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On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against the apple tree, watching her fun-loving husband and darling children as her heart swells with pride. As the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river. Slipping upstairs to find the special gift for her adoring husband, Maggie stumbles across something else hidden amongst the dusty boxes of family keepsakes.

Get ready to be transported to the world of Harry Potter in a captivating production that features hundreds of unique voices and immersive sound design that brings the wizarding world vividly to life in Dolby Atmos. You’ll hear footsteps echoing through the corridors of Hogwarts and the heart-racing whoosh of the Golden Snitch as it darts past your ears in the heat of a Quidditch match. Also featuring an electrifying new musical score, The Full-Cast Audio Editions present J.K. Rowling’s iconic series as a truly spellbinding listening event for the whole family.

Bringing a bird into your home is an exciting and rewarding experience. These intelligent, affectionate companions can form deep bonds with their owners, fill your home with cheerful sounds, and bring incredible personality into everyday life.

Short Books Big Impact introduces a practical approach to publishing that focuses on clarity, consistency, and strategic thinking. Instead of chasing trends or feeling overwhelmed by the publishing process, this guide shows how small, focused books can become powerful tools for growing your author presence.

Delve into a profound quest for inner grounding in this evocative guide to reclaiming life's weight in an era of fleeting lightness. Using the nautical metaphor of a ship's ballast for stability, author Justin Thorne explores rediscovering depth through rituals, commitments, physical presence, friction, belonging, mastery, and self-mercy countering digital disconnection, chronic anxiety, and superficial freedom.

When a man is spotted bound to the tracks, the tranquil nostalgia of the North Norfolk Railway is shattered. To add to the disquiet, while the police are investigating the kidnapping, another man is found dead on a steam train. A pattern of fear is emerging on the Poppy Line and the pressure is on DI Ashley Knight's struggling team to deliver answers. With the body count rising along the once peaceful coastal route, Knight must find a way to stop a killer before they reach their final destination. Because Ashley knows if she doesn't, for someone it's the end of the line.

For nearly two days, every human on Earth has been frozen by Delio’s brutal Phase One. Sunstroke, rats, and rot are setting in. In London, Alfie and his fractured team must cross a collapsing UK to reach the European kill switch. In New York, Tripal races toward Site 26A, the only other way to stop the system. But something is wrong. Phase One hasn’t progressed, and time is running out. What was meant to save humanity now risks destroying it.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Movie nights with her husband Daniel and their daughter Maddie are a welcome respite from the scrutiny of the world’s press. As much as it hurts, it’s good to be able to see her father more too. He’s suffering from Alzheimer’s and needs special care. Sarah has started to show tell-tale signs of the disease too. She’s been experiencing blackouts and memory loss. It’s early days but she must face the possibility that she won’t be there to see her daughter grow up.

We were never meant to see each other again. It was a one-night, no-names fling in Bermuda . . . until the next day when I watch her walk down the aisle at our parents’ wedding and discover she’s now my stepsister. We say it won’t happen again, but we give in to the temptation of “just one more time” . . . twice. We tell ourselves there’s no harm in it. Given my stepdad’s and her mom’s rocky marital histories, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see each other again.

Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.

'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 ________ Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the...

Everything is familiar. But everything has changed. Coming back to the little community is like walking into a nightmare for Jim Gardener, poet, drunk, potential suicide. It all looks the same: the house; the furniture; Jim's friend, Bobbi; her beagle (though ageing); even the woods out at the back. But it was in the woods that Bobbi stumbled over the odd, part-buried object and felt a peculiar tingle as she brushed the soft earth away. Everything is familiar. But everything is about to change.

Ever since I met my handsome husband Dr Gabe Bonneville, I started playing the role of the perfect housewife. He works hard as a surgeon, so I look after our home, and throw elaborate dinner parties with champagne cocktails for his best friends Hugh and Anita. He’s my safe place and my chance to have the family I’ve always wanted. I’ve managed to hide the mornings when I wake up and see a face in the shadows. I haven’t told Gabe the truth about the woman who raised me, or told him about the therapy I’ve been getting so my secrets stay hidden in the dark.

London accountant Sophie unexpectedly becomes the stand-in mum for her estranged sister’s eight-month-old baby, Alana. She didn’t even know she had a niece! She’s wildly out of her depth. Then her life is turned upside down all over again by the appearance of a Thor lookalike on her doorstep. Apparently, six-foot surfer Samson is Alana’s father. And he also just discovered the existence of this adorable baby.

Stepmom Erotic Tales: Mommy's Forbidden Fruit delivers the ultimate escape—plunging you into heart-pounding scenes where steamy stepmom seductions explode into sneaky shower encounters, kitchen counter domination, intense MILF training sessions, spanking discipline, creampie temptations, and raw forbidden breeding ecstasy. Experience the thrill of crossing every line as irresistible MILFs awaken hidden desires, submit to commanding passion, and surrender completely in pulse-racing, no-holds-barred encounters that build to shattering climaxes.

We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.

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'Written with real skill and heart . . . a propulsive and gripping read from start to finish' - Doug Johnstone 'James Oswald at his finest, his darkest, his most inventive' - R. D. McLean ________ 'Do yourself a favour and read James Oswald's series. I can almost guarantee you won't stop at one'...

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

When heartbroken screenwriter Ava Lorne escapes to a quiet beach house in Santa Monica, she plans to hide from the world—especially from Hollywood. But the California coast has other plans. Her charming surfer neighbor, Kai Maddox, lives with a freedom Ava has forgotten how to feel. What begins as a gentle friendship slowly becomes something deeper, pulling Ava toward healing, trust, and a love she never expected.