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Children’s author Michael Morpurgo narrates his book The Mozart Question, an eloquent and ultimately uplifting story charting a small boy’s discovery of his love for the violin, and of his parents’ traumatic past in a concentration camp during the Second World War. This audiobook weaves together the book’s narration with musical extracts to bring the story alive, featuring pieces by Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach and Mozart performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Princess by birth and sacrificial lamb by royal decree, Scarlet Midicious is ready to face her fate. She's known her entire life that this day would come. Her wedding… The gauntlet… and likely her funeral. However, on the night of the gauntlet, she meets a mysterious man with striking green eyes and a sin-worthy smirk. He has no knowledge of what her gift is—that she has an extraordinary ability to control the living like puppets—but he knows the king's daughters are gifted in some way or another. He offers her a deal.

Held prisoner since birth and used for her ability to give and take life with a single touch, Calamity yearns to see outside the dungeon walls. When the plan to kill her father goes south, a friend helps her flee into a monster-ridden world, and she's thrust into the arms of a rebel thief. Loric owes a life debt—one he's being blackmailed to repay by getting Calamity out of the kingdom alive. She's the daughter of his mortal enemy, the spawn of the cruel king he despises for murdering his twin sister.

The man called Gunner has been many things: lawman, soldier, outlaw, fugitive. In pursuit of a Man with Crimson Eyes, he's bushwacked by a gang of bandits. After being robbed and left for dead, he's nursed back to health by a kindly preacher. When he enters a dusty old mining town to get payback, he discovers a community divided by rival factions: the Judge and the Baron. A good situation for making quick money. A bad situation for getting out alive, especially when his preacher friend is caged up in the town square.

Alec Reid’s ghosts of the 21st century seldom lurk in old houses or waft across chilly moors. His dark tales may breathe alongside the supernatural, but they take place in broad daylight, in our daily lives. Their themes include dead warriors resurrected via Bluetooth, Rumpelstiltskin in the suburbs, an algorithmic fear of ghosts, and the shattered dreams of immortality. The world they describe is the one you inhabit, but you would live in terror were you to recognize it for what it is.

Businessman. CEO. Head of household. Three titles worst suited for Gunner Steele, the short tempered, reticent former Marine and rebel of the infamous Steele brothers. After an evening searching the mountains for his missing office manager, Gunner finds an undercover agent at his front door demanding protection — and that anyone but him be her bodyguard. Usually, Gunner didn’t give a damn if someone disliked him, but this particular curvy vixen had information about the man who killed his father and maimed his brother. 

Are you ready to laugh? This book tells the story of a college freshman's experiences. He has a knack for getting himself into trouble. When he pledges a fraternity to try and change his luck, he dives into a new adventure he was not expecting.

Disrupted: Strategy for Exponential Change details a practical approach for being disruption ready, the fundamentals of a 21st Century strategic framework - Strategy in Action (SiA), and examples of organizations leveraging disruption. Disrupted is the distillation of the wisdom of Resilient Futures' 25-plus years of researching and applying SiA in the USA and Australia.

Hidden deep in the remote mountains of Berry Springs is a private security firm where some go to escape, and others find exactly what they’ve been looking for. Welcome to cabin one, cabin two, cabin three. Always be prepared - that was Axel Steele’s motto. While his brothers were throwing down at the local bar, Ax was the guy in the background devising the getaway plan. Dubbed “the smart one”, the former special-ops Marine believed in structure and routine, a way of life the universe seemed hellbent on challenging.

This SF pulp magazine classic of a female space pirate was a huge hit with readers when it was first serialized in Amazing Stories during the early 1940s. Golden Age pulp editor and author Raymond A. Palmer's masterwork mixes romance, interplanetary conflict, space piracy, and exotic alien worlds into the unique blend that is so emblematic of the science fiction of the period. Black World begins when John Carver of the Stellar Patrol falls for playgirl heiress Ina Malden on the luxury spaceliner Josephine, en route to the outer worlds. 

Cocky, reckless, and die-hard playboy are just a few of the names Gage Steele has been called since he left the Marines and moved back to the small, southern town of Berry Springs to take over his fathers security firm. On the one-year anniversary of his father's death, Gage has only two things in mind—endless whiskey and endless women. What he got was a battered, bruised spitfire stumbling through woods in the middle of the night.

If you’re looking for a get rich quick scheme - this is not for you. Do you want to make a second income from the comfort of your own home? Poker is one of the great ways to earn extra money online if you know how to do it. If you are able to learn the game you can turn a small sum into a decent amount of winnings. Unlike other gambling methods poker is a game of skill rather than luck. Therefore once you learn the game you can make consistent winnings and turn poker into a second income all without ever having to leave your bed. 

He gathers his wits and calls emergency services. Despite a thunderstorm, Sheriff's deputies, the fire department, and an ambulance all respond quickly. But there's little they can do. The victims are long dead. The snoop invites the emergency workers inside, out of the rain, to await the arrival of the coroner and the funeral home staff. The lightning flashes. The thunder rolls. And the setting inspires the police, firefighters, and paramedics to pass the time by telling stories, both thrilling and chilling. And you are invited to join them.

The Klondike Detective 2 continues the story of John Caldwell. He decided to take leave from the Northwest Mounted Police in Dawson City in 1902 to visit his family. Nearby, in Kingston Penitentiary, Cedric Barton and Robert McGill escape. These were men that John helped to convict, so he follows them to San Francisco. There, he becomes a Pinkerton's agent and then a double agent employed by Lila McGill, who is Robert McGill's mother, since the McGill gang is now at war with the Barton Tong.

In this book, Palmer took a giant stride forward from his contemporaries, replacing the noble, uncomplicated heroes of the first space operas, with the tormented anti-hero, "Suicide" Martin Brand, one of science fiction's most memorable characters. The half-crazed Brand, who likes to play classical music while rocketing toward a half-dozen enemy ships, atomic cannons blasting, is Earth's only hope.

This book equips you to make a positive change in your organization starting from the one place you can guarantee success - you. Each section turns insight into actions that you can use straight away to build momentum and create lasting change from yourself to your team. If you’re looking to make a change in your organization but don’t know where to begin, then Changing Your Team from the Inside will give you a plan, increase your influence, and help you build high impact, sustainable relationships in the process.

It's 1989, the cusp of a brand new decade - a young woman deals with injustice the only way she knows how, and two friends give their hands. Twenty-one years later, that promissory note needs to be collected, but who answers? The girl: now an educator. The second: a man of hard business and soft morals. The third: a family man who loved that young woman as much as he loves his living daughter.

It is 1901 in the gold fields of the Yukon Territory where driven men cheat and steal in their quest of these yellow nuggets. In the midst of this madness, John Caldwell arrives to mine, after a narrow escape from death in the South African war. He soon ends this attempt and embarks on a new venture, to protect miners from theft. When his first client is robbed of a large amount of gold, John is off and in search of these criminals.

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Meet Molly Danger, "the princess of finesse," and the most powerful ten-year old in the world. She protects Coopersville, New York from the villainous Supermechs, has legions of devoted fans, and more fame than anyone can fathom. But what she really wants more than anything…is a friend. A family. And a real life. Meanwhile, the forces of evil are converging to rock Molly's world.