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Fan favorites find their happy endings in this collection of Elven Alliance short stories and novellas!

Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes listeners into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family saved from ruin by a mysterious benefactor to a downtrodden boxer who shows unexpected kindness to a mugger, these tales reveal not only the precarious balance maintained between grief and happiness in our lives but also how the echoes of personal tragedy can shape us for the better.

It's 1947. The Indian subcontinent is partitioned into two separate countries, India and Pakistan. And with one decree, countless lives are changed forever. An Unrestored Woman explores the fault lines in this mass displacement of humanity.

Culling the vastness of experience--from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average--like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. A "black world" operative can't tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but doesn't resist sharing her confidences. A young Alpine researcher is smitten by the girlfriend of his dead brother, killed in an avalanche he believes he caused.

Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes and private tragedies, Emma Donoghue has written a sequence of short stories about peculiar moments in the history of the British Isles. Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars and revolutionaries; the Second Coming is proclaimed in Scotland; and a miniature girl becomes a tiny skeleton in a London museum.

Issız bir tepenin yamacında tek başına duran çam ağacının gövdesine dolanan yılan mı daha gerçek, yoksa yazarın düşleri mi? Sait Faik’in son dönem öykü kitabı Alemdağ’da Var Bir Yılan, görünürde basit—ama altı çalkantılı—insan hikâyelerini, uykuyla uyanıklık arasındaki ince çizgide dolaştırır. Burada balıkçıların, kahve müdavimlerinin, sokak kedilerinin yanı sıra, rüyalarını anlatıp kaybolan çocuklar, kendini bir ağacın yerine koyan anlatıcılar, yılanla göz göze gelen gezginler vardır.

Sokak lambalarının sönük ışığında, kahveci çırağının camı silerken yaptığı hareket kadar sıradan; ama bir o kadar da derin öykülerle dolu bir kitap elinizde: Mahalle Kahvesi. Sait Faik, bu kitabında büyük hikâyelerin peşine düşmez. Onun dünyası, köşe başındaki manavda bekleyen yaşlı adamın gözlerinde, denize bakarken sigarasını söndüren bir gencin iç geçirişinde saklıdır. Bir fincan kahveyle başlayan cümleler, bizi insanın en sade, en kırılgan hâline götürür.

İstanbul’un unutulmuş kuytularında yankılanan martı çığlıkları ve rıhtımda ağır ağır sürüklenen dalgalar…

Sarnıç, Sait Faik’in ilk öykü kitabı olmasına karşın, yazarın benzersiz anlatı evrenine açılan bir baş kapı niteliğinde. Ada balıkçılarından meyhanedeki kırgın kalplere, yoksul hamalların ter kokusundan Boğaz’ın serin esintisine uzanan bu öyküler, gündelik seslerin içinden bir şiir devşirir.

Sait Faik’in ilk öykü kitabı olan Semaver, 1930’ların İstanbul’undan küçük kesitler sunar. Fakat bunlar, ansiklopedik bir şehrin resmi değil; iskelede balık temizleyen bir adamın elleri, yağmurdan sığınan çocukların titrek kahkahası, gece yarısı fener ışığında sallanan bir sandal gibidir. Yazar, sokağın sıradan seslerini alır, onlara unutulmaz bir tını kazandırır. Bu öykülerde kahraman yoktur, zafer yoktur—ama insanın kalbine dokunan o küçücük anlar vardır. Bir çayın telvesinde görülen geleceğin telaşı…

Memduh Şevket Esendal, incecik bir hikâyede koca bir insanlık hâlini yakalıyor. Otlakçı, adını bilmediğimiz ama pek çoğumuzun hemen tanıyacağı bir karakterin peşine düşüyor: cebi sık sık delik, gönlü her daim “başkasının bıyık altı pamuğunda” gezinen sigara avcısı… Kahvehanelerde, tren kompartımanlarında, rıhtımın serin gecelerinde türlü bahanelerle bitmek bilmez bir tüttürme kampanyası yürütüyor; üstelik kendince makul gerekçeler bulmayı da ihmal etmiyor.

This is the story of The Cursed Galleon, a strange artifact kept at the oldest pub in England. A swashbuckling adventure story of mystery, love and tragedy.

In this prequel to the exciting Prohibition-era Galliano Club historical fiction thriller series, go on the road with three unforgettable characters and experience their timeless tales of risk, determination, and danger during the Roaring Twenties.

Nur and Abid relearn to love after they escape from war. Marie, who keeps the women of the village from giving birth to children borne of war, finds herself in a situation she hasn't faced before. In a London park, an ageing MI-6 official discovers that the woman he meets every day may not be what she seems. Lyndsey's bouquets of twenty-seven tulips hold the secret of her dark past and a soldier adorns herself in jewels as she prepares for a final mission.

Triachus Sextus Nervicanus has been in the Roman navy for almost twenty years and has seen its remorseless decline from the inside. Now commanding the fast patrol Liburnian warship Minerva: Together with what remains of the Ravenna fleet he is transferred to Carthage to hold the line against the Vandal King Gaiseric's relentless eastern expansion following his capture of he Provinces of Mauretania and Numidia.

For debt-ridden Deana Herwood, losing a hand of cards to the wealthy Lord Rockwell was bad enough. To settler her loss, she must offer her body to him for one night of pleasure. When she expresses her reservations, he offers an even more outrageous proposition. Can she win the wager or will her body succumb to the wicked attentions of Lord Rockwell?

Letters from the Olive Tree is a literary historical fiction short story set in the early twentieth century. Giovanni Olivi, the second son of a proud but impoverished Tuscan farming family, is bound by tradition and cut off from inheritance. He leaves behind the only life he’s known and the woman he loves, Ersilia Innocenti, in search of opportunity in America, promising to make a life abroad and one day send for her.

Dans cette toute première œuvre de Stefan Zweig, empreinte de délicatesse, l’auteur capture avec justesse la mélancolie des souvenirs et la douceur des rêves évanouis. Sous le soleil éclatant d’une villa en bord de mer, une femme et un homme se retrouvent après de longues années d’éloignement. Leur conversation, d’abord empreinte de légèreté, ravive bientôt les échos d’une jeunesse lointaine, d’un amour effacé par le temps mais jamais complètement éteint.

A collection of twenty short stories inspired by and featuring medieval engravings. Although the pictures are all medieval, some stories occur in the present or future. Aside from other things, I had Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space on my mind. Let yourself be abducted into a world of terraformed androids, organ-based dialogs, unclean revivals, psilocybin-induced travels into the demonlands, and much more.

These historical fiction stories take the listener on a journey into the most tragic time in our history—the Civil War. Arranged along a rough timeline of the period, they cover a broad area of mood and events and range from a young man’s escape from an outlaw gang in Missouri to join a North Carolina regiment back home, to the discovery of Lee’s lost orders by a Union sergeant, to a boy too curious about war, to a young woman who has dressed like a man to join her brother in the war, to enemies who become friends over a fishing hole.

In the wild heart of the American frontier, young Silas loses everything—but finds a new life among the Lakota. Taken in by a warrior and raised in a world far from the one he knew, he earns a new name: Kohana, the quick one.