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An exhausted mother decides to take part in a pilot program where a robot takes care of her children after school—cooking, cleaning, and helping with homework. The only problem? The robot just might be too good at her job.

Emily does not like change—she spends each day working as a children’s librarian and every evening watching television with her cat, Miss Marple. She maintains her house exactly the way it was before her father died. But one day, a mysterious theft at the library pushes Emily out of her routine, forcing her to question if she really is better off all alone.

Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.

A World War I soldier writes a love note to his pregnant wife, puts it in a bottle and drops it in the English Channel. Decades later a fisherman finds it and delivers the message to the daughter the soldier never got to meet. Although this heart-warming tale is fiction, it is based on real-life events.

In 2004, Mark Leslie released his first collection of chilling fiction and disturbing poetry in a volume called One Hand Screaming. Twenty years later, this special anniversary edition that is more than twice as long as the original includes all the stories and poems from the first edition plus new ones published in the past 20 years along with all new pieces crafted specifically for this volume. This collection includes previously published award-nominees alongside original and never-before published works.

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to digest.

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.

Sounds good? The author thinks so, too. Listen to Short Story Collection, Vol. 077 today.

A young man caught in a time loop has to figure out how to convince his crush—a barista at his favorite coffee ship—to go out with him so he can escape the loop. After a series of mortifying and hilarious attempts, he finally realizes the only approach he hasn’t tried is to simply be himself.

She left him at the altar. Now she’s the uninvited guest in his garden. When Lilias Crampton unexpectedly returns to society, she never intends to cross paths with Abraham Warren, the man she once nearly married. But fate, and a country house party, have other plans. Abraham is now betrothed to another, and yet the sight of Lilias stirs everything he thought he’d buried. As whispered gossip trails them and summer roses bloom around every awkward silence, old wounds begin to ache again. Neither of them expected a second chance. Especially not in full view of his new fiancée. In a world ...

He is her matchmaker. She is his worst client. At 32, Diana is battle-worn from the modern dating trenches. Sarcasm is her armor. Signed up for a matchmaking service by her best friend, she braces for disappointment. But then she meets Nate—the charming matchmaker who believes she deserves more. Too bad he is completely off limits... or is he? This laugh-out-loud romcom is a standalone novella in The Matchmaker Files—a series of interconnected romances set inside a modern matchmaking agency. You’ll love it if you like: Cinnamon roll heroes Grumpy-meets-sunshine vibes (grumpy heroine) ...

Fifteen-year-old Bren doesn’t scare easily, especially since her father left, making her head of the house. So when a group of kids dare each other to pass through a tunnel rumored to be haunted by a train that steals people away to "the Nevermore," Bren steps up. But when she reaches the other end of the tunnel, more than she bargained for awaits. For fans of “kids on bikes” ‘80s-style horror.

The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet", King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

Meet the writers’ room of the kid’s show Rooty Root Vegetables, which struggles to find humor in carbon emissions and climate change. Then things get punny.

A master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. "I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."

¿Alguna vez has sentido que caminas como un fantasma por tu propia ciudad? En esta adaptación contemporánea y luminosa del clásico de Dostoyevski, dos almas solitarias se encuentran durante las noches blancas de verano—cuando el sol apenas se esconde y los sueños parecen más reales que el día. Él es un soñador que vive más en su imaginación que en la realidad.

Kim Kowalski’s good friend Nikki Crescent invites her to an epic Halloween party, so Kim decides to have a little fun with her husband. James has no idea of Kim’s plans until the last minute, but his wife has every intention of turning him into a girl for the event. Kim is beyond excited to have her husband all dressed up and womanly, but neither of them knows what's coming their way when Kim drags James through the party doors.

Summer Greer prefers manicures to nights under the stars. But when her best friend invites her to a wilderness adventure camp, it seems like the perfect way to get over her ex and find a no-strings, summer fling to punch her v-card once and for all. Cue the tequila shots, a pair of Daisy Dukes, a rude local, and a hot savior pretending to be her brother and her reckless summer heats up fast. Adventure junkie and single dad Price Webber has only one woman in his life and that’s how he likes it. His six-year-old daughter is his only focus outside of being the new director of Camp Wanderlust...

Memoirs From The Druze is a collection of three short stories: Retribution, Nexus and Points South. The actions within each story range widely, but have one thing in common: the Warlock drives the strategy, and the outcomes offer the enemies of America uncharted dilemmas. Operatives do not just pop out of the ground; they are carefully selected and trained, the curation process overseen by the Warlock’s cadre, ‘Cuda and the Eldar. Through activities such as skydiving, off-road driving, terminal control of dropped ordnance and tradecraft, the Druze is forged to be only one thing: an ...