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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this moment...

In the electrifying new series The Hive: A Thriller, CIA cyber-ops officer Samantha Sloane stumbles onto a mystery that leads straight into her own forgotten past. Her search for answers draws her into the orbit of Eli Cooper, the elusive CEO of a billion-dollar cybersecurity firm and his group of elite hackers who make up The Hive. But the more Sam learns about Eli and his company, the more she realizes she can't trust anyone around her.

Melanie Hoskins, an experienced firefighter-paramedic, has been recruited by a very selective and secret organisation known as The Division. Their mission is to protect the populace and secure the continuation of the United States. The Division is only activated at times of dire need. This just so happens to be one of those times. Based in New York City, Hoskins is forced to leave her civilian life and those she loves behind, and join the front line to try to control the 'dollar flu' virus that has been spreading throughout the city.

David Fishelson has transformed Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot into a spellbinding drama that illuminates the titanic novel. In The Idiot, meet the kindly, childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful, sought-after women in the town compete for his affections, in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.

From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the...

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden mit der Aufklärung eines sonderbaren Giftmordes beauftragt. Obwohl die Zusammenhänge von Opfer, Tat und Motiv einige Rätsel und Überraschungen beinhalten, kommt Holmes der Lösung Schritt für Schritt näher. Doch dann gerät er selbst in höchste Gefahr.

Das ist das erste HÖRSPIEL aus der Serie "Die neuen Abenteuer"!

The Golden tract: Concerning the Philosopher's Stone is a must-hear for any serious student of alchemy. It describes the true synthesis of the Philosopher's Stone in classic medieval alchemical symbolism. Originally published in the Musaeum Hermeticum (1625) and later translated into English by Arthur Edward Waite in his The Hermetic Museum, Vol. I (1893), this version of the text has been diligently edited and recorded by Jones so that it can be easily digested by modern listeners.

Presence, the Play offers a penetrating perspective on the vital role personal presence plays in the essence of life. This timely, captivating novel speaks to a growing hunger for a way of life that’s real and tangible, the opposite of an artificial existence lived in a realm of mediated connectivity.

In this under-reported and under-taught story of the American Revolution, light is shed on the little-known role Benjamin Franklin played in bringing the Northern and Southern colonies together against corrupt British rule. Along with an “Inner Circle” of British Abolitionists, Franklin worked behind the scenes to help free one American slave, James Somersett; and then, in cooperation with a vast network of colonial allies, set in motion a series of events that provided the impetus for Northern patriots and reluctant Southern slaveholders to join forces.

It's 1999, and aspiring poet Saul Judd is living quietly in Bath with his wife, Elise, and son, Thomas. But when he wins a competition he never intended to enter, he is drawn into a web of dark forces and mysterious events.

A BBC Radio collection bringing together much-loved works by Alexandre Dumas and Alexandre Dumas fils, starring Timothy Spall, Anton Lesser, Iain Glen, Ruth Wilson and Dan Stevens. Alexandre Dumas père and fils are among the most popular and widely read authors in French literature, whose works have been adapted numerous times for stage, screen and radio. This BBC radio collection brings together three of their most famous tales of chivalry, heroism and romance.

Brought to you by Penguin. Revisit the world of Beatrix Potter in this timeless new audiobook edition. Featuring all 23 of the classic tales, this new collection features a range of award-winning and contemporary voices, including Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Lily James, James Acaster, David...

The wind never truly dies in the Urals. It prowls the valleys and ridgelines like a restless spirit, rattling bare birches, hissing across the frozen stone. At night it screams—long, feral cries that curl around the peaks like warning songs. The Mansi hunters had long ago given one of those mountains a name: Kholat Syakhl, the Mountain of the Dead.

What began as one man's audacious airline hijacking, extortion and theft of $200,000 in ransom money, and subsequent escape and disappearance, transformed over the years and decades from a simple criminal act into a tale of myth and folklore—making the name, D.B. Cooper, an true American legend.

The summer of 1916 had come on like a furnace. June had been blistering, the kind of month that drove city dwellers out of their brick apartments in Philadelphia and New York, down toward the promise of breezes off the Atlantic Ocean, in Jersey shore towns like Beach Haven, Spring Lake, Asbury Park, and Matawan... But beneath the glittering surface, the sea held its own dark relentless man-eating secret.

Es ist wieder Advent und Mats und seine Schwester Matilda freuen sich auf Plätzchen backen, Kerzenschein und vielleicht sogar den ersten Schnee. Doch dieses Jahr verläuft die Vorweihnachtszeit ganz und gar unweihnachtlich und verquer! Mats und Matilda sind sich einig, dass hier nur noch Spekulatius helfen kann. Der kleine Weihnachtsdrache ist nach ihrem letzten Abenteuer wieder nach Hause auf die Weihnachtsinsel geflogen, doch jetzt eilt er den Kindern zu Hilfe.

Der Tod seines Vaters überschattet die Kindheit des jungen David Copperfield. Als ihn sein Stiefvater in ein Internat schickt, soll sich der junge David den strengen Regeln des bürgerlichen Lebens fügen. Doch der plötzliche Verlust seiner Mutter zwingt den erst 10-Jährigen schließlich in die Arbeitswelt. Ohne Hilfe muss er sich den Schwierigkeiten des Lebens stellen. Doch Davids Lebensmut ist unerschöpflich und trotz aller Widrigkeiten erwartet Dickens‘ tapferen Helden ein Happy End.

30 Jahre sind vergangen, seit die Odyssee nach ihrer ersten Mission zur Erde zurückgekehrt ist. Die Menschen haben die Begabten von der Erde vertrieben und diese leben nun unter sich auf dem Planeten Neu-Utopia. Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zur Erde sind abgebrochen. Als Phil Mertens mit einer Prophezeiung seines im Sterben liegenden Vaters konfrontiert wird, ist das nur der Anfang einer Verkettung von dramatischen Ereignissen. Von Ereignissen, die weit in der Vergangenheit ihren Ursprung haben – noch in den Tagen seines Vorfahrs Dr. Klaus Mertens und dessen Rachefeldzugs.

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically...