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Alice Lange was just another small town college girl trying to find her place in the world. In her last undergraduate semester, Alice enrolls in a class with Indiana's renowned archaeologist, Andrew St. John, and her life is never the same. From the moment St. John enters the classroom Alice's life is plunged into the dangerous waters of his past. For Andrew St. John carries a secret so dangerous it has caused the death of everyone he has ever cared about and Alice Lange has just made it to the top of death's list.

Annemarie Fuller was just another small town Midwestern girl with a family she loved, a job she was good at, and an independent streak a mile long. She had been working as a family counselor for the cemetery just a few months when out of the blue two gorgeous men, Alexander Leventis and Darius Nemein, waltzed into her life causing enormous amounts of drool and chaos.

It is 1901, and Dr Gallagher has just pronounced Murray Hall dead. New York politico, gambler, womaniser - Hall is all these things, but when the press break the news of his death to the world, they reveal a side to his identity he never wanted known, a secret no one could have guessed. One journalist is determined to uncover the truth of Hall's past, but his search leads him down winding alleys of fact and fiction. From humble beginnings in Glasgow's tenements to a life spent rubbing up against New York's political elite, Murray Hall is the definition of a self-made man.

Orphaned young and raised with chilly indifference at an all-boys boarding school, Brontë Ellis has grown up stifled by rigid rules and social "norms", forbidden from expressing his genuine gender identity. His beloved novels lend an escape, until a position as a live-in tutor provides him with a chance to leave St. Mary's behind. Greenwood Manor is the kind of elegant country house Bron has only read about, and amid lavish parties and cricket matches the Edwards family welcomes him into the household with true warmth.

Katarina’s world of music, love, and laughter is shattered when the Nazis invade Austria. Because of her Jewish background, she must sever relationships to protect those she loves. Fear and anxiety become her constant companions. Time is running out for her and her family, and they know that at any moment they could be arrested, never to be heard from again. When an opportunity to escape the Nazis presents itself, a daring plan is suggested.

Imagine a world where everyone lives in harmony. A world where square miles of farmland are given to settlers in exchange for them agreeing to move there. A world of freedom, laws, and opportunity. That world is Canada, then and now. Unknown to the world and its citizens, that same government waged a genocidal war against its Indigenous peoples - never granting them ownership of land they freely gave to European settlers.

崇祯十五年（公元1642年），明朝风雨飘摇，大厦将倾，但东林党与阉党的斗争还在延续……崇禎十五年（公元1642年），明朝風雨飄搖，大廈將傾，但東林黨與閹黨的鬥爭還在延續……

崇祯十五年（公元1642年），明朝风雨飘摇，大厦将倾，但东林党与阉党的斗争还在延续……崇禎十五年（公元1642年），明朝風雨飄搖，大廈將傾，但東林黨與閹黨的鬥爭還在延續……

Felicity Worthington is on a mission from God: Kill Graeme McCracken and avenge her friend's death. But the lord of the manor is strangely alluring and mysteriously magnetic. Not at all the cold-hearted murderer painted by her mind's eye. As she begins to trust, to love, she is devastated to find that Graeme is indeed the Butcher of Beacon Hill.

New Year's Eve, 1922. A very special dinner party is being hosted by a dubious Sherlock Holmes collector. During the course of this mysterious evening, the host will demonstrate the peculiar mind-powers of Dr. Joseph Bell, the personality profiling prowess of the Great Detective himself, the esoteric attributes of a deck of cards rumored to have belonged to Jack the Ripper, the haunted finger rings of Arthur Conan Doyle's Cottingley Fairies, and much more!

He was a proud soldier of the 6th Army. He knew the fear of Norwegian villagers, saw mothers hide their children as if from a monster, and helped to conquer France. Kurt Stieger was a model believer in the destiny of the Third Reich. He was an instrument of progress. It was his duty to help create living space for Germans not yet born. His heart had never known fear.... That was until...Stalingrad.

Five sensational Sherlock Holmes stories by Orlando Pearson followed by three meditations hinting at the most radical theory yet about the Great Baker Street Detective. The stories include: "A Type of Infamy"; "The Fourth Student"; "A Question of Time"; and more.

In 1861, 16-year-old Joe Roberts leads a mundane life as far as he's concerned. His world spins in the same circle each day: working at his family's store, taking his sisters on boyish escapades, and bickering with his rogue of a cousin, Lucas. Joe can't understand why his mother allows Lucas to live and work with them after all the pain he caused their family. When war is declared, Joe is quick to join up and become a soldier with the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers, but war is nothing like he imagined.

Before the #MeToo movement, there was the 1970s and three girls - Tessa, Athena, Jenny – looking for love, friendship, and meaningful futures. In desiring to break traditional roles in gender and sexuality, they face challenges from family, church and society. With new freedoms, there are also dangers. This is a story of women's empowerment that has relevance today for women and men. For listeners aged 15+

When Inspector Lestrade calls on Sherlock Holmes with a tale of a mysterious conflict in a house in Holloway, Holmes is sceptical, scoffing at the existence of ghosts. However, as he investigates the case - in which a key witness seems to have vanished from the face of the earth - he discovers a murdered corpse inside an otherwise empty house and the plot thickens. Holmes and Watson know that even though departed spirits may not be at work, there are certainly earth-bound mysteries to solve here.

Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. But when Rosemary must determine whether a certain wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or to Germany, she is in for the challenge of a lifetime. How does one steal a family's history, their very name? Peter Holstein, given his family's German blood, writes his popular series of adventure novels under a pen name.

Years of abuse created the perfect assassin. Kidnapped as a baby, Talia is raised for one purpose: To protect her outlaw family. A master of blades, when a family member is killed, she is sent to deliver vengeance. Dispatched to settle the score with Donovan Morgan, she find herself inexplicable drawn to him. Instead of ending his life, she boldly kisses him. When the family turns on her, fate delivers her into Donovan Morgan's embrace.

Set in an unnamed NZ city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working-class friends, all employed at Dawsons, one of the country's most glamorous and sophisticated department stores. A historical romance based on the Ballantynes department store fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store employees trapped in controversial circumstances.

Neva only wants to keep her family safe - but all hope of that vanishes when her best friend Fia plummets out of the sky, gravely wounded and on dragonback. “Let the dragonrider die!” her mama pleads. That would be the sure way to ensure that the army stops harassing them - but Neva can’t turn her back on her friend. Never mind that her family is holding Fia’s father captive, and Neva is forced to use her magic in this hateful work

Las aventuras y desventuras del caballero Tirante nos transportarán en un fascinante viaje desde la corte del Rey de Inglaterra, donde es nombrado caballero, a la isla de Sicilia, al sitio de Rodas, al Norte de África y al imperio de Constantinopla. Tirante es el gran héroe: fuerte, valiente, divertido, ingenioso, buen estratega, pero sobre todo humano, que responde a las peticiones de auxilio de Rodas y del emperador de Constantinopla, y suspira por el amor de Carmesina. Acompaña las andanzas de Tirante el Blanco en este audiolibro adaptado para niños y niñas.