Anthology of short stories from around the world

These beginning to advanced jazz guitar ensembles are written for four and five guitars by some of the best guitar ensemble arrangers in the business. Arrangers include, Barry Greene, Dave Frackenpohl, Steve Schenkel, Andrian Ingram, and Chris Buzzelli. Not only are these fine performance pieces for ensembles, they are good material for sight-reading. These graded volumes follow Mel Bay's guitar grading system. Each chart in all three levels offers students the opportunity to improvise wit...

Brahma, the creator, wants to press the reset button and finish off the world. He is fed up with humans, the gravest mistake he made in his creation. Hemanga, the golden swan of Manasarovar loves humans and is horrified that Brahma is going to erase them. He pleads with Brahma to give him a chance to prove true love exists among humans. Narada, the celestial trouble maker, sends the little bird to the kingdom of Vidarbha. He says Hemanga should unite Nala, the king of Nishadas with Damayan...

For anyone who grew up listening to the old folktales told by their mothers and grandmothers and thought: there must be more to this story…Featuring four Korean feminist writers, thinkers, artists, and educators, Korean Folktales: Four Feminist Retellings reimagines some of Korea's oldest narratives in powerful and innovative ways, centering the stories of intrepid and intelligent women who have, for too long, been relegated to the role of folktal...

Luke is a good-looking young man, but he's not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful cakes, but does he make mistakes too? Nina and Dragan are in love, so deeply in love, but they live in the wrong place, at the wrong time ...All love stories have moments of happiness, pain, misunderstanding, laughter, and sometimes great sadness. But love will nearly always find a way ...

Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students? The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid?

The Urantia Book – Enhanced Edition contains The Urantia Book, a comprehensive index, a glossary of terminology, and a pronunciation guide. These tools help students not merely read the book, but actually study the book.If you are new to The Urantia Book, you have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and the life of Jesus. The Uran...

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

Over the course of 20 months, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, five Democrats and five Republicans held 12 public hearings and received testimony from 160 witnesses. Dozens of government agencies and other entities provided the Commission with more than 2.5 million pages of documents and other material. The report and its recommendations can save American lives.Special Edition: Some of the best narrators in the business have lent their talents to this production.Barbara Rose...

It was an age when canals etched the ancient face of Mars, and when Mankind dreamed of life on a far off red planet wandering the night sky. It was an age of exploration, exploitation, and imagination. Above all it was an age chronicled in pulp magazines by strange and beautiful stories of Mars, which, in the end, were stories of human nature.It was, and will always be, The Golden Age of Mars.From the pages of pulp magazines comes 14 stories of Mars by some of the best Scie...

All you need is love.But a little leather now and then doesn't hurt.Read the best and indulge in the sexy imaginings of the authors who have taken the theme, leather, of our 2020 erotic stories competition and given us a sizzling, hot-to-the-touch collection.Leather has inspired stories that are sometimes soft and subtle, sometimes rough and tough.If you're looking for the naughtiest and most seductive around...give in to shameless temptation, read your wild...

What if lost prophecies revealed hidden visions of Heaven, Hell, and the Second Coming of Christ?Once revered but later excluded from the biblical canon, these ancient texts unveil chilling revelations about Judgment Day, the afterlife, and the fate of humanity. From terrifying visions of Hell to divine encounters in Heaven, these writings provide unparalleled insight into the world's ultimate destiny. Included Texts:Apocalypse of ...