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A fascinating and varied collection of 50 great classic short stories, including ghost stories, crimes, humorous tales and passionate romance.

Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered “what if?”. What if Sherman had fought for the South in the US Civil War? What if Germany had fought to the end in World War I? What if World War III had actually happened? Wonder no more, for these questions, along with many others, are answered in this audiobook.

Healer born of mercy, forged in fire—Alaia’s magic may be the last hope in an age of fear. The Inquisitor has taken over Ea and executed innocent women for witchcraft. Now Alaia's father is dying from lung disease. Alaia is a gifted healer and can cure him given enough time, but instead she must disappear, because the Inquisitor has accused her of practicing magic.

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

This is the story of an old man who is given special powers that he never asked for and the adventures he encounters while trying to use them to save the people that are dear to him. It is 1965, and the beautiful Taino named Guabonito finally meets with Dr. Domo again. She helped him 30 years earlier when he was a young navy diver, lying unconscious in a hospital bed in Puerto Rico after an underwater attack by a menacing sea monster. While on a school trip to the Dominican Republic, she lures the professor away from his university students and his wife.

Five years ago, Arielle’s dream life with Caleb was derailed when he left for Boston in search of work. Only, he never made it and turned up dead. Now, Arielle struggles to piece together what happened, while raising their daughter Ianthe alone. A mysterious stranger shows up and suggests that Ianthe might know what happened to Caleb. Only, Ianthe has never met her father.

A terrifying collection of classic Victorian short stories about ghosts, werewolves and vampires. The Wolf Book by Henry Chapman Mercer. Number Ninety by B. M. Croker. Ken's Mystery by Julian Hawthorne. The Piano Next Door by Elia W. Peattie. The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat. The Horla by Guy de Maupassant. Absolute Evil by Julian Hawthorne. Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson.

Read by the author. Wall Street Journal Bestseller Develop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you for the job you were made to have. A recent Harvard Business Review article...

A common assumption about investors is that they don't care who wins as long as they're making money. For some investors, this mindset still rings true. Yet, many investors today want to make money and do good. Using a user-friendly format and insights from noted investment professionals, Sustainable Investing: What Everyone Needs to Know demystifies sustainable investing. By covering everything from the changing investment landscape and the roles of social and religious values in finance to how to build a portfolio with purpose, the authors provide an essential introduction.

An affirming and sex-positive guide to working with sex workers: uncovering clinical biases, creating safe spaces, and dismantling the whorearchy. Therapy fails sex workers. Despite the wide range of sex work--from street-based to OnlyFans--clinicians too often focus on what they think sex...

As nursemaid to the eight-year-old Duke of Kielder, Robbie will spend her holidays with her young charge as a guest of Lord and Lady Jonquil. While the couple makes the child’s holiday magical, the handsome gardener works his own magic on Nurse Robbie’s heart. A Christmas house party offers two members of the ton an irresistible weekend of anonymity. But their charade comes with unexpected romantic consequences. Alice Hunt is searching for a Christmas miracle: a husband of her choosing. With the threat of an arranged marriage looming, she looks to an unlikely matchmaker for help.

Mystery surrounds a certain Mr. Karswell. He has purchased an old abbey, is a known alchemist, and has written a ludicrous history of witchcraft. Are these mysterious behaviors those of an irascible eccentric or a coldhearted murderer?

Over 80 percent of Americans under the age of 43 are stressed about money, especially during this unprecedented inflation, according to the American Psychological Association. You could blame the pandemic or the collapse of the economy, but blaming something you can’t control only hurts your peace of mind.

Human cloning. Technology evolves faster than we do. The law shields us from our worst temptations. But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach - perfection and ascension or delusion and destruction. The choice is ours. In this collection of clone-themed stories, 10 of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality and built-in societal restraints and reflect upon our state of grace. Similar is not necessarily the same.

An alien virus has ravaged the world. Survivors may draw an ace and receive superpowers, or the joker and become bizarrely mutated. And yet love still reigns supreme. Superheroes and villains do battle over the human heart in this anthology set in the Wild Cards universe.

M.R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered among the finest in the genre. The seven stories in this Volume One are: "A School Story", "Rats", "A Warning to the Curious", "Two Doctors", "The Haunted Doll's House", "Casting the Runes", "There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard".

Un grido spezza la quiete di Mircester e la camminata di salute che Agatha Raisin sta facendo nella pausa pranzo. Sono stati i signori Swinburn a gridare e ne avevano ben donde: davanti a loro, disteso sull'erba, c'è infatti il cadavere di un uomo. Si chiamava Harold Nelson, però tutti lo conoscevano come l'Ammiraglio, ed era noto non soltanto per la sua passione per le bocce, ma soprattutto per la sua spiccata tendenza ad alzare il gomito in ogni occasione, pubblica e privata.

When I planned my escape from Alfemir's cruelty and tight grip on the angels who live there, I never dared to think about returning. But that version of me is dead. My father and the other Archangels have no idea who, or what, I have become in my time away, and if they want to drag me back screaming, they have another thing coming. When scouts find the Rebellion camp and blood stains the ground of our new home, we are left with no choice but to create a plan. A plan to extinguish Alfemir and all they stand for.

Robert Michael Ballantyne was one of the most popular adventure story writers during Victoria's reign. He believed that boys should grow up taking risks, and his hero, Martin Rattler, certainly has a thrilling time in this tale. Aunt Dorothy Grumbit thinks him a very bad boy, but Martin possesses all the manly virtues that one expects from a Ballantyne hero, and the story has all the traditional elements of a rollicking yarn: jolly jack tars, pirates, shipwreck, travel up the Amazon, diamond mines and capture by savage tribes.

A third collection of 18 classic tales of the weird and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.