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Nopat is an ardent basketballer who feels that the world revolves around him and that he controls things. To some, he is a real treasure while others are unhappy with the way he operates. When his friends want to have a sweat after school, he is the one they come to because he knows how to organize the games. He is the man with the ideas. His friends have no problem with that until his arrogance causes them to lose an important match. That's when the situation starts going downhill, and even some of his family turn against him.

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.

NORTHANGER ABBEY, a satire of Gothic melodrama, is one of Jane Austen's most popular woks. When Catherine Morland is launched into the politics and pitfalls of the Bath social season she behaves with the cheerful open-mindedness of one of Jane Austen's most eligible classic heroines...

In Snippets of Truths, author Mary Hardy shares the stories of her youth while growing up in rural Southern Mississippi in the '50s and '60s. A collection of anecdotes and vignettes, this memoir narrates the memorable experiences of Hardy's childhood. From the large to the small, and from the ordinary and everyday to the remarkable, Snippets of Truths recalls a wide array of events living on a farm, working in the fields, attending school, participating as a majorette, becoming homecoming queen, making homemade ice cream, and creating dolls out of Coca Cola bottles.

This is the story my mom, Helen Kaczor, told her six children. We then went on to tell her 17 grandchildren. We each had fun embellishing the details, but the moral stays the same.

Little Jenny loved animals. She loved all kinds of animals. This is the story of her adventures.

War Horse has become a modern classic. This wonderful version is narrated by the author, Michael Morpurgo, and Joanna Lumley. It was recorded with musical accompaniment by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The music is composed by Adrian Sutton, with songs by John Tam. The principal singer is Tim van Eyken, the original Songman from The National Theatre's Warhorse.

Joining us at Audible Studios is the author of the Sunday Times best-selling debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Joanna Cannon. She has recently released Breaking and Mending, a memoir of her life as a junior doctor. Cannon walks us through the wards, from attending her first postmortem to sitting beside a patient as they passed away. The small acts of kindness and connection that intersperse hospital life taught Cannon that the heartbeat is not the only essential part of a human being - emotional care and mental health are also critical.

Tytułowa bohaterka, która zdążyła już zdobyć serca czytelniczek w "Wyborach Niny", postanawia wziąć sprawy w swoje ręce i zawalczyć o samą siebie. Skromna dziewczyna z polskiej prowincji nie chce być już Kopciuszkiem. Najwyższa pora, aby Floryda stała się jej prawdziwym domem, a przystojny Damian Maxwell zrozumiał, że wspanialszej żony niż Nina nie znajdzie. Jednak czy spodziewająca się dziecka młoda kobieta, narażona na ciągły stres, borykająca się z demonami przeszłości i bieżącymi problemami wielkiego świata będzie miała dość siły, aby przestawić swoje życie na nowe tory?

Do czego jest zdolna zraniona kobieta? Opowieść o miłości i śmierci, o zdradzie i zemście. Zora Radke zajmuje się organizowaniem rozrywek dla znudzonych i bogatych ludzi, zwykle są one nielegalne i niebezpieczne. Ta praca to jej wybór, Zora lubi dreszczyk emocji i wielkie wyzwania, a z rozterkami moralnymi radzi sobie, tworząc własny kodeks etyczny. Pewnego dnia poznaje na przyjęciu u znajomej Sebastiana Dyzmę, aktora i muzyka, zakochuje się w nim. To moment przełomowy w życiu dziewczyny, nielegalna profesja zaczyna jej ciążyć.

Margaret is the quiet one of the Winterton family, happy only in her own home with her sisters protectively gathered around her. But her father’s death and mountain of debts tear the sisters apart and uproot them from Woodside. As a poor relation, Margaret must become a lowly paid companion to two elderly aunts she has never met. There is no welcome for Margaret at their gloomy house, Pendarreth, but the surrounding woods bring her solace - and unexpected danger.

Poor and widowed, Lucy finds a post as chaperon to two young ladies...It sounds like easy work, well suited to her sociable nature, but the sisters squabble over their suitors, and there are tensions below the surface of the seemingly happy family. Then there is the charming Mr Audley, who is more interested in flirting with Lucy than in discovering where his sisters have disappeared to. And as for Lucy’s uncle, she’s quite convinced he is hiding something. Curiosity is Lucy’s abiding sin, and one day it will get her into trouble.

When Mr. Edmund Winterton of Woodside dies, his daughters find themselves penniless and homeless. What can they do? Unless they wish to live on charity, they will have to find genteel employment for themselves. Annabelle becomes governess to the daughters of the recently bereaved Earl of Brackenwood. She has no idea how to teach, but her pupils can learn all they need from books, so how difficult can it be?

Miss Fanny Winterton has only one wish in her romantic heart: to surrender to overwhelming love. She will accept nothing less than to be struck by the thunderbolt of everlasting passion. Real life isn’t quite so obliging, however. So, while she waits for the fires of love to ignite, she is content to ply her needle as a lowly seamstress for her noble patroness. The honorable Ferdinand Makenham has no wish at all to marry, until one glimpse of Fanny’s sweet expression convinces him that he has found the love of his life.

A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

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Penguin Classics presents Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Joanna David. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than...

Ostatniego dnia 1776 roku na Pogórzu Karpackim przychodzą na świat dwie dziewczynki. Leontyna rodzi się w dostatnim szlacheckim dworze, a Marysia w ubogiej chłopskiej zagrodzie. Są mlecznymi siostrami. Mąż mamki jest ekonomem na dworze podczaszego. Pomimo różnic pochodzenia splot wydarzeń połączy panny ze sobą. Starszy brat Leontyny, dziedzic majątku, wyrusza w kilkuletnią podróż za granicę. Po powrocie do Pawłówki zakochuje się z wzajemnością w córce zarządcy, natomiast podczaszanka oddaje serce ubogiemu guwernerowi. Jednak złośliwy los rozdziela młodych.

W tajemniczych okolicznościach umiera artysta, a jego śmierć rozpoczyna ciąg niesamowitych zdarzeń, w które uwikłane zostają trzy kobiety. Kim jest tajemnicza Helena, która wprowadza się do domu zżytych ze sobą współlokatorek? Czym jest "wyspa" pojawiająca się we wspomnieniach jednej z kobiet? "Czarodziejka" to opowieść elektryzująca: pełna zaskakujących zwrotów akcji, miejscami wręcz przerażająca, a momentami pełna romantycznego uroku.