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A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov, featuring "A Tragic Actor", "In a Strange Land", "Oh the Public", "The Looking Glass", "Her Husband", and "Overdoing It".

These stories are small masterpieces. The scene is set quickly, and within a few sentences the storyline is underway. But all seem to contain elements of the unexpected.

Fairy tales are rarely written exclusively for children. They offer a variety of strong characters, themes and challenges as well as an insight into the mystery of the soul. These tales often contain profound truths that survived many hundreds of years and a universal appeal that makes them both enjoyable and enlightening. Modern concepts of mindfulness can often be found as original themes among these tales.

Family dynamic, psychological insight into relationships and romance are the central themes in this collection of Chekhov stories. These stories, full of insight into lives of seemingly ordinary people, offer a rare opportunity to experience defining moments of lives. Unhappy in his marriage, a Moscow banker, Dmitri Gurov, is vacationing in Yalta, Crimea, where he sees a young lady walking along the seafront with her small dog.

Mercy Row is a novel set in 1920s and '30s Philadelphia. It is the story of the rise of a North Philadelphia crime family that was also responsible for building the homes and factories that make up this blue-collar area of the city. Despite the violent trials and tribulations caused by rival gangs from South Philadelphia and Chicago, Jacob Byrne and Franklin Garrett, with the help of the Irish immigrants who settled the Kensington area, build a formidable Irish mob.

In a world devoid of rites of passage, Ezra Buckley finds himself confronted with the genuine prospect of having a life-changing, liminal experience in the woods of Big Sur. What is it that he experiences? Is it the legendary Watchers of Big Sur phenomenon or something else? Will he survive it? Is it even real? Xen is a work that confronts the questions of identity, modernity, life, the other, and the place for rites of passage in the modern world.

In this instant Amazon-bestselling guide to entrepreneurship and personal finance, teen entrepreneur Nathan Sykes pulls back the curtain on the same journey he's using to attempt the impossible - retiring before 25 years old; younger than 99 percent of the population. In Retire Before College, Sykes shares how high school and college students can transform the way they think about entrepreneurship.

Ascend is an innovative book embedded with powerful tools for leaders, and offers an engaging way to share the path toward personal transformation with everyone. It presents a captivating allegory that helps leaders identify and break through long-standing beliefs that limit access to their innate potential for human happiness and exponential business success. Through the experiences of the characters in Ascend, listeners see how their own limiting beliefs and mental models tacitly impede their quest for personal mastery and accomplishment.

In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in South Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing golf to reading about it.

Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar for one of his favorite meals of the day: dinner! The Very Hungry Caterpillar is very hungry . . . for dinner! With a simple narrative, this audiobook is the perfect way to introduce the concept of shapes. From triangular pizza slices to round veggie burgers to...

Born To Explore Get outside with this interactive boom that shows how explorers have found their way around the planet for thousands of years. Read about the ancient Polynesians who tracked the stars and waves to sail precise paths through the ocean. Or the Age of European Exploration navigators...

This book contains many amazing adventures and wondrous takes on a deal with the devil. This deal can go in several different ways. Fight the devil, play along, or sell your soul. It’s up to you to choose.

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Del autor e ilustrador superventas Eric Carle, creador de La Oruga Muy Hambrienta, llega este cuento clásico sobre un grillo silencioso. El regalo perfecto para hijos y nietos. Un día, un diminuto grillo sale del huevo y se encuentra con un grillo grande que le da la bienvenida con un chirrido...

A new audiobook from #1 New York Times bestselling author and musician Robbie Arnett about finding the music of your heart It will make you dance! It will make you sing! It's called . . . Thwistle Ping! Lennie Fling has always been good at everything. But when it comes to music, he only falls...

“You don’t scale broken systems. You just scale the chaos.” That’s the hard truth most CEOs and CROs don’t want to hear. More leads, bigger budgets, new hires — none of it works if your revenue system is cracked underneath. The real problem isn’t volume. It’s leaks. And every leak is a hidden tax on your growth. For 15 years, StringCan Interactive has helped leaders uncover the silent leaks draining their pipeline and slowing momentum. In Revenue Rewired, Jay Feitlinger (Founder & CEO) and Sarah Shepard (COO) reveal the five leaks that cost companies millions every year.

Did you ever wonder what lies beyond the veil of our everyday reality? Have you contemplated the ethereal dimensions where angels dwell, carrying messages from the divine? Prepare to embark on an extraordinary journey, where spirituality and the interconnectedness of the universe converge in a sacred landscape.

An anomalous, planetary event occurring once every 10 million years is approaching in a few short days. A projection of photons from the planet Saturn will magnify its image as a massive hologram against the Earth's atmosphere. The days leading up to the event cause Dorian Phoenix and Cora Cadence to sense something much stranger happening, challenging their place in this world and their understanding of the nature of reality.

A collection of stories prized for their craftsmanship and comic irony from Russia’s greatest novelists and dramatists. The audiobook features Ivan Turgenev's "Mumu" and 11 Anton Chekhov stories: "A Tragic Actor", "In a Strange Land", "Oh the Public", "The Looking Glass", "Her Husband", "Overdoing It", "Talent", "Anyuta", "The Helpmate", "Ivan Matveyich", and "Polinka".

Chekhov has always been huge inspiration for many great writers who came in contact with Chekhov's art. Thomas Mann wrote that Chekhov's short stories attain full epic stature and can even surpass in intensity the great towering novels. 'If I understood that better in later life than in my youth, this was largely owing to my growing intimacy with Chekhov's art; for his short stories rank with all that is greatest and best in European literature,' he concluded.

Nikolai Ivanich has never reconciled himself to life in the city and makes plans to acquire enough money to buy a small estate where he can grow gooseberries, a symbol in his mind of happy life in the countryside. He saves every penny and spends his days dreaming of the future estate: where the main building will be located, ducks swimming in a pond, and where the gooseberry bushes will be planted. His brother sees it as an escape from reality and an unnecessary limitation. Read in English, unabridged.