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Four fierce authors of romance, suspense, fantasy, and best-selling series for teens: Anna Banks (The Syrena Legacy series), Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles), Emma Mills (This Adventure Ends), and Caleb Roehrig (Last Seen Leaving) make a stop on their tour to present their latest novels and chat with fans. In conversation with MJ Franklin and Aliza Weinberger (MashReads).

Four fierce authors of romance, suspense, fantasy, and best-selling series for teens: Anna Banks (The Syrena Legacy series), Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles), Emma Mills ( This Adventure Ends), and Caleb Roehrig ( Last Seen Leaving) make a stop on their tour to present their latest novels and chat with fans. In conversation with MJ Franklin and Aliza Weinberger (MashReads).

When you discover the world is a computer program, and you figure out that by altering the code you can time travel and perform acts that seem like magic, what can possibly go wrong? Pretty much everything. Just ask Brit, who has jumped around in time with such abandon that she has to coexist with multiple versions of herself. Now, Brit the Elder finds that her memories don't match Brit the Younger's.

"...rich with period detail and clever invention!" -- Wall Street Journal This program is read by Downton Abbey actor David Robb, and includes a bonus conversation with the author. With the international bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously...

Mattie and Brewster are normal, typical 16-year-old twins who live with their normal, boring parents: Martin and Gwen Banks. Normal and boring, that is, until the day their father's best friend shows up at their house - dressed in what appears to be a bathrobe. The next thing Mattie and Brewster know, their parents are frozen like human statues in their living room, the guy in the bathrobe has vanished, and they need to find answers - fast.

Jacky Faber, rich from her exploits diving for Spanish gold, has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic. Believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, Jacky docks in London to take on her crew, but is instead arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia. To add insult to injury, the Lorelei Lee is confiscated to carry Jacky and more than 200 female convicts to populate New South Wales.

The irrepressible Jacky Faber, condemned for life to the English penal colony in Australia for crimes against the Crown, has once again wriggled out of the grasp of British authorities. Back on her flagship, the Lorelei Lee, she eagerly heads back to England in the company of friends and her beloved Jaimy Fletcher.But when the voyage is waylaid by pirates, storms, and her own impetuous nature, Jacky is cast into a world of danger that extends from the South China Sea to the equally treacherous waters of London politics.

Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps too much exuberance for the Puritan populace, she quickly finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and a town roiling over the arrival of hundreds of Irish laborers, brought in on Jacky's Lorelei Lee.

Miriam Mouse's family always celebrates Passover Belowstairs, while the human Winklers celebrate Abovestairs. But this year Miriam is finding it hard to get a piece of matzah to use for the Mouse family afikomen as the human family has decided to store their matzah in a tin. All seems lost for the Mouse family seder, until young Eli Winkler shares the afikomen with her.

In the third book of the "Bloody Jack" series, unlikely heroine Jacky Faber, a pirate at heart, returns to the sea in a truly swashbuckling tale filled with good humour, wit, and courage. After leaving the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston--under dire circumstances, of course - Jacky boards a whaling ship bound for London, where she hopes to find her beloved Jaimy. But things don't go as planned, and she is off on a wild misadventure at sea.

Enjoy this fascinating 24-minute discussion between two artists at the top of their craft: L. A. Meyer, author and creator of the Bloody Jack series of novels, and narrator extraordinaire Katherine Kellgren, who voices the entire audiobook series. At last count, the Bloody Jack audiobooks have won three Odyssey Honor awards, four Audie Awards, and have made numerous "Best of" lists.

Jacky Faber, Bloody Jack, is back, and this time, she's facing a situation far worse than a ship full of murderous pirates. Curse of the Blue Tattoo, L. A. Meyer's sequel to the enormous popular Bloody Jack, is just as bawdy and entertaining as the original.

Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of 18th-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret.

The vivacious Jacky Faber return in the 10th tale in L. A. Meyer's Bloody Jack series! Once again under the thumb of British Intelligence, Jacky is sent to Spain to spy for the crown during the early days of the 19th-century Peninsular War. She finds herself in the company of guerilla freedom fighters, poses for the famous artist Goya, runs with the bulls, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a caravan of gypsies...all while hoping to one day reunite with her beloved Jamie Fletcher.

Fantasy icon Jane Yolen is adored by generations of readers and listeners of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.

"But as the eye of omniscient love glanced down the ages, it must have lighted with peculiar pleasure on the eager, devoted soul of Paul. God foreknew and predestined him. The divine purpose, descrying his capacity for the best, selected him for it, and it for him." - from the audio

Atenção: esse audiolivro contém altas doses de romance, situações hilárias, garotos sensuais e o best friend gay mais maravilhoso de todos os tempos... Julie tem dois grandes sonhos: cantar profissionalmente e fazer com que Daniel a enxergue como mulher. Ele é o charmoso dono do badalado bar After Dark, avesso a compromissos e sempre pronto para noitadas casuais. Em uma noite de muito movimento, o estabelecimento se vê sem um vocalista para dar continuidade à programação musical, e Julie é colocada por um dos sócios de Daniel à frente da banda.

O que acontece quando você se apaixona pelo guitarrista mais assediado e garanhão do momento? Essa é a história apaixonante e encantadora que fecha a série After Dark com chave de ouro. Nos três primeiros audiolivros da série, conhecemos os fascinantes encontros e desencontros dos casais Daniel e Julie, Zach e Johanna, e Rafe e a doutora Jenny, mas ainda faltava um par nessa grande família. Alan é um rockstar com um passado que preferiria esquecer, e que o fez prometer a si mesmo nunca mais se envolver profundamente com ninguém.

Chegou a vez de conhecermos a história de Johanna e Zach. Ela é uma advogada que trabalha para artistas. Ele, um empresário de muito estilo, sócio e melhor amigo do irmão dela. Quando a paixão dos dois esquenta, surge um impasse: ele quer assumir a relação, mas ela tem medo da possível reação de seu irmão Danny, que confia muito em Zach. Será que Johanna, essa mulher tão decidida e independente, conseguirá não magoar seu cobiçado "senhor Delícia"? E será que Zach, para assumir o relacionamento, vai amolecer o coração do amigo Danny, que agora será papai?

Jenny e Rafe são pessoas reservadas, e o passado deles pode esconder feridas que ainda não cicatrizaram. Os dois tiveram um rápido romance em Apaixonada por você, mas agora as coisas esfriaram e a médica não quer saber de um novo amor. Rafe não pretende desistir da mulher que tanto admira e deseja. Fará de tudo para provar que é um amante fiel e que pode proteger Jenny, principalmente agora, que uma ameaça do passado volta à tona para ela e sua filha.