War Animals

Antonito n'a pas de plus grand ami que Paco, le petit taureau qu'il a vu naître. Paco est destiné à la corrida et le petit garçon ne peut se résoudre à voir son taureau mourir dans l'arène. À l'aube, les deux amis prendront la fuite. Nous sommes en 1936. Ils ne savent pas que la guerre civile gronde derrière les collines.

Bear returns from vacation to a strange odor coming from the woods. Then he discovers his friend Sparky has been injured from a battle with the strange critters there. He must protect Sparky and his family!

On the Home Front, one girl is determined to make a difference. But Edie’s hopes of serving overseas are dashed when she’s sent to be a Land Girl in a sleepy Cumbrian village. Prue has shut the world out since her son went away to fight. Yet when she’s asked to take in a Land Girl and two little evacuees from London, she has no choice. Edie’s heart breaks, seeing the children’s cold welcome. But when the evacuees take in a stray puppy, even Prue can’t say no.

An einem schönen Frühlingsmorgen erwacht ein kleines Tier aus einem sehr langen Schlaf. Es hat nicht nur großen Hunger, sondern leider auch vergessen, was für ein Tier es überhaupt ist. Es ist grau wie eine Maus und hat einen buschigen Schwanz wie ein Eichhörnchen. Oder ist es vielleicht doch eine Ratte? Entschlossen macht sich das kleine Geschöpf auf, das Rätsel zu lösen. Doch all die anderen Tiere, die es trifft, sind ihm nie ganz ähnlich. Das kleine Tier gibt nicht auf. Schließlich ist es furchtbar wichtig zu wissen, wer man ist!

Manchmal ist der kleine Siebenschläfer gar nicht müde, manchmal kommt er aber auch nicht aus den Federn oder hat fürchterlich schlechte Laune. Wie gut, dass er seine Freunde hat! Die helfen ihm beim Einschlafen und veranstalten so einiges, um ihn zum Frühlingsanfang wach zu bekommen. Aber am besten sind sie darin, ihn immer wieder zum Lachen zu bringen!

Endlich sind alle drei Rabengeschichten in einer Hörbuchedition versammelt. Zu den zwei Bilderbuchklassikern "Als die Raben noch bunt waren" und "Der Rabe, der anders war", die vom wundersamen Farbwechsel der zerstrittenen Vögel und dem ungewollten Buntraben erzählen, gesellt sich nun eine neu veröffentlichte Geschichte. In "Wer will den blauen Raben haben?" vertreibt ein Feuer den Blauraben aus seiner Heimat. Eine Reise ins Unbekannte beginnt, die ihn über's Meer und an fremde Ufer führt.

The Sunday Times top ten best seller. Thousands of lives have been saved by this spaniel. He is a best friend in dog's clothing. An RAF dog with his mossy feet firmly on the ground. A brave dog who has served his colleagues and his country with unstinting devotion. A dog in a million. This is the story of the partnership of Buster and Will, told by Will himself, describing how each came to save the other's life.

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS patrol escape the deadly Malayan jungle alive?Malaya in the 1950s, and Communist terrorists wage a bloody war against the country's estates and rubber plantation owners. Chased into the interior by British army units, the guerrillas soon become experts at survival and evasion, emerging from the jungle only to launch increasingly ferocious attacks.

What four-legged soldiers fight beside our troops? Military dogs! They can sniff out enemies and find dangerous weapons. These dogs are hardworking members of the military. Learn all about what these amazing animals can do.

It is September 1940, and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around Epping Forest, the home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons. Duchess has proven to be the most extraordinary of all Susan's birds, as the two share a special bond and an unusual curiosity about the world. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, a young crop-duster pilot named Ollie Evans has decided to travel to Britain to join the Royal Air Force.

I'm alpha. Powerful. Feared. My fated mate is human. She has pigtails. Cartoon kitten t-shirts. And I need to learn how to sleep with one eye open. The woman got hurt on my watch. I had no choice but to claim her. Then Zoe stole my car and my heart. And now that I have her back, she must pay the price. I only want her love and her eternity. It's not that much to ask from the woman chosen to mine. But Zoe thinks to save me from the danger she poses. No dark secret or demons from her past will keep me from the woman I love. And my enemies who think to use her to hurt me have no idea what ...

I'm a Royal. An ancient wolf shifter. An assassin. And I've been given an innocent human mate. There's only one way this will turn out. They call me an Angel of Death. Death, for short. An act of compassion turned me into a babysitter. A fitting punishment, according to the elders. More like torture. They trapped me in the same small town as my destined female. For years I watched Sara. And suffered knowing I'd never get to enjoy the wickedly sinful things I wanted to do to her. And the night I was free to escape, Sara learns my dark secret and becomes a hit man's target herself. Because ...

Love has no place in politics. Until a councilman falls in love. Royal shifter, Anton Alexander, sacrificed his future the day he joined the Shifter Council. Now the law rules his life. Manipulating it for the benefit of his loved ones is his only pleasure. But the games he’s played in Council chambers have earned him more than a reputation for ruthlessness. He’s made enemies. Anton can’t be bothered with their baseless ploys to have him ousted from the Council. But when his rivals come after the female he’s not allowed to love, he’ll prove the whispered rumors about his rage are ...

When the woman of your dreams is a shifter and you’re not, does that make her forbidden or the ultimate prize? As a human living among shifters, Josh Conway is expected to abide by shifter law. But he’s never been very good at following rules. He’d rather make his own. The habit has gotten him in trouble over the years, but it’s all about the endgame. And this time he knows exactly what he wants—the gorgeous Royal shifter who’s off-limits. Mira is his. He knew it the moment he looked into her eyes. Of course, convincing her of the truth involves overcoming a prophecy, her ...

Dog Soldiers tells the story of two brave young dog soldiers (army bomb dog handlers) killed in action in Afghanistan with their dogs by their sides, through the inspirational words of their mothers. Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe and Lance Corporal Liam Tasker were both dog lovers from boyhood and went on to do the job they had always wanted to do.

The humans want to kill all cats, be they ordinary or magical. The cats want to escape somewhere far from humans. Nadine is a feline social welfare agent whose sole wish is to reunite the two races in this post-plague world. After a narrow escape from orphaned teenagers determined to use her for target practice, Nadine is left terrified and wondering if there's a way humans and felines can live together in peace.

Her world in peril...his need to stop a killer...which will she use her magic for? Nadine's powers are growing, and so is her enemy's desire to see her dead. She thought she'd thwarted his plans to use the Book of Knowledge to end creation, but the cunning demon managed to snatch the Book from under her whiskers. Hot on his trail, Nadine meets up with an old friend who needs her help to stop a power-hungry master cat determined to enslave humanity.

An accomplished healer of both cats and humans, Nadine finds herself whiskers to fangs with a demon while making what should have been a routine house call. Defeated, the demon soars away, but not before warning her that the world is about to be ripped from existence. Nadine casts the idea aside as the rantings of evil until she returns to her temple home to discover it in flames and her mentor vanished.

Brillant fox-terrier capable de communiquer en messages codés, Sirius émigre aux Etats-Unis avec la famille Liliencron, qui fuit l'Allemagne nazie. Arrivé à Hollywood, il devient la coqueluche des studios Warner Bros. et s'acoquine avec les plus grands : Rita Hayworth, Billy Wilder, John Wayne et Cary Grant n'ont plus de secrets pour lui !

A body washed up on the beach. An evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets. An animal rescue service. Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling new characters, as well as revisiting some familiar settings, these adventures are sure to win over new listeners as well as fans of old favourites such as Letters from the Lighthouse and Frost Hollow Hall.