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Bring the Bible into your daily activities with this single-voice version of the complete Bible in the NKJV. With clear and uncluttered narration from Audie Award–winning narrator Simon Bubb, this Bible speaks plainly and makes it easy for you to enter God’s Word. Not only is this audio...

The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend's death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d'Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Louis rallies the underclass to join him in his mission against the supreme power of the nobility. Soon the rebel leader must go underground, disguising himself as "Scaramouche" in a traveling group of actors. In the midst of his swashbuckling adventures and his country's revolution, he discovers the secret of his own identity.

When first published in 1989, The Story of Wine won every wine award in the UK, and the USA. It is widely regarded as Hugh Johnson’s most ambitious and enthralling book. It is not just one story but a collection of many, scanning the wine world from Noah to Napa, from Pompeii to Pomerol, as illuminating to our understanding of civilization as it is to our appreciation of wine. Chronicling the making, merchandising, and drinking of wine through millennia, this new edition is fully updated to include Johnson’s view of the evolution of wine over the past 30 years.

Léandre et Isabelle s'aiment, mais leurs pères respectifs leur gâchent la vie. Dandin, père de Léandre est un juge fou qui ne rêve que de procès au point que son fils l'enferme chez lui, sous la surveillance du portier Petit-Jean. Chicanneau, père d'Isabelle, est un avocat chicanier, ruiné par tous ses procès et qui ne peut doter sa fille qu'il maintient cloîtrée.

Nach der gewonnenen Schlacht gegen Hybern müssen Feyre, Rhys und ihre Gefährten den Hof der Nacht wieder aufbauen und versuchen, den unsicheren Frieden in Prythian durch neue Allianzen zu wahren. Die bevorstehende Feier der Wintersonnenwende verspricht allen endlich eine kurze Zeit der Freude und Entspannung, doch die festliche Atmosphäre kann die Schatten der Vergangenheit nicht ganz vertreiben. Feyre muss erkennen, dass diejenigen, die ihr am nächsten stehen, während der Kämpfe tiefere Wunden davongetragen haben, als sie zugeben - und diese Wunden werden Auswirkungen auf die Zukunft haben.

Brought to you by Penguin. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few...

Penguin Presents the audio edition of Daemon Voices, written and read by Philip Pullman with an introduction by Simon Mason. In over 30 essays, written over 20 years and recorded by the author himself in his home city of Oxford, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on the art of...

For centuries Christians have been tormented by one question above all, "If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?"

Counsels from My Heart is one of the few volumes of teachings by Dudjom Rinpoche, a legendary meditation master of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, to become available in English. It features talks to students presented in Dudjom Rinpoche's characteristically incisive and direct style, bringing the timeless heart-counsels of this great teacher vividly to life.

Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the billion-dollar Aramov criminal empire. But he's got got no idea that this routine job will lead him into an explosive adventure involving drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and human trafficking or that his first mission will turn into one of the biggest in CHERUB's history.

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee, read by Simon Bubb. The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore: home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. When the heir to the throne of Sambalpore is...

The vampire world is in crisis – their kind have been proliferating out of control and, thanks to technologies undreamed of in previous centuries, they can communicate as never before. Roused from their earth-bound slumber, ancient ones are in thrall to the Voice: which commands that they burn...

C'est quoi l'amour ? Comment on aime à 30 ans ? Est-ce qu'on a perdu toute illusion sur cette notion? Ou bien est-ce qu'elle a simplement évolué pour nous ? Ça se partage l'amour ? C'est temporaire ? C'est tout ? C'est rien ? En tout cas l'amour, quand on a 30 ans, ça se questionne. Avec l'aimable participation de : Benoît Allemane, Alfred Amourdedieu, Marie Bouvier, Françoise Cadol, Bénédicte Charton, Pascal Casanova, Elia Dabaji, Catherine Griffoni, Benjamin Jungers, Pauline de Clerck, Myriam Gilles, Stéphane Gaden, Jules Martens.

Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat-and-mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves. Packed with tension and vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts, this tale of the most bitter and chilling campaign of the war tells of ordinary men who had to master their own fears before they could face a brutal menace - one that would strike without warning from the deep.

Marc Lucas überlebt einen selbst verschuldeten Autounfall. Ein Splitter steckt in seinem Kopf – doch viel schlimmer ist der seelische Schmerz: Seine Frau hat den Unfall nicht überlebt. Geplagt von Schuldgefühlen und unerträglichen Erinnerungen hört Marc von einem psychiatrischen Experiment, das traumatische Erlebnisse aus dem Gedächtnis löschen soll. Endlich scheint es Hoffnung zu geben. Doch nach den ersten Tests beginnt der Horror. Marcs Wohnungsschlüssel passt plötzlich nicht mehr. Am Klingelschild steht ein fremder Name.

Los prestigiosos economistas Daron Acemoglu y Simon Johnson demuestran que el desarrollo técnico es indispensable para el avance de la democracia El progreso no es un destino predeterminado, sino que depende de las elecciones que hagamos sobre la tecnología. Esta reflexión resulta muy...

Denk an das schlimmste Date deines Lebens – und du bist noch nicht einmal nahe dran! Ein ebenso humorvoller wie lebenskluger Roman, eine grandiose Mischung aus Humor und existentiellen Fragen. The Walking Date ist keine normale Dating-Plattform: Hier können sich Menschen, die nicht mehr lange zu leben haben, noch ein letztes Mal verlieben. Deshalb hat sich auch Patient Raphael bei TWD angemeldet, und tatsächlich funkt es zwischen ihm und der ebenfalls erkrankten Nala. Doch am Tag ihres ersten Blind Dates geht es Raphael nicht gut.

A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman...

A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years without trial by the aristocratic authorities.

A jubilant Moscow is celebrating the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler when gunshots ring out though the city's crowded streets. In the shadow of the Kremlin, a teenage boy and girl are found dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy, because these are no ordinary teenagers. As the children of high-ranking Soviet officials, they inhabit a rarefied world that revolves around the exclusive Josef Stalin Commune School 801. The school, which Stalin's own children attended, is an enclave of privilege - but, as the deaths reveal, one that hides a wealth of secrets.