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Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed AWS service designed to help organisations build and manage blockchain-based applications and infrastructure. In this Cloud Uncovered episode, discover how Amazon Managed Blockchain can simplify access to blockchain networks and provide managed...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jasmine and Cotton is a heartwarming children’s audiobook about friendship, animals, nature, learning, and the joy of farm life. Jasmine is a kind and curious young girl who loves spending her days caring for the sheep on her family’s farm. Her...

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed messaging service that helps applications send messages and notifications to multiple subscribers. In this Cloud Uncovered episode, discover how Amazon SNS can distribute messages to services such as Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, HTTP...

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is a managed service for coordinating work across distributed application components. In this Cloud Uncovered episode, discover how Amazon SWF helps developers manage tasks, track workflow progress, and coordinate activities across applications—supporting...

A Meditative Journey into the Mystery of BeingWhat is consciousness?Who are we beneath our thoughts, memories, and identities?What is awareness itself?And could consciousness exist beyond the human mind?"Consciousness" explores these questions through philosophy, spirituality, personal inquiry...

As the first book on terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons, this is an essential, supportive and informative guide to breaking this taboo. Terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons is one of the most common forms of baby loss—yet it is still taboo. Open this compassionate book to break...

The wonderful fourth outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri ('the Indian Hercule Poirot' Financial Times). 'These books are little gems. They are beautifully written, amusing, and intensely readable.' - Alexander McCall Smith When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman’s parents are dead...

Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them and, in High Risk, he describes their...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the infamous, power-hungry Sith, beholden to the dark side, the time has come to rise again. “Full of lightsaber battles, the Jedi philosophy, and lots of new life-forms.”—Chicago Sun-Times After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the...

As autumn begins, Moss and friends travel to their former home in Ash Row, to find the rare mortal child who can both see and talk to them. The tiny beings know they should be brave and talk back - this is their chance to help reverse the fading of ancient Cumulus, who has now almost disappeared entirely. But they soon realise fading is connected to their role in the world. Can the Hidden Folk prove that guardians of the Wild World are needed after all?

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 'A dazzling piece of historical re-imagining and a revolutionary sermon, a furious denunciation of inequality' The judges of the International Booker prize. The fight for equality begins in the streets. From the internationally bestselling...

Bloomsbury presents The Worst Class in the World by Joanna Nadin, read by Sam Newton. ‘Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases… a great cheer-up book’ The Guardian ‘HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!’ Pamela Butchart ______________________________ A laugh-out-loud young fiction series...

A nerve-shredding action thriller from the author of Redemption. Fast-paced and gripping, Black List will appeal to fans of David Baldacci, Lee Child and Vince Flynn. With no money and no prospects, hacker Alex Yates's life is going nowhere until he is given a lucrative but dangerous offer –...

The compelling new thriller in the high-octane series featuring British CIA agent Ryan Drake. Perfect for fans of David Baldacci and Vince Flynn. Former soldier and elite CIA operative Ryan Drake is heading out for dinner when he witnesses a sniper attack on a crowded freeway. A motorcade full...

Some crooks have tried to snatch the plump son of a business tycoon, and have accidentally made off with his playmate instead. But they're not changing their plan: a payment is to be delivered to them or a small corpse is to be delivered to Inspector Ghote. But what kind of ransom can a mere tailor's boy demand? And, as something more unpleasant than just a ransom note arrives from the kidnappers, are the police helping to keep the boy in one piece?

- Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Be More Pirate written and read by Sam Conniff Allende. Whatever your ambitions, ideas and challenges, this book will revolutionize the way you live, think and work today, and tomorrow. Pirates didn't just break the rules, they rewrote them. They...

Meet Osamah Sami: a schemer, a dreamer and a madcap antihero of spectacular proportions whose terrible life choices keep leading to cataclysmic consequences...despite his best laid plans to be a good Muslim boy. By the age of 13, Osamah had survived the Iran-Iraq war, peddled fireworks and chewing gum on the Iranian black market, proposed 'temporary marriage' not once but three times, and received countless floggings from the Piety Police....

Rome, 1955. The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome's historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot. From the side of the room watches little Pinch - their son. At five years old he loves Bear almost as much as he fears him. After Bear abandons their family, Pinch will still worship him, while Natalie faces her own wars with the art world.

Written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, Trifles is a one-act play about a woman accused of strangling her husband. Based on an actual murder case reported by Glaspell for the Des Moines News, the play represented an early exploration of gender relationships in a time when women often were considered to be mere trifles. A groundbreaking feminist play, Trifles is often included in anthologies of drama and literature.

On the day that she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day when the world began to end.