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If you could control gravity, would you build a moon base? Art Feldmann’s discovery had made that possible. Even as a child, Peter had wanted to go and work on the moon. He was curious about the moon toilets. He’d known the job as moon major in charge of 11 moononauts wasn’t going to be easy, and he’d looked forward to the challenge of a five-year shift, but he hadn’t expected quite so much responsibility. The four-day Annual Closure that protected them from the Leonids Meteor shower, hadn’t ended as planned. The problems began when they opened the shields....

The Narcissistic Mother A - Z delves into the traits, characteristics, and behaviors of narcissistic mothers, using stories and examples from my own narcissistic childhood. The resulting audiobook is a thorough A-to-Z for fellow survivors of maternal narcissism, designed to be a cathartic, enlightening, and comforting listen for those who are still coming to terms with having a narcissistic parent.

Life just got a whole lot more complicated for 38-year-old single mum Liv. Her son, Jake, is practically perfect in every way, but he’s started asking some difficult questions, and the answers lie in a holiday romance 20 years ago. Back when Liv was staying with her aunt on the French Riviera... Returning to the Cote d’Azur, with its white sandy beaches, her supportive aunt, and exquisite wine and cheese is harder than it sounds, though. Because - if she’s going to give Jake the answers he needs - Liv knows she has to hunt down her first love, Andre.

Taking us behind drawing room doors and into high society ballrooms, The Game of Hearts follows six leading ladies and their family, friends, and contemporaries as they move from matchmaking to matrimony and beyond. Candid insights into the competitive world of the marriage mart; real stories of rakish husbands and rich heiresses; and true tales of lost and long-lasting love, reveal not just Regency courtship customs, but truly captivating lives. Author Felicity Day pieces together a rich and intimate view of this most beloved period of British history.

Sophie Brancelli, the orphaned illegitimate child of a duke’s daughter, must ensure her marriage to a suitable gentleman of the ton before her 21st birthday, or she’ll be destitute. Her grandmother, the duchess, provided her with a huge inheritance, but with strings attached.

Ellen Ann Willmott was a remarkable woman whose achievements in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture, photography and more should have made her one of the most well-known trailblazers of her age. Yet, both posthumously and within her lifetime, she instead became known as a bitter, cantankerous and eccentric miser, and her reputation has been forever stained by the image of her maliciously seeding other people's gardens with thorns.

Something is very wrong with Detective David Tyler. A creature of immense power has changed him; transformed him into a walking apocalypse. And the worst part? It's all Stella’s fault. She meddled with the dark arts and opened the door to the evil inside of David. People are scared. They want David dealt with before he turns London into a smoking crater, and they’re ready to put him down like a dog to do it. Can Stella fend them off and find a way to save her friend before he goes supernova, or is a city about to pay the price for her mistake?

Wake no more, said the fearful small, for now I am here, to punish you all. Stella Familiar is the only remaining member of the London Coven; an enforcer, built by witches to destroy the monsters that seek to destroy humankind. She’s good at her job, but now she’s facing a challenge she can't put her fist through. One by one, the children of London are falling asleep, and they're not waking up again. A terrifying phantom from the city’s past has returned, and it’s found a way to burrow into the minds of children.

It was a loving family or so it seemed on the surface. Mary had lived a good long life but had she deserved to die? Marion didn’t care about that. She wanted to catch the killer and bring them to justice and it would suit her just fine if it was Fiona. There was something uncomfortably annoying about this case and she wanted it closed as soon as possible. And what did Frances have to do with it? And did she actually care about that?

Sixteen-year-old Susan Smithson - pretty but poor, clever but capricious - has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London.At the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she attracts a raffish young nobleman. But, at the first hint of scandal, her guardian dispatches her to her uncle Collins' rectory in Kent, where her sensible cousin Alicia lives and "where nothing ever happens."

A truly delightful piece of writing that takes the listener on a journey back in time to the beginning of the Second World War, just after the Dunkirk evacuation. Winston Churchill was desperate; the German army was ripping its way through Europe with France about to fall. Adding another world power into the fold was the only option.

Once, there was magic in London, but when a monster made of hunger came to devour it all, the Uncanny were forced to abandon their home. And so they fled to Other London, a secret city adjacent to their own, and there they hid, barricaded and isolated from the rest of the world. For 200 years, the people of Other London have cowered behind closed doors. No one can get in, and no one can get out. Until, one day, the impossible happens: Someone from outside finds their way into the hidden city.

Benno Neuburger, a modest land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer from Laupheim, marry in 1907. They begin their lives together with great hope. It is a relatively prosperous time and a very optimistic one for German Jews who are enjoying a social renaissance in the industrializing, urbanizing rising star that is Germany. It’s not clear that this good fortune might begin to unravel.