Classics Collection

Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh—these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology—from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes. This unique anthology presents the largest collection of these tales ever assembled.

Available as a value box set (Frontier Valentine Romance Complete Series) amazon.com/dp/B083VSS4PD (copy and paste the link into your browser) Bertha Gertrum has no notions about love. When she meets rude and arrogant Jesse and learns he is her mail order fiancé, she isn’t pleased. However, there is something about Jesse that makes her pause and rethink. There’s something hollow in him, just like there is in her. And he’s so patient with her and her alone. So kind. With nightmares plaguing his dreams after the war, bounty hunter Jesse chooses to settle down in the small town near his...

Available as a value box set (Pioneer Wilderness Romance Complete Series) amazon.com/dp/B0743DNQTG (copy and paste the link into your browser) Meet Sarah Wainwright, she lost her husband, just a week shy of their first anniversary in an accident at the glass factory in downtown Pittsburgh. She was once a happy and contented wife, but now here she is. A twenty-year-old widow, a baby on the way, with no prospects and no income. She felt shattered and broken beyond repair. Far from home with no way to support herself, no relatives to ask for help. She felt hopeless until she saw an ad for mail...

Holly loves living in her small mountain town of Whitefish, Montana, treasures her beading business, and longs to fall in love. When she meets a handsome stranger at the Falling Leaves Festival who is inspired by her treasured creations, she starts to wonder if all her dreams just might come true. This book bundle includes seven short stories from the bestselling Montana Dreams series. THE FRIENDLIEST FESTIVAL (6 pages, 1700 words) Holly doesn’t want to give up on her dreams, but does that mean she’ll have to give up on love? THE DELIGHTFUL DINNER (25 pages, 5200 words) Holly is beyond ...

With vivid characters and an hysterically funny choice of words, Rudyard Kipling’s beloved stories “explain” how camels got humps, great whales got tiny throats, elephants got trunks, and more. These time-tested classics cause us to look at accepted qualities in new and creative ways, and even better, make us laugh out loud. With his menagerie of voices and warm, witty narrative presence, Jim Weiss brings Kipling’s own words to life.

All effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's 3 basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric. In Poetics, Aristotle draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. This collection also includes Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic.

Faith will guide them, forgiveness will heal them, and love will promise them both a future they could never have dreamed of. Thanksgiving dinner turns tragic as Willow’s past comes back to haunt her. Racing against time, Cade has to figure out how to save his family, clear Willow’s name, and rescue the dreams they’ve started to build together Read all the books in Seven Billionaire Cowboy Brothers at Christmas Wilmont Lodge Romance series by bestselling authors Brenda Clemmons and Katie Wyatt! Book 1Lucie’s Billionaire Cowboy Grace Book 2 Mackenzie’s Billionaire Cowboys Rebirth ...

Prince Everard’s father spent the boy's youth forging him into a warrior. Upon the king’s death, however, Everard realizes he’s lost himself somewhere along the way, and in his pain, makes a rash decision that brings a dark curse upon both him and the great Fortress that has so long guarded the people of Destin.

This enticing ensemble of children’s classic stories with sound effects and original songs features a full cast of voice actors, including multi-award-winning voice talent Barbara Rosenblat and ATC Seneca Award-nominee Georgia Lee Schultz. Included in the collection are Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and International Radio Festival-winner Scourge of the Desert.

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B0862F2BLM(copy and paste the link into your browser) Mail-order bride Belle Hardcourt loves to bake. It’s her most favorite thing in the world to make mouthwatering morsels. Newly engaged to Jonas Hardcourt, a cattle rancher she met through a marriage service, she finds Chapman’s Forge an easy market for her yummy offerings. Unfortunately, Belle doesn’t realize she’s stepping on some toes as she begins to win devoted fans for her cooking. And in the meantime, as trouble brews for Belle, Jonas’ cattle begin to sicken and die, poisoned by ...

World-renowned pianist Gloria Banderas is at the height of her career when a curious ailment forces her to cancel a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. The same day, she befriends one of the many free-spirited artists inhabiting the warren of apartments above the theater. With her career and marriage at a standstill, Gloria moves into an empty studio and convalesces among the poets, photographers, and dancers who eke out a living with total dedication to their art. As a return to her old routine beckons, Gloria must decide which parts of her life are worth fighting for.

Richard Burton reads from Hardy and Donne, and performs a wonderful unabridged version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (along with Robert Hardy and John Neville).

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story. This collection includes "The Man Who Would Be King", "The Mark of the Beast", "Rikki Tikki Tavi", and "Just So Stories".

Science Fiction Stories 7 by Various Authors is a captivating anthology of science fiction short stories that transport readers to extraordinary realms, exploring dystopian futures, post-apocalyptic landscapes, and thrilling adventures in space. Discover the Unknown In "Cosmic Passage," follow Sanders as he navigates a spaceship mystery that challenges his leadership and sanity. Experience the psychological tension in "Journey," where Chilton Babin encounters a mystical child and embarks on an extraordinary adventure. Delve into "Bow Your Head!" and witness a world where societal norms are ...

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When this groundbreaking serialized dramatization premiered on 320 U.S. radio stations, critics were unanimous in their praise. It won numerous honors including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Pulitzer Prize for broadcasting. Never before or since has such an ambitious undertaking been attempted in public radio, and it was accomplished, not by a major network, but by a small nonprofit independent producer in Chicago. That was in 1981. It has been sitting on the shelf ever since.

This is volume two of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1927 through 1935. (Poems, ghostwritten material, and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)

In The Call of the Wild, Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog that is rescued from its brutal owner and gradually becomes domesticated through the patience and kindness of its new owner. Lost Face (Including Other Short Stories) is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London.

Danny se siente orgulloso de su padre. Está convencido de que es el mejor del mundo, hasta que una noche descubre su gran secreto. A pesar de todo, Danny está decidido a ayudar a su padre y a mantener la hermosa relación de amor y complicidad que les une.

Many of the tales collected in "Mosses from an Old Manse" are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review about Hawthorne and his "Mosses": "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond."