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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Juliet Aubrey, who won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role as Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Rosemary Ashton. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly...

An edge-of-your-seat original prequel based on Showtime's hit series Homeland Beirut, 2006. CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison barely escapes an ambush while attempting a clandestine meeting with a new contact, code-name Nightingale. Suspicious that security has been compromised, she...

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power.

Soois Swart se sukkelende koerantjie op Erdvark in die Knersvlakte berig sonder moderne tegnologie oor die naderende munisipale eleksie. Die regerende BA Minus is voorstanders van kleinhuisies en die opposisie vra vir spoeltoilette. Toe ’n horingadder ’n inwoner in ’n kleinhuisie pik, is die gort gaar.

Au XIXe siècle, le périple d'une Française exilée en terre slave. Un destin tumultueux et aventurier marqué par un amour inconditionnel pour la Russie. "L'hiver revint avec ses troïkas, les chevaux résistant aux intempéries, frangés de glace, et soufflant des jets de fumée. Une foule massée sur les tribunes autour de cet immense champ nacré qu'était la Neva emprisonnée sous les glaces assistait aux courses de traîneaux sur patins d'acier. Sur la perspective Nevski, le collet relevé, en bonnet fourré et longue houppelande, les portiers enlevaient la glace. Ils veillaient ainsi toute la nuit."

Vietnam, 1969. Tweede luitenant Waino Mellas is eenentwintig jaar en net aangekomen op Matterhorn: een Amerikaanse vesting diep in de Vietnamese jungle. Vlak na zijn aankomst krijgt zijn eenheid het bevel in vijandig gebied op zoek te gaan naar een Noord-Vietnamese legerunit. Mellas en zijn mannen zullen ziekte, honger, bloedzuigers, tijgers en een vrijwel onzichtbare vijand moeten trotseren, maar het zijn de raciale spanningen en de valse loyaliteiten die hen ten val dreigen te brengen.

Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes listeners into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila's younger brother Chia, influenced by their father's past torture, imprisonment, and his deep-seated desire for justice, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother's whereabouts, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him.

In the fourth of the ‘Palliser’ stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn’s return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under suspicion and eventually finds himself standing trial at the Old Bailey. The situation is complicated by the presence of two women in his life: his old flame Lady Laura, whose estranged husband is determined to destroy Phineas’s reputation, and the wealthy and enigmatic widow, Madame Max.

Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal’s fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr; 1876; Washington, D.C.; Empire; and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation.

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Venkat is working in Silicon Valley in a comfortable IT job when tragedy befalls his family & he returns to India. In India, he meets with Anand, a political leader who makes him an offer that makes Venkat think about his life and priorities. Will Venkat go in politics? In politics, will be able to survive the consummate politicians. Listen to this story to know more.

Berlin im Jahr 2025. Die Gas-Lobby jubelt: Einer von ihnen soll zum Minister ernannt werden – der allseits beliebte Karsten Richter. Karstens Mutter, eine Klimaaktivistin der allerersten Generation, hat kein gutes Gefühl bei der Karriere ihres Sohnes. An ihrer Erziehung liegt es nicht, aber die Zukunft unseres Planeten liegt ihm so gar nicht am Herzen. Stattdessen persönlicher Erfolg und die Anerkennung seiner Freunde zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Der Kanzler ist alarmiert, Richter versucht, die Situation zu retten, da erhält er einen Anruf: Seine Mutter wurde entführt!

Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc­ribed “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time.

Charles Parnell Cassidy is a powerful politician. Martin Gregory is his disenchanted protégé, who, having married Cassidy's daughter and become a success on his own terms, scorns his father-in-law. When the terminally ill Cassidy arrives in London to die, he makes Gregory the executor of his will and sets a complex trap by offering him the keys to a vast empire of wealth and corruption, spanning Australia and Southeast Asia.

Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past - if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow operative, who wants out of the battle zone. For them, a normal life is just one more dangerous uncertainty. Especially now that evil is hitting closer to home. Sofia Karlsson of the Swedish police wants Max’s help in a high-profile and high-stakes murder investigation: the hunt for a serial killer stalking the streets of Stockholm, who’s eliminating his victims in gruesome ways.

दुनिया के सबसे ज्यादा बिकने वाले लेखक की ओर से, एक और रोमांचक कहानी। केन और एबल का शानदार गाथा के नए भाग मैं । दो पुरुषों के बीच का युद्ध जहाँ उन्हें एक-दूसरे को नष्ट करने का जनून हैं, वही जनून अगली पीढ़ी में भी है। एबेल की बेटी, फ्लोरेन्टीना रोस्नोवस्की, अपने पिता की सभी महत्वाकांक्षाओं को विरासत में लेती है, लेकिन उनसे दौलत नहीं लेती । एक महिला जो सुंदरता और आत्माविश्वास से भरपूर है, लेकिन सबसे बढ़कर अनोखी इच्छाशक्ति से, वह एक ऐसी महत्वाकांक्षा का पीछा करती है जो केन और एबेल, इन दोनों की महत्वाकांक्षा को छोटा कर देती है, क्योंकि वह सबसे दुनिया की ऊंची कुर्सी के लिए लड़ती है, यानि प्रेजिडेंट ऑफ़ यूनाइटेड स्टेट्स ऑफ़ अमेरीका। संगीत : आदित्य कुमार इफ़ेक्ट और फोली: रेनी सिंह आवाज निर्देशक: आदित्य कुमार क्रिएटिव निर्देशक: इन्दर कोचर डिसक्लेमर: इस शो का उद्देश्य सुनने वालों को मनोरंजन के लिए है। यह ऑडियो सीरीज द प्रोडिगल डॉटर - जेफरी आर्चर की किताब पर आधारित है। इस शो का उद्देश्य किसी भी व्यक्ति, एकाई, जाति, समुदाय, जाति, धर्म, संस्थान या किसी भी व्यक्ति, जीवित या मरे हुए को आपत्ति देने या अपमानित करने का नहीं है। सुनने वालों की विवेकपूर्णता की सलाह दी जाती है।

March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition, horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a Soviet alternative to undermine it.

Butterfly Winter, W.P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, a lush and enchanted but impoverished enclave on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic where time moves at its own pace and reality is open to question. The brothers are destined to play ball in America, and to shape the history of their baseball-crazed homeland. They mature quickly and by the age of 10 they leave home for the Major Leagues.

Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture. Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon.