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A jewel that shouldn’t exist. A masked outlaw who won’t back down. And a hidden world with the power to shatter the Earth. When the legendary Earth Star is stolen from a Rajah’s palace, suspicion falls on Seth Martell’s three sons—Tony, Phil, and Jimmy—pitting family honor against a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A classic gothic novella by Henry James: a young governess arrives at a remote English country estate to care for two orphaned children. As unsettling events unfold, she becomes convinced the property is haunted by the ghosts of two former servants, and...

Découvrir Henry David Thoreau, c'est s'initier à un art de vivre en harmonie avec la nature tout en affirmant sa liberté individuelle. Philosophe et écrivain américain, il prône la simplicité, la contemplation et la désobéissance civile non violente. Ses idées continuent d'inspirer les...

När bomberna faller över London 1939 evakueras fjortonåriga Hazel och hennes femåriga syster Flora till en by i Oxfordshire. De får bo med den vänliga Bridie och hennes tonårsson Harry i en liten stuga vid floden, och dagarna fylls av äventyr och utflykter. Den magiska världen är systrarnas egen hemlighet. Men en dag försvinner Flora, vid en utflykt på flodbanken. Tjugo år senare arbetar Hazel på ett antikvariat i London, och allt vänds upp och ned när antikvariatet får in en illustrerad bok: Viskande skogen och Stjärnfloden.

"The Night Wire" is one of just three stories authored by Henry Ferris Arnold (1902-1963). It is almost certainly based on its author's own experience, either as an operator or someone working closely with operators in the news business. It was one of the most popular to appear in the pages of...

Les citations philosophiques révèlent en quelques mots la profondeur de l'esprit humain, éveillant en nous le désir de réfléchir et d'élargir notre regard sur le monde. Philosophe américain majeur, Henry David Thoreau défend la simplicité volontaire, l'harmonie avec la nature et la...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The largest brain that has ever existed on Earth belongs to a sperm whale. It is about six times heavier than a human brain, and it spends its life a kilometer down, in total darkness, talking. Sperm whales trade rapid patterns of clicks for hours...

Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples is a luminous, invigorating walk through orchards, woodlots, and memory. Using the untamed apple as his compass, Thoreau ranges from ancient myth to New England fence lines, celebrating the rugged beauty, sharp flavor, and stubborn independence of nature...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The world has a plan for many disasters but almost none for a threat that is far more likely to strike first. A volcano does not have to be near anyone to hurt them. The largest eruptions throw sulfur into the upper atmosphere and dim the sun across the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What would count as evidence that somebody is really there? What happens if we believe a machine too readily—or fail to recognize one that can suffer? The answer could change how we build AI, how we treat it, and what we think a mind is. Machines can...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A landmark Victorian sensation novel by Mrs. Henry Wood, *East Lynne* follows Lady Isabel Vane, a young aristocrat trapped in a loveless marriage to the reserved, upright barrister Archibald Carlyle. After a disastrous elopement that ruins her...

Within You Is The Power is a self-help and spiritual development classic. It explains how and why true power, real success, and genuine happiness always come from within, and not from outside circumstances. By cultivating positive thinking, self-discipline, faith, and inner awareness, we as...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man presses a button on a remote control, and his own hand begins to shake. He presses it again, and the shaking stops. The difference between a body that obeys and one that does not is a single setting on a machine implanted in his brain. Machines...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. ¿Sientes que la fe debería darte más alegría y menos culpa? ¿Te cansas de luchar contra lo mismo, sin sentir que avanzas? ¿Anhelas un rumbo claro en medio del ruido del mundo? Alegría y Poder no es un libro de teoría religiosa. Es un mapa de...

Romantic comedy, light and slightly awkward by Henry James with his characteristic observations of character, motivations and relationships. Two young men, best friends, deeply interested in the same woman. The background is Europe at the turn of the century and the world of ex-pats. With time and several countries, they each discover love.

Una morte sconvolgente, ossessivamente annunciata, preparata con implacabile meticolosità e infine celebrata dinanzi al mondo come un rituale spettacolare e tragico. L'uscita di scena di Mishima ha rappresentato al tempo stesso l'apoteosi del personaggio, condannato da un demone inquieto a una vita perennemente sopra le righe, e la parola conclusiva dello scrittore, la sigla di un'opera in cui gioventù, bellezza e morte appaiono intrecciate in un destino ineluttabile.

King Solomon’s Mines is set in nineteenth-century Africa. Allan Quartermain, hunter, is commissioned by the valiant Sir Henry Curtis and his jovial friend Captain Good to lead them to the fabled lost mines of King Solomon. In the company of these dauntless men we undertake the most exciting safari ever described. We hunt big game, we go to war with the terrifying King Twala of Kukuanaland and his diabolical henchwoman Gagaoola - and are amazed by the twist at the end.

Henry Fielding è considerato uno dei padri fondatori del romanzo realista inglese. Tale scopo sarà pienamente raggiunto da Fielding nel suo capolavoro, Tom Jones (1749), uno dei più grandi romanzi della letteratura inglese. La storia narra le divertenti disavventure e peregrinazioni del giovane Tom Jones e della sua amata Sophia Western unendo a una trama sapiente e a pagine di garbata satira personaggi di grande efficacia e presenza, per fornire uno spaccato della società inglese dell'epoca. Cornice musicale di Georg Friedrich Haendel.

In 1911, in the Scottish Border village of Sprouston, the young parish minister wrote to the Daily Mail for entry forms for its sweet pea competition.The top prize was a staggering £1000 and organisers predicted that as many as 15,000 would enter. He could not foretell that the paper's estimate...

With spring’s arrival in Goosebush, Lilly and the Beautification Committee turn their eyes to new projects. A cleanup of the historic Goosebush Cemetery may be in order after Lilly and Delia find the plots there sorely neglected and inexplicably rearranged. Lilly soon discovers that Whitney Dunne-Bradford snapped up custodianship of the graveyard once she inherited Bradford Funeral Homes. But before Lilly can get to the bottom of the tombstone tampering, she stumbles upon Whitney’s body at the Jayne family mausoleum.