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In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, a small, untested arm of the United States Navy was all that stood between the shattered American fleet and the ascendent Japanese Empire. Far off in Western Australia, US submarine officer Benjamin Holt finds himself on the frontlines of World War II with nothing but a decades-old sub and a rusty crew. The green 25-year-old is ordered to stop Imperial Japan’s bloody expansion across the Pacific any way he can.

Are you ready to improve your social skills and blow up socially? Even if you have tried to grow your social skills before and found yourself at the same place you were when you started, this book will offer you a foundation to go back to every time. There are theory and many practical examples and techniques that you can apply to your daily life. Not only you will start to grow your social skills, but you will also use the techniques to keep advancing them as they begin to take root.

Sci-fi author Miles Cameron joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios in the UK to discuss his work. Exclusive interview.

Let's talk about video games!Reviews, industry topics, hot takes, and the occasional bit; join Sy and Gabriel for a variety of discussions on video games, the art of game design, and the intricacies of player experience as they attain their S-rank support level.

Jerusa’s interference has unleashed a monstrous entity with a taste for vampires and humans alike. Her only option: employ her spectral powers to hunt down the fiend before it can rip a bloody path through the entire town. Will her new companions help her kill the creature....

In 2015, Laura Marshall decided to have a crack at her lifelong dream of becoming a novelist and enrolled on the Curtis Brown novel-writing course. Two years later, here she is with her debut novel Friend Request. Laura visits the Audible Studios discuss more about that journey and, of course, the novel itself.

Ruth Fitzmaurice is the author of I Found My Tribe, a critically acclaimed memoir which came about as the result of an article in the Irish Times that hit a real nerve with the public. In the book she writes about how her passion for swimming has helped her cope with the challenges of caring for a large family and a husband with motor neurone disease. Ruth visits the Audible Studios to tell us a bit more about the book.

Imran Mahmood is a criminal defence barrister of 20 years' experience, and his debut novel, You Don't Know Me, is the story of a defendant in a murder trial who falls out with his lawyer and decides to represent himself.

Hollie McNish visits the Audible Studios to talk about her book Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood. The book uses stories and poems to create a snapshot of motherhood, in which Hollie talks about everything from morning sickness and breastfeeding in public to the impossibility of ever finishing a hot cup of tea. Hollie has been performing poetry since 2005 and has gone viral on YouTube for her slick, poignant, political rhymes. She won the UK Slam Poetry Competition in 2009.

Robyn Travis joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest book.

Ayobami Adebayo joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to talk about her debut novel, Stay With Me.

"Dupa ce în 2013 am publicat "Dragul meu turnator", mai mulți cititori m-au întrebat cum de am reușit sa fac rost de povestea Maiorului Patrulescu, caci așa se chema unul dintre capitolele cărții. Mi-o daduse chiar el? Deci îl cunoscusem? O scrisese de mâna? Îi cerusem eu sa o scrie?"

It's not the dead body - Jack Leightner has seen hundred of bodies in his tour with the NYPD. It's not the dank setting - the narrow banks along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. So why does the sight of the fatally stabbed young man make the detective almost faint in the canal's tangled weeds? Jack doesn't understand why he becomes obsessed with this low-priority case, why he allows it to jeopardize his career and even his life. Especially since the investigation draws him exactly where he doesn't want to go: into the heart of Red Hook.

In this third novel in Gabriel Cohen’s Edgar Award-nominated Jack Leightner crime series, the Brooklyn homicide detective investigates the serial killing of prostitutes in Crown Heights and the murder of a friend who ran afoul of Russian gangsters in Brighton Beach.

Acest audiobook contine doua capitole din ultima editie a volumului Declaratie de iubire de Gabriel Liiceanu. "Sebastian, mon frère" este textul unei conferinte pe care autorul a fost invitat sa o sustina in fata Comunitatii evreiesti din Romania, la 13 aprilie 1997. Scrisoare catre un frate mai mare reprezinta paginile, aparute mai intai in Epistolar (Cartea Româneasca, 1987), pe care Gabriel Liiceanu i le-a trimis din Paltinis lui Petru Cretia la 28 martie 1985.

À quatorze ans, Turtle Alveston arpente les bois de la côte nord de la Californie avec un fusil et un pistolet pour seuls compagnons. Elle trouve refuge sur les plages et les îlots rocheux qu'elle parcourt sur des kilomètres. Mais si le monde extérieur s'ouvre à elle dans toute son immensité, son univers familial est étroit et menaçant : Turtle a grandi seule, sous la coupe d'un père charismatique et abusif. Sa vie sociale est confinée au collège, et elle repousse quiconque essaye de percer sa carapace.

Author Simon Lelic visits the Audible Studios. He is the author of three brilliant and gripping novels - Rupture, The Facility and The Child Who - and here he discusses his fourth, The House.

Historical fiction writer Antony Riches, best known for his Empire series, tells Gabriel Fleming all about his brand-new series and its first book: Betrayal: The Centurions I.

Lawrence was having a shitty day after he found out his girlfriend and best friend were cheating on him, together. Then a legendary Native American god, Coyote, to be exact, sent him back in time to 1400's North America. Now he's living in the past, kicking ass, and taking names. Rejoin Moon Flower, Freak, Billy, Patty, and the rest of the crew, as they save history, by rewriting it.

Mais do que um torneio, a Copa do Mundo virou um campo de disputa entre política, dinheiro, cultura e identidade. Neste podcast, a gente mergulha nos bastidores do futebol global para entender como chegamos até aqui: da expansão para 48 seleções às escolhas polêmicas de sedes, passando pelo papel da FIFA, os interesses econômicos e o impacto disso tudo no torcedor. Afinal: a Copa ainda é sobre futebol?