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Title: Stories for a Woman's Heart

Author: Alice Gray

Narrator: Alice Gray

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-15

Publisher: christianaudio.com

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In the same tender, uplifting, and heartwarming style of Stories for the Heart is this wonderful collection of stories selected for a woman's heart. These inspirational stories by communicators like Ruth Graham, Gigi Tchividjian, Kay James, and Luci Swindoll instill Christian values and virtues.

They motivate, encourage, and honor women. These are timeless treasures selected to inspire your thoughts and stir your soul. Revel in laughter and friendship. Cherish special moments that reach across generations. And be encouraged by tender stories of compassion that are sure to tug at your heart.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

A wonderful book of touching stories that definitely warm the heart. Highly recommended.

Five Stars

Special book I got it for a friend.

Five Stars

Great stories

Tender, Heart-warming stories

Just read another review that gave two stars. Reason was incorrect shipping...not content of book.

These words are from the back cover: "These inviting stories give you the same warm feeling as being welcomed into the cozy home of a dear friend. So curl up in a favorite spot and immerse yourself in delight and joy. Savor soul-stirring words that will refresh your spirit and linger in your heart." That describes the book perfectly!

Three Stars

good reading

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Title: Black Glass

Subtitle: Short Fictions

Author: Karen Joy Fowler

Narrator: Heather Wilds, Todd Haberkorn, Emily Durante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker-shortlisted, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

In 1999 Karen Joy Fowler won the World Fantasy Award for Black Glass, a collection of thirteen stories in which she "[Managed] to re-create both life's extraordinary and its ordinary magic" (New York Times Book Review). Now, this previously rare, out-of-print collection is being republished with a fresh package and a new prefatory meditation by the author. Featuring Fowler's characteristic imagination, sly wit, and penetrating insight, Black Glass will be a welcome treat for fans new and old.

Members Reviews:

All sorts of stories

In this collection, Karen Joy Fowler certainly provides variety. We have, for instance, a story about Albert Einstein and the daughter whose existence recently came to light with a series of letters. There is the science-fiction account of women living in Berkeley in the 1960s, an account that owes more to women's studies than to science fiction. There is the Shirley Jackson-like story of a woman whose son's trivia questions lead her to imagine a scenario that somehow bleeds into real life.

I think the best part of the collection is the variety, but not just the variety in terms of subject matter. The stories are as short as four pages and as long as 50 or more. The forms are varied as well. Some have fairly traditional narration while others vary the form considerably. And throughout, there seems to be a focus on those who don't quite fit in, who exist on the margins. You may not like all 15 stories (I didn't), but if you are a serious reader and enjoy stories that challenge you to think, you're sure to find quite a few here to please you.

Probably really good, but just not my style of stories

Probably really good, but just not my style of stories. I guess I don't really like short stories. I'll have to remember that !

please ignore this review

I.m not a good one to rate this book. It just wasn't my type of subject matter. So I didnt read much of it. The author deserves more than my dis-interested opinion.

Five Stars

I really enjoyed the plot twists and the connections to history.

To me, not very entertaining, or interesting..

Just didn't "get it", for the most part.

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Title: The Twelve Ghosts of Christmas

Author: Tom Slemen

Narrator: Michael D. Crain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-15

Publisher: Tom Slemen

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Have a happy haunted Christmas with these 12 previously unpublished seasonal spine chillers from Tom Slemen, the unrivaled writer and researcher of all things supernatural. In The Twelve Ghosts of Christmas, you will even be chilled by the stories in the introduction to the book, never mind the devilish dozen true tales about eerie time slips, gory premonitions, heart-stopping exorcisms, heartbreaking tales of lost love, graveyard tricksters, and sinister old hags. Listen to a story about the devil that tempted a bishop with pleasures of the flesh in "The Missing Room" and of the titanic, ominous force that turned a 3,000-ton ship upside down and sent its crew of 75 into limbo, never to be seen again. Also,listen to the story about the bohemian '60s couple who gate crashed a Satanist's party at Christmas and discovered what the main course was on the stomach-churning menu.... Plus dwell on the weird story of the uncanny, red-suited phantom that terrorized a couple who bought a dream home in Normandy.... He had bizarre plans for the future of their child... Just some of the weird but true stories in The Twelve Ghosts of Christmas!

Members Reviews:

Oh Scary Night!

As usual, enjoyable stories that never fail to satisfy. I dont know why more people (at least Liverpudlians) arent reading these....

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Title: Home for Christmas

Author: Lia Fairchild

Narrator: Christina Traister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

This year, Ali and Stephen are both just trying to make it through the holidays. Stephen is fresh out of a relationship and dreading the prospect of Christmas alone. Ali, on the other hand, can't celebrate with friends or family. The most important man in her life is dying - decorating cookies and hanging tinsel aren't even on her radar. When the two meet during a chance encounter, Stephen's instant attraction to Ali spurs him into action. He'll do whatever it takes to give her the holiday she deserves and pull off a real Christmas miracle.

