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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

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。

墨田区・大川公園で若い女性の右腕とハンドバッグが発見された。

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled "the first modern novel" and is sometimes considered the best literary work ever written.

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.

Все видели великолепный сериал "Московская сага" - с Юрием Соломиным и Инной Чуриковой, с Сергеем Безруковым и Кристиной Орбакайте, фильм редкий по глубине психологизма и качеству литературного текста. И многие уже читали "Московскую сагу". Настало время слушать ее.

Hanté par son passé, sera-t-elle son avenir ? Orphelin, Teagan erre depuis son plus jeune âge de foyers en familles d'accueil. Bad boy écorché par la vie, la justice le rattrape à l'aube de ses 18 ans. La sentence ? Un an de conditionnelle durant lequel il devra se tenir à carreau s'il ne veut pas finir en prison. Il ne lui reste qu'une chance de se remettre dans le droit chemin et c'est dans une ultime famille d'accueil qu'elle va se jouer. Mais la rencontre avec Elena, la fille aînée de la famille risque de compliquer les choses.

Paul Austers største, mest hjerteskærende og overbevisende roman. En overvældende og overraskende fortælling om arv og miljø, om kærlighed og livet selv. Den 3. marts 1947 bliver Archibald Isaac Ferguson født på hospitalet i New Jersey. Fra det øjeblik han kommer til verden, tager familiens liv fire samtidige og uafhængige retninger. Hver af de fire versioner af Ferguson bliver tryllebundet af den skønne og mageløse Amy Schneiderman, og hver af de fire Ferguson'er får hver deres egen helt enestående relation til hende. Som læser følger man alle fire i medgang og modgang. Forskellige liv og dog det samme.

MI5の捜査官イヴ・ポラストリは、ある殺人事件の目撃者の証言から容疑者が女性だと知り、さらにここ最近起こった未解決の殺人事件がいずれも同じ犯人によるものなのではと疑っている。

Paul Austers "vielleicht bestes Buch" urteilt ARD "Titel, Thesen, Temperamente": Archibald Ferguson heißt der jugendliche Held von Paul Austers Roman, und er kommt darin gleich viermal vor - in vier raffiniert verwobenen Variationen seines Lebens, ganz nach dem Motto: Was wäre geschehen, wenn...? So entwirft Auster ein grandioses, episches Porträt der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Amerika, voller Abenteuer, Liebe, Lebenskämpfe und den Schlägen eines unberechenbaren Schicksals.

Cosa sarebbe successo se invece di quella scelta ne avessimo fatta un'altra? Che persone saremmo oggi se quel giorno non avessimo perso il treno, se avessimo risposto al saluto di quella ragazza, se ci fossimo iscritti a quell'altra scuola, se... A volte per raccontare una vita non basta una sola storia. Il 3 marzo 1947, a Newark, nasce il primo e unico figlio di Rose e Stanley: Archie Ferguson.

月刊誌『ミレニアム』の発行責任者ミカエルと、背中にドラゴンのタトゥーを入れた型破りな女性調査員リスベットが、孤島で起きた少女失踪事件に挑む。

100 dage er en roman om pragt og privilegier, svigt og misbrug på første klasse. Om enevældige konger i og uden for kongehuset. Og om de skeletter, der gemmer sig i de store walk-in-closets i villaerne med udsigt til Øresund. Romanen foregår i de nordlige forstæder omkring Dyrehaven: Klampenborg, Ordrup og Hellerup. Her lever beboerne bag hvidpudsede facader og tunge smedejernslåger, men under al pragten hersker uregerlige tilstande, hvor den stærkeste part klarer sig på den svages bekostning.

東京の下町のある喫茶店『珈琲屋』。そこは、さまざまな事情を抱えた人が集まる交差点。人間の微妙な心理を描き、じんわりと温かい読後感があなたを包む。連作短編集。