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Andie, Eden, Ryan, Tasha and Hasmita love being part of the Heart Club. They've promised to stay best friends forever, and nothing can tear them apart. But sometimes things happen that you couldn't have expected, and forever might not be as long as you think. Now, two years later, Eden and Ryan are haunted by memories of the past. Can they find a way to bring the club back together, or is it too late to mend a broken heart?

Penguin presents the audio download edition of Ladybird Favourite Fairy Tales read by Gemma Whelan and Nigel Pilkington. Listen to eight traditional, captivating fairy tales in this gorgeous audio treasury from Ladybird. Each classic tale has been retold for young listeners and is perfect for your little one, whether you're curled up at home or on the move.

Bombastic headlines about science and technology are nothing new. To cut through the constant stream of information and misinformation on social media, or grab the attention of investors, or convince governments to take notice, strident headlines or bold claims seem necessary to give complex, nuanced information some wow factor. But hype has a dark side, too. It can mislead. It can distract. It can blinker us from seeing what is actually going on.

A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy. Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her...

Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their senior, Ryan was charming and good-looking...

What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, international ecologist and conservation scientist Hannah Mumby now does for elephants in this compelling, eye-opening account that brings into focus this species remarkably similar to humans—and makes a persuasive argument for saving them. From early...

En grotesk-humoristisk og magisk-realistisk fortælling om en dreng, der nægter at acceptere det uundgåelige, og en bedstefar, som har lovet sit barnebarn det umulige. Jorge elsker sin bedstefar, og han nægter at tro på det, da de voksne påstår, at bedstefar er død. De to har haft det så sjovt sammen, og de skal nå meget endnu. Da det gamle guldur først bliver trukket op igen, får Jorge vækket bedstefar, og de to stikker af fra bedemanden og må gemme sig fra både de voksne som påstår, at bedstefar er død, og de som tror, at han er den genopstandne Jesus.

Dammen er et mystisk sted. Den ligger inde midt i skoven tæt ved morfars gård, og der er sat pigtrådshegn hele vejen rundt, for engang er der sket noget forfærdeligt på dette fortryllende smukke sted, hvor dunhammerne vokser, åkanderne blomstrer, guldpirolen synger, og uglen skriger sit skæbnesvangre "uhuhuuuu". Dammen drager drengen BiWer, og selvom morfar er en gammel, gnaven eneboer, rykker BiWer ind på gården i sin sommerferie for at løse fortidens hemmeligheder og bekæmpe ondskaben.

En pige klatrer op i et træ og nægter at komme ned igen. En flok drenge udfordrer deres mobbeoffer til den store manddomsprøve. Søskende beskytter og passer på hinanden med skæbnesvangre og ulykkelig udgang, og på byens plejehjem myrdes en oldemor i den bedste mening. "En barnlig komedie og andre fortællinger" indeholder ni historier, der er lige så foruroligende, som de er gribende; fortalt af en af dansk børne- og ungdomslitteraturs klareste stemmer.

Otherland is a dangerous magical underworld - a place where appearances can be deceiving and anything can happen. A world of gods, vampires and fairies. It’s also...horrible. When life-long friends Myra and Rohan discover that Rohan’s baby sister, Shilpa, has been stolen and taken to Otherland, the only way to rescue her is by taking part in a deadly game - three impossible challenges set by the Fairy Queen of Otherland. Win the game, and Rohan and Myra can go home with Shilpa - but lose, and they’ll be trapped in Otherland forever.

For too long the people of Tír na nÓg have suffered under the dominion of the drunes: strange druids who have poisoned the land with their magic. Sláine has had enough of their tyranny and, through the Earth Goddess, he learns some shocking truths about the priesthood and his own future. Now Sláine must unite the four kings of Tír na nÓg and use their mystical weapons as he and the Sessair tribe prepare for all-out war!

Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature, and we return to her and the novel she propels again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and Professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy’s family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy’s life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways.

This heart-wrenching novel about family and war unearths generations of secrets and sacrifices—perfect for fans of The Paris Orphan and The Lost Girls of Paris. 2017, London: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother’s hidden...

The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the audiobook with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating the lives of the men and women who have influenced on our world.

Bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn brings listeners a poignant Christmas novella about a woman, desperate for a place to belong, who finds herself in London a few days before Christmas, looking for the father she never knew. In FINDING FATHER CHRISTMAS, Miranda Carson's search for her father...

In all her 25 years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she knew only by reputation - the infamous Jasper Damerel. Before she realises it, Venetia is encouraging a man whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years.

The Ultimate Body Plan for New Mums is the second fitness and recipe audiobook from actress, presenter and fitness guru Gemma Atkinson. Based on her own experiences, Gemma wants to help other new mums ease their way back into exercise and nourish themselves with the right kinds of food. This is not about weight loss or dieting, or unobtainable workout routines. Instead, it's an audiobook that keeps things real, that focuses on safe post-natal exercises which can be done at home, built into a 12-week Bump to Body Workout and which can be started six weeks after giving birth.

Helen Macdonald is a falconer and poet. She keeps a goshawk called Mabel. As a child she fell in love with a rare book of intense nature writing, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, which records a winter watching wild peregrines on the Essex coast. Her new play brings her birds and his together. Baker tramps the bleak coastal marshes scanning the skies for fleeting moments of bloody drama as a peregrine stoops at immense speed after a plover or a pigeon.

From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, Slug is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past and present, through Hollie's driving, funny, hopeful poetry and prose. Slug is about the human condition: of birth and death and how we manage the possibilities in between.

A collection of hilarious original audio stories for raising lots of laughs and giggles. These new stories are especially written for families to listen to, publishing to coincide with April Fool's Day! With more than an hour of audio, this edition is filled with funny and engaging sound effects, guaranteed to raise laughs from little listeners everywhere. This audiobook is aimed at children aged seven and over, for family listening and learning and development for young minds.