Lia Fairchild's Home for Christmas is the moving story of two people, fates intertwined, about to be surprised by what destiny has in store.

Members Reviews:

Sweet Christmas novella!

This is a great Christmas novella!

This story is what Christmas should be about. Stephen and Ali meet one night in the bar that Ali works at and when he finds out that someone very special in her life is dying and wants to have one last Christmas at home, Stephen does everything in his power to make that Christmas wish come true.

Sweet holiday story

This was a very sweet holiday story with a touch of romance and a happy ending. I love these types of stories at Christmas time. It was very well written and the characters are believable and genuine. It was a quick read that out a smile on my face.

Home for Christmas

Priceless, love story between the two characters in this story. It was a touching story between all the characters. This author has written a exceptional Christmas story. Sweet and funny with a mixture of sadness! Enjoy! Merry Christmas to all!!

Nice

Ali is his waitress at the bar but he feels a connection. Stephen decides to go back to see her again but gets told she marry. See what he does to make Christmas special.

Sweet

An interesting story, totally not what you think in the beginning. I glad I kept reading. A sweet story of love at first sight and jumping to conclusions.

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Title: Coffee House Lies: 100 Cups of Flash Fiction

Author: Carly Berg

Narrator: Jayne Chianelli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-15

Publisher: Carly Berg

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

These fun-sized stories are just right for a coffee break, public commute, waiting room, bedtime story, or any other time you want a quick trip without leaving the farm.

The 100 stories in this quirky collection are generally a few minutes in length. Nearly all of them have been published before individually, in numerous print and online magazines and anthologies. Stories in this collection have received nominations for the 2013 Pushcart Prize, Micro Award, and Wigleaf Long List.

Tales vary from realistic to humorous to surreal, and family-friendly to adult. Repeating themes include: people-as-animals, people losing themselves and finding themselves (and sometimes wishing they hadn't), childhood in the psychedelic seventies, reality TV, marriage, twisted religion, and of course the gotta have 'em "he-done-me wrongs". Enjoy!

Members Reviews:

Short snacks that satisfy

Flash fiction â short, concise stories as little as one page, and rarely more than four or five â is a form that has become newly popular with digital publishing. Carly Berg must be one its best exponents. Sheâs written a guidebook called Writing Flash Fiction that contains some excellent advice on writing in general. After reading it, I wanted to see whether she was any good herself. Having now read Coffee House Lies, I can report that she is, very.

These stories all, in some way, reflect the human condition. They can be bizarrely funny, as in Rock, Paper, Scissors â betrayal comes to light in a hair salon, and is punished, with scissors. Or Saint Jude, about a woman with poor judgement: âThey gave an ounce of charity with a pound of moralizing, which made her so mad that one day she came home with the churchâs most sacred holy relic in her brassiere.â Other stories are rather thoughtful; for example, in Laid to Rest, a woman carefully tends the graves she has made of people who are still alive â the graves are for her relationships with them. My favourites: Everyone Wants to Steal My Man, a masterpiece of revelation; Paris Blue, in which a maid in the Deep South takes elegant revenge on an awful mistress; and Loss of Habitat, a curious story that may make you think about people and animals and how their fates can be oddly similar.

Part of Bergâs secret is craftsmanship. Her chapter on writing skills in Writing Flash Fiction reveals how aware she is of what makes a good story: avoid exposition, sloppy dialogue, etc. (she gives examples). All that is put into practice here, to good effect. Not one of these stories has an ounce of spare fat. She also has a real feel for language. The last part of Coffee House Lies has a number of very short pieces, sometimes just a few lines; this is from Breathing Underwater:

The family danced beneath the Mississippi

Father and Mother slapped in pretty water rhythm,

Watershadow sister mimed the Mother.

... Mother-daughter swimslap dancers hardened to steamships,

windmill arms to waterwheels.

Hooted twin foghorns,

steamed off down the river.

Bergâs writing is very American. This didnât bother me (I live in the US at the moment, anyway), but thereâs the odd turn of phrase and cultural reference that might puzzle some people.

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Title: Keeping His Promise

Subtitle: Supernatural Fiction Series

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Narrator: Russell D. Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-15

Publisher: Lamp of Trismegistus

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Algernon Blackwood was a writer of weird, occult, and ghost tales. He was also a contemporary of Arthur Machen, both of whom were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It was his interest in esoteric studies that likely served as the inspiration for strange stories such as this one. In this tale Blackwood tells the story of a student up all night studying for his exams when a childhood friend he hasn't thought about in many years unexpectedly pays him a visit.

