Great Family

Beautiful gift book or baby shower present. Full of laugh-out-loud humor and everyday truths about mom life, this is a sweet and thoughtful audiobook for new moms or moms-to-be. Some laughs to save the sanity of fellow infant and toddler moms.

1936: At 19, Kitty was ready to leave behind the stifling control of her parents and all those constantly telling her how to live her life. Work at the Wintonvale Repatriation Hospital was her escape and a chance to be someone else. Then she met soldier George Turner—and she heard her mother's voice in her ear, warning of danger, of being that girl. Kitty told herself if she ever had her own daughter she'd never control her. She'd make sure her voice never left a mark behind.

Introducing the "Empowered Parenting Essentials Bundle," a comprehensive 2 in 1 audiobook bundle designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills for exceptional parenting. This bundle combines two insightful guides: "Effective Guide on Great Parenting" and "A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be," offering a deep dive into the strategies and philosophies that can help you excel in your parenting journey.

Dunlop Fantasia has a passion for marketing, excellent ideas, hovercrafts, and avoiding rehab. A dark, complicated family upbringing sets him on course for early divorce, a blunder with his father's mistress, making TV shows, the heartbreaking death of a manservant, pursuit of celebrity endorsements, and winning respect for his growing advertising empire. Follow his satirical exploration of wealth, self-help advice, business success, gritty optimism, and downgrading to business class flights.

This collection of Billie's super dooper adventures includes Billie's Great Desert Adventure, Billie's Underwater Adventure, Billie B Brown's Animal Hospital Adventure, Billie's Outer Space Adventure, Billie's Wild Jungle Adventure and Billie's Yummy Bakery Adventure.

It's 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores his troubled wife and instead finds himself distracted by a face from the past.

Vielleicht lässt sich dein Kind leicht ablenken, sowohl in der Schule als auch im Alltag? Oder hast du das Gefühl, dein Kind reagiert manchmal sehr sensibel und ist nicht immer in der Lage, seine Emotionen zu regulieren? Wenn etwas davon zutrifft, dann ist dieses Hörbuch das richtige für dich. Was steckt eigentlich hinter Gefühlsausbrüchen bei Kindern? Für Gefühlsausbrüche, die sich in Wut, Traurigkeit oder auch Verschlossenheit äußern können, gibt es immer Gründe.

Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. Today the concept of illegitimacy no longer exists in law, and babies' parents are as likely to be unmarried as married. This revolution in public opinion makes it easy to forget what it was really like to give birth or be born out of wedlock. In the Family Way tells secrets kept for entire lifetimes and rescues from the shadows an important part of all our family histories.

It is ordinary homes, not grand public buildings or the mansions of the rich that have all the best stories. The rises and falls, the shifts in the fortunes of neighbourhoods and whole cities are here, tracing the often surprising journey one single house can take from elegant dwelling in a fashionable district to a tenement for society’s rejects. Packed with remarkable human stories, it is a phenomenal insight into living history, a history we can see every day on the streets where we live.

The third fun family story in the Marge in Charge series, written by actor and comedian Isla Fisher. Whistles at the ready. Marge is off! Have you met Marge? She has rainbow hair, tells wild stories and she's the best babysitter in the whole world. Things do sometimes go off the rails when Marge is around but Jakey and Jemima don't mind that. After all, no-one else could rescue a train, help Jakey's wobbly tooth or cause chaos at the zoo!

Catholic priests don't generally have children, but Australian legend Father Chris Riley has brought up about 60,000 – and they're some of the toughest kids around. He regularly encounters some of the most troubled children on Earth – kids who have given up or refuse to talk to others, who steal, take drugs, see themselves as irredeemable failures, hate everyone and everything, self-harm, have been abused or abuse other kids, and prostitute themselves.

Written in the form of a bedtime story, The Great Realisation is a celebration of the many things – from simple acts of kindness, to applauding the heroic efforts of our key workers – that have brought us together at a time of global crisis. It has captured, with magical resonance, the thoughts and feelings of millions in lockdown, as we adapt to a new way of life, find joy in unexpected places, cast aside old habits and reflect on what truly matters to us.

What was it like growing up in the Cayman Islands in the 1930s? In Against All Odds, retired politician and lawyer, W. Norman Bodden shares some interesting facts and his own experiences from his childhood to the present day. Have you ever wondered how air services to, from, and within the Cayman Islands, and other developments such as tourism, the birth of Cayman Airways, got started? What about the Cayman Islands’ relationship with Costa Rican airline LACSA and Jamaican engineers Smith and Walker? Against All Odds will answer many of these early years’ questions while providing an ...

This time around we'll learn about God's faithfulness as we hear the classics stories from Abraham and Sarah. Discover God's mighty wrath as he destroys Sodom and Gomorrah. Witness the deceit of Jacob and Esau. Join Queen Esther's battle against tyranny as she tries to save her people. Dream along with Joseph as he is sold into slavery and comes out a powerful ruler and learn about Ruth, a touching story about one woman's loyalty to her God and her family.

During 1927, Thea, only nineteen, married in a white framed country church which smelled of peonies and sprigs of lilac flowers. The wedding rites were recited on a Sunday afternoon in late May so none of the farmers, including her father and her groom, missed a day from field work. Thea raised her eyes to the heavens and prayed. Please help me be a good wife. She and her family would face the Depression, grasshoppers, the Dust Bowl, and near poverty. However, it was the kitchen that challenged Thea. It became a personal war that challenged her very sense of being. The young bride didn't ...

Rachael Johns returns with a poignant story of a woman who wants nothing else than to be a mum, and one who never wanted to be a mother. Radio host Harper Drummond lives for her career. Every day she meets fascinating people doing extraordinary things, but has begun to wonder whether there could be something more for her out there. She’s financially secure, happily married to Samuel and has a great group of friends—what more could she want? It’s only when she interviews one special couple that she starts to think about whether she could make a different kind of contribution.

It's the end of chocolate for good! A chocolate mystery...at least that's what they're saying on TV. Jelly and her gran are gobsmacked - they love chocolate! Is it really the chocopocalypse, or is there a chocoplot afoot?

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Common People: The History of an English Family by Alison Light, read by Caroline Laskowska. Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times, but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.

1657. The youngest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, 18-year-old Frances is finding her place at England's new centre of power. Following the turmoil of Civil War, a fragile sense of stability has returned to the country. Her father has risen to the unprecedented position of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, and Frances has found herself transported from her humble childhood home to the sumptuous palaces of Hampton Court and Whitehall, where she dreams of romance.

Life was simpler back then in many ways: there was no Internet, no smartphones, no Twitter, no Facebook, no social media, no games consoles. At home and at school, you made your own fun using your imagination.