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The End of the Young Family Feud: A week before Christmas, Aunt Jean wrote to Elizabeth, inviting her and Alberta and me to eat our Christmas dinner at Monkshead. We accepted with delight. Aunt Jean and Uncle Norman were delightful people, and we knew we should have a jolly time at their house.

In Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves, Anne Shirley's guardian Marilla keeps Anne dressed in plain, dark clothes unlike the other girls her age. Matthew Cuthbert, Anne's kindred spirit and sometime benefactor, struggles to figure out how to solve this problem. He overcomes his shyness to ensure that a wonderful, unexpected present is waiting for Anne on Christmas day.

Ranging from the hilarious to the horrifying, this acclaimed collection of nine short stories - five of them read by full casts - showcases the remarkable variety of Bruce Coville's work. Listeners will meet a ghost who haunts a kitchen after a tragic baking accident, visit the goblin world with an unconventional princess, and fly with Justin Jones to an enchanted island that requires a heartbreaking decision. A rich, varied, and dazzling set of listening experiences!

This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and best-selling YA authors who are shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home - and to find home. 

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in New York City, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of young-adult literature’s top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that each ingeniously pick up where the last one ends.

In her classic ghost story "Kerfol", Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs no live dogs at Kerfol that day. In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl.

A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors. Erin Craig "delivers" on a story about a cute pizza delivery boy, Auriane Desombre captures a girl trying to impress her crush on TikTok, and Bill Konigsberg takes readers...

From the award-winning author of Monster, this collection of powerful and poignant stories about 145th Street—an unforgettable block in the heart of Harlem—celebrates African-American life in all of its glory. “Myers is a master.” —The New York Times Book Review On Harlem’s 145th...

The Five Orange Pips, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in November 1891. Conan Doyle later ranked the story seventh in a list of his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

30 Short Stories of memories, adventures, beliefs, and some a creation by Laleh Chini. Buckle up, let's laugh, cry, and most of all, have fun with this ride.

Bianca decides to throw a lavish birthday party while her family is in deep financial distress.

This program includes a foreword by author, educator, and Jordan Peele collaborator, Tananarive Due. A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one...

A unique story about first—and last—loves from the celebrated and bestselling author of We All Looked Up. Parker Santé hasn’t spoken a word in five years. While his classmates plan for bright futures, he skips school to hang out in hotels, killing time by watching the guests. But when he...

A cosmic curveball of a book where reality meets "What just happened?" From a childhood split between the Mississippi River and the Balkan foothills to a path through baseball and criminology, Brey W Bodjovic's unique voice has been simmering for decades. In this debut collection, he serves up stories forged in mountain air and human chaos, blending the mundane with the utterly surreal. Perfect for listeners who love their fiction laced with a dose of the unexpected and a sharp, observant eye for the weirdness of life.

Escribo el momento. Curiosa frase. Fácil de leer. Difícil de entender. La protagonista de esta novela de suspense sabe que la vida está formada por momentos. Muchos momentos forman una vida, y desde su adolescencia lleva un diario en el que escribe sobre la suya, llena de sus pequeñas y grandes cosas, como la de todo el mundo… Hasta que empiezan a ocurrirle sucesos extraños a los que no encuentra explicación. Poco a poco todo a su alrededor se irá derrumbando y solo sus antiguos cuadernos tendrán la clave de lo que está pasando, pero, ¿sabrá leer entre líneas?

From New York Times bestseller and author of the TikTok phenomenon Girl in Pieces comes an audiobook collection including all three of Kathleen Glasgow's critically acclaimed novels: Girl in Pieces, How to Make Friends With the Dark, and You'd Be Home Now. "Impossibly moving...suffused with...

The Death of Science is a twisted and humorous foray into the vast multi-faceted universe of Rootworld. Like a contemporary Twilight Zone, this satirical science fiction fantasy tale will appeal to fans of both Tales from the Crypt as well as other Death Incarnate Brilliances like Terry Pratchett and Piers Anthony.

Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil - as Jonathan will discover after he accidentally gets a trace of his blood on its surface in this disturbing tale of terror.

Was passiert, wenn man einem Menschen jeden Tag begegnet und ihn nicht ausstehen kann? Ohne ihn zu kennen, ohne irgendetwas von ihm zu wissen. Ja, wenn diese Aversion so weit reicht, dass man die Person nicht mehr aus dem Kopf bekommt, sogar von ihr träumt. Warum ist das so? Was steckt dahinter? Denn sie erzählt von einem Phänomen, das wir alle kennen: Das, was wir selbst an uns nicht mögen, lehnen wir bei anderen ab.

From bestselling YA authors comes thirteen dazzling contemporary romantic stories inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift! Includes stories by Lynn Painter, Katharine McGee, and Jesse Q. Sutanto! If you could live inside one Taylor Swift song for a day, which would you pick? In this shimmering...