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Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty.

Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date before they find their happy-ever-after. That's why Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her desk in the city for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina. It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into...Charlie.

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. Now modern listeners will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this classic.

Zwei Fremde – zwei gebrochene Herzen – ein verrückter Plan für den Sommer. Bestseller-Autorin Emily Henry begeistert in ihrer RomCom Funny Story mit klugem, warmherzigem Humor, Figuren zum Verlieben und den ganz großen Gefühlen. Daphne ist gestrandet. Ausgerechnet in der – zugegeben wunderschönen – Heimatstadt ihres Ex-Verlobten Peter in Michigan, wo sie weder Freunde noch Verwandte hat. Denn Peter hat feststellt, dass er seine Kindheitsfreundin Petra liebt. Und Daphne hat in der Stadt am See zwar auch ihren Traumjob als Kinder-Bibliothekarin gefunden, doch der bezahlt kaum die Rechnungen.

Chaque jour, le monstre de Mélanie la remplit de peur et d'angoisse et lui donne mal au ventre. Le monstre de Mélanie se manifeste à peu près partout où elle va. À l'école, il lui fait endurer des taquineries en plus de la peur et de la honte. Ses parents ne savent pas quoi penser du monstre de Mélanie, car elle refuse d'en parler. « Elle va s'en sortir en grandissant », dit sa mère. En entendant une conversation de ses parents, Mélanie se décide à demander de l'aide.

In the dark underworld of the Russian Bratva, I've finally claimed the object of my obsession: Lydia Ivanova. Beautiful and passionate, she's fire and ice, and I want her. I need her. Lydia is my prize. My spoils of war. Only she doesn't know that yet. Forced into marriage with me to protect her from those who would destroy us, I vow to keep her secure at all costs… even when she fights me tooth and nail. Can I protect Lydia without consuming her, or will our love story end in ashes? The stakes have never been higher and for Lydia… I will burn the world.

Immerse yourself in the serene and reflective world of Walden by Henry David Thoreau, narrated by Gary Middleton. This timeless literary classic chronicles Thoreau’s two years living in a simple cabin near Walden Pond, exploring themes of self-reliance, nature, and the pursuit of a meaningful life. Through his philosophical insights and poetic descriptions of the natural world, Thoreau invites readers to reflect on the essentials of existence and the beauty of simplicity.

When arrived Texas in 1969, Durga Agrawal marked the beginning of a journey that eventually would lead him into the world of manufacturing, not in his native India, but rather in the go-for-broke atmosphere of the energy capital of the world.

Mission Over Measure

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If you’re like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to an audiobook that’s designed especially for you! The moral here is this: Managers need to leave their castles and find out what’s actually going on in their kingdoms.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. On China illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and tight line modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, and Richard Nixon’s historic trip to Beijing.

John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, and Henry Vaughan: these were some of the 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry. They wrote about their deepest religious feelings and their carnal pleasures in a way that was radically new and challenging to their readers. Their work was largely misunderstood or ignored for two centuries, until 20th-century critics rediscovered it, finding in it a deep originality and a willingness to experiment.

From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before. Life teems through Henry Gee’s lyrical prose - colossal supercontinents drift, collide and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today.

Eine zweite Chance für die Liebe. Die neue große RomCom von Bestsellerautorin Emily Henry - voller Charme, Witz und großen Gefühlen. Harriet und Wyn sind schon seit dem College das perfekte Paar, das sagt jeder, der die beiden kennt. In Wahrheit aber hat sich das ehemalige Traumpaar schon vor sechs Monaten getrennt – nur haben sie noch niemandem davon erzählt. So kommt es, dass sie sich nun trotzdem gemeinsam in der Hütte in Maine wiederfinden, die schon seit Jahren das Ausflugsziel ihrer Clique ist.

They say, 'You can can choose your friends' but God literally chose his family. Come meet them! Journey through the ancestral family tree of the Messiah, the most diverse cast ever assembled in the greatest drama of all human history.

Savannah is beautiful. Brilliant. Brighter than a ray of sunshine. She's also way too young for me and practically family. But she's in trouble. When she witnesses a murder at the hands of a rival mafia, Savannah flees to the only safe refuge she knows—my family. My life is ordered. Careful. Disciplined. But when Savannah needs protection, I can't turn her away.

Sir Lenny Henry has had a long and successful career as a comedian, impressionist, actor and presenter. Having starred in several plays in the West End and on radio, he was inspired to complete an MA in screenwriting and in 2011 penned his first radio drama, Corrinne Come Back and Gone, which opens this collection. He continued his writing career with three more Radio 4 plays and nine episodes of his comic monologue series Lenny Henry’s Rogues Gallery. Collected here for the first time, listen to these poignant and humorous original dramas.

In the ever-changing tapestry of life, each individual is a unique thread, each moment a brushstroke, each emotion a note in an unfolding symphony. The following collection of free-verse poems endeavors to capture this complex interplay between the individual and the universe, the temporal and the eternal, the tangible and the ethereal.