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Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met.

Isha is a girl who loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has taken refuge. Isha knows that the ever-shrinking forests of India mean there are few places left for a tiger to hide. When the local villagers also discover the tiger, Isha finds herself embroiled in a life-or-death cultural controversy.

For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe, alone and unjustly in exile, cut off from faith and human love, he cares only for his hoard of golden guineas. But two events occur that will change his life forever; his gold disappears and a golden-haired baby girl appears. But where did she come from and who really stole the gold? This moving tale sees Silas eventually redeemed and restored to life by the unlikely means of his love for the orphan child Eppie.

The National Book Award–winning author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen is a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Killing Mister Watson is his bestselling, fact-based novel that pieces together the life and death of Edgar J. Watson. At the beginning of the 20th century...

In Gladius Dei schildert Thomas Mann eine zugespitzte Auseinandersetzung zwischen religiösem Fanatismus und moderner Kunst. Ein asketischer, von missionarischem Eifer getriebener Mann empört sich über ein vermeintlich anstößiges Madonnenbild in einem Schaufenster und sieht darin den Verfall moralischer Werte. Mit feiner Ironie und satirischer Schärfe zeigt Mann den Konflikt zwischen ästhetischer Freiheit und dogmatischem Weltbild.

A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program - and to begin a new life - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build a life together.

Brought to you by Penguin. The unforgettable new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Libby Page Twelve stories. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart... When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it...

Father Brown, a modest, mild-mannered priest with a sharp intellect and even sharper sense of the human condition, is thrown into a series of mysteries which often baffle both his peers and the authorities. Despite his humble appearance, Father Brown can easily detect falsehoods, see through disguises and defy tampered logic to get to the truth. From cases of theft, fraud and murders with no apparent weapon, Brown remains calm in the face of evil time and time again, utilising compassion, empathy and keen intuition.

There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use it… Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a...

A bear, born and raised in captivity, is devastated by the loss of his keeper; another finds herself performing in the circus; a third sits down one day and pens a memoir which becomes an international sensation, and causes her to flee her home. Through the stories of these three bears, Yoko Tawada reflects on our own humanity, the ways in which we belong to one another and the ways in which we are formed.

इस पृथ्वी नाम के ग्रह पर हमारे जीवन का एक ऐसा स्वरूप जिसके बारे में आपने पहले कभी नहीं सोचा होगा।छह...

Nel liceo di Clichy-sous-Bois, la giovane Kayden Abad scopre il potere della scrittura grazie alla sua insegnante di letteratura, che intravede in lei un talento capace di aprirle le porte di un futuro prestigioso. Ma dietro questa promessa si nasconde un rapporto ambiguo e pericoloso, fatto di manipolazione e seduzione. Attraverso il suo diario, Kayden racconta con lucidità e dolore le dinamiche di un sistema educativo rigido e spesso ingiusto, dando voce ai sogni, alle paure e alla forza dei legami tra adolescenti.

The runaway international No.1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy’s spectacular career – became a blockbuster film – and introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON… Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia’s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The...

Juste avant la révolution d'Octobre, Dimitri Radzanov et Horowitz s'affrontent en duel au piano au conservatoire de Kiev. Chassés par les Bolcheviks, les deux jeunes gens doivent fuir l'Ukraine. Horowitz émigre aux États-Unis où il rencontre vite fortune et gloire. Radzanov, quant à lui, après avoir servi dans la garde blanche, échoue en banlieue parisienne avec sa mère. Il entre comme chimiste aux usines Pathé Marconi à Chatou où, ironie du sort, il va fabriquer des disques pour son vieux rival Horowitz qui fait vibrer les foules outre-Atlantique.

In Der Tod gestaltet Thomas Mann eine eindringliche, symbolisch aufgeladene Annäherung an das Sterben. Die Erzählung kreist um die unausweichliche Endlichkeit des Menschen und verbindet äußere Wahrnehmung mit innerer Reflexion. In dichter, poetischer Sprache entsteht ein Bild von Abschied, Vergänglichkeit und der stillen Macht des Todes, die das Leben in ein neues Licht rückt.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lionel Wallace recounts his lifelong pursuit of a mysterious green door that leads to an enchanted garden – a place of unimaginable beauty and peace. But is this door a portal to a higher reality or a figment of a dreamer's imagination?...

A single choice can reveal the true nature of a soul. In Markheim, Robert Louis Stevenson delivers a haunting psychological tale of guilt, temptation, morality, and redemption. Set on a dark Christmas Day, the story follows Markheim, a man whose desperate actions lead him into a chilling...

"Do what the other fella can't. Be what the other fella ain't. And then help the other fella." Joe Hart has never let go of his uncle's words. An orphan from the unspoiled Adirondack Mountains, Joe leaves his humble beginnings and goes on to distinguish himself, first as a navy submarine commander, then as an attorney unequaled in his field. But Joe's world crashes with an unexpected tragedy.

Brought to you by Penguin. With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become...

In Vision entwirft Thomas Mann ein fein schattiertes Stimmungsbild zwischen Wirklichkeit und innerem Erleben. Ein sensibler Beobachter verliert sich in einer flüchtigen Wahrnehmung, die sich zu einem intensiven, beinahe entrückten Moment verdichtet. Die Erzählung spiegelt die Macht der Imagination und zeigt, wie fragile Eindrücke zu tiefen seelischen Erfahrungen werden können.