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A retelling of an Aesop fable to guess the moral. "A woman and her husband lived at the top of Gooseberry Hill. (Have you ever tasted gooseberries?) They went to their goose pen and were greatly surprised! It was the surprise of all surprises, or was it? What do you think they saw?

It’s been four years since the Anne Bonny’s namesake passed, and Hersh Barstow is taking out the sailboat one last time as a final good-bye to his departed wife. He expects the trip to be a quiet one, but then the mysterious and seductive Maggie Adelaide Moore comes aboard. Trouble quickly follows, and soon the two are entangled with a dangerous drug cartel. Now the criminal justice professor needs to call on old friends from his CIA days to escape their pursuers and riddle out Maggie’s mysterious past.

One crumbling grand manor house, a family in decline, five generations of women and an attic full of beautiful clothes with secrets and lies hidden in their folds.... Failed fashion designer Sylvie Dearlove is coming home to England - broke, ashamed and in disgrace - only to be told her parents are finally selling their once grand, now crumbling country house, Bledesford, the ancestral home of the Dearlove family for countless generations.

When best-selling author, 29-year-old Hayley Stevens, walked in on her husband, Paul, and her best friend in bed together, she knew her life would never be the same again. One year later, Hayley stowed her last bag in her much-loved Audi Coupe and said good-bye to the city. She was excited to be heading west to Lochway, a small colonial village sitting on the beautiful Macdonald River. Wanting peace and quiet, Hayley had impulsively bought a cosy sandstone cottage there surrounded by lush rose gardens, with a small overseer's cottage - ideal for a writer's retreat.

In this “luminous” (The New York Times) historical novel—perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Flamethrowers—a Swedish glassmaker and a fiercely independent Australian journalist are thrown together amidst the turmoil of the 1960s and the dawning of a new modern era...

Der Walprofessor treibt einsam in der Walsee und gibt sich seinen Träumen hin. Da erreicht ihn ein Brief des kleinen Wal-Jungen Waldo, der ihn besuchen kommen will. Und auch drei Sportsfreunde aus Jugendtagen tauchen auf. Gemeinsam fassen die Wale einen Plan gegen die Langeweile: Olympische Spiele am Kap der Wale! Alle kommen, um teilzunehmen: Robbe, Pinguin mit seiner Familie und natürlich Freundin Giraffe aus dem fernen Afrika. Und mit einem Mal ist Siegen gar nicht mehr so wichtig, wenn man einfach nur zusammen sein kann.

Mel Jackson's daughter presented him with a diary on Father's Day and asked him to leave a legacy of words - memories to read to her children after he was gone. The author decided to acquaint her to his father, whom she had never known. Here is an attempt to set to chronicle an experience that, to a young boy, made no sense. At times, telling his childhood stories to his children caused them to laugh. This time it is to inform, sadden, and also amuse. There is no attempt to vilify, but only describe a young boy's longing for the love of his father.

Could the worst day of Sally Parker's life be the best thing that ever happened to her? THE DELICIOUSLY WARM AND LIFE-AFFIRMING NOVEL FROM THE MUCH-LOVED MEL GIEDROYC 'A real treat. I enjoyed it HUGELY' MARIAN KEYES 'I enjoyed it so, so much - a brilliant cast of characters and properly funny!'...

Former reporter Scott Fleetwood and his family are still recovering after tangling with a notorious kidnapper, the Piper, when another kidnapper grips the city. The Shepherd has snatched a young girl from a vacationing family. Other than money, he has one demand: he'll talk only to Scott.

Already struggling to come to terms with the tragic death of her husband, Sophie Bryant nearly loses her life whilst on duty as a paramedic. Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, Sophie retreats to the remote township of Hilsons Ridge. The tranquillity of the small community, discovering the secrets of her old farm's history, and an unexpected spark with vet, Zac, all help Sophie heal. Love, just like the past, waits for the right person to come along and unlock its secrets.

Meet Sparkle Farts, the farting unicorn! Based on our line of Sparkle Farts toys, The Farting Unicorn tells the tale of how one taco obsessed, serial farter toppled an empire.

Giraffe wohnt in der afrikanischen Savanne. Ihre Tage verlaufen eintönig und sie sehnt sich nach einem Freund. Also beschließt sie, einen Brief zu schreiben. "Du sollst ihn dem ersten Tier geben, das dir begegnet", sagt sie zu Pelikan, der gerade einen Postdienst eröffnet. Und so findet der Brief seinen Weg zu Pinguin, der weit entfernt am Walsee lebt. Eine echte Brieffreundschaft entsteht. Und eines Tages beschließt Giraffe, ihren Freund zu besuchen.

Who is Mel Croucher? He can be described in many ways, some of them even printable. Mel is known to many as the godfather of the UK computer games industry. He was there right at the beginning - the pioneer of multimedia - long before most people had even seen a computer, let alone knew what to do with it. Not only were the videogames produced in the early 80s by Mel's company Automata popular, but also the music often released with them garnered a cult following.

"Allem Zauber wohnt ein Anfang inne": Und die Anfänge des Zauberers Pahroc reichen zurück in die Jahre vor dem ersten Weltkrieg. Schon bald kann Pahroc durch die Lüfte spazieren, später lernt er durch Wände zu gehen, Geld herbeizuzaubern und für Sekunden aus Stahl zu sein - was ihm dabei hilft, auch den nächsten Krieg zu überleben. Pahroc gehört zu den Großen seines heimlichen Fachs, getarnt hinter Berufen wie Radiotechniker, Erfinder und Psychotherapeut.

Best-selling author of crime fiction Mel Sherratt joins Sophie Plateau in the Audible Studios to discuss the second book in her Detective Eden Berrisford series, Don't Look Behind You. In this new story, Detective Eden Berrisford investigates some brutal attacks on women in the small city of Stockleigh. She has to work out whether these are random acts of violence or whether they are all connected.

The Powers is written for people who have a drive to become highly successful in their chosen field of endeavor. Throughout this book you will meet many who came from ordinary backgrounds to achieve extraordinary things in a variety of pursuits. They came from different circumstances with a wide range of gifts as well as many personal limitations. All have experienced failure and some were serial failures.

In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help - it seemed the fate of the "Red-Headed Killer" hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness.

True friends are hard to find. If you can count your closest friends on just a few fingers, you should consider yourself blessed indeed. This book is about friendship - being a friend, having a friend. Few thoughts are sweeter than knowing someone is your friend. A quote by an unknown author sums up the value of friendships worth finding: "Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life and said, 'I'm here for you', and proved it."

Everywhere you look, you'll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false. Garson O'Toole - the Internet's foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings - collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history.

The Art of War dates back to the fifth century BC, and is an ancient Chinese military handbook. Attributed to the intelligent military strategist Sun Tzu, the title of the work is Master Sun's Rules of Warfare when literally translated from Chinese. The book contains 13 chapters, each of which are dedicated to a single aspect of warfare strategy. Emperor Shenzong of Song deemed it the most important of China's Seven Military Classics in 1080 and it is still one of the most influential strategy texts in East Asia.