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Jack est très attaché à son cochon en peluche de petit garçon. Ils ont tout vécu ensemble, les bons comme les mauvais moments. Jusqu’à cette veille de Noël où arrive la catastrophe : le cochon est perdu ! Mais la nuit de Noël n’est pas une nuit comme les autres. C’est la nuit des miracles et des causes désespérées, le moment où même les jouets peuvent prendre vie. Alors, Jack et le cochon de Noël - une peluche de substitution un peu agaçante - embarquent pour une aventure magique et périlleuse au pays des choses perdues.

A master of Russian realism, Anton Chekhov is renowned for his meticulously observed plays and short stories exploring the human condition, in all its joys and sorrows. Included here are six of his best-known dramas, as well as Michael Frayn's adaptation of Wild Honey, drawn from an early, untitled Chekhov play; and one documentary exploring Chekhov's life and work. 

Acclaimed author JG Farrell came to fame with his Empire Trilogy, exploring the collapse of British colonialism and its repercussions in three different countries. The first book in the series, Troubles, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Lost Man Booker Prize, while the second, The Siege of Krishnapur, was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction. Included here are three BBC Radio adaptations of the trilogy, plus an edition of Witness History exploring Farrell's tragic accidental death.

Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours, he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins. The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries. Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation?

In R. J. Palacio's best-selling collection of stories, Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, audiences were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio presents Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.

Former military interrogator Samantha Wyatt may have won the battle, but she hasn't won the war against Lucien Lightner, her most cunning nemesis yet. For the first time in her life, she's forced to acknowledge she can't do it alone, but who can she trust? The first man she ever loved or the man she never planned to fall for. Chicago tycoon Jack Roman has risked everything to protect Samantha. But he's been holding onto a secret that threatens to destroy his future with the love of his life.

Mogul Jack Roman was perfectly happy living the life of a high-powered and charismatic philistine. He had time, money, women, and a penchant for the fast life. Until he met his match in Samantha Wyatt, and his obsession with her would take him to hell and back....

Samantha Wyatt heads up one of the most powerful private protection agencies in the world. As a former naval interrogator, she knows firsthand what danger looks like. But when the head-turning, savvy, and challenging Jack Roman comes into her life like hot lightning, she's drawn to him like she's never been to anyone before.... She craves his touch, even though it weakens her.

Lo sceneggiato radiofonico racconta i momenti più significativi della vita breve ma intensa della grande scrittrice Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942). Una vita strettamente connessa con i suoi romanzi, in cui le vicende familiari e i fatti storici si intersecano e si confondono nelle trame letterarie, dalle prove giovanili con "La nemica e Il ballo", nei quali tentava di esorcizzare il difficile rapporto con una madre fredda e insensibile, al romanzo che le assicurò il grande successo, "David Golder", a quello più autobiografico, "Il vino della solitudine", fino a "Suite francese", il suo capolavoro pubblicato postumo, scritto nel vivo dell'occupazione nazista e della guerra e rimasto incompiuto per la tragica morte della scrittrice ad Auschwitz.

Set during World War Two, Hut 33 follows the adventures of a team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park as they work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Archie is a stroppy Geordie socialist revolutionary while Professor Charles Gardner is a toffee-nosed snob. In theory, the immensely stupid 3rd Lt. Joshua Featherstonhaugh-Marshall is in charge of the hut, but he is still struggling with even the most basic concepts....

Lo sceneggiato radiofonico racconta i momenti più significativi della vita breve ma intensa della grande scrittrice Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942). Una vita strettamente connessa con i suoi romanzi, in cui le vicende familiari e i fatti storici si intersecano e si confondono nelle trame letterarie, dalle prove giovanili con "La nemica e Il ballo", nei quali tentava di esorcizzare il difficile rapporto con una madre fredda e insensibile, al romanzo che le assicurò il grande successo, "David Golder", a quello più autobiografico, "Il vino della solitudine", fino a "Suite francese", il suo capolavoro pubblicato postumo, scritto nel vivo dell'occupazione nazista e della guerra e rimasto incompiuto per la tragica morte della scrittrice ad Auschwitz.

Lo sceneggiato radiofonico racconta i momenti più significativi della vita breve ma intensa della grande scrittrice Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942). Una vita strettamente connessa con i suoi romanzi, in cui le vicende familiari e i fatti storici si intersecano e si confondono nelle trame letterarie, dalle prove giovanili con "La nemica e Il ballo", nei quali tentava di esorcizzare il difficile rapporto con una madre fredda e insensibile, al romanzo che le assicurò il grande successo, "David Golder", a quello più autobiografico, "Il vino della solitudine", fino a "Suite francese", il suo capolavoro pubblicato postumo, scritto nel vivo dell'occupazione nazista e della guerra e rimasto incompiuto per la tragica morte della scrittrice ad Auschwitz.

What if you could sit down with some of today's most effective business leaders? Now you can. Knowledge@Wharton has interviewed some of today's most powerful and successful business leaders about issues important to them as leaders.

Twelve little oddities - an assortment of the bizarre, unexpected, charming, unsettling, and downright peculiar. Into darkness or light, there are many ways to escape.

Freedom is a psychological accomplishment. Only truthfulness will set us free. Many of us already know that in our bones, but we don't always muster the courage to do it - or remember the incredible rewards! From the simple, intensely moving stories in the beginning to the profound and hilarious essays in the end, this audiobook is the best reminder of that reward you will ever come across. Honesty is the source of the ongoing renewal of love. We have the evidence.

First published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships tells the story of Paul Dombey, head of the House of Dombey, who lacks a son and cannot reconcile himself to his only daughter.

Maddox is an old-school journalist struggling to keep up with new technology. He fears the art of finding stories is being forgotten and is not about to let that happen. His online editor Freddy, however, will happily regurgitate a press release and call it a story. But they have a grudging respect for each other, as Freddy helps Maddox stay afloat in the world of Twitter, Facebook and podcasting and Maddox shows Freddy how to land a real scoop.

The Best American Short Stories 2021 immerse the listener in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King’s final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy’s gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience.

Last year, Ollie Morcombe was a star pupil, popular and a gifted musician. Then, after the accident, everything changed. Now he's an outcast, a prime target of the school bullies who have made his life a living hell. Today - the last day of the school year - he's brought those bullies a gift. A homemade pipe bomb. What has driven a model student to plan an unspeakable revenge? And with the clock ticking down to home time, what can anybody do to stop him?