Short Family

A story that talks about the struggle of children to remember their fathers and connect life and memories to the big screen - cinema.

Aerial Skye, a Family of Stories, Vol. 1™️, is an unusual and rare collection of vivid stories. Volume I portrays a little girl named "Alex" and her special garden where wild creatures come alive over the audio channel. Aerial Skye is a space created for you to reflect, contemplate, and discover insights about the simple beauty found all around us. Contemplate a seed's journey or the origins of a language.

Starting in the proper East Coast city of Dover, Delaware, then at age seven being thrust onto Fox Island, a small secluded island in southern Puget Sound, Daniel relays his humorously clumsy adventures in this wonderful autobiography. Although he wrote this book for his children and grandchildren, it is a roller-coaster ride that you will enjoy and never want to leave.

What happened before A Family Affair began? Best-selling author Mary Campisi answers this question in her new Park Bench series. These short stories make the perfect park-bench listen, and are named after her signature park bench covers. Book One is aptly titled A Family Affair: Destiny. Such a powerful word with so many meanings. Listeners have long pondered the first meeting between Charles Blacksworth and Miriam Desantro, a meeting that would change the course of their lives and everyone associated with them.

Vanessa Reed had been at odds for years with Evelyn Underwood. Despite the woman's affair with her husband, Vanessa had moved on and forgiven Justice Reed. She's even accepted Jax Reed, the son born of the affair as if he were one of her own children. As Vanessa prepares to bring her family together for the holidays, she contemplates one of her greatest tests of faith and the consequences.

Il y a presque toute ma vie au fond de la malle du grenier. Des tas de souvenirs, pas très bien rangés. Parfois, je plonge dedans, tête la première ! J’ai sorti de la malle mon premier jour d’école, le parfum de maman qui me dit " À ce soir ! ", les éclats de rire à l’heure de la sieste. J’ai sorti de la malle le défilé du carnaval, avec des dents pointues, une longue queue et une langue en velours... Papa, en voyant ce bazar, a tout ramassé et s’est mis à trier, à couper et à coudre.

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Cada familia es un catálogo de las atrocidades de la historia. Y de sus sueños. Cada familia decide la extensión de su memoria: las ramas marchitas de su árbol genealógico, las raíces desaparecidas, la vida completa del sobrino o del tatarabuelo sucinta en tres cuartillas, las réplicas que se reprodujeron por esquejes –cortándose del árbol principal- y terminaron siendo eso, réplicas.

Emma Bontrager is continuing to hide her rebellious young sister, Martha. However, Emma has deep concerns about the state of her sister's health and doesn't know what to do and who to turn to. Meanwhile the handsome Englischer Jarron Williams has a huge secret that he needs to offload on someone.

New England is an area rich in historical homes where one is bound to run into spirits that wander the halls or show up in the most unlikely places. The stories in this collection came from actual paranormal events that either my family, friends, or I have experienced. A few stories are written more closely to what actually happened, and I took creative liberty with others.

Wilkommen in Willewitt! Mitten in der Großstadt erleben sechs Kinder jeden Tag etwas Neues: Die Zwillinge Ella und Lilly fiebern gemeinsam mit ihrem besten Freund Finn der großen Tanzaufführung entgegen. Romy trainiert coole Tricks mit ihrem Hund Pommes. Jonas fährt zum ersten Mal Fahrrad im Stadtpark. Sein Freund Kiran übernachtet bei Oma und Opa und entdeckt mit ihnen den funkelnden Nachthimmel. Jede der 15 Geschichten ist in sich abgeschlossen, bietet eine charmante Story und ein kleines Häppchen Sachwissen.

A Herança é um conto de Machado de Assis que narra a história de Damião, um jovem que foge do seminário e busca refúgio na casa de Sinhá Rita. Ao se esconder, ele é confrontado com dilemas morais e a dura realidade das relações de poder e dependência. A trama explora as questões de submissão, liberdade, e as complexidades das interações sociais em um Brasil escravocrata. Com sua habitual ironia e profundidade psicológica, Machado revela as camadas de hipocrisia e manipulação presentes na sociedade da época, deixando ao leitor uma reflexão sobre a moralidade e as escolhas humanas.

No parent is ever ready for a terminal diagnosis of their child. No mother should see the day where turning off your son's ventilator is the only option to end his pain. And, no grandfather should see the day when your grandchild is scheduled to die in his mother's arms. But, on September 10, 2005, this was the harsh reality facing our family, and this was the day we’d never forget. I am no pastor nor a preacher. I am no miracle worker nor a missionary.

The Foster family is stuck in their home with a strange young girl...but when a mad man shows up looking for her she's not where they left her. He just wants his victim and they just want him gone.

When a man marries a woman because she becomes pregnant with his child, family matters to him. Dave and Phyllis dated in high school. When she got pregnant, he knew the honorable thing to do was to marry her. As the years went on, he stayed because of their daughter, getting along with his shrew of a wife as best he could. Then Dave left for a business trip, and came home to horrifying news; his teenage daughter got pregnant, and was forced into an abortion....by her mother. Now that Phyllis has crossed too far over the line what will he do? How does one live with the woman he stayed with because of obligation to family destroying his family?

Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. Van, the quintessential overachiever, has applied the same studied diligence to her law career and to her marriage - a beautiful idea that vaporized when Mr. Right walked out. Linny - pretty, fashionable, untethered - is grasping for purpose when her affair with a married man takes a humiliating turn.

After the world crashed and civilisation crumbled, humanity descended into barbarism. Drake Qualland is a force for order. He travels the world righting wrongs and bringing justice to the people. When Drake finds a woman’s tortured body hanging from a bridge, he tightens his sword belt and determines to find her murderers.

In this hilarious short story, two parents encourage their little girl to grow up, and immediately wonder about the repercussions of their decision, while juggling potty training, theme park visits, and the thought of life without her one day. You will see yourself in this story 100 times over. The Short Years is a series of beautiful vignettes folded into a weekend trip and a look into the future. (Contains selected passages from the book The Long Cutie)

Berührende Erzählung aus dem Leben einer Pariser Familie. Im vierten Stock eines Mehrfamilienhauses in einem Neubauviertel von Paris lebt die Familie Joyeuse. Vater Joyeuse, der tagsüber in einem Büro bei Hemmerlinge und Sohn arbeitet und seine drei Töchter. Nach dem Tod seiner Frau lebt der Witwer einzig und allein für seine Töchter und geht voll und ganz in seiner Familie auf. Herr Joyeuse besitzt eine überaus lebhafte Phantasie und gibt sich oft seinen Tagträumen hin - den schönen und den weniger schönen.

A trio of family favourites, abridged especially for young listeners. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to three classic stories. Adapted especially for children and filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will become firm favourites in your family.