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Even heroes need a vacation—preferably one with good ale.Archibold Stormblood once saved kingdoms, slew demon lords, and carved his name into legend. Now he just wants to keep his tavern open, his ale cold, and his barmaids from brawling with the patrons.

He’s barely set foot in the city when someone recognizes him as Archibold Stormblood, the immortal hero of legend. Worse, a lieutenant of the local crime lord overhears the exchange. Not exactly the best way to start a vacation. Charm, his companion, watches with her usual unreadable calm. She doesn’t raise her voice, but her rebukes cut like a blade. To her, his plan is reckless, foolish, and bound to fail.

In "The Time Machine", Davis offers us both the story of the reunion and the collectively remembered story of his classmates' senior year. In 1962, Waynesville, North Carolina, was that small town where the school principal also served as a teacher, the football coach, and the Sunday-school superintendent. One classmate spends his time in the bar wishing for a time machine, so he can go back to his teenage years with his accumulated experience.

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to both defend the love of his life and earn the money to buy her freedom, Gabriel makes a decision: freedom for just his own family would not be enough.

Maisy Lewis has grown up living in the shadows of her famous brother. At eighteen-years-old she's a dedicated gymnast who has spent every moment she can training to be perfect. Unintentionally, she's allowed the sport to take over her life, much like her brother did with acting. With no time for anything or anyone else, she's starting to wonder if her planned out future is worth it anymore.

Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. Why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future - or feel as if she even deserves one - when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself?

Deutschland, 1933: Ernst Lossa stammt aus einer Familie von "Jenischen", Zigeuner, wie man damals sagte. Er gilt als schwieriges Kind, wird von Heim zu Heim geschoben, bis er schließlich in die psychiatrische Anstalt in Kaufbeuren eingewiesen wird. Hier nimmt sein Leben die letzte, schreckliche Wendung: Obgleich geistig völlig gesund, wird Ernst Lossa 1944 die Todespritze verabreicht. Der Autor berichtet aus der Perspektive des Jungen. Er macht die Denkstrukturen des NS-Regimes sichtbar und berichtet von der damit einhergehenden Ideologie der Euthanasie.

In the hills of Appalachia, humor and wisdom are mixed up forever in funny, wise stories that seem to grow more lustrous with each telling. Here are two of the best.

Welcome to the world of Murcia. If you're here, then you're dead. Join two souls as they explore the afterlife. But there's a caveat...they have no memory of their life before. This is the start of a journey to discover what it really means to be alive.

W.C. Jameson takes his listeners back to a time when the six-gun was king, life was cheap, and many a bandit died before recovering his stolen loot. Jameson, a folklorist, musician, and environmentalist, has been on close to two hundred expeditions for lost stashes of gold, silver, or other treasures.

Grandma's house was a magical place, and in this vivid memoir, Donald Davis makes it possible for each of us to go back to our own grandma's kitchen, clutter room, living room, and to that immeasurable bed that seemed to swallow us whole.

Two new Appalachian stories from the author of the award-winning Listening for the Crack of Dawn - an ideal introduction to contemporary storytelling for adults. Both stories are based upon real people. In the first, a disastrous birthday enables a child to learn more than an adult possibly could. In the second, two unusual people live their conviction that people are more important than things.

If you're looking for the scariest stories you can get your hands on, your search is over. Accomplished storyteller Roberta Simpson Brown unfolds her thrilling stories for listeners of all ages.

Rex M. Ellis weaves the strands of African folklore, early American history, and contemporary interpretations into the rich quilt that is the African-American experience.

These shivery tales were collected from the oral tradition, from people all over the Southwest, and represent the rich cultural diversity of the region, from the Ozarks to the Rio Grande, California to the Big Thicket.