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It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents–Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife–tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.

The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964 This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know...

Felicity Jones, David Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch star in BBC Radio 4's full-cast dramatisation of the novel by Jane Austen, one of the great English classics. Seeking a position in society, young Fanny Price goes to live with her rich aunt and uncle. But her life there is not as she might wish. Felicity Jones plays Fanny, whilst David Tennant is her cousin Tom and Benedict Cumberbatch his brother Edmund.

Audible Originals brings you a brand new audiobook adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic novella, Carmilla - starring Rose Leslie ( Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey), David Tennant ( Doctor Who and Broadchurch) and Phoebe Fox ( Life in Squares and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death).

Der erste Fall der "Gereon Rath"-Bestsellerreihe. Mit diesem Roman beginnt die spektakuläre Serie, in der Kutscher seinen Kriminalkommissar Gereon Rath in die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche im Berlin der späten 20er-Jahre führt. Rath, neu in Berlin und abgestellt bei der Sitte, erlebt eine Weltstadt im Rausch, die von sozialen und politischen Spannungen zerrissen ist. Ungefragt schaltet sich der Kommissar in die stagnierenden Ermittlungen eines Mordfalls ein – und stößt in ein Wespennest.

Avec Robin, Lia pensait avoir trouvé l'amour. Elle lui avait accordé sa confiance, elle avait partagé avec lui ses secrets les plus profonds, prenant le risque de mettre en danger ses meilleurs amis, Matt et Chris. Mais elle a découvert que Robin n'était pas l'homme qu'il prétendait et...

What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. For more than...

Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the people can be trusted to look after their own affairs again. However, there is a danger that this picture is out of date. Until very recently, most citizens of Western democracies would have imagined that the end was a long way off, and very few would have thought it might be happening before their eyes as Trump, Brexit and paranoid populism have become a reality. 

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

Dragons versus humans: can Hiccup save the dragons? Find out in the epic finale to the How to Train Your Dragon series, read by David Tennant. It is the Doomsday of Yule. At the end of this day, either the humans or the dragons will face extinction. Alvin the Treacherous is about to be crowned the King of the Wilderwest on the island of Tomorrow. His reign of terror will begin with the destruction of dragons everywhere.

Le succès n’est pas qu’une affaire de talent : explorez les forces cachées qui façonnent les destins exceptionnels. Longtemps, la réussite fut attribuée au seul travail acharné. Dans son œuvre percutante, « Les prodiges », Malcolm Gladwell déconstruit cette vision simpliste pour...

Écoutez-bien ! On aurait pu faire venir la délivrance à maintes reprises au cours de l'histoire, mais alors, elle aurait été accompagnée d'effusions de sang. Pendant la guerre du Golfe, tous les tsadikim (sages) cachés sont venus voir notre maitre Rabbi Yehouda Zeev Leibowitz, zatsal, et s'il avait été d'accord, le Machiah' serait venu. Mais il s'opposa et leur dit : « Avez-vous subi la Shoah? Vous n'avez pas vécu la Shoah ! C'est pour ça que vous voulez que le Messie vienne ! J'ai vécu la Shoah. Si Machiah' vient maintenant, beaucoup mourront et la peine sera immense ».

A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the second book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm.

For 300 years, The Pilgrim's Progress has remained perhaps the best-loved and most read of devotional fictions. In plain yet powerful and moving language, Bunyan tells the story of Christian's struggle to attain salvation and the Gates of Heaven. He must pass through the Slough of Despond, ward off the temptations of Vanity Fair, and fight the monstrous Apollyon. In Part II, his wife and children follow the same path, helped and protected by Great-heart, until for them, too, "the trumpets sound on the other side."

HE ALREADY KNOWS HOW IT ENDS. THIS TIME, HE'S CHANGING IT. Nicolas Fei gave his first life to a war that could not be won, and died at forty-nine on a nameless battlefield, his parents long murdered, his clan long fallen. Then he woke in his childhood bed, sixteen years old, the Fei Clan's...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'What happens to those girls who go missing? What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?' In the early hours of Saturday, December 17th, 2011, Zoe Nolan, a 19-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where...

Robert Langdon, Symbolforscher aus Harvard, begleitet seine Freundin Katherine Solomon nach Prag. Katherine bereitet die Veröffentlichung eines Buches vor, das bahnbrechende Entdeckungen über die wahre Natur des menschlichen Bewusstseins offenbart. Doch ein brutaler Mord stürzt die Reise in ein unvorhersehbares Chaos, und Katherine verschwindet plötzlich, ebenso ihr Manuskript.

Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth and The Shadow Series. Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has...

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' - John le Carré 'A triumph of astonishing research ... No novel could possibly match such an important work of truth' - Antony Beevor 'Magnificent ... I...

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