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A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!

To celebrate Radio 3's 50th anniversary, Man and Superman was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatization. "A comedy and a philosophy", Man and Superman is based on the Don Juan theme, and using all the elements from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Shaw reordered them so that Don Juan becomes the quarry instead of the huntsman. Boasting an outstanding cast including Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, Dame Judi Dench, John Wood, Nicholas Le Prevost, and Paul Merton.

The Perfect Pairs series is a trilogy of standalone, yet interconnected MFM menage paranormal romances, set in the Rocky Mountains. There, fraternal twins are born in the mountain lion shifter community as a Perfect Pair, two different yet complimentary men to love their mate, and in this series, all the heroines are Big Beautiful Women! Enjoy.

The haunting and poignant story of a how a young Japanese girl's understanding of the historic and tragic bombing of Hiroshima is transformed by a memorial lantern-floating ceremony. A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Century Twelve-year-old Nozomi lives in the Japanese city of...

There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed.

Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to talk ‘like a lady’ and pass as a duchess at the Ambassador’s Ball. As the day of reckoning approaches, can Eliza convince the assembled aristocrats that she’s one of them? And what will become of her afterwards? This effervescent radio version of Shaw’s classic comedy features a stellar cast, including award-winning comedians Alistair McGowan as Henry Higgins, Morgana Robinson as Eliza Doolittle and Al Murray as Alfred Doolittle.

Roman prinadlezhit k chislu samyh izvestnyh i populyarnyh proizvedeniy amerikanskoy literatury HKH veka. Istoriya sem'i Dzhordahov, predstavlennoy v neskol'kih pokoleniyah, razrastaetsya do panoramy vsego amerikanskogo obshchestva. Pisatel' proslezhivaet vozmozhnosti, otkryvayushchiesya pered "tipichnymi" amerikancami, lyud'mi bez korney, stremyashchimisya probit'sya, dostich' uspekha i bogatstva.

For readers of Karen Russell, Maggie Shipstead, and Eowyn Ivey, an exuberant, highly imaginative epic about a family that settles, against all odds, in the far reaches of the Arctic and the unexpected industry that keeps them afloat for generations. In the far reaches of the Territory of the...

An adventure of the heart in the mold of literature's classic spiritual journeys. It began with a girl. Then it was Italian food. After that it was books and discovering that even Mark Twain had fallen for Italy. E. M. Forster was smitten too: "Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land." What is it about Italy and Italians?

Tropes you love - small town, age gap, single dad, curvy girl, steamy romance. I had a crush on Logan McKenna when I was eighteen. He was thirty, married, and completely off-limits. Now I'm back in Whisper Mountain as the town's new vet, and the gorgeous single dad is very much available. One look at me in his exam room and the heat between us is undeniable. But Logan's terrified. His son already lost one mother. I'm only here temporarily—six months, then back to my fancy Denver partnership. Getting involved would be reckless. Too bad reckless feels so good. Every stolen kiss. Every ...

Sometimes, the various ways we interpret the written Word can cloud our view of the Living Word. In Re-Examining Our Lenses, Jeanie Shaw asks us to consider how a selective-literal, Western, and scientific hermeneutic, especially common to those from Restoration church backgrounds, profoundly influences the ways we view discipleship and spiritual growth. Offering revised lens options for greater clarity and an increased spirit of unity, she invites us to deepen our intimacy with God. As you read these pages and gain increased clarity, you will be both challenged and thrilled to discover new...

Achieving inner peace doesn't require intense physical exertion or complex meditation practices. Yoga Nidra is a state of deep consciousness that promotes intense relaxation and self-discovery. Yoga Nidra can foster tranquility and calm amidst the everyday chaos of the modern world.

Allie lost everything the night her boyfriend, Trip, died in a horrible car accident - including her memory of the event. As their small town mourns his death, Allie is afraid to remember because doing so means delving into what she’s kept hidden for so long: the horrible reality of their abusive relationship.

This unique book brings together George Bernard Shaw's witty and iconoclastic take on Wagner's masterwork, The Ring of the Nibelungen, with the composer's own essay on the role of art in revolution.

If you're listening to this, you may have a loved one suffering from dementia, and you're looking for hope. The disease has already taken so much, and though you're determined to fight, you're weary. Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade will renew your strength. With guidance from professionals and stories of committed caregivers, you'll learn how others have braved the road ahead and how you can, too. Using the five love languages and other creative ideas, you can discover, like many others, the resilient power of love.

"Guxx Unfufadoo is my name. And killing wizards is my game!" Thus spoke the dreaded rhyming demon, come from the Netherhells, to munch a bunch of the great Ebenezum. Only it didn't quite work out that way. Ebenezum lived, cursed by Guxx with a mighty curse that he should henceforth be allergic to magic. So Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice Wuntvor must journey to the City of Forbidden Delights to seek a cure.

As kids, we had an unexplainable bond. One I don't think we even understood back then. Over time, the pull between us developed into something we could no longer ignore. We were reckless, we were impulsive, we were… everything. Until it all came shattering down. Now, he's a single father, and I'm the estranged best friend who's still hopelessly in love with him—Eli Barton, America's favorite baseball pitcher and the man I walked away from. What was supposed to be self-preservation may have turned out to be the biggest regret of my life.

Jack Veeder is dying. Soon. And that impending event brings his son Jimmy back to the Imperial Valley of southern California just north of the Calexico/Mexicali border. Jimmy hopes he can spend what time his father has left laughing and reminiscing. But Jack’s got one dying request. He needs Jimmy to find a Mexican prostitute named Yolanda. Enlisting the help of his boyhood friend Bobby Maves, the pair stumbles through the violent, the exploited, and the corrupted of Mexicali.

People say I’m too much—too big, too smart, too loud. Well too damn bad! I’m finally content with my plus-size body and quiet life. Sure, I haven’t dated in forever, but I have a thriving veterinary practice and a kid sister to worry about. Besides, experience tells me animals are much more deserving of my attention. Until two gorgeous brothers knock me off my feet.

From the heart and soul of lifelong mental-health sufferer Adam Shaw, combined with the expert mind of the talented and leading psychologist Lauren Callaghan, this audiobook is cohesively divided into two helpful parts. Detailed from the separate perspectives of a sufferer and a psychologist is an insight into mental-health recovery to which sufferers can really relate.