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Dix ans après un tremblement de terre cataclysmique et un tsunami dévastateurs dans le nord-ouest du Pacifique, la zone de subduction Cascadia révèle un abîme inexploré. Le milliardaire philanthrope Wesley Badger décide d'y mener une expédition à bord du sous-marin Alexandrie. Contraint de renoncer au départ, il laisse le jeune capitaine Declan Walters aux commandes. Mais les membres de l'équipage ont du mal à faire confiance à leur nouveau capitaine, surtout après une plongée de routine qui ne se passe pas du tout comme prévu.

Gentleman cambrioleur, pro du corps à corps, mais surtout trompettiste surdoué, Jazz Maynard rentre, 10 ans après l'avoir quittée, dans son Espagne natale. Son envie : raccrocher les gants et s'éloigner de toutes ses occupations "moyennement légales"... Mais on ne quitte jamais vraiment "El Raval", surtout quand le parrain local est un ami d'enfance et qu'on a énervé un réseau mondial de prostitution avec son dernier coup d'éclat... Entrez dans ce polar audio à la Tarantino, entre narcotrafiquants, réseaux de prostitution, règlements de compte, mafieux crapuleux, vengeance et trahisons.

Alphonse et Henri sont des jumeaux qui traversent séparément les horreurs de la Première Guerre mondiale. S'ils doivent déjà composer avec les bombardements, les batailles aériennes et terrestres, et tous les morts qui les accompagnent, ils feront en plus face à un secret de leur passé commun qui les lient et qui va refaire surface.

Sir Terence Rattigan was one of Britain's greatest playwrights, renowned for his well-crafted dramas of upper-class manners and repressed sexuality. He was hugely popular throughout the 1940s and early '50s, and had the rare distinction of having plays running in three West End theatres simultaneously. Having fallen out of fashion in the '60s, his work is now enjoying a huge revival. Included here are some of his most esteemed plays, adapted for radio and brought together in chronological order in one statement collection.

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. I’d had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me...now my heart was completely iced. I took her first kiss. She took the only thing I loved. I was poor. She was rich. The good thing about circumstances? They can change. Fast. Now, I’m her parents’ latest shiny project. Her housemate. Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much. Yeah, baby girl, say it. I’m your foster brother. There’s a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life. She’s about to shell out some serious tears.

After an imminent yet unnamed danger forces people across Colorado to leave their homes, a group of kids including an aspiring filmmaker and a budding journalist find themselves in the same evacuation camp. As they cope with the aftermath of having their world upended, they grow curious about the mysterious threat.

This is a book about the loss of parentage, rough childhoods, and all of the causes that can lead to a child's upside-down life. This book tackles all of the hot-button issues that many may not be comfortable speaking of in their households or to their loved ones. It's about the rough topics that cause things such as abandonment, childhood trauma, and even adoption from the household. With everything written down in this book, there's definitely a situation for every listener to relate to because real life is filled with real issues.

Our rulers have changed America from the freest and most powerful country with the highest living standard in the world to a country whose military loses wars in faraway places, where inflation ravishes the working class, the homeless roam our cities, and hordes of migrants enter illegally. This book lays out America’s problems in a plain simple-to-digest nutshell, and then provides solutions to fix the biggest issues plaguing the United States today.

In dieser Reise durch die Nacht erscheint diese nicht als angsteinflößend, sondern als Zeit der Möglichkeiten: für das Treffen von Liebenden, für das Magische, für all das, was vor dem harschen Licht des Tages zurückschreckt. Im Dunkel rücken Himmel und Erde, Mystik und Alltag, Götter und Menschen auf einmal viel näher... Wo die Aufklärung nach Klarheit und Deutlichkeit strebte, zeigt dieser sechsteilige Gedichtzyklus die vollkommen entgegengesetzten Ideale der Frühromantik: Sie schwelgt im Zwielicht des Unbekannten und verehrt die Anziehungskraft des Unergründlichen.

An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging.

This second volume of curated children’s classics will take you on a rhyming journey with elephants, cheetahs and rhinos in Just So Stories, delve into the world of Mole, Toad, Rat and Badger in The Wind in the Willows and through the streets of London with a beautiful horse in Black Beauty. These classic children’s stories are read by actress and presenter Angela Rippon, Shakespearean actor Sir Michael Horden and star of stage and screen Patrick Wymark.

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Memoir of Insanity is the first book of the Insanity series as the story contained in it is the beginnings of the journey that the character takes. It covers the journey a man takes from childhood and all the events that shapes his life and the beginnings of the darkness that builds up to engulf him then change him to create who he will later become. Follow him through all the trials and interesting situations he experiences on his journey.

Insanity is a fictional account of a man's travel from normality into the darkest reaches of his mind to the point when the insanity started to take a Grip. We travel in this short story down a one-way path delving deeper and deeper into a darkness that engulfs and smothers all. The death of a brother Brings a traumatic change in his life that opens doors that best not be opened. Then the final event the mugging, any or all of these events could be the starting event.

Das Meisterwerk des kühnen englischen Romanciers ist einer urtypischen Situation gewidmet: der Liebe zwischen Mutter und Sohn...

Domenico Scarlatti war Komponist und schuf über 500 unvergleichliche Cembalosonaten. Er gilt auch heute noch als einer der größten Cembalovirtuosen aller Zeiten...

1197 A.D. - Sir Garren le Mon is an agent for Richard the Lion Heart in the political war against his brother, John. Under the command of William Marshall, Chancellor of England, Garren is the king's most trusted and loyal servant. When Garren is ordered to marry into a family deeply loyal to Prince John, the knight is understandably reluctant; the House of de Rosa is infamous for its bloodlust and bizarre characters.

Visit a world where a wild-land firefighter must use his mysterious powers to save his crew from a roaring inferno. Follow an eco-tourist's frantic efforts to escape an African quarantine zone ravaged by a deadly virus. Meet a gumshoe journalist as she tracks down a figure that'sable to predict the future with terrifying accuracy. And tune into Texas station KRAP (don't touch that dial, there's KRAP on it!) as a pair of down-home country deejays try their damnedest to stop a murder...while they're still on the air.

John Peel Remembered includes the Radio 4 Book of the Week serialisation of Margrave of the Marshes, Peel's part-written autobiography completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft. Also included is a Home Truths Special programme to mark the anniversary of John Peel's death, in which Tom Robinson visits Peel Acres to meet John's wife and their four children.

When does Death ever get a coffee break? A mix up takes place in Azrael's schedule. He doesn't know who he is to meet, it's two o-clock in the morning and it's cold. A good cup of coffee is sorely missed and he has until dawn to figure it all out.