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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Before the Dawn: A Collection of Short Stories and PoemsAuthor: Sharon DavisNarrator: Christine ChenFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 40 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-01-17Publisher: Sharon DavisRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Fiction, Short Stories & AnthologiesPublisher's Summary:With in these pages, lose yourself in fantasy. Sharon creates a universe of endless possibility. From vampires to fallen angels; this collection has it all.
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Title: Norse Myths and Legends
Author: Martyn Whittock, Hannah Whittock
Narrator: Christopher Oxford
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-12-17
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
While the main focus of the book is on telling the stories, some scene-setting is provided at the beginning, and each chapter also contains a section of commentary to explain what is going on and its significance.
The Norse myths have gained widespread attention in the English-speaking world, partly through a Scandinavian diaspora, especially in the USA, and partly through a great interest in the myths and legends which lie behind Viking activity. Tolkien's Middle Earth, too, as seen in both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films is heavily indebted to Germanic/Norse mythology. The Whittocks' book fills a gap in the market between academic publications and the interest-generating (but confusing) products of Hollywood and comic culture.
This is an accessible book which both provides a retelling of these dramatic stories and also sets them in context so that their place within the Viking world can be understood. The book explores Norse myths (stories, usually religious, which explain origins, why things are as they are, the nature of the spiritual) and legends (stories which attempt to explain historical events and which may involve historical characters but which are told in a nonhistorical way and which often include supernatural events). -
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Title: The Business of Dying
Subtitle: The Complete Western Stories
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Narrator: Traber Burns, Pam Ward
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-01-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Collected here are 10 Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy.
In "Mugs Birdsong's Crime Academy", celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. "The Last Days of Dominic Prince" is the tragic tale of a cattle baron and his final conflict with the forces of political correctness. "Dead Weight" introduces us to a coffin maker who constructs a work of art. And in the title story, two young men in the gold fields of California spend one last night together as one of them confronts his own imminent death.
This collection also includes "The Square Reporter", "A Commercial Proposition", "The Great Filibuster of 1975", "The Tinhorn's Lady", "Hearts", and "Looking for Love at a Romance Writers' Convention." -
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Title: Dancing Girls
Author: Margaret Atwood
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers, and dancing girls. All are ordinary people. Or are they?
In this splendid collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps the human motivation we scarcely know we have in a startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters that evoke laughter, compassion, terror, and recognition. -
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Title: The Chop
Author: Graham Hurley
Narrator: William Rycroft
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-17
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Bird flu has arrived in the UK. Most of the population is dead or dying so fast that there's not enough time to bury them.
Norman's survived - so far, and when his grandfather gets sick he knows that there can only be one outcome - but not before some secrets are revealed that will change Norman's life forever.... -
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Title: Dead Man's Salute
Author: Steve Vernon
Narrator: Theo Holland
Format: Unabridged
Length: 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-23-17
Publisher: Stark Raven Press
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
"Leave Luther's body right where we flung him," Bates said. "You aren't burying him today." After Sally Mae Webster phoned me up to tell me that my Korean War buddy Luther Webster had been shot and killed by the Bates brothers, I knew that I wasn't going to stop until I had righted that wrong. I wondered just how many graves I was going to have to dig today.
What people are saying about Steve Vernon:
"If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." (Bookgasm) -
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Title: War
Author: Roald Dahl
Narrator: Dan Stevens, Sophie Okonedo, Juliet Stevenson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Cillian Murphy, Stephen Mangan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-10-17
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of War by Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens, Cillian Murphy, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Stephen Mangan. 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.
Among other stories, you'll hear about the pilot shot down in the Libyan desert, the fighter plane that vanishes inside a mysterious thick white cloud and the soldier who returns from war but has been shockingly changed by his experiences.
Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and Fear. -
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Title: Waltzing Australia
Subtitle: Stories and ballads from under an outback sky
Author: Tim Borthwick
Narrator: Jack Thompson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-27-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
A unique collection of original Australian bush ballads and the stories that inspired them.
Waltzing Australia is a wonderful celebration of the Australian bush and the people who live there, written by a gifted storyteller who's spent much of his life working on the land. Featuring 50 poems and stories that tell of the heartbreak, humour and hard yakka that come with living and working in the bush - many of which were written on long days droving sheep and cattle, on the back of a motorbike or by the fading light in camp hundreds of miles from anywhere.
