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Join us for epic adventures in the UP on land and lakes! Pirates, thieves, shipwrecks, sexy women, lost gold, and adventures on the Lake Superior frontier await you! In this audiobook, you’ll sail on a ship full of gold, outwit deadly shapeshifters, battle frontier outlaws, and even meet the mysterious agent that Andrew Jackson called "the meanest man" he ever knew. Packed with action, adventure, humor, and suspense, this audiobook has something for every listener.

Welcome to my magical world of imagination taking you back to 17th century France. The human experiences we all face today are very similar to the needs and losses of humanity in history. The book has short stories with no chronological historical order. The aim of this book is purely for entertainment purpose, but it has elements of historical and psychological perspectives that may educate the listener.

When Clare picks up an odd stone, she never expects to be...transported? Hundreds of years in the past and thousands of miles away, Clare is lost. Will her new friends Andrew and Harold Marshall help her to find the way back, even if they do not believe her? And more importantly, can she trust these strangers?

Battling Boxing Stories presents 15 of the most intense and hard-hitting stories about the pugilistic arts collected in one place and written by some of the best of today's new crop of exciting writers. The stories in this book highlight all types of boxers and all aspects of the sport, from amateur bouts and illegal street fights, to heavyweight championship events. These are wonderful stories with unforgettable characters who are full of passion and emotion, action and rage.

This book is a diverse collection of short stories based on both fantasy and embellished facts. Although they are short stories, the plots and happenings will stick in your mind and the memories will not be short, although some will cause laughter and others wonder. I am very sure that you will read some of these stories more than once. In fact, I bet you!

A pilot of a airmail flight battles a horrific snow storm in order to keep himself and a passenger alive.

The storm arrives, unbidden yet unstoppable, sculpting the world in reckless white. The north wind, a faceless mason, works without plan or patience—bastions rise, wreaths drape, roads vanish. No symmetry, no restraint, only the wild hand of winter shaping chaos into fleeting grandeur. By dawn, the architect is gone. What remains is a frozen wonder, a masterpiece of whim and force, too perfect to last, too wild to be remade.

When a master thief's quest for vengeance collides with his former lover's transformed life, will the ghosts and doubts of the past overshadow their rekindled passion? Or will love find a way to ignite once more?

A series of fast-paced escapades which lead some kids into changing their traditional playground of gangs into something positive. These stories follow their adventures from negative situations to a positive outcome.

"മാധവികുട്ടി രചിച്ച കടൽ മയൂരം, രാത്രിയുടെ പദവിന്യാസം, ആട്ടുകട്ടിൽ എന്നീ കഥകൾ അടങ്ങുന്ന സമാഹാരമാണ് ഇത്.

An unwanted daughter is betrothed to a reclusive man. She arrives at his beautiful home on a lonely island, to find there is no husband, only a forbidding housekeeper. A mysterious locked door; an oddly-behaved cat; perhaps she didn't come here to be a bride...

Der kleine Drache Grünschuppe ist verwirrt: Von einem Tag auf den anderen ist die Welt unter einer weißen Decke verschwunden. Ob das der Schnee ist, von dem immer alle erzählen? Vorsichtig wagt Grünschuppe sich aus seiner Höhle, doch der Schnee schmilzt, sobald der Drache ihn berührt. Dabei würde er so gern in ihm toben, wie die anderen Tiere es machen. Ein Plan muss her! Eine drachenstarke Vorlesegeschichte mit 15 Illustrationen von Tabea Meinecke.

"Jackals and Arabs" is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude. A European traveler from the North, accompanied by Arab guides, is camped in the desert. When night falls, and the Arabs are at a distance, the traveler is accosted by talking jackals. The jackals speak of an age-old hatred for Arabs, whom they associate with uncleanliness. They relate a belief passed down from their ancestors, that a man such as the protagonist would be the one to "end the quarrel which divides the world in two".

The wind has mysteriously stopped in the township of Shinvik; a remote settlement located in the far-off Western Isles. A young explorer, Elara, is tasked with investigating the strange meteorological phenomenon. Instructed by the town’s authorities, Elara uses her nature magik to traverse a perilous mountain pass. It is a passage no one has ever returned from.

After the loss of her beloved sister and both of her parents, overworked talk show assistant Olivia Banks sets off on a Paris adventure to fulfill the dreams she and her sister once had as little girls. Olivia only has one day to devote to the City of Light before she must return to her demanding job back in Manhattan. But when she steps out of the cab onto the cobblestoned streets of Montmartre and meets a sexy boulanger who wants to help her make all of those dreams come true, Olivia realizes that Paris may have more in store for her than she ever could have imagined.

The challenge ahead for Ryan Jordan is to rise above the tragic memories that still haunt him. He sets out on a long uphill climb of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro with a group camping their way through East Africa. It will be three days and nights up into ever-thinning air and cold, forcing himself to go slow to acclimate and ensure success.

The story features a mind altered smog concocted by an evil villain who calls himself, the Phantom King. But Prince Animus is a holy man! As is his team. A beautiful sorceress who commands fire, a peaceful ninja with excellent karma, Alberstein the alchemist who is sardonic and grumpy, and finally my personal favorite, Carbo Brusto!

In Hunted, a chilling blend of thriller and horror, Dr. Cassandra Stokes leads a team deep into the unforgiving wilderness on a mission not just about scientific discovery, but personal revenge. A series of brutal killings in the northern forests has left the locals terrorised, their whispers filled with tales of wolves, wolves, not quite wolves.

Marine archaeologist Dr. Evelyn Price has spent her life uncovering the mysteries of the deep ocean. But when a violent storm uncovers an ancient timber circle off the coast of England, she faces a discovery that will challenge everything she knows.

In der schriftlich fixierten Sprachanwendung ist Albert Ehrenstein den meisten zeitgenössischen Autoren um Lichtjahre voraus, dennoch ist er bis heute nahezu unbekannt. Gepaart mit herrlicher Situationskomik und einem großartigen Verständnis für Menschen und Gesellschaftsstrukturen entsteht so eine bemerkenswerte Prosa, welche ihren poetischen Glanz auf diesem Hörbuch erstrahlen lässt. Unicum erzählt von zwei portugiesischen Forschern, die in Afrika eine sensationelle Entdeckung machen. Der Parasit eines Riechtieres löst beim infizierten Menschen einen unbegrenzten Arbeitseifer aus.