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Amália is an award-winning journalist, disappointed by doctors. She's looking for her last headline... She needed her last act to be remarkable, worthy of being called as such. And she receives an invitation from a count interested in her journalistic skills. A certain Count Dracula... A short story inspired by "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker.
A truly unforgettable romantic story about family, love and serendipity, perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond, Beth Moran, and Jill Mansell ✨❤️🩹 Two people’s lives are about to collide… but will they find love? Far away, on a beautiful Mediterranean island, a little girl writes a letter to the Universe, with one wish – for something to change so that her father, Luke, can be happy again. Little does she know, there are two strangers in search of Luke already. Bee, who has just found out a deep secret about her past. And Alex, who dreams of his mother finding some of her memories again, and who believes Luke might be the key. As Bee’s and Alex’s lives are drawn together – in entirely unexpected ways – will they only find what they’re looking for? Or could the Universe also have a love story planned for two people who might just be soulmates, if only their paths could cross…Readers love Debbie Howells: ‘Oh boy! It’s poignant, it’s raw, it’s blooming emotional. Tissues at the ready… We don’t know what may be around the corner… A stunning read, one that took my breath away. Very highly recommended.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A massive WOW!… An emotional journey of heartbreak, grief and loss… A powerful, magical and quite simply beautiful read… You will lose your heart to this wonderfully touching and bittersweet tale.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow… this book. It’s very rare that a book captivates me from the first few pages alone, but this one definitely did. This was so beautifully written and so well thought out. I flew through it. It’s a raw story of friendship, love, grief, and so much more… Incredible.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A beautifully written tearjerker, and worth every single one of my tears! I’m not prone to getting sentimental, so that’s saying a lot… It was sad and heartbreaking, but there was beauty… [It] reminds us of the power of love and what it can do… A five-star experience!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A book that made me cry so much… about soulmates and friendship. I loved it.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Ver libro
The ghost of a soldier turned writer joins a quest to save a human life.The ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union soldier, has been displaced from the home he had been haunting.Enlisting the aid of a "haunting agent," he finds a new residence that has the requisite dark history and terrible secret that makes it appropriate for haunting. Here he meets new spirits who reside in this version of the afterlife, a middle place between life and the ultimate destination.Against his intentions, Bierce becomes caught up in the unsolved mystery of his new haunt. In partnership with an old friend, a Buddhist priest named "Sid" who has inhabited the spirit world for 25 centuries, he reluctantly involves himself in the matters of still living people. Bierce and his friend also become aware of the presence of mysterious "others" who are spirits who never held human form.Bierce, Sid, and other new spirit friends ultimately find themselves as part of a quest to save a human life, rescue another spirit from oblivion, and discover the identity of the "others."Ver libro
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When John Wright is found murdered in his isolated farmhouse, suspicion falls immediately on his wife, Minnie Wright. While the county attorney and sheriff search the house for evidence, two women—Martha Hale and Mrs. Peters—wait in the kitchen, gathering a few belongings for Minnie in jail. The men dismiss the untidy kitchen, unfinished sewing, and other small details of domestic life as insignificant. But the women notice what the investigators overlook. As they piece together clues from Minnie's home and past, they begin to understand the lonely life she endured and what may have driven her to murder. First published in 1917, Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers is a quietly suspenseful story of murder, marriage, justice, and the very different ways men and women can understand the same evidence. What begins as a search for a killer becomes a deeper question of who has the right to judge.Ver libro
Can she be who she is? Or is it forbidden? What Marsha Melinda Martin once believed she could be has vanished, and she has almost stopped caring. Then a man claiming to be her father comes to town, bringing back memories she thought she had forgotten and revealing secrets she has been avoiding. But before she can do anything about her future, Marsha and the Ruby Sisters must deal with the new woman in town. Is she working with the serial killer that once lived among them? Has Ron Page returned to claim the woman he believes he owns and punish those that took her from him? And will Marsha forgive her father in time to save them? Although mystery and danger abound, the heart of this story is how community and friends working together—and remembering who they are—can overcome all evil. No matter how hidden it might be.Ver libro
