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  Tunneling to the Center of the...

  Kevin Wilson

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  A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders—strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now on audio as part of Ecco’s “Art of the Story” Series, and with a new introduction from the author. 
  Kevin Wilson’s characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. “Grand Stand-In” is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies “stand-ins” for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in “Blowing Up On the Spot,” a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.  
  Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.

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  The Malachite Jar

  J. S. Fletcher

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  Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.'The Malachite Jar' is a detective story. An eminent magistrate, an antiquarian book and antique collector, has been found dead. The post mortem indicates that he was poisoned. But who could possibly have a motive for the murder? Various members of the community come forward with information, each of which points to a different solution to the puzzle...but which is correct?

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  The Fish Tail

  Geo Mihalache

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  From the series 'Stories for Vlad': 
  Tarcatul, the little tomcat learns that being selfish is not the way - he finds a fish tail and plans to eat it by himself. He receives a tough lesson from Pic and Miron, the other tomcats.

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  The Madman

  Kahlil Gibran

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  Kahlil Gibran (author of The Prophet) was a Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet and artist. During the last 20 years of his life, he lived in the United States, where his works gained recognition and influence within the American popular culture. 
  This abridged audio of The Madman communicates in stories and metaphors Gibran's belief that if a sensible way of living and thinking could be found, people would have mastery over their lives.

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  Lilac

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.Lilac is a multilayered tale of a marriage proposal. Frederick Anstey, an art dealer, asks his beloved Lily Brocket to marry him. But she is in a hurry to get away, as her Aunt Clara has appeared from out of town, and she promises to write him a letter by ten that evening to give her reply.In the intervening hours, as Frederick is tormented by doubts, he meets a series of his neighbours, each of whom sheds a different light on possible outcomes of his proposal to Lily.

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  10 Self-Help Classics to Guide...

  Napoleon Hill, Kahlil Gibran,...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works :Think and Grow Rich [Napoleon Hill ] Starts at Chapter 1The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money [P.T. Barnum] Starts at Chapter 19As a Man Thinketh [James Allen]  Starts at Chapter 40The Science of Getting Rich [Wallace D. Wattles]  Starts at Chapter 49Morning and Evening Thoughts [James Allen]  Starts at Chapter 67The prophet [Khalil Gibran]  Starts at Chapter 131Dollars Want Me: The New Road To Opulence[Henry Harrison Brown]  Starts at Chapter 159The Art Of War [Sun Tzu]  Starts at Chapter 166The Tao Te Ching [Lao Tzu]  Starts at Chapter 179The Way to Wealth [Benjamin Franklin]  Starts at Chapter 260

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