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Enjoy 15 scintillating tales in this eclectic collection where characters seek honor, truth, retribution, and in one case, a place to sell 300-year-old Lavian brandy.

The Most Dangerous Game, a short story written by Richard Edward Connell in 1924, is a thrilling tale that explores themes of survival, morality, and the nature of human cruelty. Set against the backdrop of a remote island, the story combines suspense, adventure, and a touch of philosophical inquiry, making it one of the most widely anthologized short stories in American literature.

In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser’s imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that’s given up its chronicling of history. Characterized by “phenomenal clarity and rapacious movement” each story “focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire and ambition.” ( Publishers Weekly)

Life as a Ph.D. student was supposed to be about research papers, not heart palpitations sparked by a man whose very presence commands attention. Yet, when Michael August, with his enigmatic aura and a fortune vast enough to sway destinies, crosses my path, my world tilts on its axis. A billionaire Italian businessman with influence stretching across continents, Michael embodies the dreams I dared not dream. But it's not just his corporate empire that draws me in—it's the whispers of the man behind the facade.

After nearly losing my life, I lost all of my memories. Now, all I see is her. I’m not sure who is after my life but they nearly succeeded. My memories are a blur but when I hear her voice, I just know that she is it for me. Clover… A beautiful woman. A nurse who has managed to capture my heart. But when the truth comes to light, I have to make the biggest decision… I just hope that I don’t have to let her go in the process… Even if it is the right thing to do to keep her safe.

Gentle, witty and sometimes disturbing, Dangerous Pleasures is Patrick Gale's first collection of much-loved short stories. A funeral party ends in an unexpected manner; parents are faced with difficult decisions about their daughter; a housewife transforms her personality with a simple touch-up; a father's trip to his former school brings back memories of love he thought buried forever.

รวมเรื่องแก๊งสเตอร์ มาเฟีย และกลุ่มคนที่เรียกได้ว่า โหด ชั่ว บ้าน และเลวสุดๆ จนโลกต้องจารึก บางกลุ่มทำเป็นอาชีพ บางกลุ่มทำตามอุดมการณ์ที่เขายึดถือ แต่ล้วนสร้างปัญหาด้วยกันทั้งสิ้น!

I’m thrilled when I get a ride from the very sexy mountain man. After all, I’m on the run, and anything that keeps me moving is wonderful. Then, I have a scare about the police finally catching me, and before I know it, I’m throwing myself at the mountain man so I’ll have a place to hide. He doesn’t know my motives. He just…he just cares for me. The problem is I’m starting to care for him, too!

Going back to the ranch to bury her father is hard enough, but Gracie’s ranch is falling apart, both financially and literally, she has a maniac as a prospective buyer, and there is a murderous man or woman on the hunt for her life. Her plans to leave Montana after a week now seem like a fantasy and so does leaving alive. Romance is the last thing on her mind, but a certain handsome, tall, and dark haired man who turns her mind to mush whenever he’s around, changes things.

The hunter becomes the hunted. You listened to The Most Dangerous Game in high school and college, but you've never experienced Richard Connell's classic short story like this before! As part of our Otio Dramatized Classic series, Otio Stutios has transformed this iconic story into a full-cast audio production skillfully assembled by world-class sound designer Brandon Leith and executive producer George Caudill.

The 11 long short stories in Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads combine history, mystery, action, and/or romance, and range from drug trafficking using Guatemalan hand-woven wallets, to an Antebellum U. S. slave using codes in her quilts as a message system to freedom; from an ex-journalist and her Hopi Indian maid solving a cold case together involving Katchina spirits, to a couple hiding Christian passports in a comforter in Nazi Germany.

In "Promises", during the late 1960s, the ketch, Mercy, sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin Islands. Ciara Malloy assumes custody of her drowned fiancé’s son, and learns a devastating secret about the boy that changes her life forever.