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A cantankerous old woman is charged with aiding a young girl. A male dryad finds his place in the world. Paralyzed from the neck down, a teenage sculpting prodigy is given a new opportunity to pursue her art again. A Victorian professor journeys across England to lecture on evolution, only to walk into trouble at every turn.

Infused with gentle optimism, these 15 uncompromising stories explore themes of sacrifice and hope in domestic relationships. At once dark, poignant, and witty, All Because of You depicts intimately and honestly the travails and heroic responses of women and men confronting the pith of their lives.

A boy seeks cosmic revenge on the adults in his life. The darkest of carnivals rolls into the neighborhood. The Devil haunts a man’s entire life in a possession story unlike anything you’ve ever listened to. A Nazi officer is tormented by time’s most cursed seductress. The whole world is truly held in the hands of Gods - and much more.

These 10 short stories feature some of the homicide cases investigated by the South Side Precinct’s best homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales. In this riveting collection, you'll find cases of murder, revenge, greed, and insanity, with a hint of the supernatural thrown in as a bonus.

The Razorblades are dirty. They play dirty. They fight dirty. When the Razors wreck the Top Boys' head-quarters, that's it. The Top Boys are going to get them - they're going to make the Razors eat dirt. But they need help. They need another Top Boy NOW! Someone real tough, someone who can out-skate the Razors, out-think them and out-fight them. Is Dixie the answer?

Dark humor, dread, and despair—this collection of short stories has it all. Some will make you smile wryly; others will creep you out. All will inspire your dark imaginings.

Unleashing Your Super Powers are unique short stories that inspires children to believe in themselves and their abilities, while teaching values such as teamwork, kindness, and perseverance.

A cabinetmaker, private investigator, journalist, mystery lady, homemaker, police officer, true-crime writer, and flavorist. Between them they witness, investigate, perpetrate, and are victims of serious crime. Murder in the midst of carjacking, fraud, statutory rape, theft, vindictive bullying, and serial arson.

A girl with a canister of pepper spray. A guy with an odd recurring dream. A tiny colony of nervous California sea lions. They all come together in Dana Point Harbor.

When Teresa Tamworth gives birth to only one female piglet in her litter, it causes a sensation among the animals at the Rare Breeds Survival Centre. Young Triffic's independent and boisterous ways soon arouse the disapproval of the others.

Dudley is a very friendly dinosaur, but he is a Tyrannosaurus rex. All the other dinosaurs are afraid of him. Can Dudley convince the other dinosaurs he is friendly? Follow the adventures of Dudley the dinosaur and find out.

After the smoke clears from the gym, Coach Andy Zuelke is found dead on a bench press. Niki Dupre must sort through the stories given by the boys, and their coaches, with the help of Livingston Parish Detective Hardee Wild. She discovers the two assistant coaches were about to be fired. They rise to the top of the suspect list.

Most people only have a few folks who would prefer them dead. In Warner’s case, everyone he met felt that way. When Mindy Thomas’s boyfriend is charged with murder, she turns to Wade for help. He soon learns that the victim was disliked by almost everyone he met. In debt and on the verge of divorce, his reputation was questionable, to say the least.

Welcome to the Gothic London of the 1800s. These saucy tales quicken the pulse, thrill the mind, and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach. Short stories featured in this sweet confection of blood, sex, and Gothic melodrama include "Holmes of the Baskervilles", "Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire", "Joan Dark Is Lost", and "The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass". Here, vampires walk the streets and your favorite characters from Victorian literature are twisted until they snap.

Amaranthine and Other Stories serves up nine schlock horror slices, sprinkled with quirk and humor. Forget vampires. Forget werewolves. Forget ghosts. Humans are the ultimate grotesques. Variant flavours of woe sift through this audiobook. The results are sometimes hilarious, sometimes outright hair-raising.

Ambjorn and his wife, Jofrid, face death eye-to-eye when the peace of their home village is shattered. Thrown into a game where every move carries high consequence, every choice could be their last. But is it possible to win when playing against forces beyond your own comprehension?

Back to Basics and Other Stories is an eclectic mix of 20 stories from Giles Ekins, author of Sinistrari and Gallows Walk. This anthology includes the whimsical, award-winning "Back to Basics", the comedic "Call Me Ruby", and "A Long, Long, Finish". Historical tales in the collection include the acclaimed "Shadows of a Dream", "The Lemonade Stall", and "Portents", while "As It Was, as It Is", is a tongue-in-cheek satire on student life in the 1980’s.

Carmella always knew she would find the love of her life in an exotic foreign country. But there’s a deadly catch to it, in “Souvenir”. Watching archaeologists unearth a mummified Iron Age corpse from a Danish bog gives a college professor an idea…how to commit the perfect murder, in “Bog Bodies”.

Una anciana cascarrabias está acusada de ayudar a una joven. Una dríada masculina encuentra su lugar en el mundo. Paralizada del cuello para abajo, un adolescente prodigio de la escultura tiene una nueva oportunidad de seguir con su arte. Un profesor victoriano viaja por Inglaterra para dar una conferencia sobre la evolución, solo para meterse en problemas a cada paso. En esta ecléctica mezcla de historias, que abarcan ficción histórica, realismo mágico, contemporáneo y ciencia ficción, El Bardo solo enseña una cosa: viaja con las palabras y descubre adónde te llevan.

Sucia Oscuridad son 10 historias de la corriente de los asuntos humanos, para los que nos sentimos magnéticamente atraídos por lo apasionado, lo extraño y lo espantoso. Prepárese para conocer a la pareja de luna de miel que se encuentra con desolación en México; a Zack, el asesino colegial enamorado de una belleza del circo; a Miguel, que resulta ser inesperadamente peligroso; a la Rata Gigante de Sumatra, el asesino a sueldo más cruel del negocio, y a Phoebe, quizá la mujer más extraña, y seguramente la más inteligente, de la ficción.