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Yoddha with Neelesh Misra, Season 2 is a 20-episode series, created and narrated by Neelesh Misra. This series takes you on a journey to meet the bravehearts of Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, Police Force, and other defence institutes who have laid down lives, fought bravely and stood their ground against all odds to defend the honour of our country. The stories are based on real life defence personnel.

Truett Beverly returned to Bethel Springs, Alabama, after finishing medical school. Fighting a secret war with a corrupt lawman wasn't in his plans, but when Sheriff Suggs threatens his childhood friend, Truett dons a cape and hood and becomes the Hooded Horseman, placing him squarely in the sheriff's crosshairs.    

Henrietta Gaydon is making her debut in London society for the Season, but her popularity and apparent ease disguises the fact that she is out of her depth and that she dreads the objective of finding a husband. She longs for home, her father and Lord Henfield, whom she has always treated as an older brother. Charles Henfield stopped thinking of Henrietta like a sister when she was sixteen and he is determined to try his luck with her in London.

In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

Trygve Knutson has been promoted from well drilling to heading a construction crew for the fast growing town of Blessing, North Dakota. Though devoted to the land and his family, he sometimes dreams of other horizons. But is he willing to leave Blessing permanently? Miriam Francini hopes to become an accredited nurse in a large city hospital. She is simply tolerating her assignment at the hospital in rural Blessing because it will give her the experience she needs to accomplish her goal.

Lily Trulock, owner of Trulock's Grocery & Marine Supply, leads a pretty quiet life until a stranger comes to town. The new guy's not what he appears, but then, some of St. Elmo's residents aren't either. Before she can say, "down the hatch", Lily's at the center of a vicious murder and a no-holds-barred bootlegging war-and a nasty storm's on the way. This is a vibrant, atmospheric, powerful novel-as filled with energy, mystery, and motion as a hurricane.

It's 1194, and Sir Faucon de Ramis, the shire's newly appointed keeper of the pleas, must do his duty and make an official declaration of the cause of a miller's death. Saddled with a clerk who names Faucon his "penance", the shire's first crowner must thread the tangled relationships between the sheriff, the village of Priors Holston, and the priory that once ruled it. As a simple task takes a turn to the political, what seems obvious isn't, and what appears safe turns out to be more dangerous than he could imagine.

Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy.

Lord Sorin Wincanton fled England's shores to avoid temptation in the form of Lady Eleanor Cramley, but upon his return from fighting Bonaparte, the impetuous young miss he escorted through her first season has grown into a stunning woman who still fires his blood. She sees him as a beloved older brother, and that's the way things need to remain for the sake of her reputation. Even if it means marrying her to another.

Best-selling author of Too Long a Stranger and Julia's Last Hope, Janette Oke is loved for her inspirational novels. In Once Upon a Summer, Oke weaves the tender tale of 12-year-old, Joshua, who has been raised by his 18-year-old aunt and their grandparents. He has grown accustomed to their close-knit family, but that is all about to change when Joshua's aunt considers marriage. Johnny Heller touchingly narrates the trials of faith this family must face.

Calling all Bridgerton and Jane Austen fans! Fall in love with your favourite new Regency series dedicated to every Heyer fan. Meet the Fairfax family… ‘Worthy of Georgette Heyer…the most wonderfully satisfying five star Regency Romp’ Julie Caplin ‘I wager you this, Miss Fairfax –...

Vier Schwestern, so unterschiedlich wie die Jahreszeiten. Spring, die rebellische Frühlingsschwester, brennt schon mit sechzehn nach London durch. Dort gerät sie wegen Drogenmissbrauchs in Schwierigkeiten. Summer ist als Grundschullehrerin die verantwortungsbewusste und fürsorgliche Sommerschwester. Autumn, die Herbstschwester, ist schweigsam und scheu.

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?

New York Times bestselling historical romance superstars Stephanie Laurens and Mary Balogh, along with beloved fan favorites Jacquie D’Alessandro and Candice Hern—the four authors who brought you It Happened One Night—are back with It Happened One Season. Even more inventive than their...

Emily Bronte’s world is one of dark romance and suspense, but it also has an underlying tone that can be found in her work about nature. Wuthering Heights is the famous, all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love story between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this...

Perfect for Bridgerton and Jane Austen fans! Fall in love with the Fairfax family and make this your favourite new Regency series… ‘And you’ve come here today to read me a lecture in all my deplorable habits?’ ‘No…’ she stalled, wracking her brain for inspiration and failing...

Caring for eight siblings and burdened by a bankrupt estate, Jane Sedgwick happily accepts her aunt's invitation to the festive London season. This could be her chance to find a wealthy husband and get the entire family out of debt . . . But the upper crust of London bristles at Jane's blunt...

Sweeping from the Great War, through the Jazz Age to the 1940s, this unforgettable tale follows the entwined lives of the Fentons, an aristocratic family from Yorkshire. Thea, the eldest daughter of Viscount Gilbert Fenton, flouts the unwritten rules of her class by embarking on a love affair...

Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the studio's most powerful men. No one agrees with her until two young studio writers, Julius and Philip Epstein, decide to back Renie's gamble and bring the Morocco story to the screen. Their screenplay's name: Casablanca.

Die neue große historische RomCom von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Sophie Irwin Er will sie zur Frau. Sie will ihn loswerden. Sind sie nicht perfekt füreinander? Lord Ashford ist berühmt, reich und gut aussehend – jede Frau in England will ihn heiraten.