Nicolas: 1685 books

Welcome to "the Crush Files," where a crush can blossom into love. This series features contemporary stories set in different cities and countries, based around a crush. Each story is a standalone tale. Will she get the guy, will he get the girl? Score your copy and find out. Dale...

On Christmas Eve, Tranell Merdock finds herself in one of the most romantic countries in the world. Yet, she is stuck slaving over work. She steps away from her demanding job as a successful management consultant to seek a little respite at a local restaurant and draws the attention of Stephan, a...

Sex, Drugs, Rock n’ Roll… and Murder Toshiro Matsuda, a tenacious Japanese inspector, is on the hunt for a serial killer who has left a trail of bodies across the globe. The latest victim was slashed backstage during a Scorpion Tail concert in a small town in Georgia. The indie band’s...

The year 2066, October seventeenth, everything changed. Creatures only believed to exist in fantasy novels and horror movies crawled up from their graves and declared in one powerful roar that they were the supreme species. The immortals. For mankind, the end days were here! The...

A routine interview with a murder suspect. Given the preponderance of evidence against him, probably he'll either lawyer-up or confess. Either way will mean an early day for the detective. But sometimes there's more evidence than you expect.

In this wonderfully descriptive short story by Nick Porter, an elderly woman and her husband take a journey through a small west-Texas town and her memories.

"Islas bañadas por el mismo mar y con corrientes comunicantes", así definía David Miklos los proyectos narrativos incluidos en el primer volumen de esta antología, que Malaletra difundió gratuitamente en 2015. Este libro completa aquel primer esfuerzo e incluye 22 relatos inéditos de escritoras...

El Príncipe es el primer clásico del pensamiento político moderno. Es un conjunto de reflexiones sobre el arte de conquistar y conservar el poder de un principado, ha sido referencia fundamental no sólo de estadistas sino de todos aquellos preocupados por los usos del poder a lo largo de la historia...

BnF collection ebooks - "La Belle aux cheveux d'or - Il y avait une fois la fille d'un roi qui était si belle, qu'il n'y avait rien de si beau au monde ; et à cause qu'elle était si belle, on la nommait la Belle aux Cheveux d'Or : car ses cheveux étaient plus fins que de l'or, et blonds par...

The last person Riya Johnson expected to run into at her new summer camp is Courtney Chastain—her childhood best friend and the girl who broke her heart after a secret, mind-blowing, life-altering kiss. She definitely didn’t expect to be sharing a bunk bed with her for four long weeks. Courtney...

A French detective looks into a public figure’s murder—and discovers some private secrets—in a mystery by an author who is “a joy to read” (The Times Literary Supplement).   When a local official is gunned down in the street, it looks like a cold-blooded political assassination. But as...

"A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA." —Anthony Horowitz, author of Magpie Murders In this follow-up to Nicolás Obregon’s critically acclaimed Blue Light Yokohama*, Inspector Iwata returns—in a murder case in his new home of Los Angeles.* After a brutal...

A literary psychological suspense short story. Euthanasia, morality, right, wrong... how do you repay the oldest debt? How can you make anyone understand that you have to pay? Everyone learns that what seemed important an hour ago really wasn't important at all.

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...