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Fifty of the world's greatest classic short stories: 1.The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 2.The One Million Pound Banknote by Mark Twain 3.The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 4.The Fly by Katherine Mansfield 5.The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe 6.My Favorite Murder by Ambrose Bierce 7.The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 8.One Thousand Dollars by O. Henry 9.Regret by Kate Chopin 10.The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 11.The Mezzotint by M. R. James 12.The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

This collection contains: Twelve Years a Slave, Up from Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, and many more.

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.

The fifth volume in CSA Word's massively popular complete and unabridged ‘Short Stories’ collection is bound to please. With something for everyone this collection of classic stories read by only the best-suited and most established readers will delight the ears as a vintage wine excites the gullet; The Vintage Collection is audible gold. Features eye-catching typographical series design.

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories.

Elle pensait la guerre terminée, mais une nouvelle bataille vient de commencer... Ahsoka Tano a quitté l'Ordre Jedi. Déçue par le Conseil qui l'a abandonnée, l'ancienne Padawan d'Anakin Skywalker est partie avec l'intention de tracer sa propre voie... L'Empereur a pris le contrôle de la galaxie, et les Jedi ont été décimés par l'Ordre 66. Fuyant la Purge, Ahsoka a trouvé refuge sur une planète peuplée de fermiers, s'est liée d'amitié avec les locaux et a commencé à mener une vie simple. Mais Ahsoka est soudainement rattrapée par son passé, et l'ombre néfaste de l'Empire.

Between them, comedian Nelly Thomas and podcaster Kate Mulholland were married for 52 years. They are now back on the shelf. And bloody loving it. We were raised to think being single and over 40 meant loneliness, failure and a life of Lean Cuisine and Love Actually. In The Single Life of Us Kate and Nelly celebrate single-mid-life and counter the doom and gloom narrative. We’ll talk dating, new skills, solo parenting, tinder profiles and what to do about Dick Pics.A podcast for anyone navigating single life over the age of 40. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A podcast series about tracing family history and challenging the invisibility of women in traditional genealogy. Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas, academic researcher, amateur family historian and feminist explains how she is using conventional and less conventional research methods to recreate the stories of her grandmothers and six of her great-grandmothers. The series also includes interviews with historians, academics and feminists working in related fields.

Sports podcast focused on College and Pro Football

The Leadership Effectiveness Podcast with Kate Thomas featuring a range of guest speakers.

Missed Cues is a podcast where we talk about what makes theatre wonderful and some of the pernicious aspects of our industry.

With the truth of Ellie's place among the Balance Keepers finally coming to light, training now begins. She must learn to harness the powers that are growing within her, some spiraling out of control. Confusion and frustration become her constant companions as her search for answers does nothing but push her further from the man she's come to love.

There's something strange about David, something that goes beyond the way he makes Ellie feel. He's wealthy, poised, and a complete enigma. With nothing to lose but her heart, Ellie goes in search of the truth - a search that leads her down an eye-opening path that reveals secrets about the world she thought she knew. The world's order is held in careful balance, the essence of good and evil tilting the scale.

Welcome to the small seaside town of Llareggub. Here you will find dreamers, workers, singers, sinners, the young, old, blue, bold and a mix of all in between. Here you will meet Captain Cat and Rosie Probert, Mr Organ Morgan and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, Nogood Boyo, Mog and Myfanwy. Here you will watch a day in their lives play out - from a dark, moonless night to a morning that is busy as bees; from a sunny, slow lulling afternoon to a deep, drifting dusk. So, to begin at the beginning.