Best Short Moral Stories In English - April 2024

Appalachian Serenade (Appalachian Blessings): A Novella

Delilah Morrissey has always wanted to be a mother, but when she becomes a young widow, that dream now seems farther away than ever. Unable to continue to live alone in Chicago, her only option is to accept her sister's offer to move in with her family back in West Virginia. Will Delilah have the faith to pursue a new dream--even if it means giving up the old?In this charming novella, debut novelist Sarah Loudin Thomas introduces readers to Wise, West Virginia--a small town nestled in an Appalachian valley where the everyday miracles of life and faith play out in stories of healing, hope, and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00KQS1DJ8
• ASIN: B00KQS1DJ8
• Manufacturer: Bethany House Publishers

Short Stories: Five Decades (Phoenix Fiction)

A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00BBPWB78
• ASIN: B00BBPWB78
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The 48 Laws of Power

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinge... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140280197
• UPC: 725638107234
• ASIN: 0140280197
• ISBN: 0140280197
• Brand: Penguin Putnam
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Giving Tree

• ASIN: 0060256656
• UPC: 038332606249
• ASIN: 0060256656
• ISBN: 0060256656
• Brand: Silverstein, Shel
• Manufacturer: Harper & Row

East of Eden

• ASIN: B001BC5HXG
• ASIN: B001BC5HXG
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. . . . Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”   The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. Desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees sim­ply as the Chairman.   Over the next week, Pindar... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1591848288
• ASIN: 1591848288
• ISBN: 1591848288
• Brand: WaterBrook Press
• Manufacturer: Portfolio

The Rainbow Fish

The award-winning book about a beautiful fish who finds friendship and happiness when he learns to share is now available in a board book edition for the youngest child.

• ASIN: 1558585362
• UPC: 038332606201
• ASIN: 1558585362
• ISBN: 1558585362
• Brand: North-South / Night Sky Books
• Manufacturer: NorthSouth Books

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: How medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the g... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NPAJ32S
• ASIN: B00NPAJ32S
• Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio

Cat's Cradle: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEH13C
• ASIN: B000SEH13C
• Manufacturer: The Dial Press

Little Blue Truck board book

Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick up--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to do whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road. With a text full of truck sounds and animal noises to read aloud, here is a rollicking homage to the power of friendship and the rewards of helping others.   Includes a downloadable party kit for even more fun!

• ASIN: 0544568036
• ASIN: 0544568036
• ISBN: 9780544568037
• Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Baptism of Fire (The Witcher Book 3)

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries. While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under threat and those sorcerers who survive are determin... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00FPQA4KK
• ASIN: B00FPQA4KK
• Manufacturer: Orbit

The Gruffalo

A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo. . . .

• ASIN: 0142403873
• ASIN: 0142403873
• ISBN: 0142403873
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

The Partner: A Novel

• ASIN: B003B02O14
• ASIN: B003B02O14
• Manufacturer: Dell

Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, after participating in an actual abortion procedure for the first time, walked down the street to join the Coalition for Life.Unplanned is a heart-stopping personal drama of life-and-death encounters, a courtroom battle, and spiritual transformation that speaks hope and compassion into the political controversy that surrounds this issue. Telling Abby’s story from both sides of the abortion clinic ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1414396546
• ASIN: 1414396546
• ISBN: 1414396546
• Brand: Tyndale House Publishers
• Manufacturer: Tyndale Momentum

Daniel Tiger's 5-Minute Stories (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood)

A new generation of children love Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, inspired by the classic series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood! Twelve of Daniel Tiger’s most grr-ific adventures are now available in one dazzling edition!Whether he’s trying a new food, having fun at his first sleepover, or playing with his little sister on the playground, Daniel Tiger loves making friends and going on new adventures! Would you like to come along? This treasury includes twelve of Daniel’s most grr-ific stories, each of which can be read aloud in five minutes. This sweet collection is perfect for busy little... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1481492209
• ASIN: 1481492209
• ISBN: 1481492209
• Brand: SIMON SPOTLIGHT
• Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 746152764

The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

Short Stories in English for Beginners

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A

• UPC: 177642936

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

The Best American Short Stories 2009

The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by  Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY

• UPC: 10976107
• Rating: 3.5

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

For centuries, critics and fans alike have extolled the virtues of the Russian masters of fiction, with many ranking them among the foremost literary artists the world has ever produced. This volume collects finely crafted

• UPC: 699648974
• Rating: 3.5

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 616290935

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0