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The prime minister is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest. Against this inflammable backdrop, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey, recently returned from an assignment in the Balkans, takes command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. His fears that things might be dull are quickly dispelled by the business of vexatious officers and difficult choices over which NCOs to promote, not to mention the incendiarists on the doorstep of the king himself.

In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief, Standing Bear. Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebraska. He befriends the mysterious Prophet John, who saves his life when the two are captured by the Ponca Indian tribe. Living as a slave, Julius meets the noble chief Standing Bear and his young daughter, Prairie Flower, with whom he falls in love.

La sensata y tranquila Ariel Salazar, conservadora del Archivo de Indias de Sevilla, recibe inesperadamente la visita del encantador buscador de tesoros Darrell McKay, que pretende localizar los restos hundidos de un mítico galeón español, el Santa Bárbara. Su curiosidad la incita a aceptar ayudarlo en una búsqueda que se convertirá en una peligrosa aventura contrarreloj que los llevará desde las calurosas calles de Sevilla a la exótica Estambul, y en la que descubrirán que incluso dos personas tan diferentes como ellos pueden llegar a sentir una atracción insospechada.

En un derrumbe parcial en la nueva carretera que comunicará Tungus con Skardu (Pakistán) se descubre una caverna centenaria. En su interior encuentran vestigios del pasado: utensilios de labranza, distintas alforjas repletas de semillas y un decrépito arcón de madera que contiene varios códices en perfecto estado, sorprendentemente, escritos por una mujer.

Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target. When a pepper monger’s loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.

The Three Musketeers is a swashbuckling adventure in which the king of France's guards swear by the motto "All for one and one for all" and follow it with the utmost commitment. The Musketeers find themselves having a whole host of adventures, which serve as a training period for the young D'Argtagnan, who has always dreamed of a life with the Musketeers after hearing of them as a little boy. Fun and excitement for all the family, brilliantly read by Jonathan Hyde.