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Oihane swore she'd never return to Urrun. But when her father is shot in a supposed hunting accident, she has no choice but to go back to the remote rural hamlet she once fled. The place hasn't changed: the people are hostile, violent, and bound by silence. Neither has her father been the only victim. As Oihane digs into what really happened that day in the woods, she's met with a wall of secrets. No one will talk. Everyone has something to hide. And the deeper she probes, the more she realizes the shooting was no accident at all.

Stefan Zweig was born on the 28th November 1881 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and into a wealthy Jewish family with interests in banking and textiles. Zweig first published in 1900 and two decades later was a popular and highly regarded author in many parts of the world, although not in England. He was also the librettist with Richard Strauss of two operas and a keen collector of autographed musical manuscripts. His collection of over two hundred pieces was later donated to the British Library.

This book is about today's world's number one problem and about how it desensitises and dehumanises our society. How can we stop damages occurring from the unseen area of human-kind's attention? Lightning strike on an oak tree!

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The familiar phrase “lack of capital“ has hitherto derailed so many noble ideas. However, in this book, emphasis is on how to maximize whatever resources available regardless of the size. Revealing the innate resources that individuals possess. It...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. They came to fix what was broken. For Julia, everything revolves around followers, likes and perfectly captured moments. For Patrick, it means only one thing: he is fading away... What begins as a routine therapy session spirals into a suffocating...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What starts as a therapy session slowly unravels into something else. Something darker. Something no one saw coming...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Aged priest Saulus tries to shake his congregation awake with a fiery sermon about compassion for refugees and outcasts. But his message meets cynicism, racism, and ridicule. Tensions rise when a homeless man stumbles into the church, followed by an...

As all profit from the sale of this book will be donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital, you might think that would be the primary reason for encouraging you to buy the book. It was not! The book was written, and priced at the lowest permitted price, to awaken us to a far more detrimental...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "And Who Shall Say----?" is a short story by Richard Middleton, first published in The Neolith in 1908 and collected posthumously in The Ghost Ship and Other Stories (1912). A father sleeps in his armchair on a dull November afternoon while his two...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You already know what to do. So why isn't it done? Because you are not lazy. You are fighting an undefeated opponent who has trained with you since birth, knows exactly how many minutes of discomfort you tolerate, and wears your face. Psychology has...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the way you think, react, and decide is being directed by scripts you never chose? In the 1970s, a Harvard psychologist proved that one empty word could open 93 percent of doors. Most people will live their whole lives without noticing the...

"What a funny, emotional and beautifully written book that transports you into the world of penguins and gives a rare insight into life in Antarctica. I loved this book so much." – Lorraine Kelly ___ At 64° South, on a tiny Antarctic island bustling with penguins, even the smallest lives...

The only encyclopedia for children ages 5 and up that covers the subjects of human geography, physical geography, and geology together in one inspiring audiobook. Covering essential curriculum areas such as human geography, physical geography, geology, and ecology, First Earth Encyclopedia is a...

Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’, was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral. After a stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police, Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, ‘The Rise of the Russian Empire’, whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton was born on the 25th May 1803 the youngest of three sons. In 1828 his novel, ‘Pelham’, brought him an income, together with commercial and critical success. He followed these with a string of applauded works across several genres: historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, science fiction and poetry.

Richard Garnett C.B. was born on the 27th February 1835. Educated in Bloomsbury he then joined the nearby British Museum as an assistant librarian in 1851, shortly after his father’s death. As an author he wrote several volumes of verse, a book of short stories and several biographies and history books.

Dorothy Kathleen Broster was born on 2nd September 1877 at Devon Lodge in Grassendale Park, Garston, Liverpool. Her novels, mainly historical fiction, peaked in popularity with ‘The Flight of the Heron’, in 1925, a best-seller followed up by two sequels. As well as poetry and various articles she also wrote several short stories, the best known of which is a classic of weird fiction ‘The Couching at the Door’ in which an artist appears to be haunted by a mysterious entity.

Richard Garnett C.B. was born on the 27th February 1835. Educated in Bloomsbury he then joined the nearby British Museum as an assistant librarian in 1851, shortly after his father’s death. As an author he wrote several volumes of verse, a book of short stories and several biographies and history books.

Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on the 18th February 1825 in Komárom, then in the Kingdom of Hungary but now part of Slovakia. Due to his timid and delicate constitution he was educated at home until the age of 10 and then sent away to complete his studies at the Calvinist college at Pápa. At 12 his father died, and he was pushed to honour him by replicating his career as a lawyer. He studied hard and completed the curriculum at Kecskemét and Pest. He won his first case as a newly graduated lawyer.