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The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

From Sunday Times best-selling author Ben Kane comes a collection of short stories.

"Crooken Sands" is a short fantasy/horror tale by the author of Dracula. The story follows a London merchant on a mysterious adventure in Scotland.

Jeff and his little brother, David, are alone. Their parents have disappeared along with the rest of the world, replaced by glowing blue orbs and a terrifying army of aliens. But the boys are survivors. Living in the tunnels beneath the White Sands military base, escaping from hungry aliens, and searching for supplies, they hatch a plan. The boys will fight back, and before they're through the white sands will run red with blood.

The Sand-Man (German: Der Sandmann, 1816) is a short story written in German by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces). The story is told by a narrator who claims to have known Lothar. It begins by quoting three letters.

In a post-apocalyptic world, the young healer Snake ventures into unknown lands during her proving year. Her genetically engineered rattlesnake and cobra provide vaccines and medicines, while the rare alien dreamsnake eases pain and suffering. Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand won SFWA's Nebula Award. It is the first chapter of Dreamsnake, which won the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.

This bundle edition collects the first three books in the Pearl Sands Beach Resort cozy series: Poison in Paradise, Clues in the Clay, and Theft in the Theater.

Survival is no salvation. In the heart of a cursed desert, Sergeant Gideon Ward leads a doomed convoy escorting a mysterious VIP and a sealed briefcase. Their cargo? A celestial Key—capable of opening a gate between worlds. Their pursuer? Remiel, a fallen angel made of smoke and judgment, commanding an army of the possessed.

En «El otro», el propio Borges se encuentra con su alter ego. «Ulrica» -su único relato de amor- cuenta la historia de un enamoramiento en apariencia efímero. «El Congreso» describe una empresa tan vasta que se confunde con el cosmos. «Undr» y «El espejo y la máscara» imaginan literaturas que constan de una sola palabra. «El libro de arena», en cambio, se centra en un volumen de incalculables hojas, monstruoso, que anida en la Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires: sin principio ni fin, infinito y eterno como toda la obra borgeana.

Amid new beginnings, can they open their hearts to discover love when they least expect it? After Ramona Fritz discovers that her ex-boyfriend has stolen her money, she’s ready for a fresh start. Fate takes control when a thrown dart leads her to Destiny, prompting her to pack her bags and hop into her truck, heading for the small beachside town. Brock Pierson may have paid the price for his sins, but those he loved are still gone. His current focus is on rebuilding his life, which doesn’t include absolution. A new beginning, along with an unexpected meeting, brings Brock and Ram together.

Set at a tropical luxury resort for shifters only, this quirky, fan-favorite series is a romantic thrill ride with humor and heart. Each book weaves into a compelling mystery about the island and the secrets that it’s hiding. A woman who is new to being a shifter, a handyman who can heal her heart, a dragon with a shameful secret, a mermaid with a seductive song, a beast, and a beauty. Come for the hot sand and cold drinks; stay for the love and laughs.

There's nothing like finding love in a vacation getaway! Four sweet, clean romances! The Sand Escape Resort Series box set features four books: The Billionaire Cook, The Billionaire Geek, The Billionaire Partner, and The Billionaire Tour Guide. Listen to these funny, heartwarming clean billionaire romances today!

Kimberly feels lost after her brother disappears from rehab and is frustrated that her parents blow off the incident. The discovery of his body destroys her world and the police chalk it up as another dead drug addict with mental health issues. His death doesn't even rate a news blurb. Every aspect of David's world seems out of his control... except when he gives in to the violent urges that have plagued him since childhood. When the newspapers catch wind of his murders, dubbing him the Sandcastle Killer, the infamy of being labeled a serial killer becomes a draw all its own.

Sable has always been like the sand-shifting—ungraspable, shaped by experience, yet never bound by it. Where others build certainty, she has trusted the quiet pull of intuition, choosing solitude over settling, truth over comfort, freedom over convention. But as time passes, the world's voices grow louder, questioning her choices, labeling her path as avoidance rather than wisdom.

I am nothing—nothing at all, just a single grain of sand, indistinguishable from millions of others. No thoughts, no purpose, no ambition. But that changed when I awoke and embarked on a journey. Upon my awakening, I was given form, consciousness, and a mission: to discover who—or what—I am. My holy quest: to defeat the forgotten stories that seek to destroy imagination... I moved from the quiet sands of the shore that birthed me to a library, from where I climbed the Stairs of Circular Logic. These stairs led to various paths, and on one, I danced with forgotten gods.

When a couple of young, listless losers pull off a Vegas’ slots casino heist and go on a wild run through the Mojave Desert, they find refuge in the cabin of an old man who has weathered many a decade. He tells them of an even greater score—the legend of a Spanish Galleon marooned in the desert sands that is filled with gold and jewelry.

"Crooken Sands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. It was first published in the UK in the December 1, 1894 issue of Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, London. Mr Arthur Fernlee Markam, who took what was known as the Red House above the Mains of Crooken, was a London merchant, and being essentially a cockney, thought it necessary when he went for the summer holidays to Scotland to provide an entire rig-out as a Highland chieftain, as manifested in chromolithographs and on the music-hall stage.

Reunite with some of your favorite characters on a tropical escape to a luxury resort for shifters only. Meet new shifters (and one confused human) who find love and family on the mysterious island of Shifting Sands.

« Nouvelles » de George Sand transporte les lecteurs dans un monde où l'amour, la nature et les attentes de la société se heurtent avec une grâce poétique. Dans ces pages, la prose éloquente de Sand tisse des récits de passion et d'adversité, capturant l'essence de la vie rurale française du XIXe siècle.

Hilarious and heartwarming, three standalone novellas and one short story return you to the beloved island of Shifting Sands Resort—or introduce you to it. In A Christmoose Story, hockey player Lars is desperate to impress the shy, bookish caribou shifter Julie. Desperate enough to lie and say that he’s a bear shifter, because who could ever love a big, goofy moose?