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Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert of Green Gables had no intention of adopting the talkative, mischievous, red-headed girl the orphanage in Nova Scotia sent by mistake. What they wanted was a sturdy, sensible boy to help with the chores. Instead, they got 11-year-old Anne Shirley, whose capacity for adventure was only matched by her bright spirit and love of life. Still, there was something about the little girl that gave them second thoughts. She was keen of wit with a scintillating effervescence that was purely captivating. Just perhaps....

Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the kind of job he likes: quick and easy. Until, that is, he’s forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before the plane explodes. Luckily, no one is hurt, but it isn’t long before Matt realises that he’s caught up in the rat race of violent criminals who are dead-set on putting anyone who stands in their way on the wrong side of the odds.

In The Chase Clive Cussler introduces a historical hero- Isaac Bell. 1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody clue to a fortune lost for over forty years . . . 1906: For two years banks across the western United...

Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cussler's The Wrecker. 1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line . . . The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He quickly...

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in South America. Jeremy Wheale’s well-ordered life is blasted apart when his brother is murdered. The killer was after a family heirloom – an antique gold tray – which sets Wheale on a trail from Devon to the tropical rainforest of...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Cutthroat by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, read by Scott Brick. The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to...

Here is the complete and unabridged collection of Rudyard Kipling's delightful Just So Stories, which he first told to his own children before setting them down on paper: How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Leopard Got His Spots, How the Elephant Got His Trunk, The Butterfly that Stamped, and many others.

A successful career, a charismatic new husband, and a bright future—Philadelphia lawyer Campbell Smith seems to have it all. But in Bonnie MacDougal’s powerful best-seller, beneath the thin surface of tranquility and realized dreams, dark events threaten to throw Campbell’s neatly arranged life profoundly and perilously out of order.

Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No unreasonable offer refused. Tommy Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley are young, in love … and flat broke. Restless for excitement and facing a shortage of job opportunities in postwar London...

SOON TO BE AN ITV DRAMA STARRING AIDAN TURNER. Joseph O’Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from...

Two years ago, Dr. Gina Brady broke Thomas Prescott’s heart, but now her panic-stricken satellite phone call starts it beating again with a fury. Thugs kidnapped the good doctor from the remote jungle village where she was working, and now the retired homicide detective’s expert skills are desperately needed to save her. Led by a colorful, but perhaps untrustworthy local guide, Prescott journeys deep into the Bolivian Amazon, plunging into a world where the only thing more dangerous than the gun-toting drug traffickers and the ruthless tribesmen, is the jungle itself.

When a Catholic priest hangs himself during the pope's inauguration, his friend and ex-priest Alex Harker is dragged into a secret war that has been playing out on the fringes of society since the birth of Christ. The suicide sets into motion a planned timetable of terrifying events that will irrevocably change the world as we know it. 

James Rollins’s shocking thriller is now an Earphones Award Winner! Acclaimed narrator Simon Vance gives voice to a wide cast of characters and pulls the listener into this desperate chase to unlock one of the world’s greatest mysteries. From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of...

Ein tragischer Unfall. Ein tödlicher Irrtum. Das Meer enthüllt die Wahrheit! Als die Meeresbiologin Helen Murphy die Chance ergreift, in eines der »5-Cottages« zu ziehen, folgt sie nur einem Wunsch: Sie möchte heilen. So nah an ihrem heißgeliebten Meer glaubt sie, den tragischen Unfalltod ihres Mannes verarbeiten zu können. Doch dann offenbart das Gezeitenhaus eine unfassbare Behauptung: Es war Mord!

KVINDEN UNDER JORDEN er første bind i politi-krimiserien om drabsefterforsker Amanda Miller af Morten Remar. Drabsefterforsker Amanda Miller og hendes ældre makker, Ole Madsen, bliver sat på en lokal sag om en forsvunden kvinde i udkanten af Viborg. Alle beviser peger entydigt på, at...

Jon Harding nyder sin stille og trygge tilværelse i Gæringe, da han bliver kaldt til Kalundborg for at være en del af en drabsefterforskning. En læge er blevet myrdet på meget bestialsk vis i sit eget hjem og efterladt et organ fattigere. Jon bliver sat til at arbejde tæt sammen med...

En tidlig sommermorgen gør en rengøringsmedarbejder i Københavns Metro et makabert fund: Et lig uden hoved er tapet fast til sædet i den forreste vogn på M4-linjen. Kort efter står efterforskningsleder Magnus Rhode over for en hel række sensationelle og chokerende drab. Magnus Rhode og...

Ti mennesker har vundet en skrivekonkurrence udsendt af en hjemmeside kaldet ’krimiknækkeren.com’ med en præmie på 20.000 kr. og et ugelangt skrivekursus. Konkurrencen gik ud på at indsende et udkast til et handlingsforløb til en fiktiv karakter ved navn Jesper, som har begået et...

Magnus Rhode er tilbage! Og denne gang begynder forbrydelsen i Metroen, men sporerne fører hele vejen til Rom En tidlig sommermorgen gør en rengøringsmedarbejder i Københavns Metro et makabert fund: Et lig uden hoved er tapet fast til sædet i den forreste vogn på M4-linjen. Kort efter...

Matt Pine studerer i New York, hvor hverdagen udspiller sig langt væk fra den tragedie, som ramte Pine-familien, da Matts storebror – den atletiske Danny – blev tiltalt for mordet på sin ungdomskæreste, Charlotte. En populær true crime-serie på Netflix forsøger at bevise Dannys uskyld...