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Shreya and her twin brother, Sushant, are attacked by a mysterious stranger with extraordinary powers. Fighting for their lives, and unable to hold out against him, Shreya falls back, in desperation, upon an ancient legend. But when an ancestor from deep antiquity unexpectedly appears in response to Shreya’s cry for help, the lives of the twins take an unexpected turn. For an ancient evil, described in the shlokas of the Rigveda, India’s oldest text, long believed to have been vanquished and rooted out from the face of the earth, has inexplicably survived.

Shreya and her twin brother, Sushant, are attacked by a mysterious stranger with extraordinary powers. Fighting for their lives, and unable to hold out against him, Shreya falls back, in desperation, upon an ancient legend. But when an ancestor from deep antiquity unexpectedly appears in response to Shreya’s cry for help, the lives of the twins take an unexpected turn.

Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an issue with love. Call agent Sam works right beside the girl who's just dumped him. He's dating someone he can't stand just to get over her. Esha is just short of becoming a model. Two inches, to be precise. Vroom wants to change the world. Radikha's trying to manage her mother-in-law and hold down her job.

Audible presents Gumnaam Shaheed Season 1: Madanlal Dhingra. Sunita Dhanraj runs an NGO named Shaheed Swabhimaan Manch. This NGO has decided to honour the Shaheed who laid their lives for the freedom of India and make people aware about them. In this process, Sunita comes to know about Shaheed Udham Singh who was hanged in Pentonville jail of London on 31 July 1940. He was buried there. But when Sunita goes to London to visit this burial place, she comes to know about another Shaheed who was forgotten by India. Who is that Shaheed and will Sunita be able to know about him?

Vishesh is a dreamer who is driven by his passion for writing and words. But like most Indian middle-class families, his parents are impatient to see him settled in a government job. Despite all obstacles, making no complaints, he continues to follow the hard path, holding up the promise he had made to himself, trying to fulfil his father's wishes and failing over and over.

Eight years after moving away from her hometown of Miami, Cherokee is back home to take care of her sickly grandmother. While trying to stay low and off the scene, she puts all her focus into her job and her family. That is, until the man who broke her heart many years ago unexpectedly walks into her life once again.

Our folktales are not just a source of entertainment and fun but also carriers of important life lessons.

A soli ventidue anni, Grace Allen si è posta un obiettivo ambizioso: affrontare il suo passato traumatico e superare ogni timore, decidendo così di prendere in mano le redini della sua vita. In questo percorso di rinascita, il destino le presenta Samuel Callaghan. Con una corporatura intimidatoria, un corpo ricoperto di tatuaggi, otto anni in più di lei e la responsabilità di una sorellina affidata alle sue cure, Cal è decisamente una sorpresa inaspettata. Nonostante le differenze evidenti, Grace si trova ad affezionarsi a Cal con sorprendente facilità.

Midway between the satire of Spinal Tap and the pathos of American Beauty lies the schizophrenic state of mind known as hog fever. On the surface this is the story of a man, a motorcycle, and a teetering bank balance. But lurking beneath, occasionally visible like threads through faded denim, is the story of a man in search of freedom - or at least a last stab at it.

A thrillingly original story of the adventures of a small band of feral cats in Delhi who communicate by whisker mind-link and face an unprecedented threat to their tribe's survival; for listeners of Life of Pi and Philip Pullman. In the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi, India, lives a small band of cats.

アフリカの呪術医研究の第一人者、大生部多一郎は、テレビの人気タレント教授。超能力ブームで彼の著者「呪術パワーで殺す！」はベストセラーになった。しかし、妻の逸美は8年前の娘・志織のアフリカでの気球事故での死以来、神経を病んでいた。

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All you have to do is find out why Harry is prepared to blame an innocent man. That's the thread. Follow it. You'll reach the Silent Ones. This is your way - our way - of making a difference. With this challenge from Father Edmund Littlemore, Anselm returns to the Old Bailey to fight the most difficult and troubling case of his life. The man in the dock is Littlemore himself. He is charged with grave offences against Harry Brandwell, who, it seems, is both a victim and a liar.

"Desertørerne" er fortællingen om 00’ernes nybrud og forandringer, om to unge mænd der begge er involverede i en magtfuld familievirksomhed. Den ene føres ind mod familiens inderste liv og væk fra opvækstens skygger, den anden føres væk fra familien og ind i krigens meningsløshed. Kappel Bruhn Company er en familieejet læder- og tekstilvirksomhed med eksplosiv vækst i mange lande i Europa og Asien. Mark er en ung jurist, som har brudt sin sociale arv. Hans baggrund er en voldelig opvækst i Vestjylland.

Kira, who is twelve years old, is intent on wasting her limited pocket money on dolls and other childish things. She lives in poor circumstances, her parents constantly arguing about the shortage of money. Kira is therefore upset by the subject of economics and wishes to avoid it. However, when she twice rescues a stray dog (later named Money by Kira), the dog, in gratitude, reveals its ability to talk. The dog seems to have an in-depth knowledge of economics.

I den selvbiografiske roman "Min Kamp" beskriver forfatteren Karl Ove Knausgård sin kamp for at komme overens med livet, sig selv, sine litterære ambitioner og de mennersker, han har omkring sig. I romanen fortæller forfatteren om sit forhold til sin far og faderens død.

Can you ever forget your first love? Liberty Evans hasn’t.She has a beautiful daughter, a successful career as an actress, and she’s married to one of Hollywood’s most powerful directors.But behind the glamour, things are not what they seem. Her daughter Brooke is turning into a spoiled teenager, her husband controls everything she does, and Liberty longs for Cory, the man she loved before she became famous. Unable to live a lie any more, Liberty returns to England with a reluctant Brooke, to start a new life.

The Coffey siblings are having a rough year. Claire has broken up with her fiancé and is hiding from her debts. Martha’s in a career crisis and even her therapist is losing patience with her. And Max, the baby of the family in his final year of college, is keeping a life-altering secret. Before long, all three of them have moved back home. But things aren’t so easy the second time around. Martha and Claire regress to fighting over the shared bathroom while their mother continues to plan Claire’s thwarted wedding.

In One Flat Summer, newly redundant clothing salesman Ken Warburton finds himself adrift and drawn into the serious world of gambling after a good win at Newmarket. He has big plans, but what of the cost at home? In the sequel, Sharing Fatman, Margaret disapproves of her husband Ken's gambling on horses and takes the reins to find an absorbing new hobby to fill their retirement. But she ends up throwing caution to the wind when they make a connection with Mr Fatman at the horse sales.

Samantha Jackson has been missing for 18 years when she gets back in touch with her sister. Sam needs Freya - now a grown woman with a family of her own - to take in her son. But Dino is not a happy child, despite the warmth of Freya's family he cannot settle. He startles at loud noises and he's prone to angry, violent outbursts. He's one of the family, Freya knows he is, but why doesn't it feel like that? In order to keep her daughters safe, Freya is forced to go in search of the truth. What is going on with Dino, and what really happened to her sister the night she left?