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In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Love is good. It’s positive, a source of joy, nourishment and all over goodness. But sometimes other more malevolent forces come to play. They infect that love, they see their form as better. Instinctively we would shy away but sometimes its pull is too powerful, almost attractive. We are drawn closer into the shadows.

By the time this is all over, she'll know what it's like to kill, or what it's like to die – the stunning conclusion to the Hunters Ridge series. Mia Morgan doesn't let anything get to her. After freeing herself from an obsessive boss and saving loved ones from a serial killer, she feels like...

Robert Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland on the 16th September 1849. Five years later the family emigrated to a farm near Muirkirk in Upper Canada. Although a number of his crime novels and short stories are parodies on Sherlock Holmes and other best-selling detectives of the time, he also wrote short stories across a whole range of subjects and genres usually with intriguing ideas and many laced with wit and humour.

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the...

Robert Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland on the 16th September 1849. Five years later the family emigrated to a farm near Muirkirk in Upper Canada. Although a number of his crime novels and short stories are parodies on Sherlock Holmes and other best-selling detectives of the time, he also wrote short stories across a whole range of subjects and genres usually with intriguing ideas and many laced with wit and humour.

Once seen as a powerful tool for collaboration, idea creation and decision-making, ‘the meeting’ has evolved into something many people dread. Now is the time to re-imagine ‘the meeting’ to unlock its true potential once again.

In this volume our classic authors conjure up all sorts of damnations and destructions in literary assaults testing our will to survive and our ingenuity to overcome situations where the outlook is bleak at best and the total extinction of us at worse.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

New York City, 1932: Eva Le Gallienne is trying to save her theatre company from the jaws of the Depression by mounting an innovative new production of Alice in Wonderland. She agrees to give a radio interview for the sake of publicity, but while revisiting the moments that shaped her career...

Por que temos o costume de dar importância apenas ao lugar mais alto do pódio? Por que somos tão obcecados pela perfeição? Será que nessa busca incessante pela excelência não estamos deixando de lado valores mais importantes, como a compaixão e a cooperação? Instigado por essas questões, o psiquiatra Daniel Martins de Barros se deparou com os lemas do Arcadismo, um antigo movimento artístico e literário que exaltava a simplicidade, a moderação e a reflexão.

Peter az elveszett fiúk vezére, a kalózok rettegett ellensége, a büszke, pimasz, örök gyermek, berepül a nyitott ablakon, Sohaországba viszi Wendyt és két testvérét, akik hosszú időt töltenek az Elveszett fiúk szigetén. Megismerik Giling Galangot, Hook kapitányt és a kalózokat, de a rengeteg kaland után mégis hazavágynak.

Incapaz de guardar reposo pese a sus alucinaciones y desvanecimientos, Quirke regresa al trabajo en la morgue de Dublín. Es a él a quien llaman cuando aparece un cuerpo en el interior de un coche calcinado: todo apunta al suicidio de un funcionario advenedizo, pero Quirke no puede quitarse de la cabeza la sospecha de que algo no encaja. La única testigo se ha esfumado, han borrado todo rastro de ella.

Dive into the enchanting realm of childhood wonder and adventure with "Story of Peter Pan," a podcast that celebrates the timeless themes of imagination, friendship, and the magic of never growing up. Each episode features a new complete audiobook, transporting listeners to the whimsical world of Peter Pan, Wendy, and the Lost Boys, while exploring stories that capture the essence of youthful escapades and the allure of the fantastical. This rotating collection unveils a variety of narratives that evoke the spirit of adventure, reminding us of the joy and innocence of childhood. As we traverse...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Utterly gripping. . . a transformative and immersive story so powerful and captivating that I could not put it down. . . . Truly one of the best books I’ve read.” —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish “Lisa Barr's new historical fiction...

Peter Pan ist die Hauptfigur einiger Kindergeschichten von James Matthew Barrie und dort das einzige Kind, das niemals erwachsen wird. Peter Pan lebt im Nimmerland, ist eine fiktive Insel. Er ist Anführer der "verlorenen Jungs“, einer Gruppe von Jungen. Pans Gegenspieler ist der Anführer der Piraten, Captain Hook. Nimmerland ist der Haupthandlungsort an dem Kinder niemals erwachsen werden. Hier wohnen Elfen, Piraten, Indianer, Meerjungfrauen und natürlich Kinder. In Nimmerland muss man nur an etwas glauben, damit es passiert.

Marilyn Monroe has been gone for over sixty years, and yet people are still talking about her. What, exactly, is the spell she casts on so many? Stunning, exciting to watch, incredibly famous, Monroe lived a very public life and died young, with a sad suddenness. All of this is true, and yet there is so much more to her story. On Marilyn Monroe: An Opinionated Guide looks past the sensation to the real legacy—her richly varied body of work. 

La madrugada en que el cuerpo de Jimmy Minor aparece flotando en las oscuras aguas del canal, ni Quirke ni su hija Phoebe pueden intuir hasta qué punto esa muerte va a remover sus propias vidas. Mientras Phoebe abre los ojos a una sensualidad desconocida, la investigación arrastra a Quirke de regreso al infierno de su infancia en el orfanato católico de Carricklea. ¿Podrá descubrir qué callan los muros de Trinity Manor? Y si lo consigue, ¿será capaz de sobrevivir a la herida de los propios recuerdos y regresar a la superficie?

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. Whether they hail from the Lowlands or the Highlands, to be a Scottish author is to part of a quite an extraordinary band of authors and its literary traditions. These beguiling stories example the full range and majesty of their talents and the subjects they explore.

Rir é um ato instintivo que praticamos desde bebês. É uma forma universal de comunicação. De um jeito ou de outro, todo mundo ri. Mesmo assim, sabemos muito pouco sobre o assunto. O que nos faz rir? Gargalhar realmente faz bem à saúde? O riso é contagioso? Por que certas pessoas riem tanto de coisas que outras consideram tão sem graça?

Joachim Mukangoma, demandeur d'asile rwandais en France, confie à l'écrivain Jean-Louis Delayet la vérité sur le meurtre camouflé du journaliste et reporter français Richard Grideau. Ce dernier, dans un contexte de forte tension diplomatique, s'était rendu au Rwanda pour effectuer un reportage sur la détention d'un Franco-Rwandais dans la prison de Kigali. Séquestré et torturé à mort par la suite, son corps fut abandonné sur le lieu d'un attentat.