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Love is a game and it's kicking off… When a harsh new manager takes over the Tigresses football team, bringing a new star striker Kira with her, morale is rocked. The team’s current MVP Maeve clashes immediately with Kira – but despite the animosity between them, Maeve can’t help...

Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player, becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany, New York, political boss' son.

Jack Aubrey and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a hand-picked crew, most of them shipmates from the adventures and lucrative voyages of earlier years.

Cash è un vero buono, di quelli che esistono solo nei film. Viene da Cerignola, ama la sua famiglia, ama Samantha e non ha un lavoro stabile, perché, a suo modo, è un ribelle. Qualcuno lo prende anche per un violento, perché un senso profondo e quasi irrazionale della giustizia gli arma spesso pugni tanto maldestri quanto potenti. Samantha lo lascia, il padre è severamente malato, soldi non ce ne sono: tutto sembra precipitare. E allora Cash va incontro al suo destino: per una strana concatenazione di eventi si ritrova in Colorado, Usa, dove ha luogo un mega reality sulla boxe.

Vernon Rand is a charismatic figure whose great love - whose life, in fact - is climbing. He lives alone in California, where he combats the drudgery of a roofing job with the thrill of climbing in the nearby mountain ranges. Sure of only his talent and nerve, Rand decides to test himself in the French Alps, with their true mountaineering and famed, fearsome peaks. He soon learns that the most perilous moments are, for him, the moments when he feels truly alive.

In this abridged audiobook, entrusted with a secret mission, the perils of the South China Sea await. In the fight against the French, a treaty with the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, a piratical Malay state, may prove decisive. Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, along with a...