In this taut new thriller from the author of Chapel Field, one weekend of passion puts a woman at the center of a scandal that threatens to bury her . . . When a spark ignites, Nina and Gabriel Da Silva, the mercurial busker at Halfmoon Lane, spend one weekend together at Nina’s isolated beachside home. Soon after, Nina receives some terrible news: Gabriel’s body has been found, and she’s been named a prime suspect. Can Nina ever begin to piece her life back together or atone for her mistakes? It turns out both conscience and love are heavy burdens, and Nina must learn to lean on the friends she has held at arm’s length . . . **Paula Hillman is a writer of novels with a literary flavour, characters to fall for and twists you won’t see coming.** **Narrator Melanie Crawley is an Earphone award-winning voice actor** Praise for Halfmoon Lane: "What an extraordinarily beautiful novel." - Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A real page-turner.” —Amazon review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “An intriguing and intense story with well developed characters that have you engrossed in the story and storyline right from the start!!” —Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From the title, I thought this book sounded more like a romance novel than a suspense thriller. It turns out that it's both: a twisty thriller and a beautiful story - Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐ “This is a cracker of a book and I read it in one sitting.” —Amazon review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Ver libro
Very early in my life, possibly because of the insatiable curiosity that was born in me, I came to dislike the performances of trained animals. It was my curiosity that spoiled for me this form of amusement, for I was led to seek behind the performance in order to learn how the performance was achieved. And what I found behind the brave show and glitter of performance was not nice. It was a body of cruelty so horrible that I am confident no normal person exists who, once aware of it, could ever enjoy looking on at any trained-animal turn.Now I am not a namby-pamby. By the book reviewers and the namby-pambys I am esteemed a sort of primitive beast that delights in the spilled blood of violence and horror. Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital. I have seen horrible deaths and mutilations. I have seen imbeciles hanged, because, being imbeciles, they did not possess the hire of lawyers. I have seen the hearts and stamina of strong men broken, and I have seen other men, by ill-treatment, driven to permanent and howling madness. I have witnessed the deaths of old and young, and even infants, from sheer starvation. I have seen men and women beaten by whips and clubs and fists, and I have seen the rhinoceros-hide whips laid around the naked torsos of black boys so heartily that each stroke stripped away the skin in full circle. And yet, let me add finally, never have I been so appalled and shocked by the world's cruelty as have I been appalled and shocked in the midst of happy, laughing, and applauding audiences when trained-animal turns were being performed on the stage.One with a strong stomach and a hard head may be able to tolerate much of the unconscious and undeliberate cruelty and torture of the world that is perpetrated in hot blood and stupidity. I have such a stomach and head. But what turns my head and makes my gorge rise, is the cold-blooded, conscious, deliberate cruelty and torment that is manifest behind ninety-nine of every hundred trained-animal turns. Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.Possessed myself of a strong stomach and a hard head, inured to hardship, cruelty, and brutality, nevertheless I found, as I came to manhood, that I unconsciously protected myself from the hurt of the trained-animal turn by getting up and leaving the theatre whenever such turns came on the stage. I say "unconsciously." By this I mean it never entered my mind that this was a programme by which the possible death-blow might be given to trained-animal turns. I was merely protecting myself from the pain of witnessing what it would hurt me to witness.But of recent years my understanding of human nature has become such that I realize that no normal healthy human would tolerate such performances did he or she know the terrible cruelty that lies behind them and makes them possible. So I am emboldened to suggest, here and now, three things:First, let all humans inform themselves of the inevitable and eternal cruelty by the means of which only can animals be compelled to perform before revenue-paying audiences. Second, I suggest that all men and women, and boys and girls, who have so acquainted themselves with the essentials of the fine art of animal-training, should become members of, and ally themselves with, the local and national organizations of humane societies and societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.And the third suggestion I cannot state until I have made a preamble.Ver libro