These evocative bush verses and the tales behind them shine light on characters and events from Australia's pioneering past as well as embracing Tim's own experiences in the outback. -
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Title: The Making of a Gunfighter
Author: David C. Walters
Narrator: David C. Walters
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-26-17
Publisher: David C. Walters
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Jake Logan is a cowboy and a drifter. He served with the Confederacy during the Civil War. Since the end of the war, he has traveled from town to town with no real purpose in life but survival. When he arrives in Baker's Town, he finds the love of his life, but he realizes he may not get out alive. Even if he does, his life will never be the same. -
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Title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator: Chris Lutkin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-25-17
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Inspired by an account in the Broadway Journal of a surgeon putting a patient into a magnetic sleep, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a suspenseful tale concerning the forestallment of death by hypnosis. Originally published without a clear indication of its fictionality, the story was assumed to be a true account by some of its original readers. -
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Title: Tales from My Back Porch
Author: Darrell Case
Narrator: Gregg Rizzo
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-20-17
Publisher: Darrell Case
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
In the evening, the back porch of the country home took on an aura of enchantment. As dusk settled and the lamp was lit, children wandered in from their play to sit on the floor or snuggle in their parents' laps. Glasses of iced tea were refilled and someone would settle back, look up at the stars and say, "I remember when..." Thus began one of many tales, often embellished with some distant imagining. Each one taught a lesson of life. Once they were tucked in bed, the children would drift off with visions of the story in their heads. Years later, they would tell these tales of life to their own children, and so on through the generations. Welcome to my back porch. Please make yourself at home. By the way, I remember when... -
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Title: Coffee-Break Bites
Subtitle: Five Reads for Coffee-Breaks
Author: Christopher J. F. Gibson
Narrator: J. D. Kelly
Format: Unabridged
Length: 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-30-17
Publisher: Christopher J. F. GIBSON
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Five reads for coffee breaks. One a day Monday through Friday. Don't be late for that meeting and read two at a sitting! -
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: London Road: Linked StoriesSubtitle: London Road Series, Book 1Author: Tessa Smith McGovernNarrator: Verity BurnsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 21 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-13-17Publisher: eChook Digital Publishing LLCGenres: Fiction, Short Stories & AnthologiesPublisher's Summary:Gold Medal Winner 2012 eLit AwardsKirkus Recommended Review: "In seven short stories, residents of a London boardinghouse reach moments of clarity. On London Road, lined with scruffy shops, stands No. 17, a detached red-brick Victorian that's been turned into a boardinghouse. Its residents tend toward hard luck and desperation: Janice is just out of prison; Mandy is on probation; Bitty has a good education, but is scarred by her mother's frequent abandonments; and Isobel is mentally unstable. Nora, the landlady, writes romance novels but has experienced little romance herself, and her daughter, Anna, is disgusted by Isobel's outbursts.Their interconnected stories take place on a day of unusually hot weather, and focus on one resident at a time, with Janice's story told in two parts. In each, characters have a chance to make a leap of faith in other people, or in the future....Though spare and fast-paced, McGovern's (Cocktails for Book Lovers, 2014, etc.) tales evoke entire biographies. She focuses on illuminative details and subtle, turning-point moments, as when Mandy, a young woman on probation, reacts to her mandatory book group's reading of Katherine Mansfield's 1922 short story "The Garden Party." It stokes her resentment, as she doesn't even know if people still give garden parties. Mandy makes plans to shoplift again, but something about the book group leader's hopefulness and the invitation to give her honest opinion sparks her determination to win - maybe a literary argument, or maybe more chocolate wafers. Tales with subtle, positive but never saccharine, transformations that feel fully earned.""...reminiscent of the writer who appears in one of the stories: the great Katherine Mansfield." - Cynthia Rogerson, winner, V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for a Short Story, UK"I felt as if I personally knew each character, from Janice to Nora to Isobel to Bitty, and even Len down at the pub, and I cared about them all." - Nina Sankovitch, Readallday.org
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Title: A Bit of What You Fancy....
