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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man lies awake remembering. Then, decades later, he tastes a madeleine dipped in tea and the whole vanished world of his childhood at Combray rises up complete — the garden, the church steeple, the two walks, the agony of waiting for his mother's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. He robs only those who deserve it, returns what has sentimental value, signs his thefts, and warns his victims in advance. He is a master of disguise, an escape artist, and an incorrigible show-off — and when Maurice Leblanc introduced him in 1905...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At a small pension on the Riviera, ten years before the war, the guests are scandalised: Madame Henriette, a respectable married woman, has run off with a young Frenchman she met only the day before. Around the dinner table the argument turns ugly, and...

Step into a hidden world where gentle kindness heals the magic of the nightSome secrets are meant to be found when the moon is high, and the world is quiet. When ten-year-old Luna discovers an ornate silver key hidden in her family's attic, she never expects it to pulse with a light that matches...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The whole of Hugo's novel in one edition — all five volumes, unabridged, from the bishop's candlesticks to the last word spoken in the Rue de l'Homme-Armé. Jean Valjean serves nineteen years for a stolen loaf and comes out with a yellow passport that...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Gustav von Aschenbach is a celebrated German writer, ennobled for a lifetime of disciplined work, widowed young and devoted to the idea that great art comes from iron self-control. Exhausted and restless in Munich, he gives in to a sudden longing to...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Alonso Quixano is a minor country gentleman of La Mancha who has read so many romances of chivalry that his brain dries up, and he decides the sensible response is to become a knight-errant himself. He renames himself Don Quixote, dresses an old suit of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Rodion Raskolnikov, a former student living in a coffin-sized room in St Petersburg, has talked himself into a theory: an extraordinary man may step over the moral law if his purpose is great enough. To prove it he kills an old pawnbroker with an axe -...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man." So begins the confession of a retired civil servant living alone in a shabby room on the edge of St Petersburg, addressing an audience he insists is not listening. In the first half he...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Julien Sorel is the clever, ambitious son of a carpenter in a small town in France after the fall of Napoleon. He worships the Emperor, but the road to glory through the army is closed, so he chooses the other colour of success: the black of the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A modest carriage rolls into the provincial Russian town of N—, carrying a gentleman of no particular distinction who nonetheless makes it his business, within days, to be liked by everyone who matters. Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov calls on officials...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a narrow old house in Hamburg, the brilliant and impatient Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a scrap of parchment hidden in a rare Icelandic saga. Written in runes and in code, it is a message from Arne Saknussemm, a sixteenth-century alchemist, who...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Cécile Volanges has just left the convent, innocent, eager to please, and utterly unprepared for the world she is about to enter. That makes her the perfect instrument for the Marquise de Merteuil, who wants her seduced and ruined before she can marry...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. It is Christmas in the Helmer household. Nora is happy: her husband Torvald has just been made manager of the bank, the money worries of the past are over, and the house is full of presents. Torvald calls her his little lark and his squirrel, and treats...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paris, 1482. On the day of the Feast of Fools, the crowd crowns the ugliest face in the city: Quasimodo, the deaf, half-blind bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, abandoned as an infant and raised inside the cathedral by the archdeacon Claude Frollo. In the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1513, dismissed from office and exiled from Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a short book for the Medici on how a prince wins power and keeps it. Five centuries later The Prince is still the most famous and most argued-over handbook of political...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The battle for AI supremacy that began with ChatGPT is being fought by a surprisingly small cast of people. Sam Altman, the Stanford dropout who became Silicon Valley's kingmaker and survived a five-day boardroom coup. Dario Amodei, the leather...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Iran re-seals the Strait of Hormuz." "Gaza ceasefire talks stall." "Israel strikes Lebanon." The Middle East headlines that arrive daily can feel fragmented and bewildering — but none of them began from nothing. This is Volume 2 of MultiView World's...

"Denkst du wirklich, du kannst dich uns entziehen, Anna? Über deine Träume hast du mehr Macht als über alles, was wir für dich entscheiden." Es waren einmal vier Familien, die ein Land regierten. Zwei sind noch übrig und zu einer davon gehöre ich. Allerdings darf niemand von meiner Existenz erfahren, da die Medicis alles daransetzen würden, auch mich zu ermorden. Dumm nur, dass ich nicht immer dem folge, was meine Mutter verlangt. Noch dümmer, am Abend der Karnevalseröffnung von Venedig, genau in die Hände von Jace, Caleb und Ocean Medici zu laufen.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people of this land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities in America. Through intimate and vulnerable memoir, Lakota twin sisters Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White recount growing up on the reservation and overcoming enormous odds, first as teenage girls in a majority-white high school, and then battling bias in their professional careers. Woven throughout are self-help strategies centering women of color, that combine marginalized histories, psychological research on trauma, and perspectives on decolonial therapy.