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Through Their Lenses is a collection of 29 award-winning short stories by tweens. These stories encompass a wide range of genres, inviting listeners to explore a wealth of important themes passionately crafted by these young writers, from a girl going on a quest to release a curse bestowed on her by a witch to a guy trying to escape after being stranded in a different time.

When Sonia, the prominent wife of a local cemetery owner, is killed in the worst accident anyone can remember, Hartley Nolan, a lifelong teetotaler, is hardly the person that police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, Hartley is something of an inspiration in a town that hasn't seen much luck in decades-he's the local boy who made it big in Chicago without ever forgetting his struggling family back home. But Tower Hill, Illinois, is a close-knit community that's alive with old rivalries, making it fertile ground for resentments.

Live and work together, or lose everything that matters…The ultimatum tilts Dru Hampton’s contented life in Chandlerville, Georgia, on its ear. The man that Vivian, her cantankerous boss and benefactor, wants Dru to partner with -live- with - is Brad Douglas, who’s let Dru down every way a man can. Sheriff’s deputy Brad has come a long way since his rebellious youth. He’s back home to care for Vivian, his ill grandmother. He’s stayed out of her way all these years to make up for the hurt he once caused.

Das wunderschöne Erstlesebuch für starke Mädchen. Du bist ein starkes Mädchen? Du bist zwischen 6-8 Jahre alt? Du hast bereits lesen gelernt? Du möchtest gern lesen üben? Du bekommst aber auch gern vorgelesen? Du magst spannende Geschichten? Dann wirst du mit unseren Erstlesegeschichten für starke Mädchen sehr viel Freude haben. Extra für Kinder gemacht: Bestens für Kinder geeignet, Kurzgeschichten, Fragerunde nach jeder Geschichte, Lehrreich und inspirierend.

From "Studying with Stepdad" through to "No Longer at Ease", each short story contained within Dirty Stories fluidly takes you to a place and to encounters that you will ultimately find both stimulating and arousing. With 20 stories that follow a familiar thread of lust and desires - all going beyond what we normally expect to find in a collection such as this - Dirty Stories takes you deep into a world of sin and yearning that is as unique as it is compelling.

A Waterstones Best History Book 2025 ‘Learned, entertaining and highly approachable’ BOB MORTIMER ‘A treat’ ALICE LOXTON ‘Five stars from me…’ AL MURRAY An unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends – an irresistible, family-friendly deep dive into the murky lives of the...

It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and 15-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever.

What goes better with mistletoe and merriment than the sweet beginnings of romance?

In three different loosely-related vignettes, Bradley Lewis uses a fictional narrative to present a glaring view of lives gone sour. Dissolution takes you to the darkest place in the lives of three different couples; two are married, and one young couple struggling with the idea of permanency. This tour de force will grab you from the first page and lead you down a path of circumstances that have gone horribly wrong. These addicting stories will send chills down the spine of anyone who has ever been married or in a relationship.

Zahara compone un relato a dos voces sobre la conciliación romántica y profesional de una generación en la que está mal visto enamorarse, en la que el trabajo es la prioridad y el desapego familiar la norma. Una sociedad en la que mantener una relación es tan difícil como sostener en pie un castillo de naipes.

Ein besonderes Jahr mit Lotta und Luis. Im Kindergarten gehören die Zwillinge Lotta und Luis schon zu den Großen, denn im Sommer kommen sie in die Schule. Davor passiert aber noch eine ganze Menge: Luis verliert sein Lieblings-Spielzeugauto, die Geschwister finden einen Hund im Park und das Zelten mit Papa auf dem Bauernhof ist besonders aufregend. Nach einem tollen Urlaub in den Bergen kommen sie in die Schule. Wie gut, dass ihre besten Freunde in derselben Klasse sind. So richtig Spaß macht es auch, im Herbst Drachen steigen zu lassen und im Advent Plätzchen zu backen.

Way up in the highest, most private part of the forest, a small family of giant pandas made their home. This panda family loved to tell stories to each other. Sometimes the stories were true. Sometimes they weren't. That was part of the fun - guessing which stories were true and which weren't.

Todas las familias felices es la polifonía narrativa de los ramales conflictivos del México contemporáneo y, por extensión, de América Latina y del mundo. Violence is the name of the game.

When John Glass's billionaire father-in-law hires him to write his biography, he feels he can't refuse. Then his research assistant on the book discovers some very sensitive information about John's in-laws, and is murdered before he can tell anyone what he knows. John is on his own to find out...

Some stories are all about the crime. These stories are about the maelstrom of what happens afterward. A hard-bitten crew of professional thieves pull of the score of their lives, coming away with millions in cash, enough to change their lives, make new identities, start fresh. But that's when the real trouble begins. In this linked anthology, we follow each member of the crew of culprits after the heist and watch as this perfect score ends up a perfect nightmare.

A "novel in stories" by Jen Knox, winner of the Prize Americana for Prose.

Gary has heard some interesting tales about members of his family, so he decides to try and record some of them for posterity's sake. He interviews his great grandmother who has told him the story many times about how she survived the sinking of the Titanic, a distant uncle who may have witnessed the second coming, and, finally, a very rich uncle who maybe got that way thanks to time travel.

Catorce autoras, seleccionadas por Laura Freixas, con relatos sobre un tema poco frecuentado en la literatura, algunos escritos especialmente para esta antología: Rosa Chacel, Carmen Laforet, Carmen Martín Gaite, Ana María Matute, Josefina Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana María Moix, Soledad Puértolas, Clara Sánchez, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Mercedes Soriano, Almudena Grandes y Luisa Castro.

In Raised by Unicorns: Stories from People with LGBTQ+ Parents, Frank Lowe has carefully edited an anthology that reflects on the upbringing of children in many different forms of LGBTQ+ families. From Baby Boomers to Generation Z, it features diverse stories that express the distinctiveness of this shared journey and of each particular family. It's visceral, raw, and not always pretty, but love is always the common thread.

In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We hear of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbours caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities.