Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Rowan and his small team of mercenaries have been plucked from obscurity by the now-disgraced Lord Kael D'Alquid. Through his leadership, the group has risen into one of the most sought after teams in Tyr. Their latest mission seemed straight forward enough: plunder a caravan of its gold from the crazed Cult of Yuanti, worshipers of disease and rot. But when the promise of vast wealth turns up empty, Rowan learns that their leader, Kael, may not have told them the whole truth behind the mission....

Once again, the Old Gray Goose shines with a collection of wonderful stories for children young and old. In a beautiful world of unlimited possibilities, love, and beauty, the Old Gray Goose inspires us all with his powerful, positive, peaceful tales.

In diesem Band 32 Kurzgeschichten, wie das Leben selbst sie schreibt. Sie führen den Leser über Deutschland in die Schweiz, nach Kamerun - ja selbst bis in das ferne Indien und gar Tibet. Einige heiter, manche traurig, doch alle unterhaltsam und geeignet zum Nachdenken. Der Autor bemüht sich um eine gefeilte, gehobene Sprache und ist weit entfernt vom eutigen, leider oftmals gebrauchten 'Telegramm-Stil'.

The first book in the essays of Seneca deals with good and evil. The dialogue is opened by Lucilius complaining with his friend Seneca that adversities and misfortunes can happen to good men too. How can this fit with the goodness connected with the design of providence? Seneca answers according to the Stoic point of view.

Drawing on the rich complexity of the American Midwest, Kim Suhr peoples her debut book of fiction with characters that we know, carved out of the Wisconsin landscape and caught between expectation and desire...Personal and powerful, Kim Suhr's Nothing to Lose shows us a region filled with real people: less than perfect, plagued with doubts, always reaching.

In this audio version of a graphic novel adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", an unnamed narrator tries to convince the listener of the narrator’s sanity while simultaneously describing a murder he committed. The narrator's guilt feelings result in hearing a rhythmic thumping sound, which the narrator interprets as the victim's beating heart.

As children we can’t help but dream of all of the amazing things that we will accomplish. Then life happens. We get a job, we get a house, and we get into debt. We settle. We trade away our youth for security in old age. We spend countless hours performing mundane tasks that leave us depleted and empty. Our souls crave meaning, but we are too afraid to make any change.

Collection of instructive folk tales. There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children. Most of these tales are collected in the audiobook. Give your children the opportunity to join the rich heritage of the Russian people!

Beyond Soul is a collection of late 20th century poems and short stories deeply influenced by societal observations, spirituality, and nature. The audiobook depicts a stream of consciousness connected by the view points of animate and inanimate narrators, discussing the matters of life and transitioning.

Schubart brings to life the friends and characters of his native Lamoille County, where in the late 1950s and early 1960s, life was lived close to the earth and often against the grain. Schubart’s collection of 22 stories captures Vermont in its transition from an enclave of hill farms and small towns where everyone knew your grandfather to a place where vehicles bearing license plates from “away” mix with hippie vans filled with born-again Vermonters getting back to the land...until snowfall.

Have you ever considered whether the outfit you'll die in is in your wardrobe right now? Did you ever wish you could experience a romantic evening from both points of view? Why is there a dead man in the flower shop? What would you do for fame? Was it a zebra crossing? What if your first love wanted to make a sex tape? And what's in those yellow pills Trudy is taking?

Frost is just an ordinary person with beautiful power of expression. This audiobook is not just about her journey through depression but a lot more other things like societal conditioning, love, attention, abandonment, etc. She effortlessly takes you along in an instance onto an engaging one-go listen. It is in the form of a monologue with several poems woven into a short story. It contains poems with striking similarity and relevance, about each one of us and our lives, about complexities in all their simple sense and poems that will make you revisit them again.

A child prodigy becomes an international celebrity at the young age of four through his obsession with knife sharpening. A man discovers that the food scraps he's been tossing overboard for more than three decades have been nourishing a lobster to the point that the beast becomes a real threat to his existence. The brutal destruction of two island communities is witnessed by a young man who watches in amazed horror as all manners of sea monsters converge on the doomed islands. If only he could think of a solution in time! Get these stories and others when you download this audiobook.

Three raccoons are making their way to the trading post in the Dark Island Terminal, inside an enormous sunken tree hollowed out by generations of resident animals in the lake world. They manage to survive a blizzard high in the Phinnae Mountains, but as they reach the warmer meadows below the snow line, they encounter a feral cat, who has one thing on its mind: catnip. The travelers offer the beast the desired herb, hoping it will be enough to save themselves. Plus more tales....

Fat People is an entirely unique fictional look at the emotions and experiences of those who live to eat: the estrangement, loneliness, embarrassment, fear, defeated sexuality, unresolved anger, but also the simple pleasure of food.

A true collection of original short stories: Open your eyes to life in West Africa! Like the many rivers that drain into the Gulf of Guinea, these stories will spark your curiosity in the West African culture and its many characters whose innocent, unfiltered, and organic, spirited dialogue will arouse your senses and give you insight and appreciation of this rich and fragrant land, and its people.

Three years in the making. The follow-up to the non-award-winning Slightly Spooky Stories is a collection of stories that leave you wondering. A tennis match with a difference, an older man who just wants a bit of quiet time, a business that specialises in retrieving memories, a party game that goes wrong, a visit to the doctor reveals an unusual diagnosis, a young girl and her hero dog, small birds show their appreciation, money attracting money, dodging a bullet, the power of dancing in the dark, the magic of old books, the significance of a red dress....

After reading The Song of Songs, a short story by Sholem Aleichem, I was moved to see his original story from a different point of view. This short story retells his autobiographical tale from the point of view of the woman of that failed romance. The story examines the consequences of taking our obsessions seriously and of not saying the things that must be said because we are not allowed to say them.

Enter a dystopian future where integration with technology may cost us our humanity. A bleak prediction of a world where consumerism and technological advancement has been taken to the extreme. In an anthology of short stories, Upgrade attempts to answer the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human?

The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, was the first example of a post-apocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature. Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, 60 years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world in 2013. One of the few survivors, James Howard Smith, alias “Granser”, tells his incredulous and near-savage grandsons how the pandemic spread in the world and about the reactions of the people to contagion and death.