind and the memories will not be short, although some will cause laughter and others wonder. I am very sure that you will read some of these stories more than once. In fact, I bet you!

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world’s best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett’s long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series.

"To Build a Fire" is the best known of all London's stories. It tells the story of a new arrival to the Klondike who stubbornly ignores warnings about the folly of traveling alone. He falls through the ice into a creek in 70-below weather, and his survival depends on being able to build a fire and dry his clothes - which he is unable to do. The famous version of this story was published in 1908.

Jack Reacher, ex-military drifter of no fixed abode, is stalked and tracked down by an FBI agent. She tells him that in a house raid in Sydney, Australian law enforcement found a list. There were four people on it, including him. The other three are dead. Hours later, Reacher is in the air, on his way to Sydney. What was the evil buried 25 years ago that has now resurfaced? Will Reacher be able to find the killers before they find him?

In “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The Property of a Lady” Bond deciphers the elaborate codes of a Sotheby’s bidding war in order to catch a KGB agent. “007 in New York” takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex-agent of her boyfriend’s secret KGB affiliation. And “The Living Daylights” sends Bond to Berlin to protect a British agent before an assassin strikes.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a realm of energy. Stories that ignite the human spirit and touch the soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908: This popular classic work by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery is unabridged. If you enjoy the works of L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery then we highly recommend this audiobook.

The Seed of McCoy written by Jack London: The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe. As his eyes came level with the rail, so that he could see inboard, it seemed to him that he saw a dim, almost indiscernible haze. It was more like an illusion, like a blurring film that had spread abruptly over his eyes.

Ein Betrunkener wird vom Nebel verschluckt. Ein Jüngling, der den Ansprüchen des Vaters nicht genügt, sucht umsonst Trost auf einer wilden Party. Ein 50-Jähriger wird durch den Tod seines ehemaligen Lehrers aus der Bahn geworfen. Ein gelangweilter Sohn aus reichem Hause meldet sich zum Kriegsdienst. Zwei Brüder haben nur noch sich und ihre Fracks, in denen sie von einer Feier zur nächsten geraten. Und ein Künstler muss in seinem Atelier erst intensiv gesucht und dann samt seiner absonderlichen Theorien ertragen werden.

These Small Adventures Vol. 2 is the awaited sequel to These Small Adventures. With eleven new stories that bring forth new adventures, you will always be surprised by what comes next.

The storm arrives, unbidden yet unstoppable, sculpting the world in reckless white. The north wind, a faceless mason, works without plan or patience—bastions rise, wreaths drape, roads vanish. No symmetry, no restraint, only the wild hand of winter shaping chaos into fleeting grandeur. By dawn, the architect is gone. What remains is a frozen wonder, a masterpiece of whim and force, too perfect to last, too wild to be remade.

No meio da noite de São Paulo gritos podem ser ouvidos. "Pega Ladrão!", diz o rapaz que corre desesperado. A vizinhança atenta vai à rua e une a perseguição do gatuno, mas em meio a noite longa a pequena comunidade reacende prazeres adormecidos.

A pilot of a airmail flight battles a horrific snow storm in order to keep himself and a passenger alive.

Lucas Mead-Slayer has seen it all. Or at least that's what he thought after over a decade of wandering the wilderness of his homeland and embracing everything it had to throw at him. He's fought terrible monsters, plundered ancient catacombs, and caught the eye of many unique and interesting adventuresses. After arguably the most harrowing situation of his life, Lucas has decided to seek out a friend in her home forest, maybe take a vacation, get away from all the craziness. Only it doesn't work out that way.

The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select group of modern authors, inspired by classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and other novels and stories by the 19th-century master of “Extraordinary Voyages,” Jules Verne.

When a master thief's quest for vengeance collides with his former lover's transformed life, will the ghosts and doubts of the past overshadow their rekindled passion? Or will love find a way to ignite once more?