Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Anthologies

Romance, revenge, reckoning in this mid 19c Australian Historical fiction novel. John Leary boards ship in Ireland in 1850, a young carpenter ambitious for a new life in Australia. He sails with revenge in his heart - his beloved sister has been raped by her landlord, William Baxterhouse, who escapes on another ship with even grander plans for success in New South Wales.

"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world. Slipping into nihilism with the "terrible anguish", he is determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

This is a mystery story that takes place in Buenos Aires. Laura is a street drawer. She makes portraits and landscapes and sells them in a pedestrian street. One day, a strange man from Sweden shows up. He starts buying portraits. A few days later, Laura is gone. Her friend Claudio will try to find her.

A holiday classic by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1843, Dickens worried about the disparity between the wealthy and the impoverished, and it was his attempt to bring this disparity into the light of day, to appeal to the die-hard capitalists to take care of the downtrodden masses. Since this inequity continues, this story is still popular, and will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

A story by Edgar Allan Poe about a black cat, or rather two black cats. The narrator relates his own story about how he deteriorated from a man who loved animals to a cruel abuser. He thought that he had gotten away with murder, but the second black cat exposed his crime.

Twisted 50 is a deliciously dark slice of contemporary horror literature. Reading it is like attending a late night secret banquet where you know each course will serve up something unexpected, forbidden, and unforgettably chilling. Take your private seat now for 50 luscious courses of terror, from 50 of the strongest voices in modern horror.

Estas pequeñas historias hablan de experiencias cotidianas y de personajes que aunque ficticios puedes cruzarte con ellos en la parada de un bus, en la calle, en un centro comercial, etc. Personajes con los cuales hablamos de las cosas que nos pasan a diario, pero la autora de esta obra, ha sabido descubrir, en las situaciones que esos personajes atraviesan, los momentos irrepetibles, las crisis que marcan indeleblemente unas vidas, el acercamiento o ruptura en una relación, el vínculo intrínseco entre nieto y abuela. Y lo hace desde su propia perspectiva.

In a world very much like ours, there are those who listen to music, and then there are those who truly listen to music. Since the dawn of the Classical period, these people have called themselves "Music Masters"; those who gain fantastical powers from the sound of music.

In Vietnamese: Nguyen Cong Hoan was cultivated in love with literature, cultivated with patriotism, protested against unjust oppression, and his eyes were full of splendor. When he started to write, he did not write poetry, but went straight into prose, as he thought prose is just as common as words. From the beginning, he sought to write in a simple, bright, easy to understand way. Due to reading poetry, he had a vision of life with a poet's soul, all of which has created his own style.

Twelve + Twelve More is two audiobooks in one! This collection combines Twelve and Twelve More to bring you 24 short stories by australian author David Farrell. In Twelve, the stories focus on the themes of love, passion, and legacy. In Twelve More, the stories feature deception, infidelity, and the supernatural. This collection includes stories of lost love, supernatural curses, murder, hypnosis, inspiration, and things that transpire in motels and public bathrooms.

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 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!

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.

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....

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....

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?