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On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against the apple tree, watching her fun-loving husband and darling children as her heart swells with pride. As the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river. Slipping upstairs to find the special gift for her adoring husband, Maggie stumbles across something else hidden amongst the dusty boxes of family keepsakes.

My darling little boy Albie adores playing at our new neighbours’ house. And after the terrible year we’ve had, I feel so lucky that we can start over in this perfect place, with new friends who treat Albie like the son they never had. He can’t stop talking about the tree house they’re building him, and the cookies they bake together. But as time passes, something starts to feel wrong. Why don’t they ever open the front door more than a crack? They told me they had no children so who does the small pink tricycle I saw in their hall belong to?

Lindon has a year left. When his time runs out, he’ll have to fight an opponent that no one believes he can beat. Unless he learns sacred arts the right way, from scratch, he won’t have a chance to win...and even then, the odds are against him. In the course of their training, he and Yerin travel to the Blackflame Empire, where they fight to master an ancient power left behind by a fallen clan. This is Lindon’s chance to learn a true Path, but there are those who do not wish to see these lost techniques revived.

Lifelong friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales of strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their secrets. Not then. Not until a chance encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman, who bears a magical crystal staff, draws the companions deeper into the shadows, forever changing their lives and shaping the fate of the world.

The battle with the Iron Legion has left The Last Horizon battered and broken, drifting in space. Varic needs an exceptional engineer to fix his ship, and there’s only one person for the job: Mell, the master Aether technician. But first, they have to break her out of prison. Mell has been captured by the Advocates, a group of superpowered vigilantes who dominate their corner of the galaxy. They are led by Starhammer, an invincible champion with a personal obsession with Mell.

Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met.

En esta novela transgresora, José Luis Trueba Lara abreva en los testimonios y documentos de los contemporáneos de Hidalgo y Allende para delinear el perfil de un hombre complejo, contradictorio, hábil político y violento líder de ejércitos. Hidalgo retrata a los protagonistas de la primera fase independentista con todos sus claroscuros y debilidades.

They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimuë the mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the settlement a town, the town a community both blessed and cursed by their tempestuous affair.

The Beatrix Potter Collection is perfect for introducing a new generation to the magic of her adored classic stories. Featuring her much-loved children’s tales and showcasing some of the most recognisable characters in English literature, it will enthral and entertain young listeners whilst providing warm nostalgia for those already acquainted.

It’s Christmas Day at Wilder House, and three magical winter weddings are set to begin. But as the tables are arranged, and the food is prepared, a perfect storm hits, cutting every guest from the rest of the world. Most little girls dream of the perfect wedding. But this bride stumbles alone into the snow, her silk train dragging through dirt, her hands bloody from the murder she just committed. Now there is at least one killer roaming the unforgiving landscape surrounding Wilder House. Who else will die on Christmas Day?

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

Here, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - an instant candidate for the field's highest honors.

Em Velhos, sua nova coletânea que tem como tema a senilidade, as personagens não estão mergulhadas em reminiscências de uma vida passada, como quase sempre vemos na literatura. Antes de tudo, elas fazem de seu declínio atual matéria para nos contar boas histórias em textos que carregam em sua brevidade a marca humana.

Na varanda do seu apartamento, uma mulher branca de classe média lê uma matéria sobre uma outra mulher, preta e pobre, vítima de tráfico sexual. Sob o impacto dessa história, passa a imaginá-la, entrelaçando duas narrativas: as suas próprias experiências erótico-amorosas e as noites assustadoras de escravidão sexual dessa personagem que ela chama de Maria e que poderia ser qualquer mulher.

With all of the pluck and charm of its eponymous young hero, Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Spotlight, Midnight in Paris) delivers a spectacular reading of Montgomery's beloved bildungsroman. In moments both funny and bittersweet, McAdams' voice is imbued with the spark that has made Anne a much-loved symbol of individualism and cheer for over a century.

Nestes contos de amores impossíveis, de solidão e de desencontros, tanto seus personagens quanto as coisas ao seu redor estão em permanente estado de “quase”. Os relacionamentos quase dão certo, as coisas são quase dramáticas, quase triviais. Apesar das dores, não há drama nessa linguagem que é, ao mesmo tempo, infantil e ferina, de tão lúcida. O ouvinte sente vontade de rir de certo desajeito constante, mas também percebe uma lágrima quase caindo, de tanto que as pequenas trivialidades parecem se cercar de melancolia.

Paul Red é um respeitado professor da Universidade de Chicago. E também um experiente dominador no cenário BDSM. Suas duas personas convivem em harmonia sob o rígido código de conduta estabelecido para si mesmo. Porém, todos guardam esqueletos no armário e o de Red é Gia Scodelario.

Estamos nas cabeças de três personagens. São três filhos, mas são menos filhos que irmãos e são menos irmãos que pessoas, e são um completo abandono, mas ainda não sabem. Na aridez de fato e naquela identitária, ouvimos o que nos contam Mosquito, Rita e Mirna. Em comum, a mesma mãe bêbada, castigada e louca, que tem como descanso o amor do pai dos seus filhos que lhe ampara com o perdão eterno diante dos vexames ou dos escapismos como reação à brutalidade do nada que é a vida naquela esquina apagada do mundo.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."