Showing results for "Tin" in Anthologies & Short Stories

In the wilds of a jungle planet, the Legion fights in brutal combat as Republic marines fly their SLICS from one tragedy to the next. H292, a repurposed warbot, shows the heart of a hero as he wades into the battle not to destroy - but to save.

This audiobook includes the six books in Scanguards Vampires series: Samson’s Lovely Mortal, Amaury's Hellion, Gabriel’s Mate, Yvette’s Haven, Zane’s Redemption, and Quinn’s Undying Rose.

The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. "The Apocalypse Triptych" will tell their stories.

Tina's brother is quitting basketball, but why, he loves the game? Tina suspects something is up, and she gets an earful one afternoon after school. Mario is being bullied. What can she do?

Every girl wants the most popular boy in school to notice her. But Tina was having a hard time getting Zach Taylor to pay any attention to her. Zach liked Jennifer, the cheerleader. What could Tina do to get his attention? And who was the geek who kept helping her all the time?

Experience the exciting breadth of #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins's wild imagination and adventurous spirit in this anthology of his short masterworks, including a new full-length novella featuring Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog, Kane, as well as nine previously published short stories, gathered together for the first time.

This is a short story, the third in the Tina Stories series. When Tina finds her friend, Jennifer, on the bathroom floor at school, sick and crying, she wants to help her. Jennifer tells her she's pregnant with Zach's baby. Zach, however, wants nothing to do with the responsibility of a baby and feels trapped. How can Tina help her friend?

Newbie vampire Oliver and Ursula, the woman he saved from a blood brothel, are finally tying the knot. But with Ursula's old-fashioned Chinese parents arriving in town for the traditional wedding, chaos soon breaks out - with Oliver always one step away from accidentally revealing to his soon-to-be in-laws that he and his extended Scanguards family are vampires. And amid all the chaos and confusion, a stalker lurks and threatens to tear Ursula and Oliver apart before they can blood-bond.

Dieser Sammelband beinhaltet vier unterschiedliche Kurzgeschichten von Tina Hope. Aktuelles Zeitgeschehen, tierische Freunde, eine Puppe, die einem kleinen Mädchen und seiner Mutter Mut und Zuversicht schenkt und eine ganz besondere Geschichte, die zeigt, wie wir unsere innere Stärke und unseren Frieden finden können. Tiefgründige Stories, die dir ein Lächeln schenken, aber auch nachdenklich stimmen. Geschichten, die dir eine schöne Lesezeit bescheren und dich mit einem guten Gefühl zurücklassen.

People used to talk. We don't much anymore. Not sure when it happened, but how is pretty obvious. Progress became a two-edged sword. People wanted more, better, faster. Stopped going on family road trips in fake wood-paneled station wagons and moved on to SUVs and muscle cars fueled by road rage warriors between monitored intersections.

It’s that time of year again. In the shadows, otherworldly creatures lurk, under the gravestones, the dead begin to rise, and in that old house down the lane, ghosts rattle their chains. For once more, Trick or Treat Thrillers brings you our pick of the best Indie-paranormal short stories for 2020! Before you begin listening to our selection of 13 stories, however, we recommend you first check under your bed, in your closet, and outside of your window. You never know what may be coming your way.

Ne "I racconti", di Franz Kafka, l’assurdo, la beffa, l’inganno, l’imponderabile della condizione umana, affiorano senza contaminare e appesantire...

Willkommen zurück in der aufregenden und gefährlichen Welt der amerikanischen Mafia! In diesem fesselnden Sammelband erwarten dich drei neue Geschichten voller Leidenschaft, Machtspiele und dunkler Geheimnisse. Band 4: American Mafia. New York Taken. High-Society-Events waren nie mein Ding, und doch kann ich mich nicht gegen die verfluchte Versteigerung wehren. Als Neil Costello, der skrupellose Mafia-Boss und Gegenspieler meines Vaters, eine Million Dollar für ein Wochenende mit mir bietet, ahne ich nicht, in welche Gefahr ich mich begebe.

The Tin Can House and Other Stories is a remarkable short story collection by renowned Virginia author Susan Pepper Robbins. Featuring some of her best short stories, the collection delivers powerful, gritty characters full of heart and spirit. Ranging from longer stories to one-page hitters, Robbins masters the pen and sprays ink economically.

Tot canvia després d’un altre got d’absenta. Deixes el got damunt la taula, mires per la finestra i tens temps de veure una línia de llum que recorre fugaçment el carrer, il·lumina per un instant la roba estesa en un balcó i es clava al portal de casa.

Self-determined 15-year-old Becky lives a cozy, idyllic life with her grandma in a small northern town. Inspired by the numerous crime films she's watched on television, she's convinced that she could carry out a successful robbery and get away with it.

Tot canvia després d'un altre got d'absenta. Deixes el got damunt la taula, mires per la finestra i tens temps de veure una línia de llum que recorre fugaçment el carrer, il·lumina per un instant la roba estesa en un balcó i es clava al portal de casa. Darrere dels vidres encesos endevines les siluetes dels Nohisom, que es deixen engolir per la fosca de l'escala. Ara passen les cosines Tonell, que corren cap al teatre aferrades a la bossa.

Wenn man fällt, dann zumeist tief! Doch ist dies ein Problem? Vierzehn Geschichten, erzählt von Tina Winkler, verfangen sich in einer Navigationsautonomie der persönlichen Lageveränderung!

Ever since the great fall of Becky Worthington - when the biggest bully of them all, hell-bent on harassing Patrice to the end of her teenage days, was transformed into someone altogether ignorable - Patrice's school life is almost normal. Well, if you can call having your own freak fan base and band of loyal misfit followers "normal". But there's a new bully in school. Patrice is the only one who can do something about it. The problem is, Patrice doesn't care. She's not the one being picked on; it's not her problem this time.