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Jon Hamm returns as intrepid private eye Jack Bergin in this thrilling, hard-boiled Audible Original series. Set against the backdrop of the real-life battle to bring the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, Bergin investigates a brutal murder at the request of an old flame (Ana de la Reguera), and uncovers a deadly conspiracy to forcefully evict a Mexican-American community.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror...

Audible présente Dracula, une toute nouvelle adaptation du chef-d'œuvre de Bram Stoker avec Omar Sy et Deva Cassel. Lorsque son fiancé disparaît en Transylvanie, Mina rassemble lettres, journaux intimes et témoignages pour retrouver sa trace. Elle découvre bientôt qu'un prédateur s'en prend à ceux qu'elle aime. Et qu'il la traque aussi. Dracula se tapit dans l’ombre, s'insinue dans les rêves, et ne laisse aucun reflet. Pour presque tous, il est imperceptible.

You have not been broken. You have been living. This book was written for the part of you that suspects it used to know something and cannot find it now. Not the dramatic version. The ordinary one. The version that shows up as competence with nobody home behind it. A life that runs well and...

Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in this three-part drama, recorded entirely in Egypt's capital. Adapted from the novels of Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, this gripping family saga chronicles the life of a downwardly-mobile middle class family as Egypt emerges from colonialism...

It is 2085 and Laisve is learning to use the ancient waterways to travel through water and time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as The Brook, she discovers a talisman that will connect her with people from the past two centuries, including a squad of laborers at work on a...

In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father. Today's young Muslims will be tomorrow's leaders, and yet...

It isn’t often that Kate Daniels and the Beast Lord Curran get to take a break from protecting their pack and enjoy some time for themselves. So when Curran offers Kate a romantic dinner in town, there’s no way she’s going to pass. But their quiet night doesn’t stay quiet for long. The trouble starts with a necromancer dying at a nearby table, continues with bloodthirsty vampires crashing through the windows, and ends with more blood on the walls than any dining establishment needs.

Omar El Akkad joins us in the Audible Studios to discuss his debut novel, American War. Having spent 10 years as a journalist reporting on subjects such as the war in Afghanistan and military trials in Guantanamo Bay, Omar has turned his attentions to dystopian fiction in American War. Set in 2074, the novel portrays a world where climate change and political uprisings have transformed everything as we know it - and civil war has broken out in America.

Brought to you by Penguin. From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you...

In 1951, chemist Rosalind Franklin (Anna Chlumsky) works relentlessly in her King’s College London lab, closing in on a major discovery that could unlock the mysteries of the DNA molecule. Undermined by her colleague Maurice Wilkins (Omar Metwally), she struggles to compete with rival team Watson and Crick (David Corenswet and Aasif Mandvi) as pressure intensifies to produce results.

¡Coge a tus hermanas y apretaos los corsés! Esta es una nueva versión, distinta a todas, de la entrañable novela de Jane Austen Orgullo y prejuicio. Interpretada por un extraordinario elenco y con banda sonora original de la compositora nominada a un Grammy Morgan Kibby. Elizabeth Bennet no piensa conformarse con cualquier hombre ni, para el caso, con cualquier vida que no se adapte a sus gustos. Se casará por amor, bailará cuando le apetezca y —a poder ser— buscará un lugar tranquilo donde leer sin que la interrumpan.

First broadcast in 2007, Fags, Mags and Bags delivers shop-based shenanigans and over-the-counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. Ramesh has built his shop up over the course of 30 years, and it is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. He is ably...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This is gothic storytelling with teeth: a lyrical and devastating tale of one maid caught in a spiderweb of loyalty, courage, revolution, and monsters both dead and alive.” —Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The House Saphir A...

Tredici anni dopo la misteriosa scomparsa del cugino Edward durante le guerre coloniali in Nuova Zelanda, Margaret riceve il suo diario. Tra lettere, ricordi e pagine sempre più inquietanti, scopre il resoconto di una spedizione trasformata in un incubo, dove la guerra lascia il posto a un orrore antico e inspiegabile. Sound of Darkness è una collana audio che dà voce alle storie più oscure: racconti horror e noir di autori diversi (scelti da Luigi Boccia e Nicola Lombardi), trasformati in esperienze sonore immersive con musiche evocative, suoni inquietanti e interpretazioni coinvolgenti.

An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of...

Nouvelle édition augmentée d'un petit album carré précédemment publié au Port a jauni, retravaillé pour entrer dans la collection Poèmes qui lui va si bien ! Vifs applaudissements pour les tours du magicien Chahbandour ! Chahbandour s'élance agile et joue un nouveau tour qui toujours séduit son audience et commence par ABRACADABRA !

A partir de la figura de Luigi Mangione —el estudiante acusado de asesinar al CEO de la mayor aseguradora sanitaria de Estados Unidos y convertido en icono de deseo por miles de seguidores en todo el mundo—, este libro analiza la oscura fascinación que despiertan los criminales bellos y seductores, así como las implicaciones psicológicas, culturales, sociales y legales de convertirlos en un sex-symbol pop. El ensayo recorre el inquietante cruce entre belleza y crimen, para mostrar cómo el atractivo físico puede alterar nuestra percepción de la justicia y del mal mismo.

In this extraordinary companion to Newbery Honor winner Mexikid, hilarious family hijinks, immigration patrols, and musical daydreams shape a year of growth and change for a Mexican American boy and his family. Pedro Martín is sick of strawberries. Since he was seven, he’s spent every weekend...

WINNER of both the MILES FRANKIN LITERARY AWARD and the VICTORIAN PREMIER AWARD 'An impressive, urgent novel by a talented and courageous writer' Mohsin Hamid After many years abroad, Harun and Roz return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their palm-oil baron father, Yusuf - and to reckon...