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Could a robot ever show true creativity? Is it wise to trust self-driving cars? Will robotic body parts transform human beings into machines? Will organic technology allow robots to become human? Featuring Dr. Susan Calvin, Donovan and Powell, and the detective Elijah Baley, hero of the Robot novels, this is the ultimate collection of short stories from a genius of the genre.

Roy Court and his crew are taking the trip of a lifetime—several lifetimes in fact—duplicated and dispatched across the galaxies searching for Earthlike planets. Many possibilities for the future. Yet for Roy, no matter how many of him there are, there’s still just one painful, unchangeable past. In what world can a broken relationship be reborn? The universe is so vast, there’s always room for hope.

Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His works mainly revolved around the themes of society and class, materialism, and romantic idealism. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Beautiful and The Damned, and This Side of Paradise are critically acclaimed writings of Fitzgerald that are still very relevant and popular today.

A great collection of stories from the author of Fight Club. In 'Zombies', the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. While in 'Tunnel of Love', a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in 'Excursion', Fight Club fans will be thrilled to find a side of Tyler Durden never seen before.

There's a whole world of Dahl still to discover in a newly collected audiobook of his deliciously dark tales for adults. In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity.

From the UK best-selling author of Abbot's Keep comes a new dimension in terror. Spanning four decades, the dark history of Church Farm House is explored within four interlinking horror stories. Welcome to the nightmare... Benedict Ashforth is the author of the UK best-selling Kindle ghost story, Abbot's Keep.

William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married.

Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded. Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family. In 1885 she published her first story anonymously and her pseudonym ‘Lettice Galbraith’ only appeared from late 1892.

William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married.

Great collection of original short stories and poems. Topics include magical garden, family cooking experiences and comedy about finding a job.

أدهم الشرقاوي كاتب فلسطيني شاب، حاصل على دبلوم دار معلمين من الأونيسكو ودبلوم تربية رياضية، إضافة إلى إجازة في الأدب العربي من الجامعة اللبنانية في بيروت. كتابه "نبأ يقين"، هو عبارة عن مقالات كتبها الشرقاوي في جريدة الوطن الكويتية، وهذه المقالات منوعة وغنية بالقصص جمعها في كتابه هذا.

وحده ستيفن كينغ يعرف كيف يخطو في الظلام بعزم وتصميم وكيف يحولّ خطواته إلى موضوع للتلقي، وإلى إنجاز روائي يكشف الجانب الخفي للنفس البشرية بحيث يصبح اكتساح كل المناطق المظلمة، وتلمس توتراتها، خارج إكراهات قوانين الخير والشر مبرراً روائياً ورهاناً إنسانياً لا محيد عنه عند من يكتب. فكيف إذا كان الكاتب هو ستيفن كينغ الذي كتب روايته الأولى، المسيرة الطويلة، في سنّ الثامنة عشرة ولم يهدأ حتى حققت جميع رواياته مرتبة الأكثر مبيعاً على قائمة نيويورك تايمز.

السيدة الرئيسة هي مجموعة قصصية، لصاحب "البوكر" شكري المبخوت، تتميز بأسلوبها الأدبي الراقي، البطل الحقيقى فيها هو حنكة الكاتب بالسرد وقدرته على رسم عوالم أبطاله. تتناول المجموعة مواضيع مختلفة بعضها سياسي، كما تتناول أدق تفاصيل عالم الصحافة وكذلك الرغبة والجسد.

استطاع الكاتب أن يضع ثقافاته التي شملت عدة مجالات مثل الهندسة والطب والرياضيات و غيرها علي شكل ..مواقف بينه و بين صديقه بأسلوب رائع و مسل جدا مما جعل كتابه متميزا و أهم ما يميزه في الواقع هو أن فكرته و طريقة سرده للمعلومات مبتكرة:

ما زلنا مع الصندوق العجيب، الذي تركه لنا د. محفوظ .. تذكرون أن الرجل مات فقيراً، فلم يترك لنا إلا هذا الصندوق في قبو داره .. الصندوق لم يفرغ بعد .. فما زالت فيه حكايات وملاحظات عن تلك القصص الغريبة التي مرت به في

There is a troubled town nestled on the border of Shropshire and Powys. Steeped in folklore, domain of ghosts, it is witch haunted Wendlelow. Pity those who dwell there. Here is a collection of interconnected tales, ghostly, gothic and monstrous, so curl up by the fire, dim the lights, and prepare to be horrified.

Mrs Whitaker just wants to have a chat with her dear friend Mrs Greenberg over homemade macaroons. But her charity shop find soon makes her the focal point of a most important quest when a handsome young man - who says he’s called Galaad - comes asking for the Grail. This sound designed, multi-voiced reading is an extended cut, including material not heard in the radio broadcast, and is introduced by an exclusive interview with Neil Gaiman.

These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be possible, but now he can't stop listening. From prison guards making unholy alliances to snake-oil men in the Old West doling out justice, these stories carve down into the body of the mind, into our most base fears and certainties, and there's no anesthetic.

Seven powerful, gripping short stories from bestselling author, Amanda Prowse. If you have not discovered Amanda Prowse yet you are in for a real treat... Full of incident and real characters' Rascals of London Collection includes: "Something Quite Beautiful", "The Game", "Ten Pound Ticket", "Imogen's Baby", "Miss Potterton's Birthday Tea", "A Christmas Wish" and "Mr Portobollo's Morning Paper". Susie has just arrived in Australia.

Illegal battering of gingernuts and conkers in a murky corner of the playground; a procession of bearers of lost property interrupting the telling of the story of Joseph; justice being firmly done on three malefactors who stole Mr Henry's eggs... Here are 40 delightful stories about life as a village schoolteacher, set against the changing seasons of the countryside.