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This holiday bundle features six entertaining and delightful audio stories for the whole family to enjoy year-round. Perfect for the audiobook lovers on your list! Each story is performed by a full cast of voice actors with sound effects and music. Includes Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Bell by Hans Christian Andersen, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Cinderella by Charles Perrault, Snow White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select group of modern authors, inspired by classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and other novels and stories by the 19th-century master of “Extraordinary Voyages,” Jules Verne.

VOICES: a sacred sisterscape, spearheaded by Grammy-nominated poet aja monet (When The Poems Do What They Do), is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by, and centering Black women across the diaspora. It encourages radical listening for the sake of connection, compassion, and community and celebrates the interior lives Black women embody. “We seek to encourage and establish a culture that fosters radical truth-telling love & solidarity,” —aja monet, Artistic Creative Director, Voices at V-Day.

This collection of ten classic rabbit tales will surely delight any “bunny” big or small. An adventure awaits you in every story written by some of the best-known children’s authors. Come along for the journey; it’s just a hop, skip and jump away!

The stories in this anthology range from quietly strange to ambitiously speculative. Humans transform into cosmic energy or sentient algae. A man wakes up in a new body in a world with continents cut out, months absent from the calendar year, and souls misplaced. Students at a high school regularly vanish without a trace. A woman descends into the depths of the ocean and encounters all-knowing creatures who may have the answers to her deepest questions.

A collection of short stories for kids from around the world. This collection includes “Winnie-the-Pooh and the Bees” by A. A. Milne, “Gigi Finds Her Voice” by Lorena Romero, “Calypso in the Kitchen” by Lauren Kratz Prushko, “The Kind Elephant” by Molly Milazzo, and “The Thankful Tree” by Lorena Romero.

This delightful collection of Christmas stories includes the full-cast dramatization of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS DAY, and the holiday favorites THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER.

Carolrhoda Books spark children’s imaginations and offer new ways of looking at the world. Our middle-grade books stand out for the breadth of genres encompassed, from coming-of-age stories to exceptional nonfiction to mysteries.

Season Three comes with serious firepower. The genre of adventure, science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, melodrama, and the psychological are all present, turning the collection into a kaleidoscope of characters, plot twists, emotions, and revelations. Magicians hurl lightnings at each other, talking rabbits and vanishing cats talk to a little girl, while mad scientists try to create life from dead body parts. One of the most prominent names in this season is the American master of horror H. P.

The first season focuses on the short story tradition, and B. J. Harrison has selected some of the most prominent representatives of the genre. As far as the thematic aspect is concerned, the stories cover crime and mystery episodes like Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Speckled Band", or revenge-driven ones like Shakespeare’s "Hamlet". There are also supernatural and horror classics such as Hawthorne’s "The Devil and Tom Walker" and W. W. Jacobs’ masterpiece "The Monkey’s Paw".

A kaleidoscope of genres, themes, topics, and motifs await the listener here. From comedy and mystery, to horror and children’s stories, Season Four abounds in fairy tales adventures, challenges to the listener’s imagination, and joyrides through the unknown realms of the psyche. One of the most famous short stories in horror fiction, "The Call of Cthulhu" sits next to the funny characters of "Right Ho, Jeeves" by Wodehouse, while the eponymous sleepyhead from "Rip Van Winkle" is very much awake, facing H. G. Wells’ "The Door in the Wall".

B. J. Harrison does not tire of the adventurous and mysterious settings in his choice of narratives. This time, the horror element is a bit subdued, though Edgar Allan Poe makes up for the lost thrills with his haunting poems "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "The Sleeper". P. G. Wodehouse appears with four works, scoring points for his humor.

Apart from the ubiquitous presence of the authors who work in the short story tradition, the Second Season introduces poems and novellas. The romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge is here with his haunting and supernatural sea adventure "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", while Rudyard Kipling tests the human condition with his famous poem "If". Perhaps the most potent addition in this second part is Joseph Conrad’s timeless novella "The Heart of Darkness", exploring the darkest recesses of the human soul. B. J.

She knows that it's not appropriate. She knows that she shouldn't be reading this here, among all these other people. But she can't help herself... "Seduced in the Library" is an erotic short story about a woman who finds pleasure in a romantic erotic story in the library.

When all you can think about the day after your wild 30th Birthday party is how you need a good fuck, it’s time to do something about it. She can’t wait any longer. She wants sex, even if that’s all it is. It should be passionate and it should happen now. She sells her most expensive Birthday present and orders a taxi. Her next destination is whoever she matches with first on Tinder...

23-årig kvindelig narkoman likvideret i park på Frederiksberg. Hun blev myrdet med 18 knivstik, fordi hun vidste for meget og tidligere havde talt med politiet.

Bådbrand en nytårsaften på Lillebælt. En moder, hendes lille søn og yderligere to personer druknede. Hele Danmark var rystet. Men den eneste overlevende efter katastrofen gik på kro samme aften.

Straffelovens § 166 omfatter falskmøntneri og hører ikke med til de kriminelle handlinger, som belaster dansk kriminalstatistik mest. Den sag som her skal refereres, omfatter falskmøntneri ved eftergørelse af US 100-dollarsedler i et ukendt antal, som væsentlig overstiger et beløb på 3.247.300 dollars, idet det anførte beløb er skaffet til veje under sagen. Samtidig er det anvendte offset udstyr fundet og undersøgt. I sagen foreligger forklaring om afbrænding af ½ kubikmeter færdiggjorte 100-dollarsedler samt oplysning om 30-36 millioner dollars.

I tiden fra d. 4/8 1977 til d. 1/5 1978 – altså 9 måneder – levede den københavnske befolkning i en næsten konstant frygt for at blive ofre for den bombeterror, der blev udøvet specielt i den nordvestlige del af byen.

Varedeklaration: En grisevægt er en blå tremmekasse af metal. Den er forsynet med hjul og vejer 46 kilo. Længden er 120 centimeter og bredden er 60 centimeter. Den er 100 centimeter høj. Den fungerer således, at grisen bliver lukket ind i tremmekassen, hvor vejningen foregår let og ubesværet. Grisevægten anvendes overalt i landbruget.