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The drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black...

While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise." The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can't do anything about it without endangering Earth.

A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple. Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction. In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark...

In Lost Gods, Brom, the artist and author of The Child Thief and Krampus, brings readers into a dark, fantastical, masterful mix of brilliant illustrations and dazzling prose. A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and...

Die Paradise Pirates haben von einer glücksbringenden Perle gehört und beschließen, diesen geheimnisvollen Schatz zu ergattern. Doch bevor die Crew aufbrechen kann, wird Captain Scratch von der Schildkröten-Marine festgenommen. Schuld daran ist ausgerechnet Salty, der zuvor in einer Taverne damit angegeben hat, dass er den berüchtigten Piraten persönlich kennt und sein Schiff im Hafen ankert. Salty und die restliche Crew setzen alles daran, um Scratch von der Gefängnisinsel zu retten. Denn echte Piraten halten zusammen!

Eichhörnchenjunge Salty träumt davon, eines Tages den Schatz zu suchen, der auf der Karte seiner verschollenen Eltern markiert ist. Doch dann wird seine Freundin Ozeane von einer Crew aus Füchsen entführt. Sie fordern Saltys Schatzkarte im Austausch gegen Ozeane! Ihm bleiben drei Tage, um seine Freundin zu retten. Dafür braucht Salty jedoch ein Schiff und eine Besatzung, die es mit dem Fuchspack aufnehmen kann. Seine Hoffnung ist die berüchtigte Menagerie, die einzige Crew weit und breit, die aus mehreren Tierarten besteht.

A thrilling new adventure series for children: what would the world look like if dinosaurs had never died out? Imagine a world where dinosaurs have survived and evolved as...supersaurs! This is the world that Bea Kingsley lives in, a world where humans live side by side with supersaurs, sometimes in peace but often in conflict. Bea is the daughter of explorer parents who went missing when she was just a baby.

Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime. Ruby and her pet pig, Bunny, find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery nun who lives in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch. With a little patience, she and Ruby begin to get along. But Eleanor has secrets of her own - secrets that might mean more hard times for Ruby.

From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their...

Martin longs to be a musician. But a piano wouldn't fit in his mobile home, even if his father would let him have one. Martin's father wants him to play baseball and forget about all that "sissy" music stuff. If it weren't for the harmonica he plays when he's out of the house, and the music he creates in his head when his father is yelling at him, Martin would have no music at all. Then he sees a violin for sale for $50 in a pawn shop window, and he can think of nothing else. There's just one problem: he only has $12.78.

There was once a king's son, no one had so many beautiful books as he. In them he could read of everything that had ever happened in this world, and he could see it all pictured in fine illustrations. He could find out about every race of people and every country, but there was not a single word about where to find the Garden of Paradise, and this, just this, was the very thing that he thought most about.

John farrow was Hollywood royalty. An Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter, he was married to the talented and beautiful actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Together they had seven children, including esteemed actress Mia Farrow, mother of journalist Ronan Farrow. They were a fairytale Hollywood family. But all was not as it seemed.

Harte Landung: Die Freunde aus dem Camp Kreidezeit sind nun zwar im Besitz von Bumpys Ei. Brooklynns Handlungen wirken aber noch immer nach. Die Crew trifft auf einen Agenten namens Barry Sembène, den Darius von früher zu kennen glaubt. In seinem Flugzeug machen sich die Jugendlichen auf den Weg nach München. Ein Zwischenfall mit einem Dinosaurier zieht eine Bruchlandung nach sich. Die Gruppe fasst eine neuen Plan.

In Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all...

Jack, the delightful, mischievous, big-hearted hero of so many Newfoundland folktales, is worried about his parents. They aren’t getting any younger; in fact, they’re really quite old. So, Jack and his brothers Bill and Tom decide to set out and find a magic fruit that will make the old young again. Told with the humor, warmth, and sly wit that have made Andy Jones one of Newfoundland’s finest and best-loved storytellers, The Queen of Paradise’s Garden follows Jack on his way to the land of the Queen of Paradise, three miles this side of the end of the world.

Michelle Roberton-Jones presents another wonderful collection of guided meditations for children. Children are invited to explore their imaginations and enter the magical world of the faeries. This audio program features music composed and performed by Llewellyn.

This special audio program, created by Michelle Roberton-Jones and Llewellyn, is part of the Starchild series of guided meditations for children. It introduces four wonderful characters: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, and Mo. These 10 fun, short meditations, with music by Niall, offer children a chance to interact and explore their imaginations.