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Samantha Valentine didn’t drift into my life, she collided with it. Soon it was like we had been friends forever. She told me everything about her perfect life, but I always felt there was something she was leaving out. Then one night, I get a frantic call from Samantha, hysterical and begging me to protect her from her boyfriend. Rushing to her house, instinct takes over and soon my heart is hammering out of my chest as I stand over the body of a man I had never met before this evening.

In the quaint streets of South-West London, four female pensioners are about to embark on the heist of a lifetime. United by forty years of friendship, and desperate to raise funds for Beth’s healthcare, the Crones set about a daring plan to steal a priceless brooch from Hawling House. But this is no ordinary theft. It's a mission to right a decades-old wrong – the ‘death’ of their friend Ronnie at the hand of the mansion's enigmatic owner, Edgar Hawling.

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.

ಮನುಷ್ಯನನ್ನು ದುಃಖ, ಅಸಹನೆ, ನಿರಾಸೆ, ವಿಕಾರ, ಆತ್ಮನಿಂದೆ, ಲೌಕಿಕ ಸಂಕಟ, ಇವೆಲ್ಲವುಗಳಿಂದಲೂ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಬಲ್ಲಂತ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಚೈತನ್ಯವೇ ಪ್ರೇಮ. ಒಂದೇ ಒಂದು ಹಿಡಿ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ದೊರೆತ ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಬದುಕಿನ ಯಾವ ಹೋರಾಟದಲ್ಲೂ ಕೈ ಸೋತು ಮಲಗಲಾರ.

Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic remains remarkably modern and poignantly relevant. In this new edition, Elijah Wood reads Huck in a youthful voice that may be the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent. His performance captures the excitement and confusion of adolescence and adventure.

In this Audible Exclusive performance by Matt Lucas of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens demonstrates that conscience, loyalty and empathy are virtues far more valuable than intellect, wealth and social standing. First published in Dickens’ own periodical, All the Year Round, the novel was divided into nine monthly instalments, from December 1860 to August 1861. Unsurprisingly, it was an instant success and managed to sell over 100,000 copies per week. Though written at a challenging time in Dickens’ life, when the impending breakdown of his marriage loomed over him, Great Expectations proves to be one of his most optimistic, comical and romantic novels.

In this Audible Exclusive production, Academy Award® nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) narrates one of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Sense and Sensibility. In this timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, two teenage heroines must overcome the pitfalls of Georgian England’s high society in order to achieve the love and happiness they seek. The admiration that Pike has for Austen’s work is shown clearly through this passionate delivery of Austen’s first published novel.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The blockbuster new love story by Chetan Bhagat. He's 33. She's 21. He's a struggling stand-up comic. She's a rising star in private equity. He's divorced. She's never had a boyfriend. He's Punjabi. She's from a conservative Jain family. They shouldn't be together. But they can't stay apart...

अंदलुशिया में रहनेवाले एक आम चरवाहे सैंतियागो की ये कहानी स्पेन से होते हुए मिस्र के रेगिस्तान जा पहुँचती है।

From the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and The Last Word comes a story of two friends who embark on an ill-fated caving expedition—and the dark truth of what happens deep underground. After years of excuses, Tess has finally agreed to go caving with her best friend Allie. Their lives...

Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three intercontinental super states that divided the world amongst themselves after a global war, Orwell’s masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government.

कुछ ऐसी ही किस्मत पाई थी सुनील ने कि जहां भी उसका दखल होता था, असाधारण घटनायें जैसे अपने-आप घटित होने लगती थीं । अपने एक दोस्त को पंगे में पड़ने से बचाने के लिये जब सुनील ऑफिस से निकला तो जैसे जादू के जोर से - एक बार फिर - एक लाश उसके गले पड़ गई । एक अजीबो-गरीब वसीयत के चक्कर में फंसे एक परिवार की अद्भुत कहानी ।

Chandrakanta is a romantic fantasy novel written by Devaki Nandan Khatri, a popular writer from the first generation of modern Hindi novelists. This book is considered to be one of his finest works, and it has spawned numerous sequels related to the original story. The story centres around a romantic couple, each of whom came from kingdoms at dissent with each other. Chandrakanta is the princess of Vijaygarh while Virendra Singh is the prince of Naugarh. Kroor Singh, one of the courtiers in the King’s court at Vijaygarh, is a schemester with grand plans of his own.

Sapphire Towers: Just another residential high-rise in Mumbai where the humdrum routine of daily life carries on with clockwork precision. But beneath the tranquil surface lurks a web of lies and deceit spun by a group of lonely housewives.

Dark Horse is one of the most popular novels of this decade written in Hindi. Such a live and vivid portrayal of the life of candidates preparing for the civil services examination in the Hindi medium were not focused in any other book to date. A candidate preparing for the country's highest honored examination is not only an aspirant but also has a multifaceted lifestyle and struggles in his lap. This is the story of the same struggle.

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and friendship and betrayal.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and seperated years before. Their reunion, after the passage or irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.

ಗಿರಿಬಾಬು, ತಂದೆಯಿದ್ದೂ ಅವನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಿಂದ ವಂಚಿತಳಾದ 700ಕೋಟಿ ಒಡೆಯ ಜಗನ್ನಾಥನ ಮಗಳು ಶ್ರಾವಣಿಯ ಪಾಲಿನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಗಿರಿ ಅಂಕ್ಲ್! ಅವನದೆಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಅಮ್ಮ ಅಲ್ಲವಾ ಅಂತ ಶ್ರಾವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾವಿರ ಸಲ ಅನ್ನಿಸಿದೆ. ಶ್ರಾವಣಿಯ ಅಮ್ಮನ ಪಾಲಿಗೆ ಗಿರಿ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತ. ಆತ್ಮಬಂಧು. ಕಷ್ಟಕ್ಕಾಗುವ ಏಕೈಕ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ.