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Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before 'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest danger in society were not a criminal hiding in the shadows, but a charming gentleman welcomed into its finest drawing rooms? In *The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom*, Tobias Smollett unveils a world of deception, ambition...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through Delhi, Tokyo, Greece, and Rome. Now Doug, Jen, their children, and seventy-four-year-old Bev have arrived in Cairo, where the traffic never stops, the horns seem to speak their own language, and even a simple journey...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through Delhi, Tokyo, Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Doug has learned to ask questions, listen to the answers, and—occasionally—remember that a plan is not the same thing as an adventure. Now the family has arrived in Kenya...

THE THEORY OF GRAVITY ACCORDING TO CLOUDSIn 1802, Britain became obsessed with clouds—not just watching them, but classifying, debating, and conquering them. At the Askesian Society, eccentric scholars clash over balloons, machines, shadows, dirt, and even the proper gender of spoons, all...

Nothing: When Nothing Becomes Something by Takezo Art and Susan Ogden Benting, narrated by Ernesto Garcia and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a witty, thought-provoking satirical audiobook that explores consumer culture, modern marketing, public perception, and the surprising...

Brought to you by Penguin. Every trad wife needs a baby. Camille will get one - no matter the cost. Camille lives to embody the perfect traditional wife—cooking, cleaning, homesteading, and documenting it all for her followers. But without a baby, her image—and her following—feels...

With magic declassified in the UK, the fake psychics and fraudulent healers are running amok, and it's up to the Department of Extradimensional Affairs' newly appointed Skepticism Officers to crack down. But when they set their sights on Modern Miracle, a highly suspicious and fast-growing faith healing cult with remarkably good social media presence, even their skepticism is put to the test.

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

In the fourth audiobook in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, the values of a Victorian gentleman, the young clergyman Mark Robarts, are put to the test. Though he lives a comfortable life, has a doting wife, children and a patroness in Lady Lufton, his ambitions stretch beyond the little village of Framley. Through a combination of naivety and social climbing, Robarts is compromised and brought to the brink of financial and social ruin by the disreputable politician, Sowerby.

Bro-Code Law 676: You never - under any circumstances - get involved with your best friend's little sister. I messed up - big-time. Two strangers in a foreign country, we said hello. Hello turned into a kiss. A kiss turned into a rendezvous. And a rendezvous turned into more than I'd ever imagined. But her unruly golden curls and beautiful body hid an important detail - he's my mouthiest billionaire best friend's forbidden little sister.

Oblomov is one of the most distinctive characters in Russian literature - within a short time following its publication in 1859, the novel spawned its own saying: ‘Oblomovism’! From the pen of Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) emerged a portrait of a young man, Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov, who represented...

Brought to you by Penguin. A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Maskerade is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of The Light Fantastic is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love...

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

Brought to you by Penguin. A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr. Gulliver's Travels describes...

I have traveled around the Sun 88 times. That’s quite a distance. In fact, if you do the math—and I have—it adds up to approximately 51.4 billion miles. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly 14 times the average distance from Earth to Pluto, or enough distance to travel to our Moon...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have survived Delhi, but Tokyo is a whole new adventure—and Doug is determined to do things properly this time. He has laminated the maps, studied the instructions, and learned the most important Japanese sentence he can think of: “I...

Edwin Lark works in a quiet corner of a system built to finish things.At the Office of Unresolved Matters, his job isn’t to solve problems—it’s to hold them. Letters never sent. Conversations that ended too soon. Decisions that don’t sit right.But a new initiative changes everything.The...