Modern Fiction

For listeners eager to experience Gibbon’s brilliant primary historicism, to understand the long decline of Rome—and the reasons for the Empire’s demise—there exists no better or more accessible condensation of Decline and Fall.

When 84-year-old Ada Fenn was found dead, natural causes were easily assumed. But when the post-mortem revealed that her heart problems had nothing to do with it, a full-blown murder investigation was launched.

In this eagerly anticipated, brand-new Nina Reilly thriller, Perri O'Shaughnessy takes listeners back to Nina's first murder investigation, to the case that ignites her passionate commitment to fighting for justice. Working as a paralegal and attending law school at night, Nina has her hands full. She's fighting for custody of her young son Bob and overseeing a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of her mother, Virigina Reilly, whose health is rapidly declining after she suffered complications from an acupuncture procedure.

Rohan Evans can't live in a world without his wife, so he turns to magic—even opening himself up to a man with access to the ancient, forbidden art of necromancy. Now the only thing standing between Rohan and being reunited with his true love is a dangerous expedition to ancient temples and underground mysteries—and a crazy old man with strange ambitions. The fate of the world, both ours and the afterlife, rests on what Rohan does next.

The Society for Magickal Heritage’s best agents are heading back into paradise. Giddy Gods help them all. No one ever said heroic adventure would be easy, but this is ridiculous. Magickal wonderlands aren’t meant to have a dark side. Heroes aren’t meant to get stranded there, either. Ves may be up for anything, but she hadn’t expected that pretty much anything would be up for her. And with a horde of unhappy spirits enjoying a direct line to Zareen’s psyche, it’s lucky she’s unbreakable... right?

Things are getting serious at the Society for Magickal Heritage. An ancient legend has plans for Ves, and Ves has plans for just about everything else. It’s time to take on the ultimate challenge—and hope for the best. What could possibly go wrong? Well, everything. As usual. But if old magick is going to survive in the modern world, it’s no use being cautious. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and Ves is giving it everything she’s got. But can she handle the cost? And can the cost handle her?

In this instance you might have bitten more than you can chew. I'm a little worried about you; you see, not everyone can handle this epic madness and trust me, this madness was not created for everyone. The team at SpookyNinjaKitty sent out 10 copies to supposed horror fans for feedback and by the very next day, six had dropped dead from heart attacks, three committed suicide and the last one has never seen again.

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer’s work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey and his own life.

Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver's mature writing and give his devoted fans a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver's writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have already entered the canon of modern literature.

Mysterious happenings to a small handicapped boy in a little Somerset village, way back in the 1930s, suddenly repeat themselves in the 21st Century. At the first event the villagers kept quiet about what they thought was either hallucination, witchcraft or a little boy’s mischief. They suspected, quite rightly, that they wouldn’t be believed. However, silence turns out to be impossible in the present media and online culture, with the result that the lives of two families are disrupted and changed forever.

Die liebliche Bestie Mensch verliert jedesmal, wie es scheint, die gute Laune, wenn sie gut denkt...

Some small towns keep their secrets. Crescent Pines buries them in blood. Alex Castillo never planned to return to Crescent Pines. The remote Northern California town was little more than a ghost in his past—a place he left behind years ago. But when he decides to visit his aging aunt, Rosa, Alex can’t ignore the sense of urgency in the town's residents voices. They sound scared. Desperate. Like they know something he doesn’t. From the moment he arrives, the town feels wrong. The streets are too quiet. The locals avoid his gaze.

"L'amante moderno" di David Herbert Lawrence segue le vicende di un uomo e una donna che, nonostante la passione che li unisce, dovranno affrontare le tensioni tra il desiderio di libertà individuale e le aspettative della società. Lawrence offre un'analisi profonda dei conflitti interiori, del desiderio e delle sfide che l'amore comporta in un mondo in rapida evoluzione.

Discover World War 2's hidden heroes and villains. Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents explores the intriguing world of spycraft and shows you what goes on behind the scenes in war. From spy schools and ciphers to sneaky tools and secret armies, this guide takes you on a declassified tour of the undercover operations that helped decide the outcome of World War 2. There's also more than a dozen short spy-ographies that cover some of the most famous (and infamous!) agents that were active during the war.

Pia and her brother, Max, live on an isolated farm in rural Maine, and it’s the only life they remember. Their father says the only way for them to stay protected is to stay on the farm. Pia doesn’t question it. Pia’s entire world turns upside down when her father breaks his leg, and she must be the one to venture into town to make farm deliveries. And then she sees him. Felix, a boy who is both a stranger and somehow familiar, makes her question everything she thought she knew about herself, her past, and her family.

In A Modern Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is not just a miser—he’s a ruthless tycoon, colder than the winter chill of modern London. But on Christmas Eve, the spectral visit of his father unleashes a torrent of long-buried secrets that threaten to either redeem or unravel him.

When Papi Ramon, the patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family dies, he gives the family one last message in the will: “One of you is el bacà, the demon that I made a deal with. Get rid of them or you will be damned.” Xiomara, the uncontested favorite of Papi Ramon (and therefore the least liked in the family), watches as everyone dismisses this as the joke of a senile old man and demands the lawyer obtain the previous will Papi wrote.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Pașii pierduți e un roman magistral al literaturii hispano-americane și, după părerea unor critici, cel mai important din creația lui Alejo Carpentier, reprezentând o ilustrare perfectă a teoriei sale despre "realul miraculos”. Publicat în 1953, romanul a inaugurat perioada de plenitudine creatoare a scriitorului.

In the heart of ancient India, amidst the opulence of palaces and the cries of suffering, one man embarks on a journey that will change the course of history. Siddhartha Gautama, the heir to a kingdom, forsakes his princely comforts in search of something greater: the elusive truth beyond worldly riches. Driven by an insatiable thirst for understanding, Siddhartha wanders the lands, encountering the depths of human suffering and the fleeting pleasures of existence.

How do you get people to appreciate what is right in front of them? In The Tale of the Mandarin Duck, it takes a mysterious, beautiful duck and a clear-eyed kid to point out the obvious! This audiobook will have listeners of all ages coming back to visit the fantastical interpretation of New York City and its odd ducks - both feathered and human.