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I've known one thing to be true all of my adult life. Millie is my girl. She’s been the sunshine on every cloudy day of mine since the day we met in the back of that truck in high school. People thought we were insane marrying so young. They said we’d never make it. Now, after 15 years, two kids, a successful career, and an incredibly blessed marriage I feel like I have the world at my fingertips. Until one day it’s all ripped away from me. I'll do anything to go back to the life we had. Now I’m in the hospital, day in and day out, talking to the shell of my wife, begging her to wake up.

Former model Astrid Lane lives a quiet life as a caterer, far from her days as rock star Callum Blake's famous wife. When a retrospective about the 1970s music scene sparks renewed interest in that era, Astrid's estranged daughter Zara reaches out about a podcast discussing her father's career—and a long-buried tragedy that changed their family forever.

This series of stories address everyday issues sympathetically and with excellent character development whilst depicting people which many listeners will identify with as the storylines are creatively and skillfully intertwined. This eclectic collection of stories expresses all of the human emotions of the characters with great sensitivity and with pathos.

After her mother’s passing, Aldona finds a tin filled with old letters from a prisoner at Ravensbrück, a women’s concentration camp in northern Germany. Amid the descriptions of daily deprivations and humiliations at the camp, she uncovers the heart-wrenching story of a small circle of women who risked their lives to hide a baby girl from the guards. Aldona is rocked to the core by this record of courage and sisterhood during one of the grimmest chapters of human history.

This book is much more than twelve stories that are independent of one another, each having a different meaning from the others. Rather, it is a novel of one person chronicled through the many roles he plays in his life and those who shared those experiences with him.

In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into pivotal moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In “Ordinary Life,” Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, shutting out her husband and the realities of their life together — and, no, she isn’t contemplating a divorce. She just needs some time to think, to take stock of her life, and to arrive, finally, at a surprising conclusion.

A collection of eight short stories from American author, journalist, and social activist Jack London. Written during his 'Klondike' period, the title story 'Love of Life' follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra.

Life Ventures & Other Stories is an intriguing compilation of personal life experience writings, inspirational stories and prayers, and fictional short stories dispensing mystery and amusement. This short prose genre book consists of three sections and is a unique blend of humor, revelation, and suspense.

What Life Can Bring is three connected science fiction stories that revolve around my fascination with time. The first story, “The Journey Home”, opens with a handsome, tattooed young man who goes by the nickname “Poly” being released from jail on a beautiful August day in 1994. Poly has high hopes for a fresh start, but he’s not able to find a job. Struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over his head, Poly can find only one option: Join up with his old crew in a bank heist. Things don’t go entirely to plan....

Life’s Journey is a collection of three stories presented in a single offering. The titles are "Rhapsody", "Incident at the Copa", and "Life’s Journey".

ansa is a stress expert who can't manage her own stress. A mother whose children barely call. A daughter haunted by her mother's dementia. A woman one breath away from breaking. When she steps into a rickshaw in Mumbai, everything changes. Kirit, her calm driver, navigates impossible chaos with inexplicable peace.

An enticing romance story, follow the transformative journey of Elia, a young woman once reassured by the love of her husband Idas, now betrayed by him. Join her journey of survival and her meeting with a similarly fated girl Artizar, for whom Elia will take up the quest to avenge them both, and change her destiny. When love has become a lie, and the person closest to you stabs you in the back for money and status, what choices would you make?

The Law of Life is a short story by the American naturalist writer Jack London. It was first published in McClure's Magazine, Vol.16, March, 1901. In 1902, it was published in a collection of Jack London's stories, The Children of Frost, by Macmillan Publishers. This short story covers the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh. His tribe needs to travel in search of clothing and shelter so he is left to die because of his age and inability to see properly. Even his son has to leave him because he has a new family to feed and take care of.

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Rylan Black prefers to be alone. Maybe it's because he's the only bear shifter in a pack of wolves. He spends most of his days by himself in his garden, only talking to his five friends in the pack when they come out to visit him. He hears that Finn found his mate and heads to congratulate his friend when a scent hits him.

Come along with Leslie as he explores his sexuality, being nonbinary, and finding love and acceptance as he finds joy in his life and learns as he goes. Leslie explores relationships and falls in love.

A deadly infatuation. Apocalypse. A haunted hotel. These are what you’ll meet if you dare to venture inside. How would you react if you came across someone who claimed he caused the end of humankind? This is the question Jake must answer in The Third Coming, the story that spawned the Earth Haven trilogy. Would you dive into a pond that will alter you fundamentally? What if you are on a beach at Dunkirk, already facing near-certain death, when you look into the eyes of true evil? Try to avoid the Obsessives’ Club - it’s not somewhere you want to stay.

Small stories for the young children: The Wisdom Save Life.

Only Alpha can fix this. Alpha and Kyle have toiled all day to carefully construct the perfect dinner date for Tina, whose crippling depression has bedridden her for months. Why is Tina so miserable, and why does she place so much blame on Alpha, whose dominance of humanity has solved all of the world's problems? Throughout the course of the evening, logic clashes against depression. Rationalizations against uncompromising morality. Love against revenge.

La Comédie humaine est le titre sous lequel Honoré de Balzac a regroupé un ensemble de plus de quatre-vingt-dix ouvrages—romans, nouvelles, contes et essais—de genres réaliste, romantique, fantastique ou philosophique, et dont l'écriture s'échelonne de 1829 à 1850. Par cette œuvre, Balzac veut faire une « histoire naturelle de la société », explorant de façon systématique les groupes sociaux et les rouages de la société, afin de brosser une vaste fresque de son époque susceptible de servir de référence aux générations futures.