Subtitle: A Random Selection of Short Stories to Read as the Mood Takes You
Author: Val R. Brown
Narrator: Cammy Maughan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-04-17
Publisher: Val R. Brown
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
A random collection of short stories to listen to just as the mood takes you. This delightful book ably demonstrates the writer's irrepressible sense of humor as well as her skill in dealing with a huge variety of situations and relationships. Every tale leads to a new cast of characters, each playing out their individual role within their unique background. Val R. Brown is a natural storyteller and this publication reflects her particular talent in the art of the short story.
Cammy Maughan's gifted performance as narrator brings a new dimension to the book. Her interpretation of the characters and melodic tones are a joy to the ear. -
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Title: The Albatross and Other Stories
Author: Susan Hill
Narrator: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-21-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Five immaculate short stories dealing with the tentative-to-frantic strategies of isolated beings distanced from unresponsive societies. -
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Title: Through Death's Door
Author: Daniel Pirlot
Narrator: Samuel Deeter
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-10-17
Publisher: TNM Publishing, LLC
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Through Death's Door is a short story collection from author Daniel Pirlot. Each short in this collection shares the final moments of the character or characters involved.
While some of the tales contained in the text are linked through the events that take place, all of them are unique, intriguing stories.
What kind of person will you be when it's time to walk through death's door? -
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Title: Upon an Old Wall Dreaming
Subtitle: More of My Favourite Stories and Sketches
Author: Ruskin Bond
Narrator: Sagar Arya
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-16-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Ruskin Bond's writing brings the world to us in profound and remarkable ways. His signature style is simplicity itself, but the themes he tackles are big, deep and universal - love, loss, happiness, grief, and all the shades of emotion in between. These are stories of city and small town, mountain and lowland, and of life lived slowly and lightly. For over 50 years, these tales have charmed and beguiled several generations of readers. Last year, Ruskin Bond made a selection of his favourite stories (from the several hundred that he has written) that was published in a book entitled A Gathering of Friends. It proved to be enormously popular, selling out in a matter of weeks. Encouraged by its success, the author has made a further selection of his favourite stories and nonfiction sketches, leavening the mix with several pieces that have never been published before. It is a collection that will burnish his reputation as one of the world's great storytellers. -
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Title: "Her Story" and "The Amber Gods"
Author: Harriet Prescott Spoffard
Narrator: Flo Gibson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-15-17
Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, LLC
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Although not a highly recognizable name today, Harriet Prescott Spoffard excited the literary world of the mid-1800s with her beautiful prose and imagery. Her stories and her style were likened to those of many of her male contemporaries, including Poe and Hawthorne. This recording includes two of her offerings: the strangely powerful "Her Story" and the complex symbolic romance of "The Amber Gods". -
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Title: Falling in Love Again
Subtitle: Stories of Love and Romance
Author: Ruskin Bond
Narrator: Manisha Sethi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-01-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
"Once I saw her, leaning over the balcony railing. I stopped the taxi and waved to her. She waved back, smiling like the sun breaking through clouds."
Suffused with warmth and passion, the stories in Falling in Love Again showcase the myriad variations of romantic love - fleeting, intimate, joyous, heartbreaking. Featuring classic stories by Ruskin Bond, such as 'The Eyes Have It' and 'The Girl from Copenhagen', this stirring collection captures the range of feelings that are indubitably part of the infinite spectrum of love. -
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Title: Taaoos Chaman Ki Myna
Author: Naiyer Masud
Narrator: Fawad Khan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-27-17
Publisher: Urdu Studio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Taaoos Chaman Ki Myna is an award-winning short story written by Naiyer Masud, an Urdu writer from Lucknow. The story is set in Lucknow during the mid-1800s. Wajid Ali Shah, the Nawab of Awadh, has a large cage full of beautiful mynahs in his garden in Qaisar Bagh. Kaley Khan is a poor employee in the Nawab's garden. The story follows the plight of Kaley Khan and his family, and specifically what happens when he steals one of the mynahs for his daughter, who has long been asking for one.
Naiyer Masud (born in 1936) is an acclaimed Urdu scholar and Urdu-language short story writer. He is the author of many scholarly books and translations (notably of Kafka) but is best known for his short stories, collected in the volumes Ganjifa, Simiya, Itr-e-kaafoor, and Taoos Chaman Ki Myna. For the last he was awarded the 2001 Urdu prize of the Sahitya Akademiand the Saraswati Samman in 2007. - Laat meer zien