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Titolo: Racconti scelti [Stories Chosen]

Autore: Anton Cechov

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 04-08-15

Editore: Collina d'oro

Categoria: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Riepilogo Editore:

Anton Cechov (1860-1904), scrittore e medico russo, parla così della sua infanzia: "Mio padre cominciò a educarmi, o più semplicemente a picchiarmi, quando non avevo ancora cinque anni. Ogni mattina, al risveglio, il primo pensiero era: oggi sarò picchiato?... Sono stato allevato nella religione, ho cantato nel coro, ho letto gli Apostoli e i salmi in chiesa, ho assistito regolarmente ai mattutini, ho persino aiutato a servir messa e ho suonato le campane. E qual è il risultato di tutto ciò?Non ho avuto infanzia. E non ho più alcun sentimento religioso.I suoi racconti, dall'umorismo tagliente, trovano qui le loro radici, e, sempre nelle parole di Cechov: è arduo andare a caccia dell'umorismo. Vi sono giorni in cui si va alla ricerca delle facezie e se ne creano alcune di una banalità nauseante. Allora, volente o nolente, si passa nel campo della serietà. Fu così che ogni tanto gli fu permesso dagli editori di scrivere racconti con un registro serio o malinconico. Cornice musicale dall'Eugene Onegin di Tchaikovsky.

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Title: The Wood of the Dead

Subtitle: Supernatural Fiction Series

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Narrator: Russell D. Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-15

Publisher: Lamp of Trismegistus

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Algernon Blackwood was a prolific writer of weird and occult tales. This short ghost story from 1906 tells the tale of a traveler, who encounters an elderly man known as the Father of the Village, with precognition of when townspeople will die.

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Title: Things I'll Never Say

Subtitle: Stories About Our Secret Selves

Author: Ann Angel - editor

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Anne Flosnik, Amy Rubinate, Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-15

Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on some provocative secrets in this fascinating collection of short fiction that will have listeners talking.

A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Hookups that are off-limits. A parent whose problems your friends won't understand. Everyone keeps secrets - from themselves, from their families, from their friends - and secrets have a habit of shaping lives around them.

Acclaimed author Ann Angel brings together some of today's most gifted YA authors as they explore unique perspectives on secrets in genres as diverse as the writers themselves: Do they make you stronger or weaker? Do they alter your world when revealed? Do they compartmentalize your life into what you're willing to share and what you aren't? The one thing these stories have in common is how they reveal the characters' secret selves buried underneath - whether they want them to be shared or not.

With stories by: Ann Angel, Kerry Cohen, Louise Hawes, Varian Johnson, Erica L. Kaufman, Ron Koertge, E. M. Kokie, Chris Lynch, Kekla Magoon, Zoë Marriott, Katy Moran, J. L. Powers, Mary Ann Rodman, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Ellen Wittlinger.

Members Reviews:

A diverse and realistic anthology

Ann Angel's first outing editing an anthology is an impressive venture. She's gathered a wonderful mix of authors, from established award winners like Chris Lynch and Ellen Wittlinger to talented up to a debut author. The authors aren't just diverse in their name recognition either. THINGS I'LL NEVER SAY: STORIES ABOUT OUR SECRET SELVES dwells in those experiences that are hard to talk about, that people like to never think about.

It's fitting that it is a very diverse anthology, not only the authors, but also the main characters, who are black and white and Asian and gay and bisexual and transgender and suffering from mental illness. Although not all of the stories are realistic, they do strive for a realism about the teen experience, and the multiplicity of points of view represented help support that anthology-wide tone.

I'll admit that the anthology started a little slow for me. The usually reliable Ellen Wittlinger didn't knock it out of the park with "The We-Are-Like-Everybody-Else Game," the story of a girl with a mom who hoards and a friend who might not deserve the title (but one who does). "Cupid's Beaux" by Cynthia Leitich Smith is charming, and a definite delight to me as a fan of her Tantalize series. Will anthology readers who haven't read that series be a little lost?

"When We Were Wild" by Louise Hawes and "Call Me!" by Ron Koertge are both delightfully loose stories, slightly naughty and shaggy with narrators who struggle with their knowledge of their own cruelty. Of the sadder stories, I think I liked "Easter" by Mary Ann Rodman best, for the way it captured loss and teenage confusion and dashed hopes.

"Quick Change" by E.M. Kokie is a little gem about a con artist in a family of con artists, and I want an entire novel about what happens next. (Short stories have been made into novels before! I can hope!) "Storm Clouds Fleeing From the Wind" by Zo Marriott is the standout of the collection.

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Título: El círculo rojo [The Red Circle]

Autor: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrador: Niloofer Khan

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 41 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 03-10-15

Editor: Sonolibro

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

La Señora Warren está preocupada por un huésped al que no ha visto nunca. Pero ha sucedido algo que la hace ir en busca de Sherlock Holmes. A regañadientes Holmes se hace cargo del caso y empieza a tirar del hilo hasta llegar a toda una conspiración criminal que le hará colaborar con Scotland Yard y una agencia americana para resolver lo que en contra de su criterio original se convertirá en un trepidante caso.

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